according to the former head of the boston naacp, the only time the naacp had any interaction with the administration and the governor was to protest when he eliminated the affirmative action office. romney never spoke about the republican voter id laws being implemented across the country, and he should have. 25% of african-americans lack the proper id to comply with this laws. many are in key swing states like pennsylvania and florida. romney also didn't mention how his tax policy would affect african-american families. the median income for african-american households in america is at $32,000. well, romney's tax plan would raise taxes on those making less than $30,000 a year while people on the opposite end of the scale, they would get a nice tax cut. again. romney didn't talk about any of these things today because he can't. and if he tells the truth about his policies and how they affect the african-american community, he will get booed just like this. >> if you want a president who will make things better in the african-american community, you are looking at him. you take a look.

initially we had the naacp who said president was slated to be at the naacp convention.t of the convention even knowing that mitt romney was slated to speak there. it turned out last night that joe biden willing going. the vice president will be going to the naacp convention. no reasons given. we reached out to the white house and they did not return our entreaties for comment. it's very curious, and many are tossing around a lot of ideas. valerie jarrett. >> close confidant for a long time before he became president in the chicago years. for people who don't know valerie jarrett, also african-american. >> she is. >> why would she not want the president to go to the naacp convention? >> we're talking about people who are thinking about what the reasons could possibly be. this is conjecture. a lot of people feel that valerie jarrett has tried to keep the president away from events that are considered black events. you mentioned that he's going to address the urban league, it's an organization that focuses on jobs. 9 record for african-american jobs is not so great. but th

. >> mitt romney and the naacp. >> i do love that music. i have to tell you. i do love listening to that organ music. >> romney just never connected to his audience. >> things went smoothly until he decided to take on the president's health care plan. >> i'm going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program i can find. >> the crowd shouted him down with boos. >> that includes obama care, and i'm going to work to reform and save -- [ audience booing ] >> he is the worst republican in the country. >> all of us saying that rick santorum was right. every time someone says something like that, a gay angel gets its wings. >> if you want a president who will make things better in the african-american community, you are looking at him. you take a look. >> i can't! >> i want to give him credit for stepping up into the arena, so to speak. >> there have been republican candidates who have refused to go to the naacp. >> if you understood who i truly am in my part, we would vote for me for president. >> we don't know what you believe, and that's b

so he looked to the naacp to give him some kind of credibility. if he really intended to speak to this venerable civil rights organization, the oldest in our country, then he might have walked into the room and talked about how we fix basic public education, because we know education disrupts poverty. if he intended, i think, to speak to the naacp, then maybe he would have gone into the room to repudiate some of the attacks on, you know, people who want to vote in this country. people who are legally able to vote in this country, and some of the very draconian laws that have come to grow to keep, you know, everyday citizens from the polls, who happen to skew democratic. the elderly, young college students, you know, people who are poor, who don't have access readily to some of the i.d.s that they are looking for today. maybe we would have spoken to these issues. instead, as mark thompson said, he was highly paternalistic. he used a word like "obama care," which is a derisive term for the affordable care act. if he was truly interested in speaking

he's a lifetime member of the naacp. bring up another good point cenk which i know not always easy for you but you bring up a fantastic point. >> cenk: thank you. >> which is a lot of people wonder with joe biden with barack obama how they're going to cover different subjects, how they're going to cover issues of civil rights. he's a white vice president going to the naacp not sending the black president. however at the end of the day today, people were saying and these are people covering the president all the time, i had two reporters say to me you know what? joe biden is giving a better speech than barack obama has given. >> cenk: president obama hasn't been lighting people up with speeches. in the '08 campaign, he was phenomenal. i don't know where that guy went. i thought you had the most interesting reporting on this. you went and checked the schedule of the president today. what did you find out about his busy schedule? >> well, i couldn't sleep in central time it turns out. what does somebody like me do? they go

the naacp doesn't. they love what the unions love, and the union loves what the democrats love. >> there was no way hay could win here. he doesn't go he is ignoring the black community. he goes and he is confronting them with things they don't want to hear. i agree with jason. this doesn't rent the interest of -- this doesn't ript the interest of -- represent the interest of anybody. i thought he was great to talk about things like the fact that candidates cannot have it both ways. you can't talk about reform and education and protect the status quo of special interest. i am sure that hurt a lot of people in the establishment community. i thought it was something he really had to say regardless. by the way, if you listen to the whole tape, the boos were just one small part, and there were a number of times where there were people applauding what he said. >> mitt romney was not the only visitor to the naacp. we had a couple of obama visitors, joe biden and eric holder. let's listen to the attorney genera

i think the naacp only hurt itself by this clip they took out of them booing him. the truth is, he got a standing ovation at the end. >> what about that eleanor? >> i think romney gets street creds for going. by using the term obama care he must have known that that would be seen as a sign of disrespect sew did get the bays and he did get a standing ovation. i think they treated him poo lately. that doesn't mean they are going to vote for him but he gets what he wanted out of this event. he can showcase the bays to his base, and he looks brave for going. i had some democrats what were so envious of what he did, they're suggesting that president obama address the mormon tabernacle choir now. >> first, i think it's -- what eleanor said was close to this conspiracy theory that got put out last week that romney went in, used the word obama care to upset the crowd swee get booed. i don't think -- so he would get booed. i think it's ridiculous so say he was intentionally getting booed. >> really. >> the dccc, the democratic congressional campaign committee is sending out

good morning members of the naacp. to president ben jealous and chairman rossland brock for the opportunity to be here this morning. and for your hospitality. this is an honor to address you and one i had not expected and one i value very highly. i appreciate the chance to speak first, even before vice president will -- vice president biden will get his turn tomorrow. i just hope the obama campaign doesn't think you are playing favorites. now you know we've been having some trouble with that shot. can we bring in james clyburn who is standing by at the capitol? we don't have him. oh, we go back. >> we don't count anybody out and we sure don't make a habit of presuming anyone's support. support is asked for and earned. and that's why i'm here today. now with 90% of african-americans who typically vote for democrats, you may wonder, or some may wonder why a republican would bother to campaign in the african-american community and address the naacp. one reason, of course is that i hope to represent all americans of every

let's go back to romney's speech at the naacp. he said he expected a rocky reception from the crowd. obviously republicans haven't always gotten a warm welcome from the naacp. john mccain used a very different tone in talking about candidate obama four years ago. he got a pretty good reception from the crowd then. do you think if the governor had taken a similar approach, his policy message may have gotten a different or frankly better reaction? >> well, his policy message actually got overall a good reaction. there were snippets as you played, that did elicit negative reaction, and one or two occasions. but overall there were a number of occasions where his policies did elicit applause and ovation and general consensus of agreement. so i think he actually has a message that appeals. i think the bigger question or the bigger headline that should be addressed and that is the stark kind of elephant in the room, if you will, is the fact that president obama wasn't there to address the crowd. and i think there was disappointment that

the naacp is a nonpartisan organization. support political candidates or political parties. but we do have an agenda, an agenda that actually pushes for voting rights for all americans. the reason that eric holder received that hero's welcome as you said is because he has been on the frontline fighting for america's voting rights, among other civil rights concerns. we know there are a number of obstacles, and we appreciate those who fight to make sure that every american, regardless of race, gender, or national origin can carry out that right to vote. we support making voting easy but fraud difficult. >> what if mr. romney doesn't mention that at all, what if he skips over that issue and goes right to jobs? >> well, we want him to talk about jobs as well. don't assume that our agenda is limited to one issue like voting rights. we see voting rights as that predicate. you have to have the right to vote to be able to address the other challenges and concerns of our communities. but we do have to talk about jobs. and we do want

should he have bothered to go to the naacp. have gone but don't you think he might have crafted a better message than standing in front of them and pretending that me! i'm the great hope of the african-american community. think black. look at me. mimi from atlanta georgia. hi mimi. >> caller: hi, good morning, bill. >> bill: good morning. >> caller: the thing is he was so condescending in his tone to them. he said stuff like i hope to represent all americans. i didn't know he had a choice in who he wanted to represent. and then he said stuff like you know the obama care act. that's why they booed him. it is not so much that he wanted to repeal him. he booed -- they booed him because he said obama care instead of affordable care act. >> bill: that's a good point. >> caller: afterwards when he was finished, he said they booed me, i expected it. but if they wanted free stuff from the government, vote for that guy? what free stuff? and who are those people? he was very condescending. he slung mud in their faces and that's why they

his wife served as the first woman chair woman of naacp.eople know reality of what happens in this country. they want a great country. they want to fight for a great country but they look for a presidential person who will have empathy and have at least know the pain that they experience. >> eliot: congresswoman, you could not be more correct. in fact, when i was going through the three issues that were most significant to the audience, it was healthcare, voter i.d. and tax issues. governor romney is 0-for-3 across that trilogy of issues, and the most volatile is the voter issue that has been in front the naacp efforts in the last couple of days. did he not even make reference, address it, and eric holder called jim crow incarnate. did governor romney say anything about that? >> we were engaged here in washington on a non-serious effort of repealing the affordable care act maybe to some known as obama-care. but all of the reviews that i have secured not one time was the vital intrinsic dna-based issue of voters rights ever mentioned. he men

towards the naacp. and when you look at sort of what he said -- >> that's absolutely not true. >> well, it's not me, it's david fromme. i didn't interrupt you. please, don't interrupt me. he was purposefully antagonistic towards the naacp. the question becomes, you know, why was governor romney using the naacp as a prop to have a conversation or to prove a point with conservatives who still don't trust him. because clearly he wasn't there to give a conversation to try to reach out and gain more support among a civil rights conversation. >> that's absolutely false. >> he was there as a prop and he was antagonistic. towards the organization that -- >> absolutely false. >> let him finish and then you can talk. >> sure. but it's false. >> going to the point that john made, it's also from a strategic point untenable. i mean, if you look at these sort of these states, virginia, north carolina, ohio, florida, and you go out west to the nevada, new mexico. it's untenable what's going on whip the republican part

naacp deserves credit for inviting him to come there. they treated him well.were very professional. and very demonstrative with their applause through this and gave him a standing ovation when he left. that's a classy operation. that's a very credible organization. and to try to characterize them as a group that was sitting there, booing, i think is a disservice. >> the governor's exactly right. in fact, i think that governor romney deserves credit for having gone to the naacp and spoken his truth and treated them with respect. i don't get why people want to distort this. that business about health care, i thought that mitt romney was terrific to say, here's why i am saying what i am saying. i am not condescending to you, i am telling you what i believe i will do i. finally, you are on the right track, juan. >> there we go, sean. >> sean: the show's about to -- i think we have a new debate team. we will lock this in as a regular segment. appreciate you both being here. coming up, liberals are trying to protect president obama after he opted not to appear at th

now that came out right before the naacp speech. if you read it, it suggests that mitt is not nearly as inclined toward civil rights as his father is when in fact the facts don't bear that out. >> not only do the facts not bear it out, but the timing is so interesting. the los angeles times to run this story on the front page above the fold right before the naacp convention was purely strategic. what they tried to do is get out early the fact that he -- that mitt romney isn't very good on these issues. it is a false narrative. imagine if mitt romney had not shown up to the convention what the media coverage would have been like. cnn was atrocious in trying to say the speech was paned, that it was constantly booed, and they had a very one sided review of exactly what this speech was like. exactly how judy was saying, they didn't talk about some of the high points. >> and when george romney was governor, there was a lot more work to do on civil rights in this country. >> the framework around a civil rights has changed a good deal from

do you worry that he is using the naacp? >> well let me just is asay this, one of the advantages of having a t.v. program is that you have got the before and after i get off meaning we have the before and after he gets off of the stage. we can welcome him and bless him as he comes, and we can correct him and redirect him as he leaves. and so the bottom line is, it's not so much what you say when folk are in the house. it's what you say and when you do when they ain't in the house. you can try to use us if you want to. fair exchange ain't no robbery. the fair exchange is that we also have an opportunities to tell mr. romney that his priorities do not satisfy or speak to the needs of brown and black and yellow people in this country. we also have the occasion to let him know that as you said to michigan and detroit, that the auto industry can go drop in the cinch when the auto industry has come back and the auto industry is one of the most profitable industries in america and, thanks to your policies that were not adopted, we

biden was introduced by a naacp board of directors. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> naacp delegates!great honor to introduce to you a friend of the naacp. at the age of 29, he became one of the youngest people ever elected to the united states senate. our speaker commuted from washington to willmingham, delawa delaware, by train every day and he was re-elected to the senate six times. as a senator from delaware for 36 years, he has established himself as a leader of some of our nation's most important domestic and international challenges. now, serving as the 47th vice president of the united states, joe biden continues to provide leadership on important issues facing our nation. of relevant interest to this audience, joe biden was a standout high school athlete who participated to an anti-segregation sit-in at a maryland theater. he is married to dr. jill biden and they have three children and five grandchildren. naacp delegates, again, join me in providing a warm, naacp family welcome to the vice president of the united states of america joseph r. biden! >> hello! please, thank you

days, joe biden and his performance at the naacp. there's been a lot of talk. >> i think it's what they like about biden. that was basically at a convention speech. it wasn't a speech just to a constituent group. biden loves that. he loves riling up big crowds like that especially friendly crowds. it's exactly where the campaign wants to put them. i don't think there's going to be many people at that convention feel slighted by the -- >> jonathan, i want to turn to you in terms of, you know, we've talked a lot about the african-american vote, the naacp, whether the president is taking for granted the naacp and the african-american community given the fact that he didn't show up. do you think that this sort of biden goes in, does his work, almost a sort of preacherly speech, if you will, that biden gave. do you think that sort of quashes this sort of chatter about his relationship to the black vote? >> well, look, everyone would like to have the president of the united states come and speak to their group, and the naacp, you know, is

most people who come to the naacp, naacp is a very conservative organization.mber of small applause, but he also got that boo when he dised president obama. when you say obama-care. obama does care. that's the problem. obama-care as they use is it a derogatory term. you don't come to somebody's house and cuss them out at the dinner table. >> jennifer: i hear what you're saying, although i think the word obama-care is going to go down in history. >> no question. >> jennifer: as something that is a real positive. i don't think we should be afraid of using it because it stamps his name on something that he brought to the country. i have a question that might be a little bit different and a little bit sensitive. mitt romney used to be a bishop in the mormon church. and the mormon church did not allow blacks to be priests until 1978. is it a corn at all to the naacp members, but bishop romney never stood up to the discriminatory practices of his church. >> that goes to the question of the heart again. if you're bishop of any church, it doesn't matter, god looks at t

president obama, a taped statement to the naacp.of criticism that the president was not going to appear in person and speak to african-american voters. jim acosta is at the convention. maybe this wasn't as much of a surprise. right, jim? >> reporter: right. and i should say, the naacp conference here played a video message from president obama. it was fairly generic. it's not really clear when he recorded this video because he doesn't really respond to what happened here yesterday when mitt romney spoke before this group. but he gave some and at one point said we're looking out for the middle class. >> we did check out the president's schedule -- and of course we can't know all that is on the president's schedule but he appears to have a light schedule, briefings in the morning and then an interview with charlie rose, i think. >> that's right. cbs news does have an interview with the president and that could be a reason why he could not be down here in houston. but like you said, we don't know everything that was put on the schedule

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. >> cheers or jeers, reception vice president joe biden received at naacp convention. >> and hacking attack at yahoo has put half a million account >>> breaking news in the pablo sandoval sexual assault allegations, deputies decided not to arrest him. sheriff's department decided there is not enough proof against him. last month a woman accused of sexually assaulting her. sandoval has claim it was consensual. >> wells fargo has agreed to pay $175 million to settle discrimination allegations. they charged black and hispanic borrowers higher fees and steered them to subprime loans. it's the secondly largest residential lending settlement in justice department history. wells fargo is not admitting any wrongdoing. >> a new development now to a story we brought you yesterday when mitt romney was boo'd as he addressed the naacp convention. he said he would do more for african-americans than president obama. joe biden got a different reception from the same crowd. >> yesterday, mitt romney was boo'd at the ghroow convention -- naacp. biden delivered a fiery rebuttal. >> providing access to