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We know as organizers that a lot of the people do not know who represents them and what their stance is. >> it breaks down the immigration reform substances by numbers and also gives action points. what are these action points? >> the action points -- >> louis, are you there? it looks like we've lot luis ago gu lar. he was asking you here, there's these action points that you assign, each and every elected official. is that like a score card? >> more than anything it's an action point whenever you take an action, when you tweet or whenever you make a call or connect to them through facebook, y...

Points that they hope will come out of this and number one on their agenda list is making sure that voters rights are protected and of course they cite the recent supreme court rulings as a major setback in that fight. one thing i found interesting early today i spoke to a woman that had been here 50 years ago and brought with her the program from that event, and inside the program were all the demands at that time and so it was interesting to go through them and take note of the things which had been accomplished, for example, desegregation of schools and then look at the things that had not,...

To see how efficient it may or may not be. i would love to get your thoughts on what the president is trying to do now, and overall how you'd grade him on his response to the foreclosure crisis in the states? >> well, i think the president's done a very good job. look, this task force that's been set up, a unit, as they're calling it, is a very, very positive development. anytime there's action points is important in this realm. we need to get to the bottom of what happened here. eric schneiderman and i have been working together for a long time on these issues. we have a joint investigation o...

Stronger america. mara joins us outside mid tomid hannan. >> reporter: we'll be talking with reverend al sharpton in a second. the president is on his way. it's fitting he's on his way because it seems like half of his cabinet has been here. speakers this morning included attorney general eric holder and education secretary arne duncan. this four-day event focusing on issues like education, unemployment, violence in the black community. now we are joined by the reverend al sharpton, organizing this event for the last 13 years. reverend, thank you for joining us here. >> reporter: thank you. we...

What we heard yesterday was really a culmination of this four-day event organized by reverend al sharpton and the national action network. he tried to bring together top leaders from all over the country to discuss these racial inequals and come up with an action plan, something that the reverend said many times. e he doesn't want rhetoric or ideas but several action points. the other thing significant about this, yesterday's event took place at a church and it felt like a church service in a lot of ways because people in the audience were not politicians or civil rights leaders. they were reg...