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Prison pipeline? >> i popped on to this as long ago as in 2012 when i found out that black, brown, native american kids are disciplined more harshly than their upper class and middle class counterparts, poor kids. these disciplinary practices, e e expulsions, suspensions. if you're not in school, you're in trouble. i want to focus on kids. my mother is a teacher. all my aunts were teachers. all her friends were teachers. education is in my dna. that's something that black women have always been, you know, primed to do, to teach the next generation. and it's not in good shape right now. >> mark...

That opinion. >> we're going to bring our panel in to help us chew on this. evan mcmullan, former cia analyst and mark moriel, president and ceo of the national urban league and former mayor of new orleans. bloomberg businesssweek editor megan murphy, the rev al sharpton and president of the national action network. joining us from washington, d.c., robert trainam. peter and kelly are still here, too. i want to get to the congresswoman and the attacks on her because i think the fact that they will not simply correct -- i'm going to give general kelly the benefit of the doubt. he was talking ab...

. we are following a sobering new warning that economic social progress made by black and hispanic americans since the great recession is at risk right now because of the trump administration. the warning from the national urban leagues annual report on the state of black america, the president and ceo of national urban league is here in "the situation room." mark, thanks for joining us. >> always. >> what's the highlight of the 2017 report? >> the main highlight is report. 2016 numbers demonstrate some progress in education. some progress in health. and overall slight improvement during the...

Pre-existing conditions, by trying to go back to that day, republicans are touching a third rail. and jimmy kimmel brought me to tears last night and every person who has gone through this experience was crying as well, and it was very, very powerful. i wouldn't be surprised if it did turn a few votes in this deliberation that's going on today. >> brought a lot of us to tears. it was indeed very powerful. stand by. there's more coming up. a former charleston police officer plead guilty to violating the civil rights of an unarmed black man he shot and killed. we'll get reaction from the preside...

Laws. >> are they in touch with you? >> we've been in touch with them. we met with attorney general sessions. we had an earlier meeting with the civil rights leaders and him. and i hope that report that we shared with your viewers today is a report we can present to the president and his cabinet. >> mark, as usual, thanks very much. >> coming up, in a cnn etch collusive. sources saying the former acting attorney general sally yates will testify that she gave a forceful warning to the white house that michael flynn's russia contacts may have left him compromised weeks before he was fired. (micr...