the man now in office, republican rick snyder and his predecessor, democrat jennifer granholm. plus insights and analysis from david brooks of "the new york times" and nbc's chuck todd. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the world's longest-running television program, this is "meet the press with david gregory." >> good sunday morning. a week after the not guilty verdict for george zimmerman, justice for trayvon rallies held outside federal buildings yesterday in 100 u.s. cities including new york, here in washington, chicago, los angeles, and dallas. the message of rally organizers, trayvon's death should focus more attention on race, crime and justice in america. and that's where we begin this morning. we've got a special group assembled to talk about this issue, particularly after the president's remarks on friday afternoon. joining me, democratic congresswoman and chair of the congressional black caucus, marcia fudge of ohio. former chair of the republican national committee, now msnbc analyst, michael steele. harvard law professor who taught both barack and michell

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i think jennifer granholm, for example. former president of the harvard civil rights, civil liberties law review, in a way that barack obama was president of the harvard our review -- law review. you would have heard a lot about her as a possible vice presidential candidate for the fact that she was born in canada and therefore no proper birth certificate, according to some, that natural born thing. her first dude is my yell college classmate, a very impressive guy, dan mulhern. he took care of the kids. that begins a model for america, what it might be at the federal level. heat your eye on governorships. -- keep your eye on governorships. >> i was wondering if you could speak a little bit about the relationship between frequent and eleanor roosevelt. is there anything -- franklin and eleanor roosevelt. >> i think the doris kearns goodwin took -- book is very telling. it is wonderfully documented. i come away from it feeling like they were ships passing in the night. there would be times when he would reach out to her, and

this is a problem across the country. >> cluck, granholm says detroit's bankruptcy points to the needuring policy and if you want any example of a decarolina of the manufacturing economy in this country, it's right here in detroit. guys. >> scott, thank you for that report. the big question, of course, this morning, where does this leave the future of detroit and other cities on the brink? we will ask our guest host howard dean the former government of vermont and a cnbc contributor. there has been a conversation over the weekend about bailouts and whether detroit should be bailed out and what the implications of that would be on the country, the moral hazard, the municipal market? let me read you something that steve ratner the auto czar said over the weekend in the new york times, he says, no one likes bailout, apart from the residents in motor city are no more responsible for detroit's problems than were the victims of hurricane sandy for there's. do you by that? >> the bailout is a separate question from that. he is right. absolutely right. the 700,000 people the one thing you cou

the man now in office, republican rick snyder and his predecessor, democrat jennifer granholm.insights and analysis from david brooks of "the new york times" and nbc's chuck todd. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the world's longest-running television program, this is "meet the press with david gregory." >> good sunday morning. a week after the not guilty verdict for george zimmerman, justice for trayvon rallies held outside federal buildings yesterday in 100 u.s. cities including new york, here in washington, chicago, los angeles, and dallas. the message of rally organizers, trayvon's death should focus more attention on race, crime and justicen america. and that's where we begin this morning. we've got a special group assembled to talk about this issue, particularly after the president's remarks on friday afternoon. joining me, democratic congresswoman and chair of the congressional black caucus, marcia fudge of ohio. former chair of the republican national committee, now msnbc analyst, michael steele. harvard law professor who taught both barack and michelle obama

. >> rebecca chaser, who's been on the show, was citing a book, reports, janet granholm, getting advice her own political ads because she was too attractive and it was actually -- and they were running focus groups and they were running polling and it was doing -- it was triggering some part in the male voter that was mutually exclusive with taking her seriously as an authoritative -- >> do you ever despair for your gender? just looking at some of these stories. >> all the time. consistently and constantly. >> there is this double bind. god forbid you be ugly as a female politician or public person. >> and what i've been thinking about today because of the revelation of the woman who was on the other side of these texts. again, i don't want to rob her, she chose to gave these texts and has now chosen to come forward. i don't know how much that was coerced. there was this piece in the "times" when anthony weiner launched the mayoral race about the women on the other side of the first go-round of this. they had a brutal terrible time. conservative minded colleagues sought to have one of t

everybody is asking where is jennifer granholm. i don't know. pretty sure she's still in the san francisco bay area. she's teaching at berkeley. i do miss her as well. well pat robertson, he can't help stepping in it, you know what i mean? certainly public attitudes regarding lgbt, our good friends in the lgbt community. public attitudes regarding particularly we know marriage equality and same-sex marriage have changed with the latest supreme court decision. reflecting where the american people are on this issue. but pat robertson he sure hasn't changed. he got a question yesterday on "the 700 club". you go on facebook and is there a gay couple there, if ump to click on like, you like what that gay couple is doing does that mean you would be condoning sin? pat robertson has a pretty strong reaction to that. >> when we like things on facebook it is something that goes against what is written in the bible such as pictures of same-sex couples. is that considered condoning the behavior? how do you explain this to new christians or youth? >> well, i

jennifer granholm is super. >> she's terrific.unbelievably supportive of the whole staff has been great. we love having you. real pleasure. >> bill: we have another like six weeks and you and john fuglesang and i. we just have to have as much fun as we can right? >> that's what we're doing. we are sort of doing whatever we want but whatever we want is -- >> turn the lights out when you leave. have fun while you're here. >> bill: a thought just crossed my mind. i was in studio with john fuglesang on monday. so i think i have to be in studio in san francisco with michael shure. it just occurred to me. we have a house in marin county. >> do it. you don't even have to take a red eye to get there. >> bill: you know our team here, peter ogborn and dan henning. alichia cruz has the phones covered and cyprian bowlding keeping us looking good with the video cam on current tv. president obama had a moment of celebration yesterday at the white house. long time and coming. but because of the deal that harry reid made on the filibuster, he was

i think of jennifer granholm for example.former president the harvard civil liberty law review in the way that barack obama was president of harvard law review. she just recently finished the stint of two-term gore of michigan. you would have heard a lot about her about a possible vice president candidate. she came to the u.s. at an early age and therefore no proper birth certificate for some. her first dude is my yale college classmate. very impressive guy, he took care of the kids. good for him and that begins to model for america what it might be at the federal level. keep your eye on governorships. >> there you go. >> i was wondering if you can speak a little bit towards the relationship between franklin and eleanor? is there anything we don't know about what he thought of her? >> i think the book, "no ordinary time" about franklin and eleanor is really very telling. it's wonderfully documented and i come away from it feeling like they were ships passing in the night. there will be times when he would reach out to her and

jennifer granholm said yesterday or sunday, 300,000 auto industry jobs in detroit in 1950. 27,000 autojobs in detroit in 2011. >> bill: whoa. so replacing 270,000 jobs is a lot. to make up for. so you had that going on. you had started out as people were able to move to the suburbs. it accelerated after the riots in the late 1960s then black middle class flight that followed that in the mid '90s. what was left was this core of mostly poor working class citizens 700,000 of them versus the 2 million roughly 700,000 of them, 18% unemployment rate not including the people not looking for work. that's the official unemployment rate. it is a pretty tough -- the math is just hard. the math is hard. you have to make a city work with less than half the number of people who make less money and when they re-did the auto jobs, remember when we had the 2009 bailout with the government, auto jobs used to pay $28 an hour starting at -- with the uaw. they now pay $16 an hour. so they cut in. that was part of the dheel to get the auto companies back in shape. there are more jobs but they pay almost hal

granholm, forer example. of the harvardt civil rights, civil liberties law review, in a way that barack obama was president of the harvard our review -- law review. you would have heard a lot about her as a possible vice presidential candidate for the fact that she was born in canada and therefore no proper birth certificate, according to some, that natural born thing. her first dudeveuy, dan mulhern. he took care of the kids. america,ns a model for what it might be at the federal level. heat your eye on governorships. -- keep your eye on governorships. >> i was wondering if you could speak a little bit about the relationship between frequent and eleanor roosevelt. is there anything -- franklin and eleanor roosevelt. >> i think the doris kearns goodwin took -- book is very telling. it is wonderfully documented. it feeling like they were ships passing in the night. there would be times when he would reach out to her, and she was unavailable to him, and when she would reach out to him, and he was unavailable to