l.z., thank you.ng up, for weeks there has been a battle on twitter and blog between myself and russell simmons. the battle has been over race and my controversial advice to some of the black community. invited russell on the show and he said yes. our conversation and emotional one coming up next. bookstore exciting and would always come to my rescue. but as time passed, i started to notice max just wasn't himself. and i knew he'd feel better if he lost a little weight. so i switched to purina cat chow healthy weight formula. i just fed the recommended amount... and they both loved the taste. after a few months max's "special powers" returned... and i got my hero back. purina cat chow healthy weight. >>> a conversation that many of you have been asking for a few weeks ago on a segment in this show i said five things the black community could use to fix some of our own problems. dress appropriately, stop using the "n" word, respect where you live, finish school, plan for child or stop having them out o

first to l.z.and then to amy. >> well, you know, you have to compare that transparency to other administrations. i think people misinterpreted it saying you're going to understand everything. in comparison to other administrations. and i still find him to be a lot more transparent than some of the dealings we've had with previous presidents. but he's not -- he didn't stand up to say he's going to be completely open with everything and he has not been. >> okay. amy quickly if you will? >> clearly we do have to have national security secrets he can't be revealing top classified information. even though he does when it's in the administration's to their own benefit. for example, the 19 embassies that were just closed. we learned leaks that that was possibly because of some conference call between al qaeda affiliates and operatives. i think that's a leak that harmed national security. but in terms of transparency. we see stone walling from this administration over and over. in fact, attorney general er

. >> l.z., granderson -- final word. >> i was just going to say, yeah, you can say we bought support asia, but what happened to the egyptian people? i go back to senator mccain's statements about the u.s. losing credible. we lost credibility because we continued to support a dictator who was killing his own people. we stepped on their back for decades. >> thank you both for sharing your opinions. cnn's "cross fire" begins next month. the program debuts september 16th. >>> american city is telling immigrants, move here. up next, the city, why the city of st. louis plans to attract new residents. could it be good for business? i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn't get into business to spend time managing receipts, that's why we have ink. we like being in business because we like being creative, we like interacting with people. so you have time to