with us john legend, david gergen, nic lott and roland martin. david, to john legend's point. he's saying, look, this is really a distraction keeping us off the important issues of health care and other things that should be debated. rather we're off to the subject third rail of american politics, the subject of race. this is not something that the white house wants to be discussing. >> it's certainly not and the white house would very much like to change the subject. but jimmy carter, i'm afraid, is not alone, anderson, in his views. a rasmussen poll out today finds that 22% of democrats believe that most of the opposition to health care reform comes from racist. and 35% of barack obama's strongest supporters believe that opposition comes from racists. i personally believe there are racists at the fringes, at the extremes here. but i think it's wrong headed and unfair and i think it's a libel upon many of the opponents, most of the opponents of health care reform to say they're racist. seven previous presidents have tried to bring health care reforms of this kind. all seven h