african-american young men, what did they want to hear? and did they hear it? i want i think that gets to the point about being made more personal. i think that was a big part of what he was trying to explain when he brought up the fact that the goal wasn t just to make more blacks millionaires, but to give people opportunities. there are some people that just want to know they have a shot in this society. that was something that i don t know he addressed as well as he could have, but he did attempt to go there. he talked about there s still a long way to go. dwayne, again, you wrote a very interesting piece. critical in a way of the last week about some of these commemorations, saying they miss their mark, they re not talking about the issues that you think are most important. please explain. well, i think they spend too much time talking about things in the past. they talked about trayvon martin, who was a tragic case, but we kill in this country 8,000 black-americans, most of
whole, columnist clinton yates, host of npr s tell me more michelle martin, and dwayne wickham. michelle, let me start off, general reaction to the president s speech. some people thought he may give a more personal speech, talk about what this day means to him. we didn t hear that so much. with all due respect, i don t think it was about him. i don t think the day was about him. i think he had the grace to recognize that. i think the sound bite you picked was absolutely the right one. thank you. i they will family that feel he s being too cool for school, but he was reflecting his firmly held belief that movements are about the people and not about individuals like him. clinton, you wrote a terrific piece about the fact about your father who was in went to work again, for bevly valid reasons, but i think he was 19 at the time. what do you think that 19-year-olds today, 19-year-old
0 think we all leave with heavy hearts, note that so many came before us to get us here at this moment and now it s our opportunity to keep the dream alive. as dr. king would say, let freedom ring. let it ring. free at last. now we re going to throw it to lee and john berming aren. with this faith we will be able to huz out of the mountahe. this is the national lead. from every mountainside, let freedom ring. half a century after he let the historic march, would dr. king say his dream has come true? the world lead. the u.s. appears to be on the brink of military action in syria. it looks like president obama will move forward without u.n. approval. would they do it without the approval of congress too? and also, in national news, he made the jury s job easy, showing no remorse for slaughtering 13 people at ft. hood. now it appears that nang middle hassan will get what many say he wanted all along a death sentence. i m john berman, filling in for jake tapper today. we be
today a mainstream breakthrough on our broken senate. there s a usa today editorial today. the most mainstream of mainstream newspapers has run a blistering op-ed calling for democrats to solve the filibuster problem once and for all. columnist dwayne wickham blasts the complicity of the democratic majority describing how senate democrats have in his words eight more votes than they need to stop republicans from using the filibuster to effectively block the will of the majority. mr. wickham goes on to note that senate majority leader harry reid appears unwilling to kill the filibuster now even though republicans were quite happy to threat ton kill it five years ago. then he closes with this. check this out. the filibuster is a faustian bargain that undermines the will of voters. the promise of change that swept