our courtrooms and in the streets as well. but what you find in prison is people from every walk of life, every race, color, creed, religion,s a and you re living together in a very, very close quarters and have to make your own peace and have to navigate and negotiate how everyone s going to get along. do you find that, jeff? yeah, i mean, frankly, race is a huge problem in society and a problem in federal prison as well. prison is very segregated. it s sort of like sunday morning in the united states, the most segregated time in america. prison is probably more segregated than that. i actually was part of the only interracial, like, cell group, so i had a black cellie when i first came in. conseque consequently, the only people i knew for my first week were black, and i sat down at a lunch table with that group and i was told in no uncertain terms by a white man afterwards, you need to stop sitting there and sit with your own kind.
for them and their group. so it shouldn t be any surprise that there would be some white people who would downgrade, let s say, grade point average or test scores if those in merit aren t working in their favor. we often think of the debate over affirmative action in a kind of battle over a zero sum fixed pie of educational resources, as involving white people and black people, or white people and black or brown people. one of the things i thought was interesting about this study was it looked at this group that doesn t get talked about in the context of affirmative debate which is asian-american students who perform quite well as a group on standardized testing, grade point average and other things like that and who are in some ways the victims of the current system that s been erected largely by white policymakers. that s true. i think we re going to hear more
but not wittingly. i was asked when are you going to stop beating your wife kind of question which is meaning not answerable, necessarily, by a simple yes or no. so i responded in what i thought was the most truthful or least untruthful manner by saying no. that s the guy who s in charge of setting up the independent outside group of experts the president said would be in charge of making sure government surveillance programs maintain the trust of the people and are not abused. initial reports indicated that clapper, himself, would pick the members of the group. clapper s office has since pushed back and said he s not actually choosing members. according to the white house s me memo, this independent group will be answering to clapper, briefing the president on their findings and recommendations through the director of national intelligence. through james clapper. the guy who wants credit for lying to congress in the least untruthful way he could. join look at the fine print, attach
maintain the trust of the people and are not abused. initial reports indicated that clapper, himself, would pick the members of the group. clapper s office has since pushed back and said he s not actually choosing members. according to the white house s memo, this independent group will be answering to clapper, briefing the president on their findings and recommendations through the director of national intelligence. through james clapper. the guy who wants credit for lying to congress in the least untruthful way he could. join look at the fine print, attach the president s new outside independent oversight group, it would seem the white house is using alternate definitions for the words outside and independent. nice try, guys. next up, we move down pennsylvania avenue to capitol hill where more than 30 house democrats sent a letter to the labor department earlier this summer opposing a new regulation designed to protect americans retirement accounts. if you re wondering why congres
to stop beating your wife kind of question which is meaning not answerable, necessarily, by a simple yes or no. so i responded in what i thought was the most truthful or least untruthful manner by saying no. that s the guy who s in charge of setting up the independent outside group of experts the president said would be in charge of making sure government surveillance programs maintain the trust of the people and are not abused. initial reports indicated that clapper, himself, would pick the members of the group. clapper s office has since pushed back and said he s not actually choosing members. according to the white house s memo, this independent group will be answering to clapper, briefing the president on their findings and recommendations through the director of national intelligence. through james clapper. the guy who wants credit for lying to congress in the least untruthful way he could. join look at the fine print, attach the president s new outside independent oversight gro