president did you know louis farrakhan?ere you friends with louis farrakhan or is that hannity going off on the deep end? >> do i think there's anything between farrakhan and obama? no. >> sean: you don't think they knew each other? >> come on it is farrakhan. >> sean: should we know if they ate dinner considering he's an anti-semite and racist? >> when he is calling mat first jewish president, these are not two that had a history. >> i have a different reaction we i hear louis farrakhan saying he's worried about taking muammar gadhafi from this earth, what do you say to the families who are the victims of pan am 103? what do you say to them? >> sean: is it something that i think a question -- we are going to watch and compare and contrast all the republican candidates. they are going to get in. and the scrutiny is going to be worse tan colonoscopy. i'm going to be honest. obama has not gotten that scrutiny. is this a legitimate question he should had been asked considering he had radical an e sos in the past? >> more impor

farrakhan. he lives two blocks from obama, within the radical community in chicago. is that a legitimate question, did you ever meet him? do you know him? would that have an impact on the american people? >> i think it would. a couple of people covered it. >> sean: he won't come on this show. >> most of them don't cover it. and it amazes me. it amazes me the free ride he gets. as an example, when i talk about the birther issue it is not my favorite issue, believe me. when i talk about it, i have some reporters you can see they are visibly angry for bringing it up. there's a real question. i told you before, when i first started i assumed he was here. now, i have a real doubt. so they should have a real doubt too. they protect him. they are protecting obama tony rezko, why aren't they out there looking into that matter? >> sean: i did. we got a lot of heat during the election process. we brought up all of these questions. >> they never gave rezko a chance to rat him out. anybody else, they let him rat out. >> sean: they would have had woodward and stein there everyday

. >> um, i don't think there's -- that's a farrakhan conclusion. i think 19th avenue will be no better than it is now and possibly worse. sunset and lack merced will be more congestioned -- congested. supervisor avalos: our obligations around greenhouse gas emissions, traffic increases creating more greenhouse gas emissions don't matter because we'll move this project forward regardless of what the law would be in the state of california. >> that's not true at all. the impacts are full li --fully identified and qualified. supervisor avalos: but it could get worse? >> greenhouse gases, in balance, no. traffic, yes. supervisor avalos: greenhouse measurements during construction -- what are mitigating measures around reducing greenhouse gas emissions during the construction phase? >> measures are following the guidance of the fair air quality management district. they primarily have to do with dust containment, with the types of vehicles that are used, the primary source of construction emissions, contrary to popular perception are the vehicles that a

so you may say that louis farrakhan and reverend wright are not but i would disagree. i think barack obama is a plaque that blacks can be proud of and that the fact that he doesn't happen to agree with you and mckinney and reverend wright and louis farrakhan is the reason that he is seen by all kind of americans, white, black, brown, yellow, red, has a leader and wouldn't be seen as such if he held those views. so we have to fundamentally disagree that is the problem. thank you, everybody for staying, and thanks for coming. [applause] >>> attorney general eric holder told justice department employees today he is coming to continue prosecuting terrorist suspects. his remarks are about 25 minutes. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. welcome. thank you for being here today. i am of the justice management division, and it is a pleasure to welcome so many friends and colleagues from across the department here this morning, and to welcome the attorney general. almost 35 years ago the attorney general began his career here at the department in the public integrity section.

so you may say that louis farrakhan and reverend wright are not but i would disagree. i think barack obama is a plaque that blacks can be proud of and that the fact that he doesn't happen to agree with you and mckinney and reverend wright and louis farrakhan is the reason that he is seen by all kind of americans, white, black, brown, yellow, red, has a leader and wouldn't be seen as such if he held those views. so we have to fundamentally disagree that is the problem. thank you, everybodyyy >> guest: thank you. .. i did a spell check to make sure i didn't have jefferson in there when i should've had johnson because the temptation was actually quite great. if somebody had told me a number of years ago already put my life that i would've written a book about andrew johnson, i would've told them they were crazy. it's not that i don't inc. is an interesting person. he is interesting. it's not that i didn't know anything about him, but for most of my career as an historian, i try to put the period of reconstruction. and it sounds strange for someone who rates about slavery,

so you may say that louis farrakhan and reverend wright are not but i would disagree. i think barack obama is a plaque that blacks can be proud of and that the fact that he doesn't happen to agree with you and mckinney and reverend wright and louis farrakhan is the reason that he is seen by all kind of americans, white, black, brown, yellow, red, has a leader and wouldn't be seen as such if he held those views. so we have to fundamentally disagree that is the problem. thank you, e dana priest. this is an hour and a half. >> i would like to introduce to you first and again to be acknowledged sydney, our curator, and the current curator of the poke awards, john darnton. >> thank you very much, dr. steinberg. i'd like to welcome you all here to this event. as you know, the george poke seminar is a one time of year when we get to wrestle with some of the major issues about journalism and to discuss them with some of our winners. i would like to say first of all, i'd like to acknowledge the center for communication which is the cosponsor of this event, and it's exec -- its

let me also -- to the comments of louis farrakhan a few weeks ago. i don't know if people remember, he got paid by libya -- what you call, an agent in 1996, $5 million. i don't know if this was reported. i think mccain telling obama we have to support these rebels if we want to support democracy and freedom. host: we're going leave it there, ken. we've got the twitter message. "mccain must be see nile. clearly some of his screws are coming loose." back to the phones. federal way, washington, on our line for democrats. go ahead. caller: good morning. i was living in libya in 1958, 1959, and 1960. came back to the states in 1961. there was a king there at the time. and the people were doing fine under the king. it was just that the major part of the population was impoverished. they had some rich areas and some well-to-do people that lived there. along comes the cuban missile crisis, and we had to move out of there. because in negotiations, we had to get our missiles out of libya. host: what does this have to do with senator mccain's visit to libya thi

and discussing the response of farrakhan and others who are talking about obama. what do you feel about that? and thank you so much, and i am going to get your book. [laughter] thank you. >> host: all right, deborah, thank you. >> guest: yeah. you know, from if my book -- from be my book about muhammad ali, i interviewed some of the top african writer withs and intellectuals, and they just have a different view of ghadafi and some of the leaders of islam that they've encountered there. they feel that the arabs in africa are racist, so-called sub sahara africa are racist and treat black africans in a racist manner. all of them agreed with that. and that ghadafi is trying to -- that ghadafi's a chemical warfare in chad and that, you know, some african-americans who have this view that islam is a religion of brotherhood do not realize that they are racist features of being among some of the followers are racist because in my book i was trying to discover why muhammad ali and malcolm x had such a favorable impression after going to mecca and finding that this was a re