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So-called beer summit. he brought together a black harvard professor and white police officer who arrested him. and a woman speaks to cnn over pulling her son out of the baltimore protests.
Heartbreaking what happened in baltimore, as you heard, he turned it to president obama and blaming him for racial tensions and after the q and a onstage, they brought it to the questions of the audience and i was able to ask what he meant. listen to this. >> i think he has not used his role as president to bring us together. he has exacerbated racial misunderstandings, and racial tensions. from back at the beer summit to a series of efforts to pit americans against each other. >> and just to be clear, carol,
Wasn't known. it's interesting in the context of her running against the president, exactly if this will be a factor or not. but one of the things we learned early on, and she learned early on, is that people were hanging on every word he said. and people were paying attention. >> and this is -- had is a process that extends past hillary clinton, but i think it's largely true for everyone, this extends to mitt romney, i think it was true in some ways and barack obama, i remember you were the one who asked barack obama about skip gates at a press conference. getting stopped outside his house, h...
Story, the beer summit president obama holds at the white house to mend fences between a cambridge, massachusetts, police officer and a harvard professor over a controversial arrest. >> and we decided to take a cue from the president. >> in that spirit a local toledo television station decides to organize a beer summit of its own featuring ben conup and maxwell austin. >> ben. >> good to see you. >> nice to finally meet you. >> i feel like a bond, you know what i mean. >> a little bit. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> here you go. >> we've had something, thank you very much. >> a piece offering. >> we had...
Wait for the right moment but it was just like, you know,. >> politicians should take note of this, honestly because it has become a method with people that's how they communicate with the american people. 140 characters sometimes just isn't enough. >> you are absolutely right. he did not comment on the michael brown thing the morning after it happened. >> he waited like two or three days. >> sort of the story became a little more focused. and then he commented on it. he could have done that in this case. >> remember what he did that led to the beer summit when he he said that the police offic...