henry louis gates is a prominent professor at harvard and a friend of the president, so i think this would have been an issue anyway. you can't say that he acted smartly. i think they have all now agreed everybody overreacted based on -- >> given the set of circumstances, don't you think that the way the president handled this politically was a stroke of genius? he made himself disappear from the stage. it's like houdini. he created the problem in a real way by reason of his intrution with the word stupid, and then he made it go away. he diffused the problem by making it appear like a crow okay exercise on the lawn. [ all talking at once ] >> this was directed at me. the initial intervention and use of the word stupidly was a mistake. the going into the briefing room and gracefully saying he had called everyone and invited them to the white house that was fine. i'm not sure that the beer summit was necessary, but i think this has been damage control on the part of the white house. >> here's what he did. did he shut it down? >> i think it's fading out, but here's what he did. he went

but one of henry gates' attorneys, professor dershowitz is here, dr. bob. he went to dartmouth, the rival school, though. was this about race or was this about something else? >> it was about a lot of things. i think the fact that sergeant crowley who i also know and who is a very decent man, his aunt has been helping us clean our house for 20 years, a wonderful woman, francine, i think the fact that he didn't believe that he owned the house immediately, the house has many pictures with skip and nelson mandella. after that it was contempt of cop or disturbing the police. if you talk back to the police that is going to happen. i got arrested in fenway park and taken away also twenty years ago. >> geraldo: you weren't streaking were you? >> a couple of seconds before the race. >> i think it was turning into class. it had been race and i think they stepped back saying this starts to look like, you know high brow harvard professor and a blue collar policeman but henry is a terrific guy and i love him. >> geraldo: we will take a break and be right back from brea

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 got a surprise answer. >> so here you go. this is -- warren, people are saying about the falsifying of the police report, that's an accusation. we're not sure, you know, if that is a falsification or if that is what he remembered. so, you know. >> he wrote it down, don. that's factual. >> still to be determined. let's mo

that isprofessor henry louis gates. and how do you fix a $24 billion deficit? the state of california, they may turn to pot. >>> you thought you heard it all? well, we'll hear a performance of some newly discovered pieces by mozart. that's right, i said newly discovered by mozart. >>> okay. the white house beer summit may have done some good. may have. professor henry louis gates extended an olive branch to cambridge, massachusetts, police officer -- police sergeant i should say james crowley. without the president even being there. i want you to listen to what professor gates said earlier at his book signing in cape cod. >> you know what, i like crowley. i thought that we would like each other, and, yeah, i don't know what we'll talk about. but i asked him if he would have lunch with me one-on-one. i asked him maybe we could go to a red sox game together, maybe go to a celtics game together. maybe we could have dinner with our families. why not? you know, i offered to get his kids into harvard. >> all right. so no word on when that game or the dinner summit mi

henry gates jr. talks about the incident at a book signing in martha's vineyard yesterday. police investigating a possible break-in arrested gates in his own home. the arresting officer is caucasian, prompting some allegations of racial profiling. the president even weighed in, leading to the now famous beer summit at the white house. gates says he's not angry and has even invited the officer to a ball game. >> but i asked him if he would have lunch with me one on one. i asked him maybe we should go to a red sox game together, you know, maybe we could have dinner with our families, you know. why not? you know, i offered to get his kids into harvard. if he doesn't arrest me. >> they did admit this had been a difficult for him but he does not want to exaggerate it and that other people have gone through far worse things. >> after a lot of tension it's good they can laugh at it. >>> 11:28, 82 degrees outside. next at 11:30, how a family of geese has landed a virginia man in court. >>> also ahead, a major court hearing in the michael jackson case. what could happen today. >>> pl

i think the best comment out of all this is henry gates, who at the end said that officer crowley, whenis not arresting you, is a really nice guy. >> the president in fused racism into this? >> a soft answer turns away wrath, so i will answer softly. the bonding over beer that occurred was probably a good thing. i do think, though, that it was a teachable moment that obama, the constitutional lawyer, allowed to pass. there was an opportunity to talk about the first amendment, police powers, the rights of citizens. i don't think that was necessarily attend to it, but there is a time to do it, and is now. >> i like the comment of the woman who actually reported what might be a break in. that is all she said. she was completely exonerated by the 911 tapes. she never mentioned race. her lawyer said, "three guys acted badly in this, and they are having a beer at the white house. the one person who did not act badly, who did her duty, is doing her job in cambridge today." >> joe biden, i am glad he had a non-alcoholic beer. brought sobriety intemperance to the event. secondly, it turned out t

. >>> after enjoying a cold beer at the white house, professor henry gates is talking about his his face-to-face meeting with the officer who arrested him. >> i asked him if he would have lunch with me one on one, maybe go to a red sox game, maybe go to a celtics game, maybe have dinner with our families. >> sergeant james crowley arrested gates saying the professor would not cooperate as they investigated a reported break-in in his home. 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, p

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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

howard professor henry gates and cambridge police sergeant crowley sipping suds with the president and vice-president there, two weeks after gates was arrested by crowley follow the acting stupidly comment by president obama, kept the attention of the media and sergeant crowley talking to the press after the beer. >> i think what you had to do is two gentlemen agreeing to disagree on a particular issuement i don't think that we spent too much time dwelling on the past. we spent a lot of time discussing the future. >> so, jim, this controversy got a lot of attention in the press, almost knocked the president off stride or actually did knock the president off stride when it comes to the health care debate. did the crowley comment which a lot of people thought was a generous statement afterwards, did that sort of put the story to bed? >> i don't think it did because it-- the narrative of this story didn't have a satisfying conclusion, where to the media and to the public frankly where somebody says i apologize, we're best friend and they left it as he said, agree to disagree, that will on

approaches us with the sense that they had something new to say, and kurtz said had it not been about henry gates and professor gates and sergeant crowley, there would have been no news." president george w. bush had six during eight years in office. venezuela president hugo chavez is continuing his socialist agenda by shoving 34 radio stations down across the country. government officials say the stations failed to comply with regulations but critics insist this is a crackdown on free speech. the head of ven sen's council of journalists have denounced the move and one opposition government group says the government has turned into a mutilator of rights." the government says "we have applied the law," adding that "the stations now belong to the people." and now more on healthcare. amid the uproar over various parts of the plans being considered, there has been precious little attention paid to a proposal that is already bipartisan and would actually pay for itself. so why isn't it getting any traction in congress? we report, you decide. here is correspondent james rosen. >> it's just not going to

. >>> henry louis gates jr. talking about his new friend sergeant james crowley. the two hit it off at the white house. guess what? they are planning to meet again. we're going to hear the harvard professor's first public comments after the two sat down for a beer at the white house. >> he joked about getting his kids into harvard. >>> is the white house looking for raise tacks to foot the bill for health care and slow a ballooning federal deficit. it's something two of the top money men were asked this weekend and neither one of them ruled it out. >> we have to do what's necessary. the critical thing is people understand when we have recovery established, led by the private sector, we have to bring these deficits down very dramatically. we have to bring them down to a level where we're stable, at a reasonable level. that's going to require hard choices. we have to try to do that in a way that does not add unfairly to the burdens the average american already faces. >> there's a lot that could happen over time, but the priority right now, it's never a good idea to

. >>> harvard professor henry louis gates jr. made his first public appearance since having a beer with president obama and joked about his arrest by a cambridge police officer. here he is sunday a book signing on martha's vineyard. he was interested in meeting with sergeant james crowley again some time. >> you know what, i liked crowley, and i thought that we would like each other. yeah, i don't know what we'll talk about, but i asked if he would have lunch with me one on one, maybe we could go to a red sox game together, maybe have dinner with our families. you know. why not? i offered to get his kids into harvard. >> on a more serious note, we should point out professor gates said he has received death and bomb threats and he's had to change his cell phone number and an e-mail as well. >>> an off-duty cop says he had to shoot a man who stole his taser. houston police say the officer was working security at an apartment complex when he tried break up a fighting couple. the cop says that the man got his taser and threatened him

president obama hosted harvard professor henry louis gates, the officer also who had arrested him earlier this month, sergeant james crowley. vice president biden in as well. the president called the meeting a friendly conversation. we'll let richelle carey pick it up from there, "prime news" correspondent, taking a closer look at that in the "what matters" segment. >> the president said he wanted to calm the racial issues since professor gates was arrested on july 16th. of course, you remember gates was arrested after a neighbor calling 911 about a possible break-in at his home. yesterday there were no apologies, but everyone seemed to agree to move forward. gates and crowley are already actually planning another meeting. >> i would like not only to discuss, but i'd also like to listen to professor gates' perspective. certainly he has the credentials to enlighten me a little bit. and i think perhaps the professor, as he expressed to me, has a willingness to listen to what my perspective is as a police officer. >> and professor gates says he thinks he and sergeant crowley to use this oppo

. >>> as you know, president obama, professor henry gates and came ridge police officer james crowley had a beer together at the white house today, a big dog and pony show because of the racial controversy involving the sergeant. we get together with geraldo rivera. this isn't a photo op, it isn't going to lead to anything, is it? >> i'm a little tipsy right now. >> you have been rehearsing. >> i try to put myself in the minds of the participants. au contraire, i think this is a big moment. i believe that the whole issue of race and justice, remember, have not, i leave been discussed in the white house since the clinton race initiative but we. >> but we don't always -- >> back in 1998. >> sit at a picnic table. >> pictures sometimes mean a lot. here you have the president who admittedly overreact. it was stupid to use the stupidly adverb. crowley, i believe, was out of line and i think professor gates was also out of line. >> why do you think the police officer was out of line, just because he handcuff canned him on his own property? >> i think that was a big deal and it appears from

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

it all started about harvard professor henry gates arrest. in it, he used a racist term in references to gates. barrett insisted he doesn't deserve to get sacked. >> i composed the e-mail. i did not mean it to be offensive. i apologized and i've served my country. i volunteered to go to iraq. i served my city of boston. if i'm charged with a crime, i want the chance to answer. i want the chance for a fair hearing. that's why i got my attorney. >> of course, you know professor gates was arrested last month at his own home after police received a report of a possible burglary. the incident prompted a national debate, of course, about race. >>> boston firefighters have rescued now two window washers who got trapped 37 stories up. look at that. can you imagine? the fire department says the platform got stuck while they were working on a building in downtown boston. firefighters had to break a couple windows to get them to safety. the rescuers kept pedestrians away from the building to make sure the falling glass didn't hurt anyone. the department

he is expected to be sworn in on wednesday. >>> henry gates spoke at the book festival this weekend.

we kept hearing that henry gates was either crazy or a subject of racial profiling. of the things that i immediately thought of and the first conclusion i jumped to i immediately thought that skip gates was being persecuted and racially profiled. one of the things that we are not hearing in the conversation is, what is it that happens to black males of a certain age group? what psychologically caused skip gates to open the door, if i have the facts straight, but to open the door and immediately say are you asking me for my identification because i am a black man in america? what has happened that so many of us jumped to the conclusion that we are being persecuted. i don't think that other races have a fundamental understanding of why sometimes we feel the way we do. i also think that we do not have in understanding of why somebody in the position of the sergeant did what he did. part of it is because we do not have all the facts. i also think if we are going to talk about a post-racial america and continue to have this discussion of what does america mean, it is not

gates. tonight he says he's the victim. >>> when he got suspended, this officer claimed his civil rights were violated. an e-mail kplam claimed about a column simple thet ir to henry louis gates, recently arrested by the cambridge police. the e-mail got him suspended from the police department. 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 monkey, i would have sprayed him with o.c. ba what they call pepper spray. transcending back to a bumbling jungle monkey and said it should have been titled comments unbecoming to a jungle monkey, back to its roots. >> he said he's not a racist and went on tv to apologize. >> i'm not a racist. >> reporter: but once the e-mails made the rounds, the higher-ups, erupted. the mayor said he's gone. the chief put him on administrative leave. >> his racist feelings have no place in this department or our society and will not be tolerated. >> reporter: barrett's lawsuit said he was effectively terminated without due process or equal protection of the law, that his contract rights were violated and accused the city of intentional inflictio

her calls led to the arrest of professor henry gates and sparked a racially charged national debate. now she's gotten flowers courtesy of gates himself. he sent a bouquet to the 911 caller along with a note which her lawyer wouldn't reveal. an officer responding to a report of a possible break-in, arrested the professor on july 16th for disorderly conduct, the charge was later dropped. >>> she was a former housewife who became the most powerful woman in her nation, we'll remember corazon aquino. . gecko vo: 'course, geckos don't literally sweat... it's just not our thing... gecko vo: ...but i do work hard, mind you. gecko vo: first rule of "hard work equals success." gecko vo: that's why geico is consistently rated excellent or better in terms of financial strength. gecko vo: second rule: "don't steal a coworker's egg salad, 'specially if it's marked "the gecko." come on people. thththththththththththththththth >>> former world boxing champ, arturo gatti's family wants a second autopsy and they're going to get t police found his body at a sea side resort last month, there were strang

the only news he made was the question about the henry gates arrest.hat can't be good for a president who wants to drive this debate. >> if i may, i would like to address this to both of you, and you first, heidi. we've seen in the abc/washington post poll a decline from 65% to 59%, from the cbs -- "new york times" poll, a decline of 6% again. there is -- you know, those are his overall approval ratings on health care. more people are opposed than supporting the president on health care. heidi, you talk about a sustainable brand, but howie has the numbers on his side on this, does he not? >> well, i think those are still fairly significantly high approval ratings. and, you know, there's a couple things going. this is not a spript. -- sprint. and obama recognizes it's not a sprint. and he also is looking at -- you know, i hear howard's point around you don't want to overwear your message, but i think there's a couple other things going for it, in that he's using multiple platforms in terms of various different formats, whether it's a town hall or twitte

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well, the gates of heaven, or at least harvard, our ivy league professor henry louis gates kicked backvineyard that weekend offering the scoop of last week's white house beer summit with the man who arrested him, sergeant james crowley. heres he is, professor gates. >> i asked him if he would have lunch with me one-on-one, i asked him if we could go to a red sox game together, go to a celtics game together. maybe have dinner with our families, you know. why not? i offered to get his kids into harvard smg. if he doesn't arrest me ever again. >> actually, i think harvard would do well to admit more kids of policemen. talk about encouraging diversity up there. >>> time for tonight's big wisdom. the president's party generally does lose seats in congress during the midterms. while that may well happy again this time, a new poll from gallup just out has some good news for democrats that may cushion the blow. when taking a look at party identification, how many states are considered right now to be solidly democrat? 30 states out of the 50. republicans meanwhile just have four states that ar

i think henry louis gates was arrested for the crime of not kissing the behind of the police officer. and i think that's too often the problem we have in this country with the police. you know, michael moore when he made his brilliant movie about health care. he said what he found out was that in america, the people are afraid of the government. and in france, the government is afraid of the people. well, in a similar way in this country, i think the people are afraid of the police and it shouldn't be that way. i asked this question on the show friday night. i still don't have an answer. why was this man arrested? i can see why the police came. i could see why they went into his home. i could see why they asked him to step out. but at that point they knew everything they needed to know about the situation. he wasn't a burglar. it was his home. who was being threatened? if you arrest somebody, i assume it means because they are in some way a threat. what was the threat? why couldn't that policeman just walk away at that point? >> well, you weren't there, we don't know the extent of the

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the master of ceremonies discussed at the henry louis gates incident creek >> you can hold your groundoud and get locked up, or you can use that as a teaching moment and teach your young men how to respond to law enforcement so they do not locked up and hit a record that they cannot get a job with later in life. >> the mission is to provide resources to african-american males that would uplift, educate, and empower them. >> now, your insta-weather forecast. >> a decent salary outside for most of us. we still see a few individual cells for northern virginia. we do not anticipate a lot from this activity, but a lot of rain is further off to the west. we are watching that closely for tomorrow. if you did not get the yard work done today, you may not have another opportunity to get it done tomorrow. we are expecting a good deal of rain. this is the set up we have been the last few days and we expect to continue for the next week. the jet stream is down below the great lakes. the storm track is bringing storm after storm right past us. that provides us with a storm one day, then one or two