even in -- on i love jeremiah wright and i am proud to say it here but that comes from the part of me that is grounded and martin luther king jr. black liberation theology, which reverend wright represents is a radical doctrine. one of my oldest, closest academic trends, jim cohen, a theologian at union cemetery -- seminary. what jeremiah's church came to represent was the sort of living blackment of what theologians like jim cohen and cornell west have championed. preaching,ight's barack were not there that day and were not there for another of reverend wright's most notorious sermons. i don't think his preaching is in any way reflective of barack obama's release -- beliefs. trinity church was a great church to be a member of if you were an aspiring, young african-american politician in chicago. as many good things as can be said about reverend wright, i would say that no one should be judged by history for the three stupidest names they have ever said. there is a much worse clip from the national press club appearance here some years later. >> is this the one where he dammed america

reverend jeremiah wright.t may be to some extent forgotten in the age of donald throughout barack's presidency, the "washington post" were oftentimes very unhappy with his performance as president, with the policies he pursued or did not pursue as president, and so i believe my quick summary of his presidency in the epilogue is entirely fair but critical. what do i me nowadays think the obama legacy will be very i would say two things. i am afraid that most of that legacy lives overseas in foreign policy, syria, north korea, iran. when we look at president obama's domestic legacy, i think there are two things that are important that will have long-lasting consequences that can be summarized in four words, sonia sotomayor and elena kagan, his nominees to the supreme court. bothare great justices, justices who have done better than some critics expected. it is a critical epilogue but it is not hostile. brian: i want to ask you about this man. this is fairly long. this is in mandate you write a ,ot about, jeremia

and particularly the generation of the reverend jeremiah wright who is about the same generation, a littleyounger than miles davis. miles davis was born in 1926. grew up hearing stories about the riot. he was born nine years after the riot. and yet, the stories that he heard growing up as a boy were so strong, that he says in his autobiography that he felt that they had affected his way of looking at white people for the rest of his life. he was very mistrustful of whites. and that was one of the reasons that i decided that the book might be interesting. if it's stuck with people that thenin the oral tradition, it must be something very powerful. and i think it was. of course, it would be great if it were taught in schools. >> in response to what he just a under the umbrella of the center for arts and humanities and doing a summer school at the alternative middle school and 25th in kansas , i taught it this morning in summer school. in east st. louis. thank you. i am just wondering how you found the coverage in the press, the st. louis press about the riots. harper: the coverage in the pre

, john mccain forbid his staff from using an ad that referred to barack obama's former pastor jeremiah wright way to use obama's race against him. in 1968, lindon johnson's team had wiretaps that proved candidate nixon was working to block the vietnam peace talks, but they believed it immoral to use the covert information to expose nixon. said secretary of state dean rusk the moment we cross over that divide we're in a different kind of society. they were worried about something more than vising. victory. politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing. we'll be back in a moment. >> dickerson: we'll be right back with more on "face the nation," includes a new book about "apollo 8" and more from our panel. stay with us. >> dickerson: welcome back to "face the nation." joining us now is jay sekulow, on the president's legal team. he's also chief counsel at the american center for law and justice. mr. sekulow, i want to start with this meeting with the president's son. the president said he didn't know about it. are you confident that the president k