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It? >> the naacp national came on today and basically defended eric holder and defended the department of justice and defended this whole program. >> bill: how did he do that. >> he basically said if you have a test that's bad and discriminating against minorities and the department of justice has to do something. >> bill: did you see the test. >> i didn't see the test. >> >> bill: new haven test was a regular test. >> the city of dayton got in trouble with the department of justice back in 2000 will because they said they were using discriminatory test based simply on the numbers as they were...

Case of a firefighter being emt. what's next now your doctor? air traffic controllers? where do we say no we are not going to lower the standards? i asked hillary is this paternalistic? is this basically the department of justice and thought city of dayton saying that african-american applicants you know what? you are too stupid. you can never pass it. so we have to come up with -- we have to now change the standard to an f is passing. >> bill: it's insultinginsulting paternalistic. >> he says it isn't. the test must be unfair because not enough african-americans are passing it. >> bill: why d...

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Point of the department of justice, is not lost on me. i get the point. >> bill: which is? >> if have you got a result of a test that continuously leads to minorities failing and whites passing, there may be -- it's a hidden bias that they are looking for in the test. >> bill: cultural thing. >> maybe all the cops they talked to in coming up with the new test tended to be white. based on their white experiences they said this is what you need to have. they come up with a test that maybe african-americans have a difficult time passing. that's what the dodge is trying to prevent. trying to keep ...

Come, in revamp the test, talk to actual firefighters and police officers, make sure the test is fair, to blacks and whites and hispanics alike. did it, gave it to people, lowered the scores that would be passing to 66 and 72% on -- got two sections. and still the department of justice. >> bill: after all that investment. >> under barack obama has said that's still too much of a burden. you have to lower the passing score. >> bill: to 60. >> from a d to an f. an f is now passing because i say so eric holder. >> bill: 63. >> 68 on the first -- this is what dayton wanted. they wanted people to g...