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And i wish i could have convicted him on first degree murder, but i couldn't. >> well, that's exactly what she said. and i thought the most interesting question is the race question. whenever the jurors are asked did race play a factor, they all say no. well, i think the wrong question is being asked because a jury is going to think when you ask that question did you convict or acquit dunn because of his race, and of course they're all going to say no to that. but if you say to them do you think his fear was a greater fear because there were black kids in the next car as opposed to if there we...

You had to unite these two strains of cultural panic. >> total synergy is what you're saying. >> i think that's why bill o'reilly took up the standard. this is his thing. he brought this back up. >> bill o'reilly said, because they cannot defeat us on the media battlefield, the far left seeks to demonize fox news as a right-wing propaganda machine and a racist enterprise. you said it, i didn't. but, you know, maggie, i guess the question is, right, on some level it's like, wow, conservatives and republicans -- the race question is an area where you guys have a lot of problems insofar as someth...

Have today. for '63, that polarization was inevitable, until we settled the race question, which was the preeminent question of the day. today the preeminent question is economic. all it would take is sitting down and dividing up how we would each treat those things. remember, the democrats had the southern democrats in their fold. which made it very hard for john f. kennedy to move forward to do what he obviously wanted to do. >> yeah. >> so we had to come to grips with them, and then to deal with republicans who, to their credit, moved toward him on civil rights. >> how would civil rights mo...

It's striking on that list of congressman to impeach him, there are a bunch of names, republicans of texas. >> yep. >> eric holder has been very clear that he is going to enforce the voting rights act even though the supreme court knocked down part of it. and he's trying to use other parts of the voting rights act to knock down some of these voter suppression laws that have been passed in texas and north carolina and i suspect he's going to go elsewhere. and i do think that this is one of the things that eric holder has done to get under their skin. >> right. >> but, you know, on the race ques...

Evidence that george zimmerman is himself an active rabid racist. someone who usual racial terminology or who says that he hates black people or believes that black people are institutes a race question rather than recognizing that race is at play in this sense that a young black man walking, minding his own business, unarmed. not committing any crime. that he does not have a right to simply walk home. that he somehow owed george zimmerman an explanation for what he was doing in this public space by the way, the whole case resting on if this child turned around and was being followed by an arm...