hopefully the nfl will reach out to us and we'll get them involved because they have to be the role models that our young people need. and it's more than just making them tough on the field. we need to teach them to be responsible and humane in real life. >> so what can the school do to make sure this doesn't happen again? >> i think they're starting to do it. they'll have people looking at this, tracking it, investigating it. i suspect they're going to put in some programs that will teach kids about kindness, about being nice, about respect for themselves and others. and i'll help if they want it. i'm here for another couple days. i'm born and raised in new jersey, love sayerville and i'm happy to go down and talk to the students at the school and some of the rest if they want my time. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. >> "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed, and thanks to you for tuning in. i'm live tonight from orlando, florida. today's lead, back stabbing the

president? or just telling a story? a new book by one of president obama's former cabinet officials is raising big questions. is it appropriate for a trusted former member of the president's team to write a book that criticizes the commander in chief even while he's still in office? leon panetta served as the president's cia director from 2009 to 2011. he was there when the president ordered the mission to kill osama bin laden. president obama then nominated him to be the press secretary, publicly praising panetta. >> another great public servant of our time, leon panetta. leon appreciates the struggles and sacrifices of our troops and military families, because he served in the army himself. >> panetta served as defense secretary until early last year. now he's out with a new book.

it's respectful in many ways, acknowledging progress made under this president. but it's also filled with tough words about the president's foreign policy, a theme he did in an interview on msnbc today. >> i think we would be in a much better position if we had left a presence in iraq of approximately 8 to 10,000. we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground. >> you and hillary clinton both argued, as did others, that we should arm the syrian rebels two years ago. the president decided not to. if we had made that decision then, would isis have been able to grow as it did? >> i think we would at least be in a better position to have, in the rebel operation, a group that we would have worked with, known, helped arm. >> let's talk about red lines. there was a red line against

assad, then a red line on chemical weapons. >> i believe when you're commander in chief of the united states of america, that when you put down a red line, when you put our word on the line, that if they use chemical weapons, that we will take action, and they used chemical weapons. and when that happens, the president has an obligation to take action. >> many of those decisions were made when panetta was serving the president. and here's what he said about the president's leadership. >> he approaches things like a law professor in presenting kind of the logic of his position. and there's nothing wrong with that, but my experience in washington is that logic alone doesn't work. that once you lay out a position, you have to roll up your sleeves and fight to get it done. that's key in washington. in order for presidents to

succeed, they cannot just, you know, when they run into problems, kind of step back and give up. i think there's a feeling right now, i have a feeling that the leadership, and the congress and the president have largely given up on the big issues facing this country. >> the president's given up? give me a break. let me be very clear. there's nothing wrong with criticizing the president, but for a former trusted official to do so while the president is still in office, that's low. and a real blemish on leon panetta's record of service. joining me now is joe madison, host of the:pl÷ madison show on sirius radio and dana millbank of "the washington post." dana's new article is titled "leon panetta, other former obama subordinates show stunning disloyalty." thank you both for being here. >> good to see you, reverend. >> thank you. >> dana, you called this

"stunning disloyalty." what's different here? >> well, look, leon panetta is an american and free to say what he wants. but i can tell you what the effect is here, is to embolden conservatives and republicans right on the eve of the election. i was at an event yesterday. this was coming out with bobby jindal, republican governor of louisiana who wants to run for president. he's saying everything that's wrong with this president, you don't need to hear it from me, just go and listen to leon panetta. so certainly he's fair to say what he wants. the criticism itself is a very common one that many people on the left have made before. the timing is very unfortunate, i think, for this president, and it does lend itself to the suspicion that leon panetta is looking to ring up some royalties. >> joe, what's your reaction to the comments?

>> my first reaction was, when i heard him say logic doesn't apply in washington, d.c., i think that's why people are so down on washington, d.c. what do you mean logic doesn't apply? of course you want to be logical, of course you want to be intelligent, of course you want to be cautious. my first reaction is, i thought about john f. kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. history will tell us he was the only one at that table who didn't want to pull the trigger, which would have started world war iii. and the president is the president. the secretary of defense is the secretary of defense. the president has to make that decision. history will judge -- history will judge whether the president is right or wrong. and most important of all, all we have is panetta's side of the story. let's wait to see what happens when the president writes his story or when history writes and then finally, he knows darn well that we could not have left those troops in iraq.

first of all, we didn't trust the leader of iraq. second of all, he wasn't going to prosecute anything that would have been done against those troops. they would have been sitting ducks. but your point is well taken, the president of the united states has not given up. matter of fact, he's brought 40-something nations together to fight isis. >> you know, leon panetta has a long history in washington, he was bill clinton's chief of staff. is that playing in here at all? how do you explain this critique coming now? >> i think that has something to do with it. >> if you look what's happening, the beginning of the year, robert gates, the former defense secretary -- or first defense secretary with this president came out with a critical memoir. then hillary clinton's book, which was somewhat critical, in particular interviews she gave. now you have leon panetta. what's in common here, all three of these were figures in their own right without president

obama. hillary clinton was a rival. gates was a holdover from the bush administration. and panetta is just sort of a washington institution. i think they all feel they don'to him anything. that they're free to be their own person. so when you establish a cabinet of rivals as the president did in the first term, there are many benefits to that, but we are.ca$áqqr'g a down side to that. >> joe, vice president biden hit back at panetta today. listen to this. >> i'm finding that former administration officials soon as they leave, write books, which i think is inappropriate. but at any rate -- [ laughter ] no, i'm serious, i do think it's inappropriate. give the guy a chance to get out of office. >> this was yesterday the vice president talking. is there some kind of unspoken trust that is had between the president and his cabinet members that he's taken into his confidence and made a part of the team, even after you leave the office? >> you know, i really don't

know. i like plain-spoken joe. i mean, he really puts it where it should be put. i don't know how to answer that question. but what keeps coming into my mind, reverend sharpton, this is about marketing. you know, it they waited to years from now, we may not even remember who panetta is. people may not even buy his book. because remember, it would be hillary clinton that would be getting all the attention. so i think quite honestly, this is -- well, let me put it this way. panetta doesn't have sex to sell. so here he sells disloyalty. >> let me go to dana before you get too far out there, joe. dana, you know, panetta has taken heat, including from you. let's listen to how he answered some of the criticism today. >> you know, i'm a believer

that -- that you don't put history on hold. that the reality is, you speak to what you believe history is all about, and the american people will be able to make the judgment as to what's right or wrong. >> dana, do you put history on hold? do you buy that as his logic? >> i don't really buy that argument. i mean, i think that if leon panetta thought he had a chance of persuading this president to take the positions that panetta wanted him to take, he'd be on the job persuading him to do it. i think he gave up on that and hass has decided to go off into a dissenting role. it's not as if this hasn't happened before. it happened with george w. bush. but just the timing, particularly before the mid term elections, giving republicans a lot of ammunition, i'm not sure panetta thought that through entirely. >> and you don't embolden the enemy.

>> i looked this up. president bush, there were a few books written while he was still in office by former aides, but the overwhelming majority of them was after he left office. why do some officials like leon panetta feel compelled to break that practice and publish while the commander in chief is still in office? >> i really don't know. and it's really unfortunate because you would think that especially with a mid term election, number two, we are, in essence, at war with isis. why would you do this at a time that could embolden your enemy, could undermine the president's leadership? you know what comes to my mind, maybe there's a lack of respect there for this individual. i hate to say that, i can't read panetta's mind, but, you know, this does not speak well for how they should be treating a

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we're exactly four weeks away from the mid term elections and some of the biggest names in the democratic party were on the road today, making the case to help the president and his allies finish what they started. the first lady was on the campaign trail in madison, wisconsin. >> by almost every economic measure, we are better off today than when barack obama took office. that's a fact. >> it is a fact. unemployment's down. the stock market's up. we've had 55 straight months of private sector job growth.

but we still have so much more work to do. to help every american get a fair shot. >> no one in america should be working 40 hours a week and living below the poverty level. >> that's right. >> that's why the minimum wage vote is important. that's why equal pay for women is important. >> you all can elect a leader who will fight to create jobs for you, when you graduate. and make sure those jobs pay a decent wage. [ applause ] >> these are the issues at stake for the mid terms. raising the minimum wage, equal pay, keeping extreme republicans from taking over the u.s. senate. and the first lady had a message for anyone who thinks this election isn't a big deal. >> if anyone ever tells you that elections don't matter, you tell them to look back at the last six years.

tell them about all those two elections did to change the course of history in this country, and tell them that the same is true this year. if you think every person in this country should have the chance to go to college and build a good life for themsel s themselves -- [ applause ] -- then you have to step up. you have to step up. >> we all have to step up and we have got four weeks to do it. joining me now, a former pennsylvania governor ed rendell and jess mcintosh, thank you both for being here. >> great to be here, rev. >> thank you. >> governor, will these economic pocket book issues help motivate democrats over the final four weeks? >> well, that's a key, rev. will the democratic base turn out? it's been a good weeks for the president, great economic news, fantastic, blow-the-roof off

economic news, and his performance dealing with isis, building the coalition is favored by a lot of the american people. so good news that will help energize our base and there's a recent poll showing the democratic voters who say they're likely to vote are at 91%. republican voters who say they're likely to vote are at 93%. that's good. it's narrowed the gap dramatically. plus, there's an explosion going on out there among single women. single women are giving d democrats in the tough states huge majorities. kay hagan and michelle nun have 34-point majority. they're women. but bruce braley in iowa has a 43-point plus majority among single women. and mark udall in colorado has a 33-point plus majority. so the lines are good. the democrats, i think, have a

slightly better turn-out. field, ground operation much better. so the chances are much improved for the whole of the senate, but it's still a very tough nut. if you assume that michigan and new hampshire now are fairly safe for democrats, there are nine seats, three are gone. of the remaining six, the republicans have to take three and they take the senate back, unless they lose in kansas, georgia, or kentucky. if the democrats win one of those states, it's pretty hard for the republicans to take back the senate. >> just the first lady was in wisconsin today campaigning for wisconsin gubernatorial candidate mary burke. she really stressed women's issues. i want to play part of it. >> sure. >> a leader who will fight for equal pay for women. [ applause ] a leader who will support our rights as women to make our own

decisions about our bodies and about our health care [ applause ] ladies -- >> now, there's a big gender gap in the wisconsin race and in senate races. >> true. >> will women turn out? will there be a bigger turn-out among women? what are you seeing out there, jess? >> i'm seeing a lot of enthusiasm among women. among the women who usually get written off in mid term election, younger women, african american women specifically. these voters are energized because of the issues you laid out at the beginning. raising the minimum wage, which women understand is a women's issue, ending gender discrimination in pay, having paid sick leave and access to health care. one of the reasons that was so fantastic that the first lady hit those notes in wisconsin is

because republican governor scott walker has been one of the absolute worst across the board on these issues. and mary burke, the democratic challenger who really has a fantastic shot of unseating him in just 28 days, has been doing a really good job of highlighting those differences. and walker knows he's vulnerable on them. he put up a very strange tv ad today, where he tried to suggest that he was maybe kind of pro-choice, which of course anybody who has followed his agenda, knows that's the exact -- he's one of the most extreme on that issue possible. but he seems to know he's in trouble with the women everyone is afraid are going to turn out and he's trying to inoculate himself but it's far too late with 28 days left. >> democrats have been running on things like minimum wage and equal pay, but listen to that senate candidate david purdue said this week about his own record on outsourcing. >> how do you defend that?

>> well, defend it, i'm proud of it. this is part of american business, any business. outsourcing is the procurement of products and sources to help your business run. people do that all day. >> he's proud of it. proud of outsourcing? i mean, can you believe this governor? >> no. i think it's an issue which could really energize democratic voters and independent voters to come out and vote for michelle nun whose run a great campaign. purdue is in trouble because he's talking about outsourcing in a state that has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, 8.4%. even though unemployment across the board has dipped under 6%. so that's a message that's going to tick off a lot of georgiaians and could be the difference in what was already a close election before he made that remark. >> if michelle nun wins her senate seat t becomes extremely hard, not impossible, but extreme hard for republicans to take back the senate.

>> we've heard a lot of crazy -- i don't know how else to describe it -- crazy campaign rhetoric. but now tom cotton is trying to connect isis to border security. listen to this. >> first off, the islamic state, who collaborate with drug cartels in mexico upon who have clearly shown they're willing to expand outside the drug trade into human trafficking and terrorism. they could infiltrate our defenseless southern border and attack us right here in places like arkansas. >> seriously? he's claiming isis is headed to arkansas. are they just willing to say anything? >> i think this highlights a really important point in the final four weeks of the election. we know what democrats' issues are. it's getting a fair shot to get ahead for you and your family. what are republicans running on? this is why you have david purdue saying he loves

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when he reached for his book bag, they pulled a gun out. what was the purpose of a gun? and now they asking me to open my door so i can get out. i'm scared. if you can pull out a gun with two kids in the back seat. >> are you going to open the door? >> why do you say people are not going to hurt you? [ screaming ] >> the family has now filed a lawsuit, saying the officers used excessive force. police say they did nothing wrong. in years passed this might have been a he said/she said scenario, but now, this case like many others, will have video evidence to help reach a just result. joining me now is former police chief val demmings. thank you for being here. >> thank you, reverend al.

it's good to be here. >> chief demmings, let's start with this new cell phone video wi from indiana. what struck you as you watched the tape? >> first of all, i want to say, i think we all understand police officers have a tough job to do. the overwhelming majority of them do get it right. sometimes they do get it wrong. i have to say, though, watching the video, what's troubling for me, i do find it difficult, as a former law enforcement officer, someone who served as the chief of police for over 30 years, to figure out how a minor traffic violation, not wearing your seat belt, although important, is a minor traffic violation, how that violation escalated to the point where it did. now, the indiana police department, and i agree with you, not all police are bad. not even most in my opinion, but they said they defended the officers by issuing a statement,

saying, they feared for their own safety. quote, police officers who make legal traffic stops are allowed to ask passengers inside a stopped vehicle for identification and to request they stop the vehicle for the officer's safety, without a requirement of reasonable suspicion. the hammond police were at all times acting in the interest of officer safety and in accordance with indiana law. i mean, does that address the main issues raised by this cell phone video, chief? >> well, officers do have to exercise safety. they certainly can't help anybody else if their own lives for jeopardy. however, this was a stop of a family. two adults in the front, two children in the back. the driver of the vehicle said that she was on her way to the hospital to visit her ailing mother. officers have a great tool that

they can use and that tool is discretion. there are several things that the officers could have done. number one, they could have simply told her to -- her and the front-seat passenger to put their seat belts on, check her driver's license if they felt the need to do that, tell them to drive safely and always wear the seat belts. they could have run her driver's information and issued a citation if they felt the need to do that. but in watching the video, and i know the investigation is ongoing, i see no need where this particular incident had to escalate to the point that it did, especially with two children in the car. we always have to be sensitive to people's situations. and we do know this is a family on their way to see an ailing mother. >> now, let me ask you about video. you've been chief down here in orlando. videos and the use of it now has changed a lot of how these cases

are argued, pro and con. how do you feel, as a chief, about video? >> well, when i was the chief of police in orlando, we tested some body cams and looked at other different recording devices. our budget would not allow us to outfit our fleet, but several cars did have dash cams installed. one of the things that i always try to portray to the police officers is that videos are good because they not only protect the public, but they also protect the police officers. we know of several instances where videos have actually cleared officers from any wrongdoing. and so videos are really a good thing. when you look at where we are today, that's just where we are. we live in a video society and we should welcome it. >> you know, aclu lawyers say it's willing to record police activity. they also caution, quote,

challenging policeman's conduct should not be done on the street. it is better to do it in court afterwards. now, isn't that where these videos could make the most difference, chief, in court, as well as the court of public opinion? >> i really agree. few situations are going to be solved, really in the heat of the moment on the street. but when you are in a place that is open to the public, you have a right to demonstrate, if you do so lawfully and peacefully, and you have a right to video record. and that's just, as i said, the society that we live in. that's where we are. it's not going away. and we just have to be accountable and every time do it right. and if we don't -- >> i notice you looked at me and smiled when you said "demonstrate." chief, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. coming up, is it okay for a former cabinet member to go after the commander in chief while he's still in office?

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jenkins. thank you all for being here this evening. >> thanks, reverend. >> thank you. we start with our top story tonight. was it back stabbing, or was it fair game? as we mentioned leon panetta, former secretary of defense and director of the cia for the obama administration, is accusing president obama of having lost his way on national security in his new book. maria, is it fair criticizing the president while he's still in office? >> i don't think it's fair. and i also think at the end of the day leon panetta was one of his advisers. but it's the president's responsibility ultimately to decide what to do next. i think the president understands very carefully that we can't be in perpetual war in the middle east. that's why he's strategic about it. it's disappointing that leon came out with this right now, especially on the eve of mid term elections. >> jimmy? >> yeah, it sounds kind of bad. if i had somebody that -- by the way i gave a job to, gave two

jobs to and then they left my employment and i gave them great speeches when they left, and then they wrote a book and there's no sex in the book, nothingzík[; scandalous. what's the one thing you can put in there, the guy i used to work for kind of stinks. it's not very honorable. i hate to see that leon panetta did that. when he was a member of congress, a majority of his money came from the defense industry, frankly, so let's just call that what it is. >> if mr. panetta came out and said that the president did a great job, a wonderful job, would any of the people on the news network be talking about this book that he wants to sell? controversy sells more books. people are talking about it. so look at the motive here, the timing of these comments. is this really about selling more books? >> all right, now to the next topic. scandal or sex crime?

oscar winner jennifer lawrence is breaking her silence about the nude photos that a hacker stole from her and posted online in august. in a "vanity fair" interview, she explains why she had nude photos of herself, and she didn't hide. quote, i was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years, it was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn, or he's going to look at you. she goes on, quote, it is not a scandal, it is not a sex crime. it is a sexual violation. it's disgusting. the law needs to be changed and we need to change. that's why these websites are responsible. lawrence and several other actresses have threatened to sue google for violating privacy, for failing to remove the photos. is this a sex crime? >> it's not a sex crime per se as defined in the statute. but what you're going to see

happen is what he saw happen with revenge porn cases. states are going to start enacting legislation to keep up with technology and crimes that are being committed with technology. so what you're going to see is legislation being enacted to make it a higher level felony, or to make the punishments more serious when you're being hackio someone's phone and releasing nude and explicit photos of them. i think it will address the increasing ability of technology to do these things. >> we have to understand that this is something she had between her boyfriend. first of all, it's sad that she has to explain why she had the pictures on her phone. it's basically like your 13-year-old brother coming and reading your diary. it's not okay. we have on equivocate that for folks. it's her privacy. they basically stole her personal property. >> yeah, i'm with maria on this. it's like going into someone's house and stealing something.

you violated the fire wall, the barrier. we have these laws that cover our medical records, if a doctor releases or a nurse or a hospital releases anything about your personal medical records. i mean, the fines or jail time on that are through the roof. nothing like that applies to this sort of stuff, and frankly it's just as important, just as private, just as personal. so the idea that the states are going to act on this, i personally don't want the state of south carolina acting on this. i want the federal government to make it so that if someone hacks into my cloud and steals a picture of my happiness, for lack of a better term, they're going to jail for a long time. if i don't want you to see my happiness, i don't want you to see it. next topic. american or african american. actress raven simone's race comments lighting up the internet. you remember her from t"the cosy show" and more recently the

disney channel. she set off a debate over this comment on race. >> i'm tired of being labelled. i'm an american. i'm not an african american. i'm an american. >> oh, girl, twitter is on fire. >> what! i'm sorry. >> what did you just say? stop, stop, stop the tape right now! >> i will say this. >> what? >> i mean, i don't know where my roots go to. i don't know how far back they go. i don't know how far back andru don't know what country in africa i'm from. but i do know my roots are in louisiana, i'm american, and that's a colorless people. we're all american. i have lots of things running through my veins. >> you're going to get a lot of flack for saying you're not african americans. >> i don't label myself. >> i want you to say what you really mean by that. >> what i really mean by that, i'm an american. i have darker !k%91ñ a nice

interesting grade of hair. i connect with caucasian, i connect with asian, i connect with black, i connect with indian. i connect with each culture. >> you are a melting pot in one body. >> aren't we all? isn't that what america's supposed to be? >> i'm not an african american. she was trending online for nearly 24 hours. she's tired of being labelled. what do you make of her comments? >> i respect a person's desire to define themselves the way they want to define themselves. but when you take it a step further and you infer there's this notion of a colorless or color-blind society, i think it's irresponsible. a lot of black people walk around in these streets and they cannot afford to ignore race. it's a part of their everyday lives. there are a lot of people who sacrificed and sweat blood, tears, everything, so that raven simone could sit where she is and that i could sit where i am,

not because they said they were colorless, but they refused to let people deny their humanity because of their color. >> jimmy, you had an interesting take on this. jimmy? >> i agree we're all americans, but at the end of the day, i think she should go back and take a lesson in history. the idea of a black american was not okay until the 1960s, frankly by law, right? has she thought about those struggles, about the people that have come well before that? so the idea that we shun labels. this is what the gop likes to do, that the world is perfect, colorless, sexless, et cetera. guess what, the world does have color, the world does have sex, the world does have ethnicity, and we should embrace it. all of those things together make america the best nation on the planet. and we shouldn't run from that. >> maria? >> she said she can only trace her roots back to louisiana,

because our history of individuals who have been oppressed have been scrubbed. but there's a celebration of the idea that we are different and how do we capitalize it? not just in the united states, but globally, because of those differences. it's a shame to see a young woman that says she's colorless when she made her mark on the first african american comedy that was amazing. that's the irony behind all of this, reverend. i want your take. >> i wish we had more time for this. i wish we had a lot more time for this one. i would just say to her that labels were imposed on people. people didn't just grab the labels. people were discriminated against because of who they were. don't blame those that are coming out of that. it is celebrating america to say that i am that and can achieve. and i'm going to be watching to see if next time they need an african american actress in hollywood with a big digit, whether she applies. thank you all for your time this

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