even mike. that s what i say. eugene, thank you as well. thank you, gene. we appreciate it. thanks. up next, the cutest interviewer in the world. what are you talking about? oh, my goodness. watch the snap chat question when you have to watch ben during the snap chat question. i thought he was cronkite meets murrow. so awkward. chief of buzzfeed, ben smith, who sat down with anthony weiner for a wide-ranging interview. first, bill karins speaking of awkward, with the forecast. snap chat. yeah, really. speaking of snap chat, yeah, seriously. send me one more, i m going to hr. well, i mean, you sent five to every one of mine. there you go. you just never do not take him on. just don t. he always steps it up. remember, you were talking about him not wearing underwear. yeah. and he asked, how do you know i m not wearing underwear. come on. come on. it s just what you do. don t no don t do it. don t do it. don t throw him into that.
i have no doubt it has an impact on young african-american males on how they look at police officers, how they look at new york city, and the government, and how they look at the united states of america. could this well, i mean it sure as hell would have that impact on me. there s no question that if you re 18 years of age, and you re walking to the subway to go to nyu, to go to wherever, work or whatever, and you re stopped repeatedly over the course of a year, two, three, four times, stopped and frisked, your view of the police is going to be entirely different than other view of the police and yet, what you run into, again, in this city and other cities, is the geography of crime. they chart crime by computers. go to high crime areas. rockefeller plaza, upper east side, columbus circle in new york, those are not high crime areas. we know where high crime areas are. we know who lives there and they are the victims of crime and that s where the activity stop and frisk take
that s not counting all the shootings, burglaries robberies. that s because of stop and frisk? in part because of stop and frisk. we changed a lot of the laws in sentencing in albany, but part is better policing. there s no question about it. don t you, governor, have concerns about a policy, even if it is part of the solution, where if i m walking if i m an african-american man walking down the street with my young daughter, i can be stopped for no reason whatsoever and then have to explain to my daughter why the police came for me for no reason? doesn t that worry you on some level? sure it worries me but i m comforted by the fact that we have the best police department in the world, most ethnically and racially diverse, best trained police department and they re not doing this on a regular basis. the average number of times a police officer on the beat stops someone to ask them a question before they even think about frisking them, is less than one a week. and when you loo
period. people who make fun of this didn t do anything wrong. reporters who reported it didn t do anything wrong. as far as a comedian, he would get thrown out of the comedian union if he didn t do these joke. ben asked him the last time he talked to jon stewart, he said about six months. it s all because it was a slow news period this bubbled up. yeah. well my fault, but it was a slow news period. ben smith is going to join us in a few minutes and explain, play nor clips, what it was like to be across the table. adorable. he was adorabldorable. cronkite. snap chat question he was so uncomfortable. buzzfeed is great. the cat videos. second to none. nothing better. nothing better. up next, former governor of new york, george pataki joins us. we ll ask him about stop and frisk, among other things. morning joe back in a moment. a-a-a.