Unexpected contentment that is settled upon me like an ancient ceremonial robe, warm and splendid, mislead but valued all the more for its belated retrieval. Randall robinson, thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. On this weeks newsmakers, dana rohrabacher. Hes chairman of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on europe, eurasia, and emerging threats. We discussed a variety of Foreign Policy topics, including israeli and Israeli Palestinian peace talks. These makers is sunday on cspan at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. We wrote this about a year and a half ago, its called 10 letters. Its letters that president obama reads and i went back and found 10 of them who had written to the president. It has been a pretty good read. When that is done, then we go on to act of congress and another guy at the Washington Post and back in the 1970s there was a big difference between then and now it is just that these guys have written. Collision 2012 is written and there was a similar wri
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Today was something that many people have been waiting for, president obama speaking out clearly, forcefully, and emotionally about the Trayvon Martin case. It was the president addressing race in a way that only he, uniquely among american president s, could giving his first oncamera comments about a story that has sparked a National Dialogue over the last week. President obama today said the country needed to do some soulsearching, and he spoke about the case in starkly personal terms. You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is, Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why in the Africanamerican Community at least theres a lot of pain around what happened here, i think its important to recognize that the Africanamerican Community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences. And a history. That doesnt go away. Nbc news reports that the president decided yesterday afterno
You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, i said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is, Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why in the Africanamerican Community at least theres a lot of pain around what happened here, i think its important to recognize that the Africanamerican Community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences. And a history. That doesnt go away. Nbc news reports that the president decided yesterday afternoon to address this weighty topic after talking with friends and family. He called together a few members of his senior staff and told them he wanted to make comments. Were going to spend the next hour talking about what the president said this afternoon and what it means going forward. To start with, im joined by the grios joy reid, the Washington Posts Jonathan Capehart and mother jones magazines david corn, all three are msnbc political analysts. In addressing what happened to Trayvon M