men? hearing the president yesterday, did that change your thoughts? you know, crystallize your thoughts? in any way, on what you see in the criminal justice system? it s interesting. s in my book on justice i write primarily about di disaproportionate in the legal system. some of the same problems, the structured inequality i write in high book and teach at my law school apply with equal force if not more so to the black community including in particular black men. i was in a prison recently visiting a client and virtually everybody i saw had black skin. i asked a guard. 340e69 of here for drugs and it s just a huge cyclical problem. that s not news. i loved that the president acknowledged the legitimatesy of kwhaf i right about in my book but said, look, i m the government. he is the most powerful representative of the government in this country, and he was
ironically, from the chase department in charge of mitigated risk. my colleague, christine romans watching this hearing from her post in new york. the department that s supposed to mitigate risks made these risky trades and now he is having to answer questions. it s obvious why congress wants to know why these stupid trades were made. yeah. he says, you know what? i m not going to defend it, because it violates common sense. it shouldn t have happened. what was, maybe should have been a legitimate, bona fide macroeconomic hedge, morphed into something else, he says, and he did not defend it. talk about, you say a grilling. a civil discussion. in part because he is so contrite here. the conversation just now turning into something more about what do you think about dodd-frank and the volcker rule and new regulations he has been vocal against. but as far as that trade, he says, no, you re right. it shouldn t have happen and we re sorry for that. in particular, let me tell you
that s what you leave it there. michelle i cut you short. get right back to you in the first part of the next block. by the way, another record week for social media. our view crew notched another high water mark for reach. the 340e69 tweeted word topping eric garn earn and the big conservative hash tag tcot. how big had-it-is in social media. the more frequent the word appears in social media, the larger the graphic gets. coming up, tis the season to forgive illegals. president obama using christmas to make his case for making them legal. are you okay with this? daughter: do you and mom still have money with that broker? dad: yeah, 20 something years now. thinking about what you want to do with your money? daughter: looking at options. what do you guys pay in fees? dad: i don t know exactly. daughter: if you re not happy do they have to pay you back? dad: it doesn t really work that way.