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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130829:04:04:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130829:04:04:00
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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130829:08:42:00

is beared to the nation. that s what the fbi sent to king s house with a package of tapes they said were made from the bugs they put in his bedrooms, a letter threatening him and essentially telling him to kill himself. dr. king s wife is the one who opened that package when it arrived at their home. when we commemorate the civil rights movement, we re not just remembering a movement and its tactics and the history of how they fought, you can t commemorate it truly without being honest about what it was they were fighting against. the heroism of the civil rights movement, has echos in heroic activism today. those heroes of the movement would not have had to be heroic, if there hadn t been a world or raid against them, a very powerful world including at times all of the powers that be in our country. it is inspiring now to see echos of civil rights heroism in our country today. it is unsettling to see echos in our country today of what they fought against. joining us now is charles og

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130829:04:45:00

about reducing sentences. he is a person from my point of view who obama made a wise choice, playing the first black american to be the attorney general. that means he s going to be changing the whole dialogue, i hope whoever follows him, will have the same sense that i am the government lawyer, i m going to decide what the law s going to be, i m going to be the enforcer, i m going to convict people who are committing crimes, but i m also going to be responsible for someone who is concerned for ethical and reasonable treatment. in the president s speech today, he talked a lot about what became possible in this country because people marched. and there s always an interesting dialect between inside and outside tactics. between powerful and calling on the powers that be. how do you feel like, the first black president with the internal procivil rights strategies that are being pursued, how did they interact with outside pressure? i think it s good, i think they are in a sense what ki

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130829:01:45:00

he is a person from my point of view who obama made a wise choice, playing the first black american to be the attorney general. that means he s going to be changing the whole dialogue, i hope whoever follows him, will have the same sense that i am the government lawyer, i m going to decide what the law s going to be, i m going to be the enforcer, i m going to convict people who are committing crimes, but i m also going to be responsible for someone who is concerned for ethical and reasonable treatment. in the president s speech today, he talked a lot about what became possible in this country because people marched. and there s always an interesting dialect between inside and outside tactics. between powerful and calling on the powers that be. how do you feel like, the first black president with the internal procivil rights strategies that are being

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130829:04:44:00

yet they were threats to america according to j. edgar hoover. when you look at the kinds of fights that are happening now on civil rights issues, narrowly defined. for example, this fight is over voting rights in north carolina and texas. there is attorney general eric holder weighing in. that s happening at the official level. how much do you feel like the unofficial response, the sort of movement response, the activist response, even the political response is in inheritance from that civil rights movement, do we reinvent ourselves every time we fight these guys. it s different, i ve never seen an attorney general as great as eric holder. he s going after arizona a couple years ago, he s going after texas, going to go after north carolina, i have no doubt about that somebody who has that integrity, says the government is here to protect people, not to go after people, he s talking

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