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oral-b. >> larry: back with laura ingraham and mark lamont hill.nt obama covered a wide range of topics with the ladies of "the view" including race. here is a short excerpt from what he said. >> your mother was white. >> uh-huh. >> would it be helpful or why don't you say i am not a black president, i am biracial? >> you know, when i was young, and going through the identity crises that any teenager goes through. i wrote a whole book about this. >> yes. >> part of what i realized was that if the, if the world saw me as african-american then that wasn't something that i needed to run away from that's something that i could go ahead and embrace. >> larry: laura, i know is must puzzle -- why is racism still a question in this country? >> well, larry, i think what happened, remember a year ago, remember the cambridge police incident with professor gates. the president weighed in that was a dumb thing the police officer did. and that set off a conversation. a lot of people are disappointed they thought they had a post-racial president in president obam

laura ingraham is here tomorrow night and tony robbins on friday. michael moore is with us tonight. the oscar winning documentary filmmaker, founder of the traverse city film festival, annual event which kicks off right now and runs through sunday. michael joins us from traverse city, his open space outdoor cinema. why a film festival in traverse city, michigan? >> why not? i guess it's because where i live, but it -- you know, it's like a lot of small towns across the country and in the midwest here where people are just dying to see a good movie and there

laura ingraham is here tomorrow night and tony robbins on friday. michael moore is with us tonight. the oscar winning documentary filmmaker, founder of the traverse city film festival, annual event which kicks off right now and runs through sunday. michael joins us from traverse city, his open space outdoor cinema. why a film festival in traverse city, michigan? >> why not? i guess it's because where i live, but it -- you know, it's like a lot of small towns across the country and in the midwest here where people are just dying to see a good movie and there are so many good movies that don't get distributed. so each summer during this week in traverse city, we're on lake michigan up at the top of the lower peninsula in michigan here. we bring 80 or so films, a lot of films people haven't seen before, and from all over the world and it's turned -- this is the sixth year of it and it's -- we've got about 100,000 tickets sold here for the festival. so it's -- it's quite a -- it's -- it's quite a cool thing. we're actually here on the main street of traverse city and behind me is the st