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All you do is confuse them. rachel: that s point. pete: that s the point, is to confuse them. and she only glanced at the racial component of it but, again, she eludes to the martin luther king jr. version of the world which is the way we should be looking at it, and still today, almost april, her 6-year-old is still wearing a mask inside st. paul public schools. by the way, we re doing an update on miseducation of america series coming up in june when some other things are happening. you can t keep up with the speed, the rapidness. even though we re talking about it, it is getting worse, and it s on hyperdrive. rachel: it totally is. and by the way, there is a tie-in to this confirmation if hearing that we re dealing with, with justice ketanji jackson. minimizing, again, this is part of the movement, minimizing and justifying why she s reducing sentences for kiddie porn. i think, frankly, that it s disqualifying, i think it s disturbing and yet another attack on children s innocence. ....
Listen to some of what they went through. we had a few people that were passing out. the rapidness of the drop of the airplane coming down very quickly, rattling and shaking. like a steep roller coaster coming down very quickly. it s just so scary. there are more questions than answers. the faa is investigating. we need to know why there was a pressurization problem, and was it because people started passing out? and the ultimate question was, why were people passing out? did more people pass out because they had such a fast descent? we will talk about a big story happening at a court in north carolina. general petraeus getting his day in court. why his expected plea deal has critics calling foul. pamela following this story. we are going to tell you ....
And that must be is going up. in ringgold, georgia, a town flattened. death toll now stands at seven but that number will likely rise the next 48 hours with the cadaver dogs out. a rescue worker expects the body count to go up quite a bit because they are finding a lot of bodies there. a short timing a we were in the commercial center of town and it is a scene of devastation and entire buildings, and hotels and restaurants and mcdonald s gone. the high school hit hard and the church. a real sense, here, too, of fear, shaken up to the degree of damage and the rapidness which it all happened. i spoke to a man a short time ago who just prayed all night wrong. it hit at 8:30 and a lot of people were out at hotels and restaurants in the commercial areas, and there was a great deal of damage and family members in the past 24 hours ....
Responded and how quickly is they responded to this specific allegation. so what does that tell you about the severity of it or the likely severity of it? it has to be serious for nbc to act so quickly. now, as a corporate in this particular environment, especially, but even before then, if there s something very serious, an allegation made, the corporate responsibility to all the employees and all the women who work there is crucial enough that they could have just made this decision because it may not be a criminal offense, it may be we don t know exactly what the allegation is, but in this climate, in particular, it is incumbent on every corporation to make sure that the workplace is safe for everyone. so the rapidness of the action could be because of that. it also could be because it s a very serious offense, whether it s something that bleeds over into the criminal arena, we have absolutely no idea. bill, there s a line in the nbc news statement that jumps ....
Issue about our rights, for me, it seems as though we have come to this point where we recognize that this is the civil rights issue of our time, if you will. it s so critically important. and at the same time, regardless of what happens at the court, as you said, this has been a long trajectory of history toward equality for everyone. i think it will continue to evolve beyond whatever the decisions are made by the court. it s a long trajectory, yet there s a sort of rapidness of what happened in just this moment. when you re looking at washington post data, a recent poll about support for marriage equality, 58% of americans support marriage equality. that is up 21 points since 2003, in one decade. among those under 30, 81%, a consensus position. yet, kenji when i looked at the new york times this morning, there was a piece suggesting that the court may be too far ....