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And peace triumphing over hate. a person who had her father murdered by white men who weren't brought to justice and she overcame, you know, her own hate to see that she was meant to help all people, and this happened to her. this needs to -- teachable moments. i hope this is finally, for once, this is the one where we all -- i know everyone hates that frizz phrase. >> no, i don't. >> i hope this is the one time when we, you know, learn that, again, as jon said, quality -- speed over quality has to be flipped. >> fox news, obviously, was driving the story but a lot of guilty parties here. ever...

The election, what is very clear now, is energy legislation, climate legislation. so the greens are very disappointed with this. they are critiquing the strategy that got them in this position. they are very frustrated, senator john kerry and joe lieberman who are aggressive backers of climate legislation, they pursued inside game strategy and closed door meetings trying to cut deals with affected corporate and electrical utilities and the rest. saying you cut these deals but you got nothing in return and given lots a way but not gotten any votes in return so nothing is going to pass. deep, de...

Bureaucrat working away in georgia. this is a woman who is part of a family that has made real contributions to advancing the conversation on race in america. >> that's definitely important to point out, melissa. what we keep talking about teachable moment. we say this every time we have one of these incidents and it gets frustrating to hear it. it's predictable at this point. what can we teach and learn from this? >> two things. one, i sort of agree the national conversation on race is a bad idea. that assumes we should all get together and talk about our feelings. i think a national classroo...

Teachable moment. we come to every one of these and we hope things have to be different after this, and they haven't been. one does hope there is an accumulation. >> jon is absolutely right about the media culture, but shouldn't the white house in some regard be able to shut it out in some way or is that impossible? >> well, no. they should be aware of the media culture, obviously, because it's influential. but they should be the ones that really say hold on a minute, let's not rush to judgment here, let's take a look. if they had done that, all of the egg would have been on the face of the pe...

Homes on to refurbished fields of play and they get no physical education in schools now. get these fat little kids out away from the remote control clickers and throw a basketball or a baseball around. >> couldn't agree more. one of the part of our story is schools doing that. because they don't have those facilities. it's improving facilities. it's doing fun things. you can teach physics with a basketball, right some so it's about programs like that. >> i can't believe you came here to kill summer vacation for the kids! >> why do we have -- >> i'm with you. >> why do we have a summer vacatio...