[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. Coming up next, todays editioaddition of washington toe we asked viewers if they thought president obama should travel to ferguson, missouri. We look at items in this mornings newspapers. This is about 45 minutes. Host some are asking the president should had to ferguson, missouri himself in order to call the situation there. And mark a path for. The hill newspaper reports the white house has ruled out sending the president to ferguson. The hill, the white house has not ruled out a visit in upcoming weeks according to sources familiar with the internal decisionmaking. For now the white house believes a trip would do more harm than good like diverting resources on the ground. One Senior Administration official familiar with the talks said obama didnt rule a trip in or out at this point, but added that there are no immediate plans for the president to go to the st. Louis suburb. A president ial trip it goes on to say we turn to you. Dyou thin host we turned all of you. What you think works should president obama go to ferguson, missouri . Larry, your first. Republican caller. Go ahead. Caller he should not. What have to say is blunt and quick. President obama, this is a cycle, psychological operation. What hes doing is hes going to impose martial on the entire country so thats why they have a militarized police now that governor nixon, the National Guard, the situation with the army, what they going to shoot unarmed so forth. So this is a pandoras box thats opened up. We are heading towards a race war. Host larry, what about in the coming weeks and perhaps after comes down and ferguson, missouri. Caller its not going to calm down. Youve got to face and look at reality. Youve got people coming from other cities and so forth. America, the truth on telly, america is on financial lifesupport, 222 trillion of debt. We have a race war. He wants to do this anyway because the country, its done. Its a done done. Host ron, miami, florida, democratic caller. What do you think . Caller yes. Lets not talk politics like the first called. Lets stick to the issue. And issue since the late 90s started with the new York Police Force and some of the other Big City Police forces were sent to the big brass listen to israel to be trained. Military style. I bring host what is your evidence of that . Caller amy goodman, democracy now host okay, all right. Pittsburgh, pennsylvania, independent caller. What do you think . Caller i really dont think issue. I think it would be a big rack host the all right. Sorry about that. School is out. The bloomberg website from its editor has this piece this morning. Go to ferguson, mr. President. Create a more an equal justice. Goes on to say that batman was barack obama, a littleknown Senate Candidate a decade ago. He offered a grand vision of united america. Host samantha in akron, ohio, independent caller. What do you think . Caller well, i dont think that the president should go. I think that there are enough people there. Eric holder is going down. They are investigating. Racism is something that weve lived with since our countrys inception, and i dont see it going away anytime soon. Host okay. So you dont think a speech or his presence there could help trigger a conversation . Caller know. I really dont. He said in a summit, other incidents that have occurred, and he stressed how we must come together and we thought his election would bring us together, but it seemed to have brought us further apart and i just think he should let the people who are in charge of Law Enforcement and investigations handled the situation. Later on, and from his heart, at some opportunity, he might express his wishes that we could come together, that we could come to know each other better. But in going there wont make any difference. Host pennsylvania, republican caller, go ahead. Caller good morgan, fraulein. How are you . Aye often about this topic and one of things i wanted to say is the first thing i dont think he should go there. And we keep saying its almost like an orwellian mantra that the first is strength. How do we realize yet that diversity is a source of endless strife and tension throughout the world can be a source of bloodshed. Its only going to get worse. One of the things thats interesting is we ignore on the periphery of our civilization a constant conflict between lax and mexicans going on in schools and prisons and the streets and the warfare going on between different groups that we are afraid to talk about. We always talk about it being white people only. Lets also talk about the fact that while this kid was shot, but 24 black kids were shot in chicago that same week. Thats where obama should go. Thats also remember that 85 of interracial violence and crime every year is black on white. It is whites who were the victims of violence, hate, a lot of egregious hate crimes against whites are never reported. Host where to get those statistics, those numbers . Caller well, jared taylor appeared on your show in 1999 with the caller of crime study that was from the National CrimeVictims Survey and fbi statistics on interracial crime or so thats from your own show host mike that was 15 years ago . Caller its probably gotten worse. Come on, greta. I dont know what the solution is but the one thing we have to say is lets stop this George Orwell kind of stuff and stop teaching kids that diversity is a strange. Lets remote its a source of strife and they wished try to assimilate the people that are here and maybe we should black people and white people should remember we are brothers, we are cane and able to weve been together for finder 400 years and we need to come together. Host frank, birmingham, alabama, democratic caller. Your thoughts track you i would suggest when theres a crisis in the world, the president delegate some high profile people go into those troublespots who can be heard. Jesse jackson, al sharpton, even eric holder, glad hes going there and there to investigate it that the president has mayor william bell that is the keeper is mentioning a press conference as well, in birmingham where the youngest president [inaudible] i would encourage the president to get nathaniel jackson, anthony anderson, drake, 50cent, wilson, the most viable player of football, super bowl, these are the kinds of people these people want to hear. I was also proud in 2008, the sender encourage people to go vote. Young males were coming, they were pulling up their pants. Young africanamericans kind of feel somewhat shortchanged by the president. They dont have such a great appreciation for him that you would believe. I used to be in the game for 14 years, and i wouldnt care at the president would get Oprah Winfrey of the world, magic johnson, michael jordan. These are the kind of people that this particular group, especially the violent element, well hear from. Thats what its going to take, that people can connect with each other people and thats what the president needs. He doesnt need to go down and deal with this. Hes getting cut off in the middle east. This is a crises that asian people will resonate to. If you get drake, put drake on the front line. Put 50cent on the front line. Host got your point. On sunday Georgetown University professor Michael Dyson talked about the need for leadership from the white house in ferguson, missouri. He made remarks when his on sundays cbs face the nation. Is what he had to say. This president knows better than most what happens in poor communities that have been antagonized historically by the hostile relationship between black people and the Police Department. It is not enough for him to come on National Television a pretend that theres a false moral equivalency between Police People who are armed and black people who are vulnerable constantly. He needs to use his bully pulpit to step up and to articulate this as a vision, not necessarily from Public Policy a little because eric holder is doing a tremendous job in filling in those gaps but we need president ial leadership. He needs to step up the plate and be responsible. Host that was from cbss sunday face the nation. Georgetown University ProfessorMichael Eric Dyson with that, saying the president needs to step up. From the Washington Post this point, the headline obama seeks help from black leaders. Host a little bit more from the st. Louis dispatch penned by the attorney general, eric holder. He had to say this host jerry, harmony North Carolina independent caller. Jerry, the president , should he go to ferguson, missouri . Caller good morning, greta. Host good morning. Caller id like to get a couple comments in before he cut me off please. No, i dont think he should go to missouri. Just look around the country whats going on the world over in syria, iraq, libya, egypt, israel, absolutely not. He has handled those things over the terribly and look whats happened over there. He needs to stay out of missouri. I wish that he would get back on air force one and go back to washington this morning, go to the rose garden and apologize to the American People and the people around the world for being such a failure, and he should resign. We would accept his resignation. Host you are calling on the independent line. Did you vote for the president . Caller i did the first time, and the second time i did not. Host don, california, democratic caller. Caller good morning, greta. Dont cut me off please. Id like to say that, number one, president obama is an african, and the people in america are, the africanamericans are black. Juice, okay. In 17 70 a. D. , a general who is a roman and his son titus of roman, and the roman army put an end to the jewish state. The black jewish state. And ever since then theres been a White Supremacy or in america and all over the earth because the white man rules the earth. This is what everything is so messed up because he has taken the word of god and turned it backwards host the all right, don. Maryland, democratic caller. Caller good morning. Look, i hope you dont cut me off either, but im a vietnam veteran. And i saw this kind of thing in vietnam. The last century, all over planet earth, the people drove northwest european supremacy lost out of their lives. I was looking at fox news yesterday and i was seeing al they were talking against this kid was killed down in missouri. But also i turned around right after that, they started talking about the guy who was beheaded over in the middle east. And it was a totally different comparison. Either way, its murder. But the passion, like the gentleman just said before me, that roman imperial supremacy is destroying americas democracy. Host george, can the president do anything . Caller well, maam, the whole thing is if you see a people treat our president in this country, it is look, im a democrat, sometimes im a republican sometimes. And what i see, i have never disrespected any of my president s. This thing here is the same reason people have been kicked out all over the world is racism crap from europe and north america. People are tired of it. Host all right, george. Were asking all of you whether or not the president should go to ferguson, missouri to help the situation. Calm the tensions there. Getting your take on that as some in washington and others are saying the president should make that true. We will keep getting her thoughts this one on the washington journal the first, some other headlines. A couple of callers have brought up the beheading of an american journalist because the front page of usa today with headline that a video claims the beheading of american journalist james foley who was captured by isis in november of 2012. The videos authenticity was not yet verified by federal Law Enforcement official not authorized to speak publicly said Security Council spokesperson who says we have seen the video. Intelligence community is working on the sittion in host on the situation in iraq, back to the front page of usa today with a headline that iraqis say u. S. Help is vital. Do more iraq will lose the militants. That is a warning from tribal leaders in that country. That is also the front page this morning of the wall street journal. U. S. Airstrike success spurs push for more iraq attacks. And then the situation in ukraine, New York Times this one has this headline about the role of the german chancellor is playing, she is emerging as a key figure in these ukraine talks. Host also this is a star in the Financial Times this morning about russia trying to feed itself after russia sanctioned food from western countries, russia strike to feed itself unlikely to bear fruit on struggling farms. It says in your that the farmer said it would take years of hard work and huge, wide ranging investments to change that, a feat few believed would be achieved. And then on the israeli gaza conflict, is a headline in the wall street journal, gaza rockets shatter the truce. Witnesses said was an israeli strike on gaza on tuesday the israels response, struck in response to palestinian rockets are by the way the negotiated that were talking in cairo have left according to news reports this morning. We are getting the thoughts of what the president obama should go to ferguson missouri. Michael in washington, d. C. , and independent caller. Michael, what do you think . Caller yes, maam. Good morning. Yes, and a solution and the only solution or world peace is to kill all white people and kill most black people are no justice, no peace. Host michael, why do you Say Something like that . Caller its the truth. Its i in the bible. Why the bible. Why people own everything and in order to justice in peace is to kill all white people and to most people black people because some black people, we need to get rid of all white people and most black people. Host thats michael, his opinion. Michael in salt lake city, utah, democratic caller. Michael, what do you think . Caller well, i dont think that obama should go there. I think that would confuse the issue greatly. My opinion on this is that it should be a function of the rule of law, and it should be extremely they should do Everything Possible like eric holder and the fbi and the people there, the government there in missouri should make sure that this is a very open and visible exercise that shows the rule of law and how it should work, and that people should understand that. They are saying the guy is guilty already. Well, you cant have the rule of law if you just trample all over everybodys rights and say, thats on both sides. The police cant trample over the rights of the people, and they have an issue that should be addressed. But what Everybody Needs to understand is that the rule of law should take precedent, and i think that will, i hope, solve the issue where everybody can agree thats what should have been. Host all right. Kinney, new york, independent caller. Good morning. Caller good morning. I dont think president obama should go to missouri. Just because this attention, so much tension going on in missouri right now, and i dont think hes going to do anything by going there. My thing is that, you know, we as americans, we see how Police Officers let me just say, not all Police Officers are bad, but they have so many officers that are racist and are on the police force. So when youve got a racist mentality, you put police in seneca course theyre going to be scared. A lot of these guys are scared because they are working in an environment where they are not used to. And when youve got this mentality because you dont respect black people in general, these people are, what im saying as for these racist people on the police force, those are the people that it is really, its giving the whole police force a bad name. I mean, im not saying all Police Officers are racist, but you got Police Officers that are racist and on the force. Host will be talking about the role of Law Enforcement coming up on washington journal in about 15 minutes or so. The st. Louis this batch this morning with headline, a day of recovery. We saw the headline there and the caption come one of the stories says missouri governor jay nixon is invited to join the chorus of folks that are calling on him to have, to have a county prosecutor, attorney Robert Mccullough step aside in this case, the governor not calling on mccullough to step aside. The attorney general expected in ferguson, missouri today. And then you the springfield news leader with headline, a calmer night on tuesday. Protesters marched for Michael Bradley was killed by police on august 9 in ferguson, missouri. You see the picture there. Also have the news press with the caption, the headline this morning on their newspaper, how can order be restored . They lined the street with police in riot year and imposed a curfew, lifted it and deploy the National Guard, and still the violence erupts nightly in the town of ferguson, missouri. That is a question well ask our next guest coming up here on the washington journal. We are talking to Eugene Odonnell who is a former Police Officer and John Jay College of criminal justice lecture, so well talk to him about that coming up. Getting your thoughts on whether the president obama should go to ferguson, missouri, try to quell the violence there and talk about the issue of race. Keep getting your thoughts on that the first, san Antonio Express turns to the museum and has this headline about the government there, rick perry. Rick perry gets booked and then he goes for ice cream. Th