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Took a lot of work to get here to the white house. they came from out of town, and dr. dorothy height is the chairwoman of the national council for negro women, and she is active and 97 years old and she uses a wheelchair, but the other three were. it was a surreal scene with them huddling underneath an umbrella getting to the meeting. you had mark moreal, and al sharpton and they were saying, look at the statistics, these are bad for everybody, but they are worse for african-americans and hispanics. for the whites, unemployment is 8.7%, but for african-americans, it is 16.5% and hispanics it ...

Tune of $150 billion and use that money to go ahead to create jobs and some 3 million jobs for folks who really, really need it and suffering. i had a chance to talk to all three of the leaders after the meeting with the president, and here is how mark moreal put it. here is the situation. >> we want people to know how this great recession, the worst recession we have had since the great depression is impacting all communities, but having a very severe impact on urban communities an on the chronically unemployed. >> ali, the white house has not specifically targeted any community for jobs crea...

State grand juries have forfeited their right and their ability to bring about justice in the case of police misconduct cases. >> the last person you heard right there joins us now, mark moreal, ceo of the national urban league, the nation's largest civil rights organization founded in 1910. good to see you, mark. thank you for being here. >> thank you. great. >> let's start with this, what is the evidence that what happened to eric garner and what happened to michael brown has anything to do with race? >> well, it's surprising to me that in both of these instances, prosecutor mccullough and s...