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You do have michael mukasey and larry thompson and cornel brooks and a former dreamer and u.s. veteran and you have commissioner of the u.s. commissioner on civil rights. and then you have founders of two civic organizaons. dna saves. were you asked to tesfy and if you had the opportunity to testify, give us a short version of what you would say. >> well, let me start with the short version of what i would say, but preface it by saying that i think that both cornell brooks, the president of the naacp who you talked about at the top of the segment who was arrested the other day and who is a civ...

And trucks. they're going to -- it almost has less to do with the flag itself than the outside forces insisting they take it down. there's still that sort of dig your heels in and resist mentality. but it's coming down because it's the right thing to do. it's the least we can do to pay our respects for the people who died in that attack. >> i want to play something cornel brooks of the naacp -- he is actually posing a question to everybody on this panel. take a listen. >> i poese a question to the viewers of this program. would you feel safe walking into a room full of swastikas and nazi parap...

Itself than the outside forces insisting they take it down. there's still that sort of dig your heels in and resist mentality. but it's coming down because it's the right thing to do. it's the least we can do to pay our respects for the people who died in that attack. >> i want to play something cornel brooks of the naacp -- he is actually posing a question to everybody on this panel. take a listen. >> i poese a question to the viewers of this program. would you feel safe walking into a room full of swastikas and nazi paraphernalia in the same way americans do not feel safe do not feel confide...

One-off, a one investigation that obviously of a justice department is looking into, so i think he's got a ways to go. i talked to one republican, asked him, do you think the president can come back from this? and one of the things he said, he asked me, did president bush come back from katrina? that was a real watershed moment. he wasn't able to come back from that. of course he was in his second term, but it left a lot of doubts about his president. his empathy, his empathy for certain groups of americans. i think this president has a long way to go in terms of closing that gap for many amer...

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