assistant professor from forthham university and author christina greer. co-host of wnbc's new york live jacque reid. and the always funny comedian marina franklin marina. (applause) i thought we would talk about the workplace first. and to set it up. let's look at a clip from sunday's oscars, i think it will give us a good concept. >> it is our time to have wage equality once and for all. and equal rights for women in the united states of america. >> larry: okay now that is an issue that people are very familiar with you know women aren't making as much as men but you might not know this part of it. let's play this. >> when you talk about the issue of equal pay we're especially suffering, the wage gap with white women is 78 cents to the dollar for black women it's 46 cents to the dollar. >> larry: i will start with you because you talked about this. is this a real number? what is the origin of this? how do we even get there. >> right, we need to think about this historically. so i will just choose the new deal with fdr right. >> larry: that's going back t

that may be the strategy until this passes. >> christina greer, i thought she handled it in a way thating she was saying and it all sounded reasonable to them. the jonathan allenes of the world, those demanding political reporters and the lawyers out there and the people who know all the details of the rules and regulations of course are not satisfied. but her job today was to convince voters there's nothing to worry about here. >> right. but i agree with jonathan in the sense that this is vintage clinton in the sense that these two, and i'm putting her with her husband, are consistently in the news where there's a set of rules for the people and then there's always a sent of rules for the clintons that they thought they understood and then they kind of go to the line. sometimes they overstep the line. but there's always an explanation with them. and i think that's going to be the interesting piece with independent voters. those who remember the good old '90s or the bad old '90s. those who remember the drama that associates the clintons every single time they're in the spotlight. i thi

assistant professor from forthham university and author christina greer. co-host of wnbc's new york

i want to bring back in fordham professor christina greer.e look ahead to the thousands who will march today across the edmund pettus bridge in selma, talk to us about the importance of historical continuity. this is of course an annual march, but it's the 50th anniversary and it obviously is getting a lot of attention. why continue to do this march every year? >> well i think it's because for many black people across this country, every sunday is bloody sunday. and it is very important that we recognize the 50th anniversary. however, on a day-to-day basis, so many black communities are experiencing brutality, indignity, racism injustice, on a wide scale, not just with voting rights, but just in their daily interactions. and so yes, it's wondersful that so many people have come to selma, from across the globe, i'm sure but for politicians to hammer home how important the voting rights act is but we need to keep marching and make sure that this isn't just a once-a-year thing. i believe reverend glasgow in alabama has been doing a lot of this w

also joining us here in new york is professor christina greer, joy reid, and daphna lindhser. congressman, what is your reaction? >> i share the shock the speaker expresses. if these reports are true, it's a shocking breach between two very close allies. of course, this comes on the top of boehner and netanyahu arranging the speech without letting the president know. it comes on top of benjamin netanyahu repudiating what has been a long-time public position shared by the united states and european allies about a two-state solution. and it obviously comes on top of the prime minister doing everything he possibly can to unravel the potential of any deal. so this is very disturbing. it's especially disturbing when you think about the fact with all the attention between the president and the prime minister, the president has given israel about $2.3 billion. and then in the u.n. defending against hostile initiatives. so it's displaying. >> benjamin netanyahu wanted to win re-election any way possible and has found himself since apologizing to what he said, backtracking from it. and