support his claim. he finds a couple of distasteful disgusting e-mails out of how many. we found the same thing at sony pictures yet i didn t hear anybody indicting the entire motion picture industry as being racist. what eric holder did not mention in his report was that blacks the disparate the astonishingly disparate rate of criminal involvement by young black males and the astonishing rate of victimization of other black people as well. in milwaukee for instance in 2014 72% of the homicide victims were black people. 80% of the known or main suspects were black as well. those are astonishingly disparate figures we have to add to this report as well that eric holder chose to dismiss. you anticipated my question to say would we if we looked at the data points for your area come to a similar conclusion. i wish i had more time. i enjoy what you have to say.
and smoke weed. the laws have loosened up a little bit. it s not a question of it s really a consequence of economic disparate. low income communities that are struggling and unfortunately people are drawn to the drug industry to make a couple bucks. this is prj, this isn t cocaine or heroin, this is marijuana pretty much harmless in my opinion, harmless drug. it s not a consequence of using the drug it s a consequence of an unregulated you want to talk about free market this is a perfect example we could use the free market where it s getting off the streets and into storefronts. john, i guess you agree that there are low level criminals in jail for buying, selling, possessing weed that you can make some voom for violent criminals. that s the only people who should be incarcerated. this wol notion that weed is is legalized, it is double speak to the highest regard just like in new york state it s only legal for medical purposes there s only 20 medical dispensaries for 20 milli
and we re here to help start yours. in today s three big headlines, bean counting. nancy cook who covers economic and domestic policy. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. what does the nation s unemployment picture look like at the state level? sure. they just came out this week. there was a lot of good news in there. unemployment dropped in 21 states. 2/3 of states saw job gains but you still have this huge disparate across the country. you have places like north dakota that have a 2.6 unemployment rate and then you have a place like rhode island which has been hard hit by the recession and the aftermath and that still has an unemployment rate of 8%. so you see just these huge variations state by state. okay. let s go to a bean counting and
not answer the question as to why he could point to the 77-cent statistic and make the case that that was de facto evidence of discrimination but when others pointed to the white house and its wage gap, it wasn t evidence of discrimination. it was really hard to watch jay carney struggle to try to answer that question. a.b. is exactly right. this is all about politics. they are trying to make an argument for 2014. and if it benefits them in 2016, they will be happy about that. sometimes i wonder if i m just not cynical enough. i ve been working on this for decades. right here. this is such an obviously phony number. a phony argument. and they know it the fact that the white house has a disparate is proof. nobody imagined that obama is anti-women because of all the factors that we talked about. you wonder at what point does their cynicism hit bottom? i don t know, i would like to say now but again i m not cynical enough. give it time, charles. that s it for the panel. stay tuned
tweeting they were wrong. and we could have avoided months of disgusting demagoguery. jill dougherty is joining us to explain all of this. still, it looks like there are more questions than answers regarding benghazi. how does this investigative report, does it change at all the direction of this official investigation that s still taking place? i don t think it really does. other than that point about al qaeda, but it s a subtle point. it s a complex, maybe that s the better word, point about al qaeda. which al qaeda? al qaeda an organized force, you know, the central command of al qaeda or was it these kind of disparate groups who are related to, affiliated with, like al qaeda, et cetera. i think you re getting the picture that what this report is doing is saying it s a lot more murky than either side is putting out. and that s where you get really