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Unstance yalted claims based on illegal leaks from anonymous individuals. the president will continue to focus on his agenda that he was elected to pursue by the american people. go ahead. >> well, you know, i mean, its a denial, not about the specifics of the story, talking about the illegal leaks. but there is another paragraph in this story that i find really striking because it kind of spreads it out, and the story says, in addition to the request to coates and rogers, senior white house off...

They refused to do so. what is your reaction? >> well, im as shocked as anybody else, but it keys coming. and first of all, its good to be with you. this is coming pretty fast paced right now. were going to have to take it, the intelligence community takes everything extremely serious. well be looking into this. it was just a couple of weeks ago in open hearing that we had both mr. rogers and mr. coates, our former colleague -- >> yes. >> and im not sure, as i recall, that question was even aske...

The population than any other country in the world. and while supporters of the mass incarceration state point to a decline in crime, the data backing that up is very, very thin indeed. earlier today i spoke to coates, whos currently in paris, at the release of his best-selling book "between the world and me." and i asked him why he focused his latest article on mass incarceration in the black family specifically. >> i think family has become one of the lenses through which people talk about afr...

Thso we got our new he washingzy machine but it took forever turns out it wasnt the machine, it was our detergent. so we switched to tide turbo clean. now we get way cleaner clothes way faster he turbo clean. 6x the cleaning power in ½ the time the united states accounts for just 5% of the worlds inhabitants and about 25% of its incarcerated inhabitants. or put it another way. 1 in 4 prisoners in the entire world is in an american prison cell. that stunning statistic is just one of many revea...

Conclusion because, and i guess what youre saying, timing is everything. coming right after the director of the fbi had indicated that there might be, at least, it was under investigation. >> right. the president was frustrated, he was looking to relieve the pressure. so, he turned to these two people, in separate meetings, or phone calls, and basically asked them to do this. and both of them, in the end, explained -- well, in the case of rogers, explained to the president as nicely as he could ...