they love school. beats and rhymes is a great group. how dare they be black? first of all, rap is hardly just a black genre these days. but again, everybody gets totally crazed about anything racial or even the possibility that it s racial. look at the upset everybody had after the cheerios commercial which featured a mixed race couple. right. we talked about that here. we have a country that, where people, a lot of people need to get a life. what did you call it? some people just have a permanent sense of outrage. absolutely. they should be applauding these kids and dancing with them. an open invitation for those kids to come back. bob, i personally apologize to you as well. we invite you up and can we show where bob sits? can we break tv rules here? this is bob franken sitting seven feet away from me. we didn t have room at the desk. i am having a time-out. my apologies, bob. next time we ll let you sit at the big boy table. wash my mouth out with soap.
a live look at the u.s. capitol as the sun starts to set here in washi washington, d.c. everyone is dressed up for the inaugurati inauguration. forecast calling for a high of 40 degrees. mostly cloudy skies. four years ago i was on pennsylvania avenue, and can i tell that you 40 degrees tomorrow would be balmy compared to what it was four years ago. 22 degrees before the winds started to blow. good to have you back with us. i m craig melvin on this sunday afternoon. so what will president obama impart to americans tomorrow, and does does he have to be poetic in his delivery? i want to bring in the brain trust. ari melber is back, correspondent for the nation and msnbc contributor. he s wearing a special occasion tie, we should note. bob franken syndicated columnist and peter sutterman reasoned mag scene. good to have you all sitting here. a rare treat. usually we have you guys in boxes. bob, no doubt there s more pressure on president obama to deliver a more compelling
that he s great at sort of presenting these big picture visions of places we d all like to be. he s not so great at providing road maps for how get there. bob, you look disgusted. i think that the president is supposed to be as chief executive the big picture guy. yeah. and then it s up to staff to get us from here to there. he should be i disagree. peter s argument sounds a little bit like conservative projection. i think the people who haven t outlined a good alternative are mostly republicans in the house who seem to oppose everything without a solution, even when you get into detailed fiscal debates, they can t really tell you which exemptions they want to deal with, how they want to deal with this budget mess. i think what the president has to do ultimately is stitch together a narrative that connects the things we know that s out there. there s an economic problem, a gun violence problem and a problem of faith and trust in our institutions. and forgive the word pl
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