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narrative from -- >> fill in the blanks. >> here's morris black, your nightmare, your worst nightmare of a neighbor and he was. >> charles bagli and david feige. that's "all in" for this evening and steve kornacki is sitting in for "the rachel maddow show." >> happy monday, as well. thanks to you at home for joining us for the next hour rachel has the night off. this what you are looking at this is the brown chapel ame church in selma, alabama, a church that played a major role in the civil rights movement back in the 1960s was used by martin luther king jr. as his headquarters and it was in front of the brown chapel in selma, alabama, that on sunday march 7th, 1965 in the face of a ban on protest marches in that city it was on that day in front of that church that 600 demonstrators gathered and kicked off their march from selma to the state capital of montgomery. that was what became known as
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bloody sunday when those protesters were viciously attacked and beaten with all of the world watching by police officers. 42 years later, 42 years after that day on sunday march 4th, 2007, the 42nd anniversary of bloody sunday the keynote speaker chosen to address the kong get congratulation of brown chapel in selma was the junior senator from illinois. >> so don't tell me i don't have a claim on selma, alabama. don't tell me i'm not coming home when i come to selma, alabama. i'm here because of that. i'm here because you sacrificed for me. i stand on the shoulders of you. >> i stand on the shoulders of giants. that's what then senator barack obama said in selma in march of 2007. now, there were politics in the air that day. eight years ago obama was running for the democratic nomination to become president.
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he marched that day alongside congressman john lewis from georgia, but also alongside then senator hillary clinton. she was also vying for the democratic presidential nomination. that march, that day in selma was actually their first side-by-side appearance in that campaign. and now this past weekend, president obama returned to selma for the first time since that 2007 march. he was there for the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday and this time he stood on the ezdmund pettus bridge as the first african-american president. >> the americans who crossed this bridge they were not physically imposing. but they gave courage to millions. they held no elected office but they led a nation. they marched as americans who had endured hundreds of years of brutal violence countless daily indignities but they didn't seek special treatment, just the
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equal treatment promised to them almost a century before. what they did here will reverberate through the ages. not because the change they want was preordained, not because their convict wayvictory was complete but because they proved that nonviolent change is possible. that love and hope can conquer hate. >> the speech ended up running for more than 30 minutes covered quite a bit of ground, president obama addressing the recent department of justice. >> reporter: on the ferguson police department, the report that came out just last week. >> just this week i was asked whether i thought the department of justice's ferguson report shows that with respect to race little has changed in this country. and i understood the question. the report's narrative was sadly familiar
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familiar. it evoked the kind of abuse and disregard for citizens that spawned the civil rights movement movement. but i rejected the notion that nothing's changed. what happened in ferguson may not be unique but it's no longer endemic. it's no longer sanctioned by law or custom and before the civil rights movement it most surely was. >> president obama also spoke about patriotism about what it means to be a patriot, something that some people said was a response to mayor rudy giuliani's comments about the president's patriotism. >> we are well served to remember that at the time of the marches many in power condemned rather than praise them. back then they were called communists or half breeds or outside agitators. sexual and moral degenerates and, worse, they were called everything but the name their parents gave them.
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their faith was questioned. their lives were threatened. their patriotism challenged. and yet what could be more american than what happened in this place? [ applause ] what could more pro-foundly vindicate the idea of america than plain and humble people unsung, the downtrodden, the dreamers not of high station, not born to wealth or privilege, not of one religious tradition but many coming together to shape their country's course? >> and on that day obama also walked across the edmund pettus bridge the bridge where those protesters, were beaten 50 years ago walked across with his framily and other politicians including former president george w. bush all walking in
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remembrance that have day in 1965 when hundreds of demonstrators embarked on that 50-mile journey, what was supposed to be a 00-mile journey from selma to montgomery. instead they were met with billy clubs, they were met with tear gas, they were met with state troopers who beat them in some cases to within an inch of their life on that bridge 17 demonstrators were hospitalized that day including now congressman john lewis who suffered a skull fracture. in eight days after that march in 1965 eight days later after the entire nation after the entire world looked on at what happened on that bridge, eight days later president lyndon johnson address aid joint session of congress and called on congress to enact voting rights legislation, to enact what those marchers had been looking for. he ended that speech with the words "we shall overcome." and months after that the legislation that he called for that those demonstrators called for, it was passed by congress and it was signed into law by the president. that was 1965.
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then just about two years ago on june 25th, 2013 the united states supreme court struck down the heart of the voting rights act, struck down the heart of that law, passed in response to selma in 1965. in a 5-4 decision the court invalidated a key provision, a provision that allows mostly states in the south to change their election laws without any advanced approval from the federal government. when that ruling came down in 2013 there were calls for congress to act calls for congress to make changes to the voting rights act so it would still have teeth even after that supreme court ruling. calls that have yet to be answered now nearly two years later. also a call that president obama renewed this weekend in selma. >> right now in 2015 50 years after selma there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote. as we speak more such laws are
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being proposed meanwhile, the voting rights act, the culmination of so much blood, so much sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice in the face of wanton violence, the voting rights act stands weakened. its future subject to political rancor. how can that be? the voting rights act was one of the crowning achievements of our democracy. the result of republican and democratic efforts. president reagan signed its renewal when he was in office president george w. bush signs its renewal when he was in office 100 members of congress have come here today to honor people who were willing to die for the right to protect it. if we want to honor this day let that 100 go back to washington and gather 400 more and together
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pledge to make it their mission to restore that law this year. that's how we honor those on this bridge. >> in politics we have a tendency to row mant size the past. talk about how there used to be more cooperation between the parties. there used to be less posturing of yesterday's politicians, maybe weren't quite as obsessed with the next election or how things used to be better. that's how we like to talk about politics. while that is complete nonsense a lot of times it's not the case at all but not when it comes to the voting rights ago. for decades after 1965 it really was that rarest of things in politics, a truly bipartisan issue, a nonpartisan issue, maybe even one that both parties were for, overwhelmingly. ronald reagan, he signed its renewal back in 1982. president george w. bush another republican who again was there this weekend sitting me side the first lady. george w. bush championed and signed the renewal of it less
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than ten years ago in 2006. >> the voting rights act that broke the segregationists lock on the ballot box rose from the kourlg shown on a selma bridge one sunday afternoon in march of 1965. on that day african-americans including john lewis -- marched across the edmund pettus bridge in a protest intended to highlight the unfair practices that kept him off the voter roll. i am proud to sign the voting rights act reauthorization and amendment acts of 2006. [ applause ] >> george w. bush back in 2006 saying he was proud to sign into law the reauthorization of the voting rights ago. and the senate vote that made that sighing possible back in 2006, the vote on the voting rights act in the senate that year, 98-0 unanimous vote and in the house that year, wasn't
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exactly unanimous but it was overwhelming. overwhelming and bipartisan. 33 no vote 33 republican no votes again it everyone else voting was for it. the overwhelming majority of republicans for that in 2006 but in 2013 voting rights act was dealt that severe blow by the supreme court and since then things have changed. the chairman of the house judiciary committee told reporters he doesn't think any changes are needed to it right now. even without what the supreme court took out of it the voting rights act provides the protections it needs to provide. goodluck did vote to reauthorize it in 2006. one of the yes votes so used to be a bipartisan thing. it really no longer is. yeah, there are some republicans like then house that majority leader eric cantor working to restore parts of it but eric cantor is gone booted out in a republican primary.
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in fact, as of friday evening, the night before the president was to speak in selma as of friday evening no members of the republican congressional leadership who thought the 50th anniversary of selma was important enough to send anyone until a last-minute change of heart when kevin mccarthy number two in the house announced he would make the trip and did make the trip. he was there on saturday in selma. today only a small handful of republicans in congress say that they see a need for the voting rights act to be restored fully. republicans like jim sensenbrenner of wisconsin. >> i am committed to restoring the voting rights act as an effective tool to prevent discrimination. more subtle discrimination now than overt discrimination. my job is to fix the voting rights act now, the first thing we have to do is take the monkey wrench that the court threw in it out of the voting rights act and then use that monkey wrench to be able to fix it so that it
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is alive, well constitutional and impervious to another challenge that will be filed by the usual suspects. [ applause ] i'm with you on this. this is something that has to be done by the end of the year so that a revised and constitutional voting rights act is in place before the 2014 election season both primaries and general elections. >> has to be done by the end of the year. the year congressman sensenbrenner was talking about there, 2013. two years ago. now sensenbrenner is sponsoring a bill with john conyers of michigan, a bill that would reinstate parts of the act that the supreme court gutted out. there were only six republicans co-sponsoring bill. six republicans out of all of the republicans nearly 250 of them in the house of representatives. among those republicans who are
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co-sponsoring that bill republican congressman charlie depth of pennsylvania and joining us now is republican congressman charlie depth of pennsylvania. congressman, really appreciate you taking a few minutes to join us tonight. let me start with the bottom line question. the bill that you have your name on, we talked about the margins back in 2006 when it was 390-33 in the house to reauthorize it. if the bill with your name on it right now came to the floor and not a vote would it pass? >> absolutely. and, steve, thanks for having me on the show. i absolutely believe that the sensenbrenner bill that would reauthorize the voting rights act that changes the formula would pass overwhelmingly and strong republican support. true only six republican co-sponsors. >> so what is the holdup here? i look back. we say this used to be such a bipartisan issue and reamly when you look back at the voting rights debate back in the '60s it wasn't just modal liberal republicans but some of the most conservative republicans in
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congress back then were behind the voting rights act in the 1960s and that was a story through reagan and bush. if you say the vast majority of republicans would be for it why isn't it getting a vote? >> well obviously the bill has been held up in the committee and you're correct, steve, back in the 1960s, larger perjuries of republicans voted for it than did democrats back then so there is great republican support for that but right now i think there's some issues with some on the judiciary committee and i'm not sure why i understand what their issues are, that said what sensenbrenner laid out i think is a very -- i think he threads the needle let's put it that way. he threads the needle and protects states' rights and voting rights and does it in a way to prevent discrimination and i think it should be given a very serious -- very serious look by my colleagues. it's a good way to proceed. in fact under the sensenbrenner bill four states would be in
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preclearance as opposed to nine in the old formula so i think it does strike a good balance and mentioned congressman john lewis, an icon of the civil rights movement. he's very support sieve tiff of this bill. so i believe if it gets a fair consideration it will sail through just like in 2006 when i voted for that reauthorization, as well. proud to support it again, this voting rights act is the most significant piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in american history. >> but let me ask you this way in terms of where resistance might be coming from. i don't imagine we would hear it public. in politics true on basically they issue. politicians often think about their own self-interest. are there republicans you think who look at this and say president obama got something like 97%, 98% of the black vote democrats routinely get that in the last 50 years since 1964 there hasn't been a single republican presidential candidate who's gotten more than 20% support among black voters s there a self-interest
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politically here for republicans where they look at this and say there is simply nothing in this for us that if we do this we're helping democrats? >> i really don't. i think there are some members probably representing the states that are in preclearance that feel like they've been on the probation list forever and that their states are not the same today as they were in 1965 and, therefore, that there should be -- they should be given better consideration than has been the case given their history. that said the sensenbrenner bill allows jurisdictions, states that are -- that have been violation-free for ten years out of preclearance and i think that's really the issue and i say preclearance for your listeners, i mean many of these states must have the justice department approve whatever changes those states make to their election laws. and so those states always had to go through the justice department. a way to get out and now we set up a national model so any jurisdiction could potentially
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go into precleerps. we haven't done well in the african-american community therefore we should punish them by not approving the voting rights act. i do believe our members, some still have questions because this can be a little complex for some who weren't familiar with it but strikes the right balance, sensenbrenner has done a great job with it. >> congressman charlie depth one sponsoring it after the supreme court ruling. thank you for your time tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all right. we have a lot to get to including some really fascinating and surprising new information about the 2016 presidential race. brand-new polling out tonight that will surprise you. plus, a brief appearance by kim kardashian on this show. just don't tell rachel. i promise it is for a good cause. a lot more ahead. stay with us.
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rowtunda to protest the shooting death of an unarmed black 19-year-old tony robinson. many of those heard chanting slogans like no justice, no peace and black lives matter where students from local high schools around the city as well as from the university of wisconsin. students left their classes there this morning and marched down to the state capitol for a third day of protesting. on friday a veteran madison police officer responded to a call about a suspect jumping in and out of traffic after having assaulted someone. the officer then pursued the suspect, that's tony robinson into a nearby apartment and the officer forced his way into that apartment and police say the unarmed teenager assaulted the officer before the officer shot and killed him. today the madison chief of police apologized in an online post to the family of the slain teen saying rick conciliation cannot begin without my stating i am sorry. i don't think i can say this enough. i am sorry. shooting is being investigated by the wisconsin division of criminal investigation which is part of the state's department
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we talked earlier in the show about how only at the last minute did republican congressional leaders send a representative to selma this weekend. well there was one major political figure who was absent conspicuously from selma, hillary clinton. instead of being in selma, clinton was in miami on saturday for an event sponsored by the clinton global initiative. the decision to go to her family foundation event over the selma anniversary earned hillary clinton some bad press. it's also a reminder the heat is starting to turn up on her by all measures she's getting ready to run for president again and so she's going to be facing more and more scrutiny over her decisions. and the criticism over her decision to skip selma is nothing compared to the other thing on hillary clinton's plate right now. >> mr. president when, did you first learn that hillary clinton used an e-mail system outside the u.s. government for official business while she was secretary
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of state? >> at the same time everybody else learned it through news reports. >> do you think your wife's been treated fairly with the e-mails? >> i'm not the one to judge that. >> president clinton, what's your opinion. >> i shouldn't be making news on this. >> what i would like for her to come forward and say what the situation is because she is the pre-eminent political figure right now. she is the leading candidate, whether it within republican or democrat for the next -- to be the next president and i think that she needs to step up and come out and stay exactly what the situation is. you know some people say -- >> the silence is hurting her? >> i think at this point from this point on the server -- the silence is going to hurt her. >> that was democratic senator dianne feinstein from california just yesterday telling nbc's
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chuck todd thatting hillary clinton needs to explain why as secretary of state she conducted all of her official state department business over a personal e-mail account. clinton has been plagued by bad press about this taupic ever since new york new york first broke the story last week. now to be clear, hillary clinton remains the overwhelming favorite, stress that, the overwhelming favorite to win the democratic nomination for president next year. in a new nbc poll out just tonight the number of democrats who say they can see themselves supporting her is a whopping 86%. and democratic women in the senate have basically been a united front in her favor for awhile now for example, on this show rachel's tried to make the case that moderate missouri senator claire mccaskill is perhaps the most electable democrat out there right now but mccaskill has been add perhaps. she says she wants hillary to run. she says she'll support her if she does. so now for dianne feinstein, for a fellow democrat for a powerful longtime member of the
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u.s. senate to come out and say hillary needs to step up and speak out about the e-mail situation, to say she'll be in trouble if she doesn't do that well, that's a pretty big deal. also not clinton's strategy or at least it hasn't been her strategy so far. it's been more than a week and still hasn't said anything in public about any of this. she did put out one tweet saying that she's asked the state department to release her e-mails but in general this scan dell is yet another remind ef how long hillary clinton has been out of day-to-day campaign-style politics and even though she remains a huge public figure has been able to stay on the spotlight mostly on her terms for the last few years. the question is can she afford to keep trying to do that. can she afford to keep ignoring questions and keep refusing interviews, to keep staying out of public except for occasional and highly scripted appearances where she only talks about what she wants to to and nothing else. another new 2016 poll that just came out today, the marist poll scott walker shows closing in on
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her. she may nbr great shape with her own party but what about the rest of the country? how does all this look to them? there are signs people in the clinton camp are beginning to take this more seriously. longtime supporters like james carville and lanny davis coming to her defense vociferously and in the past few hours reports have emerged she will address the e-mail situation at some point this week maybe within the next few days so what should we expect? well, will it signal a turning point in hillary clinton's strategy and enough to sloo the bad press. ann gearing reporter for "the washington post" covering hillary clinton. thanks for joining us. >> happy to be here. >> let me ask you what you're hearing then. we've heard nothing from hillary clinton publicly for a week now. are you hearing that we will hear from her in the next couple of days? >> well i mean we haven't -- not that we haven't heard anything from her publicly. she has been part of a couple of the sort of scripted events that -- >> on the e-mail issue we've
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heard zero. >> exactly. when dianne feinstein says you're doing it wrong you have a problem and she has to confront that problem because it's gone beyond the argument that she and her defenders can make that this is not a big deal or a completely manufactured republican hit job. it's definitely gone beyond that at this point so sheila von wiese-mack have to respond. we don't know in what venue or exactly when but she will have to do this in some way that directly and fully confronts the major question involved here which is why was the e-mail system set up the way it was when it was, what was her thinking at the time? >> and when dianne feinstein comes out as we say it's a big deal. it is the fact that somebody in her own party when she has those poll numbers would say that. does that speak to something broader in the democratic party right now, frustrations with how
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she's handled this ishlgs maybe frustratings with how she's handling public appearances in general? >> well, i can't speak for dianne feinstein but there definitely is a sentiment that sort of where there's frustration on two fronts. one is why hasn't the clinton camp handled this better? that's sort a short-term problem and second source of frustration is the idea that she's it. and whatever she says goes. and you alluded to this a bit in your introduction. i mean she has been able to dictate the terms of just about everything so far and in a way that she certainly wasn't able to when she ran eight years ago and the way -- or six years ago and the way the republicans are now. i mean we got a zillion republicans out there and they're all with a feeding frenzy on one another. there isn't that same dynamic happening on the democratic side. she's it. so when -- >> she's the only show in town. >> she's the only show in town
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and when she says she's going to do something she does it on her own terms and when she doesn't, she doesn't. it's a real test in terms of how far -- like how long is that leash? how far does she get to say i'm not playing that game. i'm not doing things the way you want me to do. >> what about too what we're hearing today we say lanny davis has been out there. james carville was on this network basically saying he kept saying all of this all of the questions about her e-mails and all of the things she has yet to address are right wing talking points and reminds me of her initial response to the lewinsky scandal vast right wing conspiracy and trying to bring that language back into this. can they do that? >> no i mean respectfully, no. i mean forecast it -- you don't have to have talked to any republican in the last week to have the same basic question i posed a moment ago, why did she set up a parallel e-mail system
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to the state department one? i mean there may be an explanation for it. great. let's hear it. but that has nothing to do with it being a republican hit job. that's a simple question of public accountability. >> right, and especially when there's the fact here as well that the president himself that this was his administration saying you can't be keeping things -- >> oh and by the way the president was e-mailing with her on that account. >> ann gearan thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> when was the last time you gave much thought to your wrist. that's write, your wrist, take a moment to ponder the humble wrist because it turns out the wrist is the key to the future of everything. try to explain that coming up. despite what people said she bought me a sewing machine and she let me play with dolls and that was something that was kind of growing up culturally, it was quite unacceptable and she really dared to let me be different. [thunder and rain] [thunder and rain]
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so here's a good news/bad news situation for you. you may remember the oil train derailment in western illinois we told you about last week. 21 cars full of oil went off the tracks, two exploded. three others caught fire. that fire burned for three days after that. the good news is that fire is finally out and an epa official says they have not seen any oil in the river so that is the good news and now here is the bad news. from ontario, canada. >> claims of smoke continue to billow as crews try to put out burning tanker cars full of crude oil. >> enormous amount of flames. >> more than 30 cars derailed. >> just heard a big boom. >> no one was hurt in the nearby town of gogama but five cars fell into this river.
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apple watch is the most personal device we have ever created. it's not just with you. it's on you. you can see things like weather. your calendar right from your wrist you can receive messages. you can receive calls on your
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watch! i have been wanting to do this since i was 5 years old. the day is finally here. [ applause ] >> full disclosure now. i really have no idea what any of that means. i know that apple's ceo tim cook had another big headliner today. the apple watch pairs with your iphone but you do everything from checking e-mail and weather and the time, it monitors your health, order uber pay your bar tab, make a call. prices start at $349. there are multiple face sizes and straps that escalate the price quickly. and i know it's going to be a big hit because apple products are always big hits. this show is not supposed to be qvc. it is not about covering the latest gadgets and gizmos. if it were i wouldn't be the guy to guest host it tonight. but the announcement from and sl
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a -- apple is a different thing. and it was hailed as an iphone or ipad moment. this is a new luxury version of the watch which is fitted with super durable, 18 karat apple gold if that's really a thing. it goes for $10,000. i didn't know watches were being worn any more. it's hard for me to understand importance of a development like this. seriously, this is what i picture when i think of apple's dye designers at work. it's completely foreign to me which is why i'm bringing in a specialist. co- co-editor of bing bing.com. let me ask you a whole question. i thought they don't wear
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wristwatches anymore because the iphone has e-mail and time on it and everything. >> it's not about the tick tock. it's like a small networked computer that you wear in a form of a wrist watch. the idea is wearable computing. wearable communication. so the ability to, as you mentioned, pay for goods and services with a flick of your wrist, to read your heartbeat, to send your heartbeat to your loved ones or draw a little doodle to your wife or your kids or your mom. all kinds of things are possible. and as with other apple products, like when the ipad launched it's one of those design moments where you don't know that you actually need it until you have it in your hands. >> is that part of the appeal of apple here too? i know it's going to be a hit because it's an apple product.
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can apple put anything out and people are going to buy it can they make up oh, yeah. you need this giza-matron for your kitchen and everybody would buy it? >> they have a strong enough track record with innovative products, that at the end of the day we are going to be suckers and try them out. what's most interesting about the watch is not what happens at launch. this is the tip of the iceberg. and once they're out there in the wild and developers start trying new things that are a little offbrand or conflict with apple's ideas of what ought to be happening with the watch, that's when things are going to get interesting. and what's so interesting is that apple has this huge huge footprint, a user store, user base. it's completely different than an upstart trying something similar. >> i guess in the doomsday
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science effect science fiction world, you talk about the rise of the robots. you're backing, you are condensing more and more purposes into a smaller and smaller thing that now we're going to be wearing, apparently. i do look at it and i think this is the mark to becoming a row bots. >> relax, steve. it's going to be fun. it's a smaller device so you won't get in troubling as much for diverting your attention away. i think the idea is to get the device out of the way and make the communication experience better. >> i'm going back to wall-mounted clocks. >> wear a grandfather clock on your wrist. >> co--editor of boing boing
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boing.net. >> the apple watch was explained in 1899 by conspicuous consumption. that's all it is. steve, thank you very much. well president obama says republican senators now have something in common with some of the leaders in iran and the university of oklahoma has one less racist fraternity tonight. and congressman aaron shock tried to explain to his constituents why he spends so much of their money on decorating his office and luxury travel. >> uh it's an unusual coalition. >> a responding to a letter sent by 40 republican senators to iran. >> this letter is a hard slap. >> it's deeply irresponsible. >> iran's leaders need to know that a deal not approved by congress won't be accepted by congress. >> what we're going to focus on right now is seeing if we can get a deal right now. >> significant ma alpha epsilon has shutt