for more, i'm joined by kim strassel, bill mcgurn, and journal contributor, jason riley. so kim, tell us what's the most important takeaway you get from this week's news? >> it's that sidney blumenthal appeared to be running state department business. in all kinds of ways that bring up some very big concerns. here's this man from her past. he is not only getting paid by the clinton foundation he's getting a salary from them. he's getting paid by outside groups helping set the path for hillary's presidential bid. he's advising a group that's trying to get business in libya. and he's -- >> this is private business. so this isn't u.s. official business. private business. >> yes. at the same time that he is putting things in mrs. clinton's ear about events in libya. so this is a very tangled web. we're not quite sure who's benefiting from it or if anyone is. >> this is really weird jason. he's telling the secretary of state who has this whole intelligence operation at her disposal he's saying here's what's really going on in libya and i know because i'm a half aworld away. >>

jason riley, columnist with "the wall street journal," syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. l right. we know that these e-mails are just the first of what we expect to get, jason. anything that popped out to you today? >> well they chose to dump them on a friday before a long weekend tells you something. >> surprise. >> when the government wants to get that stuff out and hope no one is paying attention. we don't know what she deleted. we don't know -- we do know that the original send her was using a private e-mail account. she claims nothing sensitive was there but obviously something sensitive was there because they are redacting parts of the e-mail that they are releasing. this continues to be a problem for her and goes beyond you know just what we're talking about with benghazi. now we're bringing in sidney blumenthal the former aide to bill clinton who obama said she could not hire but she was using him as a source on the side anyway. political interests and so forth, this is just -- it's just smelling more and more by the day. >> and to the point about blumenthal someth

jason riley, columnist with "the wall street journal," judith miller is author of "the story" and charles krauthammer, thank you for joining me on this friday. charles, first with you. some are asking how this could happen so quickly and others are saying it's important to act when you have the evidence and you've had a chance to review it and it may quell what we're seeing in the streets as well. >> well having the evidence and quelling the riots on the street we don't know if she has the evidence because the report has been given to her confidentially. the investigation. so we don't know what happened inside the van. we don't know what she was told happened inside the van. i must say, i don't quite understand how a medical examiner can determine whether something was a homicide or accidental if it happened inside of a van or presumably nobody was at the time that the injury was suffered. i do think it is problematic but we will know when the evidence is out, we will know at trial, perhaps. we will know being looking back if this is warranted. i must say that the way that she spoke at th

join me in welcoming jason riley and johnny taylor. >> welcome. >> good to be here. >> appreciate it. >> glad to be here. >> i'll let you start off. >> wow, puts me on the spot. >> yeah, first of all, i want to thank you-all for giving me the opportunity. i would have been here all day. i was invited at the last minute. i'm a stand in for the real guy right? [ laughter ] >> so like saturday night i'm like can you come? i said well, who couldn't? that's why i'm here. in any event one of the things that you couldn't have asked, talking about gratuity, you couldn't have thought for a better time as we're dealing with the issues from ferguson and baltimore and chicago. you name it. one of the things i hoped jason i always when i see something on the news, i say i wonder what jason would think. i literally do because i respect his thinking and read his book and have a great appreciation for how thoughtful. several years ago, i was just assuming this role and run an organization of historically black colleges and universities but didn't attend a historically black college or university. it'

the john mcwaters, the heather mcdonalds, the jason rileys. these are people who have taken their lumps in various ways because they're honest. and i have appreciated that and i've learned so much from them. i've discovered with rare exceptions and there are exceptions, academia is not necessarily the right place to search for honest answers. to these particular questions. it may be a little bit later on, we'll talk about what i find there. >>> i want to also focus on this point. and many times, we tend to characterize conflicts between what is best in education for black children as a conflict between the right and the left. often, we'll hear that a lot. and i understand that argument. and there's something to be said for characterizing that argument in that way. >> however, i tend to take a deeper interpretation of where the conflicts truly are. and let me just throw this out here to let you know where i tend to be coming from on this issue. it's not so much a right/left issue because i've met liberals that get it. and i've also met conserva

my name is jason riley. i am single fellow at the manhattan institute for policy research and i would like to welcome everyone to the symposium entitled prosspects for black america and moynihan report turns 50. if you are looking for a white america symposium you are in the wrong room. that would be any of the other rooms in the building. i will be brief with my remarks because we have excellent panelist lined up and i want to give them as much time as possible. i will get a chance to speak later on this man. i started working at the manhattan institute for policy research in february of this year. but the idea for this conference on race first occurred to me many years ago when i was on staff at the wall street journal. i came across a book falled the fairmont papers which is a transcription of a conference that occurred in 1980 at the fairmont hotel in san francisco. the conference was organized and hosted by the economist thomas soul and titled black alternatives. he gave the opening remarks and noted th