and there was nothing like jeremiah wright in there. it was just king in vernacular, you know, king backstage preaching to black people saying, oh, i went to cleveland, and there was this brother there, leader of the national. and levinson understood that the white audience was comforted by king. it's not that they were, did not respond to his moral appeal, but their ability to respond to the moral appeal was based on king's gentility. he knew how to ease them through logic and corollary. and so he often plays the role with whites of the instructor. i'm sure you would all agree with me that, you know, prejudice is the, that it is a sin is defined as the degrading of the human personality, and does not racism degrade human personality, therefore, you know, walk with me, brothers and sisters. racism is sinful. or establish the good samaritan and remember the samaritan, very important point, the presbyterian, george buttreck was of another race and tribe, right? so kick would remind his audience, jewish audiences he'd say, you know, i am s

ross broke the jeremiah wright story during the last presidential campaign. also reporting in mitt romney's offshore investments now. doing that interview make you scweem squeamish at all, brian. >> not where i thought i would go when we were seeking out marianne for the interview. we were investigating the ethics investigation and the fbi investigation that ultimately philadelphia. that's the starting point. as we got to go back and forth with marianne she finally agreed to do an interview this last week and said she wanted to say all about what happened to the marriage and why, in her view, she thinks newt gingrich does not have the moral character to be president. >> bill: okay. but she has said that before. it's been around, you know that. when i saw the cut aways of you, you didn't look like you were having a good time there. >> well, this is not exactly where we go. but, in this campaign, character has become an issue. mr. gingrich has campaigned on a platform that includes a strong stand on family values and the sanctity of marriage. >> bill: he says i

race in america came on the heels of relentless attacks about his association with the reverend jeremiah wright. some believe it's time for mitt romney to step up to the podium and give his own speech on race, addressing his mormon faith. aubrey hendricks writes in the post today the book of mormon condemns black people as cursed. after they had dwindled in unbelief, they became a dark and loathsome and a filthy people, full of idleness and all manner of abombenations. >> pretty heavy stuff. next african-americans were not allowed to fully participate in the mormon priesthood until 1978. mitt romney, who was once a leader in the mormon church addressed the issue in late 2007 on "meet the press." >> i love my faith. and i'm not going to distance myself in anyway from my faith, can you see what i believed and what my family believed by looking at our lives. my dad marched with martin luther king. my mom was a tireless crusader for civil rights. i was anxious to see a change in my church. i remember when i heard about the change being made, i was driving home from law school, i think. i heard it o

raised by a white mother where his african father abandoned the family, and when he went to jeremiah wright's church, and you, on the other hand, became jewish so it's like kind of interesting way. >> yeah, well, 5 lot of people have -- a lot of people have commented on those parallels. there are differences. he's the president of the united states. [laughter] i'm just a journalist. look, i think there's a couple of differences. i mean similarities obviously, interracial family, academics his parents also came a from that world, a brilliant, but very troubled father. one big difference in the stories is that, as you say, obama really never knew his father. his father abandoned them when he was very small and encountered him a couple of times very briefly, and his story which he tells to beautifully in "dreams of my father" are about the struggle of someone who grew up without a father to figure out what it is to be a man and a black man really on his own. my story in terms of the relationship with my father is the story of a very complicated 50-year up and down relationship, and my father is

>> i request not imagine a man sitting in jeremiah wright's church being a man of true faith, being ahristian. >> judy gardiner is the local leader of the baptist church. >> are you comfortable with mormon if mormonism? >> no, i'm not. >> does that keep you from moving toward mitt romney? >> yes, it does. >> eddie diaz is a perry high schoolteacher, part of a growing hispanic population attracted by jobs at the local tyson plant. his family came here from california in '95. he served as a marine sergeant in the iraq war before returninging to perry. >> why would you choose to punish these kids. >> reporter: recently he challenged michele bachmann for her hardline on immigration. explaining -- >> every election cycle, immigration is used as a punching bag, and it's so easy to demonize people. >> reporter: eddie could go elsewhere, but he likes perry, which he says is more moderate culturally and politically than the candidates realize. the mayor agrees, he thinks once the candidates leave iowa, life will go on. >> i was at a meeting last night, the wife was democrat the husband was rep

and we all know what happened, you know, how that story ends and so religion is after the jeremiah wright affair, something that they try to kick back into the private sphere. something they discuss a little bit now but not that much and you know they don't want to showcase the washington church that they are going to join. a white house aide said something that really stayed with me. and what he said was once you put some part of your personal life like the religionocity out there for people come and what he meant is when you kind of market it a little bit politically can you ever really to get back? can you ever really truly put it back into the private sphere and what is interesting now that is happening with the marriage is that they are really putting it out in the public because the president's personal ratings are much higher than his ratings on the handling of the economy, and one of the things that his advisers are resting 2012 on is the appeal of the union and they've learned how to go out there together and do this kind of public political performance together that has an authe

and to extent, what the president did when he was linked with jeremiah wright where he described himself a degree, you make a good argument. he needs to address the mormonism. there are a number of evangelicals who are deeply suspicious of mormonism. the problem is if mitt comes out and do that publically, does he draw more attention to mormonism or deflect the problems about his faith? with john f. kennedy, he was seen as the other. one was roman catholic. mormons, one of the problems that southern baptists have with mormons is they are so much alike. they have the same dna. they are competitors to a degree. is he going to overcome that suspicion? >> you said newt gingrich will be the nominee and that tea partiers would never, as you said, back mitt romney. if it comes down to mitt romney and president obama, is the tea party going to go with romney or just abstain on election day? >> we have done some surveys about that. depending on which survey we have done, anywhere from one-third to one-half of the tea party members say if romney is the nominee, we're not backing him. we're not eve

bill ayers, jeremiah wright, others that had socialistic ideas, big government ideas that barack obama goes down our throat. we know what shaped him. on the gop side and who and want shaped our candidates, cast your vote what that shaping was. >> sean: but if i can go back, if i had to press you -- i'm not going to press you too hard -- if you had to decide, if you were in florida, now we've gone through the other three states, this election matters because the future of the direction of the country. we have two dramatically different visions between conservative vision and that of obama's. you said last time you wanted the race and vetting to continue if you had to cast your vote, who would it be? >> i want that vetting to continue. it's the candidate that has to endorse. it's not going to do you a whole lot of good if you can't produce not only in the debates but according to your experience and according to what your core foundations are and according to the proof that you have that you're not flip-flopping around like a halibut ready to be clubbed. you have core convictions and the

reverend jeremiah wright, some of the funniest people in the world but sean hannity is one of the biggest> kimberly: love him. >> bob: he was down there with some of those you like, levin. it's amazing. conservatives, liberals, let me tell you. get them agent together. they're not bad people. >> kimberly: that is sweet of you. happy birthday to sean hannity. we love him here. eric? >> eric: over the weekend, new year's eve, my son didn't have a snowboard, thought to bring in the new year on the slope. he takes a fall. we have a picture just before, the before picture, getting ready to go hit the slope in upstate new york. go to the next picture. i get a text that something is very bad. give me one more, can we give the other one first? this is where he ends up an hour-and-a-half later. that happens to be the albany medical center. pediatric intensive care unit. the last picture with the nurses and doctors. they were absolutely the greatest people on earth. there is no amount of money you can pay doctors and nurse nurses. worth every penny. >> kimberly: thank them on facebook, too. >> eric

. >> barack obama was never asked a question about fire brand preacher, the reverend jeremiah wright.ight. they were glossed over, passed over. nothing was asked about how somebody with little experience would pass for presidency. we want to make sure he's the worst one-term president. >> good look with newt gingrich. thank you so much. >> yes, sir, thank you. >>> american troops confront a deadly enemy within. bryan sullivan is here. >> looks like the s&p 500 will end. the dow just keeps powering on despite europe's concerns and greece's concerns. they're trying to work out a debt deal as we speak. google stock down more than 8% after it missed its earnings expectations. another big earnings next week but another big 15 minutes for "martin bashir". used to be we sy and expected it to grow. then the world changed... and the common sense of retirement planning became anything but common. fortunately, td ameritrade's investment consultants can help you build a plan that fits your life. take control by opening a new account or rolling over an old 401(k) today, and we'll throw in up to $6

the analogy is, if jeremiah wright tape had surfaced in october as opposed to april, that would have been much harder for the president. we may have a president john mccain. i don't know what would happen if it surfaced in the general. there's a chance of it happening this early allows the romney campaign to figure out how they are going to deal with it and where he talks about, you know, what capitalism is or something like that where he really takes it head on and that may end up benefiting the campaign in the long run. >> he may have to steal a lot of what joe scarborough just said. brown university that is a nobel place that needs to benefit in -- >> pension funds. yep. >> he needs to make the good is greed speech. a company coming into an inefficient staple manufacturer, purely looking for profit, purely out of self-interest and getting rid of those jobs and outsourcing them in the name of the efficiency, that that creates the greatest good for the fundamental believe that we have in america. he has to defend that head on and i think when it is defended head on, it's scheduled t

unrepentant terrorist, started his political career in his house, went to meetings with him, went to jeremiah wright's church. one question on bill aier, but i don't remember any yes, sir on past drug use. is there a huge double standard in the media. >> sure. >> as it relates to the way conservatives are treated? >> there's an enormous double standard because the elite media, in particular, led by the new york times , is just unendedly left wing. i've recently been talking about food stamps. i end up on a show the other morning where the questioner said isn't it racist to use the word food stamps in south carolina? and i stopped, and i said i started talking about barack obama as the best food stamp president in august of 2010. i have discussed it in iowa and new hampshire and used the phrase all over the country. but they have this automatic mind-set they want to define us in ways that will make us unacceptable and they just can't help themselves. what i discovered is that the american public now instinctively sides with the conservative against the liberal media. >> but the numbers speak for themse

>> right, i think he needs to give a jeremiah wright speech.i'm not sure this is as serious yet but it could be. it's clearly the chief vulnerability. the white house, the obama campaign has issued a four-page memo jumping on the criticism. so i think he's needs to give a speech and say this is what i did. this is why it was valuable for the country. as i say, its studies show when these private equity firms come in, in general, what they do is they do fire people when they take over a firm. over the long run, because they've improved the health-- and they have every incentive to improve the health of a company-- they tend to increase employment in the long term. there are some cases, though, where they pile on the debt and take out the dividends. so there is some bad behavior in that industry but he needs to really lay it out over a lengthy period of time and people accept it or not. >> woodruff: can he turn it into a positive, mark? >> i don't think it's-- i don't see it as a positive. he's a long way from doing that, judy. they cubbed the re

so religion is after jeremiah wright affair, something the obamas try to take back into the private sphere. something they discuss a little bit now but not much. they don't want to showcase the washington church that they are going to join. white house aide once said something that would stay with me. what he said was once you put some part of your personal life out there for people, what he meant is when you market it a little bit, can you ever take it back? is there ever -- can you ever truly pull it back into the private sphere? what is so interesting about what is happening with the obama marriage is they're really putting it out in the public's fear because the president's presence of ratings are much higher than his handling of the economy and one of these things his advisers are resting 2012 on is the appeal of the obama union and the obamas have learned how to go out there together in public and do this public political performance together that has and authenticity but is also designed. you saw the meeting in the oval office, designed to earn votes. i don't know that i could answe

anybody who watched the campaign months of controversy about the edge share of mine at -- jeremiah wright, this is what he was talking about. the larger section of the sermon goes something like they bring the drugs into the country, give them to our kids pass the three strikes law, but everybody in prison than they ask us to stand up and a sing god bless america? no. goddamn america that is the conviction on the part of the community that we do this to them on purpose. and when people believe that they will not stand up shoulder to shoulder with the cops to tell them then to put the guns down they will not cooperate and they will die on the street and not tell you who shot them which is what goes on. the most important piece of the work has come to be brokering a process between the authorities and the community in which the cops have to the. they will go to the neighborhoods to say we get it. it is now working. rear jacking up your young men. we interesting in the unintended consequences of what we're doing. we want to do something different. we are especially cognizant of what we have

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