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there has been tore an institutional solution. good to have you with es, gentleman. >> and also dean. that's. "politics nation" starts right now. \s. thanks to you for tuning in. breaking news tonight, hillary clinton breaks her silence, seven days after her e-mail controversy erupted. >> first, when i got to work i opted for convenience to use my personal e-mail account, which was allowed by the state department bay i thought it would be easier. looking back it would have been
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better if i had simply used a sect e-mail account. but at the time it doesn't seem like an issue. the vast majority of my work e-mails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately immediately. >> then she address the whattest happen after leaving office. but not her personal e-mails. at the end i chose to not keep personal e-mails, but chelsea's wedding, my mother's funeral. condolence notes to friend as well as yoga routines family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes. fourth, i took the unprecedented
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step of asking that the state department make all my work-related e-mails public for everyone to see. those e-mail will be public the state department saying it had -- but the right is already attacking. moments after the press conference, fired back demanding her to hand over her private server. but the breaking news tonight, klining says she fully complied with every rule she was govrned by on e-mail records. >> of course -- the right wing is revving up the machine again. >> hillary clinton followed the letter of the because and the
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spirit of the law, and all the rest is total politics. ped said why didn't she come out and speak about this because i know when this whole thing broke, the press asked, what do you think? i said it's a nothing burger but they never, ever with all due respect, the press never quoted me. they just like the controversy and they're going to get it. the republicans are playing politics. i want to prove it to you. colin powell, another secretary of state that i respect and admire just as i respect and admire and support hillary clinton, colin powell admitted he got rid of all hess e-mails. could you find me one republican that is asking why he does that? when hillary clinton turned them all over. if the republicans wants a e-mail police come into everyone's homes, you know what? that's outrageous.
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>> but senator -- >> they were just back off, because she did everything right. the her, the period of the law. >> how do you take this? >> we all know a benghazi story. >> they're just chasing their tail until they look at the polls, and the polls show that people are finally say, let's hear what she has to say this is what they do. it's all they have to say. they have no idea to govern. writing to the hard liner in iran, they don't know what they're doing. it's really a sad situation. i was so proud of her today.
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>> i want to get back to the her. >> sure but let me get this clear, you are not bothered at all about a private server private e-mails and she said it had hirely -- sh -- she had a highly secured server so it could be even more secure why don't you ask some of these senators and members of the hour if they said something going through their e-mails. they don't. i can tell you right now. so it's all much ado by nothing, and that is the truth. the law changed when john kerry became secretary of state. colin powell never saved anything. they're just going after had
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been had been because guess what? she's going to be a great candidate for president. frankly, the more they continue this they run the risk of turning the american people against them. it makes no sense, how many times does a person have to say this is what i did. she stood there and did it and there's no error there. she obeyed the spirit and the letter of the law. that's it. now, let me switch gears. we'll talk more later in the show about the e-mails, but i want to switch gears. former secretary clinton did at this -- how dough respond to 47 of your colleagues have written the iranians and undermined in my opinion the president of the united states. i have seen them a lot of things
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it was mend to undermine my president's negotiation. they wrote a big which will require a vote in terms of an executive action like this. that was meant to undermine the negotiations. this letter is a desperate cynical ploy to again, undermine negotiations. it's outrageous. but the truth of the matter is back in the 40s, the then head of the republican senate who was in charge of foreign relations said politics should end at the water's edge. so they are undermining not just this president, but the possibility that we could stop the development of a bond by the iranians. i think it's important to note
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we have never before when it came to iran's program that really started, had a verifiable pause that we have right now. >> is unfortunately back to the old status quo, which could lead to war, and who in their right mind wants it? it's stunning to me. >> it's unprecedented. he's only been a senator a few months. was that surprising to you that he would step up lead this and gets 46 other members of the senate to go along with this? >> i'm absolutely stunned at this because what is at stake is a nuclear arms race in the middle east, a possible war.
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i don't think that's helping israel, is the bottom like is this is unprecedented, maybe even illegal. it's stunning a horrible, horrible mistake, they ought to apologize, and i think hillary clinton is right, direct when she said either they want to scuttle a deal or they're really helping the right wing in iran, the hardliners. that's really what is true. i think she's right on that. >> senator boxer, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. thank you both for being here. michelle how do you think former secretary clinton did today responden? >> she did what she had to do. did she answer everybody's questions? will there be more questions?
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>> yes. people are still going to ask why she did this. >> all of these things are going to continue to percolate, but she had to get out there and kind of lance that boil and address this issue. that she got done. >> jamal, i mentioned earlier, republicans wasted no time. congressman trey gowdy, who chairs the benghazi committee said and i'm quoting -- because hillary clinton has created more questions than answers, the select committee is left with no choice to call her to appear at least twice. darrell issa said quote -- the expectation that we merely trust that secretary clinton shared all relevant e-mails is insulting. given the clintons' well-established history of
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misleading the american people. how is this going to play out, jamal? especially with a probable campaign in the horizon. they find an old sweater and just start pulling on thread after thread tosh if there's something there, but you just end up with a hanger there's no sweater left. that's what we know about these investigations into the clintons. they may be annoys. think devoted their live to public service, to helping people, making sure that the country is a better place, lives up to its values. even when i disagreed in the past, i've never disagreed with their heart and intention of trying to make the country a better place that is what people
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sign up for. they know they have two people fighting to make life better for average americans. >> did she leave an opening here? >> absolutely. for all their political gifts, the clintons just kind of stumble into these situations which they have to know on some level are going to lead people to address that story line that is always will with the clintons that they're not transparent enough they're prone to secrecy, they don't line to answer to people. what you don't have to worry about, are people like trey gowdy. the republican overreach is actually kind of their friend on some level. what you have to worry about is the prevailing story line will remind people of clinton fatigue or the drip drip drip of how exhausting and political this
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whole thing can be at the end of the day, will she probably wind up being harmed by this enough do hurt her candidacy? no but it's still one of those things they have to be very careful about. clinton fatigue everybody had it in the '90s, and they do not want to readdress that. >> jamal, it was interesting in her initial statements she stalked about the letter of 47 republican senators sent to the iranians. was she plays a little politics in there? >> listen you know part of the rule book is once you explain your situation, then you attack back your enemies. these people do not have clean hands coming after hillary clinton. the 47 senators that made -- sent this her, it's really a pretty despicable thing. can you imagine -- can you imagine if the democrats in congress in 2001 or '02 sent a
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her to saddam hewson while we were planning to try to go to war and the democrats had sent a letter to try to get him to do something, not go along with abiding by u.n. resolutions? this is a really an atrocious thing. >> i couldn't imagine it jamal, and i could -- thank you both for your time tonight. coming up breaking news from that oklahoma fraternity's racist video. two students expelled and a new twist in this disturbing video from their so-called house mom. also more on that letter to iran and growing outrage from both sides on unprecedented disrespect to the president. plus what's next in ferguson after a city judge resigns? and the boston bomber's final note covered about blood
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are you type e*? now to the rising tide of anger at 47 republican senators trying to sabotage president obama's foreign policy. the outrage erupting after senator tom cotton sent a letter signed by himself and 46 others to iranian leaders saying any nuclear deal with president obama won't last under the next president.
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the back lash is coming from the american people. this is the front page of "the new york daily news" flat-out calling them traitors. 47 traitors was also a top trender today on twitter. vice president biden slammed the letter as quote, highly misleading expressly designed to undercut a sitting president, and beneath the dignity of the senate and institution i revere. the conservative "wall street journal" letter called the letter a distraction. senator bob corker chairs the senate foreign relations committee, but wouldn't sign the letter, saying it was, quote, probably not something that's going to be helpful for me to be involved in it. and maine senator susan collins said, quote -- it's more appropriate for members of the senate to give advice to the
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president, to secretary kerry, and to the negotiators. but the senators who signed the letter aren't backing down. the senators agree with my view. >> we have a say about this. i want you to know we exist. >> regret? i would sent another one tomorrow. the rusk is we need to do everything so possible. >> it's an open letter. they can join it at any time. thinks the photos of the 47. here are my questions for them? how can they undermine the commander in chief? what would they say if democrats did this to a republican president? and where is their loyalty to the u.s.? joining me now is senator bernie sanders, independent from vermont. thank you for being here, senator. >> my pleasure. tell us why was this republican letter inappropriate,
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in your view? >> well very simply al the president of the united states is the person whether he's a democrat or republican who leads us in foreign policy. as senator collins indicated, the function of the senate is advice and consent. it is not to undermine the work that the president of the united states is doing. can you imagine, before the war in iraq or during the war in iraq, if some democrat had written a letter to saddam hussein talking about concerns. so what they are doing is clearly trying to sabotage this effort to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon. that's what they're trying to do. i'll tell you what really troubles me al is apparently these fellas have not yet learned the lessons of iraq and afghanistan, and they are now thinking that maybe the only solution to deal with iran is
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not to try to have a negotiation, not to try to have a peaceful resolution to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon but in their minds, maybe the only solution is another war. two wars is not enough, maybe we need a third war in the middle east and i think that is a disastrous idea. >> noises there's a petition on the white house website to file charges against the senators. it's already gotten over 70,000 signatures. if it gets 100,000, the white house will respond. no one in history has ever been punished under the logan act, so this is highly unlikely in any case but what does this say to you? that this many people are paying attention? >> look i think it says that people all over the country understand this is outrageous behavior. it shows the continuing is it
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contempt that republicans have for the president. they fort to tell the president when they invited netanyahu. now they're trying to undermine these negotiations but the most significant point, al is i want these negotiations to succeed. i want to see a situation where iran does not get a nuclear weapon but that that conclusion is reached in a peaceful way. i do not want to see a war in iran. the american people do not want to see a war in iran. to try to undermine the president's work not only with our country, but with the uk france, china and russia and germany, to try to undermine that effort for a peaceful resolution, and then what? what happens then? if this doesn't work i think these guys will be hot to trot for a war, and that frightens me very much. >> what's also striking i must say this i want it to your colleague senator boxer, tom
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cotton, the senator that led this, has only been in the senate for two months, and shown this kind of disregard and disrespect for the president and commander in chief? >> you're right. it is -- that's what we have seen here for the last six years, but again the fear here is -- forget the attacks on obama. forget all that stuff. what happens if -- what happens if he and the other five cunning are not successful? what's the alternative? do these guys really want a war with iraq? what are the implications? how many more decades will the united states and our young people be in the middle east? how much is it going to cost us in terms of treasure in terms of human life? so the goal here is and obama is trying to do this negotiate an agreement and to undermine that effort is simply an outrage.
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>> there's a lot of troubling question and as always you bring it home and to a real bigger picture that is even more troubling. senator sanders, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, al. coming up breaking news from oklahoma. tonight more fallout from a fraternity's racist video. today new revelations from the frat's house mom. also tonight, what is mitch mcconnell say about loretta lynch ace confirmation vote? stay with us. (mom) when our little girl was born we got a subaru. it's where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru is where she grew up.
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and while they do i hope they're thinking about the damage that they have done and the hurt they have caused. we're going to send a message i hope across the country that other people ought to show zero-tolerance also. let's have zero-tolerance for racism. that's our message out of all of this. >> the controversy is expanding to the fraternity's housemother, who lived in the house for the last 15 years. on monday, she condemned the video. >> i heard the words. unbelievable. this is not asae. i'm very disappointed ashamed and embarrassed. >> but today, a 2013 video surfaced showing her apparently rapping a racial slur. [ laughter ] [ bleep ].
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today she released a statement saying quote -- i am heartbroken by the portrayal that i am in some way racist. i was singing along to a trinidad song but completely understand how the video must appear in the context of the events that occurred this week. but the focus tonight is on investigating is the culture that let anyone think this kind of hate was acceptable. joining me now is naomi kadira the codirector of unheard, the black student group at ou that first posted the video. thank you for joining me naomi. >> thank you for having me. >> naomi, today two students involved in the video were expelled. what's your reaction to that? >> i was definitely shocked when
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i saw the expulsion letter but after thinking about it i'm definitely glad that the president is taking this action this quick. as he said sents out this message that this is intolerable. there's zero-tolerance for such action. it was definitely shocking when i saw that letter but we as unheard, are standing behind our president and fully supporting his decisions, and glad to see this issue is receiving. we don't know the full context of the video of the housemother, but what does it tell you about the acceptance of some of this language? >> definitely seeing from the video that initially says was posted on the bus, and then seeing the video of the housemother, you definitely see the emotion on their faces, that this is something that is regular, this is something that they do this is something they think is okay. so that says a lot about the culture that they were living.
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not that they were living in outdoors but when they were in their comfort zones, this is what was happening. >> now the "today" show spoke with a woman who said she heard the chant before at an sae social event. listen to this. >> we talked exclusively to an ou senior who asked we not use her name or show her face, because she didn't want to be associated with the fraternity. she was invited to an sae date party two years ago and heard the same chant on the bus. >> is that something you've been hearing that people are saying they chants were not uncommon at this fraternity? >> not exactly the chant with the fraternity but these things being said these words being said, it's not a surprise. these are things that we were not shocked to hear coming out of their mouths. >> now, sae chapters have been
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involved in -- or punished for racial incidents before. in 2002 the syracuse chapter was suspended, in 2006 two students were suspended from the chapter at the university of memphis. in 2013 the chapter at washington university in st. louis was suspended. in 2014 the chapter leadership at clemson resigned. doesn't this show these are issues at a lot of college campuses not just at the university of oklahoma? >> definitely. this does show that there is a trent, this isn't a coincidence, this was not a mistake. as i said seeing these videos seeing the expressions, this is something that's a regular, not something new to this group. >> naomi thank you for your time tonight. still ahead, hillary clinton's two phones defense of her e-mail server.
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jimy williams, and tara. thank you all for being here tonight. >> thank you. i want to go back to the breaking sinus today. hillary clinton broke her silence on why she used a personal e-mail address for all her correspond as secretary of state. tara does this put the matter to rest? or does it race more questions? >> unfortunately for hillary clinton, this is not going to put the matter to rest because the republicans will continue to make this an issue. they talked about benghazi for years. they still talk about it. >> they're going back to it on this. >> exactly. so i think this is an opportunity for hillary clinton. i think she needs to take this as an opportunity to prepare herself, because this is going to be just like the rest of her campaign. they're going to throw everything at her plus the kitchen sink. she needs to be prepared to handle it. this is an opportunity to start to fight back and to hone her
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campaigning. >> jimmy, how did she do today? >> she didn't hurt herself, i don't think, but again here's what we know. republicans hate her because she's a clinton, and they're never going to love he. we know that's a fact of life. just like the sun comes up and goes down at the end of the day. the problem is why is there a double standard? i don't know why it is that scott walker rick perry, jeb bush all use private e-mails, and yes, i get they're all like you know governors of their states, but if you're going too hold hillary clinton to this standard, then everyone else should be, too, especially if they've held elected office. i'm not hearing that. i'm also not hearing it from the media on the leave, either. they're piling this and making it a faux scandal when it's not a scandal at all. if her last name would not clinton clinton, we would not be having this conversation, i guarantee
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you. >> shirra you're in washington close to the conversation. is this toughening ms. clinton up for a fight if she does run for president as expected? , or is this the beginning of the republicans using an opening that she may have given them to begin to bring her down. >> make no his take today's ewent was the beginning of the campaign. this press difference was in many ways a dry run for her of whether or not she can expect. now, for the republicans on capitol hill eselections have consequences. this is what happens when the opposing party wins the majority in the house. they can launch investigations like this and it is not going to stop anytime in the next two years. i think it's part of the calculus for house republicans on how they can run against clinton. in many ways divert attention from a large crowded and
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divisive primary. >> tara they do have the house and senate. you're already hearing gowdy about how he wants mrs. clinton to have to come before the benghazi committee at least twice. do they have, because of they control congress the toblt v ability to drag this out? >> absolutely. this is what they wanted. rather than govern rather than deal with some of the tough issues facing this country, they're going to focus on this. so i think they're going to drag it out to the greatest extent that they can. again, i go back to benghazi. if you ask a republican what they had to breakfast, they say benghazi. so this is going to be the same thing until they find the next shiny object to take on. let's move on. the senate finally is holding a vote on the president's nominee for attorney general. 122 days after president obama nominated loretta lynch to be the next attorney general. senate republicans announced her confirmation vote will be held
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sometime next week. lynch's confirmation has taken longer than any other recent attorney general. >> jimmy, you know the senate well. what was the point of all this delay? >> oh, i don't know. maybe they just didn't like her credentials, maybe they didn't like she was a woman. maybe they didn't like she was an african-american woman, maybe it's d, all of the above. if i was a press secretary for the sitting united states senator on the republican side, i would be tapping my boss on the shoulder and saying to him or her, hey, you have a problem, which is the optics of this look very, very bad. she's qualified. if you don't like her, just vote against her. that's pertinent enough. but indeed they dragged this out 100 me have something days. it just looks back. by the way who does it look back to? african-americans. and when you want to say you have a big tent that unfortunate african-americans to
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vote for you as a party, the republican party, this does not send a very good signal. it's bad optics it's terrible. she's going to be confirmed. why delay it? they hate holder. if they hate him so much why not put her? >> that's what holder said. >> petty politics and obstruction. this is the name of the game. i mean it's just their m.o. they did this with so many other appointments. it's just they will not leave this president alone. it's almost as if they're obsess obsessed with him. the guy has two years left on his term. it's actually incredible. >> i think they didn't hold on it for any petty grievance. at jimmy pointed out, i don't know if there's anything they dislike more than eric holder. by holding up her nomination, they're keeping him in office longer. i think they wanted to keep something in their back pocket to rebuke the president when the dh funding situation didn't fall
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the way they wanted it to. and lo and behold, it didn't, and they'll most likely confirm loretta lynch next week. we'll have a vote next week. i don't know their reasoning. i don't know if they even reason, but i agree the optics look bad, and my instincts make me feel even worse. everyone stay with me. when we come back could tina fey be coming back to tv? and what's next in ferguson after a city judge resigns? stay with us. if you're taking multiple medications does your mouth often feel dry? a dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications. but it can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath. that's why there's biotene available as an oral rinse toothpaste, spray or gel. biotene can provide soothing relief and it helps keep your mouth healthy too. remember, while your medication is doing you good a dry mouth isn't biotene, for people who suffer
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we're back where our panel. finally tonight, a burning question -- who will fill jon stewart's shoes? the host of "the daily show" is stepping down later this year. a new poll shows the top choice to replace him is tina fey. about you would she do it? she was great on snl's weekend update. >> we have come so far as feminists they don't feel obligated to vote for a candidate. women feel free to vote for whoever oprah tells them to. visiting prime minister tony blair in london hoping to make a good impression, bush has spent the last week trying to learn a few english words.
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sheera what do you think? >> i think she would be absolutely amazing at that desk. i would tune in every single night. more tina fey is a better life for me my friends, my family everything. i don't know if she's going to do it. >> i agree, but the show is bigger than just the host as our friend liz winstead will tell you it's about the writers and producers. i pray it's tina fey. shirra is dead right, the more tina fey we get, the better or lives are. don't forget the people who write it. they matter. >> yeah but a lot of people really look to the outgoing host tara. don't play down jon stewart, and don't play down the meaning of a host with a big personality. tara? >> tina fey has definitely got my vote on this. whether she does it or not, i don't know. she has a lot on her plate. she produces. she has her hands on so many
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different things and that is a nightly grind. i would love her to do it i don't know if she would, and she definitely contributes. >> i voted for jimy williams. >> never gonna happen. >> thank for for your time tonight. >> thank you, rev. we'll be right back with a march towards ferguson and beyond. ck me up at 6:30? ah... (boy) i'm here! i'm here! (cop) too late. i was gone for five minutes! ugh! move it. you're killing me. you know what, dad? i'm good. (dad) it may be quite a while before he's ready, but our subaru legacy will be waiting for him. (vo) the longest-lasting midsize sedan in its class. the twenty-fifteen subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru.
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collection agency for the municipal court, rather than as a law enforcement entity. >> city officials bragged that judge brockmeyer it could successful in significantly increases court collections over the years. the feds say many of these fees are widely considered abuse everybody and may be unlawful. at the same time the report says the judge used his influence to get rid of tickets for himself and his friends. brockmeyer no longer works in ferguson but he still works as a judge in a nearby town and a prosecutor in three others. in fact "new york times" says quote -- there are cities around stu lose ig with far greater racial disparity in traffic stops than ferguson and cities with court systems that appear even more predatory, but of course we know the problems aren't limited to st. louis or to the state of missouri. this is happening all over the
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country and it's wrong. let us not forget the injures department came in because of the protests because people raise their voices because people are outraged because michael brown's family stood up. if 2d not been for those young people w408d not stop protesting, if it wasn't for those of us who helped to amplify. if the attention wasn't there, that judge may not have resigned. that may not mine a lot to a lot of people but if you are one that had to stand in front of him, it means a lot to you. sometimes progress takes large steps, sometimes small steps, but we must fight, because every step is a step in the road toward what is fair and just and what work for all, equal protection under the law. this judge shows that we are the commandos that shed light in a
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constructive way on a destructive situation in the criminal justice system in that part of the country. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. \s. the server will remain private. let's play "hardball." good evening, i'm kris matthews in washington. secretary clinton did everything right today but deal with the problem. she said she will not release the server but without the server, of course there's no way for the skeptics out there, critics, or anyone to know what's contained in the 30,000 messages. it's up to whether people are ready to take her word that dmun of those messages dealt with policy politics or her handling