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Opportunities that i had, because i might have been in their shoes, i might have been in prison, i might have been unemployed, i might not have been able to support a family. and that is motivates me. >> congressman, there is a racial aspect to this even with the mandatory sentencing laws. when we look at the fact that there is evidence that 19.5%, there are longer sentences for black men than white men. this is according to the u.s. sentencing commission. there is a clear race aspect to this. it's unfair for anyone, but is even more egregious when you bring in the studied racial dynamics even...

Rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget. just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. >> wait a minute. sounds like a conservative, but he's a liberal, right? the author of jud"jfk conservative." why do we have the other view, that he was a spendthrift liberal? >> it's a myth. he wasn't able to say it wasn't true. >> to what end? what would be the benefit of doing that? >> well, the advance of policy debate in their direction. if you're a liberal, you want to claim the martyred president as your guy. >> now, this push for tax cuts as you wrote came to fru...

Central park. all either confessed or were implicated. at trial a year later they were all convicted. 12 years later, those convictions were vacated and questions raised about how the police obtained those confessions. in los angeles, a black motorist named rodney king was beaten over and over again by los angeles police. the videotape that surfaced ignited a nation. when the officers were found not guilty, the rioting was unlike anything the country had recently seen in the wake of the trial. sentiments then sound familiar to the sentiments now. >> today, the system failed us. >> reporter: ra...

Implicated. at trial a year later they were all convicted. 12 years later, those convictions were vacated and questions raised about how the police obtained those confessions. in los angeles, a black motorist named rodney king was beaten over and over again by los angeles police. the videotape that surfaced ignited a nation. when the officers were found not guilty, the rioting was unlike anything the country had seen. sentiments then sound familiar to the sentiments now. race, authority, politics. conversations that are still very difficult. and the conversation continues tonight with data on ...

About. it's really issued a political ultimatum, not one that it looks like it will automatically engage in a coup. i think it's tough on that 48 hours. we're now down to 24 hours, in fact. >> when the 24 hours have lapsed, steve, on the ground, these people are looking at helicopters, they're still going to be living in a country of a median age of about 19.5 years with horrific unemployment, no prospects for jobs. as you said, an economy that is being shattered by daily events around the world, that's what's going to be left for whoever takes over. >> yeah. really it's very hard to see exact...