back with me now van jones, mel robbins and marc lamont hill.eekend of resistance close to 50 people were arrested today in ferguson, missouri. six for refusing to disperse. 13 for disturbing the peace. are outsiders coming into ferguson now to further their own agenda, and is the original message getting lost here? >> i say no. >> mel. but go ahead. >> i'm sorry. no, no, no. let mel go. >> normally i come and fight with marc every single night we're together but i agree with him. i don't think the original message is getting lost. in fact, don, it's getting more focused because you have less outsiders coming in and hijacking what's going on there for their own purpose. >> van is not buying it. >> he's not buying it? well, then what does van have to say about this? ? v . >> van, why don't you buy it? >> first of all, certainly there are people who are there who are local and who are from other places. here's my concern. i don't see the focus yet. the one person who can make a difference here is never talked about. that is the governor. we know t

and cnn political commentator and host of huff post live marc lamont hill.let's start with you. in the past, president obama has dismissed photo-ops. most recently he dismissed it during the border crisis saying he is more interested in solving problems than taking pictures but now seems like there may have been a change of heart. what's your take? >> well i would challenge the premise or any argument out of this administration that they don't care about photo-ops. this is an administration that cares a great deal and a presidency and a candidacy back in 2008 that was vaulted ahead of the others because of photo-ops. but as part of the presidency, photo-ops are important. how you send a message to the american people about the level of concern that you have for a given challenge, your plan for dealing with a certain challenge, those type of photo-ops are important. so it should come as no surprise and i don't think that the -- there will be criticism because the president is doing that. i think where the criticism comes for any president -- republican or dem

marc lamont hill is a cnn commentator and host for huff post live.hat is a cnn political commentator and "new york times" op-ed columnist in. welcome to both of you. >> good morning, carol. >> good morning. mark, biden says he's sorry but the turkish prime minister is not happy. how damaging were these comments? >> i'm not sure they were overall damaging. joe biden has the audacity to tell the truth that saudi arabia, qatar, turkey, that they played a critical and pivotal role in expanding and funding isis. krong that's a disputable claim. it's not the best diplomatic strategy and i think the anti-isis coalition, like that pkk, that hurts turkey's interest in the broader scope in terms of a free kurdistan. but joe biden didn't say anything crazy. this isn't crazy uncle joe. this is somebody with the audacity to tell the truth. >> but, ross, audacity at this particular time when we need turkey's hope the fight isis on the ground? come on. >> what's the famous michael kinsley definition of a gaffe? when a politician in washington accidentally speaks th

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

anna navarro, marc lamont hill, thanks as always, i appreciate it. >> pleasure. >>> news just in to cnnm going to share with you right now. cnn has obtained video of what's believed to be the ambulance transporting the five-year-old boil to bellevue hospital in new york earlier this morning. that little boy has gone -- undergone testing for ebola. they should know the results in about 12 hours. the boy, he just traveled to west africa in the last 21 days, he developed a very high fever. he's under observation and, as i said, the preliminary test results are expected back in the next 12 hours and hopefully they'll know if this boy has ebola or not. of course we will keep you posted. still to come in the newsroom, iraqi soldiers now celebrating victory in a battle south of ballot. but will they be able to keep isis extremists out for long. we'll take you live to iraq, next. helps you find a whole range of coverages. no one else gives you options like that. [voice echoing] no one at all! no one at all! no one. wake up! [gasp] oh! you okay, buddy? i just had a dream that progressive had thi

marc lamont hill has more on our slice of life. >> let's hear you scream [ inaudible ]. >> it may bey of every 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 maste

joining me now, cnn legal analyst mark o'mara, political commentator marc lamont hill, and political i should say reportedly. this is a "new york times" report, this isn't cnn reporting. so we're going on the "new york times" here. marc, are you surprised, though, that officer darren wilson testified before the grand jury? >> mark oma'mara? >> yes. >> it's quite a move. normally you avoid that like the plague because the one thing a criminal defense has is the right not to testify anywhere and not to be compelled to. so i think the fact that he did testify is pretty compelling and he has to be quite confident in his position and his lawyers have to be pretty confident to allow him to do so. >> so in your experience, mark o'mara, how does a grand jury interpret the differences between what officer wilson says happened in the car and what eyewitnesses in particular dorian johnson say happened on the street? >> well, they're going to rely more on the forensic evidence than any eyewitness identification. and we've talked about eyewitness identification not being all that credible. it hel

with me is marc lamont hill and joining us from st. son author of the book "the big black lie." marc, let's start with you, will ferguson belong in the same places as selma or montgomery? >> it's too early to say but there are certain similarities. it reminds me of emmett till who gets killed august 28th, 1963 when you see the march on washington. similarly this could be a turning point. we thought trayvon could have been a turning point it's not whether we march but what happens after we mar of and what kind of structural changes happen and what kind of police response do we see. >> and the marching is going on and on and on. >> oh, yeah. >> kevin, you are there in st. louis right now. i guess has ferguson, though, perhaps missed its moment given violence that's come with the marching here? is violence undermining the message? >> well, it's undermining the message but it's also -- it isn't even part of the message if marc believes that this is going to -- has the potential to rise to that level, it's a shame, because to put michael bro

think it's important for the future of ferguson that he step aside, but i heard our colleague, marc lamontarlier that he thought that this might be some of the p.r. moves towards softening the blow in case that there isn't a vote to indict, and my initial reaction, don, was, holy cow. i wonder if they're getting signaled from inside that grand jury that there's not going to be an indictment and starting to do things publicly. >> there you go. >> -- to try to play this down? >> that's how people on the ground feel. >> and you have covered this on your show yitzhak shams cnn, on thought this is a rush to judgment. i wonder how this plays into this, if the chief does step down next week? >> i view it as total confirmation of the is a spirgs i've had several weeks and spoken pucklily ago. all of those, the "new york times" a week ago, offering leaks in the "l.a. times," leaks in the st. louis post dispatch relative to the african-american accounts support ive of the officer and the autopsy xugting his arms weren't in the air. as i read the tea leaves, don i have been saying, all calibrated and

america's ebola showdown with our political commentators ben ferguson joining us from dallas and marc lamontphiladelphia. it seems like the intense focus on ebola had died down a little bit until this latest news, dr. craig spencer just tested positive in new york. is it a case of the government drops the ball or is it something we should have expected? >> i think we should have expected another case. based on what i saw in dallas, we did not have a good handle i think early on. we're still learning how to deal with this to be honest with you, and i think it's going to bring up the issue of are there travel restrictions even quarantine for people that are coming back from treating those with ebola that should be put in place. we've seen this debate with new york and new jersey now kind of at odds with the federal government so i think this is, you know, chapter number two. it looks at least as of now we're starting to know how to fight it early on and treat it and maybe even quarantine those around it so that's a step in the right direction, but overall i don't think most americans feel that

. >> joining us now marc lamont hill, cnn political commentator. uson, cnn political commentator and host of the ben ferguson show. marc, i'm going to start with you. such a bone of contention as you saw there. do you think that most people paint islam or even here with too broad a brush when we ask about violence and pro o. pressing committed in the name of religion? >> i don't think most people do. i'd like to think most people appreciate that islam is like any other religion. there are fundamentalists. there are mainliners there are secularists. there are people who look at it -- but the bulk of people, the 1.6 billion people who practice islam an infinitesimal amount are engaged in any type of fanaticism that we see with isis and other groups. and when he says that islam is the mother lode of bad ideas that is horrific it's offensive and as ben said it's racist. >> that was some of the debate. they were also arguing whether liberals have failed when discussing islam, the treatment of women, the treatment of gays, free thinkers and public intelle