eugene robinson is the pulitzer prize winning columnist and editor of "the washington post." commissioner ramsey, what is ferguson to you and what needs to be done? let's start with what it is. >> well, i mean, it's symptom attic of a much larger problem that, unfortunately, exists between police and members of certain communities, primarily minority communities, communities of color, african-american communities. also, it also highlighted a gap between police and young people. so it's a combination of a lot of different factors. >> let me go to gene on this. it's going to go in the dictionary, something people will be talking about weeks, months, years. >> you know, what i think it may come to stand for is a question whether we have two justice systems in this country. one for young, black men, and one for everybody else. and, you know, we've had the string of these incidents, these killings, trayvon martin and you go back and just two more recent ly, and it has a numbing effect. it happens, it happens, it happens, and it finally crystallized, i think, in ferguson for a lot

eugene robinson, are you there with us? >> yes. >> here we are, eugene. five years in prison in cuba and now no one saw happening this morning in perhaps this man's release leading to a tremendous change in policy with the u.s. and cuba. >> yeah. you can only imagine how he feels five years in a cuban prison. it would be a terrible experience as everyone has pointed out. his health was in decline and to be home it must be an incredible moment for him and his family. we can only wish them the best and celebrate. he should never have been arrested. he didn't do anything that any civilized country would consider a criminal. i think we should celebrate what has been done to bring him home. >> he's now home. these images. back to the battle already brewing as the man has barely stepped his foot opn american soil in five years. what do you make of that? >> here it comes. if we predict that, you know, you and i a few minutes ago. it's going to be sharp division on this point. senator rubio speak it's bad for the cuban people. having been there a lot of times, i

joining me now is eugene robinson, columnist for "the washington post" and an msnbc political analystlso the author of the book "last dance in havana." and from havana tonight, the co-author of the book "back channel to cuba" the hidden story of negotiations between washington and havana. and the former white house director of hispanic media. william leo grand in havana tonight, what has been the reaction in cuba today among the people you've been able to talk to or observe? >> well, there's a feeling as if a war has come to an end. and many cubans specifically talk about how important it was for barack obama to normalize diplomatic relations, because they feel it was a gesture of respect, a willingness on the part of the united states to finally treat cuba as an equal partner. the other reaction has been one of hope that the relaxation of the embargo will improve their standard of living. >> the opponents of president obama's action all say that they are arguing for what's best for the cuban people, the people living in cuba. and none of them actually consult with the cuban people on

i would also say we should con a eugene robinson rule of apologies.he person you did the terrible thing to. >> it's a good idea. >> eugene robinson, "washington post" columnist, thanks for being here. >> great to be here. >>> the good thing about winning something is, obviously, that you won a thing. the bad thing about winning something is now you have that thing which means if you are not careful, you can break that thing. breaking the trophy in grand style. coming up next. the busiest airps in the country. we operate just like a city, and that takes a lot of energy. we use natural gas throughout the airport - for heating the entire terminal, generating electricity on-site, and fueling hundreds of vehicles. we're very focused on reducing our environmental impact. and natural gas is a big part of that commitment. dentures with toothpaste or plain water. and even though their dentures look clean, in reality they're not. if a denture were to be put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists on the denture, and that bacteria multi

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joining me now is "washington post" analyst eugene robinson. it allows banks to more easily trade like derivatives here. senator warren is furious saying this encourages the same risky business that led to 2008, and the crisis there. and they want to avoid the shutdown but does warren have enough clout to get the changes to the massive bill? >> frankly, i doubt that she does. you know, this san important provision because it does significantly weaken the dodd-frank. it lets banks use federally insured deposits to use that money, which is federally insured to trade in derivatives which are inherently risky. but it takes the lid off and creating a potential. however, you know, number one, neither democrats nor republicans want to be blamed for a government shutdown. nobody wants to see that. and number two, very frankly, that didn't do very well in the recent elections. had the liberal side done better and if we were looking at a more liberal congress coming in in january, then there would be a better deal on the spending bill. but as things stan

eugene robinson.d morning. >> good morning, jose. >> you wrote about this calling it a killer headache for sony. this was before they decided to pull the plug. >> the impact is incredible. this whole story just gets more and more bizarre. it was hard to believe at first that the north korean government was actually behind this. but the fact that our government was apparently concluding that it was it just puts the story in another realm. and it raises i think really big and important questions about how you react to something like this. and i'm not sure what the answer is. >> well what is the possible reaction to this? first of all it says a lot about kim jong-un. remember that puppet movie that was out about his dad. so he's got a thinner skin as far as this is concerned. what can or should the united states do? >> well, you know it's interesting. we're used to the sort of over the top bafoon-ish rhetoric coming from north korea. it's easy to say, okay some of this is just bluster, they're not going

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. >>> i'm chuck todd and joining me with luke russert, eugene robinson, amy walter and ken blackwell. welcome to sunday it's "meet the press." >>> good morning. we start with breaking news. a search is under way after an airasia flight carrying 162 people from indonesia to singapore lost contact with air traffic controllers. it's reported that the pilot had requested a deviation from the planned flight path because of bad weather. president obama was briefed on the situation late last night. katie, i know we don't know a lot. but do you have some new information. what do you know? >> reporter: it's nighttime here in singapore. they called off the search for the each. they will resume it tomorrow morning. this happened around 7:24 local time when the plane suddenly dropped off radar. pilots asked for a change in course. they wanted to go at 38000 feet because of weather. there was a line of thunderstorms in the area. it was supposed to get to singapore airport at 8:30 in the morning, but it never made it. now there's a search and rescue operation that has been going on all day. it has

we' we're now joined by joy reid and eugene robinson. you have the protesters echoing eric garner saying i can't breathe. the new york city police union leader explained the medicine of this for us today. he said if you're speaking, you can breathe. >> yeah. and that has become a talking point for people who want to defend the officer here or want to blame eric garner for his own death and say essentially it's his own fault. you can see even at one point his hands are raised. he was not offering resistance. and just the fact that he could get out the words. you could hear him barely able to get the words out. that means he was breathing. evens after he was down. the symmetry between this case and the reaction of human beings to somebody lying on the ground in egs treatment duress is none. no reaction at all. tamir rice left on the grown dying before anyone offered him any aid. eric garner lying there dying and people are videotaping it saying this guy can't breathe and this sort of nonchalant reaction of the weem around prince william hp

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. >> joining me now, the "washington post" columnist eugene robinson and jose. let me start with you. and just without getting into the passions which are so strong historically, and i covered the whole elian gonzalez else at length. if these two days are set apart from all history, the conversation from 90 minutes between president obama and raul castro, the head of the regime in havana last night. this decision to open formal relations. how will this change history just by these 24 hours? >> no doubt about it. no doubt about it. this is a monumental change. the fact is the united states of america for more than 54 years has main tained that the castro regime is not a regime with which we want to have relations with. and there are a number of things that have happened. and you listed just some of them. but i mean, we can go back to just the july of last year when a north korean ship was intercepted in the panama canal. it was heading back to north korea. and inside they found sugar coming from cuba. but also two mig jets and 240 metric tons of cuban made armame

. >>> let me bring in "the washington post" columnist eugene robinson has a piece tight he did the eric garner case sickening outcome. the director of african-american studies at university of connecticut, gentlemen, thank you for joining me. i want to pick up on what congressman meeks said. you look at the image out of new york, whether it was grand central station, the group at times square, it was not exclusive to black outrage, and i think a lot of people associated ferguson with a black outrage, maybe because of the diversity of new york, availability of mass transportation, you saw asian, latino, black, white, with their hands up in equal number, and in some cases i went to grand central and i saw more white people protesting than african americans at that site when i was there. >> one correction about ferguson is that there were a number of white people who participated in those protests as well. >> absolutely. >> some were local ferguson residents. a lot of people thought the people came from outside the immediate vicinity, and it was outside agitators, so to speak. but a lot of

. >>> i'm chuck todd and with me to provide analysis are eugene robinson of the washington post, and my colleague andrea mitchell and rich lauer editor of "the national review." with welcome to "meet the press." >>> this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> one huge story has dominated the this week, a it is the aftermath of that grand jury decision in ferguson, missouri. we learned that darren wilson resigned from the ferguson police force. he submitted a resignation letter that said he wanted to stay on, but the safety of other police officers and the community are of paramount importance to me, and there is a lot of healing that needs to be done. and almost three quarters of the way through president barack obama's historic presidency, there is a lot of healing that needs to be done. we will be joined by governor patrick patrick, deval patrick and a panel to discuss the issue. >> there is not a latino america or black america, there is a united states of america. >> reporter: the president who cast the vision of hope saw it splinter this week by a splint screen reality. >> we

eugene robinson is a columnist and analyst and host to the reid report in the afternoon, maria is fromit's a team here. i want to start with you. getting ready for one of the press conferences, this is a lot of potential targets for the press. does he have a plan of what he wants the headline to be? >> as kelly said, that's why you do that opening statement. you want to put points on the board before. >> what was your batting average? >> not great. and certainly not great when the fbi announces who hacked sony definitively a couple hours before you do a news conference. those are the questions you prepare for. i think it's always the kind of broad maybe intro expectative questions. did you make a mistake. what was your biggest accomplishment or the biggest mistake you made this year that always i think you get to see the gores move for each of these presidents. you get to learn a lot. what kelly said is important. the questions are definitely going to be about the here and now, but this is about tone setting for 2015. when the president comes back from hawaii, he will land in a city th

winning columnist and associate editor of "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinsoncker, obviously for several generations meant an awful lot if you were in the early '60s, early '70s, he was a remarkable singer who broke out at woodstock when he took a beatles song and sang "with a little help from my friends." years later the theme song for "officer and a gentleman." lifted us up. then, of course, gene, for the mark halperins of the world, joe cocker is remembered for one thing and that is singing the theme song to "the wonder years." remarkable voice, remarkable artist. >> i'm a huge fan. he was an iconic singer. i was going to say a great voice but john belushy imitated it pretty well back in the day. he did a great joe cocker. everybody tried to do joe cocker. it was a wonderful voice that, you know, he took that beatles song and made it so soulful. and, i gather he got a lot of what he did from ray charles and ray charles actually talked about joe cocker and what he had taken from the ray charles style and sort of translated it into, into his own. he really wil

eugene robinson. he's so sad. jeremy peters. jeremy needs to work.e, can you give engine >> gene, can you give jeremy a couple of your titles. >> you can call me dr. peters. i like that. >> j.p. does that work? he doesn't seem to like it. >> what's going on? come on let's talk a little bit. we never talk any more. >> really? that's funny. >> went to the concert last night. >> what concert. >> surprise concert in times square for world aids day. it was supposed to be u2 but bono was late. >> bad month. >> they had different people come out and play the role of bono. chris martin from coldplay, springsteen did a couple of songs. >> what was your favorite? >> springsteen. he did "with or without you." the beard is gone. >> like a baby's bottom. >> can you get louis instagram up? >> somebody has jumped the shark. >> as he was shaving -- >> no, before he shaved. >> before he shaved he wrote something -- >> put up a picture of himself where he happens to just look great. >> model face. >> yeah, model face. >> he has a model face. we'll get back to that. >>

peters and in washington, associate editor of "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson were all in there to sing. i was next to willie cranston. it was scientists. dean came in on a segway. jon stewart came. it was emotional. >> what was the apology? >> one of the running jokes through the entire show over these last years he'll say something embarrassing like i went out and there was a frail woman on the street and i knocked her over because i need ad cab. apologies to doris goodwin. every time something embarrassing or something sexy and my stupid picture went up there. the final credit, he said to me before it was over look at the final credit. the final credit of the final show was apologies to doris goodwin. it was a running joke. oh, my god he said this thing last night about sex and there you were. >> that's great. you need to get a screen grab and frame it. >> i loved it. >> it looked special. >> i'm stunned you're here. you were up so late looking beautiful so we'll start this hour with the news, i want to hear what you think of this. federal officials may give

. >> after trayvon that's what eugene robinson and i talked about. the facts are not in dispute in staten island. and also i think for most fair minded good americans the facts are not in dispute. what we've said here since trayvon there are two criminal justice systems in america. let's not argue over the facts of this case or that case. let's talk about the facts that are on the ground today for african-american males. why we have to fix police. why we need to put cameras on cops. >> the story that also wrenched my soul was the 12-year-old boy, because i have a 12-year-old son and these cases will continue to play out because that case -- and yesterday the cleveland police department signed a consent decree with the department of justice and interesting information has come out on the background of the officer. >> yes. absolutely. >> so, discussion is going to continue and you're right it's a broader conversation but, you know, i've been struck by how social media and the ability of people to organize through the use of social media has helped to f

also pulitzer prize winning columnist, msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. >> speaking of the "the" you guys see this headline today in "the washington post"? a tower built in mississippi cost $350 million. for be a rocket that's been scrubbed. here the punch line. it will continue to cost $100 million a year for upkeep. for a rocket that no longer is being made. >> right. we have power there. >> usa. >> a tower to nowhere. >> that's a tower to nowhere. >> preparations are not dead. >> no they are not. >> come on. here "new york times" smarter robots move deeper into the workplace. we have evidence of robots moving deeper into the workplace at nbc. we don't know if they are smarter. with that mika let's turn it over to the news as andrea looks down. >> she's checking the latest. >> i good word from the embassy at islamabad. u.s. ambassador is extending on behalf of the american people the profound deepest sympathies and condolences to families and victims of this heinous attack. as amin was telling you this is an army school, military children. >> unbelievable. >> core of the pakis

washington associate editor for "the washington post" former london bureau chief for the paper, eugene robinsongo. but it's true. kate what's on tap today. >> big schedule. second full day of the tour. this morning they will be at the 9/11 memorial and museum, very somber place but they wanted to pay their respects there. then after that, they go to an event for, to celebrate creativity among the british and the arts and they go to a place called the door which is down in soho. i went down there the other day. ate great teen center where they have wraparound services for teens who are kind of struggling, right. so they have health care, they have education. they are going to do a dance and a performance for them. they are super excited, the royals. the big thing tonight, actually the whole trip was planned around tonight's event which is a gala at the met, at the metropolitan museum of art and to benefit their alma mater st. andrew's university which you would think a scottish university why do they have to come to new york to raise money but a lot of americans go to that school. >> it was quit

here's what eugene robinson writes in the "the washington post."rner case sicken judging outcome. there should have been an indictment in the ferguson case in my view but at least the events that led to michael brown's killing were in dispute. garner's homicide was captured on video this time. there were literally millions of eyewitnesses. somebody tell me how many does it take, is there any number that would suffice or is this whole equal justice before the law thing just a cruel joke? african-american men are being taught a lesson about how this society ovals or deovals our lives? identify always said the notion that racism is a thing of the past was absurd. now tragically you see why. wow. >> that's absolutely correct. i think that this is an american problem. in new york i think we're more fortunate than other cities because our mayor gets it, he understands it, he had to talk to his son every day and so he's going to make sure that the police commissioner, we look at retraining as you said, mika is tremendously important and that has to happen

winning columnist and associate editor of the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinsonllow breaking news out of indonesia. the debris found in the java sea is from missing flight 8051. search and rescue agency made the discovery. indonesian officials say there is red and white material the colors of that missing airasia aircraft and the debris also includes a plane door and oxygen tanks, luggage and life vests also visible. a spokesman for indonesian's navy says 40 bodies have been recovered. crews and ropes are being lowered into the sea for search for additional victims. loved ones of passengers broke down in tears at the airport as their worst fears appear to become a reality. one middle-aged man collapsed while watching the news reports and was taken out on a stretcher. the airbus passenger jet with 162 people on board was heading from surabaya to singapore when it lost contact with air traffic control. there were high winds and thunderstorms and the pilot asked for approval to change the flight's path and elevation. airasia ceo tony fernandez tweeted his condolence