that you can or cannot do this during work hours. no one is trying to take away these players rights to do this. i think the nfl, it s an embarrassment that they are supporting disrespecting this country all races who protect and defend this country and every race in this country has had someone die for this country sesk in o serving in our military and it s sad. mark? this is not a question of first amendment. i m a little surprised that ben has this position around donald trump weighing in on twitter. when president obama weighed in on the skip gates controversy when a harvard professor was arrested outside of his home and the president said that the police behaved stupidly. that a president shouldn t be weighing in on these private matters there are bigger fish to try. i i would imagine given north korea and other things, he wouldn t be obsessed with it.
say the crust of you acting surprised you had slaves. i have never heard of my great my great, great, great, great grandfather on m what have his last name? burwell boykin. i have never heard of him before. you have no idea? the cooper. the vanderbilt. it was my dad s side from mississippi. they fought for the # confederacy and thought they would have owned slaves if they could have. they were sharecroppers. never heard that until that moment? i had not. do you currently have any slaves? no. i honestly not heard that. that s a great show on public television. it is not not who do you think you are? finding the roots. you are right. skip gates. but it s a great, great show. i was fascinating. i thought you would go, i know. i was blown away. tomorrow while the watch the chicago marathon tomorrow about the ban chicago? all right. now we move on and lighten it up with who s your hall pass? yours is mark wahlberg.
second term. first term barack obama we dealt with issues of race but not in the way he did the second term. first term he talked about issues well, he was asked by lynn sweet about the issue with skip gates and the police officer in boston and that was a knee-jerk reaction that caused a whole crescendo of police issues for this president and he had to have the beer summit. then later on in the first term we had the trayvon martin issue where he said that could be me. so we saw issues and in the second term he became a person we saw as, wow, he s engaged in the community more, talking about black issues more, he feels at ease. so it was interesting to report the dynamic of the first black president first term versus the second term. he had nothing to lose second term. he had a second term. the skip gates issue is interesting. so this was the issue of the officers coming into his cambridge home and even after it
300 extra people who are out of work. then watching donald trump, watching erin burnett last night and hearing what this local union official had to say, then has to tweet about it. so again, drawing attention where he doesn t need to draw attention to himself. he should take the win and try to move on. but i suspect that s not going to happen for the next four years. eliana, last word? for trump, using the power of the bully pulpit now that he s president to personally attack individual american citizens, you saw him do it during the campaign toward republican fund-raisers who were spending money against him. he did it to the ricketts family, for example, who eventually supported him, is very dangerous and he s going to get a lot of pushback if he doesn t stop doing it once he s inaugurated. but it s something i think the american people don t like to see in their president. obama got a lot of blowback for doing it with skip gates during an incident about the police. and all presi
crime is at historic lows in this country, law enforcement officers who as you point out strapping on the guns are doing heroic work. clearly, he faced criticism of law enforcement because some occasions, many occasions, perhaps say, he s been seen, the president that is, to side with the protest emergency rooms out in the streets or with the victims of crime and this, of course, goes back to the case of the harvard professor skip gates and trayvon martin and so many other cases and a delicate issue for the president and one he feels strongly about. you heard the personal references he made as a young man without a motorcade and stopped by the officers, often justified and sometimes not and a very sensitive issue for the president and one i think a legacy issue for him when the history is written about his presidency years from now. ron allen on the delicate and sensitive nature of the topic, the president took on today, in front of that audience specifically and kate snow speaking o