plan to close those gaps. >> you also, sophia agree that this would be a good time for president obama to speak out on race again. what would you like to hear from him? what does he need to say? >> i chris, i think the most important thing for the president is to think back to just a year ago this time, the whole henry lewis gates flap had happened t beer sum rid as we now call it. during the 2008 primary, he had to make this speech on race because the furor had grown so wide and so out of control and i think it's there once again, which tells us something about where we still are as a nation. so i think what i would like to hear from the president is not a rah rah kind of "kumbaya" kind of speech but really something substantive along the lines of lincoln's gettiesberg address, no, we're not in a war, we have not seen men die on the battlefield, but it's a source that we're still struggling with