i would like to see professor gates, too.am not holding my bette. -- breath. >> i can't believe sergeant crowley would go to the white house unless he was guaranteed both of those men apologize to him and do it publicly. he is 100 percent in the right. if president obama and professor gates don't get off of this they are probably going to be the ones being sued. >> good to see you. appreciate it. time to check in on greta van susteren who is about to tease the living day lights out of this with some big nugget she is going to hide from us when she brings it up 20 men's from now when she goes on the record. am i right or wrong? >> you know what you are not going to believe this. a member of congress, a democrat says he needs to hire two lawyers in order to read the new healthcare bill. healthcare reform will need law reform. we will have to have lawyers to read these healthcare bills coming down the pipe. this is getting pretty nutty. >> i am going to give you the initials of the congressman. jc? >> okay, what does b 3 mean? >

it's now gates versus the cop. >> it was gates and it was -- >> now it's gates and crowley with obama as referee. >> during the press conference, he realized he really stepped in it in two major ways. number one, as president, he is the cleave law enforcement officer so to prejudge a case like this without the facts was dead wrong. he realized that. secondly, beam positioned himself as a transcendent figure, somebody who was going to help deliver a post racial america. so by having the knee jerk reaction against the white police officer, boy did he throw that in reverse. so he wastrying to correct both of those things with this beer summit. >> if henry gates were white and not black, do you think that any of this -- >> nobody would have paid any attention to it. smoz it was henry kissinger, everybody would have laughed and said they cuffed henry. it would have been a joke. >> if he were white, all of those talk show hosts who are screaming now about what obama did would be saying this is the sanctity of a man's home and it was invaded by the storm troopers. >> you are telling me if it

gates is on his way back to martha's vineyard. crowley looks like a standup guy to me. >> he does. >> one thing he said was we agreed to disagree. >> think about this. we have a thousand-page healthcare legislation making its way in different parts of congress. we have the president's population plummeting. as a immediate. we are all focusing on this as if beer summit was countdown to the summit. clocks were actually ticking on cable news. i find it appalling. >> what show is that? i didn't see that? >> bill, they have a countdown clock to the beer summit, i kid you not. i'm watching this thinking i feel like i'm back at dartmouth and down at the beta house fraternity basement. >> does the story die tonight? i hope so. >> i hope so. can i think there could be a reality show with gates and crowley. that would be a lot of fun. maybe fox can spin that off. >> i like the mod squad concept. >> i'll be julie leftin. i'll volunteer for that. i love the mod squad. don't you miss that show? >> no. i liked it but i don't miss it, i have a l

will president obama's meeting with harvard professor henry louis gates, jr.d sergeant james crowley at the white house close yet another chapter of tense race relations or rekindle the flames? the meeting gave the president a chance to make further amends for saying: >> the cambridge police acted stupidly. >> bonnie: although both parties agreed to the meeting, leading up to it gates continued to say he was a victim of raraal profiling, and crowley said he was not going to apologize for doing his job. meanwhile a new poll finds more americans disapprove of the president's initial response to gates' arrest. so is this the end of the dust up or the beginning, irene natividad? >> let's get real. this is one person's solution to a person faux pas. but that said, i think this is the way you lower the temperature and reach out to peacpeople who don't necessarily believe what you do. >> no, i don't think this is the end. this has demonstrated by his own words and association that this president is not in fact the postracial president. >> i think it's probably good p

gates gate was pretty asch local story until president obama weighed in with his assessment. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. >> reporter: do americans think the police officer acted stupidly? we asked, in a cnn poll conducted by the opinion research cooperation, fewer than a third of whites believe he acted stupidly. most african-americans think he did. do people think professor gates acted stupidly? most whites do. african-americans are divided. president obama later expressed regret. >> and i could have calibrated those words differently. >> reporter: do people think president obama acted stupidly when he made his original

in the case of crowley and gates, there is no doubt that gates being an african-american man seeing a white cop, who likely had preconceived notions and a history that played into how he responded. crowley, the same way. we have to recognize that. only through dialogue and conversation can we come to the conclusion, ah, now i see why you responded that way. that's where the learning opportunity comes in. if you don't talk about it and explain it in its raw true form, you'll never be able to understand it. >> has there been anything about this dialogue saying we need to anything, though, about this i do ldialogue? >> roland is saying we need to step back. has there been anything about this dialogue that has made you uneasy that you have seen in the past few days? >> what bothered me most about the dialogue was not what happened in this particular case. what bothered me were the reactions that people had. many people reacted to this case without knowing all the facts. so i'm getting all these e-mails in my box saying, oh, boyce, you're backing an uncle tom, because you're not jumping on

so, then we hear from professor gates here. has he sort of helped to end this story as far as the media is concerned? >> the media loves this kind of story so maybe he dependent keep doing it, but i think it was extraordinarily bad job with the story and the reason for that is there have been a couple of columns about it and the reporters didn't pursue what i thought was the main story when it happened. it's not against the law to be rude to a police officer. and at the end of the day he kind of tricked professor gates into coming outside so he could turn it into a domestic disturbance program, but people should have been asking, separate from race, why is a person being arrested just for being rude to the cops? because i think a lot of people have had experiences where that has happened to them. regardless of their color, and it's completely missed, it was all about racial profiling and race issues and how people saw each other without the actual constitutional issue underlying this. >> well, the president's comments, andrea,

just vandalism. >> the complex called police to test the gate and the gate did not open as it should have. the problem? >> it jammed in between the lock there. that's a magnetic lock. >> residents who climb the fenceontinue to dag the gate according to the -- >> it's not about trying to get in. it's a safety hazard. >> why won't they just put a fence where people with go out it? >> we did ask the management company about the possibility of putting a sort of pedestrian walkway here and they refused saying that they didn't want to do tha for security reasons. residents here say they feel they're being held prisoner. as for the fire department, they say they've recommended a plan b and that would involve using a lockbox so firefighters can get in whether the gate is working or not. >> new tonight, two men have been arrested connection tthwiheg hoin a silver at spspring shopping center. this happened on july 26 at the briggs chaney shopping center. police say 29-year-old deon sherrod and 31-year-old george bleau were arguing when they pulled out guns and opened fire . bleau and a female

but we haven't heard from professor gates really on his thoughts? >> he did release a statement that is on theroot.com. after the meeting and think he spoke with "the new york times." both officer crowley and professor gates were very much on the same page. in fact if you go to theroot.com site. a lengthy statement. and i put excerpts on my facebook page where professor gates talks about, poignant, this is a moment that he and sergeant crowley find themselves by happenstance if you will and they are engaged in an opportunity to take this nation perhaps in a different direction on race and how we see each other, how we listen or not listen to each other. and i think that, it is going to get real interesting. i thought both statements were good. i, i actually came away thinking officer crowley is probably a pretty likable guy. and like i said my thinking has evolved on this how i looked at it at least initially and see it now. >> professor gates didn't go on camera to talk about it afterward. he has been quoted in print. now this moment of them meetin

gates, but we know it's bigger than that. after the beer, after the invasion and polite conversation and referring to each other in gesture, the real problem is still on the street where disproportionate numbers of black and latino men are subjected to arbitrary forms of police power. if we're going to have a real conversation about race, we the open up and be honest on all sides. the real fact is it to the president of the united states of america and a professor with harvard pedigree just to argue against the words of a white policeman who was a sergeant in cambridge. [applause] what that says to me is that the everyday, ordinary, average person who is subjected to these kinds of vicious forces may not actually be talked about and will we must do is refocus a conversation between putting a personal face on a structural problem. to have reconciliation without structural changes to do little more than to change the deck chairs on the titanic. >> is this meeting symbolic or structural? potentially. >> i think it is structural

well, kosciuszko became closer and closer with general gates.'s because when slave owners tried to send their slaves to the battle of saratoga to fight in their place, gates allowed these black men to elist in the army under their own name and kosciuszko saw the black slaves of america the same way he did the white serfs under feudalistic europe. and while slavery was brutal than serfs was. they decided that they would put him in charge of what washington called was the key to america. west point. and the whole point of guarding west point was because the americans knew that the bripp$ would try to contain the american revolution to the new england states where they began. and if the americans could control the north river at the time, which is now called the hudson river, they would be able to keep it all in one place. and because the americans didn't really have a navy, they realized that what they can do is fire on the ships from the water so they put a giant chain across the river and decided that they would build a fort right here to shoot

it's our great pleasure to have as our guest today henry louis gates, affectionately known as skip gates said he is en rapport. he is also the head of the doughboy center and harvard. is written 12 books. this one is just out. lakin on race and slavery. and in the coming days is the pbs series that is connected to a. we're just seen a clip of it. thank you very much for being here, doctor gates. >> it's nice to be back. [applause] >> of all boards that i'm on, thethe aspen institute is my favorite. >> thanks. >> so did you try to knock off story with abraham lincoln? >> i want to dust it up a little bit. i did to -- i was dragged into this project two years ago by my fellow executive producer. and i have a production company named after the black section of martha's vineyard. we do joint productions for oprah's roots and my african-american life series. were going to do a new series called faces of america using african-american format, buffer to jewish americans, catholic americans, two arab-americans, to asian-americans, to latino market, to western indian americans. so we go into prod

and i said to gates, i said, mr. gates, anything about the future what are you worried most about? and he rocked gently back and forth in his chair and he sipped his diet coke which he reached for behind him and to refrigerate, he did not offer may 1. [laughter] not a surprise. and he didn't say what i thought he was going to say, i thought he would say, i worry about netscape, i worry about apple, i worry about son, i worry about some competitors and even the united states government which was going to sue him the next year for antitrust violations but that's not what he said. peace and i worry about someone in the garage who is working on at some new invention, some new technology that is going to disrupt microsoft. well, that year in 1998 to guys were in a broad working on the disruptive technology -- they were the google guys, larry page and saturday. and they came with an idea, they

gates, dr. gates, had disturbed the peace and he's in handcuffs. interesting the picture of him in handcuffs shows a black officer in front of him and a hispanic officer there and the charges are dismissed the next day. i read it in my newspaper the next day, it looked just like this short story. but in this 24-hour news environment we're in, it went viral within about 24 hours. it's all over the country, all over the world. then it becomes a federal case when the president feels obliged to say something about it. the president said let this be an opportunity to have teaching done. >> larry: he said it was stupid. >> he said it was stupidity on part of the police force and pulled that back the next day. but then in the next day he said let's make this an opportunity to teach and learn. here's what i get out of it. the two women did what they were supposed to do, sergeant crowley showed up to do what he was supposed to do. the argument that took place between the two of them reminds me of when i was a young infantry company commander and on monday m

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professor gates is at his crib.ellectually, you know that he is connected to harvard and yet you still call on a 8 150 lb cane-wielding black man. did he see professor gates as an uppity negro that you should never speak back to police people? to me, yes, for people that disagree with colin powell who said professor gates over responded white men do not have to police themselves in the same way. i have seen white people get out of the car and cost the police out. -- and cuss the police out. [applause] that does not mean every example of black people misbehaving should be excused. it does suggest that you are living in an era that you know police brutality has existed, the stereotypes of black men have prevailed to set their conscience of america, if you are is a the to get it policeperson, you understand his inability to comprehend that says more about the police force and its inability to see where black men are and the other way around. [applause] >> the only thing i wanted to disagree with is that we do not know

it is not gates versus crowley. i am saying that the reality is that the atmosphere that has been set in this country should be known by a man who teaches racial profiling as a cop. is it not that black people stand to be sensitive to to the assertion of police power in the face of obvious innocence. professor gates is at his crib. he says that i am here. this man is affiliated with harvard. send harvard police. intellectually, so really, it is the illogically, if you know that he is connected to harvard. but you call this cane-wielding black man -- it is a professor gates to broke the silence, that you do not speak back to police people? i disagree with colin powell's and even the present his said that professor gates oliver responded. white men do not have to police themselves in the same way. i have seen white men get out of the car, cost the police out, and get back in the car. i am running for cover. i think that says the background. it does not mean every example of black people actually misbehaving should be

there was a monica-gate, trooper-gate, one, two and three. i didn't understand three, because i didn't see two, and many, many more, but we have turned the corner, america. the paradigm has changed. forget the word "gate." we've all learned from saul olinski's rules for radicals topersonalize the attack. you can't say things about "gate" because that's too vague. you don't attack an institution. you have to attack a person. that's why it's no longer "gate. " the new suffix is "ers." it started with the 9/12ers. birthers, crazy and now the d.n.c. is calling people concerned with end-of-life provisions in the healthcare proposal deathers. crazy. they have personalized all the scandals, all the problems. we got to play along. now we have to play their game, so we have to figure out something to call the station or people in the administration from time to time that ends in "ers." i got it! how about liars! no, that is crazy. we better use our head.o@5 glenn: america, i'm going to go on vacation next week, but when i come back, we have quite a w

robert gates will be pushing both sides towards a compromise.here is a potentially lucrative arms to to negotiate. iraqi government has said it is interested in buying fighter jets to help protect them from outside threats after the americans leave. >> for the americans, this boils down to one question. how to get 130,000 troops out of iraq by the end of 2011 without the security situation getting any worse. bbc news in baghdad. >>> f.b.i. agents announced they have uncovered a homegrown u.s. terror plot. the seven suspects included a u.s. citizen that fought against the soviet union and afghanistan 20 years ago. >>> at least eight people died in spanish forest fires that destroyed woodlands. a local convent and homes were evacuated as a precaution. the officials think of fire may have been started deliberately. >>> the woman faced 40 lashes for wearing in decent clothing. she was among a group of women arrested for wearing trousers. >>> the south african township saw renewed violence. the police fired rubber bullets at protesters who were prote

sergeant crowley or professor gates? my argument is, we don't give points for who introduces race first or we don't take away points if we prove that you didn't. race was in the issue of that incident before either one of them started talking to each other. and that's why we need to have a better understanding. i'll give you a specific example. >> real quick. >> the president in the press conference he made the issue a national concern by raising it in his comments. the next day the president flew to ohio, he had a town hall conference to talk about health care, and we need a lot more talk about health care because that's a very problematic issue for the president, at that town hall we had the perfect forum to now start and launch the national conversation about race. a mixed audience, predominantly white in a state that is very mainstream. we need that all over the country. you want to have beer fests, fine. let's open up the bars in america on saturdays. let's invite people in, and let whites and blacks, they want to h

was gates rude? probably. was he obnoxious? probably. but i have been disappointed that conservatives who talk about freedom so much haven't rallied to gates' defense, to say, why was he arrested for being obnoxious? >> look. you're supposed to respect the police and he clearly hindered and obstructed what the police were trying to do. just to get back to a teachable moment. i think a real teachable moment about race would have been if president obama had sat down with a black police officer who apparently wrote an open letter to president obama talking about his own experience. and how what president obama said exacerbated racial tension. this black police officer, for standing by his colleague, has now been called an uncle tom. >> one on the scene? >> that's right, the one on the scene during the arrest. and it's the sense that people who are minorities who oppose the president are somehow traitors to their race, that really is the insidious racial issue here. and then, of course, you have that poor woman who called 911 also being a vi

and by the way, i contacted professor gates, and he said, i'm all talked out, man. they don't want to hear any more. tell us something we haven't heard about all this and then we'll move on. >> we saw sergeant crowley had a great record and then they got together. he seems like a guy that's together. i think in this case the president and henry louis gates jumped to conclusions about policemen before they knew all the facts. >> warren? >> well, you know, i'm going to say this. i'm glad they were able to come together and come together as human beings and see who they are as humans, but the bigger issue isn't even about race here for me. the bigger issue is the cop misquoted things or falsified things on the police report. that could have been anybody. they could have ended up in jail because of something he put down on that police report. that's the big concern. as americans we all should be concerned about that. >> but the bigger issue is how will this affect president obama's working class public safety type folks. you saw in the interview you did this week, you g

so no people still are able to get into gate -- you know, about 14 gates here in the c part of the terminal. while things are back to normal in other parts, clearly, there's one big section at the airport here that is still closed off to passengers. they are not being allowed through the security gates. we've seen some bomb-sniffing dogs coming through, a lot of police activity here. so clearly the investigation still very much underway. in the meantime, people are starting to return to the gates that are open and trying to get on flights out. i spoke to a few people who were on 7:00 flights. they now believe those flights are going to leave around noon, but, you know, they're taking that with a grain of salt. they're still skeptical their actually going to get off the ground today. >> ross, i was talking to one of the reporters at new york one saying not only facing hurdles and delays, but another hurdle. the fact they've cordoned off the entire front entrance, if you will, to laguardia. these people are having to haul their bags from a mile away just to get to the airport. do you know if

did the president's favoring a professor gates over the police sergeant expose an attitude? is this what the birthers are attacking? finally, presidential pardons, 35 years ago today richard nixon resigned the office on which he had set his heart. he spent the next 20 years struggling back. has bill clinton left under a far lighter cloud already cemented his comeback? i'm chris matthews. welcome to this show. trish regan covers wall street for nbc and cnbc. richard stengel is the editor of "time" magazine. kathleen parker is a "washington post" columnist and john heilemann covers politics for new york magazine. first up, president obama struggling. had i numbers are right on the 50-yard right now but the resistance to him is concentrated in a few groups. take a look inside the latest nbc-"wall street journal" poll. overall, 40% say they disapprove of the job he's doing. but in this -- in the south, that's 48% who disapprove. with older men, it's 51%. and with white evangelicals it's way up. 75% against him. during august, the anti-obama rhetoric is heating up. opponents are

a neighbor called police about some suspicious activity but it turns out it was gates himself trying to get into his own home. gates says he has received death threats and has not yet returned to his came bridge home since the arrest. >>> a new round of budget cuts are hitting baltimore's police department. eyewitness news has confirmed, on the chopping block, funding for the horses and mounted patrol. adam may has been working this story and has exclusive details. >> reporter: city officials were trying to keep this information quiet until later on this week, but eyewitness news has confirmed that the mounted patrol is in danger of shutting down in 12 weeks, possibly less. money to care for half a dozen horses in baltimore's mounted patrol unit eliminated and a new round of city budget cuts targeting the police department. >> the mounted units are very viesmghts i really would hate to see anything happen to that. >> reporter: this lieutenant wonders why they can't find other places to cut. >> when they go into a crowd, it can be a riot, and when they start walking up, everybody disa

i contacted professor gates, and he said, i'm all talked out, man. tell us something we haven't heard about all this and then we'll move on. >> we saw sergeant crowley had a great record and then they got together. i think in this case the president and henry louis gates jumped to conclusion about policemen before they knew all the facts. >> warren? >> well, you know, i'm going to say this. i'm glad they were able to come together and come together as human beings and see who they are as humans, but the bigger issue isn't even about race here for me. the bigger issue is the cop misquoted things or falsified things on the police report. that could have been anybody. they could have ended up in jail because of something he put down on that police report. that's the big concern. as americans we all should be concerned about that. >> but the bigger issue is how will this affect president obama's working class public safety type folks. you saw in the interview you did this week, you got a surprise answer. >> so here you go. this is -- warren, people are s

on the thing about the gate saying. on the dates thing, i want to ask the gentleman why do you think they dropped the charges against him if there was no wrongdoing? guest: i think there was wrongdoing. i think it was improper arrest and i think that has a lot to do with why they dropped the charges. i think there realized in court to make the charges thrown out by a judge who would say it's unconstitutional arrest. you should not be arrested, and i think the first amendment protection, from mouthing off against a police officer. my complaint with what professor gates did is attributing the rest to racism when and fact lots of people of all races have been improperly arrested under similar circumstances. host: what can we as a country learn about race from the conversation? it's not just the comments they have made rather experiences, they could be in a bubble. it has expanded soar -- it has expanded so greatly and it's part of the american dialogue. guest: we learned that this hits a very raw liver -- a very raw nerve

a tense national debate about racial profiling has continued since harvard scholar henry louis gates, jr. was arrested in his cambridge home for disorderly conduct. gates, who is african-american, was arrested by sergeant james crowley, a white officer who had responded to a 911 call about a possible break-in. the controversy intensified when president obama said the police "acted stupidly" when they arrested gates. the president later said he regretted his choice of words and he hosted both gates and crowley at the white house thursday for a conciliatory beer. the incident and the ensuing debate show how divisive racial issues can be in this country. even though america has elected its first black president, efforts toward racial integration are often still fraught with difficulties, not least in churches where it's been said that 11 o'clock on sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week. lucky severson reports. >> reporter: if something seems odd or unusual about these worshippers, maybe it's the diversity, all the different colors and nationalities of their faces. this i

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he complained about a column sympathetic to professor henry louis gates t.. should the e-mail be enough to cost him his badge? you be the judge. he wrote if i was the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana eating jungle monkey i would have sprayed him in the face with oc. barrett called it jungle monkey gibberish. he said gates "transcended back to a bumbling jungle monkey and told the writer her column should have been called conduct unbecoming a jungle monkey back to roots. >> he said he is not a racist. he went on television to apologize. >> i am not a racist. >> reporter: the higher ups in beantown erupted. the mayor said barrett is gone, g-o-n-e. >> barrett's e-mail was racist and inflammatory. these racist opinions and feelings have no place in our department or in our society and will not be tolerated. >> barrett's lawsuit says he was effectively terminated without due process or equal protection of the law. his contracted rights were violated and accused the city of intentional infliction of emotional distress. former civil rights lawyer lisa bl

>>gates: we made the decision to switch in the autumn of 2008.and some farmed and with everything that was really going on in the caviar arena, and looking >>gates: we made the decision to switch in the autumn of 2008. we had a mixture of some wild and some farmed and with everything that was really going on in the caviar arena, and looking at the quality of farmed, we made the decision to switch and obviously the sustainable production was a key factor as well. >>reporter: farmed caviar was once the poor cousin to wild, inferior in both taste and quality, but now, despite costing up to 40% less, even professional chefs are impressed. >>harris: it's much more like caviar. i remember when i first tried it, it really tasted as it was trying to be caviar but wasn't quite there. that is caviar. >>reporter: not bad for a product that only came into being 15 years ago as an offshoot of farming sturgeon for meat >>sabeau: at the beginning we don't know the production. we never make farmed caviar, never in the worldà, firstly we learnt how to grow the fi

and also in the aftermath of the gates incident, i've seen a sort of intellectual dishonesty from gatesmself to a certain extent and also from people that i come in contact with black people in real life and online who are very intelligent and who has an intellect that isaqlelelt know, the master taught him right. the refuel to acknowledge the nuances of race and how it's an insidious thing continues to exasperate me. >> host: i'll stop you there. there's a lot for juan williams to respond to. >> guest: yeah. again, no, the way the attack on someone like colin powell for simply pointing out what most black people tell their own kids which is, you know, yes, there's an added burden in dealing with the police. there's a history here. there's assumptions on their side and your side. just try to, you know, low-key it. let the cop know i'm reaching for my wallet, sir, you know. let them know what you're doing while you're doing it and whatever happened and you understand their situation. try to be empathetic. someone said to me the other day -- they said, you know, it's just not fair that bl

gates has to leave, timmy -- dr. gates has to leave so there will be no questions, i'm terribly sar, i could sit here for hours. i feel enlightened. it's a pleasure to know you. a pleasure to know you. >> henry louis gates and rick kogan, congressman jesse jackson jr., thank you for being with us, the abraham lincoln bicentennial commission, thank you for being with us. goodnight. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> our history coverage will continue with interviews with pearl harbor survivors. and later, weekly online addresses from president obama and bob mcdonald, the republican candidate for governor in virginia. tomorrow on "washington journal" michael scheuer, former bin laden unit chief discusses reports that a militant was killed in a strike this week. andrew selee previews the upcoming summit of trade with the u.s., mexico and canada and then a roundtable with john mashek along with stuart leury on the anniversary of the resignation of president richard nixon. on c-span. >> sunday, fr

our title today is at the gates of the 21st entry. and i have to admit that i at least am a little bit mystified by that as the authors that you have today don't really have works necessarily better at the gates of the 21st century. although paula's works century bridge the 21st 19 today. richard has written that he really spans the 20th century rather than standing at its gates. but with that, let me make -- a big gate. exactly. let me make a few introductions and then we will move to the panel. i will try to reserve time idea to take some questions from all of you. first to my immediate right, paula giddings. paul is the author of when and where i entered, also in search of sisterhood, and the challenge of the black sorority movement and is the editor of burning all illusions. her most recent book, "ida: a sword among lions." the campaign against lynching was called the best book of the year by the washington post and chicago tribune. although it noted that it was a final for the national award, it connotes her there was a final for

speaking at the martha's vineyard book geft value on sunday, professor henry louis gates jr.bout his infamous arrest and the subsequent racial firestorm that ensued. >> i just found the analysis yet that explains the riveting fascination with this event in our society. >> reporter: it was gates' first public appearance since thursday's so-called beer summit with president obama and sergeant james crowley. a meeting that gates now says gave him nightmares. >> the night before i went to the white house i dreamed i got arrested in the white house. but it was cool. i was okay. you know? >> reporter: despite gates' light-hearted tone towards his arrest, it was clear that the incident hasn't been a laughing matter. >> a lot of death threats, lot of bomb threats. i haven't been back to my house since the day i got -- out of jail. >> reporter: with the national debate over race resurfacing since gates' arrest, he says the discussion indicates that america has not yet moved into a post-racial era. >> issues of race and class are profound and deep. >> reporter: gates also spoke of futu

i interviewed professor gates. matter of fact, one of the few people and talk radio that went into great detail with him. i agree, he had come off of a long trip from china. he was not feeling well. he found he could not get into his house. he was frustrated. he said it was not so much is a relationship with police, it was how he perceives the officer approaching him, and the fact that the officer had said to him, and we found out now inaccurately, that it was two black maen with backpacks. we now know that is false. the woman who called said she went to great efforts not to describe anyone because she did not know. i have the police report year. i have the incident report here. the officer has a real problem. right now he has to explain why he falsified his police report to explain his conversation about the description of the people who broke into mr. gates's house and he never had that conversation. that is a fact. that is a real problem. it is part relationship. i play a humorous pieces that richard pryor once

eastbound route 100 at long gate parkway. police still on the scene there. and in -- kateville, we're have a little bit of backup. but no real problems to let you know about at this time. as you look at the jfx and the north parkway, the traffic is moving along nicely. choose an a rated business today by going to the bbb website. >>> the cal ripkin world series begins this weekend and it's a big deal. >> it's going to be like the united nations up there. they won't be able to solve the world's woes, but they'll be able to figure out what to do with third, and thirstfirst. >> reporter: meet connie and george. they've been the home away for the rookie teenager. >> the families are wonderful. we could not do enough for them. >> reporter: the martins serve as the host family for the cal ripkin world series. >> the smallest little thing that you do for the children, they appreciate it. >> reporter: for ten days it's nothing but this. >> we cheer for them like the big leaguers. >> they have house rules no, gum, no river housing and... >> guys, don't play ball in t

robert gates left the door open to changing that. the president himself insisted the american people in the context of health care reform he's not going to break that campaign promise. interest today at the daily briefing to see how robert gibbs squares all of this. one thing they will sure point out is the fact they inherited trillion dollars in debt from president bush. all will feed into the republican argument the president is spending too much money. >> as you know, the president had a lot on his plate, the cash for clunkers program, about to expire unless the senate approved $2 billion, health care reform obviously the president taking that on the road trying to sell that plan. how much does all of this complicate the president's effort to sell that health care plan? >> big time. the president has been the key argument for health care reform, bring down cost, bring down the deficit as well. they are saying, look, in the short-term costs could explode in terms of trying to pay for all this reform. if now the american people see,

unmanned aircraft, robots, gates wants the army to develop a clearer plan for the future vehicles it needs and how they will be different from the one army is buying for iraq and afghanistan. at the same time the army is continue to go rabidly introduce new soldier level equipment from small arms to body arm more and ground vehicles. here with me to discuss this is lieutenant steven speaks. general, welcome back to the show. >> it is an honor to be here. >> let's start with what was fcs. on the vehicles secretary gates had them stripped down because he was concerned that the smaller lighter more agile vehicle might not as well suited for an i.e.d. future. what kind of vehicles is the army leaning toward developing for the future? >> i'd like to focus on the importance of what he told us. he affirmed critical elements of our strategy. he said spin-outs were the way we ought to deal with the force and spin-outs for those, we're taking capabilities and giving them into formations before they go into combats. they train and deploy those capabilities. he said the network was important he