cnn commentators marc lamont hill and ben ferguson are back. ben, this guy is a shock jock.e name implies he says a lot of things that some might consider distasteful and so maybe it's no surprise that he might lose his job by using certain offensive language. but we've seen a lot of other people who have paid the price for words they've used. paula deen, donald sterling, others. is offensive speech no longer free speech in this country? >> it's free. and you can do it. because he's not in jail for it. and that's the true definition i think of freedom. but there are consequences for your actions. opie and anthony are two guys that do a very entertaining show if you like vulgar, crude guy humor, talking about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. that doesn't allow you to be angry and bitter and hateful and to trash talk a human being on your twitter account. and he knows that. i mean, if it would have been him saying something about some football player, quarterback, who is awful and he made a joke about him, that's probably okay. that's why they make millions of dollars doing it. t

cnn commentators ben ferguson and marc lamont hill are back. marc, social media campaign we just saw, it's sentimental, sweetly sentimental, perhaps only sentimental. can these things actually help? >> no. you know, there are -- i'm a social media -- >> come on. >> -- fan. i love it. look. maybe i'm just in a cranky mood, but look, there are times where i see it -- i saw it -- if i look in tahrir, when i look what happened in iran, i see really interesting uses of social media to tell one's story, get the word out about what's going on, talk about human rights abuses, et cetera. i love the power of social media, and there's a difference offering this sh multssy message, if we live peace a chance, we can end a conflict that not rooted in misunderstanding, but in occupation and open air prison being in gauzgaza, unfair distribution of resources, weaponry. when you have that, a real cool hash tag ain't going to fix it. >> yeah, ben, the -- >> yeah. >> you know, the media war has been so intense from both sides. the u.s. walking a very fine line he

let's bring in mark lamont hill, here in new york, and ben ferguson in dallas, and you never know wheres going to be. so is it a disengiingenuous quen by saying shouldn't somebody be working on those crises. but don't they deserve a vacation? >> let's be honest, when they are there, are they getting anything done? no. nothing happens. unfortunately this is an issue of is anything going to be any different if they actually are there? if barack obama is in the white house, is he going to be more influential over these things than if he's at a fund-raiser. the reality is probably not. i think that's the reason why he does the fund-raisers, even when in are big things like the border. i'm not going to look at it, i got three fund-raisers in texas, i'm going home. you should see the border. if he takes a vacation, in marriage why's ve martha's vineyard, is he going to have any influence over hamas and israel? the answer is probably not because he doesn't seem to want to truly get that involved. that seems to be one of the political things about him. he doesn't really seem to want to do this.

ben ferguson is a cnn political commentator and host of "the ben ferguson show." jason riley is author of "please stop helping us: how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed." is eric holder right? do you think the statement taking the country back is different when it's used by a republican versus a democrat? >> well, i think that that part of the -- of his comments strays into something that is not necessarily supportable by data. however, the other part of this statement is supportable by data. what the phrase that he uses is so amorphous, so malleable, which is that some. that's not most. and in fact in his comment, he says he does not believe that most of the opposition they receive is animated by racism. however, he says some. how do you quantify some? what does that mean? and right now we don't have any data to back that -- to put a number to that. you know, what percentage is that? is that 1%? 5%? 10%? whatever the percentage is. and i think the president has made a very strong argument in the interview that he did before the holder interview where

marc lamont hill and ben ferguson.en ferguson, israel says it will continue to fire on gaza targets as long as hamas continues firing its rockets into israel. this tit for tat sort of behavior we've seen before. over 45,000 troops on the ground next to gaza. does it look to you like we're headed for a ground war there? >> i think there's a very good chance. what you see from the israeli people is after you had these three young teenagers one an american citizen as well that were killed, they said that's their last straw. and we see this happen, unfortunately, every several years where hamas keeps poking and keeps poking and finally israel and the people say we must respond. and i think that's exactly what you're seeing from the leadership. they're tired the of this and they're going to go after these leaders in hamas and push them back for several years. the citizens at least seem to be in favor of this action as well right now because they're tired of being terrorized. >> with hamas having these longer range weapons n

. >> here to discuss, ben ferguson, host of "the ben ferguson show" and errol lewis, a political commentatorfor new york one. good morning to you both. i want to start with you, this conference call was set up by thad cochran's office and, you know, we don't know the identity by the way of who called in, but it's incredibly disturbing to hear that period. do you think this is nasty politics or do you think that this is a prank? >> i think it's nasty politics. it's -- this was the nastiest primary we saw in the country this year because of the flyers that went out and the ads running the day of the election. advertising saying if you don't vote for thad cochran you're going to lose not only your food stamps, lose your children's lunch program, you're going to lose all government ben fits so -- >> saying he brought this on? >> the ad said spend $5 today for gas to go to the polls and vote for thad cochran or you will lose all of your government benefits only on african-american stations. i think a lot is a tack that is semi legitimate because of how dirty it got. >> [ inaudible ]. >> the criti

. >> joining me now, cnn legal analyst sunny hostin and calm tarot greg anthony and ben ferguson. start with you. the expression here "take your country back" that's what the attorney general specifically referred. to is that expression racist? >> i think it can be, depending on the context, but we've heard it in all different contexts, right? but i think his main point was that there has been this level of vitriol, this level of aggression towards our president, towards the office, towards our attorney general that does have a racial component. anyone that says that there hasn't been that racial component is simply naive. remember, this is the same president that they claimed was born in kenya and was a kenyan citizen, asking for his birth certificate, asking for his law school transcript, asking for his college grades. you know, jan brewer is waving her finger in his face. these are actions in my view that no question -- >> you don't think would have happened to a white president. >> of course not, and they speak to the issue of race that we have in this country. >> greg, let me

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joining me again "outfront," our legal analyst, sunny hostin, ben anthony and craig ferguson, and a new're new. let me start with you. what do you think about what karl rove had to say. that when your back's against the wall and you don't want to have a fight, you say, if you pick a fight with me, you're a racist? >> as we say in texas, karl's an expert on reprehensible behavior, so i'll let him speak for himself. the person who knows this best is not mr. rove, but our president. here's what he has said about this. he did an interview with the new yorker back in jan, and a terrific interview, one of the best interviews president obama has given. but here's what he said on this topic. he says, there's no doubt that just really dislike me because they just don't like the idea of a black president. but the flip side, there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because i'm a black president. and i think that's right. it's a double-edged sword. in the main, most of the people who oppose him oppose him on issues and p