martha: well, president obama reaches out to african-american voteners brand new interview on bet and recently he s been taking some heat for ignoring his base, but the president says that not everyone is being critical of him with that. take a look. the other thing i want to make sure that you don t just kind of slip in there, this notion that african-american leaders of late have been critical. there have been a handful of african-american leaders who were critical, they were critical when i was running for president. there s always going to be someone who s critical of the president of the united states. martha: those comments came just days after critics took aim at president obama s fiery speech to the congressional black caucus. here s part of part of what he said there. take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes, shake it off, stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying, we are going to press on, we ve got work to do. martha: congressman maxine congress
say maxine waters called those comments curious and this is what he said, he certainly didn t tell the hispanic caucus to stop complaining, she went on to say he didn t treat gays or jewish people that way,et. very fiery comments from her, we ve heard them from her all over the fence lately. joined by hillary shelton, vice president of advocacy policy for the naacp. good to have you here today, sir. great to be with you. martha: let me ask you this personally. when you hard those comments from president obama, when he said get off your bedroom slippers and get out there and march, did that offend you? not at aufplt i was at that speech saturday night with the congressional black caucus. what he s saying is we have to pitch in together and work to move this agenda forward. he has a wonderful bill we believe is going to address our nation s problems in the unemployment arena and our economic woes all together, so all of us working together is the only way we re going to move this age
slipper, put on your marching shoes, shake it off! stop complaining! stop grumbling stop crying. we are going to press on. we ve got work to do. bi-bill congresswoman maxine waters who says the president would not have said that to other minity groups. would he?