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The United Way of Washtenaw County's 21-day Equity Challenge begins today. It asks us to spend time each day exploring our personal bias and to educate ourselves on how to recognize them, deal with them and, ultimately, discard them. It also provides context for the society we live in today and our roles in it. La'Ron Williams is a noted storyteller and a founding member of "Washtenaw Faces Race." He joined WEMU's David Fair to discuss the ongoing local efforts to dismantle hierarchal and systemic racism.

>> is that illegal? i >> to be honest, there's a lot of people they will have to answer, including the people from the state who ended up accepting it and not challenging when he donated, for example acres, claiming that each acre was worth 1 million dollars. why do they just fall for whatever it was that trump and weisselberg and others said? i truly don't know the answer. but again, what it goes to is failures in our system of checks and balances, especially on the uber-rich theirs. a failure of checks and balances, and while he is responsible for that, because he put that down in the tax re...

>> everything. everything across the board, and then some. one of the things of course, again, is the fact that he's not as wealthy as he purported. but also he's clearly not as charitable as he wanted to purport. and then, on top of everything, the way that he used the system, for example, and i'm sure david can speak to this at length, but one of the things that he would do is, he will take worthless land at the back of some of the golf courses and he would then donate it as a deduction. the problem is that he would take that piece of property and he would value it the same as usable propert...

Behind bars, which is where he belongs. >> and that is where we begin the hour. joining us now the aforementioned former trump attorney, michael cohen. he's the host of the mea culpa podcast, and he's the author of the important new book revenge, how donald trump wrapped weaponized u.s. department of justice against his critic. david fair and gold is also here, new york times investigative reporter and an msnbc reporter who won a pulitzer prize while reporting at the washington post for his coverage of trump's charitable giving or lack thereof. >> i can't believe i said that on your show, but ...

It's also, again, difficult for the irs to track what's going on. now they have plenty of time in the wee plenty of people taking a look at all these documents. my feeling is these goose is cooked. >> his goose is cooked! speaking of, i guess plural is gays? speaking of gates. the perception problem for the irs is real, and significant, david. your colleagues have reported on increasing audits, autopsies without the benefit of death. for jim mccain. >> and michael cohen! >> and michael cohen. and on it, it was supposed to happen by law it never did for donald trump. what is the bucket of quest...