carolina democratic party who announced that he s running to be the head of the democratic national committee. how are you? i m very well. we spent a lot of time in south carolina together. great job with rachel last night. thank you. your aspirations for the party, keith ellison has the endorsement of elizabeth warren, harry reid, chuck schumer and bernie sanders. how do you compete with a fellow progressive as well? keith is a great friend. howard dean is a great friend and mentor and i respect senators schumer and warren. it s all about knowing who actually has the vote. so it s great to have endorsements from the leaders and the establishment of the democratic party but it s important to talk to the people who actually have to vote on the
conversation that we re going to have, a frank discussion. piers morgan with me here in the studio. also joining me, joe hicks, vice president of community advocates inc. in los angeles. and kari lessar white, attorney, co-founder and executive derkt of the brotherhood sister soul a leading advocacy organization. piers, i m curious to hear from you what the audience s reaction to this generational definition of what are considered to be really offensive terms i think you saw in that yeah. you could see on some of the clips that the older people in the audience were kind of not reacting, the younger ones were racing to applaud. this was a very generational issue, i think. and i really felt looking at rachel last night, if that rachel jeantel had given evidence in that way, what difference could that have made. now, as she said, you know, she believes there was a complete disconnect between this predominantly white female jury and the world that she and trayvon martin come from
just absolutely bombardment of questioning from don west. and held her ground and stuck to her same story over and over and over again. you know, after last night s interview with piers i think that rachel certainly reminded america that trayvon martin s a human being. he s not a symbol and he s certainly not a thug. yeah, but the juror that anderson cooper spoke to said she did not find rachel jeantel to be credible, she felt sorry for her. it wasn t effective testimony. because the juror has never met anyone like rachel jeantel. and that s a problem with our country and the race relations we have in our country. and piers morgan asking rachel last night, tell us about the world that you live in. these are american children. they don t live in a different world. they don t live in a different nation. the fact that we have two different americas where rachel jeantel and a juror b37 have never met each other is an issue. and we have to address that. so mark, is it a problem for ou
that means and the issue of race, which clearly runs through this case, as we saw in the comments of rachel last night, are two issues we have not come to terms with. and that s why we continue to revisit these issues. i don t think it s a generational issue when we talk about the words that rachel mentioned yesterday. it s an educational issue. because these words have been around for hundreds of years. this is not a new phenomenon. it s just that a any generation has embraced it in a way that previous generations didn t. this has been around for a long time. and it s about education in america and coming to terms with those foundational issues. we have seen mostly non-violent protests so far. we ve seen some incidences arising in various areas across the country, windows being broken, et cetera. in fact, joe, we ve seen that in l.a. there have been pretty loud demonstrations outside the cnn bureau in leimert park. there is concern by some of the voices that violence and protests li
gallup is putting out, what the appetite is across the country. regular everyday americans are saying about what they support. universal background checks, 91%. mental health programs at 82%. assault weapons ban, 60%. and then banning high capacity magazines, 54%. just take a listen, though, because chris murphy appeared with dianne feinstein yesterday and just about how personal this tragedy is for his state. republicans have to decide whether they are going to pay a political price for standing with the gun manufacturers and against millions of families across this country who want to get this done. so there he was on rachel last night. i want to talk to you, chris. it seems the vice president has geared up high-profile team of people to take on the road. can they get beyond virginia and what s next in their strategy? well, i think that you are going to see the vice president and the president continue to make trips like the one that vice president biden is making today. he wil