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>> joining me now, host of "nerding out" and professor at columbia university. mark thompson host of "make it plain," and joy reid. joy, your reaction? >> it's interesting. it comes very shortly after james comey, the fbi director gave a speech that was very similar. i was struck by the fact that what he got really right was to say we can't just give a path to history, which too often is what a lot of americans want. they just want a blanket pass and they want everyone to move on. but for the african-american community, the past is present, because a lot of the bad relations with police are no...

Police and black citizens have entwined again and again. in the unequal nature of that relationship, it cannot and must not be denied. >> he explained why black history month is an important learning opportunity for american police. >> there's another reason why black history month is so important. we as cops don't want to fall into inaccurate stereotypes, so we need to teach ourselves about slavery, reconstruction, jim crow. we know about unequal access to home loans after world war ii. the whole black experience. >> joining me now, host of "nerding out" and professor at columbia university. ...

>> so make it plain, what is the law? how does it read? >> if somebody is in a persistent vegetative state, in a coma, not when somebody is clinically dead. you can't say we're talking about life support, when every state in the union defines her as dead. >> do you think this will be reversed in a court? >> i don't know. i think particularly in texas, where there is this intense opposition to abortion and anything that would limit the life of a fetus, i wouldn't want to predict how this would come out. >> how can a dead person bring a live baby to birth? >> there are two categories of death. b...

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