let's ask about the politics, jelani. the supreme court justices deciding this case, one nominated by george bush, two by -- two by reagan, two by george h.w. bush and two by president obama and president clinton is this politics or a constitutional question? >> well, one of the things i think that's -- that's wonderful about the supreme court is that they are not necessarily predictable in terms of who nominated them. if you recall when franklin roosevelt, one of the court packing stecheme in 1937, he wanted to add four supreme court justices to the court, specifically because the ones he upholded were not upholding aspects of the new deal. i don't think there is a 1-1 ratio on thousand these things go. to take you a step back and talk about the free market, if indeed mitt romney is god father of the health care plan, he's an absentee father, because he's run so far away from his political project plitt progoney. if we are talking about elect n electrici electricity. we go thousandrough a full thir the country still in t

with me are schneider and jelani cobb. we all watched the speech together.ught i would read one piece here. iran's leader should know i don't have a policy of containment. i have a policy to prevent iran from o obtaining a nuclear weapon. is ha enough? >> it depends on what the folks in israel are thinking and quite frankly the folks here in this country. what i found interesting about the speech is a potpourri of adjectives. it was clinical in the beginning but he finished strong. it was pretty much a campaign speech and defensive of talking about his holistic record over the last 3 1/2 years. but also talking about, look, we've been through tough times before. i know exactly where i stand. i know where israel stands and there will be no compromise. i thought it was a very interesting speech where he had to -- at least he thought he had to walk the viewer through his israeli record. >> there's also the domestic dynamic here, of him thinking about florida and the 27 electoral votes at stake. he's thinking about that. at the same time, he has to present a str

division within the muslim community here to discuss that with me here is progress a journalist said jelani and a friend of mine author of standing alone an american woman's struggle for the soul of islam i want to thank you guys of both for joining me tonight and so also i'm going to start with you because i think that this is maybe the minority view or definitely the view that we hear a lot less up and so why is it that you want to defend the n.y.p.d. in their actions you know i've been a muslim that's growing up here in america and i call one number if i'm in trouble and that's going to be nine one one because we are not a police state we're not a state where we have to worry about the police we do in other countries and i think that it's fundamental to realize that we have a navy ology inside of our muslim community that unfortunately our own people have not policed well enough and so we should work with the n.y.p.d. and instead of correcting them instead of criticizing actually work. position and actually try to clean up their own communities which we failed to do and then why is the f