and devious purposes. then you have the marrying of on one hand historical amnesia with an exaggerated sense of racial injury, which leads to a kind of racial privileging and a kind of white innocence that i think takes off here. a lot of white people think in the age of obama, we re living in a post-racial era. let me turn to michael gerson. you ve written a lot about this. do you think this was just sloppy work by one guy on a website, then was picked up by some of the media? or is this something that goes deeper than that? i think it goes deeper. i think we re in a moment where you have people on the left and on the right that want to take political polarization and turn it into racial polarization for their own purposes, to get internet hits or to get supporters or other things. that s a very, very disturbing trend. from the heart of the nation s capital, this week with abc s senior white house correspondent jake tapper. live from the newseum on pennsylvania avenue.
federal or state statutes if they don t jive with jurisprudence. it s a word to degrade justice who s don t do what republicans want. no one has a problem with an activist who s acting on their behalf of. the court roberts court which has overturned precedent and struck down local laws in the recent gun cases is a conservative activist court and democrats on the judiciary committee have decided to pull back the curtain. during questioning, they have been vocal about the problems with the current court particularly its consistent privileging of corporate interests over citizens interest interests. five conservative justices rejected the court s own precedent, rejected the bipartisan law enact bid congress, rejected 100 years of legal development, in order to open the door for massive corporate spending on elections was such a jolt to the system. joining me now is senator ben
the site of deepwater horizon. kerry sanders near the site. give us your impressions with 24 hours to think about it that you saw in person? i was privileging to be able to go out with kerry and see this up close. the coast guard stopped us at the five-mile limit. the water was dark when we got there, but the water looked fairly nice and blue. but the scene itself was horrible in terms of all the flames and vessels there. right after the sun came up, a big sheet of real heavy weathered oil engulfed the boat, and then as the coast guard moved us in closer, we moved in within a mile and a half of the enterprise. oil was everywhere. not only these sheets of heavy oil coming through, but this first oil and the dispersant efts was everywhere. it smelled like a refinery. i m used to that smell so it
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