0 this is who the republican party elevates? i don t see a whole lot of rebranding going on there, my friends. the sad thing is, using slavery rhetoric is nothing new for the republican party. if they don t like a law, suddenly it s akin to slavery. take the affordable care act, for instance. what is obama care? it is a law as destructive to personal and individual liberty as the fugitive slave act of 1850 that allowed slave owners to come to the hampshire and seize african-americans and use the federal courts to take them back to federal to slave states. and i hear democrats say, the affordable care act is the law. as though it were supposed to genuflect at that sun burst of insight and move on. well, the fugitive slave act was the law. lots of things were the law and then we changed them. the republicans say well, we can t do anything about it. the law is the law, and it s the law of the land. affordable health care is worse than the law that let slave owners get their run-
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make america safer? go to pulse.msnbc.com/ed to cast your vote. i ll bring you the results later on in the show. let me bring in angela rye and the reverend dr. freddie haynes and ryan riley, justice reporter for the huffington post. angela will these new police strategies really impact community police relationships, and will they help dramatically reduce the tensions we ve seen in those communities? well, doc, i think that it s a start. i think that part of this is really understanding how to engage with people. and the way that you do that is to begin a relationship. part of this is the president i know we were just talking about this. he has to finesse his words in a way that makes what he s trying to do digestible to police unions and also to people who have never had the types of interaction with law enforcement that many of us have. so he has a very delicate line