martha: well, president obama reaches out to african-american voteners brand new interview on bet and recently he s been taking some heat for ignoring his base, but the president says that not everyone is being critical of him with that. take a look. the other thing i want to make sure that you don t just kind of slip in there, this notion that african-american leaders of late have been critical. there have been a handful of african-american leaders who were critical, they were critical when i was running for president. there s always going to be someone who s critical of the president of the united states. martha: those comments came just days after critics took aim at president obama s fiery speech to the congressional black caucus. here s part of part of what he said there. take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes, shake it off, stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying, we are going to press on, we ve got work to do. martha: congressman maxine congress