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Cadence of the speech itself, no details is too small. the process is so intense that obama's speech writer cody kenan has not shaved his beard since he began working on it last november. michael waldman knows all about particular the former director of speech writing for president bill clinton and now president of the brennan center for justice. it's great to have you, as always. look, times are not great for the president. poll after poll shows his numbers are down, that confidence is down, and the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, 68% say the country is worse off since he took off...

Councils changed and state legislatures changed, congress changed, and yes, eventually the white house changed. >> reporter: but changes produced consequences. the helping hand of lyndon johnson's society too often became a crutch. today, 72% of african-american children are born to unmarried mothers, greater incarceration rates and joblessness remain stubbornly high. how to address it is a polarized debate in washington, a discussion president obama said could end with the courage king showed. >> that's where courage comes from. when we turn not from each other or on each other but towards on...

Trove pieces. "time" is debuting this collection of experiences. there's a special issue of the magazine and across a multi-media project they're calling "one dream." joining us is radica jones, executive editor of "time" magazine. the owning question is an obvious one. what is it about that march and that speech that has such staying power over these last 50 years? >> i think it's so many things and that's what you'll find when you explore the package. the speech itself, obviously the rhetoric and the way that dr. king delivered the speech is obviously one of the top five greatest speeches in...

Reach a truce with him. and then build a bridge directly to the israeli people. keep in mind, andrea that netenyahu comes to washington, he goes to the congress. and talks to the american people directly over the heads of the american president. barack obama essentially did it today, and he spoke to the israelis, he was very compassionate, he was very warm. he told them how much he loved israel and its history and jewish identity and all that he said the right things to the israeli people. on the part that has to do with the palestinians and peace process, whether in ramallah or in israel, i t...

To the messiah, jesus, i can't believe how caught up the media gets in these moments. it's actually comical, but i wanted to ask you for the speech itself, i felt it was a hodgepodge of written by people that want today come up with their ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country moment and when you write a speech like that isn't it likely to fail? >> well, you have to use your own words. but what they did cribbed a lot from abraham lincoln, i saw at least three speeches in there. the nation without liberty and equality, remain half free and half slave. and...