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>> it's hard to think of any of it outside the context of the tenure of katrina but i kind of want to say we all watch katrina happen live on air. we know that the broadcast of human suffering especially of black bodies does not inherently or necessarily bring with it justice, but the two of you have done an interesting thing here by talking about this kind of institutional position, and then also bringing us back to a kind of internal ethical, moral question. you do work at "the new yorker" and if you're sitting here i should ask about the fact that one of the ways this moment has been marked...

Next attorney general. what is the legacy that you want to leave? >> the legacy that i want to leave is one of inclusion, of one of advancing my main goals of protecting the most vulnerable members of our society and making sure that everyone has a voice and understands that the department of justice's main goal is the protection of the american people and i want to make that real for people. i want to make that real for the individual, so that the next attorney general inherits a department that is looked upon as one that is not only supportive of individuals, but is one where they can turn t...

Building confidence within me, if they needed me i'd do it again. >> so i love the way that you portray cube in those moments. it feels very familiar to me, the ice cube i remember from the music that i know and also the portrayal of dre who is different now, the person who is dre now and been in the game such a long time. >> right. >> how do you enter into and find that dre at that moment? >> that's a great question. i was lucky enough to just have him on set every single day. i remember the first time i met him, we all went out to dinner and we didn't talk about the movie at all. we got to k...

After watts which is also this month people asking the question what has changed and what remained remarkably consistent is the ways in which we treat poor people in the country. until we can address the root cases of the poverty, we look at ferguson wrong ly as an exemptional circumstance where the police department was depending on the money raising from poor communities. some were unfairly singled out. if the problem were merely isolated to them we would not be in bad shape but the very same dynamics that started the watts riot in 1965 with a growing black population and previously before w...

Sometimes get into a routine and we don't pay as much attention to because we don't expect cowards to try to ambush us. >> >> i'd like to pick up on a reer to ral question officer bratton said yesterday. he said, can you point out to me one mayor that has not been battling with police unions in the last 50 years. name one. i just would like to get a sense of in your experience, is he right? >> i think in a lot of cases that there are certain issues dealing with labor and management that police and associations don't normally see eye to eye with government. it's to be expects from police associ...