Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130719:21:28:00
It's been nearly a week since the george zimmerman verdict. what motivated the president to speak so personally now about ris and his own experience as a black man in america six days after the verdict? for that i turn to two white house reporters peter alexander and april ryan of the urban rao network. peter, i was watching andrea mitchell. they broke out of her program and go into the pr esroom. it looked to me like the president was joking with you as he got to the podium. and then delivered this very serious set of remarks. paint the picture from your perspective. >> well, we were sitting ...