next we have my home boy, jeff johnson. jeff is an award-winning journalist, social activist and political commentator and author. from his celebrated conversations with marquise world figures in the political business and entertainment arenas to his grassroots trench work to inspire the next generation of leaders, investigative journalist, political correspondent and activist, jeff johnson continues to be a trailblazing social entrepreneur and authentic voice for change. currently jeff is an msnb krmplt contributor and executive editor of politic 365. he is a weekly commentator on the tom joiner morning show and chairman and ceo of the jeff johnson institute for urban development currently leading a five year project to recruit and develop 80,000 black male teachers. he has earned a reputation as a voice of conscience. we are pleased to have all of our panelists. please give them all a round of applause. my first question is as martin luther king junior talked about the war in vietnam, he asked the question, and i ask this

. >> i'm listening to jeff johnson talk like a son and it makes sense because of the make-up of the panel. but are we on the brink, because we have people who don't care and we've got this apathetic attitude and recidivism, low economic indicator. are we at a point of anarchy in this country? do you see it happening if we don't get a handle on it, if we can't get people excited? do you see us at a place where this country really could erupt? >> thank you. anyone want to tackle that? i will just -- i will say this. i don't think so. primarily because if it takes as much to get our people out to do something like voting for the president or doing some other things, i don't see the kind of uprising that you are imagining may happen. i don't know that there is any kind of leadership strong enough in our communities today to galvanize people across this country to do that. i think things would have to get significantly worse and they are bad now. so i don't know. who knows what tomorrow holds but certainly i don't see that happening any time soon. >> let me just add to that. and i would agree

jeff johnson, msnbc political analyst and a contributor to the "today" show.ght now is the trayvon martin controversy. what do you make of it? where do we go from here? >> as much as i'm concerned about this case, i'm concerned about it being the same thing that happens. less than six months ago with troy davis you have people wearing the davis t-shirts and you don't have people talking about the death penalty. how can we create legitimate, substantive movement that comes out of the issues that are surrounding the trayvon piece? how can somebody be allowed to carry a gun when they have an assault against a police officer? all of these things that allowed the trayvon martin piece to happen are the pieces that i'm conaccepted about us dealing with as we're waiting for the trial to start. >> lola, for first two weeks, everything was on the same page about trayvon martin. we showed sympathy and then we returned to our normal lives again. suddenly, there was one side against the other. people were blaming trayvon. some people were beating up on zimmerman. what does

. >> i think jeff johnson talked about what we do now and what we do as we plan for the future. right now we've got the problem of exciting people, getting them to the polls. we've only got another, what, five, six months before november. the primaries are going on all over the country. and so know your state laws. and i want to tell you, your ministers and your focused on the gospel. but you've got a lot of young people and professionals and others in the church. give them an assignment. give the lawyers an assignment in the church. give the young mbas an assignment. have them come back with the information, some of which you have been introduced to here today, this week. and know what your state laws are, what you can and you can't do. and so when you know what your state laws are, then you can use your influence in ways that will be very helpful to the community and still won't get you in any trouble with irs. we don't want you to give up on policies because you say that, oh, i may violate my 501c3. if your state laws don't allow you to do voter registration in the church, do

jeff johnson. jeff johnson, raise your hand. he is our floor moderator. we are proud that he is back with us for yet the second year in a row. it is my honor to introduce our panelists. first, the blogger me keli goff. she is on msnbc every monday. give her a hand. the activist and writer, mr. kevin powell. the president and ceo of the urban league of greater new orleans, our host for the 2012 urban league's annual conference, and nolan rollins. the dean of the school of education right here at howard university, dr. leslie. the activist and a radio host, at the truth stare, war and -- the truth sayer, warren ballentine. i will have to do this by memory. the leader of the hip hip action caucus, reverend lennox yearwood. a professor here, dr. gregory carr. and very proudly, the winner of our student essay context an alumnus of the urban league, miss desiree lockee. so, let's give our panel a big round of applause. [applause] i want to start desiree with you and kevil powell and pose the same question. you heard the conversation about voter suppression. you

jeff johnson but jeff johnson is our floor moderator and we are proud he is back with us for yet the second year in a row. it's my honor to introduce our panelists. first, blogger and political analyst, miss kelly goss. she is on an snb see every monday. give her a hand. [applause] the activist and writer, mr. kevin powell. [applause] the president and ceo of the greater urban league of new orleans and our host for the 2012 urban league annual conference, nolan rollins. [applause] the dean of the school of education right here at howard university, dr. leslie fed wick. [applause] the activist and a radio host, the truce ser, warren ballantine. [applause] -- truce say year, warren ballantine. by memory. s the the leader of the hip-hop action caucus, reverend leonard year would. [applause] professor here at howard university, dr. gregory carr. [applause] and very, very probably, the one of our student essay contest and a proud alumnus of the urban league in peoria, ill., this does array lockheed. [applause] -- miss desiree lockheed. let's give our panel of big round of applause. [appla

jeff johnson. jeff johnson, raise your hand. he is our floor moderator. we are proud that he is back with us for yet the second year in a row. it is my honor to introduce our panelists. first, the blogger me keli goff. she is on msnbc every monday. give her a hand. the activist and writer, mr. kevin powell. the president and ceo of the urban league of greater new orleans, our host for the 2012 urban league's annual conference, and nolan rollins. the dean of the school of education right here at howard university, dr. leslie. fenwick. the activist and a radio host, at the truth stare, war and -- the truth sayer, warren ballentine. i will have to do this by memory. the leader of the hip hip action caucus, reverend lennox yearwood. a professor here, dr. gregory carr. and very proudly, the winner of our student essay context an alumnus of the urban league, miss desiree lockee. ahoso, let's give our panel a big round of applause. [applause] i want to start desiree with you hot and kevil powell and pose the same question. you heard the conversation about voter

kasey kahne or jimmie johnson, jeff gordon has had problems but it seems like they hit their stride. >> michael: i talk to jimmie johnson and i talked to kasey kahne the other night after the all-star race and i said kasey, you drove the most amazing race in the all-star. he was sideways, going as hard as he could. he said, "mike, i love the cars and i want to win so bad for this organization." he pulled it off tonight. >> chris: he had to wait a while to g to hendrick motorsports and finally gets the win for hendrick. next on pocket, continuing the memorial day weekend, the late local news. checklistings in your area. next saturday night, we continue baseball tonight in america. yankees-tigers, some see the cubs-giants. note the start time. 7:00 eastern, 4:00 pacific. next sunday, over in dover for nascar coverage. we hope you join us. 12:30 eastern time from the monster mile. matt kenseth put on a good finish there last year. next on speed, victory lane for continuing coverage from charlotte. ne in to victory len on speed and everything nascar. kasey kahne wins the coke 600, capping

next we have my homeboy jeff johnson. an award winning journalist, social activist and political commentator for his celebrated conversations with world figures in the political business entertainment arena the grassroots trench work to inspire the next generation of leaders investigative journalists, political press delete the correspondence johnson continues to the trail blazing social conscience nor is the authentic voice for change. currently he's in a msnbc contributor and executive editor of politick trees 65 and a weekly commentator on the nationally syndicated morning show and to jeff johnson institute for urban development. currently leading a fight your process to recruit and develop 80,000 black male teachers and he served irritation as a voice of conscience please give iran of applause. [applause] [alarm sounding] in the vietnam we ask the question and i ask the question because i believe we are at war today to be and oftentimes members of the community pulled politics and politicians at arm's length and choos

kasey kahne or jimmie johnson, jeff gordon has had problems but it seems like they hit their stride. >> michae johnson and i talked to kasey kahne the other night after the all-star race and i said kasey, you drove the most amazing race in the all-star. he was sideways, going as hard as he could. he said, "mike, i love the cars and i want to win so bad for this organization." he pulled it off tonight. >> chris: he had to wait a while to get to hendrick motorsports and finally gets the win for hendrick. next on pocket, continuing the memorial day weekend, the late local news. checklistings in your area. next saturday night, we continue baseball tonight in america. yankees-tigers, some see the cubs-giants. note the start time. 7:00 eastern, 4:00 pacific. next sunday, over in dover for nascar coverage. we hope you join us. 12:30 eastern time from the monster mile. matt kenseth put on a good finish there last year. next on speed, victory lane for continuing coverage from charlotte. tune in to victory len on speed and everything nascar. kasey kahne wins the coke 600, capping the triple-hea

reed johnson pinch- hitting for jeff samardzija, and he homers for the first time this season.enth... darwin barney hits a grounder to the short stop but he's safe on the throwing error... ian stewart scores the go- ahead run. cubs go on to win 8-2. cubs start a two- game series in saint louis tonight. the bears wrapped up rookie mini- camp at halas hall this weekend, and seven players left with contracts. one of them was matt blanchard from lake zurich. he played quarterback for the division three national champions, wisconsin- whitewater. new quarterbacks coach jeremy bates spoke to the media for the first time yesterday, and said that jay cutler will be doing many of the same things he did when they were together in denver for cutler's only pro bowl season. do you want the chance for your band to play a gig and win studio time? enter the wgn midday news 'breakthrough band contest.' one band will play during the wgn midday news at the arboretum of south barrington music festival on friday, june 21st and win a studio recording session valued at 10-grand. enter your band at wgn

jeff. thank you so much. yes, ma'am. >> sue johnson, i'm from denver, colorado, i'm active in the republican party there. i'm also a former software engineer and current engineering computer science teacher in boulder valley school district. my comment is this. being a teacher since 9/11, i'm not afraid of the liberal left. what i do is i hit it head on. my comment would be is why don't people like you develop more programs for inner city kids to understanding your ideas because the liberal left is doing dances around you. so i think that you have a huge opportunity with leadership program of something or another and go straight in against them. >> the book that -- >> i can recommend my kids to you. >> the book that i have written, we had it, we had it delivered here. we don't know what happened to it. but i had -- we will be taking orders for it. al sharpton took it. joseph downs, the young man here, will make arrangements, crystal will make arrangements for you to secure the book and my signature on it. matt and i are working on that

johnson bottom of the backboard he hit. al could tie it at the line. one of 2 free tlochlt hates pair. jeff unable to launch from 70 feet.nver force decisive game 7 with the lakers because game 6 about loss and weak effort and went for 32. nugget hammer la 113-96. wasn't even that close. game 7 is saturday night in la. >> oh. oh, no. >>> thanks larry. >> "nightline"up next. >> we have all felt lake. that thanks for watching. news continues tomorrow morning starting at 4:30. >> for all of us here we appreciate your time see you tomorrow.

johnson gets hendrick to 200. matt yocum is there for the celebration. [ cheering ] >> matt: back in june of 2001, rick hendrick got his 100th win. with jeffrdon at michigan on father's day weekend. a big hug from his driver. a special moment. as they regard win number 200. and what better place and more special place than nascar's oldest superspeedway and the southern 500. this is a special one, jim. >> without a doubt. you got to love that man. he just said 200 is great. let's go get 250. shows you where his head is. i love it. man, what a day. fast racecar. thank chad and everybody at hendrick motorsports for awesome racecar. kobalt tool chevy was bad fast. we had a pit thing that went awry earlier in the race but we worked our way back and had a great racecar and won the race. >> matt: southern 500. you had a hendrick car battling you for the restart. tony stewart, two champions. then you had to throw in fuel milal, lot of different drama coming down near the end. >> it was a lot of drama. fuel mileage race, when you see the 14, you always second guess yourself. he is so good at it. i was really concerned. i was just pacing myself in t

jeff neely remained stunningly silent, pleading the fifth. gsa inspector brian miller and former administrator martha johnson also testified that day. we spoke with the former administrator of the gsa in the bush administration and asked her what she thought of the first day of the hearings. >> it was appalling. it was absolutely shocking. but it was shocking maybe for different reasons to me than maybe what other americans saw. i saw the question of competence because you saw the leaders of gsa, the administrator, the chief of staff, all saying they really didn't know what was going on. they really didn't think it was their responsibility to figure out what was going on. and even though after they were told it was okay to award bonuses to folks they knew had violated the public trust. >> greta: explain to me, if i am a regional director and i hold a conference, do i submit a budget in advance or a bill after the fact? >> i have to tell you, you should be submitting budgets and get approvals in advance. however it's very clear after today's hearing that the current obama administration appointees at gsa have radically departed from

johnson. side of the backboard. missed. gets 2. missed the first. made the second. paul pierce hits a pair. 83-80. as jeffe back court but no call. move on 4 games-2. meet phillies in the east semi n.denver the nugget on the verge of forcing game 7 with the likeers. lawson unstoppable to the hoop. scored and fouled minute later 3 ball. he has 32 on the night and denver is flat out whoopin whooping. what is going on out here? 101-73. so they force a game 7 tv back in la. the many sportscast i felt like that. what is happening. lakers blown out in denver. >> thanks very much. >> that's this edition of 7 news. coffee tv 20 what is happening? for all of us here, appreciate your time.

johnson gets hendrick to 200. matt yocum is there for the celebration. [ cheering ] >> matt: back in june of 2001, rick hendrick got his 100th win. with jeffrdon at michigan on father's day weekend. a big hug from his driver. a special moment. as they regard win number 200. and what better place and more special place than nascar's oldest superspeedway and the southern 500. this is a special one, jim. >> without a doubt. you got to love that man. he just said 200 is great. let's go get 250. shows you where his head is. i love it. man, what a day. fast racecar. thank chad and everybody at hendrick motorsports for awesome racecar. kobalt tool chevy was bad fast. we had a pit thing that went awry earlier in the race but we worked our way back and had a great racecar and won the race. >> matt: southern 500. you had a hendrick car battling you for the restart. tony stewart, two champions. then you had to throw in fuel milal, lot of different drama coming down near the end. >> it was a lot of drama. fuel mileage race, when you see the 14, you always second guess yourself. he is so good at it. i was really concerned. i was just pacing myself in t

johnson. >> it was beyond my wildest expectations because i dealt with o.j. in the past. he was a hard nut to crack, let me tell you. >> prosecutors jeffc hoffman and the police were excited. tony had lived with o.j. during his divorce. he had been questioned by police a number of times since 1993, but had never revealed anything. now he was coming forward on his own, ready to tell all. and he knew a lot. what was o.j.'s motivation for wanting to talk to you guys? >> i think there was a lot of things going on in his life. he was older now. he was retired from the factory, wasn't in the same environment, wasn't around tony french anymore. david woods had recently moved to california, was not in the area anymore. o.j. talked about his family and just carrying this burden for years. i just think he felt guilty about it and wanted it off his chest as much as anything. wanted to move on with his life. >> o.j. also had recently been busted again for cocaine, which is what brought him in contact with the law. prosecutors offered him a deal, if he told all he knew about teresa's killing, they wouldn't charge him with conspiracy to commit murde