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>> no. that doesn't make me uncomfortable. it makes me uncomfortable saying we're moving backwards the. i think in the obama era we're moving forwards and not the election of president obama but the policy achievements are helping the country move forward. now you showed some sta ttistic at the outset which suggest regress, but i think there are a the lot of statistics that show progress, the black/white student achievement gap is shrinking. the rate at which african-americans suffer violent assault has been shrinking over several decades. some things are moving in the wrong direction and some...

>> no. that doesn't make me uncomfortable. it makes me uncomfortable saying we're moving backwards the. i think in the obama era we're moving forwards and not the election of president obama but the policy achievements are helping the country move forward. now you showed some statistics at the outset which suggest regress, but i think there are a the lot of statistics that show progress, the black/white student achievement gap is shrinking. the rate at which african-americans suffer violent assault has been shrinking over several decades. some things are moving in the wrong direction and some ...

2009 to show progress, including greenhouse gas limits for cars and billions in stimulus spending granted for clean-energy project, president obama was unable to pass a comprehensive bill to cap u.s. carbon emissions he had promised on the campaign trail. he essentially picked health care over cap and trade. well, in 2011 he called on congress to pass a clean energy standard and outline a new environmental plan. but that seemed to backtrack on many of his previous promises and in his 2012 state of the union the president only mentioned natural gas five times and oil ten times. by the end of hi...

Being a pacifist for the whole thing. they didn't take her seriously whatsoever. if anybody is upset they should be upset directly with the mayor. it is her responsibility and she completely abdocated. >> so far it cost oakland $5 million. when they showed this on cnn i was on the stair climber, just so you know. >> thanks for that detail. >> and the bottom said this, whatever, incident injects new life into the movement. as though this is kind of a good thing. where do you stand on this? >> it is summed up in the words of gandhi saying "let's set fire to things and break stuff." that is the t...

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