the author, jason riley. mr. riley in the last few seconds, minutes, what would you like to say? >> guest: by the book. [laughter] >> host: beyond that. >> guest: take a look at the arguments with an open mind. take the left to task when they come to the black community in the name of helping the community with some of the same things that have been tried over and over again for the past five decades on the black unemployment rate despite the countless job programs and so forth. take them to task on the welfare benefits and the incentives they put in place and what it has done to the family and the culture of the dependency into the ghetto. ask questions. be skeptical. that is what they would do in particular. they want to see better outcomes than we have been getting in the current policies. >> host: even though they are controversial you back up your statements with those facts and it is a very interesting read and i thank you so much for your time. it has been very mind opening. i love to hear conversations from all sides and you have given me some interesting thoughts to pond

the author with us today jason riley. this is a very hot conversation. i'm thrilled to be sitting here talking with you. i really am because it is interesting to hear what you have to say. as you are going back as a reporter i get a different set of facts but it's for the listener int and the reader ande viewer to make the assumption, and i appreciate what you have to say. >> there are lots of footnotes and there is an index people can look it up for themselves. they don't have to take my word. >> host: let's go back to the affirmative action situation. we have seen it in the university of michigan talking about preference. we heard about these opportunities in the bush years with the university of michigan, but i want to talk about the examples that you give at mit, but what about places like harvard university that really go out and recruit african-americans to come in and they give them scholarships to read they give them thousands of dollars for scholarships to come to the schools in harvard university and amherst have been battling back and forth be

host: georgia for jason riley. you will? >> yes. good morning, mr. riley.irst of all, are you there? host: yes. caller: sir, i reject your premise that the liberals are causing the problems. i think your book will appeal to the same people that buy the books written by anne coulter. my question for you, is there anything that we can blame the republicans for? should we give them the credit for the success of the caucasian people that have been successful in their business with the tax breaks and things like that? thank you for this. for your answers. thank you. guest: i think you somewhat misstated the premise of the book saying liberals are the reason for all the problems. that does not value the things that other groups value in order to move up in society. and this is a -- it's not a recent trend, but you can date this trend to the great society programs. one of the arguments in the book and one of the narratives out there that doesn't get a lot of exposure is that blackses in this country largely lifted themselves out of poverty, coming out of slavery,

. >> host: jason riley "keys stop helping u"thesestop tellins make it harder for blacks to succeed." we will be back with this conversation in a moment. he wod like to download and listen to "after words" while you travel. >> host: we talked about third rails. you are touching that on the conclusion of this book when it comes to president obama's addressing the nation in the surprise announcement or speech to the nation that friday about almost a week later after the verdict and i'm saying you touched the third rail. for whatever reason i was on the andy and i had to be in florida, landing in orlando florida the night of the georgia cinnamon verdict and it was across the airport and across the state of florida and a week later almost, president obama came out to the briefing room to the press corps and he spoke from the heart. he knew about racial profiling and things of that nature. >> guest: it seemed that he had its instructions on what it could take into account and what it couldn't. mainly that was a different matter what the scenario was in terms of who is following who. what m

the author, jason riley "v. .-full-stop helping us to liberals make it hard for blacks to succeed." talk about your feelings of immigration as you've been writing about that and what you say about immigration reform. >> guest: this book i don't get much into the immigration reform and i will say that there have been some conservatives who have wanted to scapegoat for high black unemployment rates and i don't think that the data backs that up. if that were the case it we see high levels of immigration, we should see lower levels of black employment and vice versa but that isn't what the data shows the black unemployment as you know has been doubled for decades and it's been irrespective of immigration trends in this country. i don't think that it should be scapegoating for the unemployment rate. on the minimum wage, and again aanother policy that is intended to help the black poor, but it is another poor and high poverty tool. most poor people make more than the minimum wage. most of that make the minimum wage are not poor. poor households are in that circumstance typically because n

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turning to jason riley and latest development in ferguson.ing we need to confront the basic fundamental problem in black communities, he said it is black criminality, and black leaders need to stop makesic s excuses for it. jason good to have you here. >> good to see you lou. lou: ferguson is a hotbed of confusion, and contradiction, and violence, and seemingly without explanation. we have watched 11 days of conflict without any impull it seems in that community to wait for a judgment about what happened this day. >> and the irresponsibility starts in the white house with piggybacking an investigation, rather than leting it run its course, the way it is normally done, nothing has been alleged in terms of misconduct by the people doing the investigation, that is a reason to get involved by federal government. or, if this police department history of civil violations. which it has not been alleged. this is like your last guest said, done for political reasons, own has a base, particularly a black base he is trying to appease here. lou: oh, my g

he also said he probably lives in a white neighborhood and went on to mock jason riley's white-sounding voice. the interesting thing is brand went after me as well. he only mentioned jason's race, which makes him a racist. now meanwhile while this is going on, while russell brand is lecturing the united states, radical islam is spewing from his homeland, but he's too much of a coward to focus on that and to say something like that because he dressed as osama bin laden on 9/11. he's a coward. he should talk about what's going on in his home and not in ours. >> may i? can we get this in here? harvard professor we understand talked president obama has compared michael brown and martin luther king. listen. >> this is just like the assassination of dr. king in 1968 when everybody was upset. it reminds us of what happened years ago when i was a young kid to the great man, the young kid killed in mississippi for allegedly being with a white woman. >> for him to compare this to martin luther king is ridiculous. if i were him, i would go back to school and learn something about the history of th

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"wall street journal" editorial board member jason riley is one of those voices.re next. >>> our next guest says we need to confront the basic fundamental problem in black communities and he says it's black criminality and black leaders need to stop making excuses for it. joining us is "wall street journal's" jason riley, author of the new book "please stop helping us." jason, good to have you here. i have to say, ferguson is becoming a hotbed of confusion and contradiction and violence and seemingly without explanation. we've watched 11 days of conflict without any impulse, it seems, in that community to wait for a judgment about what happened that day. >> and the irresponsibility is starting in the white house, i think, with piggybacking an investigation rather than letting it run its course the way it is normally done. nothing has been alleged in terms of misconduct by the people doing the investigation, which would be one reason to get involved by the federal government. >> right. >> or if this police department had some history of civil -- violation of civil

if you know anything about jason riley. that is his point.nd he knows a lot more about growing up a black man in an inner city than we do because he did. >> i wish he had said that. >> maybe -- follow jason riley. he has interesting good things to say about this topic. every day. not just -- >> i think he did say poverty contributes to crime. he said race doesn't contribute to crime. poverty does. >> bob, you got your bobble log. >> up next, there was another fatal shooting involving another police officer just miles from ferguson. details on that next. ♪ ♪ ♪ great rates for great rides. geico motorcycle, see how much you could save. >>> we're going to head back out to missouri where earlier this afternoon police shot and killed, i believe what is said to be a 23-year-old man wielding a knife trying to rob a convenience store. mike, do you have the very latest? tell us what the response is from where you stand. >> reporter: well, it's interesting. because i'm out here and you get the reaction from the people and the reaction from the people r

host: jason riley is our guest. his book is "please stop helping : how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed." republicans (202) (202)02, democrats 737-0001, independents (202) 628-0205. the book also covers a wide range of economics to crime statistics and prison sentences, to president obama. i wanted to show a quote from your book about the popularity of president obama. you write in your book talking about polls on the presidency -- host: what do you think is behind the reason the african-american support has grown for president obama, or at least sustained in his second term? guest: there are a number of reasons i point to in the book. one of the first ones and perhaps the most obvious one can be a sort of racial lori -- loyalty. black folks very proud of the first black president being elected and some book -- subsequently reelected. i guess there is some of that going on. that isso think behind a, i would say, greater than normal were greater than average reliance on political saviors among blacks in

the author, jason riley. mr. riley in the last few seconds, minutes, what would you like to say? >> guest: by the book. [laughter] >> host: beyond that. >> guest: take a look at the arguments with an open mind. take the left to task when they come to the black community in the name of helping the community with some of the same things that have been tried over and over again for the past five decades on the black unemployment rate despite the countless job programs and so forth. take them to task on the welfare benefits and the incentives they put in place and what it has done to the family and the culture of the dependency into the ghetto. ask questions. be skeptical. that is what they would do in particular. they want to see better outcomes than we have been getting in the current policies. >> host: even though they are controversial you back up your statements with those facts and it is a very interesting read and i thank you so much for your time. it has been very mind opening. i love to hear conversations from all sides and you have given me some interesting thoughts to pond

. >> host: "please stop helping us how liberals make it hard for blacks," author jason riley.i were to tell you that i've taken this around me for several cookouts are just around town, political circles and it has raised a few eyebrows, just title alone become and sparks conversation, what would you think about that? >> guest: publishers would be happy to hear that. it's not surprising. i've had a similar reaction. when i went to get the jacket

jason riley is a member of the editorial board. welcome.rt with al sharpton and his presence on the scene here, good or bad? >> always bad. always bad. he is not the nation's racial healer, he's an agitator, and i think he is in town to call attention to racial solidarity, and put that ahead of any bad behavior he might encounter or that we've all seen on our screens over the past few days. >> we've seen it in prior cases that had some similarities. and we had a lot of pictures of al sharpton in st. louis tonight. the community is bracing for the worst, and hoping for the best this evening as we take a look at the line of people across that street. the president in the past has run into trouble weighing in, and some similar situations. the cambridge police department calling them out for stupidity. the day after the issue that arose with him. you have the trayvon martin case, some people felt he spoke to soon, and some people said he shouldn't speak about this, until more details came out. but today he did. what do you make of that statemen

and jason riley is a "the wall street journal" editorial writer. thank you for being here.ow you wrote to the prosecutor and said as follows, wrote as follows, if you should decide not to indict this police officer, the rioting we witnessed this past week will seem like a picnic compared to the havoc that will likely occur. you think that's helping? i mean that seems to be suggesting that he needs to go or else. >> megyn, that is the sentiment of the people that are on ground zero. many of them feel like they need justice. and the only way justice can be served is that bob mcculloch step aside and allow for the confidence to be built within that community. >> okay. now, i know that his father was killed -- his father was white and killed in 1964 by a black defendant. and he's got many members in the police forces, this county prosecutor. but he's been elected four times. in st. louis. which is a majority black county. including four days before michael brown was shot and killed. so it seems clear that he does have the faith of the people of this county. >> not of the africa

we're back with jason riley and james freeman.es, how does the head of the republican governors association not support a republican candidate for governor? >> it's weird. you can understand given cuomo has an enormous lead in the polls and huge money advantage, you can understand christie saying i'm not going to drop 10 million into that race. but there's no reason to knock as tore reno especially when you have a talented guy. >> he's the westchester county executive. that's not exactly a republican stronghold. >> right. >> yet he managed to win in 2010. >> twice he's won in a democratic area. twice he's shown he can get minority support, latino spurt, black support, democratic support. anyone who gets to know him will he's a formidable communicator with a strong message. it's way too early to write this guy off. >> how do you explain this christie behavior, jason? >> it's tough. he's almost aggressively indifferent. we don't pay for landslides he said to the press. >> why? >> he has a sort of nonaggression pact with governor cuo

we are back with bret stevens and kim strosle and also jason riley joining us.o, did she actually achieve the goal of distancing herself from the president, kim? >> well, she is certainly critical of it and you can see why she is doing it to maneuvering of 2016, and the polls show that the public is not happy with what the president is doing. and the problem of hillary clinton is that she has yet to exma plain her role in it as secretary or state or explain to the public what the vision is. it is one thing to be critical, but another thing to define your own views, and she has been careful not to do that yet. >> well, jason, she is triangulating to borrow a word from the 1990s with her husband who said with the democrats and the republicans right down the middle, she said, i'm not barack obama, but i'm also not george w. bush, and how credible is that? >> well, she wants to sort of attract the critics without alienating the supporters, and it is a tall order, because as kim said, she had a role in shaping this so-called light footprint strategy which is making t

his name is jason riley. he has plenty to say about what the president said yesterday. say, the role of politics. >> you said it all there, stuart. you are right. he talks about black criminality. he begins to justify it. he talked about poverty. he talks about a racist criminal justice system. stuart: you think that poverty is at the heart of this disturbance. >> the black incarceration rate is lower than it is today. the black crime rate is lower than it is today. that would be my response to that. this is about personal responsibility. that is what we need to hear more of. they do not want to talk about that. they want to talk about everything except for that. black criminality. >> how about paying for it. do you think that there is a moral responsibility to pay for those businesses? to pay to rebuild. to pay for the damage. >> you know, i don't know. there is a moral responsibility. though moral responsibility, i would say, is on these black kids to behave themselves. it wants to switch the focus to the cops. the cops are not the problem in this neighborhood. the la

fox news contributing jason riley blasting obama after his remarks on the crisis in ferguson. >> he is criticizing the president for blaming the high black crime rate on poverty and racist system. one thing he said have you talked about black crime? it shoulden criminalized. then there's the racial poverty. the black crime rate. this is about black behavior. it needs to be addressed head on the attitude towards the criminal justice system where young black men have no sense of what it means to be a male or what it means to be black. he needs to talk about that head on not dismiss it as a product of poverty or racism which is a dodge. >> he also took aim at al sharpton. >>> the state department ours after it was revealed. that hamas kidnapping and murder of 3 israeli teenagers that sparked this p recent violence. this coming after white house blocked similar weapons shipments to israel. the state department saying turkey is an important nato ally. >>> texas governor rick perry vowing to fight the abuse of power charges against him. the 2016 hopeful said he was fully entitled to veto his

want to take a listen to what jason riley from the wall street journal had to say last night. this was on special report. take a listen then i want your response. >> there's also this false narrative being pushed out there by folks like eric dyson and sharpton and the rest of the hustlers is black men live in fear by being shot by cops in these neighborhoods. cops are not the problem. cops are not producing these black bodies in the morgue every weekend in chicago and new york and detroit and so forth. that's not cops those are other black people shooting black people. >> false narrative, what do you think? >> definitely. when i worked at wbon on 87th street in chicago. every night i came home i was looking for the police to protect me because blacks were shooting blacks. you pull up to a stoplight. he is right on point about that. sharpton and others are part of the problem. black people need to step up and start acting like first class citizens. this is not the 60s. we have civil rights. we have opportunities and we need to take advantage of it just like other blacks who com

wall street journal and jason riley says the president's involvement is more about perception and popularity than it is about any real action. >> i think it's really about this president wanting to show lack america and regardless of federal intervention is warranted. there's a problem with the president playing sort of racial healer. i don't really buy it. this administration has no problem dividing us by race when it suits its own political purposes. >> other news survey by the pugh research center said there is a racial divide when it comes specifically to the michael brown shooting. 80 percent of blacks say it raises important racial issues. only 37 percent of whites agree. so what does such a large divide say about race relations in america? here now is dr. charles williams at tredrexel university. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> you just heard what was said. what is your reaction to that? >> look, i don't think anything is surprised. those numbers show it will he wrd know although we don't like to talk about it. we have a big racial divide in america. that is s

protests continue in gerg gus onand here with reaction of "please stop helping us" jason riley. ck with us from ferguson, jason webb. eric holder this, is a guy that said oh, look at how they treat the president, suggesting that you know, that in other words without a shred of evidence, a guy said we're a nation of powers on race. >> he's not the only one. these two men, let's recall, locked arms with al sharpton up in harlem where they said these things. republicans are trying to disenfranchise black voters? i don't think they have a lot of credibility with a large portion of the american public. i think the role of the president should be to condemn the wrong doers. >> what is the feeling on the ground, david? you talked to a lot of people all day, all night tonight. what is the feeling of people about eric holder? about al sharpton, about reverend jackson, about president obama. is there any feeling for that? >> a lot of people are focused on local police they talk about the governor, the conversations are not about eric holder. i suspect, sean, after he gets here, and whateve

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. >> jason riley is a member of the board. thanks for being with us. new developments, the president spoke out today about all of this. there's also been a change with the highway patrol being brought in to be the main law enforcement lead on all of this. and they've taken a very different tact as we've been talking about. what's your reaction? >> the equivocation in the president's statement bothers me as if there's moral qualification between the riots are doing. the rioters and looters are breaking the law. the police are there to stop that. they're doing their job. that's what they should be doing. i find it very disturbing that the president won't simply repudiate what these unlawful people are doing. i don't understand why his sympathy isn't with the law-abiding residents of these communities. that's ultimately who's going to be hurt by what's going on. >> but he did talk, jason, abous violence being never justified in any situation today. >> but he also said the cops shouldn't be overreacting, which is suggesting that they are overreacting. and

jason riley. keers sten powers.harles krauthammer. >> what about the president's comments and how this all fits together? >> one thing he said today is he talked about black crime a little bit which i was happy to see. he said black criminals should be prosecuted which is helpful but then he attributed that black criminality, it stems from poverty or racist criminal justice system. the black crime rate was lower in 1960. this is about black behavior. it needs to be addressed head on. it's about attitudes toward the criminal justice system in these neighborhoods where young black men have no sense what it means to be male or black. he needs to address it head-on. >> we're getting word in from our team on the ground in ferguson that a journalist has been arrested in ferguson. this would be another incident involving journalists covering this event which is also in and of itself troubling. >> there were two other journalists that were arrested, washington post reporter and huffington post reporter who were in a mcdonal

director spike lee claims there's a war on black males, while journalist jason riley disagrees. >> all this country did not trust what has happened. something smells bad in ferguson, it's not just tear gas. it's a war on the black male and it's tearing the country apart. >> this whole idea that the police don't respect the value of black lives or america doesn't value black lives what about the black thugs and the value they place on black lives. where is the value they place on black lives in this community. >> juan, tell us what you were arguing today in your op-ed that i read before the sun came up. >> well, thanks for reading it, dana. the key point to me is that there are so many fears on either side of this, but there's a reality that we need to confront, which is that if you look at the high level of violent crime, especially among young black men, that the interaction between police trying to control that and the young black men then becomes a window into all of our racial fears and paranoias, on one side, i don't care if you're white, black, hispanic whatever. who would want t

phil bump, political reporter for "the washington post," dana perino, co-host of "the five" and jason rileyitorial board member of the "wall street journal" and author of the book "please stop helping us, how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed." phil, you watched this develop, and the sense is that this is going to be another tough night, at least if the history serves. where do you think this is going? >> that's a great question. i think everyone wishes they knew the answer to that. i think one of the reasons that the federal government is trying to figure out how they can get involved is that nothing so far has worked. there was a day in which there was relative calm but then overnight it became -- violence erupted again, and i think that until there is a sense in the community that something has been done to address their concerns around what actually happened with the incident, that we'll continue to see the same sort of standoff with the police there and the protesters along with some aggressors in that crowd who are behaving in a way that remains to be seen. >> what about t

. >> jason riley is a member of the board. thanks for being with us.ew developments, the president spoke out today about all of this. there's also been a change with the highway patrol being brought in to be the main law enforcement lead on all of this. and they've taken a very different tact as we've been talking about. what's your reaction? >> the equivocation in the president's statement bothers me as if there's moral qualification between the riots are doing. the rioters and looters are breaking the law. the police are there to stop that. they're doing their job. that's what they should be doing. i find it very disturbing that the president won't simply repudiate what these unlawful people are doing. i don't understand why his sympathy isn't with the law-abiding residents of these communities. that's ultimately who's going to be hurt by what's going on. >> but he did talk, jason, abous violence being never justified in any situation today. >> but he also said the cops shouldn't be overreacting, which is suggesting that they are overreacting. and i

jason riley, a member of the "wall street journal's" editorial board and author of "please stop helping us: how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed," jane harman, president and ceo of the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and a former congresswoman from california, and republican congressman michael turner from ohio. welcome all. thanks so much. anne, you just got back off another round the world trip with john kerry, and you have been spending so much time in iraq and afghanistan and the conflict zones. what about the argument that isis would not have taken hold if the administration had a year ago, labor day, gone after assad with air strikes and done more militarily to help the rebels there? >> there's a fair amount of evidence that isis could have been blunted some time back. you can pick various points where they were gathering strength, but when they were incubating in syria might have been a better time to have been paying more attention to how much weaponry they were amassing, what kind of training was happening, where they were getting their money. not

you end jason riley in the wall street journal and a few others, you are first, you have broken some ground, you created a turning point. >> i wrote a book about this, a book called enough that was based on bill cause be giving a speech in which i use his quote talking about some kid going into a corner store and stealing pound cake has caused the describe it, another kid went into a store and stole cigar's, and confronted by the police and people say why the police treat him so roughly? what was he doing stealing? that book was published in 2006. i am saying this is something people who care about trying to resolve racial issues, not stoke fears or create confrontation or make money off of -- stuart: when you are describing al sharpton. he is going to bring this to new york city this weekend. i find the men inflammatory and went to know what you think. >> you and i argue so much fun on this one we are on the same page. there is no way to get around it. think back to his history. i know people know about to water raleigh but he was involved in protests against the store owner in harl

that was jason riley on bret baier's "special report." a grand jury set to meet and decide charges that may come in a couple days. it may take longer. attorney general eric holder in missouri two hours from now. bill o'reilly, host of the o'reilly factor is with me now. good morning to you. i haven't heard you comment in 36 hours but a lot has happened since then. where are we on this ferguson? >> i think the protests are declining and it's the hard-core anarchists and anti-american police, that crew that wants to cause trouble rather than the regular folks who are rightly concerned. i have said that from the beginning that every american is fair mind and has to be concerned when an american citizen is shot times by a privilege and the victim turn out to be unarmed. it doesn't matter how it is or what cover the person is. you have got to be concerned. but then to have the agitators go in, the sharptons of the world and whip it up like they know what happened and encourage people to go out and break the law is just disgusting. one of the t

host: joining us next in our studio in new york, jason riley, now up with his second book :alled, "please stop helping us how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed." thank you for joining us on washington journal. what motivated you to write the book? the book because i think that a lot of the efforts to help black underclass have not been working. in many cases, they have been doing more harm than good. i thought the 50th anniversary of the great society programs was an opportunity to look back on what has been tried and perhaps thinking about reevaluating our efforts on this. host: how do liberal policies make it harder for blacks to succeed? guest: one of the essential themes of the book is that blacks ultimately must help themselves by developing the same habits and characteristics and attitudes and behaviors that other groups in america have had to develop in order to rise socioeconomically. to the extent a government effort or program or social policy, however well-intentioned, interferes with that necessary self-development, i think it does more harm than good. that is what

jason riley discusses his book, "how liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed." join the conversation at facebook and twitter. "washington journal" -- live at 7:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow on c-span. thursday was virginia congressman's eric cantor's final day as majority leader in the house. he lost his bid for reelection in june during a primary. kevin mccarthy will be taken over as majority leader for the rest of the congressional session. before he stepped down, leader can't gave a farewell address from the house floor for about 15 minutes. -- leader cantor gave a farewell address to the house floor for about 15 minutes. been anpeaker, it has honor and a privilege to serve as majority leader of this distinguished body. i look around this remarkable chamber, and i see so many friends and colleagues who have inspired me, and who have inspired this congress to do great things for the american people. walking into this building and walking on to this floor is something that excited me every day since i was first elected to congress. as it should. not one of us should

policy in the middle ease author jason riley discusses welfare and the african-american community and his book, please stop helping us. and as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. >> on friday, the council on islamic relations held a meeting . included palestinian-american teenager who recently returned to the u.s. from israel after having been arrested and detained by israeli security. this is one hour and half. is israel complying and examining the impunity and killing civilians in the gaza strip in the west bank including and i am the josh policy director for the u.s. campaign to end the israeli occupation and we are extremely glad a number of organizations have joined in helping to organize and to cosponsor this event this afternoon including american muslims for palestine, the council on american islamic relations and the defense for children international palestine and jewish voices for peace and national lawyers guild, peace u.s.-palestinian community network. we are hosting this briefing obviously as everyone knows at a tim

jason riley.l street journal" evidently board member and the author of please stop helping us. guests will look at welfare programs and how he believes they are holding african-americans in this country. ... >> as congress reps at business and makes a way for it august ray, we are pleased to have senator david vitor of louisiana. she is a senior republican on the environment works committee. he is chair of the caucus.