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speakers include jesse jackson and congressman john conyers. this is just over two hours. >> brothers and sisters, this is a momentous occasion, and to be here with the institute of the black world and all of you is an honor for me. in a sense i represent everybody in the congressional black caucus all 42 other members particularly including congressman jesse jackson jr. and bobby scott, the congressman from virginia. give them a round of applause. [applause] [applause] this is an old subject for us. we've been fighting this whole thing in the name of making the justice system better and we have problems that have developed. the rate of incarceration has grown even as the crime rate has gone down. one part of the paper you're reading that the crime rate is down, but when you look at the facts with rainbow push or the naacp or the congressional black caucus or the institute of the black rural, the rate of incarceration is going up at the same time. the reason i suggest is that people are being real arrested and incarcerated on technical violatio

also in getting jesse jackson jr. to fill the senate seat in 2008. the topic of jesse jackson jr. it up so much of the day that $1.5 million in campaign contributions allegedly offered to rod blagojevich to make him the next candidate. . >> when asked if such as generic yet constitute a bride rod blagojevich refused to answered a question. he said of riot but i'm afraid to answer that you saw my law school grades. what ever was it was not illegal. . >> he said he read injected the law firm offer at least three times. after they finished questioning the defendant. he tried to shake the prosecutors hand but it was rejected. we are a day from a closing argument and the rest is up to the jury. . >> it is a chance that the jury will look at the government case and say is that this they're all there is ? there was no bomb show when the governor took the stand. that's a real possibility. but we can never know what's in the jurors' minds. . >> if this case wraps up as quickly as is indicated, it would appear that tonic roscoe a perfect witness for both sides. will not be called to the sta

jesse lewis jackson. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] now i don't know if our distinguished leaders dr. ron daniels ranged this with "the new york times". but ex-president jimmy carter published on the editorial page a column entitled call off the global drug war. how many people have seen this in today's paper. quite a few. and it's very instructive. because more and more people are realizing that our encars ration of our own citizens exceeds the rate of more than any other country on earth. we all know that. i think it's accurate to say there are more black young men in prison than there are in college. it's been true for over 20 years i've been advised. so we have a more serious problem. this is what we're here to talk about today. one of the things i want to do is connect all of the organizations that have been seriously working on that problem. starting with the institute that brings us here today. but rainbow push starts it's conference in chicago tomorrow i'm going there. can i get about

that dlint p didn't happen. >> actually jesse jackson jr. and rahm emanuel did testify very briefly. both of them testified. it was, you know, there was all this anticipation when now mayory man you'll came on the stand. later he said it took him longer to get to the courthouse than it did for him to actually testify. >> the jury said today that they wanted to believe him but that the evidence really just kind of pointed in the opposite direction. those phone calls, the f.b.i. wire taps seemed to be pretty damning. >> well, the game-changer this time in the minds of many was that rod blagojevich actually took the stand. there was interesting reaction from the giraffe ward. afterwards, one juror said that the fact that he was, quote, personable did make it a little harder but ultimately they were able to just focus on the evidence. another juror said she found the governor to be very manipulative and that his testimony really was not very effective with her. but ultimately he did put himself on the stand. he promised in the first trial that h

exact low june of '91, the front runner in the democratic hine up of polls was mario comio and two jesse jacksonee dick ebhart and asterisk next to a governor of arkansas named bill clinton. that was june of '91. it is comical to see the way the pundits judge the polls now. it doesn't mean anything until we get closer to the iowa caucus. >> pat, what are the issues that mack a republican ignite in the election and cause them to have the election and juice to go on for the general. >> we have a changing political situation right now. the economy is a problem with the president after yesterday's numbers it is about, it may be half of the election. but there is a greater issue out there, the issue of what i call the spector of decline that hangs over the country that people feel. that is in a way we have not seen in years. >> we haven't seen it since the jimmy carter years. >> and water gate. >> yes, he never used that word. >> but a sense of what the country in trouble . we have now the debt, we have question of are we going to make it in the world and what happened to the economy. both partis and

>>the questioning focused around the lisa madigan and jesse jackson jr. speculation of whether or not blagojevich would use either to replace senator brock obama and this involved his trading campaign favors and funding. >>tony rest go is also cooperating with the federal government. >>there was also talk about what he wanted to trade with the new administration at the white house to place the valerie jarrett in the senate seat perhaps the appointment to health and human services secretary. >>this is his first full day undergoing questioning by the prosecution this is expected to take at least one day. >>prosecutors have rested their case against the chicago businessman accused of helping to plot the deadly 2008 terrorist attacks in mumbai india defense attorneys for tahawwar rana had begun presenting their case the government accuses him of using his immigration business to provide a cover for david headley admitted terrorist to travel to mumbai to scout locations for the attacks headley pleaded guilty and was the government's star witness but tahawwar r

after a semester, he transfers to north carolina a & t, jesse jackson's al ma mater. he socializes with 20 people, all of them are arab and muslim. but he emerges as someone who's known on campus as a mullah. technically he's not a mullah but what they mean by that he's an enforcer. he makes sure that the other students in his group do not violate these very small very obscure tenets of islamic law or what they believe to be islamic law. for example, you know, the cuff of your pants can never cover your ankle. it's forbidden to wear shorts because they expose the knee and so on. so even when they would go to the gym and work out, they would be fully covered. enforcing all these differences kept them apart from the american college campus. i met a number of people, almost a dozen in fact, who went to college with ksm who remember him. and by the way, they mostly remember him fondly. he was a comedian. he was a member of an informal student troupe know as the friday night show where he put on plays, skits, very successfully and apparently very humorously imitate various

brian lamb: katie couric, jesse jackson, madeleine albright, jimmy carter, hilliary clinton, al gore, teddy kennedy, phil donahue, peter fonda, peter jennings. what do you think their reaction is on the cover of a book that says "useful idiots? " >> i don't know if they will notice. brian lamb: did you have something to do with selecting these? >> the publisher came up with the list. every person on the cover is mentioned in the book in some capacity or other. something that was worthy of being noted. brian lamb: katie couric. >> gosh, what did she say? brian lamb: i could help you. >> she was praising cuba if i recall. brian lamb: i will read a little bit. with host bryant gumbel and indicate kwrou couric visiting cuba, they mouth chirpy nonsense that characterized liberal views of cuba. >> that's exactly right. as i documented in the book, whenever the major media or liberal newspapers report on cuba, they do it in this completely uncurious way. they go down there and repeat what the castro regime says. they find themselves talking about their wonderful health care system and the fa

today, our blago insisted he was never planning to cut a deal with illinois congressman jesse jacksonsecutor read a transcript of the recording that seemed to suggest otherwise. our blago saying, quote: i'm going to begin objectively, honestly consider him. and pointing out that congressman jackson was, quote, the only one to, like offer stuff. rod blagojevich admitted did he say that but he apparently left the stand with no hard feelings trying to shake hands with the prosecutor on his way out. the prosecutor was a no-go on that one. the judge saying it's nothing personal, just against the rules. well, we have been tracking a couple of breaking stories during this newscast. new developments coming in now. latest information including what we are hearing about that report of dozens of bodies buried at a property near houston in texas. the sheriff's department waiting for a search warrant. that's next. ♪ hey, dad, think i could drive? i'll tell you what -- when we stop to fill it up. ♪ ♪ [ son ] you realize, it's gotta run out sometime. ♪ [ technician ] are you busy? management jt sent

i want to go back to jesse jackson's remarks at the very beginning because he challenged us by saying that rather than thinking of the drug were as a failure, that, in fact, it's a success. it's a success of the things that were set out to do. which was about not producing drugs but about policing for people. and i think we have to remember that because if you think about it we already had a time in our country where we experiment with the idea of controlling people's behavior and access to something that they wanted. it was called alcohol prohibition. and what did that produce what they produce a lot of crime. it produced a lot of violence. who were the people who were arrested? it wasn't the big guys who were smuggling liquor in, the seagram manufactures, et cetera. it was the immigrants, the poor people. it was the working class people in cities all over the country who the law was designed for in the first place because if you go back and look at the history of it, you see the people put forward these proposals didn't specifically with the idea and intention of using it to control

remember jesse jackson used to go on these missions. i think this is not very helpful. sin nichl doesnkucinich is y cynical way. i think for the syrian regime you have the ruler's brother for oppression, and then you have the professor of english literature for the pr. the pr offensive is on, and i think i'm worried to be honest with you. i think you're now beginning to hear from both washington and paris, such hinge things as well, this is helpful. that syria is opening up. it's helpful that bashar has allowed 200 people to meet in a damascus hotel. i think we have to be on guard against this effort by the syrian regime. >> hala, i wonder if you have a question you want to ask. >> yes. what i think is interesting fuad is this is a charm offensive, definitely an attempt to control the message, but you have opponents of the regime who are willing, you have hussein, michelle kilo, these are prominent opponents who spent years in jail. and they're saying they're at least willing to try to work within the frame work of this authoritarian regime. my question is, do you think

jesse jackson saying i don't see it happen.nal black chamber of commerce said this guy is against business. >> dana extra five seconds, look at her. i have to give you more than cornell. >> talkative today. >> that's kind of hilarious to me. look, our economy was in a nose dive when the president came in. the campaign will not take any vote for granted. i want to veer off for a second. you tell me newt gingrich and michele bachmann are the ones bringing this charge? because newt gingrich, michele bachmann have such credibility in the minority community? really, really? come on. >> pete? really? >> well, the truth is, this president hasn't done enough. they're right, newt gingrich and michele bachmann, for african-americans. this congressional black caucus would be the first to say so. i mean, michele bachmann and newt gingrich pointing this out, cornell is right, like rev vand al sharpton advocating for higher salaries for ceos, be it's ridiculous and they're not going to get any black support, newt gingrich or michele bachmann

that he could reprimand the black community and distance himself, some would say, from reverend jesse jackson. i suggest now that young black politicians enin a kind of -- engage in a kind of bills cosby moment -- bill cosby moment. they have to show the country that they're not beholden to black communities, and often that means engaging in if a little reprimanding of black people, often the black poor. so as i recall, that is his bill cosby moment. and i think if we look at other young, in particular black politicians who are trying to have a position beyond the black community, you'll also find that they have these moments of reprimanding black communities. >> host: so in democracy remixed, first of all, where did the remix come from? >> guest: well, it comes out of hip-hop culture, and it really does speak to kind of making sure the culture, the voices, the ideas of young black people are first and foremost in writing this book, including in the title. >> host: is there an importance politically to hip-hop culture? >> guest: well, i think it is. first of all, we have to recognize hip-hop

jesse jackson after calling n.y. "himney town ." i'm glad to use common sense and said of the degree i got from tulane university, that somehow the jews were the zero presser. -- oppressor. i don't get it. this rasheed, it doesn't make sense to me. i do not understand how a decent and free people could be the bad guy. it never made sense to me. never made sense to me. i'm glad i've become a journalist because i want to fight on behalf of the israeli people. i have been there. the israeli people i adore and i love. for those people in journalism school the teaches neutrality, that is on par with the moral relativism they teach of the humanities department. you cannot be objective when it comes to right and wrong. israel is in the right. [applause] by cable. provided as a public service. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us is a anthony fauci dr. of the national institute of infectious disease. 30 years since the first reported case of hiv aids. where are we today? guest: we have made progress, but historically the prof

and that is when rabbi freeling supported jesse jackson after calling new york hymietown. i think my father for having that common sense that i use today instead of the stupid to agree i got from tulane, which was basically moral relativism, and that somehow the jews were the oppressors and the arab- israeli crisis. i said, this does not make sense to me. this does not make sense to me. i like to see that videotape. i just do not understand how those inherently be sent and free people could be the bad guys. never made sense to me. never made sense to me. i am glad i became a journalist because i want to fight on the behalf of the israeli people. i have been there and the israeli people, i adore and i love. for those in journalism schools that teach neutrality and objectivity, that is on par with the moral relativism that they teach in the humanities department. you cannot be objective when it comes to right and wrong. israel is in the right. [applause] i am a biased journalist and i have a great time doing it. i think that we are starting to win. i think that the mainstrea

jess bonkers. she says -- "no matter successful i am, my dad constantly reminds me that i ain't no randy jackson." no randy jackson, that's for sure." [ laughter ] "dad, i completed grad school." "well, you ain't no randy jackson, huh?" you're my dog. yeah. this last one is actually from my actual sister, gloria. she sent in a tweet. she says "at my wedding, he serenaded my new b tish in-laws, they're with neil diamond's they're coming to america." [ laughter ] my dad actually did that. [ cheers and applause ] everywhere around the world they're coming to america evertime that flag's unfurled they're coming to america they're coming to america they're coming to america they're coming to america they're coming to america today today today [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's all for "late night" hashtags -- for more of our favorites, go to latenightwithjimmyfallon.com. we'll be right back with the special edition of finals of the instant band. come back, everybody. host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance? host: do dogs chase cats? ♪ 70's era music sfx: tires

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