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Amanda sakuma got their view. >> reporter: tona has lived in ferguson for the last 50 years. >> i've seen the city sort of slide down and then rejuvenate itself. it's a small town. >> reporter: tona volunteers at this shop a community store and public space steps from where protesters have gathered since the shooting of michael brown. many white residents like tona say they are not aware of the racial tensions in ferguson until michael brown's death. >> i wasn't aware there was so much unhappiness. i feel very bad about that. i think i should have been -- i thought i was involved and apparentl...

Believe in. >> yeah, and i think with the two of them as well as with olivia pope, they're really bringing issues to the forefront, sure, but they're bringing the sense of common humanity to the fore front. we're all americans. we're all deserving of the same opportunities, the same rights. we make the same mistakes. i think we can coalesce around that. >> i don't know what i'm going to do until "scandal" comes back. literally, psychological trauma. well, thanks to all of you. that is our show for today. thanks to you at home for watching. i'm joy reid. melissa will be back here next sat and s...

Collective community. we have to be able to do prevention and intervention and be proactive and not be reactive all the time, you know. and i think a lot of times when we tackle this issue, schools and communities come at the back end instead of being at the fore front. >> you say on one hand bullying affects everybody, but not everybody, right? we know that the kinds of things that people tend to get bullied for have to do with socially marginal identities. >> sure. >> girls being shamed, girls and boys shamed around queer identity. we can say bullying is everyone's problem but some kids are ...

Forefront as well. does this continue to factor into the conversation and hurt the overall party? >> michael is absolutely right. the republicans have handed the democrats and the white house an opening they didn't automatically have. in 2010, there was no gender gap. women broke evenly for democrats and republicans. democrats traditionally and in this election need women to favor them much more heavily in that. now you're starting to see that break happen. i think it wasn't a given it was going to be that way but the republican reaction, the words have been used during this contraception figh...

Billy graham. they've spoken on the phone before. and back in november, when reverend graham turned 91, they decided they'd try to meet face to face as soon as possible. unclear at this point whether or not the issue of the reverend franklin graham will come up. as you know, late last week the pentagon rescinded an invi toigs to franklin graham to speak at the national prayer breakfast because of some comments the younger graham had made about islam, saying it was an evil lely on. unclear what will come up in that conversation between graham and obama. we won't see any coverage of that in term...