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>> 300 points. susan, ends the game. what's the score? susan page, 1200 points. >> you're the reigning champion still. you get this mug. >> you should be extremely proud. you got the high school. the championship mug and the gift certificate but this weekend there is an interesting twist. the competitors on "up against the clock" are all msnbc talent, karen finney, alex witt and very own tour'e. all of us here on "the cycle" are rooting for -- >> alex witt. >> of course. >> tune in at 8:44ish eastern standard time. imagine your phone rings and you pick it up and it's a called from a loved one ...

There was a pause on the phone. he said, i do not want that film in my house. and he did not have a copy. >> wow. >> the book -- the only way i can describe it as chilling. it's beautiful. for those who didn't experience it, i feel like, i don't know about you krystal and tour'e, you feel you're living it for the first time. thank you for being here. our facebook fans are honoring our 35th president by remembering his greatest legacies. richard fritz said it is keeping us out of world war iii over the 1962 cuban missile crisis. jfk's greatest legacy is what he did for civil rights. make sure t...

>> all right. >> i have to say something very important. i think there have been three or four great intellectual accomplishments in terms of reference works in the history of our people, one would be the edit of the encyclopedia africana and the national biography and edit of bartlet's black quotations, because i didn't have anything to do with it. this woman did it. it took her seven years and we should thank the lord for her great accomplishment and her imagination and her vision. tour'e, this is something i dreamed about doing one day or hoping it would be done. when they approached me and...

The difference between the urgency of social activism and too much patience. that's one of many lines that has crossed over that is, of course, a part of black american history and a part of all-american history. skip, i wanted to get your thoughts on where this book fits into the larger effort to diversify our history, diversify the cannon. because when we look at people who have been marginalized out of it, women, minorities and others, one argument is let's make sure we have dedicated programs, discussions, and entire, you know, university programs for that. and another is, well, we've got ...

History, our country has come out of it radically better. the new deal was a radical transformation in a whole series of way, political, social, the civil war was a radical transformation and beginning of slavery. about every 80 years we go through these reboots and i'm very optimistic that what's going to come out of this crash is it will -- there will be enough pain but to your point, tour'e, that people are going to say, okay, things are crazy, the system doesn't work. the structure is screwed up and people are saying that now. but and in fact nancy pelosi passed great legislation when she ...