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Political science at fordham university. let me start with you. i'm going to play devil's advocate for a second. >> sure. >> you know we live in the era of the omnipresent cell phone video. and everyone's worst moment is captured, right? so those worst moments can be all kinds of things we see posted on our facebook page. this was a bad moment for her. something really ugly was said. but, you know, it's one bad moment. why are we all ganging up on her? >> as the principal of a high school that serves predominantly african-american students and it's their graduation. that is the moment that you...

And raised red flags. the first thing i realized is it's a single source story. there are other people that talk in the story but jackie's account is the only one. there are a number of things you see in the story. an example, recently she claims to have been hit in the face with a bottle, gave her a black eye, it was in public, there's no one to corroborate that, no medical evidence, no police reports. and it doesn't mean that something this horrific can happen. it can. but there was a mounting sense that i got when reading it that with just one source, you really, as journalists, we have to ...

Prosecutor appointed by governor cuomo. he was asked to do that. he didn't do that. yes, and he didn't do it. he doesn't do it because it's a political decision. and we've got to get beyond putting cameras on the police officers, which creates a whole "1984" issue. >> so bold systemic change looks like an institutionalized procedure by which cases such as these move into a channel other than the normal channel of prosecution? >> no, what we have to do is we have to create a system that makes sense, that's transparent and that we can trust. as we've all pointed out, there's a built-in conflict ...

From chicago to speak about this. it's really bad. walmart basically thinks in this situation they're going to sell more stuff if they're open on thanksgiving day. but what does it say about this country, that we're just not going to have holidays anymore? i think that's a really problematic thing for most workers and most folks. the u.s. has the least holidays of any industrialized countries. on average, most americans only have nine paid vacation days. in france, they have six weeks. an article my buddy mark ames wrote, half of vacation time goes unused because workers are afraid of asking t...

Together this personal dig against the house speaker. >> there are not the votes in the house to pass a clean c.r. >> are you chicken? >> you're soft. >> you've always been gutless. >> if republicans and speaker boehner are saying there are not enough votes then they should prove it. >> what's the matter, colonel sanders? chicken? >> damn right you're scared. >> hard to watch the great rick moranis be used as a political pawn like that. senator ron johnson, wasn't to turn back to you. >> those democrats are so mean. they're so partisan. i'm mr. bipartisan. >> i've never seen any republican ads...