ones that become president. he would take this opportunity to make the argument that we defeated jim crow but that the circle of opportunity is not yet wide enough. i think that he would say probably that dr. king in this position at this hour in the life of the country would be pressing for economic equality and equality of opportunity which was, in fact, what dr. king was doing in 1968 when he was murdered. he was leading the poor people s campaign in washington. i think this is one of the most fascinating chapters about how politics really works is the civil rights movement offers us an amazing case study because we had the march on washington 28th of august in 1963. and then the terrorist attack on the 16th street baptist church in birmingham in september. and then the murder of president
i like a good scotch and a cigar. he says it helps him with the gay vote by acting ambiguous. help us wade through this. does it add up to anything at the end of the day? no. because corey booker is going to win this race. he is the favorite. after all, who doesn t go out for a manicure or a pedicure? at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. that is the troubling part. corey booker in this interview is trying to say you do what you want to do at 3:00 a.m. in the morning and i will do what i want to do. in this interview corey booker went on to say that he is trying to learn about washington. he is looking ahead in his
the daily run down chuck todd. and john meacham is still with us from nashville. looking at the beautiful shot at the mall in washington. absolutely gorgeous. carl bernstein was there as a reporter covering the speech. as you look at the gloria of the sunrise and think back to the moment 50 years ago. was carl bernsteen wearing that vest 50 years ago. i don t understand the vest. but, two me neither at this point. i don t know what else to tell you. how i would have loved to be in your shoes 50 years ago. can you do your best and try to take us to that moment what it was like to be a part of a crowd
united states, of course, weighing all military options, but already his people that work for him are letting us know that regime change is not in the cards. is that a mistake? do you believe the president should support regime change in syria? the president can say whatever he wants to but isn t it contradictory two years ago he said he must go and now this isn t aimed at regime change? if it isn t aimed at regime change, what is it aimed at? we can send them a diplomatic note if it s just we don t agree with what they re doing. by the way, the leaks of what we re going to do, you know, i ve seen leaks in washington before but never to the specificity as this is obviously. the iraqi excuse me, obviously bashar is paying attention to that as well. look, we can assure the american people there will not be any american boots on the ground,
a small government conservative in washington, d.c. these people come into town and thigh think they invented conservatism is. they didn t. they haven t fought the fights that jeff flake has fought. they can come talk to us in about ten years if they think the best thing to do is to shut down the government and basically put that much power in president obama s hand. david axelrod used to be the communication director, political strategist for barack obama. could anything help barack obama anymore than the republicans shutting down the government to try to defund obama care? no. it would be an enormously destructive act. most of the republicans have said that. what is going on most of them have. that is an important point to