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George was 15 years old, but he had already changed his community. he was grappling with big ideas about how to make our world safer and healthier and more just. >> i believe that the solution's in us, the youth. we are the ones that can change our school. we go to the school every day. we are the experts. >> so we should tell victor's story, but we must also tell george's because both are the story of post-katrina, new orleans. new orleans cries out to be understood, through the literary, the poetic, the magical, but we must not reduce to a metaphor. ten years later we cannot edit the story t...

Many people. when you talk to environmental activists they say until we find out a way to reverse all the damage done to the coastline, new orleans may remain as vulnerable as ever. melissa? >> thank you to msnbc's trymaine lee in new orleans. still with me at the table in new york, james perry, raised in new orleans, community advocate and, of course, my husband. laura flanders, host of grittv.org. a first, i want to bring in a man featured in trymaine's story, three star lieutenant general, general honore arrived as flooding swallowed the city. as the committee of joint task force commander,...

Provide abortions even in this climate and the doctor that we interviewed at grittv.org talked about the clients she that she has who wanted that other child like the client that -- the woman you talked about but for whatever reason decided that they couldn't have that child or the child was not going to -- that fetus was not going to be able to brought to term and have a healthy life. the pain involved in these discussions -- we have no space for it in our confers as it's currently politicized. >> yep. >> and i think ironically it's going to be states like oklahoma where the political picture...

Republicans can't refuse. joining me at table is msnbc contributor, joy reid. cnbc contributor, dan dicker and laura flanders, the host and founder of grittv.org. thanks to all of you for being here. is this, in fact, a new president obama. is the kind of negotiating tactics we are seeing now something that wasn't happening in the first term? >> i want to see that seventh head. i'm really looking forward to that. i love this whole don core leone thing. i know this was one of those things. apparently, they got in touch with a dog food factory. i will put that one aside. >> i don't think anyth...

"retarded." and actually, there was an f-word before that emmanuel made the comment in a closed-door meeting with liberal groups back in august when they were talking health care. but it only made its way to the public arena last week when it was reported by "the wall street journal." since then, sarah palin has jumped on the comment. she called for the president of the united states to fire rahm emanuel on her face back page. she posted, just as we would be appalled any public figure of rahm's stature ever use the n-word or other such inappropriate language, rahm's slur on all god's children ...