that were crashing around them in later toe brittany and 29 by themselves and a fellow named tom lamont, acting chair of the morgan bank at the time, his real chair, jack morgan is gallivanting around the world elsewhere gathered by other bankers together. the most powerful families of bankers running the most powerful banks on wall street tuesday we need to do some aim to save these markets. they decided with 20 minutes to turn $25 million into a buying pool, saw one of their guys to buy a lot of stock in basically by themselves try to boost this market that was falling all around them. i found that fascinating. the idea of these pigs experience. i noticed today while we have six thanks i looks back and time and there is expense 100 years ago in 1907 and they were all marginally the same banks are the first century from the same families. now similar legacies. but i started to say what is that relationship? i was fascinated in other works i've done that the political association and others. i decided to look at these are fat. in the real relationships between six tankers, whoever the m

and a fellow named tom lamont, the acting chair of the morgan bank at the time, his real chair, jack morgan, was gal vanitying around the elsewhere. gathered five other bankers together, the most powerful families of bankers running the most powerful banks on wall street, saying we need to do something to save the markets. and they decided with just 20 minutes to throw in $25 million each into a buying pool, tell one of your guys to buy a lot of stock and basically buy themselves, try to boost the market falling around them. i just found that really fascinating, this idea this big six banks. and i noticed today we have six banks and i looked back in time just cursory analysis and there were six banks 100 years ago in the panic of 1097, and they were all largely the same banks. the first part of the century, the same families, now similar legacies. but i started to say, what is that relationship? i was fascinated in other works i had done with the political association of bankers, so i decided to look at the history of the period and look at the real relationships between six bankers,

our next up, professor lamont hill, and mark lamont hill is one of the leading hip-hop generation intellectuals in the country. his work, which covers topics such as cultural, politics and education, appeared in numerous journals, magazines, books and anthologies, the author of "beats, rhymes, and the classroom of life," hip-hop and the politics of identity, schooling hip-hop. and conversations on black life in america. and a collection of conversations between professor hill and political prisoner amal. he lectures widely and provides commentary for npr, the "washington post" ask "the new york times" and a contributor to cnn and the former host of "our world with blackber price." hi holds an affiliated -- institute -- join me in welcoming professor mark lamont hill. [applause] >> thank you. i want to echo jelanis comment that this conference is so exciting and i'm delighted to, and decider bren -- dr. brenda green who does so much work every day to make this conference possible happen. to go second after jelani because i had a sense he would cover a lot of interesting stuff i agree with wholeh

. >> lawrence and lamont were about to graduate when two u.s. marshalls knocked on their front door. >> heard the banging on the door. there was flash lights. da, fbi, slammed me on the ground. >> reporter: the garrison twins, 25 years old, had plans to attend law. >> they tested them for drugs. they made them responsible for a table of drugs - marijuana, guns, bullets. >> reporter: accusations that the garrison, who had never been in trouble with the law before, deny. >> reporter: did you partake in a multistate drug matter? >> no. >> reporter: are you incident? >> yes, we are. >> reporter: no drugs were found in their possession, and no drugs recovered, lawrence and lamont were mound guilty after a -- found guilty after a 4-day trial. did you think you would be found guilty? >> because i wasn't caught with any drugs, photographs, anything i thought they can't locus up. >> reporter: the once inseparable twins were torn apart. it's nonviolent, mandatory sentencing laws sent lawrence to prison for 15 years in kentucky, and lamont to ohio, for 19

we want to bring in will cane, mark lamont hill.ou both with us, as always. >> good to be here. >> will, i've got to start with you. is the prospect of hillary clinton running so formidable, so formidable that they have to attack before she even announces? >> now, michaela -- >> sorry. >> -- we are friends. that is an incredibly loaded question. that's will, have you stopped beating your wife? first, if i answer in the affirmative -- you've granted her the premise that we don't know if she's going to run so any questions about her viability is a little premature. >> to be clear, i said that tongue in cheek. i'm not going to grant you that, but go on. >> second, any questions about her qualifications reinforce how formidable she is? i think that's a little bit of a stretch. and really kind of undercuts questions we should be asking. i don't know if they're about brain damage, but questions we should be asking. >> so you agree that that was too far? >> yeah. i mean, look. there are so many better questions to ask like a very simple on

ben ferguson and mark lamont hill. she was really good. than the president, a lot of the times. she was fantastic that year. and i really hope that michelle obama gets a few jokes in this year as well. >> you think, the first lady, she hasn't really said anything over the years. i don't remember her, she cracked a couple little jokes, but not a lot. >> she's done some other stuff where it's funny. the funny is the irony between being the serious first lady and completely letting loose. laura bush making a chip n dale's joke. >> i can't believe she did that. i'm surprised they didn't walk out. how dare she do that to the president? >> trust me, i guarantee that was vetted in his office before she said it that night. michelle obama is probe going to do the same thing. but i hope michelle comes up there tonight and talks about, do you remember when we had the mic and the president was asked about smoking, and he said, do you know who i'm married to? right there, you could have like 20 jokes in a row that michelle could talk about, managing th

and two men who may differ on this, on the right, ben ferguson, on the left, lamont hill. guys, good to see you. i wanted to take this into the racial conversation and whether -- you know, it is interesting to hear him talk about v. stiviano and all the really sort of tawdry details. but really this is a national conversation about race. donald sterling was 29 years old when bull connor was unleashing the dogs and fire hoses in alabama. in his lifetime he has gone from that being okay to being pillaried in the national square. so mark lamont, tell me what we've learned from this and where our conversation needs to go next. >> i think where i'm most disappointed is where we haven't learned. we look at this as an opportunity to say, look, america hates racism. we all said what donald sterling said on the tape is wrong. in some sense we can have a collective sigh of relief and joy that the greater majority is not agreeing with him. that is the only type of racism that we acknowledge. it is the foaming at the mouth sexism kind of racism. that is the easy part. that lets us off

let's talk about it with cnn commentators mark lamont hill and ben ferguson. let's come at this in a slightly different way. is karl rove doing her a favor getting this issue out there early? she has to talk about it anyway. >> he's done he an enormous favor getting the issue out of the way. but also, people are going to come to her defense. people are outraged that he would not only put something like this out there but he would litter with it untruths of being in the hospital and the technology on the face and doing that, she made women empathize more and seeing this as a gender, sexist attack and made the elderly sympathize with hillary clinton more. this did much more for hillary clinton than potential republican nominee. she should be sending karl a thank you card. >> we'll see about that. ben, republican strategist alex, your colleague, he says that rove's attack on hillary clinton, whatever the victory republicans feel right now may leave a bitter taste. could all this backfire on him? >> certainly could backfire and i think it brings up the obvious whi

save the markets that were crashing around them in late october by themselves and a fellow named tom lamont at morgan bank at the time, the chair jack morgan was elsewhere gathered at the bankers together into powerful families of painters an dangerst powerful banks on wall street to say we need to do something to see these markets and they decided with just 20 minutes to throw in $25 million each into a buying pool to go and buy a lot of stock and basically by themselves try to boost its market that was falling around them and i found that fascinating as these big banks and i started to notice today we had six bankers and i looked back in time of the analysis and there were six banks on hundred years ago in the panic of 1907 that were largely the same banks in the first part, they were now similar legacies. but i started to wonder what is the relationship. and i was fascinated and the other works i done at the political association of bankers and so what i decided to do is take a look at the histor histon period and look at the real relationship between the bankers, whoever the most import

so let's talk about it with cnn political comment tayers mark lamont hill and ben ferguson and patrickn a documentary tracing the evolution of the din sbeer a hollywood-style celebrity event. good to see all of you. let's start with the president. he definitely lapded punches that hit close to home. take a listen to this. >> i am happy to be here. even though i am a little jet lagged from my trip to malaysia. the lengths we have to go to to get cnn coverage these days. i think they're still searching for their table. msnbc is here. they're a little overwhelmed. they've never seen an audience this big before. let's face it, fox. you will miss me when i'm gone. it will be harder to convince the american people that hillary was born in kenya. >> i don't know about you but i'm glad to see he spread the jabs around. mark, did the president leave them laughing? >> i give him an a-minus and i think he's had better monologues in the previous years and set a great standard in the term and another awesome night. >> ben ferguson, what did you like or dislike about the president's remarks? >> you

and mark lamont hill, cnn political commentator and host of "huff post live."so many twists to this sterling story, his racist rant, his fixation on magic johnson, the broader issues of race in society. so i wanted to ask you both if we've learned anything from this fiasco. so otis, i'll start with you. have we learned anything? >> well, i have been shown again that society will not accept this type of behavior. the media won't, society won't, and it's a great thing. it gives us an opportunity to discuss race issues in america, and it's a great thing. but society is just not going to tolerate the behavior that we saw displayed from donald sterling. >> what do you think, mark? >> i think that there are so many lessons that we have left on the table and refused to acknowledge here. there was so much possibility in this moment, just like there is in many moments. but we neglected to engage them. instead we choose the low-hanging fruit. it's really easy to be against donald sterling. i haven't met a person yet who says donald sterling said the right thing on that t

just live with them. >> mark lamont hill? >> i don't disagree. there has to be some space for private thought. donald sterling is the racist. he shouldn't be the rule here. but you need space for freedom. >> we have more ways of expressing ourselves in public and private. that's great. we have to focus on the government for what they are doing. >> sorry to our guest that didn't get to speak but this may be the only privacy we get. it was a very heated discussion so we wanted to add a little levit at the end. i'm don lemon. ac 360 starts right now. what donald sterling said, that magic called him. >> he called you up when the tape came out and he told you not to say anything? >> yeah. >> why did he say don't say anything? >> he just said wait, be patient, we'll work it out. >> why do you think he said that? >> i think he wanted me to just do nothing so he could buy the team. he thought nothing would be resolved. >> i told him i wouldn't do it. i said the number one thing you need to do is apologize to everybody and myself. i'll get to that, i'll g

joining me now amy holmes and cnn political commentator marc lamont hill.oth here. >> thank you. >> i'm interested in your take. you are a bit kep tickle of her intentions here? you don't think this is pure. >> i'm not skeptical of her intentions. she implicitly acknowledges she's had her life on hold for the last eight to ten years and refuses to continue. i think she dodges the question whether or not it's appropriate to ask hillary clinton about hillary's own conduct and whether or not bill's conduct if he gets near the white house again should be a topic for a campaign question. >> oh. what do you mean, questions about hillary's own conduct back then? >> certainly as monica herself reports and as we know at the time that hillary clinton was basically saying she was a deranged stalker and in the notes that came out that were taken between hillary and her friend diane she was this narcissistic loony toon. hillary clinton had a ruthless campaign to smear, delegitimize and take away lewinsky's credibility. of course, all of that changed with the blue gap st

i discussed this with marc lamont hill.tarted with hillary clinton's health, an issue that came out of nowhere where karl rove brought it up during a recent speech. marc lamont hill >> he's done her an enormous favor. one, because he gets the conversation on the table, gets the issue out of the way, but also people will come to her defense. people were outraged that he would not only put something like this out there but that he would litter it with so many untruths about how long she was in the hospital, what type of technology she had on her face. by doing that, he made women empathize with hillary clinton more because they see this as a gender sexist attack. he also made the elderly sympathize with hillary clinton more. this did much more for hillary clinton than for any potential republican nominee. she should be sending karl a thank you card. >> we'll see about that. republican strategist alex castellano says rove's attack on hillary may leave a bitter taste. could all this backfire? >> well, it certainly could backfir

just live with them. >> mark lamont hill? >> i don't disagree. there has to be some space for private thought. donald sterling is the racist. he shouldn't be the rule here. but you need space for freedom. >> we have more ways of expressing ourselves in public and private. that's great. we have to focus on the government for what they are doi doing. >> sorry to our guest that didn't get to speak but this may be the only proivacy we get. it was a very heated discussion so we wanted to add a little levit at the end. i'm don lemon. ac 360 starts right now. >>> good evening. magic johnson did not ask to be part of this story when we spoke today he made it clear he would much rather be talking about the nba playoffs but in a very open conversation johnson spoke about sterling's claims he is not a good role model about his st

his panelists will be marc lamont hill and obery hend distribution, so -- hendricks, so let's welcome our moderator for the day, wallace ford. [applause] >> thank you and good afternoon. good afternoon, hello. >> good afternoon. >> all right, okay. we would like to, first of all, just thank you for coming to the 14th annual black writers' conference here at medgar evers college. my name is wallace ford, i am the chairman of the public administration department here at the school of business, and i'm the author of the point of view, contemporary commentary blog soon to be in a book form and also the host of the inclusion show which can be seen in various parts of the country. the introduction today has to do with the topic, of course, race, power and politics. race and racism has been described as america's original sin beginning with the particularly odious form of racially-based slavery which gab in this -- began in this country in the 1600s and which is carried forward in its many iterations to this very day. the issue of power has a three-part context; there's knowledge, there's ec

going back i mentioned how tom lamont was the chairman of j.p. morgan during the crash of 29. i knew that from black tuesday. but i didn't know and i found this out at the library in hyde park where i grew up as well, certainly not on research he had rented out his townhouse. so the tie that happened after the crash it into the great depression when they started way back they had both gone to harvard, they had both been involved in the trend in harvard paper over there. tom labonte had been one of the editors have a very young editor when he was at harvard, and they had a long history which then lasted for severa through sever. and so, you just kind of -- there was this affect where it wouldn't necessarily be history going forward but it was history going backwards into there were a lot of relationships in between. >> host: so the relationships really went from only the business and political but to the social as well. >> guest: winthrop aldrich that ran with roosevelt and was also the cutback in 1930, so yes there was all that going on back then as well. and fdr also was inte

marc lamont hill and dominique ra ramano we bring you back to force you to work more.the issue. the team has had the team for 80 years. i would argue, dominique, that goodness knows we've evolved in the 80 years as a society, have we not? >> you would think so. the comments sound tone deaf. the time has come for a change. when members of congress are ahead of you in thinking, there may be something wrong there. >> daniel snyder earlier set up a foundation to raise awareness for native americans. is that enough for the owner of the redskins to do? is that some kind of token, do you think? >> i think it speaks to his intentions. i don't think that he's trying to offend the native american community. i don't think that he's trying to upset anyone. he's being stubborn on this point. opening the foundation and raising money and awareness is a good thing. it doesn't let you off the hook for the redskins name. i'll say this a contentious issue. this isn't cut and dry. there are people in native american community even who have the belief that this is okay and feel honored by

marc lamont hill has more on our slice of life. >> let's hear you scream [ inaudible >> it may be theevery little kid. to run away and join the circus. >> i love the circuspp. when he kissed the lion it was gross. >> jonathan is living that dream. >> welcome to the greatest show on earth. >> he's in the spotlight as the first african-american ring master at wrinkling brothers and barnum & bailey circus. >> one of the things i always tell people about circus life, especially here at the greatest show on earth, is you don't play a ring master, you don't play a trapeze artist, acrobat, you don't play a daredevil, you are these things. everything you do in your personal life, centers around what you're going to do later that night or three times on saturday. >> it was the chance of a lifetime that suddenly appeared just after he graduated college. >> this opportunity of being the ring master of the greatest show on earth was presented to me. i could not turn it down. it's history. but to be honest with you, history wasn't on my mind. i thought this is a great pick-up line. ring master. >>

>> we are joined again by marc lamont hill and kevin madden. what do you make of this? the fbi is, you know, ruling out people who smoked pot in the last three years. so many businesses drug test people when they come in for pot. should these companies -- should the fbi be concerned about marijuana use anymore? marc, you start. >> i think -- i see a reasonable argument for the fbi being concerned because it is still illegal most places. and if you're hiring an fbi agent who has admitted to casually breaking the law when they think the law isn't that big of a deal, it could raise an ethical or moral issue. but in general, i don't care. the weed train has left the station a long time ago. and if you're in corporate america and you're worried that your tech guy is smoking weed, you have an issue because i can just about guarantee your tech guy is smoking weed just like every place else. let it go. >> to kevin, where do you stand on this issue? >> you've seen my computer lately, obviously. you know how well this works. >> you know what? i do not su

let's talk more with donald sterling with ben ferguson and mark lamont hill.y, guys, the new recording that radaronline is sterling features him saying he was jealous that v. stiviano was with black men and he denies he's a racist, you hear it there. mark, let me start with you. do the latest remarks help his case in any way or do they make it worse for this guy? >> it probably helps people in the court of public opinion, there are always people looking to give him an out and throw him a life raft in the conversation about racism. i think there will be people who will be swayed by this. also his free speech argument is one that people find compelling. he said it in the privacy of his own home, he should be allowed to do this. i think, though, ultimately it won't matter. he has a long history of saying and more importantly doing things that reflect racism. that's the bigger takeaway here. i'm sure the leaks that came out may help him a little bit but i suspect he put them out and people won't find them all that persuasive. >> ben, the new recording appears to h

marc lamont hill has more. ♪ >> i fell in love with ballet the moment i started doing it. >> misty copeland'sresence on stage is described as breathtaking. her breakthrough in ballet is just as spectacular, beginning much later than most taking classes at a california boys and girls club. >> starting at age 13, there was so much talk around me. talk of me being a prodigy, talk of me having these abilities. >> now she's making history with every leap. as only the third woman of color to be a featured soloist with renowned american ballet theater. >> i was just working so hard because it was so new to me at that age when i became professional. i didn't have the chance to step back and notice and realize that i was by myself. i was the only black woman in the company. >> for the young soloist that created challenges that she had not anticipated. >> i went through a period where i felt really alone and like i had no one i could relate to. >> and she had to come to grips with the idea that some barriers have not yet been broken. >> i would have a completely different path if i weren't an african-a

what's theirst thing, lamont? stop, calm down, and thk. stop, calm down, and in why portant? if y're not calm, you might do something negative good. you're not ca yomado mething negative, and that may cause mo problems, and atwe don't want. how do y know you have a problem? what hapns your bo? ur pal stt swting. palms get sweaty. what ee happens? your heart beats fast. youreart beats fast. mee else.appens? cher merritt and her studen are viina six-step oblem-solving framework. this step-by-step technique based on a traffic-light model helps children learn to master their thoughts, feelings, and actions so they can handle social situations and pressures effectively. oncee know the problem, we c go to step thre what is stepee? what istep thr? shontae. set a positive goa t a positivel. wh ia ve goal? why do we want our goals to be positive? so you won't do something thatl hurt anybody. yodon't want to ht anyo. on we how weant th to end , what do we want to do next? ishatima. think of lots of solns. why not one?ant why not one?ishatima. y not one sotion? tiffany. because if oneoe

the this is the seams the china trip lamont who is visiting washington for the pestilence his revelations that the us have been listening to have fun conversations which had the time she labeled completely acceptable unfortunately nations included any conversation between us to come on territory news and the american ambassador to ukraine where she did. in dismissing the heat. not all set to discuss the fate of free trade agreement between europe and the glass display in brussels concerns about the standard of some american pundits nsa spying is expected to be addressed there's still been happy ever since issued on the scandal over as england is coming under pressure from the ancient german companies they don't allow functions again to russia and the ukrainian crisis liverpool. well an old school in the wall street journal suggests very strongly that the time to america what is going to dc with it very clear message for the german industry and that message is normal economic sanctions against russia. the real cake that is in the german corporate world the likes of basf the yen the chemica

. >> you kick joe lieberman out of a party and ed lamont. there are things that happen when you don't have the white house. your party is getting dragged left by elizabeth warren. been in office dragging the entire party to the left. >> the entire country is concerned about income you guys think income inequality isn't that big of a deal. >> to the left of elizabeth warren or bill de blasio -- >> here's the big difference. here's a very fundamental difference. the democratic party is unified behind an agenda of increasing opportunity for everybody. the republican party is finally, finally unified, as well. it's unified behind the tea party. the tea party has been fighting this war. it has won the war, because even the so-called establishment candidates are being pushed to the right. >> here's the thing. all of the policies right now of the democratic left are failing. you can't name a single function of government that's working really, really well. healthcare.gov is a disaster. >> how about the economy, shaun? >> hold on, hold on. we're at

. >> marc lamont hill, thank you.me you listen to it, you hear one little nuance or thing and it's fun to watch the expression in the audience, those who nervously laugh or those who are stone-faced who said i'm not going to laugh here. >> people tried. >> thank you, marc, appreciate it. >>> all right. straight ahead, no laughing matter at all. nigeria's president now addressing his nation more than two weeks after nearly 300 school girls were kidnapped. what does he have to say now? a live report coming up. narrator: these are the tennis shoes skater kid: whoa narrator: that got torture tested by teenagers and cried out for help. from the surprised designers. who came to the rescue with a brilliant fix male designer: i love it narrator: which created thousands of new customers for the tennis shoes that got torture tested by teenagers. the internet of everything is changing manufacturing. is your network ready? check for more! well, i guess i can double check... my watch! [ male announcer ] it pays to double check, wi

marc lamont hill. >> some days. >> last word, kelly. >> i would just say respect.espect women at the youngest of ages and to each confidence and empowerment of our girls at the youngest of ages so they know what's not okay and what they should not stand for as they move forward into adulthood. >> i'm just looking at the window washer thing coming up behind you and having this important conversation. thanks to both of you. i really appreciate it. marc lamont hill, kelly wallace. >>> still to come, cutting a rug in the classroom to sell healthier school choices to skeptical schoolchildren. now the first lady goes toe to toe with congress as critics are upset with changes to her signature cause. .. chocolate is my other favorite... oh yeah, and frosted! what's your most favorite of all? hmm...the kind i have with you. me too. we do? i took the trash out. i know. and thank you so much for that. i think we should get a medicare supplement insurance plan. right now? [ male announcer ] whether you're new to medicare or not, you may know it only covers about 80% of your pa

this crash still in place if we had over to lamont they're doing bridge painting on the north and ofer. taking out one lane in both directions. a bit of a squeeze through there will be picked up until september. the rest looks good the the suspense of that overnight construction due to the memorial day holiday. that's making it easier to start out there on the roads. >> coming up, the mayor has a new proposal for the chicago gun laws. and find out what happens when a man tries to break into his ex-wife's house through the chimney. >> am guessing it wasn't good. >> we will find out. even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. that's why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forgiveness if you qualify, and new car replacement standard with our auto policies. so call liberty mutual today. and if you switch, you could save up to $423. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? >> hi, i'm lisa varga. i'm 40 years old, i've never had cosmetic surgery and i'm not afraid of high definition cameras. bring them in closer, guys. closer. good. no

cnn political commentators mark lamont hill and ben ferguson join me once again.with them katie glick of politico and ryan lissa. welcome to all of you guys. lots to talk about. if being talked about means your star is rising chris christie and hillary clinton have to be happy. ryan, i want to ask you, 2016 on the horizon. so should we get ready for a whole lot more clinton and christie jokes coming our way? >> no doubt. the tone and tenor of the christie and hillary clinton jokes were really completely different, right? christie was essentially mocked and the bridge scandal in new jersey was sort of the butt of lots of jokes. hillary clinton at least obama's hillary clinton jokes were all about how she's going to be the next president and is sort of a prohibitive front-runner on the democratic side. if you're joe biden watching obama's speech, you're thinking, huh, why isn't the president making any jokes about how i might be president next and not hillary clinton? obviously this is a humorous evening, but there's a lot of real politics embedded in the jokes. >>

. >> our political commentators mark lamont hill and will cane are here.get to benghazi in a moment to find out if you think this is a partisan witch hunt or show trial as some democrats say. i want to talk about "vanity fair." >> yes. >> and the monica lewinsky essay. is this a thorn in her side for hillary clinton that monica lewinsky has come out with this essay, or is it better to get this out of the way now? >> a thorn in her side for now. the question is will it last? will it be a thorn in her side two years from now? i think it issue could stick around. lewinsky is certainly worried about that. she's terrified of a clinton run in 2016. she says that in the article. she knows all this will come back. so that means it will be coming back to hillary as well. >> i think it will linger but i don't think it's a thorn in hillary's side. i think it helps hillary. as we're reminded of the affair, we're also reminded of her as a long-suffering wife. and in the midst of benghazi, she needs as much sympathy as possible. >> no group better to talk about feminism

some of his friends -- james stillman who was head of national citi bank which is now citibank, tom lamontwho was still hanging around in 1929 but was then much younger and a bunch of other people to go around and talk about how they would save the markets. they also got $25 million from the treasury department. so that was the first time where this trust buster said, you know, i these your help, here's some money, do whatever you need to do. morgan got his guys together to put in money to save the situation. they do except they don't do it with morgan's money, they do it with standard oil's money and shares they then dissect to get spank into saving the knickerbocker trust company, not the company that people from harlem to fifth avenue and in between were trying to get their deposits out of because it would affect their lives, but the american trust company of america because in that he had invested. and running that were his friends. and that was a situation where, you know, the government basically said, teddy roosevelt said do this. morgan said, okay, saved his friends. and that was s

i also want to thank professor hendricks, professor cobb, professor marc lamont hill, and as importantly, want to thank all of you for attending here today. certainly your comments, your attendance, your participation is fantastic. thank you very much, we'll be having another panel coming up in about 20 minutes and have a great rest of the day. thank you now. [applause] >> give all our panelists a big hand. once again, our panelists a big hand. [applause] a few things. if you want to get a copy of this discussion, there are tapes outside about this discussion. they'll be available a little bit later. so that's available. also very quickly, very quickly, the authors will be doing book signings in the book-signing room. so we've got a book signing scheduled in the room. all right? and finally, the john oliver reading series is in our auditorium next door in the edison jackson auditorium next door. and finally, there are tickets left for the fund fundraiser to. tickets are left for the fundraiser tonight if you want to attend. just go to the front desk, and they'll let you know. thank you s

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with me now, cnn contributor and senior writer for espn and mark lamont hill.come. >> good to see you. >> morning, carol. >> you called for jenkins to be fired a couple of days ago. he stepped down for the good of the organization. is that good enough for you? >> well, it depends. i wrote a column i think the next day because the naacp really shocked me. the national organization shocked me because they found themselves getting involved trying to pressure commissioner silver into demanding some sort of sit-down with sterling. i was like, look, as an organization, you need to worry about your own house first because you need to find out how many more jenkins you have in your body. why do i say this? because they've had allegations of corruptions in georgia. in houston. in the state of new york. this is not the first time the naacp has had individuals at local chapters deal with corruption, so they need to worry about their own house first. >> the naacp, not talking today about jenkins that's for sure, but should jenkins have been president of the l.a. chapt ner

let's bring back marc lamont hill and ben ferguson. good to have you with us. with us onset. fair? was he being honest or prejudiced and racist? >> they're not competing claims. you can be honest. just because you're honest doesn't mean you get absolved for what you said. do i think mark cuban is racist? no. to compare a kid wearing a hoodie because it might be cold outside to somebody who has made a decision to shave their head and cover them with tattoos is a very different thing. they make a decision to embody a particular type of social narrative, whereas another kid is wearing a hoodie. the kids on college campuses wear hoodies on campus and they're not criminalized. using the word bigotry is a poor choice of words. >> bigoted is a very strong charge, to talk about this in the context of a question on bigotry maybe was a misapplied conversation. >> exactly. no, we're not all bigoted. we all have insecurities, all have prejudices. i think it was a poor choice of words and disrespectful to the martin family. >> ben, what do you think? >> i think the hoodie r

it begs debate so we had mark lamont hill cnn commentator and mike pescanbr contributor and host of theebuts next week, take on the issue and here's what they said. mark, start with you. why should this man definitely be forced to sell his team on top of everything else? >> because this isn't private property he owns it's a franchise and if you own a franchise as part of a bigger collection of organizations like the nba you have a right to be pushed out. advertisers are pulling out and fans don't want him there. players don't want to play for him and there's no logical reason to stay. >> in the constitution and bylaws it doesn't outline something like this as a scenario to force someone to sell. it's fuzzy. >> yeah. >> mike, what could be the pushback? >> i don't think it's a private property argument. i don't think it's a free speech argument. i think they can do it. what would be the optimal solution for adam silver to have taken. i was disappointed in the firm execution style, he's out, there's no discussion how it got to this point in the first place. >> it seems to me they got to t

for membership lamont's william ahmanson says russia's about ten towards asia isn't sitting well with the european e to. i think russia is in a win win situation because i think russia will maintain. over the next few years undoubtedly its european markets and again another bigger one in china let's remember there's a lot of holton gas if you'll pardon the pun about this ukraine story and now we already know that the germans in the two killer stream are you worried about sanctions. a lot of pressure is being put on the government now from from companies i don't think that the europeans are going to be very happy about the purse bit of paying much more. for american gas frankly and it may make europe even more of a business i don't want to use the word slave but the business markets of the us than it would actually like to be. and he she is independent economist and former aide her pacific chief of morgan stanley says china and russia are also trying to break free of us england or they obviously maser this context off the us is asian pivot i think that. china like or russia is trying t

and i'm sitting here because mark lamont hill got up and left me. and joining us, our tech guy who's going to join us for the top of the hour. a final thought from you, miss gold, before we go? >> i'm really excited to see the great speeches we have tonight. i'm interested to see how much obama skewers himself. he tends to make superficial jokes about himself. george w. bush was known for skewering himself, how people thought he was dumb or something, so he played along with it. i hope obama goes for himself really deeply this year. >> all right, guys, thank you, everyone. appreciate it. i'm don lemon, our special coverage from the white house correspondents' dinner continues. >>> tonight, the stars are out in washington, d.c.. >> this is a hollywood crowd. >> it's the most glamorous event of the year in the nation's capitol. >> it's so fun to see people from different areas of expertise, all coming together. >> think my fourth time here, and i love it every time. >> we're giving you an all-access pass to the hottest ticket in town. join a-list cele

. >> i want to thank view professor and professor hendricks professor copp professor marc lamont hill and importantly i want to thank all of you for attending here today. certainly her comments in your attendance and participation was fantastic. thank you very much and we'll we will be having another panel coming up in about 20 minutes. have a great rest of the day. thank you. [applause] very quickly the authors will be doing book signings in the book signing room. we have took signings scheduled in the room. all right? and finally the john oliver reading series is in the auditorium next or in the edison jackson auditorium next door and finally there are tickets left for the fund-raiser tonight. tickets left for the fund-raiser if you want to attend go to the front desk and they will let you know. thank you so much. next on booktv paul kengor. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. thank you ashley and andrew coffin eight gross city college graduate. think andrew was in my first class that i taught at state college. literally i think he was. thank you to pat coyle as well. ron robinson