marc lamont hill, cnn political commentator. don't know if you caught, that but when captain johnson said the crowds that were out there were relieved that a police officer was shot rather than a suspect, what did you make of that? >> well, i'm not sure if that's true or not. i respect captain johnson. i think when the crowd is wound up thinking that a young man was shot, particularly in the wake of michael brown, i think there's a certain amount of anxiety. when they hear it's an officer i think it might have been more about learning another innocent young man wasn't shot. i don't think the crowd was cheering a police officer was killed. being on the ground in ferguson for a while never got the sense anyone was hoping anything bad happened to police they just didn't want anything bad to happen to more young men. >> you're on the ground there. are you surprised there would be sullivan rest weeks, even a month, almost two months after michael brown was killed in the violent protests that erupted? >> not at all because this didn't

mark cane, a scientist at columbia's lamont-doherty earth observatory, has been studying el niÑo forr 30 years. cane: when you have an el niÑo event there are things that happen around the world. they don't always happen but they usually happen, and they have some -- some bad consequences for people. there is typically a poor monsoon in india. there are droughts in southern africa droughts in ethiopia droughts in northeast brazil which is the poorest part of brazil. in peru and ecuador, you have catastrophic flooding in many places that washes out infrastructure. narrator: because of its devastating effects around the globe scientists tried to accurately predict el niÑo in advance to help people prepare. these attempts were unsuccessful until the mid-1980s when cane and his colleague steve zebiak set out to create a physically based computer model to predict these phenomena. cane: here is this el niÑo phenomenon which i knew about because it had caused these anomalies in wintertime circulation over north america in '77, '78. and i was living in boston at the time and it dumped this i

the united states does not seem to be as concerned as britain and mark lamont hill, before the breake saying that -- >> they have reason not to be as concerned as the u.k. is. you saw 500 britons with passports who may be going in and out training, getting sort of radicalized training. that's not happening in the united states yet. it doesn't mean it's not a threat. the bigger point i was making is david cameron is performing toughness. he's giving a performance what a tough leader is to look tough in the face of terror. i'm not sure if it's -- >> i don't think he's trying to look tough. i think he really believe the threat of isis into his kpri is this real, this much in his face and it is very legitimate at this point in time. and you never get credit as a leader of any country for the threats that don't materialize and not successful. you only get blamed when it looks like you didn't do enough to stop a threat. i think david cameron releases with 500 plus passports that they know about and as much radicalism there is inside the u.k., he has to make it clear this is the line we're

i want to bring in mark lamont hill. you spent time there.uring the height of the protests there. and when you think about the power structure there, the police force largely white, the city representatives. a lot of people talked about whether or not the town can move on unless the power structure changes. do you think that that has to happen? >> i think it absolutely has to happen. >> it does? >> it absolutely has to happen. if the question is, will ferguson ever be the same? the answer is no. that's no necessarily a bad thing. the question is, what can ferguson become? if all the mobilization we see on the ground, all the protests we see on the ground leads to a structural change and leadership shift, suddenly we can begin to see buy-in from the community into law enforcement and into governance and see a different relationship between community and police. >> some people push back at that and say it doesn't matter what color your skin is, you should be able to represent people of different races, different sexes, different religions, diff

cnn commentators and sports fans marc lamont hill and ben ferguson are back.roger goodell insisted yesterday he does not believe anyone in his office ever saw that second ray rice video, you know the one inside the elevator that actually shows rice striking his fiancee. he said they didn't see it until that video went public. do you believe him, marc? >> i do not believe that. i think at best, it's plausible deniability, right? at best he said, look. there's a tape and i don't want to look at it so i can say i never saw it. that's best-case scenario. there are too many leaks, too many rumors, too much buzz and quite frankly, the nfl is too powerful to not have access to a tape if it wanted access to a tape. there is a kid right now in eighth grade who is a running back for his local middle school who they have tapes on and information on. >> they've got hours of tapes on. >> exactly. they've got hours of tapes on the kid. you're telling me they can't get a tape from a police department to which they're actually entitled? i don't buy it and it insults my intell

mark lamont hill has more. >> he's a new director of the new york public library for research and plaqueter to be as aggressive and as well positioned as possible to be a resource to anyone who has questions about the kind of country we live in and the kind of country that we can live in. and he's the great grandson of elija mohammed, founder of the nation of islam given that i was not yet 3 years old when he passeded and i would never try to claim a connection to him than my biographical connection. as it turns out, mohammed took office during the same time the shamburg featured a special from his permanent connection. malcolm x. >> my great-grandfather and malcolm x helped to create a space in this country necessary for the real change that took place in the 1960s. >> keeping history like that alive for generations to come is only one of his goals. >> what's special and perhaps unique about mohammed is that he's not only a brilliant scholar and a public intellectual, but he's also an extraordinarily gifted administrator. mohammed wants it to be a place where people not only discover th

okay. >> thanks lamont thank you for that. >>> well time now is 6:53.rs' star arrested and this isn't the first time nfl players have caused trouble in the neighborhood. details straight ahead. >> good morning, i'm ryan takeo live in oakland. coming up in the next four minutes, amtrak passengers react to being involved in a deadly collision from last night. ,, no rush, andy. ,, come on. with the chase mobile app you can get a lot done in a little amount of time from transferring funds wait a minute. you've got to be kidding. did you guys see that? that ball was out. to paying your coach for adding five miles per hour to your serve. that ball wasn't in. get your eyes checked. help me out here. download the best mobile app today. so you can always have the advantage. chase. so you can today ahead of this week's >>> five things to know now at the :55. president obama heads for europe today ahead of this week's nato summit. the president hopes to calm fears about a rising threat from russia and eastern europe. yesterday, pro russian rebels said they want au

let's bring in mark lamont hill, l.z. granderson and rachel nichols. to all of you. >> good morning, carol. >> this is not a black/whitish shoe. i mean, police allege adrian peterson beat this child and left welts on his body. >> yes. and charles barkley isn't necessarily describing the differences or the nuance of this story in the most eloquent of ways but i agree with what he's trying to say which is this is a significant cultural thing and if you look at the polling, you will find that americans agree with charles barkley. in the south, significantly more southern americans support spanking your child versus those in the north. there's an educational barrier. those who have a college education tend to view spanking as bad. those who don't have a college education tend to agree with spanking your child as a form of discipline. so the conversation about adrian peterson is so much more than an nfl player. it is about this information getting out there and the science that has proven that spanking your child does not produce the desired results. but th

ben ferguson, lisa bloom and also marc lamont hill. you know this conversation came about, guys.ickly. i was talking to my friend ha d hamudi jaffer in detroit who happens to be muslim. we were having this conversation by text. this is a conversation many people are having around the country. so let's have it. i can give you each a short time to wrap it up. >> your closing arguments in ten seconds. ben, go. >> without interrupting after we make our closing statements. >> i want to quote to clarify something. the koran, 8:12. terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the koran. end of discussion. you said there weren't scriptures about beheading? there are in the koran. >> to attribute the wrongs of a tiny percentage of the population of 1.5 billion muslims to the entire group is the very essence of racism. >> it's not racism. >> not islam, which is practiced peacefully and lovingly by the vast majority of its adhere rants. >> marc? >> again, reading the koran in context which i've done in arabic and islam, what scholar says as well, the arguments about viole

ben ferguson, mark lamont hill are back with me. clinton has been busy, very busy, selling books, but she's doing everything a potential presidential candidate should do. so what are the odds, you think, that she is the democratic nominee in 2016? >> she's just -- she's just selling books. she's just being a former states woman, a former first lady, a former senator. >> yeah. >> she hasn't even considered running for the presidency. i don't know what you're talking about. she just likes iowa, the same way john edwards did eight years ago. hillary clinton is running for presidential the last six years and she's doing a masterful joj of not running for president officially. she has nothing to gain by throwing her hat into the ring. this is another piece of that. but expect her to make an announcement much later down the road. >> is there anything that could trip her up, a dark horse, perhaps? >> i think there's lots of things that trip her up. look at her book tour. it hasn't actually gone perfectly with some of the comments that she'

we have to go thank you so much. >> thank you. >> tara wall, marc lamont hill, goening gng, donna wral, come back or stay here. >> we'll keep the conversation going. >>> next up on 87-year-old ex-governor, ex-con, new lywed with another baby wants another shot. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just another day at norfolk southern. so i get invited to quite a few family gatherings. heck, i saved judith here a fortune with discounts like safe driver, multi-car, paperless. you make a mighty fine missus, m'lady. i'm not saying mark's thrifty. let's just say, i saved him $519, and it certainly didn't go toward that ring. am i right? [ laughs ] [ dance music playing ] so visit progressive.com today. i call this one "the robox." sfx: ambient park noise, crane engine, music begins. we asked people a

i want to bring back in mark lamont hill and welcome michelle turner to talk about this.s? >> it bring tears to my eyes watching it. i mean, it's sickening, it's maddening. as a woman i'm disgusted and i feel disrespected. we call iend of speculated and wanted to know because we saw the video from outside the elevator when the whole investigation was going on. but we hadn't seen the inside so when we heard two games we all thought it was light but now that you see what happened inside and you know that he was suspended for two games, i just want to scream. it's ridiculous. >> even though the nfl instituted new punishment for domestic violence, ray rice's suspension stands. i don't know how i can watch a game involving the baltimore ravens and watch him. >> i absolutely can't right now. it's incredibly frustrating. policy says what your priorities are. when someone gets caught with marijuana they're suspended for game after game, sometimes entire seasons. something like this gets two games. it says -- what's interesting to me is the nfl either saw this video and thought --

mel robin, cnn commentator and legal analyst and marc lamont hill, cnn political commentator. >> i wantth you. so people have said look, if celebrities don't want the photos to get out that. >> shouldn't take them. but this is much bigger than naked photos of celebrities. it's about all of our personal photos, photos of our kids, photos that even we have long deleted somehow being able to be in the public space. and it's dangerous. >> you know, alisyn, first of all, i want to thank you for saying you're not going to me because you think have i nude photos on the icloud. a ton. seriously, but the real problem here is that we keep talking about don't take photos, or don't put stuff on your iphone that can be compromised. but the truth is this is a crime. think about it more like these photos are property that belong to these celebrities, and just like you put personal property in a safety deposit box, or you put personal property into a storage locker offsite, or a safe somewhere other than your home, somebody has gone inside a storage facility and stolen stuff for their personal use and

i'm back now with areva martin, mel robbins, and marc lamont hill., i've been wanting to talk to you about this all day. i want you guys to take a look at this other graphic new video tonight. this one comes from memphis, tennessee. here it is. >> they got a white dude. oh. [ bleep ]. >> oh, [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> security. >> [ bleep ]. >> so just around the horn here, round robin, quickly give me your response. first to you, mel. >> it's just -- i don't even know what to say, don. it just makes me sad on so many levels. >> areva? >> i think it's copycat. you know, in fw2013 we saw the knockout game where teens were just walking up trying to knock someone out with one punch. this is just a replay of that, don. these teenagers who don't have anything to do -- >> marc? >> -- and are looking for ways to get into trouble. >> it's sad, it's inexcusable. i hope the victims get justice. the only thing i would caution you not to do is turn this into another media scare where we start to say there's an epidemic of teen mobs or an epidemic of the knockout g

around the table, we have tara wall, "crossfire" co-host, newt gingrich, marc lamont hill of ""huffingtontic strategist donna b brazile. politico did a piece about democrats' turn on debbie wasserman schultz. in the end the conclusion was basically being dnc chair is a major political opportunity. the knock on wasserman schultz isn't that she's taking advantage of these relationships, but that she appears to be planning her personal political rise while also trying to lead the party. who would have thought it? a politician plotting their own political rise while in another job. >> how stunning. >> i'll tell you what stunned me was the attack was, i thought, pretty vicious in washington standards and it was that old woman thing. she wants us to pay for her clothes so it makes it look petty. >> which wasn't true by the way. the last chair of the democratic party tim caine went on to be united states senator. chief chair mccullough the governor. i can talk about ed rendell, former mayor, governor of pennsylvania. there's nothing wrong with being ambitious. what i didn't like about the articl

marc lamont hill has more. ♪ >> i fell in love with ballet the moment i started doing it. >> misty copeland'sence 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-amer

lamont dozier. he has written 52 number-one singles. he believes by listening to conversations in restaurants around him and the people around him, he can find the basis of hit songs. he tells the story of his grandfather. being in front of his grandmother's home beauty shop and watching the girls go by and say -- hey, sugar pie. hey, honey bunch. when he came to writing that song, he heard what his grandfather said and out came "sugar pie, honey bunch, you know that i love you." >> i think that's great we got you to sing, tom. , appreciated. >> unbelievable that i did that. >> tom sturges, the author of the new book "every idea is a good idea." coming up next, the debate over internet privacy. you'll meet the cofounder of the dating site ok cupid and he says that tracking what you do online is actually a pretty good thing. we will find out why. when it comes to online interactions with customers, rebecca minkoff has this pretty much nailed down. we will be speaking to her later on. this is "taking stock" on bloomberg. >> this is "takin

. >> inadmissible, mark lamont hill, not surprising correct? >> not surprising.gree with legal experts. this is bad stuff here. again he might be a terrible guy. he deserves due process and appropriate legal protects. >> thank you, gentlemen. >> thank you. good to see you. >> coming up. offensive or political, after quips about a female pilot flying against isis. and tell you what he said and the update tonight. can't wait to hear. >> can't wait to hear what you have to say. >> i can't wait to hear that also. siri, what can you remember? i remember when i was the only phone that talked. ♪ man: [ laughs ] those look like baby steps now. but they were some pretty good moves. and the best move of all? having the right partner at my side. it's so much better that way. [ male announcer ] have the right partner at your side. consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. go long. insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket s

group by a factor of several hundred, was growing up in the and syria, which is the islamic state and lamontei think they year and to connect the jihadi movement to the old al qaeda, which is pretty small, just had a few camps, and avoid the much more serious question of confronting the islamic state which controls the area much larger than britain with five or 6 million people in it. i think it is the version very and really, -- diversionary, and an attempt to show that isis is a direct threat to the homeland. >> there have then some reports suggesting that khorasan is fighting isis. i do not know if that is accurate, but there are some reports that say the leader of khorasan had been tasked with fighting isis in syria. >> he would have his work cut out. , the officialsra affiliate, al qaeda central, so-called, which was originally set up by isis and then broke away from it, but that has been on the retreat. it has lost the whole of eastern syria to isis over the summer. in thesome strength province, and again in the south new the border with jordan, but otherwise, it is very much on the bac

i want to bring in mark lamont hill, cnn political commentator and tara setmare co host of real newstegist. tara, will voters vote on this issue or will it still be the economy stupid? >> interestingly enough, this is mirroring what happened in 2002. the "atlantic" did a piece showing the parallels between 2002 when security moms were an important part of that election after 9/11. and not saying there is anything at the level of 911, but it's showing that polling, "wall street journal" showed in august a 14% of women favored obama's foreign policy. now it's shrunken to 2. women are doing focus grouping in iowa. that's an important place, where they show that security issues are now replacing the economy. and don't tell me that democrats aren't paying attention to that. they are. and republicans are too. that ad that we just saw in new mexico, that's a pretty powerful ad. the perception of however you feel obama is doing, whether you think it's the right thing or not to bomb syria and iraq, the perception is that republicans are stronger on national security and democrats are doves. s

i want to bring in mark lamont hill, and tara setmayer, co-host of real news on the blaze tv and a republicaners vote on this issue or will it still be the economy, stupid? >> interestingly enough this is mirroring what happened in 2002. the atlantic did a piece not long ago showing the parallels between 2002 when security moms were an important part of that election, and after 9/11 and not saying there is anything at the level of 9/11 but it's showing that polling, "wall street journal" showed that in august, 14% of women favored obama's foreign policy. now it's to 2. you know, women now, they are doing polling, focus grouping in iowa, it's an important place, where they showed that security issues are now replacing the economy. and don't tell me that democrats aren't paying attention to that, they are. and republicans are too. that ad that we saw in new mexico that's a pretty powerful ad. the reception of how you feel obama is doing, whether you it's it's the right thing or not to bomb syria and iraq t perception is republicans are stronger on national security and democrat are dust. >> doe

. >> host: there's a great quote in there from lamont to set politicians don't have the luxury of expressing doubt. but i sense from here you use the word nuanced quite a lot and you do have a nuanced -- were there other things that surprised you, things that change your view? >> guest: yeah they did. if you look at this whole idea of government spending, i mean what i was amazed that was the extent to which we are living completely on uncharted territory. hundreds of years before 1971 there was a gold standard and it was really the 60s that people challenged britain and america, challenge that we have to balance the budget every year. so this idea where we are running continual deficits and we have to pay them back in currency is quite new. this just wasn't something that happened before 1971. certainly after 1971, you know the extent to which we were spending more money wasn't as pronounced as it is today with these bailouts. >> host: so it's near-normal but it doesn't have to be that way. >> guest: it doesn't have to be that way. more than 10 years ago, i think i first heard it in 2007 th

gordon brown, alistair darling, margaret curran, douglas alexander, jim murphy, anas sarwar, johann lamont us thank them all ladies and gentlemen because they helped save our country. [applause] and i want to say to the people of scotland directly: this labour party will show you over the coming years you made the right choice. because we are better together. [applause] now here's the thing. all of us, all political leaders, all of us in this hall, have a responsibility to try and explain why 45% of people voted yes. 45% of people wanted to break up our country. and we've got to explain why the feeling we saw in scotland is not just in scotland but is reflected across the country and my story starts six days from the end of the referendum campaign. i was on my way to a public meeting. i was late as politicians tend to be. and just outside the meeting i met a woman and i was supposed to be going into the meeting but i wanted to stop and ask her how she was voting. i did that to everybody on the street. one vote at a time. i said to her how are you voting? she said i haven't decided yet. tur

. >> want to bring in mark lamont hill, sherry jacobis is here as well.he president's plan to address the issue of isis tonight and outline his strategy, said to be in three parts. we know -- i want to show you the result of a poll. we know americans aren't feeling that this strategy is foolproof. look at that, 30%. what do you think he has to say to change the thoughts and minds of americans? >> all three parts are necessary. the first part of the plan was to establish who isis is and what the nature of their threat is. that's absolutely necessary because he needs to be able to connect those dots and frame isis within the context of global terror. that's the first thing. there were rumors he thought they were j.v. or junior. he has to have a coherent strategy for destroying isis. >> we just reported the president is asking for authorization to arm and equip the rebels. it's not a vote -- it wouldn't be a vote to authorize air strikes. but it would be a vote on that strategy. do you think that members of congress need to get on the record now on this matt

joining us now is van jones, host of "crossfire," also mel rob, cnn commentator and legal analyst, marc lamontl, a senior political commentator, and judge greg mathis is back with us as well. good to have all of you. van, i'm going to start with you. is anything short of a ban for life acceptable at this point? >> you know, it's probably not. i think that in these situations you've got two things you're trying to do. one is you want to make sure the person has a chance to rehabilitate themselves. you want to make sure the person has a second chance. but you also need to send a clear signal and make sure that there's a reasonable punishment. it wasn't only the blow. it was the total contempt and lack of any demonstrable concern after the blow that i think really takes him outside of any kind of category of somebody you want to see back on the football field and representing the league. >> oh, my gosh. i can't even watch that video. when i see it on the monitor, i turn away. it is horrific to watch, mel. i'm sure you will agree. and this woman is getting hit -- actually brutally assaulted on cam

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senior military analyst and mark lamont hill, host of huff post live. mark, i start with you.entlemen thank you for being with us this morning. no u.s. boots on the ground. is one thing and one thing only. this is president obama responding to the polls that say we're war-weary. this is a man who has as a senator was against the war. his whole campaign platform was to get us out of iraq and his pledge is not to do it again. that's what it's about. >> that's what it's about to a certain extent. but conditions do change. oxs after we drew down in iraq, security forces remained and there remained the need for intervention. the president isn't just responding to the polls saying we're a war-weary nation and community. although that's true. there's a practical reason says u.s. boots on the ground have a negative impact on the area. it's much better to include regional forces to get sunni buy-in, to get pkk troops, to get shia militia, it creates a different atmosphere on the ground and it stops new death spots from emerging. it's been puzzling to me, i'm going to announce that grou