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Baltimore and the very fractured relationship between community and police and then the mayor's commentses on saturday which really seemed to be a touch stone for a lot of people criticizing how leadership was behaving. >> and phil brought up the baltimore sun oig report and i'll read the lead. from september 28, 2014, the city's paid about $5.7 million since 2011 over lawsuits claiming that police officers brazenly beat up alleged suspects, one hidden cost the perception that officers are violent can poison the relationship between residents and police. so many people from the baltimore sun t...

Partners and there was no buyer or seller and he failed. the president has seen this conflict as a touch stone in helping to resolve america's broader problems in the middle east. the problem is the president is putting far too much emphasis on this point in time on what is essentially that a conflict the rest of the arab world has no longer considered to be the essential ingredient to peaceful coexistence in the middle east, number one. number two there is no doubt these two men don't like each other. for all intents and purposes, netanyahu preferred mitt romney. and he prefers a republican p...

Pit. and the outcome ends up being this sort of racial touch stone. >> we've heard a lot, nicole, this was essentially the big reality show that spawned reality tv. what i want you to talk about is, i feel this sparked a consideration about race in a national way. i remember going to school, i was 10 years old, and black kids were saying, o.j. simpson is innocent, and white kids were saying o.j. simpson is guilty. talk about how that played into the trial and race. >> sure. you see it in the footage, when the verdict is read. literally, a black person, a white person, standing next to each oth...

Things that women go through, and i think this is especially poignant to talk about her today knit misdemeanorst of the things that are going on in the world right now with women, with the nigerian girls being missing, the shooting that has happened. i mean, more than ever i think dr. angelou's words about women and empowering women who are in certain kinds of circumstances resonate true today, and i think they will continue to resonate that way. >> yeah. she is thought of and known best as a prolific and beautiful writer, but in a lot of ways she became an important touch stone that political...

Nobody could have predicted this progress and transformation. even 25 years ago. >> is he the mod em? >> no question he's the model. i think he's the star and he's all of that. i don't know if we will see another nelson mandela. >> a very unique man. the circumstances he had and how he handled them. i think that god rewarded him with a long to be able to see some of the fruits of his labor coming into being, but we should not under estimate at all how what he did was. >> we don't often get to see our leaders turn 95. a lot of people do not get to 95, but we lot of a lot of global figures to vi...