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all right. one of the rallies is taking place in new york's times square, in fact those participating are getting ready to march to the united nations. what am i talking about? people in support of the iranian opposition party. and our correspondent in the crowd. what's happening? >> yeah, fred. river of green about to wind its way through the streets of new york city. take a look at this scene here. the green of the official color of the opposition movement in iran. and this rally, this march in support of that opposition movement. this particular rally. part of what is called a global day for action. hundreds of rallies across the country in cities like berlin, amsterdam, san francisco, los angeles, all these people condemning what they call gross human rights violations in iran. they're also calling for

detainees. hundreds of people arrested after the disputed election on june 12 to be released by iranian leadership. joining us now, dr. kazman a la dori, an expert. why should americans care about what is happening in iran? >> there are two impacts. one internally, externally or globally. inside iran, the impact is to boost the morale of iranian people. people who participate in demonstration. globally it educates people that iran is ready for democracy and change. >> why does iran matter though? why should people care about what is happening in iran? how important is it to foreign policy in the united states? >> well. [ inaudible ] and also the western societies are concerned about the nuclear bomb that iranian government is moving towards that, that stake.

if there is an elected government and it a democratic society they will not produce a nuclear bomb. >> quickly yesterday, the resignation of the vice president how significant is that when there is a break between the supreme leader and the president? >> it shows a crack in the radicals which brings room for green movement. we have to expect further cracks within the conservative because the -- the entire society, the entire system is big crisis. >> doctor, thank you very much. the march started a few minutes ago. they're going to the u.n. they want to apply pressure on the u.n. and the obama administration to help free those detainees back in iran, fredericka. >> reza saaya, thank you from new york. appreciate that. rallies are scheduled from the nation's capital to california. in washington, d.c., activists plan to march from the u.n.

office there to the national mall. and then in san francisco, hundreds of people are expected to show their support for the democracy movement in iran. a highly organized series of suicide bombings on three government buildings taking place in afghanistan. the taliban attacks took place in the eastern afghan city of khost, that borders pakistan. and the latest on the story, ivan watson? >> fredericka, this was an attack accord to the afghan defense ministry officials and nato officers as well, of at least seven insurgents wearing suicide vests carrying machine guns attacking a number of different buildings in this eastern town called khost. they attacked a bank, a military hospital, a police station as well. in one case, nato officers say that they went with a car filled with explosives and tried to blow open the gates with that. basically a car with the suicide

bomber inside of it. and then carry out this attack. now, afghan government officials say 14 civilians were wounded in this attack as well at least three afghan security forces and policeman as well. what is very important here, fredericka, last tuesday, there was a similar series of attacks on two other eastern towns. on the town of jamaalabad, using similar tactics, a group of insurgents strapped with guns, trying to force their way into the government building. a pattern from the insurgency over the course of the past several years. fredericka. >> insurgency getting sophisticated and high-tech on their continued strengthening of force. ivan watson, thank you so much. of course we'll talk more about what is taking place in afghanistan at 4:00 eastern today -- we are taking an indepth look at the u.s.-led offensive in the country. the faces of the conflict. the drug trade fueling it.

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president obama trying to quell the controversy surrounding the arrest of an african-american professor by a white police officer. the president admitting that he may have added to the firestorm by saying the cambridge police acted stupidly. well yesterday the president clarified his position. >> i want to make clear that in my choice of words i think i unfortunately gave an impression that i was maligning the

cambridge police department or sergeant crowley specifically. and i could have calibrated those words differently. >> in an e-mail to our don lemon, here is professor gates' reaction after the president spoke. he said -- that from the professor gates. cnns correspondent is live from cambridge. gauging the mood there today. the day after the president has spoken, we have heard again from professor gates and even the sergeant as well. >> that's right, fredericka. it wasn't exactly a presidential apology. all indications are here in cambridge it certainly appears to be good enough. we heard the remarks yesterday. well cnn today tried reaching out to the cambridge police

department to see if there may be any further comment. we were told not to expect any interviews or any kind of news conference. yesterday of course, police officers were making their feelings very clear. they were watching president obama's remarks very closely. and one of those officers here in cambridge was sergeant leon lashley, he actually responded to the call at professor gates' house along with sergeant crowley. in fact i believe we have a photo where you can actually see the sergeant in the foreground there, a photo taken the day of the arrest on scene. well sergeant lashley talked to don lemon and said as the president spoke yesterday there were high fives and cheers among this fellow officers. take a listen. >> that's what he needed to do. i'm glad he did it. and you know, like i said before, i will always support him, because that's the president that i chose. i voted for him. and there were other people who said i am not going to vote for him now. but he, everybody says things or, people do things, nobody is

perfect. that's what we, we live in a world where nobody is actually perfect. we all make mistakes. and if you confront them and honestly we can overcome them. >> additional perspective here. sergeant lashley also said that he supports sergeant crowley's actions 100%. he said that what sergeant crowley did was not the action of a rogue police officer. it is clear, officers here in cambridge, massachusetts, really want to move on. in fact over the phone call that president obama made to sergeant crowley, a coalition of police unions actually released a written statement. in which they said that sergeant crowley is profoundly grateful that the president took the time to try to resolve the situation. and the statement went on to say it is clear the president respects police officers. fredericka. >> thank you so much from cambridge. appreciate that. so four days now, you haven't been able to turn on the television without hearing about

the arrest of this harvard professor and what took place involving the sergeant as well. so, here now is a sampling of the week. >> i would be prepared as a human being to forgive him. that would not deter me from using this as an educational opportunity for america. if this can happen to me in harvard square this can happen to anybody in the united states. i am determined it never happen to anybody again. >> i didn't want to have to take a drastic action i knight was going to bring a certain amount of unwanted attention on me. nonetheless that's how far professor gates pushed it. >> he says why are you doing this is it because i am a black man and you are a white police officer? >> as calmly as you are saying it? >> recordings will show. you can imagine that he is feeling this sense of indignity that people feel every day. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when they, there was already proof that they were in their

own home. >> i want to make clear that in my choice of words, i think, i unfortunate unfortunately gave an impression that i was maligning the cambridge police department or sergeant crowley specifically. and i could have calibrated the words differently. >> okay. despite the president's comments about having to have recalibrated things, america's racial debate still rages on. are we any closer to the so-called teaching moment? is this the platform for that teaching moment? mansfield frazier a columnist in cleveland ohio, he is joining us. good to see you. roland martin, cnn analyst from houston. good to see you. >> likewise. >> mansfield, is this the teaching moment? the president's words yesterday does that now give america a new platform in which to have this discussion? did it sort of reroute the

discussions that we have been hearing and the debates we have been hearing all week? >> yes, i think it was effective in doing what the president wanted to do. and doing what the country needed. we don't need to be distracted by something that is an ongoing problem. blacks and police officers have been interacting badly for, i guess since reconstruction. i don't think we are going to solve that in the short-term. it is a cultural shift that needs to happen. and we in america just have been dodging this issue of how blacks and police interact with each other. it is something we must address. but it shouldn't supersede things like health care, more important issues i think the president rightly wants to focus on. >> it upstaged almost everything this week. roland, how do you see this moment moving on? how do you see america moving on from what it witnessed, the account that were shared all week long? >> first of all, i have to take exception to the comment that

this should not supersede issues like health care. because here is what we do know, fredericka. we have health disparities when it comes to race in health cares, same in economics, same issues when it comes to education. race is a part of all of these various segments of american society. now is this a -- a beginning for a new conversation? i don't know. because we have to be honest about it. for instance, i was reading a piece in "the washington post" today, and derek jackson's piece of the "boston globe." derek suggested that skip gates' next show be a conversation between him and sergeant crowley where they can dialogue about what happened. because i think whites need to understand what was going through the mind of skip gates. >> that was an idea, sophia nelson with us, writes as a blogger for "the root" publication, internet publication where gates is the editor-in-chief. also talking about that discussion, that meeting if it does indeed happen at the white house between the sergeant, the

professor that should be a meeting for all to see. >> well, not just them though. the point is individuals also have to be honest. look over the past week i have gotten all kinds of e-mails, a lot of vile e-mails from whites, all kinds of stuff. but have also gotten e-mails from african-americans, whites. hispanics, asians, look this is what i understand. part of the problem. people don't understand unless you walk in somebody's shoes. unless you can dialogue, unless you can talk. unless you can say, hmm, i never thought about that. i had a debate, one guy talking affirmative action. do you understand white women are the greatest beneficiary of affirmative action in history. he was like what? so you are walking around with a preconceived notion that is false. >> really, what you underscore, black and white america and even within the black community saw this incident different, hispanic asian as well. >> everybody saw it differently. but as it really did kind of zero in on the black and white, you know, issues here, what made

it that much more incendiary is that some people thought that one person immediately provoked it, the police officer by showing up at the home, by making the arrest. others say that the professor actually was the incendiary device here in part because of the way he reacted to the police officer. so, how do we extrapolate all that was taken place this week, all this information, mansfield, and then use this as the president said a teaching moment as the professor said a teaching moment? >> we have this long history of interaction between blacks and police officers. so for professor gates to react in the way that he did that is not all that unusual. when blacks meet a white for the first time we don't know who we are meeting. one of the most difficult parts of being a black man in america, when you meet some one for the first time of another race, you don't know if you are meeting a racist. you have to make a judgment. professor gates made a judgment. now i am not saying whether the judgen't was right or not. blacks have to do that every day

of our lives. and it is tiring. it's very tiring. we don't know what, are you seeing my skin, or are you seeing me as a person. >> fredericka, it requires us as individuals to say, what -- what do we bring to the table in terms of our preconceived notions. how do we do it. same thing when it comes to gays, women. a man might say something, the woman takes offensech he says i thought i was saying something. she perceives sexism. so unless you understand that and talk about it then you don't know. it requires everybody to say, look within myself, and let's talk about it. and then see how we can go to the next step. >> do you both conclude at this point, that this, what took place this week because it was so highly publicized and involved high profile people. that this helped stoke the fire of a problem that exists. did it exacerbate it, or did it simply bring to fore, educate people who are unaware that this moment can take off the way it

did and that perhaps this is a way in which to help quell it. >> i think it shined the light into a dark corner that's been there that we african-americans have known about for years. nobody has really cared about it that much. but our race. from that standpoint. kind of backed night. but it is something that we certainly all can learn from. i agree with roland martin. if we don't do it now, when? racial conversations are most difficult for americans to have. >> all of the above. what do whites, blacks, hispanic, asian, men, women, children do beginning now. sunday, monday. do we push this aside and say, i am so glad this whole thing is over. i don't want to talk about. run away from it. or do we say let's confront it and say the next generation will not have to deal with the same racial trauma that this generation continues to deal with? >> roland martin, mansfield frazier.

thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you a lot. >> we want to hear from you. receiving lots of thoughts on my blog at -- for foz also at facebook at frederickawhitfieldcnn. you can call -- we'll share some of the comments with you. a quick prelude to what is being said on my blog. saying almost everyone can see the media milking the drama out of this story. the president is right. let's move on. let's allow the three gentlemen to work it out without hyper-drama. >> esther says the first reaction shown by obama was one which came from his deepest soul. it is true nowadays there is still racism though it is played out, is not true. jay jonah said i think mr. obama made the right call. brought the situation. human ides the issue. some of the comments coming from you. want to hear more from you. we'll share some of the comments

that you have been phoning in as well. and then, an encore presentation is taking place this weekend of "black in america 2" see it again in its entirety. tonight. tomorrow night. 8:00 p.m. eastern. 5:00 pacific. the battle over health care reform. how is it affecting the president and his message? so what do you think?

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and professor henry louis gates says in an e-mail to cnn's don lemon he is pleased president obama has invited him and police sergeant crowley to the white house. president obama says he should have calibrated his words more carefully when he said the police acted stupidly in arresting gates. iraqis in the self ruled kurdish region are heading to the polls today. they're voting to elect the region's president and parliament. the kurdish north has had a lot of ten, with baghdad over oil and land disputes that threaten the country's stability. meanwhile, u.s. general david petraeus who served as a commander in iraq is talking about the battle against global terror. he says, force alone is not the solution. >> this is not the kind of struggle where you kill or capture the bad guys, take the hill, plant the flag, and go home to a victory parade.

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the gop saying mr. obama's plan will cost america jobs. meanwhile, democrats are divided over the plan which is stuck in committee. at the white house with the latest. what is the president saying today in his address. >> hi, fredericka. the president using his weekly address today to continue pushing for his dop domestic priority. health care reform. listen here to president obama. >> this debate is not a political game for these americans. they cannot afford to keep waiting for reform. we owe it to them to finally get it done. and to get it done this year. >> president obama had wanted, had set a deadline for having this done by august. by next month. but on thursday senate majority leader harry reed said the senate is not going to have the vote by next month by the august recess so the president facing a setback there in terms of the health care debate. congress is struggling to find common ground on this issue. it is not just a disagreement

between democrats and republicans, but between democrats themselves. specifically, a more liberal democrats and more fiscally conservative democrats. some of the big igish really ar how to bring down the cost of health care, and case agreement over the proposed government-run insurance option, and overall fredericka, how to pay for it all. >> hmm. now what about the republican response? >> republicans today, the president in his address really took the time to high light how small businesses would benefit from the health care reform. republicans basically say they disagree. they think that the plan that is being batted around in both the house and the senate right now will hurt small business and the public more than it will help. listen here to republican congresswoman kathy mcmorris rogers. >> the democrats' health care plan crafted largely behind closed doors isn't the right thing. it is a prescription for disaster. one that will put washington bureaucrats in charge of your

family's personal medical decisions. medical decisions that are some of the most personal decisions you will ever make. >> now the president will continue trying to build momentum, trying to gain support around health care reform and the proposals that are coming beginning to take shape in congress. he is heading to north carolina and virginia this week to talk directly to the american people about health care reform. fredericka. >> at the white house, appreciate that. what does the battle over health care reform mean to president obama. we turn to bill snider joining us from washington. bill, is the president taking a hit on this one? he wanted it done by august. not going to happen. >> not going to happen by august. the prospects look reasonably good for hem to get something this year. let me show you why. look at the president's job rating as of several polls taken this month. it has taken a bit of a dip. but still 56% approval. up to 61% in june. so there has been some slide. but it is still pretty positive.

now compare that with the way people feel about his handling of health care. notice that that is almost 10 points lower. 47% approval. what does that show? it shows the president himself is considerably more popular than his policy. how does he sell the policy? by getting out there? promoting it. going as you said to virginia, north carolina. by having a primetime news conference. by talking about it at every opportunity. the president said last week this is not about me. the fact is it is about him and one of the best ways, chances he has to pass this program is to make it about him. because while people have some questions and doubts about the program, they don't want to bring him down. >> you know what is interesting here too, you can argue whether it is about him or not. but the bottom line is, he is not the one at the control so to speak of crafting it right now. all that taking place in congress. and there is a lot of infighting within the democratic party about what is most suitable, what's best, republicans saying you know this is what we prefer,

et cetera, and then, one more time, the president is being asked to punctuate, underscore or accept some of what is being written. so it really does seem like it is a difficult one for the white house to win. doesn't it? >> yeah. the and the white house is getting criticism it is not, it's very involved in the public relations process of promoting the program. how involved is the white house, the president himself in the legislative process. not that much. i must say, i have heard a lot of disappointment in the very highly promoted legislative skills of people like rahm emanuel and legislative team at the white house they're not very effective so far at least in twisting arms getting agreement. this is not a lyndon johnson white house. and the president himself was only in congress a few years in the united states senate. so the mastery of the legislative process at this point doesn't look terribly impressive. and i think that is something where the president is going to have to develop some stronger skills. and let mef point out, i think

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takes a lot of grit to make a small business thrive when the economy is bad. if you are a minority, too many barriers still remain as the president said in his naacp speech. soledad o'brien profiled two young businessmen succeeding despite the odds in "black in america 2." this is mr. -- a membership based barber shop where a man can get high-end cuff links, a massage and a haircut while having a glass of wine. >> we view our self as a brick and mortar component. >> colby and sean created the concept at stanford business school. >> barber shops represented a refuge from the outside world

and a place where you can be yourself. >> reporter: owning a business in san francisco has obstacles. >> our first major challenge was getting a landlord to be willing to rent space to two young black business people. >> we are running a nontraditional business that even in the boom times doesn't easily get financing from banks. >> reporter: poor access to loans to black businesses contreb uts to a huge wealth gap according to angela glover blackwell. >> black people have always sought small businesses as a way to be able to build their wealth. historically they sought their own businesses because they couldn't get jobs in the corporations. >> reporter: building wealth means taking big risks. >> after business school we didn't choose a high paying investment banking job, we chose to boot strap a startup. >> reporter: every day they pull on those bootstraps.

to stay afloat, sean and his partner must reinforce their vision to investors. >> these are tough times. people are very concerned. >> probably more important to them that they stay groomed. >> we are just scratching the surface to what mr. can really be. >> we are fighting to thrive not survive. >> all right. okay. >> all right. okay. all right. >> we made the decision for ourselves individually and for the corporation that we have decided not to participate in the recession. >> you may not be participating in the recession. recession some times is knocking on the door wants to participate with you. >> it is how we innovate around it. >> that innovation requires a new marketing strategy. >> the biggest change again is to the about us section. >> we have been trying to adopt a different philosophy. >> mr. changes you, changes your perspective. now life is a guam to be played not a grond to be endured. >> that is cool. i like that a lot. >> to do more with less. that's what it means to be a

black entrepreneur. to be a black business person in america. >> why does it matter if it makes it? >> i stand on the shoulders of my ancestors. i want to be successful so i can turn around and be mentors and sponsors to others who come after me. soledad o'brien, cnn, san francisco. perhaps you missed a minute or two of "black in america 2" you can see it in its entirety. running it tonight and tomorrow night. 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 pacific. a horrible accident turned this young man into an amputee but gave the world someone they can call a hero. here, the amazing story and how he is helping others.

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the battle for health care reform. mind-boggling numbers and partisan politics. but for one teenager the issue became personal when he suffered a terrible accident. jordyn thomas lost both his legs and found a new mission in life. >> reporter: jordyn thomas plays a serious golf game. it is par for the course for this talented@lot who has spent his childhood excelling at sports. even on family vacations, jordyn would show off his fishing skills. four years ago in the florida keys the family's annual boating trip went terribly wrong. >> a wave pushed me behind the boat. i remember being underneath the boat and hearing the motor go i knew immediately what had happened. >> reporter: the boat's propellers slashing jordyn's legs. jordyn spent the two weeks in a miami hospital undergoing multiple surgeries. while recovering he visited a wing where children who had also lost limbs were being treated. their families couldn't afford

expensive prosthetics. >> i find out insurance companies put $5,000 on your legs. mine are $22,000. $17,000, what do you do. >> reporter: at age 16 with his family's help heap started the jordan thomas foundation helping disadvantaged kids get the prosthetics they need. the foundation since raised $350,000 which pays for prosthetics for three children. one of them, 6-year-old noah pardon. his family's primary insurance, funded his first leg but it had no knee. and since noah was a growing boy he needed more frequent upgrade that insurance just didn't cover. so jordan's foundation did. >> this, watch. >> reporter: as for jordan he is driving home the message that anything is possible. and recently jordan won two

prestigious awards. international youth and philanthropy award and now the national courage award. he'll be taking home that one next month. he had some pretty stiff competition, beating out michael j. fox and mohammed ali. if you want to help go to cnn.com/impact. today, and really this week's talker, the arrest of a harvard professor and ensuing racial tensions. massachusetts police unions who yesterday publicly chastised the president for his criticism of the cambridge police department, are now pleased mr. obama has as he put it recalibrated those comments. the president inviting both sergeant jim crowley and professor henry gates to the white house for a beer and conversation hoping the incident becomes a lesson to improve race relations. we have been hearing a lot from you on how the week transpired. here is some of what you have been saying on my blog. steve says, it is amazing that we pat ourselves on our

collective backs saying that we elected our country's first black president. however whenever the president speaks as a black man he is accused of race baiting or playing identity politics. jim m. says -- if this is a learning moment, as professor gates and president obama say, then let's talk about police procedure when called out to a possible burglary in progress. when an officer arrives he says, at a possible burglary, two men were reported, everybody in the house, around the house is a possible suspect and maybe even a threat. steven says, watching tv today, i laughed when the comment was made, that there was some testosterone in effect. while i agree, i also understand why, i can understand the humiliation and anger that professor gates felt because i had the same thing happen to me. do we have time for some facebook comments? okay. looks like we do. a lot of folks commenting on facebook as well. brett says i like obama's first reaction. this second kumbaya moment is a

result of politics he says. as a black man, i am very familiar with rogue police behavi behavior. he says. jeffrey says, but it wasn't rogue police behavior. the officer was investigated, or was investigating a reported possible burglary. gate, instead of cooperating and showing his id, he immediately turned belligerent. john says anything, even a misunderstanding such as this, that sparks the conversation is beneficial in the long run. that should be everyone's goal. the most important lesson we may have learned is that ignoring it or pretending it doesn't exist will not make it go away. so, thank you so much for your comments on my blog as well as facebook as we continue to have the dialogue that this week's incidents certainly precipitated. living green, buying green. a lot of talk about going green. what does it really mean? ps my . to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long.

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can you read them? it says, need a job, take resume. >> it comes down to what companies are looking for and how you can stand out. that's why we are out here. >> this is something that is creative and there are people who pass by every day with businesses. and he might get something. >> good luck to them. the two job hunters handed out some 300 resumes. well everybody it seems has been talking about them, the obama administration is pouring billions into creating them, we're talking about green jobs. so, how can you be part of this new work force? there has been a lot of buzz lately about turning america green. >> 5 million new green jobs. >> biofuels. >> reporter: what exactly is a green job? >> dealing in the technologies and the advancement of energy reduction. in the construction methods to build more efficiently. to champion renewable energy.

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