clarence paige is a columnist for the chicago tribune. i suppose we have to do it.ill go around the table. clarence, do you believe that hillary's grandmother to be makes her more or less likely to run? >> it doesn't hurt. it softens her image. it certainly helps everybody who's been a parent to identify with her. i think it's marginal but it's fun to speculate about. >> michelle, same question to you. i guess as a woman, when you hear that, it softens her image, i wonder how that strikes you. that has been said a lot, that she needs softening somehow and this does the trick. >> she needs softening with some people but i think before we even get to that question, one of the things we should talk about is whether or not anyone would ever ask if jeb bush or mitt romney being a grandfather would somehow impact their decision to run for president of the united states. it's really to me very bizarre that people quite seriously are asking this question. pregnancy, motherhood and grandmotherhood for that matter are not disabilities and i tonigdon't think they'll have any i

when he said he thought clarence aaron should continue to serve his triple life sentence he failed totion that the prosecutor and the sentencing judge in mr. aaron's case didn't agree with that assessment. he kept it a secret that the prosecutor in mr. aaron's case that the judge and prosecutor had advocated for his sentence to be immediately commuted. that is really, really relevant information when somebody is applying to get their sentence commuted. but that information was squashed and never passed onto the white house and mr. aaron's application for a commution was rejected. and the guy that recommended that clarence aaron's sentence not be commuted, has not been appointed by president obama but has been there the whole time. the inspector general for the justice department looked into what happened in that case and issued a scathing report about how mr. rogers handled it. after that report and all of the media attention, particularly from the pro public series, clarence aaron did become one of the lucky few to get an obama presidential era pardon. he got a pardon after 21 years,

i asked about the uncle tom comments what he said about clarence thomas.him an uncle tom, though, isn't that a racially charged term? >> for some it is. but to others, it's the truth. >> because, you know, looking at that, and hearing that kind of language, that certainly wouldn't be, you know, appropriate if it was coming from somebody who was white. >> but i'm black. >> so it makes it okay? >> well, i mean, you asked me the question, and i'm giving you the response. >> jake, he went on to say people he represents in mississippi don't like what clarence thomas has done and the decisions that he has supported with regard to affirmative action, voter i.d., and the affordable care act. so that's the gist of what he's saying but he did not back down on any of the things said with regard to the president, that people who oppose him do so because he's black and even his racially charged comments about senate minority leader. >> thank you. >>> in the immediate aftermath of the benghazi attacks in the heat of 2012 election the obama white house told the world the

why didn't he follow clarence thomas? he would have eliminated all campaign finance restrictions. >> it was notable that in his opinion, he didn't actually, while he said that base limits, that is the amount that a single individual can donate to a single candidate, he did not affect those limits and he said he does not have confidence that it will survive in the future. there could be room for the limits to be considered in the future by the court. >> clarence thomas may be leading the court intellectually to a destination they could get to. what about the dissent, the justi justice bryar wrote about it and said, if the rich can give too much, it will drown out the collective speech, what is he getting at in. >> he has an instrumental view, it does not protect free speech, in and of its, protects free speech as the will of the people. so, he can stand it on his head. you have to restrict free speech in the name of free speech. it it it's orwelian. >> what if had they can give unlimited amounts of money to the parties thi

clarence page?st: i'm not sure what the gay remark was, but as far as the -- as i said earlier, the very n nba team owner not getting paid -- not being around black people -- or the girlfriend host: girlfriend. guest: girlfriend, thank you. to me it's like a vegetarian owning a cattle farm. i mean it's weird to me. it contains its own punishment. because if you're talking about a sport that is so heavily tied to and supported by african-americans, it would seem like that would not be a wise group for you to offend. he doesn't need government to come in and twhork out the marketplace. i think it's going to do the top. host: a vegetarian owning a cattle farm? guest: like i say, it's like bundy owning an nba tv. it doesn't compute, just doesn't make sense. so i think, in any case, we'll see what happens. i don't do sports normally, but this is fun. host: clarence page of the "chicago tribune," syndicated across the country, also on twitter and facebook. thank you very much for being with us. guest: tha

why didn't the chief follow clarence thomas? he would have eliminated all campaign finance restrictions. >> right. chief justice roberts in his opinion, while he said base limits, the amount a single individual can donate to a single candidate, while this doesn't affect that limit, he doesn't say, he isn't reassuring those will survive in the future. there may be room for the court to reconsider those limits in the future. >> clarence thomas may be leading the court intellectually to a destination. what about the descent? justice breyer wrote about collective speech, which he said if you allow the rich to give too much, it will drown out that collective speech. >> he has an instrumental view of the first amendment. it doesn't protect free speech because it isn't good in itself. it protects free speech as a means avenof achieving the will the people, good government. unless we have these regulations, free speech is going to thwart the will of the people. we have to restrict free speech in the name of free speech. >> what about th

clarence says it was the match that he used or the candle that ignited the couch or started the fire.his three roommates lost everything inside. >> he was returning home when he saw people running from the flames. >> everyone was, like, runl, fire u fire, runl. and everyone was looking around. it's on the third floor. everybody else took off and this whole street was filled with a lot of people. clarence says it all happened so fast he is still in shock and hopes his roommate would be okay. >> i just wish he didn't get injury when he did. >> clarence says he has no idea where he's going to live now. reporting live in san jose, mary anne favreu. >> we have breaking news in southern california. one bus driver and 11 middle schoolers were hurt after this crash in anaheim. this is near the anaheim hills golf course. the driver ran off the road and landed between the two trees there. this happened around 3:30 this afternoon. the driver is in critical condition. no word yet on what caused him to drive off the road. police arreste 84-year-old raymond awossso last night around 10:00. this is

his colleague and judicial wonder twin clarence thomas is is it married to a tea party leader, swrimycare act attempt her husband was helping to decide the constitutionality of the law. justice stevens himself wrote the majority opinion in that 1997 case that allowed paula jones to oppose president clinton. he joined justice ginsburg and two other justices in december in perhaps the most famously political supreme court justice -- the supreme court decision in a generation. bush v gore. the same year that sandia day o'connor reportedly told friends she wanted to be sure she retired under a republican. yes, when the justices retire, it matters because the court is totally political. and that wraps things up for the reid report. i'll send you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern, and be sure to visit us on-line at the reader report.msnbc.com. the cycle is up next. hey, cycle it'ses. hey, one of i feel like i just saw. >> i wonder which one. any time you can mention them on any of these shows, it's a good thing. we're going to have a great show today. russell semons is going to be tal

they speak for themselves and the way he disparaged clarence thomas.forward for anybody there. >> gregory. >> you know what, i'm tired of this kind of race ping-pong. i'll throw you a bundy and smn somebody throws a sterling. what if your name really is uncle tom. >> i had an uncle tom. tom perino. >> i hope he didn't have any kids. >> oh. get over it. get over it. >> dana, i hate kids, perino. >> i wrote something similar to greg in terms of race ping-pong, i call it racism one upmanship. here's what i was thinking today. i think forget these older people. >> oh, my god, we're getting worse. >> and now you hate older people. >> what kind of quality -- equality are they looking for. i'm so hopeful about the youth of america because they are the most tolerant, inclusive people. we should focus more of our attention on them. they are going to be the future for us. >> krauthammer and i were having a discussion, look at the stage of -- at the age of sterling. >> you were in your 40s in 1960. >> one more thing, coming up. you can take we got a lot coming up

. >> justice clarence thomas wrote that he would go further that the majority opinion and would like to see contributions lowered overall. what is the thought on that. that there should be limits in place, that you talked about 2600 as how much a donor should give to one candidate. what do you think about that. >> i think the base limit is low, you can't do many ads with 2600. i understand the arguments that clarence thomas is making and i am sure the base limits will be challenged in the court system. >> will you challenge it? >> it will not be me. i'm spring court cases. i'm done. it's been a lot of fun. i am sure someone will challenge them. >> shaun mccues can, his case before the supreme court and he was victorious yesterday in the decision happened down. thank you for talking to us. >> next - character attack. did washington set up a twitter style social network to undermine cuba's government. we'll have the surprising report from cuba. >> picture this - master works of art found hanging in a kitch n, wait until you hear how they ended up >> welcome back to al jazeera america.

. >> i think that i want to share this person with todd, which is clarence mitchell who has baltimore roots and everything from the afro-american to so much of the local civil rights movement is headed to that history. including here in annapolis. so i would say one of the joys of being a writer discovering people who we think i've made a difference and have demonstrated the capacity to create change and to make something out of nothing in terms of gospel poetry. there are so many of them in ice on the prize. right from the start and earlier today we will be discussing charles hamilton houston, who was the dean of the law school, in night school, really is not a very good law school that was inadequately preparing black lawyers school that saw the idea of black lawyers as a central to creating equality in gaining equal rights in the country. one of the young people that he trained was thurgood marshall. a lot of people don't know about charles hamilton houston. he is in my biography and he is a real hero to me. because he someone who created change over time and change that is still w

about justice clarence thomas, i recently read the book by professor hill about clarence thomas.at stated he received affirmative action and attended yale, i will just say this -- clarence thomas is a bright man. i do believe, based on the school that he came from, there was some sort of preference yes. to him, there is nothing wrong with that. he did not have access to the same type of schooling as other people. he did benefit from affirmative action policies. it is hypocritical for him to sit on the bench and to act as if affirmative action played no role in his success. >host: i will leave it there. laura on twitter. can voter bans on gay marriage be struck down but affirmative action bans be ok?" bob in philadelphia, independent. caller: good morning. another point is that gay marriage. if people were hearing out sharpton on tv after this, he was basically saying we need this because the people of the impoverished areas have learning disabilities. i don't think it is a learning disability, it is an indictment on the education system and the ch ine that tea low-income areas. t

justice clarence thomas has long opposed affirmative action. in the past he's reflected on it personally. back in 1982, he told "the new york times," i watched the operation of such affirmative action policies when i was in college, and i watched the destruction of many kids as a result. justice sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent that she read from the bench today. she wrote the sentiment of some of her colleagues was oit of touch with reality. race matters that cannot be discussed in i other way and it cannot be wished away. race matters to a young man's view of society when he spends his teenage years watching others tense up as he passes. no matter the neighborhood where he grew up. race matters to a woman's sense of self when she states her hometown and hears no, where are you really from? race matters because of the slights, the snickers, the silent judgments that reinforce that most crippling of thoughts, i do not belong here. this refusal to express the stark reality that race matters is regrettable. i note clarence thomas made those obs

. >> my understanding is that one justice, clarence thomas, our old friend clarence thomas was the only one to strike down the individual limit of $29,000, right? >> reporter: this gets back to a mid 1970 decision when the supreme court said you can't limit how much candidates can spend, but you can limit how much a person can contribute because that could lead to corruption, he thinks that decision was wrong, he would overrule it, he would have the supreme court stay out of the business of regulating money and politics. >>> for now, on what today's supreme court decision means for the future role of money and politics, i am very pleased to be joined by mr. and mrs. contributor heather mcgee. okay, heather, we now have essentially blown the cap on what people can give in these elections, what does that mean pragmatically for our elections process? >> it means that in some ways the lights are going out a little bit dimmer on the grand experiment that is the grand democracy, so the first amendment is -- the entire constitution is actually in service of something pretty bold and hard to ma

. >> clarence culverson is one of those inmates. who has been through cuyahoga's county revolving door. over the past 14 years, culverson, who identifies as a transgender name ceecee, has done time for convictions, including forgery and theft and felonious assault. >> this right here is a safety zone for me because out there i'm self-destructive. i think i'm above the law. i like to steal cars and i like to rob old men and sell drugs, and i'm at the point where i would do anything to maintain gucci. i like the best. >> currently awaiting trial on drug trafficking and burglary charges to which he has pled not guilty. culverson said he's been planning for a sex change operation. >> i'm a woman, got a 34-b, all right. and i'm still taking hormone pills, it will help me make the process exchange a little easier because it's painful, and i've got to make sure that it's something they want to do. so they give me extra time to make sure it's what i want to do. once you get it done, there's no going back. >> are you scared to get your [ ble

my own point of view what is happening in san francisco is horrible the white people are ethnicly clarence san francisco. we've lot 4 percent of our african-americans we are desecrating the latinos and yet as much as i hate to say this our board president is the prince of this adjudication our gay representative is the queen or king of ethic cleansing and you should take full credit but the white people ethnicly cleansing the black and brown people where do you go when you've been out of the mission where does the mission culture rupture? how come our african-americans supervisors are not on the front lines? campos thank you. supervisor avalos thank you those are the heros of the lgbt and black and brown folks not the white people the queen of ethnic cleansing are the prince of adjudication i personally love our want and emphasis parents it became to me to see this to my own truth. thank you >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> there is there any public comment no support of appellants. okay. seeing none at this time let's go to a presentation by the planning department >> thank you superviso

for remnant the reasons it's not a who ever wheelchair restroom and it will have to deal with the clarence requires and the slip requirements for the building. also the building is or was educated to his condition by consultant in 2006. and based on the system in the building is original to the building that is systems are well past their useful life and the consultant made notes the building is having a run down feel and assigned an facility index that's a rating system for measuring the physical condition of the building. and anything over 10 percent was considered poor condition it was 50 percent. so therefore the room task force considered the cost and benefits of renovation vs. replacement and found it necessary to replace the facility to make if wheelchair assessable and access the condition of the building. in designing the new restroom they worked through the city design review process to implementation of this program and for the cost effectiveness two prototypes were developed to the intended to replace the structures of similar design and the others was dubbed for structures tha

bench, justice stephen breyer said the decision -- judge breyer went on to say -- meanwhile, justice clarence thomas said he agreed with the majority opinion, but he wrote separately to say he would have gone further and wiped away all contribution limits. for more we go to capitol hill where we are joined by senator bernie sanders, independent senator from vermont. last year he introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the citizens united ruling that allowed unrestricted, secret campaign spending. sanders was elected to the u.s. senate in 2006 after serving 16 years and the house of representatives. back tosanders, welcome democracy now! can you first share your response to the supreme court decision? ,> it was a disastrous decision following on the footsteps of citizens united. amy, in my view, what the justices, what the right-wing justices are talking about is freedom of speech for billionaires and large corporations that own american democracy. at a time when we are ready have enormous income and wealth inequality in this country, what the justices are saying is that these very s

and conservatives, tea party and otherwise, were truly racist then they would have no use to clarenceear him criticized. the answer to that is he agrees with them on the policies. that's exactly the point. people disagree with barack obama on his policies and credit size him for that store the same reason that they agree with clarence thomas about his policies. the obama line is that's not about race. >> now, i'm going to ask you the same question i asked dr. carson, do you believe when attorney general holder got up there and said hey, they are treating me and the president differently because of my skin color, our skin color, that he, himself, really believes that? >> well, i kind of almost hope he doesn't. because if he does, that means he is very poorly informed about what has happened to prior attorneys general. alberto gonzales, himself a minority by the way was treated very roughly by the congress, scorned, looked down, con descended to and the rest of it john mitchell, of course, nixon's attorney general went to jail for good reason. other attorneys general have been harshly c

clarence johnson/vocero de ac transit 1:07 0:14 el flujo de trafico a lo largo de ese corredor es muyionado, toma mucho tiempo y esta es una forma de hacerlo mas eficiente y mejorarlo. ante las preocupacion es de los comerciantes, la ciudad respondio que no sera significativa la perdida de estacionamien tos, y que se estan comprando lotes para crear nuevos espacios. juan manuel chavez/dueno de restaurante 1:28 25:01 la cantidad de parqueadero no va a ser suficiente tan solo en mi negocio vienen alrededor de 400 personas en sabado y 500 domingo y donde se va a parquear la gente 25:13 el concejal de la zona fruitvale noel gallo, quien apoya el proyecto, llego hoy a la manifestacion y se comprometio a ayudar a los comerciantes. noel gallo/concejal de oakalnd. 1:48 17:55 no se va a poder hacer todo lo que estan pidiendo pero la mayoria si se va a hacer 18:00 gente que renta en el area tambien se unio hoy a la protesta... evangelina lara/renta en el area de la avenida internacional 1:57 31:51 yo no lo quiero porque al embellecer lo que va a hacer es desplazarme 31:54 maria teresa salazar/r

wrung of is majority just as clarence thomas wrote, political speech is the primary object of first amendment protection and the life blood. a self-governing people. contributions to political campaigns no less than direct expenditures generate essential political speech by fosters discussion of public issues and candidate qualifications. the first ruling to lift expansions. since then there's been a rise in outside groups called super political committees or super packs. >> i never paid less than 13%. >> super packs are registered as nonprofits and can accept unlimited donations to influence voters. >> we took some emergency action, but that accounts for 10% of this increase. leaving critics to call it shadow money. one of those is billionaire casino owner of las vegas. he and his wife spent more than 93 million-dollars in the 2012 elections, last weekend three potential republican candidates were president showed up for one of the events. hey, listen, thank you for inviting me. >> hoping to win over his support and his checkbook. critics say the event in las vegas is proof of the increasing

use this case to strike down nearly all limits on campaign contributions, but only one justice, clarence thomas, seemed willing to go that far, brian. >> pete, back to the voice of the people as justice breyer put it, for the people who think what happened today was bad, looking for remedies, what would those be? >> reporter: well, there's not much congress can do because the court said this is based on the constitution, and there are indications in this ruling that the court seems willing to strike down more and more contribution limits as they come here. the john roberts court has yet to uphold a challenged contribution limit. >> pete williams at the supreme court where today's decision was handed down. pete, thanks. >>> day two of testimony for the new ceo of gm. she came under withering attack for the company's failure to order a recall over a decade ago in time to potentially save at least 13 lives, maybe more. general motors was today accused of criminal behavior by u.s. senators, many of them former prosecutors. but when they demanded more information from the ceo, mary barra, she

bill missed most classes clarence never said a word.ur morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> i'm joined by indicated column mist bob frank. good morning. >> good morning. >> both president obama and former president bill clinton spoke out on protecting voting rights. even vice president biden said if i had to make a pitch for protecting voting rights today, i would say you have got to be kidding wichlt are these rights in such jeopardy? >> you have mainly republicans in several states bringing up the red herring issue, the straw man issue of voter fraud which is almost non-existent. but what they're trying to do is to stifle the constituencies that might vote for democrats, not only just minorities, but also the poor and the elderly and all this type of thing. so they've come up with what can be described adds onerous restrictions on voting. they're getting at one of the fundamental definitions of this country. it's fair to say these people are not just anti-democrat, they are anti democracy. >> some are arguing that democrats are usi

key question was this, clarence can notary public wanted the house demolished, but not many believed the house should be raised. there were some, because his point was, well, look, if it's in this bad a shape, truman was the victim of his own good arguments, you know, he made the case, hey, look, the place will fall down. there were some politicians, who said, well, don't let it fall on anybody, knock it down. the real question was not so much whether they should raise the place as it was whether they should keep the house as a museum and have the president live elsewhere or go for the big fix, and, ultimately, when the commission voted, there was only one member that voted not to go with the renovation plan. i tried to deal with this in the book. it was kind of a foregone conclusion because truman, remember, also had an enormous amount of weight he carried with the commission. there were six people on it, a lot of consult at that particular times, and he had a hands in everything. he had very heavy influence, and he wanted the place renovated. more than likely it would have been in

guys who were very much in washington, part of washington, but who were representing the whoment, clarencechell, was the super lobbyist. he is remembered as being one of the greatest lobbyists of all time. he was the head lobbyist of the naacp. he could go in, a black man, into the office richard russell, the most stalwart segregationist, head of the southern democrats, sit down and have a conversation, and they respected each other and disagreed, and i am sure at the end of the day, mitchell did not like him, but they could talk, and the things that he did to push it forward and get people to support stronger versions of the bill, that is absolutely vital. you have to understand that. you also have to understand the thousands of people he came to washington to meet with the representatives, to write letters, the church leaders, the labor leaders who organized in their cities and in their towns to bring constituents to washington, to push and to show that this was a public movement. it is one thing for johnson to say the public is behind this, but it took the public to push them to do it,

jason, there was a dissent -- not a dissent -- excuse me, concurrence by justice scalia joined by clarence thomas that while they agreed in the result, didn't agree in the logic. >> right. they wanted the court to go further. as they have for the past 20 years-plus, paul. as you said, the court won't just come out and say that racial preferences are unconstitutional. and that's really what we need the court to do. and they keep punting on that issue. they keep saying, you can racially discriminate, you know, sort of if you're not too obvious about it. if it's for diversity sake or, you know, if there is some government compelling interest or -- but what we need the court to say is either you can take race into account or you can't. and they won't -- they won't just come out -- >> and your argument is they should do that because that's the plain language of the 14th amendment of the constitution. and post civil war amendment which said you cannot discriminate by race. that's your argument. >> they should do it, right, because i believe racial preferences are discriminatory, and unconstituti

late in the representatives of clarence council demanded the self declared ukrainian authorities to conceal the bakery on fire in the patio them go. or if they tear in office and the meditation of the educational sphere giving your a link is a bunch of ice cream yet in this part of our journalists. it was about the consistent investment that one of the best you can use causing me so i get to keep the sicko broker mr education study that determined applications from pupils parents. it's that the school two days ago they haven't even heard about it so is the sky. you know the school was good but it's one of ukraine's this is the most updated the kitchen was jewish and cocaine along with the means of the president of ukraine at the time and put spices roasted peaches in japan separatist leaders to the ptc paid to do their thing you can use cocoa creamy at the local leaders say they are asked to receive high heat. the losses as you can to sell sixty seven possessions and attend to them. he scored tries in the name of his city the property of the city tactics without the siege of doing it to two

thompsons -- clarence thomas will ask some questions. >> what is your feeling on the closeness of thisis is hard to say, asking that question in terms of the finance case or the abortion case, we have seen enough cases to know where they come out. the court really has not had that many copyright cases in recent years and this is not something i would expect for the court to debate with a conservative liberal, anthony kennedy in the middle. they filed a brief in favor of the broadcasters, how much effect does this have on the supreme court's decision? >> it probably will have some, this is widely respected by the court as a neutral arbiter. that said, this court in particular, and in general under barack obama, have not always seen eye to eye. to court will not just defer these views but they will take them seriously. >> 2 appellate courts have ruled in favor of aereo. what is the new new for the supreme court? >> several district courts have ruled the other way, and this is definitely an area of law where forces not settled, and can disagree. -- courts can disagree. the supreme court m

. >> i think i want to share this person with todd, which is clarence mitchell. we a have baltimore roots and part of the mitchell family and everything from the the afro american and civil rights movement tried into that history, including here in annapolis. but i would say one of the joys of doing -- being a writer is covering people who you think have made a difference, who have demonstrated the capacity to create change to make something out of nothing in terms of gospel poetry. and there's so many of them in "eyes on the prize." right from the start -- in fact earlier today we were discussing charles hamilton houston, who was the dean of howard university recall, first made howard from a knight school, a part-time, not very good law school that was turning out inadequately prepared lawyers to a school that saw the idea of black lawyers as essential to creating equality, to gaining equal rights in the country, and so he went about that, and one of the young people he trained was thurgood marshall. so that's somebody that -- lots of folks don't know about char

. >> i am clarence detlo from the center for auto safety. general motors head the problem for years. nhtsa missed the obvious warning signs and people needlessly died in crashes because of defective decisionmaking at general motors. and the government. this is a complete failure of the recall system and we must change the law to reform that system. any good engineer testing these switches would realize it's too easy to change the switch from position to e on the accessory position. in fact, g.m. engineers did recognize this. they recommended a different switch to be put in production but g.m. management rejected that. when the switches were put in production and people started dying in crashes, g.m. engineers recommended a fix but g.m. management said no. the result then -- losses started happening and what did g.m. do? they settled the lawsuits with confidentity agreements that concealed the defect. now, nhtsa did miss this defect. and no nhtsa to say that it does not know how an advanced air bag system that it mandated works is simply an o

clarence bit low call the numbers off the charts. the department of transportation inspector general is reviewing whether the agency acted properly. >> the document release was quickly followed by key management changes at general motors. what can you tell us about that? few hours ago gm announced the head of human resources and communications were leaving the company to pursue other interests. john cook truong was named senior vice president of global human resources. -- john cultrone. besides touting his virtues, mary barra also said that his background is invaluable as we create lasting change that puts the customer at the center of how we work and measure ourselves going forward. gm has yet to relay -- announce a replacement for the communications post. they have hired jeff eller come a former director of media affairs in the clinton white recallo help with the crisis. management changes are always expected of new ceos. on mary barra to surround herself with the right people is greater than ever. lex thank you. gm will join the o

i very fairly say something nice about clarence thomas, but he voted on the 6-2 majority on the michigane. the kind of at which time -- twiters. calling him a tom, a self-hating negro. we don't need that kind of stuff. just dislike the guy what he says or stands for. don't bring race into it. it never does us any good. >>> don't forget to set your dvr so you never miss an episode of the "the five." >> it is thursday april 24th. a fox news alert. a deadly attack inside a busy hospital. when an afghan policeman turns violent. seconds ago we learned the victims three american doctors. >> just don't mess with texas. >> it's not a dare, it's a promise we are going to stand up for private property rights in the state of texas. >> texas governor rick perry's message to the federal government about a rancher's land battle. >> drugs at an elementary school. wait until you hear how young the dearlies are. "fox & friends first" starts right now. >> i am heather childers. >> i am ainsley earhardt. thank you for starting your day off with us. an african security guard opening fire inside a cable high

our next question from clarence. what is needed to motivate democrats to vote in november?ow what else you need to be motivated. i've had more people talk on the radio about the midterm election, and this is april. we're not even at easter yet. if the democrats can get anywhere near close to the same amount of turnout as they had during the presidential, we got nothing to worry about. we probably will win the house. turnout will be the key. motivating people? how much worse does the country have to get when it comes to obstruction before it would motivate progressives to do the ground work to get your neighbor to move forward. and i think there has to be an exhaustion of the issues. that's why we're here. don't throw in the towel. we're months away. a lot more coming up. >>> another day of selling. the s&p 500 off 17 and the nasdaq sliding 54. more than 1%. for the week, all three major averages in the red more than 2%. jpmorgan dragged down financials. shares falling more than 3 percent. and a report on improving consumer confidence failed to comfort investors. that's it f

i very fairly say something nice about clarence thomas, but he voted on the 6-2 majority on the michiganof at which time -- twiters. calling him a tom, a self-hating negro. we don't need that kind of stuff. just dislike the guy what he says or stands for. don't bring race into it. it never does us any good. >>> don't forget to set your dvr so you never miss an episode of the "the five." sean hannity will be in the seat tomorrow night. special report on deck. >>> more get out of jail free cards from president obama. is it compassion or clever politics? this is "special report." >>> good evening. i'm shannon bream in for bret baier. the nation's top cop today outlined a plan to get more people out of prison. attorney general eric holder says thousands of inmates will soon be eligible for clemency. while the president characterizes this as righting a wrong, some seem a more cynical mova