thing that thing that i as a journalist would look for, the absolute nut i m not going to do the perry mason thing because you never get a perry mason perry mason para docks. there you go. the question is why didn t mueller indict him. was it because the president didn t commit a crime? or because there was the jurisdiction, the office of legal counsel guidelines from the justice department saying, you can t indict a sitting president? that would be the one question i would want to have clarity on. and the problem is that he s probably just going to say what s exactly in the report which he said in that brief press conference. you say he ll never answer that. never. you dealt with the team, take a look at how he s ducked in the past. yeah. i hesitate to speculate because i have just a piece of the puzzle also. i would have to check to make certain. in every investigation, particularly a fast-moving investigation, there are steps taken that may or may not workout.
mark, former new orleans mayor and president and ceo of the national urban league which produced the report and with us is my colleague joy reid, host of a.m. joy, weekend mornings here on msnbc. i often join joy on her show to discuss economic issues. so, i m glad that you re able to join us to have this one. mark, let me start with you. thank you. in 2018, while we have to look at the legacy issues african americans face that affect earnings and life expectancy and all that, if we don t confront the major issue, we are tech reliant and prosperity relies on technology, we may not solve this problem as quickly as we should. so, this report demonstrates or reveals a para docks. african americans are more likely to own a smartphone, more likely to use social media sites, and are really aggressive as adopters of social media and technology. but the flipsid3 is far less likely than any other ethnic
they don t necessarily trust the establishment of either party to keep them safe because in their view that s one of the problems of the last 16 years, that the establishment, when they ve been in power, have not taken it seriously. donald trump by comparison is going on tv, going to rally saying we re going to bomb isis in a way that the administration is not doing. the struggle, the para docks here is that more studied hawks, like lindsey graham and john mccain, they want this to be a moment where people become serious about the threat enough to back ground troops going to the middle east. and that s something that s been polling higher. and they re worried that focusing just on refugees and bombing is going to make voters feel like they re supporting a tough policy but not a serious policy. any sense that jeb bush would benefit from this i don t think has been borne out. the way voters are reading toughness is by what these people are promising to do immediately in the middle east.