the white house, mr. chairman. the only way to get those documents is to subpoena them. we have the authority under the constitution delegated to get those documents. i would hope once the white house receives the subpoena, they will -- they will comply and then we can work together to determine what, if anything, can be done to prevent future activities like this occurring. and if something happened that shouldn't have happened, determine what penalties and what remedial steps need to be taken. that, mr. chairman, i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair recognized the past full committee chairman emeritus, the distinguished gentleman from maryland, mr. dingell, for five minutes >> i didn't roll off the cabbage wagon yesterday. i was chairman on this committee for 16 years and most of that time i was chairman of the oversight committee. i served many subpoenas on many people but never on the white house. we always got the information we wanted f

white house is trying to cooperate. republican after republican today said the white house has refused to give us anything? it's just not true. in my experience in congress, i've never seen a situation where, on a bipartisan basis, when somebody asked for more time you didn't give them more time. we could have given them a little bit more time. it's clear we're getting the information. why is the white house still saying they don't want to comply with all the information that has been requested? because the information requested is so broad that it could be a violation of executive privilege. the white house has not claimed executive privilege, but if someone is discussing whether the president should go to solyndra's factory and then all these different people in the white house are involved with logistics and the president is invited to contact summit on the staff, that's just the information that is pertinent to our investigation. it becomes a fishing expedition. it intrudes on the prerogatives of the presidency. the

the white house, mr. chairman, responded to the request would document production on september 13, september 30, and october 7. there have been subsequent communications between this committee at the white house. the white house has asserted that many of the documents that had been produced by the department of energy and omb were also documents that were included in the september 1 request. there have been a number of back and forth communications about those documents. there was this meeting yesterday, which we have all talked about, where the majority was there, the minority was there, and the white house. i heard the white house council clearly say that she believed that this was a legitimate investigation. she believed that documents relating to any thing about this loan guarantee board appropriate, including documents about communications with white house political donors and others. she volunteered to work with committee staff to further narrow the scope. later yesterday, after many conversations b

the white house, mr. chairman, responded to the request document production on september 13, september 30, and october 7, totaling 968 pages. now, there have been subsequent communications between this committee and the white house. the white house has asserted, and i do not completely agree with the white house position on this, but they asserted that many of the documents have been produced by agencies were also documents that had been included in the september 1 request, and so there have been a number of back-and-forth communications about those documents, and now, mr. chairman, the minority was there, the majority was there, and the white house as well as many staffers, in which i heard the white house council clearly say that she believed this was a legitimate investigation. she believed that documents relating to anything about this loan guarantee were appropriate, including, she said, about documents involving communications with political donors and others, and she volunteered to work with commit

white house window, of course. it seems to have been an incredibly lucky shot that he actually managed to hit the glass from 750 yards way in what was essentially spraying the building drive-by style. although, he did have a scope on the rifle. >> warner: i mean, what kind of security is there and what kind of exposure does the white house have to the public street? >> reporter: the white house can be seen from constitution avenue, which is sort of the main street along the drive, which is lined by historic buildings and monuments. the ellipse is a round, grassy area that's between the south lawn of the white house and constitution avenue. and across from that is the washington monument on the national mall. so this is a sort of very picturesque part of washington, d.c. tourists love to take photographs of this. there are not trees at that point that would block your view of the white house because that's yet famous shots of the white house are all taken-- that and the other side of the building on pin pen avenue,

police have arrested a 21-year-old man in a shooting that involves the white house. the investigation began friday night when witnesses said they heard gunfire beyond the south lawn. the president and the first family was out of town at the time. yesterday, the secret service discovered two bullets had hit the mansion. bob orr has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: investigators from the f.b.i. and secret service used a hydraulic lift and metal detectors to search for bullets on the south side of the white house. one slugs was recovered in the bulletproof glaives a second-floor window on the truman balcony. another was found near an exterior wall. sources say there may be moribilities. the suspect in the shooting, oscar ramiro ortega-hernandez has a long history of minor run-ins with the law. the bizarre shooting happened friday neat. sources say a man fired a semiautomatic rifle from his car as he drove west on constitution avenue, about a third of a mile from the white house. multiple shots were heard before the car and gunman sped away. five minutes lat

woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: an idaho man who allegedly fired shots at the white houseas charged with attempting to assassinate the president. at a house hearing, energy secretary steven chu defended giving a $500 million loan to solyndra, the solar panel maker that later went bankrupt. but he insisted politics played no role in the decision. online, we continue our series of reports about access to dental care. kwame holman has a preview. kwame? >> holman: spencer michels examines cuts in dental benefits in california. plus, our interactive map highlights changes to medicaid dental plans across the nation. that's on our health page. on our world page, we explore the growing problem of kidnapping in venezuela in the news after washington nationals catcher wilson ramos was captured and later released. and patchwork nation looks at some good economic news and pinpoints communities where the unemployment rate is dropping. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. jeff? >> brown: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm ju

she, of course, died in the white house. mary peck had wanted to go to the white house, but she wound up in a boarding house on the wrong side of the tracks. edith had to nurse an invalid in the white house. but ellen could have been speaking for all three of them, when she wrote woodrow at the end of her life, this has been the most remarkable life history i ever even read about. and to think that i have lived it with you. i wonder if i am dreaming and will wake up and find myself married to a bank clerk. thank you very much. [applause] >> so i think we have a few minutes if anyone would like to ask a i have probably read a couple of biographies most recently where he was in his childhood home etc., and i sought documentary about the woman'sen party and te women's suffrage, and he let women be jailed for protesting womehe white house. alice paul led a number of people in prison house. >> that's true >> alice paul led a number of women in prison on hunger strikes. and he comes across as a southern gentleman who had racism an

but clearly, the white house is trying to be reassuring.erms of what they told us this afternoon. joining us now is congresswoman diana degette of colorado. shez chairman of the pro choice caucus. thank you for joining us. it's nice to have you here. >> it's good to be back, rachel. >> why do you think this provision in the health reform act is important, this provision relating to birth control? and are you very worried that it might really be at risk? >> well, in august what happened was the administration said that part of the required coverage of insurance companies under the affordable health care act is birth control. and that makes sense because that's preventative care. we're trying to shift the health care system to preventative care. and now the final regulation is about to be adopted. and there's been a hard push by religious institutions to say that catholic hospitals, catholic universities, other institutions should be able to refuse to cover birth control for their employees, for students at catholic universities and so on. an

>> of the white house. >> he was interested in it.was always interested in anything that i cared about. but then he was nervous about it. i mean, he wanted to be sure was done the right way, so he sent clark clifford to see me. i think clark clifford was really nervous because he tried to persuade me not to do it, which jack ever said. he said you just can't touch the white house. he said it's so strange. everyone in america feel so strangely about it. if he turned to make any changes, it'll just be like that. he said it won't be like the truman and i told them about harry dupont and all the people we hope to get. so banal and bit by bit in how you set this committee up and certainly go things. and the cards very good about setting up a guide room. so once jack saw what was going on wizard of good counsel, he was so excited about it. >> was there ever any criticism of the things that she didn't know? >> there is the most incredible interest. and then the tourists would start going. every night i would come home, saying we have more pe

. ♪ >>> a gunman targets the white house.he secret service says they found a bullet that smashed a glass window. now, questions this morning whether this incident is linked to a shooting near the white house on friday. we'll have details coming up in a live report. >>> also, new developments in the penn state child sex abuse scandal. the man who said he witnessed jerry sandusky sexually abusing a boy in a shower, now giving a different account of what happened in an e-mail to friends. fox 5 morning news continues right now. right now. >>> good morning. it is 6:00 on this wednesday, november 16th. we are taking a live look outside right now. you can see a little bit of cloud cover or haze or something hanging around out there. good morning, everyone. thank you for wake up. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm steve chenevey i think we have a little bit of everything out there. >> fog is what i meant to say. >> got some rain out there. >> not the prettiest of mornings. >> mild temperatures. >> it is not cold. >> it is a messy morning. it

between the white house and the white investors, house began to produce electric communication. the senior advisers were discussing solyndra. we sent a second request to the council on october 5 for all internal communications that were relating to solyndra. we requested they engage in a dialogue about how best to manage the production of documents. the office waited until october 14 to respond, informing us that in the opinion of the white house, the committee did not need to see such documents. on the october 18, they informed the office that it needed to invoke a valid privilege or produced the response of documents. when asked to contact staff to start a dialogue, at the white house counsel office refused to engage in any discussion. one week later, they sent another non-responsive letter, refusing to produce documents because the committee did not need to see such documents. only after repeated failed attempts to engage the white house did the committee notified the white house and the administration that it intended to note is a business meeting to pertained the requested

we gave them every opportunity to talk to the white house counsel and to hear our comments to the white house counsel. so we were transparent and open with the white house counsel. we thought the democrats should see it. >> i anticipate that the defense to the subpoena will be that they will raise executive privilege, that you are asking for information to chuare not entitled. i assume that's what the white house counsel told nuadvance of today, right? >> you know, she has not issued that they would use executive privilege. >> it is our understanding that they're going to provide the documents. now, if somehow they do, greta, that doesn't mean we don't get documents. they have to, you should the law, delineate which documents which affect national security and the president's privacy for consulting. so we have to see the delineation of those and we can decide whether -- if we agree with them or not -- if we do gray, there are many more documents we would like to see. but in the inner circle, the top advisers to the white house and get their communications. >> i am curious, now this is d

the white house is just over that way, and just yesterday bullets were found on white house grounds. here again is the suspect police are looking for. park police have a warrant out for 21-year-old oscar ortega hernandez. they believe he was responsible for firing shots near the white house on friday. witnesses reported the shots being fired here, as i said, on constitution and 16th around 9:30 p.m. the secret service, u.s. park police, and a number of other police departments responded to the scene and found a car with evidence inside, including a semi automatic rifle that was traced back to ortega. now secret service may have found where those shots actually landed. the secret service is reporting that a bullet hit an exterior window of the white house and was stopped by ballistic glass. an additional round of ammunition was also found on the exterior of the white house. the bullets were found just yesterday. at this point, the secret service says it has not conclusively connected friday's incident with the bullets on the ground, but at this time all federal agencies want to talk w

these two bullets, one was found that had shattered a window at the white house. it was stopped by this protective ballistic sealing they have on the inside of the white house. a second bullet was found on the white house lawn and once again, they are still looking for the man connected with the incident on friday. he is oscar ortega hernandez and here is what happened. on friday, some wpsz said they heard some shots fired outside the white house in the area of constitution avenue and two vehicles speeding away. -- some witnesses said they heard some shots fired outside the white house. investigators found an abandoned vehicle with an ak-47 inside and some information that led them to believe that

the white house it says that the man accused of firing an ak- 47 and striking the white house is making his first appearance in court today. he could be charged with attempted assassination. police caught up with the suspect on wednesday. he was found in the town of indiana, pennsylvania, in the central part of the state east of pittsburgh. danielle nottingham has more on the arrest and the investigation. >> reporter: the man suspected of opening fire on the white house heads to federal court today. police arrested 21-year-old oscar ramiro ortega hernandez wednesday at a motel in pennsylvania after a four-day nationwide manhunt. investigators say ortega hernandez pulled his car within view of the white house friday night, then fired shots toward it from an aen can-47 style assault rifle. agents found one bullet that hit the exterior of the white house. a second bullet cracked a window on the upper floor. protective glass stopped it from going inside the first family's residence. >> the first and first lady were on their way to hawaii at the time of the shooting. their daughters sasha an

in the white house. budget ellen could have been speaking for all three of them when she wrote at the end of her life, this has been the most remarkable history i have even read about. to think that i have lived it with you, i wonder if i am dreaming. and will wake up to find myself married to a bank of clark. thank you very much. [applause] >> we do have the few minutes if you would like to ask a question seven mengele lourdes to reading your but. i only read a couple of biographies of will sendread most recently of hisple childhood home.mo and i sawst fayed documentary about women's suffrage but he would let women be jailed for protesting at the white house. a number of people were imprisoned on hunger strikes and he comes across as a southern gentlemen who had racism and anti-sexism as part of his nature. it is surprising to hear he was as dependent on women as your book demonstrates. onhave any comments these weaknesses of his? >> thank you very much. a good observation.co it was a sign of the times.

the white house refuses to comply with a subpoena over the solyndra affair. live from the studio in washington, this is "special report." good evening. i'm bret baier. it's pretty hard to turn on the tv today and not see texas governor rick perry. from early morning news shows to late night talk shows. the republican presidential candidate is in full damage control mode following a major slipup in last night's debate. chief political correspondent carl cameron looks at perry's fall and the fall out. >> rick perry appeared on every network he could today. trying to put behind him his admittedly embarrassing inability to recall the third agency he'd cut as part of his own plan to shrink government. >> i stepped in it last night, that's for sure. there are agencies of government i'd like to forget and i forgot one last night. >> reporter: it was the most awkward 53 seconds in televised debate history. >> three agencies of government when i get there that are gone. commerce, education and the -- what is the third one? let's see. i'd do away with education, commer

another bullet was found on the white house grounds. tests are now being done to determine if the bullets came from the assault rifle found in ortega hernandez's car which police say he abandoned immediately after the shooting. >> the white house is a knock out for all of these nuts who want to kill the president. >> reporter: an author wrote a book about the secret service. despite the fact that a gunman was able to get off a few shots at the white house and that it took several days to then locate the bullets, he can't fault the secret service for their performance. >> it took awhile too put it all together and i think the secret service has done a good job. >> reporter: perhaps. but tonight some people still wandering why it took the see -- wondering why it took the secret service so long to figure out a white house window had been shattered by the bullet and why the public was not notified earlier. ortega hernandez will make his first court appearance tomorrow in pittsburgh. derek and anita. >> all right, matt. >>> she was only 18 y

the men and women who guard the white house. the training they have to master to get the job. >> this guy owns a busy pizza place and couldn't find piss right so he do what a lot of women do. the extraordinary steps he took to father a son and become a single dad. >> good evening. >> we have seen occupy tent parks and plazas and on campuses. now though for the first time a tent inskied a bank. >> occupy san francisco protesters stormed in to a b of a branch today. 200 took over the branch on california street in the financial district for a couple of hours this afternoon. they stood on chairs, and desks, they honkes air horns and set up a tent inside. they said they target them because the bank ties to the university of california regents. police arrested 95 protesters. >>> adding to the general sense of outrage a decision that will make it harder for many students to get through college. elizabeth cook on the 9% tuition hike at tonight that galvanized members of the 99%. >> reporter: dressed in riot gear and armed with batons p

agents also found a second round outside the white house. the secret service is trying to figure out if the bullets are linked to an incident friday night. police swarm the area around the white house after witnesses heard gunfire. authorities tracked down a car and an ak-47 a few blocks away near the roosevelt bridge. >> president obama was not here at the white house when the shots were fired. he was in california but secret service agents are looking for a man they say may be a threat to the president. evidence collected from the car found on friday led u.s. park police to issue an arrest warrant for oscar ortega hernandez. >> this is a man who discharged a rifle in downtown d.c. i think that speaks volumes. >> reporter: a search is underway for ortega hernandez. he has an arrest record in three states and investigators say evidence shows he has a fixation with the white house. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. >>> earlier this year, police charged a marine corps reservist, yonathan melaku with pre-dawn shootings at military

>> there hadn't been a peep from the white house all morning nor the house energy committee. a few minutes ago, the committee said it had heard from the white house and the white house was going to "provide responsive materials to the committee's subpoena." this after twofl subpoenas were submitted last thursday after a party line vote. they really angered the white house with them. we know that. white house counsel writing a letter back to the committee almost immediately accusing the republican-led group of partisan politics. we thought for quite some time, and i said on the morning show this morning i thought the white house would claim executive privilege on this, this is not what seems to have happened. the white house again saying it will begin to provide responsive materials to the subpoena. that's not exactly an entire 100% commitment. now, is it? but we shall see what happens with that. white house was very angry about this idea that it would have to turn over everything like news clippings, even air force one's flight plan as it ferried the president out to solyndra

kaiser was talking to the white house.o all we're seeing to the white house is, there's enough smoke here that we would like to see the rest of the e-mails about the top advisers in there, including ron klein, rahm emanuel -- >> forgive me for interrupting. that is covered in the subpoena. these are 2010 documents. the loan approved before that. these are after the loan. you still don't have any, sir in your possession, that you can see here's a document that proves despite the warning signs, despite the objections of some of the administration to this loan, somebody overruled it because of pure politics. you can't prove that. can you? >> well, no, and we're just trying to get the documents. not necessarily to prove that, but to try and, shall we say, understand the people in the white house, what was their influence? did they influence this because of political reasons as you talk about or was it they were so hell bent in solyndra being the poster child, first loan guarantee, they forgot about all reasoning including the

wendell goler live at the white house. wendell this is incredible. >> reporter: the bullets were actually found yesterday and police still haven't confirmed they were fired by the assault rifle they recovered, but they do suggest the white house was the target of the shooting, something police really weren't sure of when it happened on friday night. now the f.b.i., secret service, and several local police agencies are very aggressively looking for this oscar ortega her eve hernandez who was actually in police custody earlier friday before the shootings occurred but was released. police investigators were working on the true man balcony. it has the door to the president's private sitting room just off his bedroom, though the window they were probing connects to the yellow oval room next door. the bullet penetrated the glass, you can see there, but was stopped by ballistic glass just inside that. mr. obama had actually left for the apex summit when the shots were fired friday night about 9:00. about 7 or 800 yards from the s

it was on the north lawn of the white house.and just started shooting, spraying along the north portico, which is the official entrance where dignitaries come for state dinners, as you have been many occasion. some of those state differents at the white house. if you see those pictures, it was very, very frightening and i remember that plane that landed on the south lawn, a small plane and skidded all the way up to the south portico of the white house, i was covering that. so, this is fritd thing when you see this. and it is one of the reasons why after the oklahoma city bombing in '95, they basically shutdown pennsylvania avenue outside of the white house. they don't want people to get too close to what's going on. >> no driving. >> the fact that this guy allegedly managed to penetrate a window on the south side of the white house over there. >> still frightening. >> even though the first family, they weren't there or anything, but still scary. >> so politics. >> yes. >> rick perry. controversy. what's the story? >> a little co

a number of republican lawmakers have demanded to know why the white house authorized the loans. today the republican-led panel in the house of representatives issued subpoenas to top white house officials who are stonewalling the investigation they claim, which several democrats have characterize as a witch hundred the maybe the republicans forgot under the bush administration they voted to put this through. they signed on the dotted line and now they are acting crazed about it. >>reporter: the house committee wants the republicans on it to see the back and forth communications from senior staffers probably the president's blackberry e-mails related to the loan to determine if this is a merit-based loan as the administration has stressed. the g.o.p. leaders on committee say they understand the president's e-mail could be covered under executive privilege they press for other communications from former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel, and senior advisor jarrett and larry summers and former chief of staff to vice president biden. the republican ahead said subpoenas of "lack

service used a hydraulic lift and metal detectors to search for bullets on the south side of the white house. one slugs was recovered in the bulletproof glaives a second-floor window on the truman balcony. another was found near an exterior wall. sources say there may be moribilities. the suspect in the shooting, oscar ramiro ortega-hernandez has a long history of minor run-ins with the law. the bizarre shooting happened friday neat. sources say a man fired a semiautomatic rifle from his car as he drove west on constitution avenue, about a third of a mile from the white house. multiple shots were heard before the car and gunman sped away. five minutes later the car was discovered abandoned seven blocks away near the lincoln memorial. inside the vehicle, police say they found an assault rifle between six and 10 spent shell casings, and a driver's license belonging to ortega-hernandez. sources say he was not on the radar of the secret service befored from's shooting but investigators believe ortega-hernandez, who is from idaho, may have targeted the white house due to a hatred of president oba

other agencies what they really want are some memos, emails from inside the white house. west wing to try to show whether or not there was political influence involved in this. the white house continues to insist that would be a nuisance to turn over those documents and they also say there has been no evidence so far that there was any political muscle going on here, shep. >> shepard: ed henry live at the white house and previously in the cube. ed, thank you. a news corporation executive today denied misleading british lawmakers about the tabloid phone hacking scandal. news corporation is the parent company of this channel. earlier this year it closed down britain's news of the world tabloid after accusations that staffers there hacked the voice mails of people whom they were covering. today a parliamentary committee about more about the controversy for chief newspaper. murdock last appeared before the panel in july. at that time he said he had no knowledge that hacking went beyond one reporter and one target. but since then, the former editor of the paper collin myer and

we went to the white house kitchen to speak with sam cass, assistant chef and senior policy adviser for healthy food initiatives. he works closely with the first lady michelle obama. we talked about the challenge of coming up with meals for the first family that are delicious and also nutritious. i want to start by pointing out i wouldn't normally wear a full suit in the kitchen. a, this is the first kitchen, and you're in the dress whites here. >> this is my nice coat. >> i have to ask as we look at this. is this the whole white house kitchen where everything happens. >> this is where all the magic happens. it's amazing. it's quite small. >> it is small. it's bigger than my kitchen, but still small. so whether you're cooking for the first family or for a state dinner it's all staged out of here. >> it's all staged out of here. this is a historic building. when the kitchen was built, state dinners were closer to 30 people as opposed to 150 or 300. this is what we have to work with. the team makes it happen. it's amazing to see. >> it's interesting. you can see b in the chef whites but y

white house, days after someone opened fire nearby. jummy olabanji is live in north was d.c. with new developments and the latest in the search for the suspected gunman. >> good morning. two bullets were found on the white house grounds yesterday. one of them was lodged in a window, stopped by bill blass and another was found on the exterior of the white house grounds. they believe it may be connected to an incident of shots fired in this area on friday. while president obama is out of town, secret service and police are trying to track down this man. they say oscar ortega-hernandez of idaho is mentally ill and may have bad intentions. officers believe the 21-year-old man had fired a bullet pepco hit a window at the white house last week, the same day the president left for district. >> this is a man who discharged a rifle in downtown d.c. that speaks volumes. we will need to speak with him to find out what he was thinking. >> the secret service revealed last night that a bullet fired last friday on the national mall less than 1,000 ya

a man arrested for gunfire at the white house.t two bullets were found on the white house grounds. police were searching for him. instead, they found him 200 miles away in indiana, pennsylvania. news 4, darcy spencer joins us live from the white house with the late developments. darcy? >> reporter: the suspect has been on the run since friday night after he allegedly fired shots on constitution avenue. if you look in the distance, that's the white house 700 yards behind me. some of the shots may have hit the white house. they have been searching for the suspect believe he was in the d.c. area. they were wrong. he made it to a pennsylvania hotel room. the man wanted for firing shots near the white house friday

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the white house. stacy cohan is live near the white house this morning with the details. >> reporter: good morning. there are a lot of questions this morning. first of all, are these bullets that were discovered connected to the shooting last week and where is the man that police believe is responsible for that incident? now, first off, they found two bullets, just outside the white house and one that had smashed through a glass window. it was stop bid the special ballistic shielding that protect the inside of the white house. we do have i photograph of the man u.s. park police are looking for in connection with the incident last week. he is oscar ortega hernandez. and friday, just outside the white house, constitution avenue, witnesses reported hearing gunfire and seeing two vehicles speeding away. a short time later, a vehicle was found abandoned. inside that canada, there was an ak-47 assault rifle and according to law enforcement, there was information that would connect that vehicle to ortega her

shots fired near the white house are turning out to be more serious than first thought. we are following the manhunt from the white house. >> in fact, we have learned a joint task force has been created between the atf fbi secret service, and several other law-enforcement agencies, all of them try to find who fired the shots at the white house. even though the president has been out of town since last week, they are not taking any chances. >> flying bullets struck the white house and authorities believe that this man oscar ortega hernandez of idaho, is the one that pulled the trigger. the secret service suspects it will -- ortega is mentally ill and recently fired an assault rifle at the white house from roughly 800 yards away. investigators say one bullet hit a window but was stopped by bulletproof glass. another bullet was found locked in the white house exterior. >> it does not take anything for someone who is specialized in weaponry to get a shot fired off at close range. >> police have connected ortega- hernandez to an abandoned vehicle found on constitution avenue

whites. >> host: i dones. care if we're talking about life expectancy or access to medical attention or emplstiment, housing, incarceration, you name it and we still have a racial hierarchy getting the short end of the stick by and large, white americans are getting a better deal. that was the case before barack obama, that is the case now when you will be the case bster barack obama leave the white house. i think most black americans had some inkling of that and understood that and also understmostd with respect to racial policy detractors of the president that say barack obama -- they would be waiting for anything they could jump on to say this black guy is showing favoritism to black america. that is a dilemma. are there people looking for any and every opportunity to accuse the president of racial favoritism? the answer to that is yes, there are. to combat that, the president is very careful around racial issues. he tiptoes aan wund racial iare. some blacks are critical of him. some say the president has not been forthright enough, has not been forthcoming enougre c has t been militant enough with respect to racial is

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