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Can i get criminal justice reform into my second term? the problem is the white house doesn't think him talking about it is the issue. he's too divisive a figure. the only time in his presidency or his time in the national light where he's really been able to succeed in addressing race was in the jeremiah wright comments. his entry in the discussions tends to complicate things further. the skip gates situation was the best example. when you see eric holder going down to florida to address the naacp he's very much talking as a proxy for obama. that is the message that the president would be del...

It does matter that you have an african-american attorney general, an african-american president. these are historic days in that way. it does matter that by 2040 or 2045 we're going to be a majority minority nation. the demographics are moving in a direction they're not coming back. whites are going to be a minority in this country in 20 or 30 years so all of that is happening. at the same time you have these historic problems still very present and because of the economic collapse of 2008, minority communities are actually hurting more than they were before obama was elected. you have these ...

He was scared. >> does your faith allow you to forgive george zimmerman? >> i think that the forgiveness is like a healing process. forgiveness takes time. >> qbes sabrina fulton and tracy martin will spend the entire hour with reverend al sharpton. on wednesday about 1200 people showed up at an orlando courthouse demanding justice for trayvon and protesting gun violence. that is one of the many aspects of this week's issue of time, after trayvon. in the guest spot today is time's washington bureau chief who co-wrote the cover story. michael, we talk about the protests this week and sort of th...

Difference. you can do it properly and you can do it poorly. if you do it poorly it turns out very badly for the communities involved. doesn't mean that we shouldn't be trying to capture the opportunities that it presents. >> interesting. so you don't see it as a black/white issue. i wish we had more time. michael, thanks for telling us about your book. >> thanks for having me with you. absolutely. how you may be unwhit tingly opting in to let the government watch your every click. ♪ hot times in the city ♪ hot child in the city ♪ running wild and looking pretty ♪ mom make you eat th...

Production? is it a big thing to do this? >> i wish we were if you cussing on other energy challenges and opportunities. the keystone pipeline has real but pretty small climate consequences and real but small economic consequences. we've gotten wound up on both sides and increasingly blown it out of proportion for its impact. all at the same time we have general challenges in cutting our emissions in our power plants and we have real opportunities on the production side that we ought to be focusing on. >> michael, is it true that dekrd decreasing dependence on oil -- >> decreasing dependence o...