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What touches people is that our son could have been their son. they also applauded the president's call for dialogue and race and justice, dialogue we're continuing tonight with obama 2012 poster cornell booster, the former director, chief political correspondent cooly and michaela angela davis. cornell, let me start with you because you and i had a discussion about should the president say something, will the president say something, and the kind of dammed if you do, dammed if you don't difficulty in this. first of all, what did you ever of his comments? >> i thought it was iconic. back to th...

Solving that racial dynamic and smoothing out that racial legacy locally. and he -- he can talk until he's blue in the face. he can't solve that not in five years, not in eight years, whatever. >> cornell, by talking about it, while it might satisfy some who want to, you know, see the president out in front on these issues, it also alienates a lot of people that feel he's not the president for everybody, i suppose. you're dammed if you do and dammed if you don't. >> i think race is to culture what social security is to politics. it a third rail. you touch it at your own risk. here is the probl...

They are sort of damned if they do and dammed if they don't. if he knew about it and didn't do anything about it, that indicts him as thinking this is okay. if they didn't tell him about it it's because the culture at the white house said this is not that important an issue to bring it to the president's attention. the when is relevant. if the when is last week or a month ago. the story from this white house changed 6 or 7 times about when they knew and how they found out. the idea that we should take their word for it now strikes me as ridiculous. martha: house republicans are set to pass a s...

For from senator to an today. >> raising taxes to pay for new spending is not something republicans believe this debate ought to be about. it ought to be about reducing the deficit and debt. they're suggesting we want new taxes, higher taxes on people in this country to pay for new spending. >> republicans continue saying they're waiting for harry reid to make a counter offer. >> they're not making that tonight. he's told us that's not going to happen it but they're working on it. a sounds like a change of entitlement programs is irritating them. >> republicans created way of calculating infla...

The wheel last it's possible, but the idea that they are vying with the idea strikes me as preposterous. jon: you write that the news media is essentially biased against republicans and any conservative idea that wins here is not going to gain a lot of favor, so is it a case in which republicans are sort ever dammed if they do, and dammed if they don't? >> that's sort of been the theme of the last four years is that republicans basically can't win. part of what i proposed in that column was basically the shouldl back position of basically adopting or proposing the bowl simpson plan bowles-simp...