why? that was interesting. when that he song won best song ever for the song of the summer, the fans voted on that song. maybe not everyone in the room actually agreed with the choice from the fans, because there were other songs that were up, some of us that think make may be the song of the summer. the fans definitely did. lady gaga was one of the people who stood up for the band in the wake of the booing, telling them directly they deserve all of the success they have gotten. by the way, this movie of theirs requests this is us there s a certain scene in a certain entertainment correspondent s voice i m just say ing. i can t wait tows it just for that. if someone told my i could have picked out that voice three theaters over. i don t know if it was a compliment or a diss.
irk ebus, he s sincere and wants the republican party to reach out to african-americans, he wants to do a long-term plan, hiring people within the black community to reach out and talk about what the gop has to offer. the problem is, the rest of his party outside of that room probably disagrees with almost everything he was trying to do, but i think he and most of the people there were very sincere. so, his biggest problem is members of the republican party? exactly. a perfect example is, representative from wisconsin said yesterday, got in front of this entire crowd of people and said, the number one priority of the republican party needs to be replacing section four of the voting rights act, and people in the room cheered. yet when we got into the room later on and talked to pundits and journalists, many said they would go to war with him over that. so that s the sort of, you know, schizophrenia they ve got in the party. it s interesting you bring that up, because colin powell,
reporter: the president hasn t commented. i can tell you as a native missourian, certainly not one of the finer moments for our state. reporter: now that the dust has settled, gessling would like to clear things up. i never did anything because of anybody s race. i don t care what anybody s color is. it doesn t bother me one bit. reporter: gessling says he ll bet at another roddy. if president obama turns out, i would be honored to shake his hand. reporter: athena jones, cnn, washington. still to come in the newsroom room be ware of the habo haboob. arizona gets hit again. [ male announcer ] for diarrhea, you take kaopectate.