john sherman and rita platt, thank you for joining me tonight.t, i want to remember what happened 25 years ago today. a 23-year-old african-american man named michael griffith was killed in a racist attack in howard beach queens. he was attacked by a group of white teenagers outside a pizzeria and chased him to a highway where he was hit by a car and killed. after this horrific and unprovoked attack, we marched for justice for michael. we marched to show the world the ugliness of the attack, and the world took notice. >> hate on earth, that's how "the new york daily news" described a racial attack last weekend. >> the reverend al sharpton saw this as part of a pattern. >> all over the northeast, it's gone to a nationwide white backlash. >> before we marched some people believed that racism was just a problem in the south. we learned that it existed in all parts of america. in remembering michael today i looked at how much has changed in 25 years. we have an african-american president, and an african-american attorney general. that change gives me

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john boehner. first we have been jake sherman of "politico" to help us look back. [applause] before i start to pummel him with questions, i would like to thank bank of america for their continued partnership with us. that have led us mix politics, personality, and bank of america has been a sponsor of all of 2011 and they will support us in 2012, so we are grateful for that. [applause] reminding about the hash tag playbook practice. you grew up in connecticut. you read the editor of the george washington hatchet. you came to politico in 2009. tell us about speaker boehner. >> it is constantly fascinating, especially this year where we have had these fits and starts and pauses and dashes to the finish line. speaker boehner is an interesting character to cover. he interacts with the press and is very friendly with the press. >> i heard that he will critique what you wear. >> absolutely. whenever i need a haircut, he reminds me i need a haircut. today i hope he does not say that. one time i shave my head and he did not appreciate that. sometimes it is ties, or if you

john? >> reporter: the accident happened around 8:45 this morning in a residential part. and neither the police officer nor his children were injured. the bicyclists went to the hospital. traffic on seventh street northwest approaching sherman circle has a yield seen. according to a witness, a marked d.c. police vehicle came, quote, plying into the circle -- flying into the circle, knocking over the bicyclist and sending a man in his cycle about 20 feet from the point of impact. the cycle of the was waring the helmet. the police vehicle immediately stopped and the uniformed officer driving called for him. the witness wonders why several other police vehicles show up before a fire truck or ambulance. >> he was on the radio and said the person hit and never said officer hit the person. he just said it's a person hit. i don't know who he was calling to say the person was hit. was he calling for passengers? >> reporter: two teenaged children were in the vehicle at the time of the accident and appeared to be uninjured. a spokeswoman for the department said take home vehicles can be used for personal errands. the bicyclist, who was transported to a local hospital, was described as conscious and breathing. >> a report on the accid

sherman avenue inef isth street. witnesses say who were in the traffic, said the officer might be at fault. fox 5s john henrehan has the latest. john? >> reporter: there is a lot we don't know about the accident, which apparently hospitalized the bicyclist at 8:30 this morning. we don't know a lot because the report on the accident is not completed. latanya bridges was running an errand in her car when she entered sherman circle in petworth n. front of her, she witnessed a marked mpd vehicle enter the circle from seventh street northwest and strike a bicyclist hard. the police vehicle was marked s.o.d. for special operations division. >> the s.o.d. come around the corner flying and hit the citizens and knocked him to the ground. >> describe the hit. >> it was a boom. >> what happened to the bicycle? >> the bicycle flew, the person flew, and people just started, you know, are youing to give them service, to get them help. >> reporter: she estimates that both the bike and cyclist flew in the air about 20 feet from the point of impact. she said the uniformed policeman stopped, got out, ran over to the vic

sherman." >> thank you. >> it was terrific, i enjoyed it. >> thank you. >> i thought this crowd might be interested, 198 or 10 years ago i was watching book notes, and the british historian, i think johnkeegan who is quite a military historian. >> terrific military historian. >> he was being interviewed by brian lamb. he was the greatest general of all time in the united states, and then he offered a thought, would it be eisenhower? lamb said that. he said no, no, it wouldn't. he said eisenhower was a very great general, but he said without question the greatest general ever in the united states was u.s. grant. because he said if they wouldn't have been a u.s. grant they're very likely would not have been one united states. >> i concur. >> i thought that was the ultimate compliment. >> i do, too. it's coming from a very gifted military historian. i didn't happen to know about that exchange but i certainly buy into it. i know jerry had something to ask me. anybody else? please. >> do i understand that generally made application for -- grant never acted on that? >> what happened to that, extreme interesting. i wrote in a book called lee, the last years, which was a long time ago. what h