president lincoln led us through that and brought us together and did so with a spirit, i think, of service and empathy, that i certainly aspire to emulate in my public life. let me ask you, in 2000, you fist became famous or at least of note when you won an essay contest. not even sure if i m famous now. thank you. we gave you a town hall. you won an essay contest from the presidential library and you wrote to senator sanders increasing, candor and conviction and ability to bring people together stand against part tanship which runs rampant on the political scene. do you still feel that way? in many ways, yes. i really admired. in 2000, he was an obscure member of congress. i was looking for people as i was tasked with writing this essay on political courage who just said what they were for. it seemed people out grew their
position someone strategically. you fix fights to lose. in order to get paid and made you know betting coups the way you fist fights varies greatly. you fix fights by buying judges that s and you know that s one easy way to do it you fix fights by having the referee working for you so that if there s any way that the ref can stop a fight in your guy s favor he does you fix fights by colluding with the fighters generally the loser so all is almost always a loser. winners was never called the fight was fixed. one of the things that you re cognizant of when you are fixing fights. is that you re doing something illegal something that theoretically can wind you up you know want to jail and
right? right. so again this is another new development. it goes even further than just what people were doing online. people were actually showing up to events. these ranged from events honoring the 50th anniversary of the black panther party to the march of the anniversary of the death of freddie gray. some of these events got media coverage. black activists, whoever was behind black activists, they were promoting those events. so, yes, a great deal of influence across the board. thank you, sir. appreciate it. i want to bring this now mark jack object son a professor at georgetown university. welcome to the show. thank you, gentlemen. phil, you fist. this page had a huge outreach, more than 360,000 followers. your take on this cnn exclusive. my take are the american people are misinterpreting this and we re miss sperpting on this show, don. democrats will say look how much the election was influenced
over that country and shifted the balance there. we have islamist being trained by al qaeda and muslim brotherhood to go to syria and fight and be very careful able stepping into syria and tipping that balance, as well. former congressman allen west and a colonel retired in the united states army and making an emotional plea saying the militariry response against syria is designed to detour and degrade the dictator s ability to use poison gas against his own people. i m about to ask two distinguished veterans whether that s a clear enough objective. they are general west lee clark who was brilliantly the supreme nato commander. i saw with my eyes and general robert scales, the analyst who wrote a critique of the administration s propels. gentlemen, i m honored. general clark, you fist, is this
over that country and shifted the balance there. we have islamist being trained by al qaeda and muslim brotherhood to go to syria and fight and be very careful able stepping into syria and tipping that balance, as well. former congressman allen west and a colonel retired in the united states army and making an emotional plea saying the militariry response against syria is designed to detour and degrade the dictator s ability to use poison gas against his own people. i m about to ask two distinguished veterans whether that s a clear enough objective. they are general west lee clark who was brilliantly the supreme nato commander. i saw with my eyes and general robert scales, the analyst who wrote a critique of the administration s propels. gentlemen, i m honored. general clark, you fist, is this