>> bishop td jakes and our panelists as well and our guests this evening, you can hear more from our guests right now at cnn.com/blackinamerica, also chime in as well on twitter and facebook. i'm soledad o'brien. thanks for watching us tonight. the news continues now on cnn. i'm don lemon at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. cnn special investigation murder in the capital, the death of chandra levy begins in just a second. but first, a look at some of our top stories. former alaska governor sarah palin was on the campaign trail today for republican candidates in florida. with the midterm elections only ten days away, she urged 2,000 gop activists in orlando to keep working until the last minute.

palin said americans are afraid president obama's economic policies are driving us off a cliff. president obama led the effort fresh off a campaign stop for senate majority leader harry reid in nevada. the president was at the university of minnesota to stump for mark dayton. it was the president's fifth state in the last four days. two american-born radicals linked to terrorists appeared in new videos today. tej groums said this video was posted on various jihadist websites. he urged muslims to carry out individual jihad in the united states and europe. also today, anwar al awaki talks about islam being in, severe need for guidance in hess dark situations.

and now to our cnn special investigation. it's been more than nine years since washington, d.c. intern chandra levy disappeared. now all these years later, a suspect charged in her murder is finally going on trial. it was a case that shattered the career of congressman gary condit. amber lyon reports on how the case began. >> a murder mystery that rock the the nation's capital. >> anybody who has information surrounding chandra's disappearance, please contact us. >> reporter: and captured the country's attention. >> the missing washington intern >> reporter: an attractive intern missing without a trace. >> we don't know. >> reporter: an investigation that embroiled a powerful congressman in scandal.

>> do you know anything about where chandra levy is? >> reporter: a story of sex and secrets filled with strange twists and turns. >> the ultimate story of washington power and intrigue. is there a murderer in the midst of the united states congress? >> we have spoken with congressman condit's attorney. >> shame! shame! shame! >> reporter: in the summer of 2001, a scandal erupted on capitol hill that ignited a media firestorm. 24-year-old graduate student, chandra levy had simply vanished. allegations of an affair with a married congressman soon surfaced.

>> mr. condit, why not -- >> reporter: congressman gary condit's denials and revelations about his relationship with chandra levy would consume this investigation. >> why not -- >> we want to get anybody and everybody involved in finding her and bringing her home safely to her family. >> reporter: and during a slow news summer, it was the story that riveted the nation. >> at this point we know nothing. we have no leads. >> reporter: now, nine years later, the mystery of what happened to chandra levy still remains. chandra levy came to washington, d.c., from modesto, california, with a dream to work in law enforcement. it was the fall of 2000 and she had just landed an internship at the federal bureau of prisons.

>> she really enjoyed it. and every time that i saw her, or talked to her, she kept convincing me, you know, you should really come out. i love d.c. i love washington. >> reporter: the halls of power were a long way from levy's quiet life in modesto, california. her family was close. they even took trips around the world together. >> i would describe chandra as very strong, directed, aware. very aware. >> reporter: chandra worked with the modesto police department, later enrolling as a graduate student at the university of southern california. she headed to washington, d.c., for one last internship before graduation. >> i thought more about that. >> reporter: cnn senior correspondent joe johns covered this story from the beginning. >> she was a young, vibrant, ambitious woman. she had a bright future ahead of her. >> reporter: but after six months, chandra's internship at the bureau of prisons abruptly ended.

she had finished her course work and was no longer considered a student. chandra would have to return home. but not before revealing a secret. friends say chandra had fallen in love with an older, married congressman. on april 30th, 2001, chandra levy was seen by witnesses entering her neighborhood gym, the washington sports club. she canceled her gym membership and then left around 7:30 that night. >> her plan was to come home, and possibly find a job, and to possibly go take the lsap, and look for a job, and wanted to be an fbi agent. >> reporter: on the morning of may 1st, chandra was hanging out in her apartment right there, surfing the internet.

she e-mailed her mop. checked out a map of rock creek. she logged off the internet, left this building and she never came home. chandra levy had vanished. >> she was looking forward to coming home. and sharing graduation with us. she was in good spirits. my husband kind of felt it before i did. i was like, well, he felt uneasy. and i started revel i feeling uneasy on sunday. >> reporter: her parents contacted the d.c. police. on may 10th, investigators came out here and searched through chandra's apartment in the dupont circle neighborhood. and what they found was unusual. everything was there. her computer, her wallet, suitcases, everything but chandra. >> it wasn't anything unusual about her actions or her movements up to the time in which she disappeared other than the fact that she had very close relationships with high-level people on capitol hill.

as we all know now, one of those high-level people was gary condit. >> reporter: rumors of a secret affair would put one man at the center of the investigation.

i'm going to bring the values to washington, d.c. >> reporter: gary condit, congressman gary condit was a political renegade, a blue dog democrat, he often crossed party lines. >> he wasn't afraid to buck his party. he wasn't afraid to go down to the white house and have lunch with george bush. >> reporter: gary condit lived in this neighborhood.

it's known as adams morgan. and this place is ethnic, it's bohemian. you can see from all these bars, it's got quite the nightlife. it's not exactly the place you'd expect the button-down son of a baptist preacher to live. then again, he rode a harley and he was mr. june in a spoof calendar called hunks of the house. >> i think that he didn't know quite what to do. >> reporter: "washington post" investigative reporter scott higham who co-authored this book spoke recently to joe johns. he says chandra's parents immediately thought there was a connection between their daughter and gary condit, their own congressman. >> they found his phone number in her cell phone bills. >> reporter: so after reporting chandra missing to the d.c. police, the parents called condit. he told them he knew chandra, that she was a friend of one of his former interns. >> he thought very early on that

she would turn up, that she would come back to washington or she'd show up at home and this whole thing would blow over. but he was wrong. >> i don't feel like he's been very truthful to me. and i think someone out there knows the truth. >> reporter: chandra's mother did most of the talking. it was too much for chandra's father. [ sobbing ] >> reporter: concern that the d.c. police weren't doing enough, they flew to the capital. soon the media were reporting that the d.c. police had talked to condit. >> a lot of people had sources within the police department and that information started coming out. >> reporter: information that condit acknowledged to the cops. chandra had been to his apartment a few times. condit's staff denied any romantic link between the 53-year-old congressman and his 24-year-old constituent. >> you're like, okay, if she spent the night, but they were just friends, was she sleeping on the couch? why? you know, it started to not make a whole lot of sense.

>> reporter: for the news media, summer in washington is often slow. but not this year. >> gary condit, resign! >> the ultimate story of washington palace intrigue, is there a murderer in the midst of the united states congress? >> we don't talk specifically about any information we get from people who we're interviewing regarding this. i can say this -- we don't have anything that connects the congressman with her disappearance. >> reporter: early in july 2001, united airlines flight attendant ann marie smith confirmed a tabloid report that she'd had an 11-month affair with condit. >> we'd meet in washington or i'd fly out to california. >> reporter: condit has neither denied nor admitted the affair. then chandra's aunt releases a statement saying that chandra

had confided in her, that chandra was having an affair with condit. >> and then hopefully have a relationship that they could come out and be together in public, get married, have a family. that's what he told her. >> he just never addressed it. and people were allowed to sort of speculate whatever they wanted to. and they did. and then it just got completely out of control. >> reporter: after yet another interview with investigators, a statement from condit's attorney about the missing intern. >> the congressman will provide whatever additional information or material he can to the police. this includes access to his apartment, telephone or cell phone records. >> reporter: with all of this pressure mounting, condit eventually agreed to give police a sample of his dna. and this is where it happened, a grocery store parking lot at night, away from the press, a

quick swab of the congressman's mouth. but still, no public comment. >> he wasn't saying anything. he had taken this stance that my private life is my private life, i'm cooperating with the police department, i don't owe an explanation to the public or to the press. >> reporter: by mid-august, "the modesto bee," the largest paper in condit's district, declared "resignation is the proper course." >> i answered every question -- >> reporter: fighting for his career, the congressman finally broke his silence in late august. an interview with abc's connie chung. >> do you have any idea if there was anyone who wanted to harm her? >> no. >> did you cause anyone to harm her? >> no. >> did you kill chandra levy? >> i did not. >> reporter: but even here, he sidestepped questions about their relationship. >> i think it's best that i not get into those details. >> reporter: to this date,

condit has never admitted publicly to an affair. >> did you have a relationship with chandra levy? >> i'm not going to talk about chandra levy and i'm not going to say anything or do anything to hurt or -- >> why not say "no"? >> i'm just not going to get into that. >> reporter: by the end of that summer of 2001, chandra levy was still missing. and then, september 11th, the national obsession with a beautiful young woman was over. or, was it? >> the call was, found a body in rock creek park and might be a woman.

after a summer of relentless media attention -- >> do you know anything about where chandra levy is? >> reporter: gary condit, the once powerful politician, is left with a shattered reputation. when did gary condit stop being a suspect in this case? >> technically, he was never a suspect in this case to start with. the police said again and again, he wasn't a suspect. >> reporter: former d.c. detective rob wheeler worked with investigators hired by the levy family.

>> investigators kind of started shifting their efforts away from gary condit at the point in which they started receiving a lot more information about other individuals. >> reporter: and even though condit was never charged with any crime, come march 4th, 2002, the once unbeatable congressman lost the democratic primary. >> it's been a great opportunity to be in public service and represent them in washington, d.c. and i'll never forget it. >> reporter: less than three months after condit lost the election, a break in the case that had gone cold. on may 22nd, 2002, chandra levy's body was finally found 386 days after she went missing. and it was found down in an area just like this off the main trail, a steep ravine. and it was found just outside where police had spent almost a year searching for her. a furniture maker was out in the woods with his dog when he spotted something that looked like a bone. it was the same park chandra looked up on the internet the day she disappeared.

so we're in rock creek park and we're on one of the jogging trails. and this place is really popular among people who live here who hike, go running. it's huge, but it's also very isolated. listen to this -- all you can hear is the sound of the leaves rustling. this would be a place that it would be very easy for someone to disappear from. in fact, my photographer's only about 200 yards from us and watch this, when i yell "help" -- help, help! he can barely hear us. >> if they'd been lucky enough to have found her body back a week or two or ten days after she was killed, there would have been all kinds of evidence. there might have been hair, there might have been fiber as some have pointed out. >> reporter: but the police were not so lucky.

joe johns interviewed "washington post" reporter sari horwitz. who co-authored the book "finding chandra." >> they went into chandra levy's apartment right away after her father called and they fooled around with her computer trying to see where she had gone and they corrupted the hard drive on the computer, which meant the computer had to be sent out, and for a month was being analyzed by the secret service. so for a month, they didn't know that she had just looked up rock creek park before she went and disappeared. >> reporter: years, in fact, before another suspect would emerge. a suspect already in police custody, ingmar guandique, an immigrant from el salvador. and this is where the man who would eventually be charged with chandra's murder lived. you can see on our gps this flag is where his apartment was. and right over here, this green area, that's rock creek park. that's only about three blocks away from where the defendant lives. guandique was already in jail

for attacking two women in rock creek park not far from where levy's body was found. in february 2002, the fbi gave guandique a polygraph and they asked him questions about chandra levy. >> but the polygraph results, according to the examiner, came back inconclusive. again, in an investigation, that's not totally unusual. >> reporter: so guandique was, at least, temporarily ruled out as a suspect for chandra's murder. but he did get sentenced to ten years in prison for other two assaults. it would take police another seven years, the spring of 2009, before they would charge guandique with the murder of chandra levy. >> i just suspect that the reason it took a long time is because they were building their case and they wanted to have a solid case. see, guandique wasn't going anywhere. and in an investigation, if you know your suspect is already -- or your potential suspect is already locked up, there's no rush.

>> reporter: the indictment claims guandique bragged about murdering chandra levy to a fellow inmate. >> and when the police finally went into his cell in the summer of 2008, he had a picture of chandra levy from a magazine and he had a tattoo on his chest of a woman who resembled chandra levy. that's the kind of evidence they're going to be presenting in court. it's a circumstantial case. >> i mean, what do you have? i mean, they don't have dna. they don't have a confession. i mean, they have some guy who's locked up saying he confessed. but how good is that when everybody who's in prison wants early release. >> reporter: nearly nine years after chandra levy's body was discovered, the trial is finally set to begin. guandique has pleaded not guilty. as for gary condit, after leaving the house of representatives at the beginning of 2003, he moved to arizona to be closer to family.

his wife, she's continued to stand by his side. condit opened a couple of baskin robbins franchises with his son, chad, but they're now closed. they sued for libel over the media coverage of the scandal. now he's writing a book. the levys held a memorial service for chandra in modesto, california. but there is still no closure. >> there's a guy on trial who could still possibly beat the case. if he beats this charge, then where does this case go? it almost goes back to the beginning. the police have to start looking at everybody all over again. >> reporter: now the world will watch and wait for a jury to decide whether this case is finally over. >> opening statements in the trial are scheduled to begin monday.

gary condit could be called to the witness stand. we'll look at our top stories next.

i'm don lemon. a fast-moving cholera outbreak killed at least 208 people in haiti. all the reported cases so far are north of the capital. concerns that iraqi security forces may have tortured and killed people.

the united states may have also transferred thousands of detainees to custody. human rights watch is now asking for an investigation. president obama led a democratic get out the vote evident today visiting his fifth state in four days. he was at the university of minnesota. on the republican side, former alaska governor sarah palin was stumping for candidates in florida. the election is only ten days away. she urged activists to work until the last minute to guarantee wins. i'm don lemon. "what the week" begins right now. it's been six days since the obamas hit the campaign trail to rescue endangered democrats, four days since a federal appeals panel put "don't ask, don't tell" back in action and the latest tank of tear gas against protesters. welcome to "what the week."

hit it. the control of congress is heading into the final ground. >> democrats are on defense everywhere. >> meanwhile, in the senate, the gop needs to capture ten democratic seats. >> president obama and the first lady, michelle, hitting the campaign trail. >> and i know that we can keep this movement going. >> sarah palin fuels up the tea party express for a cross-country road tour. >> you are winning, joe sestak! >> we will win this election. >> the investigation was launched into the nation's biggest banks and foreclosure practices. >> a surprising turn in france. >> the government wants to raise the age of retirement from 60 to 62. >> in some places, the anger turned violent. >> they lit cars on fire and the police responded with tear gas. >> the government wants to bring back "don't ask, don't tell" pending an appeal and really, pending a decision by congress to repeal it.

>> and for victims of gay bullying, a message. >> it gets better. >> that was the hard news this week. the sound bite everyone is still talking about came from a radio debate between two senate hopefuls in the blandest state in the union, delaware. sorry. the educated lawyer and current favorite squared off tuesday with the tea party not a witch christine o'donnell. it turned into a viral video sensation after o'donnell got a lesson in constitutional law 101 in front of a room full of wannabe lawyers. the lawyer nerds finally fell off their seats in fits of laughter after this exchange. >> where in the constitution is the separation of church and state? >> an excellent point. hold on, please, please. >> you're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the first amendment.

>> government shall make no establishment of religion. >> that's in the first amendment. >> oh. just another kick in the teeth for the o'donnell campaign. who have been fighting off "saturday night live" parodies for weeks now. but here's the question no one stopped to ask. was christine o'donnell right? this is the first amendment. congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. now the courts have indeed interpreted that to include a separation of church and state. so while o'donnell might be technically right when she says the phrase isn't expressably written into the constitution, for all intents and purposes, the point goes to koons. but listen to what o'donnell said.

>> fortunately senators don't have to memorize the constitution. >> that's a good point. i'll be the first to admit i had to look all this stuff up myself. should senators have the constitution tattooed to their brains? does anybody really know what's in the constitution? i crashed your lunch break to find out. can i crash your lunch? may i crash your lunch, ladies? hello. what's your favorite amendment? >> the one that repeals prohibition. >> the right to bear arms. >> the right to bear arms. which is what you're doing right now. is there anything you'd like to take out of the constitution? >> definitely. >> what would you take out? >> i would like to repeal the 16th amendment. >> 16 is congress shall have power to collect taxes on income. >> that's the income tax law. >> you don't like that one? >> don't like that one.

>> should they memorize the constitution, be really familiar, or not super important? >> it's super important and they probably should be tested every five years just like a driver's license. >> the constitution, when you read it, it's very short. absolutely it's basic to what they do. >> i think anyone running for a political understand should understand what's going on, the constitution of laws. >> continue to talk. >> i like your opinion. >> i think you like the hair. >> oh, i do. >> you're supposed to be representative of your constituency. we're all kind of stupid. but you should learn it. you should be one of the smartest people in your constituency. >> if you're going to live in this country, especially if you're going to run for office, you should at least know the bill of rights. feed your brain by going to ar dives.gov and click on constitution. all right.

well, thousands of scientists over hundreds of years of research, but apparently most of you believe glenn beck. huh? yeah, we're talking apes and the evolution of man on the other side, folks. [ male announcer ] it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve daily physical function so moving is easier. and celebrex is not a narcotic. when it comes to relieving your arthritis pain, you and your doctor need to balance the benefits with the risks. all prescription nsaids, including celebrex, may increase the chance of heart attack or stroke, which can lead to death. this chance increases if you have heart disease

or risk factors such as high blood pressure or when nsaids are taken for long periods. nsaids, including celebrex, increase the chance of serious skin or allergic reactions or stomach and intestine problems, such as bleeding and ulcers, which can occur without warning and may cause death. patients also taking aspirin and the elderly are at increased risk for stomach bleeding and ulcers. do not take celebrex if you've had an asthma attack, hives, or other allergies to aspirin, nsaids or sulfonamides. get help right away if you have swelling of the face or throat, or trouble breathing. tell your doctor about your medical history and find an arthritis treatment that works for you. ask your doctor about celebrex. and, go to celebrex.com to learn more about how you can move toward relief. celebrex. for a body in motion.

there's this guy glenn beck, a few days ago he called evolution ridiculous. take a listen. >> i'm not god, so i don't know how god creates. i don't think we came from monkeys. i think that's ridiculous. i haven't seen the half monkey, half person yet. >> what? half monkey, half person? nobody's ever insinuated that that's what evolution is. and ridiculous. the national academy of sciences said there's no debate about evolution because "the concept withstood testing by thousands of scientists for more than a century." which brings us to our segment "you are here." by here, i don't mean how did we get here from primates, i mean, how did we get here from a time when glenn beck and these 2008 presidential candidates still don't believe in evolution. okay. well, let's go back to 1859.

charles darwin, he publishes his book "on the origin of species." remember? the one that says humans evolved from a lower species over time. through natural selection. you know, the survival of the fittest. the same thing, by the way, goes for plants and animals. it doesn't take long for the scientific community to embrace the theory. here it is. pretty simple. many teachers are adding it to their curriculums. several states try to ban the teaching of evolution. the courts get involved. remember, the scopes monkey trial. eventually a case makes its way to the supreme court. in 1986, the high court rules it's unconstitutional for the state of arkansas to ban teaching evolution. so basically the evolution haters are shot down. but they don't go away. recent polling shows less than half of all americans believe in darwin's evolution.

theoretically the americans agree with this guy, yeah. i guess the question is, do you trust guys like me, or glenn beck who have tv and radio shows, or do you trust the thousands of scientists i talked about a moment ago? well, another tough topic. racism and bigotry. why is it so damn hard for us to talk about it. i took my cameras out to ask you.

until about 6:00 thursday night, this segment was going to be about america's crazy addiction to cell phones. but then juan williams lost his job. williams said this.

>> i'm not a bigot. the kind of books i've written about the civil rights movement in this country. but when i get on a plane, if i see people who are in muslim garb, and i think they're identifying themselves first and foremost as muslims, i get worried. i get nervous. >> maybe to you it's an irrational fear or something you can actually relate to. i can tell you this, i work with a really intelligent group of people, really unique, there's even a guy named ed, our producer, but when we started talking about it, we really were arguing. i thought it was going to end up with a horse's head in my bed. it got really heated. we scrapped the smartphones idea and decided to take this topic out to you. why would you be afraid of someone in muslim garb? you're a brown-skinned guy, all right? i'm more of a green. i'm so pale. i look like a goblin. anyway, do you think people look at you when you go to the airport?

>> i'll be honest with you, people probably look at me. i look at people, too. >> people are comfortable with other folks that they look like. >> i think it falls in the category of freedom of speech. >> stereotypes are out there. >> you see somebody that looks different from you, i think you in your head think something. something that pops in your head immediately. you don't always necessarily need to say it. >> i've got to tell you, coming to the new cultures, that people not necessarily understand where you're coming from. they think if you speak with an accent, you think with an accent. >> if you ignore your differences, you'll have greater differences and no more hostility to each other. >> i'm lucky tonight because my good friend tim weiss is here to talk about this. he is hands down, one of the most anti-racist activists and speakers. how do we stop the fear, tim? >> number one, we have to recognize it's irrational. to generalize about 1.5 million

muslims on the basis of what 19 muslims did on 9/11 makes no more sense than if we were to generalize about catholics and christians based on what tim mcveigh did. which is interestingly a point juan williams was trying to make in the latter part of that interview. he makes the admission that he has this bias. and then he goes on to try to say we need to be careful not to generalize. he admits the bias and talking about the problem with the bias. to me that's exactly what we need to be doing, acknowledge we were conditioned to have these beliefs and stereotypes, but if we own it, put it out there, acknowledge it, we can challenge it. that's what we need to be doing. >> also, let's be clear, you're against the firing of juan williams, right? >> yeah. >> you came out against this? >> absolutely. a lot of what he said in terms of, yes, we are are at war with islam or agreeing with o'reilly,

i think that part was a problem. but the idea that we would fire him for acknowledging his own bias makes absolutely no sense. all the research on this, and any of us who study this subject know it, a, we all have been conditioned to have these biases. but b, if we acknowledge it, we can actually challenge it and prevent ourselves potentially from acting on the basis of it. so the idea that we're going to in any way help the cause of anti-bias, or we're going to reduce anti-muslim hysteria but not talking about the fact that this conditioning is real, is nonsense. what npr is not just a disservice to juan williams, but a disservice to the conversation we need to be having about racial, religious and other forms of bias. >> that's one of the things we talked about out on the street and talk about in our homes. when and where can we talk about these issues? if you're going to be afraid if you say something on television or radio where it's recorded,

you'll lose your job, we'll never have the conversation. although we do have the conversations in the privacy of our own homes. even at work, where and when is it appropriate or should we not necessarily be afraid of the repercussions of our honesty even if it seems ignorant? >> i think we need to be honest whenever possible. there are moments you don't want to be sitting across from somebody you just met who happens to be muslim if you're not and saying, i'm really scared of people like you. but i do think it is important for us to admit that the way i see it is advertising works. if we have been exposed to product placement 10, 15, 20 times so we'll go out and buy a tennis shoe or type of toothpaste someone wants us to buy, how much easier is it for us to internalize biases in media, from parents, schools, peers, year after year, month after month, day after day. we have to acknowledge our humanity in that regard. the biases are not fine. the only way we're going to get ahold of them and challenge them

and diminish them is if we own them, admit the problem and try to work together individually and collectively to make the place better. >> if i don't live in a very diverse place, if everybody looks like me and acts like me, worships like me, and then i travel or go to a place that has more diversity, and all i know about the person that i meet that's different from me is what i learned in the media, on cable news, and movies and tv, what am i supposed to think? how do i condition myself to be open to think otherwise? >> i think the way we have to do it is to think about all the experiences we've had. that were bad, with people like ourselves. i hear these stories a lot, people who try to rationalize their racism against plaque folks or latinos by saying, i was in 3rd grade and a black kid beat me up. how many of us who have gotten in fights or arguments or had bad experiences with somebody of a different race or ethnicity

also had dozens of experiences with folks who were white? how many people were we ripped off by a white landlord or treated badly by a white boss? for every time we've had a bad experience with the so-called other, we've had several with people who were just like us. if we keep that in mind and realize what we're doing is generalizing when it's someone different, but not generalizing when it's someone like ourselves, we can catch ourselves in the act of doing that and prevent acting on the basis of that bias, which is to say we can actually stop ourselves from discriminating. >> i think i had my head put in a toilet by every race or gender. >> absolutely. >> what can we learn from this? are we making too big of a deal of these firings? shouldn't we be talking about them? that's why i wanted you to come on the show tonight to discuss this. i feel like this can be a teaching moment. >> it can be. we've got to talk about anti-islamic bias. clearly anti-muslim bias and prejudice is a real problem.

but we're not going to make it go away by acting as if somehow people don't have that. we're not going to make it go away in the folks of the folks at npr by getting rid of juan williams as if to say, it's okay for people at fox to express their biases, but god forbid our nice white organization that we have that. the reality is, all the data on this says that whether you're liberal or conservative right or left, the vast majority of us in the united states, and it's probably true around the world, have internalized biases against all types of so-called outgroups, minority groups, racial, ethnic, racial, sexual, whatever. deal with it, but let's not act if by excludeing the juan williamss of the world from the conversation, that we're going to actually further the cause of equity and justice, because we're not.

>> but it should be okay, though, right, tim, to have these feelings, and not be labeled a racist? the r word or even a bigot, right? if you're having these feelings doesn't mean you are actually a racist or bigot as long as you acknowledge them, right? >> well, i try to separate the act or the thought from the individual. a lot of people -- now, think about it, most of us have told a lie in our lives. most of us have cheated on a test in school. that doesn't mean we're liars and cheaters at our core. there's a difference between having the core character flaw and doing something that's messed up. most of us are good people. but people can do messed-up things. we can still say things and do things that are racist or sexist or home oh feebic, that's what we need to focus on. instead of this idea that we have a bunch of horrible, awful people. most racism are not horrible, awful people. they're good people who don't realize how they perpetuate the kinds of biases and stereotypes and injustices that they do. >> thanks, tim. tim weiss.org, by the way. forget the expression man up. how about woman up? there's a 20-year-old student leaving the dudes in the dust this week. is she just plain awesome or crazy?

(jennifer garner) there's a lot of beautiful makeup out there but there's one that's so clever, it makes your skin look better even after you take it off. neutrogena healthy skin liquid makeup. 98% of women saw improvement in their skin's natural texture, tone, or clarity. does your makeup do that? neutrogena® cosmetics recommended most by dermatologists.

each week people do great things. sometimes it makes the news, but sometimes it doesn't. i'd like to give a shout out to the people this week that do things that make them way, way better than me. this young lady, she's a 20-year-old college student and she's also the new chief of police in a mexican drug-ridden

town in the border state of chihuahua. amid threats of violence, she was the only person to accept the job. she says she's just tired of everybody being afraid. i'm actually afraid of chihuahuas. you are way better than me. now, this man is george. he was awarded the bronze star for his mission 66 years ago to rescue more than 500 soldiers shot down over nazi occupied serbia. i'm still trying to save the princess in mario brothers. you're way, way better than me. let's take an ad out on oh that skull. this man is 5 years old. this week he donated all the money collected at his birthday party to help families in need. when i was 5 years old i think the only thing i donated to is the sandbox in my kindergarten class. you heard it. you're way better than me. clark howard, you know this guy from hln, this week he donated $30,000 to help soldier michael walker rebuild his home after it

was burnt down. clark howard, michael walker, you guys are both way better than me this week. well, our time is almost done here. but we'd be remiss if we didn't look ahead to the week before us. perhaps nothing will be more talked about than -- drum roll, please -- my good friends jon stewart and steven colbert venture into our nation's capital. >> tonight i announce the rally to restore sanity. >> all right. well, i actually did used to warm up the audience for "the daily show." look how far i've come. next saturday they've paired up to rally, to restore sanity. i'll be there for cnn covering the whole entire thing. including the port-a-potty shortage. if you think you've seen too many political ads already, you ain't seen nothing yet. a nonpartisan research group