brother dyson is right about this. he has a p.r. operation on the one hand; not wanting to engage in the other. i would say to my dear brother barack obama, if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. >> schieffer: i want to get back to this case, but before we go too far here, i want to get into this controversy over the administration's decision to drop most of the charges against this fringe group called the new black panther party. the charge is that they intimidated voters in philadelphia. it all got back in the news a couple of weeks ago when a bush appointee to the justice department, jake christian adams, said he had resigned because of the obama administration's reluctance to press charges against african- americans on these issues. he talked about it with our legal correspondent, jan crawford. >> voting section attorneys have refused outright to work on these sorts of cases, saying things such as, "i didn't join the justice department to sue black people. i won't work on the case." people who did work on th

[applause] >> i've been working with california medical center for some time, and reverend dyson has been working with juneteenth. she wanted to send her regards, that she would love to be here, but she went to a graduation. >> i will be brief, because i hear you get more applause that way. i am vp operations at cpmc and i would like to congratulate everyone and wish you a happy juneteenth. take care. [applause] >> another strong supporter, someone here from lennar. where are you? oh. [applause] >> in the spirit of the day, i want to thank the committee. i want to thhank the supervisor for 10 years of working in bayview-hunter's point. i appreciate you. we are pleased to have been part of this celebration. thank you. >> another strong supporter, p g & e. [applause] >> i would like to say this is not the first time i have sang an entire black national anthem, but it is the first time i have seen it signed, so i thank the organizers for making sure everyone can appreciate the celebration. we understand how important it is to the african-american community. that is why we have stepped u

michael eric dyson, you are writing a book about barack obama and race. and it seems to me, after making all of these eloquent statements about race during the campaign, now when race comes up as an issue this white house seems to commit some gaffe or stumbles. >> what we saw with the sherrod case was quite remarkable. you have the reptilian repugnance of certain elements of the right wing who edit history for their own vicious and devious purposes. then you have the marrying of on one hand historical amnesia with an exaggerated sense of racial injury, which leads to a kind of racial privileging and a kind of white innocence that i think takes off here. a lot of white people think in the age of obama, we're living in a post-racial era. >> let me turn to michael gerson. you've written a lot about this. do you think this was just sloppy work by one guy on a website, then was picked up by some of the media? or is this something that goes deeper than that? >> i think it goes deeper. i think we're in a moment where you have people on the left and on the right

professor michael eric dyson. >> the facts are critical. thank you. >> good point. facts are critical. harry, to you. >> never let the facts get in the way after good story. >>> to the gulf oil spill. grueling tropical storm, hundreds of miles away, threatening efforts to plug the leak. cbs news correspondent kelly cobiella in grand isle, louisiana, yet once again with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, harry. drilling on this relief well has now been halted for a time because of the storm brewing out in the caribbean. it is not yet a tropical storm but i could become one in the next couple of days. nearly all of the computer models have it headed into the gulf and the direction of those ships working on the well. the work to finally plug bp's blown-out well is now on hold because of this storm. and hundreds of miles from the gulf and yet it could head towards the spill site. ships on the surface need to get out on of the way well ahead of time if we are forced to move off the site because of weather the entire operation will be delayed 14 days. >>

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