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dr. james peterson, director of africana studies and associate professor of english at lehigh universityws are you seeing in the conversation on chicago's violence? >> i think there are a couple of flaws. number one, we are really good at sort of counting the datament we are good at presenting statistics. the homicide rates, the number of young people murdered at any one particular time. we're also good at coming up with propped up out of nowhere responses that are not solution oriented. someone talked about bringing in the national guard a week ago or so. those are some of the problems with how we approach it. the reason the quantitative approach doesn't work is there are two things. one, we need a better qualitative sense of what's going on in order to come up with the solutions that might work. obviously we don't need any kind of military presence or more police. the police are working hard. in fact, they have done effective work along the lines of managing some of the gang problem there is. this is not all gang related. there is common sense gun safety/gun control issues here. the is

dr. michael eric dyson and james peterson and lehigh university professor.we see this as a dysfunctional love triangle as a defense unfolding here? we're hearing there's going to be e-mails that are going to be read by the former governor that will defend the fact his marriage is falling down. dr. dyson the defense is saying the couple couldn't have been conspireing because their marriage was falling apart. is this a good strategy? >> it's a novel one to be sure. i'm not here to cast dispersions on anybody, the political consequence of their however marital dysfunction will tell on them. the defense says that look, they couldn't have conspired together because they weren't hardly talking to each other. she's spending a lot of time, 1400 some odd e-mails and calls to johnny williams in two years does suggest a extra marital connection. to what degree, i'm not sure. i don't know if this is a ruse or if it's honestly a kind of romantic entangle emt because of the denial of presence of her marriage and spouse. in that sense this story is as old as eden and old a