aren't waiting for governments to pass bills on foreclosures and sure as hell aren't waiting for eric snyderman to save the day, there's the dream defenders, a group inspired by trayvon martin, who marched 40 miles from daytona beach to sanford, who occupied the police station and engaged in civil disobedience. there's the immigrant youth who are not waiting for the president to make sweeping statements, but instead marched hundreds, and thousands of miles and hung out in his office and made people listen. there's the u.s. student association who organizes on the outside and the on the inside, and they engaged in policy, which is amazing. there's the league of young voters. there's young invincibles who took a bus tour around the country and just sat down and talked with people. there's the green jobs movements. we're doing all of this stuff and it's incredible. despite our skepticism and disillusionment. so solutions here. another world is possible. we're envisioning another america. one that actually, accurately represents its makeup. we need to elect young people to office. our political sys

i think principally the -- the attorney general from new york, eric snyderman, as well as other state attorney generals. so the progress we're making there is very good. >> thank you. in 2009, you created a working group to review the department's profiling guidance that came out in 2003 under then attorney general ashcroft. in april of this year, 64 members of congress wrote to urge you to revise that guidance. what's the status of the working group, and are there going to be changes to the guidance, and if you can, what would some of those changes be? >> well, we're in the process of looking at that earlier policy and seeing if in light of experience there are changes that need to be made. i had a meeting concerning this issue, i think, over the last two weeks, it would be my expectation that to the extent the changes are to be made, those would happen relatively soon. we have an interagency -- working within the justice department i suspect have the to the have an interagency group baup there are a number of agencies who equities are implicated by the perspective change but somethi

he's appointed eric snyderman, there's this task force, so far hasn't delivered.ve seen more baseball players brought before juries for lying about steroids than we have seen wall street bankerses brought before for a financial crisis that has destroyed about $8 trillion in wealth. think about that. >> we'll hear from jamie dimon again, and it was pretty cordial last week. >> absolutely. and this gets at the key point in the book, which is that the country has this inequality of accountability. we have a country that puts more people in prison than almost any other industrialized democracy. it is remarkably punishing on the bottom. if you're looking for work and been long-term unemployed, there is not a lot of help four. very punishing on the bottom. if you're foreclosed on, we're not giving you help. but it is remarkably forgiving on the top. people that trumped up the false wmd of iraq. they still have jobs, they still getting to and talk about foreign policy. we don't hold our elites to account. and to the extent we do that, it creates this deep sense of frugs

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i think principally the attorney general from new york, eric snyderman as solicitors and attorney general spitzer the progress we're making there there is very good. >> thank you. in 2009, you created a working group to review the department's profiling that means they cannot than 22,300 attorney general ashcroft. in april of this year, 64 members of congress wrote to urge you to revise that guidance. what is the status of the working group? and are there going to be changes to the guidance? and if you can, what with some of those changes be? >> we are in the process of looking at that earlier policy and seeing a cinematic experience there are changes that need to be made. i had a meeting concerning this issue over the last two weeks of be my next dictation to the extent the changes are to be made that those that happen relatively soon. we have an interagency is certainly working at the justice department i suspect we'll have an interagency group with a number of asian is his equities are at a perspective change. it's something we continue to look at an something i've been personally invo

we have new york attorney eric snyderman delivering opening keynote.. he will be there we have five u.s. senators, everybody pretty much all of the road island delegation is involved. lots of paul krugman is going to be there talking about, you know, economy for the 99%. >> nobody better than krugman? >> really not. he is special. >> so do you -- outside of the convention, right, or this conference what does netroots nation do? >> we are a small nonprofit. so the convention is our focus but we also do mentoring of small non-profits that set to improve their social media and online presence. so we will work with a group for about six months and help them sort of get up to speed and be more effective online. >> that's some of the work we do. we do corralling of bloggers and some sort of more nebulous outreach sort of things. we are not -- >> but it's all virtual? right? >> yeah. we are a virtual company. i log in from home every day into the chat room and get to work. >> do you link people to other progressive liberal blogs? >> i mean not in a specific w