let us say a man. -- amen. >> thank you, reverend dyson. ok. with that, we are going to move to the next item on the agenda, which is the singing of "lift every voice and sing," the negro national anthem. it is in your program. the words in your program. we are only going to sing the first stanza. we are not going to sing all three versus of it. in your program. please stand. >> everyone join in with singing the national anthem, "lift every voice and sing," by james weldon johnson. ♪ lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring rang with the harmony of liberty let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies let it resume armed -- resound loud as the roaring sea sing a song full of the hope it has brought us sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won ♪ thank you. [applause] >> i understand that the mayor will be joining us in a minute. i have some other person's i would like to identify it as present. commissioner griffith is with us. also

professor dyson, and i hope you've cleared your throat. the broadcast yesterday featured your wife who is every bit as eloquent as yourself. but is it becoming clear that ann romney is not only mitt's better half, she might be the only chance for him to reclaim some of the female electorate. that's yes keeps sending her out. >> i agree with the reverend dyson. it is true that, you know, ann romney has proven to be a formidable force with mitt and as you say, by comparison, maybe even more attractive because it seems to me that her husband doesn't get the message. that is, that women hold up half the sky. that women live on this earth and do incredible services, as miss finney has indicated, that are not equally compensated, that do just as much work and don't get as much pay. not only that, they are demonized and stigmatized and so many ways across our society that the last thing we need to do is to have our political leaders engaging in rhetoric that assaults the person hood and the female identity of women as a group. and it punishes the

professor michael eric dyson, anna marie cox and karen finny. dyson, mitt romney calling this a hide and seek candidate, touching off on that comment that the president had had whether medvedev, the russian president. is this a hide and seek campaign? >> i don't know. i think mitt romney is reading ralph ellis son's invisible man and mistaking barack obama for him. he has been quite visible. he has been out there. some would say too visible. he is operating from the white house, making his bracket apparent in the final four, and he is meeting with russian leaders and the man is everywhere. to quote jay-z, i am everywhere, but, mitt, you're never there. the reality is mitt romney is lacking presidential authority and the decor of the office and throwing stones at the thrown where barack obama is acting presidential and enacting legislation that he appealed to the country for and to congress and he is also trying to mark certain the futures of all americans are respected and protected. >> karen, i find this incredible given what we know about the

let's turn to michaelç eric dyson. professor, great to have you with us tonight.ed it when the bishops defended their position on contraception. how can congressman from wisconsin dismiss the bishops this time around? >> well, it's really strange. he says it's not all the bishops. like we could take kwar ri of them and find out what they believe. i think mr. ryan is not serious about engaging his debate in the critical dimensions of social justice. they agreed with him on the abortion stuff, disagrees with him about the budget and mr. ryan seems to be cherry picking. he's willing to accept their recommendations visa kr contraception but not when it comes to social justice for the poorest of the poor. >> i want to play a key moment from ryan's interview. >> poverty rates are so high, yet we throwing so much money p at the programs. why don't we fix the programs to break the cycle of poverty. we will crowd out the civil society, those charities, church, institutions in our local communities that do the most to have a human touch to help people in need. that's what w

professor dyson, it is not only silence but it is cheerleading from republicans we're hearing. ted nugent knows it. take a listen a little more from him with glen beck today. take a listen to this. >> i had standing ovation after standing ovation at the speech presentation n.r.a. because it wasn't a ted nugent thing. these are self evident truths we adhere to and we the people of this country will demand them again soon and i pray to god in nof. >> i assume he includes the offensive remarks and dplen beck praises him and mike huckabee and this is a remarkable performance by these individuals. >> it is remarkable. silence is come police it that you don't speak out against and the verbal echo from the right wing, the conservative branch of the republican party is offensive and outrageous and frankly chilling. ted nugent is obviously part of the lun particular fringe that karen finney said they're trying to court. they knew what they were getting in the bargain, the sour cords he would play and the viciousness he would into and the inability to contain himself. they realize that t

in washington, political analyst professor eric dyson from georgetown university. anna marie cox, and political correspondent david corn, and the author of a new book, the new york time best seller, showdown. anna marie, you've described romney as the brother from another planet. when it comes to foreign policy, do you know what the romney rule will be? >> i'm not sure if he does either. maybe they haven't done enough polling on it. you can say the republican party in general is kind of adrift when it comes to foreign policy in part because obama has done such a great job of co-opting a lot of the positions and policies of the republican party in his view of american strength and power. and of course, i probably don't need to remind you that he has not even closed gitmo yet. his foreign policy, people who are conservative more than they are for the republican party, talk about very favorably. it will be a real problem in the fall to try to differentiate that. >> you may recall almost a year ago, romney gave a speech in las vegas as the libyan uprising began. when r

joining me now is michael eric dyson, msnbc political analyst and georgetown university professor.irst of all, the secret service telling nbc the matter is resolved, what do you think of ted nugents statements today? >> i think it's ridiculous, not an apology and it explanation wreaks of an arrogance. you made certain inferences and certain implications about the president. you did not back up off of those, you did not suggest you were sorry for making such extraordinary claims. you tried to explain away your exaggeration, and say that we should be careful not to contribute to the dialogue where people end up saying extreme things as opposed to expressing their differences. >> it seems this continues to go on, this ugly over the line rhetoric, and michelle bachmann said. >> i have never seen a more infin tile for his failure to diagnose the problem and to address the problem. >> infantile, tar baby? you're not only enough to make the notion of how racially charged tar baby is. i saw you disagree with george bush and presidents, and i never heard you result to name calling. >> and t

. >> joining me now is michael eric dyson, an ann lis, and georgetown university professor.n the show. what do you think about the romney campaign calling this video about bin laden devicive. he took offense to president obama and his tactics, methods, and strategies for killing osama bin laden, and now he is attacking him for acknowledging this deed was done, a major act of foreign policy that was incapable -- the previous administration was incapable of performing. even by republican standards, barack obama has done something extraordinary that george bush could not do that they indicate was necessary for them to be seen successfully. now romney is notç only arguin against obama, but the moral trajectory of his own party. >> he is also arguing against some of his own language. look at this -- >> we look around the world today, we see a muddled picture of american's foreign policy and our power. >> obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. it portrays a lack of faith in america. >> if you don't want america to be the strongest nation on earth, i'm not your president. you

michael dyson?o the world that reverend al sharpton is the leader of the new magnitude and we have seen the quiet transformation of a person who was seen as a pariah and a nonstarter when it came to issues of american democracy become the foremost civil rights leader of his civilization and power broker and glenn beck meets jesse jackson, because the media savvy has been tethered to the moral and the public moral creativity to result in, i think, a savvy, interesting and engaging model for what leadership is about, and i salute him. >> i hope for the reverend's bookers are watching that just so you know, michael dyson, is not available. and what do you now know, ann? >> well, i will be in a debate with him tonight at the washington, d.c. lincoln theater for 150 years of emancipation. >> okay. check it out. amanda? what do you now know? >> i learned that in addition to people of color, elderly students getting sort of caught up in pennsylvania strict voter i.d. law where you need a photo i.d. to go t

dyson from georgetown university and an msnbc political analyst. and krystal ball, a strategist. of colombia. first, dick cheney refers to the president as an an unmitigated disaster. was it the president who repeatedly said that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction even though nothing was ever found? was it the president who repeatedly tried to connect saddam hussein with 9/11 even though such a connection had been entirely dismissed by the cia? or is mr. cheney accidentally referring to himself? >> martin, you speak for me. the reality is that dick cheney has been himself an unmitigated disaster as the vice president who sought to be the commander-in-chief. a man who was a soberingly, i think, and incredibly offensive as a person who can't understand that you can disagree with somebody else without making them the evil action it is of our civilization. his words about president obama are inadvertent confessions about the failed policies of the bush administration. even more so, they lack the kind of graciousness and the generosity of spirit that his former boss, georg

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dyson, we have seen very ugly attacks on the president.ber of the senate, chuck grassley that's been in the senate for over 30 years sent that tweet out. constituents ask why i am not outraged at president obama's attack on the supreme court independence. it's because american people are not stupid as this exprofessor of constitutional law. calling the president stupid? >> it's utterly ridiculous. it's disrespectful. if you will, it's dog whistle racism. it's an attack on obama to make him appear as if he is some other person from another planet. and to call him stupid, when the man is very intelligent, even those who have opposed him in the past have recognized his fundamental decency and his high quality of intellect. so to call him stupid is to get base and get involved in mud slinging politics rooted in some of the most vicious instincts in american politics. the right wing wants to define something as un-american and they're not part of the main stream. they have talked about his relationship to the supreme court and called him a bull

professor dyson, given that mr.sident stupid about two weeks ago, i guess we can't really take any criticism that he offers. and jay carney said today, the white house looked into the matter. said there is no indication of any ill proper behavior. >> this is just ridiculous. to try to besmirch the president's behavior or suggest that he is connected to this when the very men who are supposed to be protecting him and keeping him out of harm's way were engaged in all kinds of nefarious activities off the books is to really be misled here. i applaud mr. rove for saying this is not the right thing to do. stay out of these murky waters. it ends up resounding negatively back on the republicans. you can be guaranteed the problem is with the democrats. very soon a similar thing can happen to the republicans. if you have your hand in that cookie jar, it will get cut off too. >> i want you to listen to this. here's one point brought up by two female senators. one republican, one democrat. listen to this. >> i can't help but w

dyson.hink the only thing that makes sense to me and rush might have slipped with it, is that they are really trying to tie it to the president. he mentioned president obama who has as much to do with the rallies and stuff as the man on the moon. why are they connecting this to the president and what do you think they are trying to gain by politicizing this. >> it's vicious. i think it's a weak kneed attempt to assault the president's reputation, to link him again to blacken him in the public consciousness about which mr. capeharp has brilliantly written and to assert it's illegitimate for us to be concerned about racial justice. it's right versus wrong, not black versus white and why isn't this man? in jail? we are trying to say, if we have to go to this extent and this extreme just to get an arrest in the case of george zimmerman, that throws a sharp spotlight on the injustice that prevails in the justice system and the way in which many people of color and for that matter poor white peopl

i saw michael eric tyson -- >> dyson. >> dyson on "face the nation" today with bob schieffer, and heaying that if zimmerman is found innocent, there's going to be a lot -- there's going to be a lot of problems. there's going to be a lot of uprisings. so it's not just me saying that this is possible, don. >> i don't think anyone is saying there's going to be a race war. >> i hope not. >> we need to wait until zimmerman is found guilty or innocent. that's up to the courts and the justice system. >> i want to chime in on that, don, because i think oddly enough you and i may kind of agree on something here, if i can elaborate. >> yes. >> see, i'm one of the people -- i'm kind of a free speech purist myself and i really believe if people want to fly their freak flag, go ahead and let them fly it and let society judge whether or not you want something to do with that person. but at the same time when you talk about the "n" word is gross and disgusting and turns my stomach. i feel the same way when i see some of the rhetoric -- i've seen a lot from the left on the war on women. when i see w

george will, peggy noonan, michael eric dyson, david chalian and chrystia freeland. >>> good morning, everyone. happy easter and happy passover. george stephanopoulos has a well-deserved morning off. all year long, we have seen a renewed discussion with the role religion plays in our life lives. from the campaign trail -- >> you bet that makes you throw up. >> -- to the gridiron. >> when i'm praying before game, during games, it's i'm asking the lord for strength whether i win or lose. or i'm a hero or the goat. >>> this holiday morning, we begin with a conversation about faith in america. with pastor rick warren of saddleback church. it now has 200 outposts around the globe and his book the purpose-driven life has sold more than 30 million copies. translated into 50 languages. he may be the nation's and world's most famous and influential pastor. rick, happy easter. >> happy passover to you. >>> your easter sermon is titled trusting in god when you don't feel like trusting him. when you have had difficulties trusting god? >> i think a lot of times god takes away your feeling so you h

national attention, and we'll broaden the discussion with georgetown university professor michael eric dyson, author and "time" magazine columnist, and cbs news legal consultant jack ford. this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning, again. but it was a bad night across the middle of the country. over 120 tornadoes it tore through the midwest. the death count stands at five this morning, but will likely go higher. our dean reynolds is joining us from wichita, kansas. dean, bring us up to speed. >> reporter: well, the cleanup crews, bob, are out in the wichita area, which was spared major damage, although there was some damage to mcconnell air force base, and some trailer parks in the area. but the real problem was about 200 miles south of here in a little town called woodward, oklahoma, where the five fatalities were reported. and where the siren transmitter was knocked out by the twister that hit shortly after midnight. so the people who had been hearing the sirens on earlier twister

i have to confess, i only just met one of our panelists, lee said dyson, the ceo of coverity. she got a ph.d. in physics from mit but felt the urge to come out here to california and she did her research at stanford and lawrence berkeley. that is an indication we are getting smart people like her out to california to start companies like hers. 15 employees in 2008. it is interesting, we talk about cloud computing and these technology companies, but she takes electronic waste that is rich in carbon and recycles that into oil for plastics and a variety of other things. i wish i had more time to talk to you and get to know you because i am sure there's an interesting story that you will really enjoy hearing from her. you have already heard from michael, who is wonderful at ibm. clearly, they are a leader in this area. with michael's travels around the world, he will share more of his experience, and that will also be an interesting perspective. i really want to welcome the san francisco mayor ed lee. it is difficult for me to call him mayor lee because i have always known him as

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. >> and drivers like herb dyson play a pivotal role in streamlining deliveries. it is up to where it goes and when. >> years ago we run them out, and now we route them and get them ready. >> i want the drivers to use good timing and good use of the time. so we zone the orders, so if we are in zone two, we take everything that is a number two and go in zone to take that at one time. >> some of those runs are now being made in a more fuel efficient van. the consentinos are thinking of buying another one. >> we are filling up less with this vehicle, so you are seeing a change in the pockets. >> they also have adjusted the rates. they decided to raise the cost of local deliveries. >> we charge $7.95 which recently went up $6.95. the $7.95 barely covers the cost of running the vehicle and barely the time of the driver. >> the move was not taken lightly and the owners know that passing on additional costs may not be the best decision for their bottom line. >> it is always nice to charge high, but i'm a fair person. in time it may come, but i'm not trying to make money

nbc analyst michael eric dyson, and clarence paige join me now.fe that atticus made the list of names for our first child. why does it have such staying power? >> i think it speaks to the very moral conscious that is at the heart of the struggle over black and white and white and wrong and the self definition of america, able to rise above the weight of the legendary and sorry past to go into the future. when martin loout every king spoke about the conscious of white people, he was a stand in to speak volumes about the ethical necessity to treat ones brother and sister, regardless of color, as an equal. it wasn't a message coming from the outside, from an african-american, but from the culture itself. >> did that make it easier to broach some of these subjects because she was a female, and still with us. >> yes, and she was in the middle of that kind of situation. they're real life people including her own father and the charm ter that leading the story. that kor spons to her up in the col -- corresponds to her up in the blackba -- they stopped pr

let's turn to michael eric dyson.> it's typical. it's representative. it reminds me of situations i've been in. the fear, the anger, the hostility, the intimidation. the feeling you have no control over the situation and the feeling that at any moment a policeman could snap. i had this happen at me at 3:00 in the morning on highways of new jersey. you feel helpless and hopeless. you feel that regardless of whatever education you have, whatever achievement you have go out this window. this particular police person can end your life and you feel that skbeintense of a response that moment. many people that are not minority don't understand that. i had a friend, a white man from london who said he jumped oult of his car and asked the police why they stopped him. i could never do that. all i could see is death. >> how do we change all this? they say they are investigating the incident. what can be done to make sure that stuff like this doesn't happen in the first place? >> well, first of all, everybody has to be assumed th