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not going to be any kind of broader race speech or broader racial initiative from this case that the president would lead. although, i would say that ericoke at a group of the deltas, the african-american women fraternity and sorority. he mentioned specifically he thinks there should be a broader discussion about race because of this case. holder, who in the past has talked about race and more in a personal way than the president has at times. >> something we know about both of them as senior african-american federal officials is eric holder has always had more of an interest in that discussion piece of this. being the president of the whole country and often talking about this case as some sort of teachable moment but not a moment for organizing around policy. one other civil rights issue i wanted to get you on this week on wednesday, the senate judiciary committee will begin the first voting rights hearing since that shelby decision when the supreme court basically knocked down a key section of the voting rights act. the most interesting part for those of us who have been following the story is that you have a republican congressman t

very busy conditions and over an hour to get from tracy to dublin but a broader view of the bay area drive in a little bit. eric, day two of the bart strike and it is not cheer when both sides will get back to the bargaining table. we have our transportation reporter. heather? >> the striking workers taking a little bit of a breakfast break with a delivery of cold orange juice and hot food from the a.t.u. president and they are refueling. workers are out on the picket lines, the union lawyers and negotiating teams have been heating and working behind-the-scenes but they are not working together with the other side sip the strike began yesterday morning. now, everyone is crossing their fingers that today they will be able to get back. bart says that they are waiting for the mediator to draw the two sides together. >> this is like back in high school, the bart management is the cool kids and we are the geeks that make things work but we want something from them but they brush us off. when they want something us from us, they act like they are doing us a favor by allowing them to serve them. >> the unions have bee

president obama responded by ordering attorney general eric holder to come up with these this and reports to look at these cases in particular in a broader context now we finally have a response that d.o.j. issued a new set of media guidelines friday that restricts the agency from labeling a journalist as a criminal coconspirator while seeking a search warrant in order to obtain reporting materials but not all are happy with the outcome of this investigation tell me to get to some of these new guidelines just one raid acas the national security and human rights director of the government accountability project and she joins me now jesselyn is this a new start for the department of justice i hope so i mean definitely it's a make nice gesture with reporters i mean under the old guideline they could only subpoena a reporter as a very last resort this doesn't address the fact that they have the race jim rise in the new york times these guidelines like so many things obama sound really good in theory but in practice that's where. the rubber meets the road in terms of actually carrying them out and the one of the things that this report said t

then there are those focused on the outrage of the situation, which is much broader and has much bigger societal impacts. >> and eric who is focusing on the stand your ground law, which he thinks is an abomination. >> and hillary clinton, very different from jimmy carter. >> in that speech she looked like somebody who was seriously thinking about running for that democratic nomination. >> i don't think she's done anything yet to suggest otherwise. >> but she did not weigh in on the verdict itself. because as somebody who may be seeking public at some time, maybe the highest office, that's not something you ought to do. >> by the way, i thought she looked good, too. that rest she's had since leaving the state department seems to be working. rest is good. >> thank you very much for coming in. good cover story. >> coming up, the alleged treatment of a terror suspect picked up years ago leads to the arrest of a man italy claims is a one-time cia station chief in italy. >> and a u.s. hacker suggests it has compromised lots of people who work on capitol hill. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪ ♪ hooking up the cou

about the politics of this though, one reason eric holder is talking about stand your ground laws is the administration would love to push some kind of broader proposals of getting rid of guns at a federal level because we know sandusky having a gun here was important here and maybe you shouldn't have had a gun. but they have had no success passing any gun control loss federally. so part of the administration's view is there are 22 states that have stand your ground laws including florida, new hampshire and two other states where obama won in 2012. there's probably some room to get those laws repealed in those states. i think that's where you're hearing eric holder talk about them. >> let me go back to radica on this question. again, i want to get clarity here. what do you think was the relevance in your understanding of what happened in that jury room to the issue of stand your ground? >> my understanding from listening to that juror's testimony is that they really tried to isolate the moment of the struggle and the killing and if stand your ground played a role at all, again my understanding is that it may have been sort of the emboldening

broader agenda? >> wendell goler joins us live from the white house. >> reporter: well, not just the president, but attorney general ericder also had an opportunity to comment on this case today. he has a speech to the naacp scheduled before george zimmerman was acquitted this weekend like the president, he's likely to take the opportunity to comment. the white house says the justice department investigators will decide whether federal charges are brought against zimmerman and justice officials say federal civil rights statutes covering the shooting are limited. but civil r50i9s leaders have launched a push for a federal prosecution. >> i'm putting pressure on the legal authorities at the justice department and the legislative authorities in florida. we do not want to be -- i think the president has made the statement of consolation. we don't need consolation. we need legislation. and we need some federal prosecution. >> reporter: there were more protests of the zimmerman verdict last night. there have been instances in which public protests seem to push the federal government to act such as the protests that followed t

broader issue of trayvon martin's death when he answers reporters' questions in interviews later this week, wolf. >> has the justice department, i don't know in you know the answer to this, clarified what eric holder said when he said this is an unnecessary shooting death? have they explained what he meant by that? >> they have not officially put out any word on that, wolf. i can tell you i have been led to believe we should not read too much into those word. we should not interpret that to indicate which way the justice department will go on the larger decision about whether there is a hate crimes case here or not, wolf. >> thank you, jessica yellin over at the white house. let's bring in our chief political analyst, gloria borger, to further assess what's going on right now. how much of this decision eventually by the attorney general and the justice department, let's say the obama administration, will be political? >> you know, wolf, if this were a political decision, i think it probably would have been made already. it would be an easy political decision for president obama and for eric holder to pursue civil rights charges against zimmerman, but it is not a political decision. this is