electrifying speech that makes him a national figure, maybe a world figure and when he gets to logan airport couple of days later he is pulled aside for extra examination at the security line. he is racially profiled and his campaign manager says what is going on. and obama says, dude, he really said it, dude, don't worry about it. don't sweat it. i have gone through it all my life. he may have not gone through the trials and tribulations of the civil rights generation, he knows what it is to be african-american in this country even at this late date. race is the longest and most painful drama this country has known. so the election of barack obama does not end that, does not solve every ill where race is concerned. far from it, but it was an enormous bridge to the future that was uplifting to i think many, many people who didn't even agree with him politically. >> there is more of our interview with david remnick on our website nightly.msnbc.com. >>> when we come back, meet the bulldogs, aka, the little engine that could. for insurance, allstate's got a great rep. but for price, it's a diff

close by is downtown, east boston, logan airport, and charlestown, all densely populated. as is normal, when an lmg tanker approaches the harbor, no other traffic is allowed on the water. security is tight. >> helicopters are overhead. the roads are closed on the side. the bridges are closed. there's a moving security to either side of the vessel. >> the massive security presence is looking the wrong way. a radicalized crew member has planted a bomb next to one of the lng tanks. >> it doesn't take very much to blast a very big hole in the side of a tanker. >> the bomb's explosion splits the side of one of the tanks and the lmg pours out. it ignites, rupturing the other tanks. >> once that occurred, you're looking at what will be the most catastrophic thing, breach of the tanks. >> thousands of tons of liquid gas pour into the water. >> the lng comes in contact with what it would regard as red hot liquid. it is so cold compared to the wat water. >> the lng expands. winds with a vapor cloud towards downtown boston. the cloud erupts in a fireball 1,000 feet high. that's therm

and when he goes back to logan airport to leave to return to chicago, he's now triumphant.wn all over the country and even the world. what happens to him is he gets pulled over for extra security and his white campaign manager says, what is going on? obama says, this has been happening to me all my life. so race remains a very complicated thing. we do not live in a post racial utopia by any means. >> great story and book. thanks for joining us, we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> be sure to tune in sunday at noon eastern, the msnbc especially, debating the black agenda hosted by my colleagues tamron hall and ed schultz. you can see it only on msnbc. >>> don't buy it, a rare specific warning from consumer reports. we'll tell you which new car they are telling you to stay away from and why. >>> plus what will your life be like 10 years from now? forbes says they know and will tell you what the future holds for all of us. we'll tell you on msnbc news. -- a complete multivitamin for my overall health. plus now it supports my heart health and helps maintain healthy blo

earlier that morning the united flight 175 from boston had seen its takeoff to lead by 14 minutes at logan airportthat delay created a small opportunity for fetch and his friends to survive, but of course the employees here did not know that. when fetch and his friends heard the explosion in the north tower that tuesday morning they did not know the united airlines plan was 16 minutes away from crashing into their building. the impact of the united plan would tear a diagonal negative in the south tower that would stretch from the 77 to the 85th floor. virtually every person still in the building above the zone of impact would die. the overwhelming tragedy that was unfolding in the united states hardly anyone noticed something strange happened that morning, a puzzle. the investment banking firm was actually spread over two floors in the south tower, the 80th floor and 89th floor. the escape routes from both floors would be severed by the impact of the united airlines plane but when the survivors were accounted for, it turned out that nearly every employee of the '84 escaped and survived. fetch and

he goes to the logan airport with his campaign manager, white southerner named jim cali, and he pulled aside for extra wanding and searching. that didn't happen to jim jim cauley. and he says barack, what the hell? and obama says and i quote these are the words recalled, "do, not to worry. i've got it. this has been happening to me all of my life." so they are not in light sticks of moses generation. nobody is suggesting for a second that he didn't have access to elite institutions occidental, columbia, harvard law school, but he didn't is faith that experience either. i don't care if he grew up in hawaii, even in hawaii, which prides itself on multiculturalism except for one thing all the black people are on military bases except a couple kids here and there. so it was a really difficult struggle for him. >> and how does that and for his personality, his outlook, his world view? i mean, chris had ali was a good friend of his, and pfizer of his often describes the experience of living in america as a black man you experience something that he attends to deep muscle tissue bruising. not

earlier that morning the united flight 175 from boston had seen its takeoff to lead by 14 minutes at logan airport. that delay created a small opportunity for fetch and his friends to survive, but of course the employees here did not know that. when fetch and his friends heard the explosion in the north tower that tuesday morning they did not know the united airlines plan was 16 minutes away from crashing into their building. the impact of the united plan would tear a diagonal negative in the south tower that would stretch from the 77 to the 85th floor. virtually every person still in the building above the zone of impact would die. the overwhelming tragedy that was unfolding in the united states hardly anyone noticed something strange happened that morning, a puzzle. the investment banking firm was actually spread over two floors in the south tower, the 80th floor and 89th floor. the escape routes from both floors would be severed by the impact of the united airlines plane but when the survivors were accounted for, it turned out that nearly every employee of the '84 escaped and survived. fetch an

earlier that morning united flight 175 from boston had seen its takeoff delayed by 14 minutes at logan airportthat delay created a small opportunity for fetch and his friends to survive but, of course, the employees of the firm did not know that. when fetch and his friends heard the explosion in the north tower that tuesday morning, they did not know the united airlines plane was 16 minutes away from crashing into their building. the impact of the united plane would tear a diagonal gash in the south tower that would stretch from the 77th to the 85th floor. virtually every person who was still in the building about the zone of impact would die. in the overwhelming tragedynt tt was there. it was spread over two floors on the south tower. escape routes from both planes and it turned out nearly every employee on the 88th floor escaped and survived. fetch and nearly everyone else who worked for the same company on the 89th floor stayed at their desks and died. john duffy who became ceo of the firm after the tragedy and whose son was among the employees who died told me that 120 employees were sprea

he goes to logan airport this campaign manager, a white southerner and he is pulled aside for extra searching that did not happen to jim cawley. colley says barack, what the hell? obama says, and i quote in the words their colley says, dude, not to worry. i have got it. this has been happening to me all my life so they are not the nightsticks of the moses generation. nobody is suggesting for a second that he didn't have access to elite institutions, occidental, colombia and harvard law school but he didn't escape that experience either. i don't care if he grew up in hawaii. even in hawaii which prides itself on multiculturalism except for one thing, all the black people are on military bases except for a couple of kids here and there. so it was a really difficult struggle for an. >> how does that inform his personality, his outlook, his worldview? chris was a good friend of hers -- is often described the experience of living in america as a black man to experience something he attends to deep tissue muscle bruising. not the kind of thing you might be able to see but that kind of thing you fee