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City for this progressive congress called net roots. you're not going to be there. should your supporters, should people want you to run take this as a sign that you're not going to get into the race at all? >> first of all, i don't intend to run. i've said that many, many run. >> nobody tends to run until they're running. >> that's absolutely true. when i decide to, i'll let you know. right now i'm not planning to do that. what i am planning to do is to talk and speak about the direction the country ought to go in, irrespective of whether i'm in the private or public sector. i wasn't invited....

Partly because of the tactic that was used as it relates to senator bernie sanders. let me play first what he said after he was interrupted. let's play it. >> it's unfortunate because, among other things -- among other things, i wanted to talk about the issues of black lives, of the fact that the american people are tired of seeing unarmed african-americans shot and killed. but there are other issues as well that we have to talk about. >> here you have bernie sanders saying i was prepared to talk about the black lives matters crisis and the things that he would like to see changed but he was n...

That way? why not meet with bernie sanders? why not attempt to find a common ground with someone who seems to be more willing to support a progressive agenda as it progressive agenda? >> absolutely. there's really no point in con fronting the gop, at least i think during the primaries because gop members will pretty much flatly tell you that they don't care about black lives. so instead we really need to put pressure on people who claim that they care about black lives, claim that they're closer. what we saw actually with the first confrontation that bernie sanders had at net roots is that he ...

Like everybody from the rich's person to the poorest person all of us have feelings and never should a victim's feeling rise to the top in terms of trying to critique whether or not they deserve justice or not. >> indeed. thank you to nina turner for bringing the fire and analysis from cleveland, ohio this morning. thank you for joining me. >> thank you, professor. thank you to john shane, jamel and alicia are sticking around. up next, the black lives matter movement and the ballot they made it happen the at net roots. can their mess resonate and impact the 2016 campaign.

They going to walk the walk. >> speaking of walk the walk professor peterson. bernie sanders is struggling with african american voters. whether does he have to do to turn things around? because he seems ideally suited and situated to speak to many of the economic inequalities that prevail. but seems to be a bit more tone deaf when it comes to dealing with issues of race more specifically. >> well he's attempted to make the adjustment in response to what happened to him at the net roots conference a few weeks back. but to be honest with you, doc, the reality here is that all of these candidate...