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embassy in afghanistan in kabul. two dead, one an american citizen. monitoring the situation from our bureau in abu dhabi. an apparent breach of security inside a heavily guarded complex in kabul. what do we know about it. >> reporter: bear in mind where this was. this was a part of the u.s. embassy compound and annex will many are working. one of the employees started shooting in various directions. he was later shot dead. his victims appeared to have been one u.s. citizen, also an embassy employee and another one injured, not life threatening and subsequently moved to hospital. has...

Go. all right. let's bring in jack cafferty. i know you are going to be up at 4:00 in the morning watching that wedding, right? >> if that wedding was going to be held in my living room, i wouldn't come out of the bedroom. okay? question this hour. pbs host travis smiley predicts the 2012 presidential race will be the ugliest and most racist election in our history. is he right? jamie in st. louis writes, it's a moronic statement to think the upcoming election will be the ugliest in our nation's history. the election between jackson and adams was incredibly personal and ugly. this is just anot...

Wrote, he writes, the rift between sharpton and smiley is an introduction to the post-obama america where being black no longer means being on the same page. it means that the man, smiley, who once referred to bill clinton as the first black president cannot look a real black president in the eye and give him the benefit of the doubt. it means that al sharpton and other civil rights leaders are forced to do the dirty work on the racial equality because our black president has been terrorized into political silence on issues of race. your response to that, reverend? >> my response is that black...

>> to that end, though, sir, doctor, do you think there is dissension among the leaders in this country? you wrote our black vote is in unchartered waters and every leader has an oar pointed in their own direction. does that mean you can't have a cohesive focus? >> no, it doesn't mean you can't have a cohesive focus, but to think every black leader is going to be on the same page, that's like saying every white leader is going to be on the same page. we know that's not true. al sharpton and tavis smiley have sacrificed quite a bit for the black community and both deserve their respect. at the ...

Your critiques are objective. i think with tavis spending three years chasing down the president, unlike anything i've ever seen before, i don't think that he can say he's an objective evaluator of the obama administration. at the end of the day you talk about the black agenda, there are three key areas we have to focus on, education, economics, mass incarceration in the criminal justice system. we don't understand. they're all connected. you don't educate these kids, put them out here without job, effectively they're more likely to go to prison. that is undermining the integrity of the black ...