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Ago. >> she brings up a good point. it's a johnny come lately. you have cleaver, maxine waters, a lot of the black caucus leaders that have been vocal saying you're not in the black community. you haven't been speaking to our community. we have 16.7 unemployment in our community. we've been demanding good paying jobs. where have you been mr. president and you come to our dinner and speak to us at the last minute that we need to get out. come on. >> earlier on, he could have been talking more about here's what's going on with unemployment, in the black community, here in the latino community, j...

about jobs and also trying to raise a little money. jobs were the emphasis last night at a speech to the congressional black caucus. some in the congressional black caucus have been critical of the president saying he hasn't focused enough on african-american issues including african-american unemployment which right now is at 16.7%. listen to the president telling the crowd he expects them to be with him. >> i'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. i don't have time to feel sorry for myself. i don't have time to complain. i'm going to pr...

verdict came down and prosecutors hammered away at inconsistencies in ward's story and that he calmly admitted five times, five times in the initial 911 call that he had shot his wife. listen to that. >> all right. and then there was this bizarre jailhouse video just days after his wife died ward apparently you see him there performing a strip tease for his daughter and sister-in-law and all three acted like him being arrested was a big joke in that video. i want to bring in legal expert holly hughes, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. bob ward was a millionaire. he h...

Administration saying, look, we have to focus on african-american communicate. 16.7% unemployment is unacceptable. you hosted a panel yesterday about african-americans in the labor movement. how would that change the lives of middle class workers? >> one of the thing we were talking about in the panel today is that when you attack the public sector, when you attack public employees, where do you think african-americans work? it took civil rights movement to open up the public sector to african-american workers. and we're there. so when you're talking about laying off teachers, laying off firef...

Survey or being able to sort of get a gut sense, if you will, a gut check on the african-american community's feelings toward this president's performance? >> well, i think that african-american people divide an assessment of the president's performance versus whether or not they are inclined to still support or vote for him. the slippage was in the strongly favorable category of the overall and general favorability is still there in 86% of african-american people say that they are somewhat favorable toward the president. of course, that's linked to decline in jobs, the inability of the polici...