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Crime is at historic lows in this country, law enforcement officers who as you point out strapping on the guns are doing heroic work. clearly, he faced criticism of law enforcement because some occasions, many occasions, perhaps say, he's been seen, the president that is, to side with the protest emergency rooms out in the streets or with the victims of crime and this, of course, goes back to the case of the harvard professor skip gates and trayvon martin and so many other cases and a delicate issue for the president and one he feels strongly about. you heard the personal references he made as...

In that statement certainly in the middle years of the obama journey. there was a time when after that beer summit, you remember skip gates was arrested in his home, an african-american famous professor arrested in his own home for being in his own moment and the president said that was fool esh. he got a big backlash from that and after the president was too silent for many years on the issue of race. he did talk about it in terms that made it seems like in black kids just pulled their pants up, jobs would fall down from the sky. but he has changed quite a bit since trayvon martin. the whole ...

Arbiter on who is black and who is not when he has been such a destructive force. i think eleisa garza -- they ar right to raise the question, what about us. >> it goes on to talk about that moment with skip gates. he said that police act foolishly. he says his advisers wished they had not had that meeting. they wish he would have come out and say what i meant to say was they behaved damn foolishly. i a i want to talk about the polls. donald trump, this is for you. this is carson on the debt ceiling appearing. he spoke at the marketplace about the economy and the debt limit and it's a very int...

>> some of the thought in the white house, and the president did say that, he didn't want to set the precedent, and there would be a precedent if he did it. the thought in the white house, there are so many medals given to so many different people who deserve it for what they have done, but then you have people who could have done other things as well. so you start a chain reaction of pulling everyone else's medals. so that's some of the thought in the white house that i was getting prior to the president's answer today. >> let me go to jonathan. i liked the answer because it was a sharp state...

Remember the white house press conference where he was asked about the arrest of harvard professor skip gates at his own home and he spoke openly about how he thought the cambridge police quote, acted stupidly in arresting the professor in his own home. the fire storm that erupted after that as a result, many people point to as the reason for the president being very reticent to talk about anything related to race either directly or indirectly. today, we saw the president snap back to that barack obama, someone who was forceful someone who was speaking his mind. but this time aware that becaus...