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Potential factor in how he's treated. obviously, in the 2012 campaign, you saw a lot of instances where race bubbled up underneath. he's been dealing with issues related to his birth certificate as many democrats point to as ultimately being a race issue, but obama has tebded to focus on it, when he has focused on it, more in personal terms. you saw how he handled it with trayvon martin. he said, if i had a son, he would look like trayvon. this is an instance of his evaluating how it affects him from a political perspective and hits his approval rating. >> casey, thank you. >> thank you. the...

Particular race. this is a class issue, not a race issue. >> alec baldwin is not known for parents, there are plenty of people who don't talk to their children well. >> comparing that child to alec baldwin, that child will have every access in life. wendy, what's the solution? >> i think a parent -- it's early intervention in parenting, that these young parents who clearly are children themselves need to learn that small children and babies are not performing animals doing tricks for you. and understanding that if you decide you're going to live above the law, that teaching the next generation...

Partly has to do with broader economic structural factors. the recovery has been weaker for people with relatively lower levels of education. and african-americans tend to have lower levels of education than -- than what americans. so i think -- than white americans. so i think the policies are policies that would help people of all races to get jobs. we needed more stimulative fiscal policy. we needed a better monetary policy for the last few years. i think the one piece of it that does -- that goes most directly as a racial issue is the drug enforcement issue. where you have -- because you h...

>> it has been in place, all of a sudden it is unreasonable? >> you think they had reasonable suspicion to stop all of them? >> i will say this, i get the hassle, i would be ticked if i was stopped. when we fly, we are stopped, but we deal with it because we don't want to be blown out of the sky. so, you know, if people get upset they have to learn i guess to live with it because it helps their community. law enforcement doesn't see it as a race issue, they see it as a community issue, communities need help and you should listen to the people that live there. ask them. is it helping their comm...

>> it has been in place, all of a sudden it is unreasonable? >> you think they had reasonable suspicion to stop all of them? >> i will say this, i get the hassle, i would be ticked if i was stopped. when we fly, we are stopped, but we deal with it because we don't want to be blown out of the sky. so, you know, if people get upset they have to learn i guess to live with it because it helps their community. law enforcement doesn't see it as a race issue, they see it as a community issue, communities need help and you should listen to the people that live there. ask them. is it helping their comm...