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in presidential campaigns. especially when a democratic front-runner gets challenged from the left. >> i am proud to announce my candidacy for president of the united states of america. >> will he give hillary clinton a hard time? >> he is kind of the truth teller in the public square. >> there's a billionaire class, i say that your greed has got to end. >> he's got that sort of rumpeled professor look. >> what did you do, go to the barber and say give me the dock brown? >> bernie sanders is the ultimate anti-politician. >> this campaign is about the needs of the american people. >> ...

Excuse to lose hope. to succumb to feelings of despair and anger only means that in the end, we lose. >> joining me now brittany cooper and peter slevin author of "michelle obama: a life." >> so many feelings. >> all of them about everything. i want to open it. what did you hear in that speech and in the critique that followed? >> sure. what i think is so compelling, it reminds me of a couple arguments you make in "sister citizen." the politics of recognition. so saying to them, you will be misrecognized, folks won't see your cap and gown when they self-incriminate discriminate against you. bl...

New yorker cover. she is having her say and this is the first time we've heard her say that hurt kept me up nights and that is so important. that's a moment she took off this cloak of strong womanhood and validate our right to say racism hurts racism is painful but we persist move on and figure out a way to make it. i think that's a nice balance of a structural critique or acknowledgment of structural critique and acknowledgment of the spiritual resources we marshal to deal with it. >> peter, i think this is part of the reason i wanted you as her biographer. was that point about the pain the t...

And it's really important in understanding, there are two different ways that racial inequity are discussed and have been discussed since washington america. black people deficits and got to be lifted up individually or structurally, got to fix black people and then the problem is y'all. the problem is white people and white supremacy and our problem is to not tricking to feel less than. that's her speech. that's noise. don't get caught in it. it's not about you. because i am powerful. >> so there's also a little bit of sort of the historical rewriting of that moment. because of course it isn'...

Of restranltint that helped infinitely. >> thank you to madison police chief michael koval. i appreciate you making yourself available. here in new york thank you to brittany cooper and peter slevin and nancy giles and kai wright. next, the latest on the u.s. raid inside syria that killed a top isis leader. and when you bundle your home and auto insurance through progressive, you'll save a bundle! [ laughs ] jamie. right. make a bad bundle joke a buck goes in the jar. i guess that's just how the cookie bundles. now, you're gonna have two bundles of joy! i'm not pregnant. i'm gonna go. [ tappin...