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That has changed is when you're president, you learn to do things better. early on, the white house really was a little bit too -- a little too easily say anything about race, like when someone was arrested, the poliresident saide police were behaving stupidly. they realized that was a mistake. you should be very thoughtful about it. when he went down to talk about trayvon martin last year, he had thought about it, talked to advisers about it. he had really had what he wanted to say and how he wanted to frame it. and that's what they have done now. on policy and when he speaks about race, he's...

Speaking out, first to steve kornacki here, and then speaking out forceally elsewhere, as we saw. i think the largest context is important. people say, oh, is this politics as usual? no, but it may be crimes as usual in the sense that there is a history of doing politics this way, leading to criminal acts in new jersey. we don't have all the facts on this yet, but we were looking back today, just at chris christie's period as u.s. attorney, about a six-year period, and there were 175 prosecutions for people related to political crimes, 200 when you count in the state prosecutions done by the s...

Be mad at me. >> that's all right, derrick. he cried a little bit. that's okay. >> that is amazing. mom says derrick's reaction is exactly what he expected and there was barely a dry eye in the room for the fans who watched it unfold. >> that was a great story. we were talking about mounting frustration for the president, mainly that nothing gets done in congress. a big reason for that is what some have dubbed the senate veto, or as you know it, the filibuster. if just 41 senators are willing to filibuster a billering it's dead. nat option is nothing new, but its use, of course, has skyrocketi...

Development. and also the fact that you do have this very powerful governor and very powerful mayors, but i have been thinking about this same thing, this politics as usual? and the allegation that he would hold up funding for flood mitigation for sandy in order to essentially do a favor for buddies of his who are linked to this development project, that is way outside of the norm of what happens with politics. this is no sort of pet project, earmark, you support me on this bill and i'll get you your bridge in your community. this is something entirely different. and it goes to the core of who...

African-american audiences, the morehouse speemeech, and in the second term, that hasn't change said. he's not doing this for politics, if he was, it would have changed. his rhetoric has always looked to some degree to transcend race, whether or not that works. that point was really well made and reported in the piece. the question i have is specifically on the area that we would call racial justice initialatives, because there are things that have to deal in the law as a factual matter, have to deal with race. that's where we have seen hesitance. you say in a meeting with civil rights leaders...