. >> good evening, my name is rachel roberts and i am the civil rights coordinator for the council on islamic relations and i want to thank you for the opportunity to comment on the report, and we are cautiously optimistic about the progress that has been made this year and we thank you for dialoguing with us and other organizations. and we want to remind the commission that the safe san francisco civil rights ordinance was passed after years of hard work by community groups and including ours, and the reason why is because over the past two years, our office has helped hundreds of people as has alc among other civil rights organizations who are active in the city. and helped hundreds of american muslims among others who have been approached for voluntary questioning because of accessive airport delays and denials and delays of the immigration benefits and disproportionately the people that i have served are deeply religious and they are involved in the religious communities and active with their mosque and many of them have studied their religious with rigor over a period of years an

. >> rachel sheldon reports on the political atmosphere in washington, dc in the 1840s and 1850s robert thing personal relationships forged by many politicians of the day impacted legislative writing and left lawmakers prepared for succession, this is half an hour. >> so, i want to thank all of you for coming. it's great to see some familiar faces and some others, and it's great to be at one of my favorite book stores. i've been coming here a long time, so i appreciate the invitation. it's really appropriate for us to talk about the role of washington, dc here in the capitol, in the midst of the sesquicentennial of the civil war. it commemorates 150 years of the with war. lasted four bloody years and captured the lives of more than 700,000 americans north and south. when we think about the civil war, it's typically with the sense of the divisive relationship between north and south and the violence that captured the nation well before the war began. machine from the north and men from the south became angry and angrier, challenging one another with words and with guns over the issue of

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roberts, how is this helping liberalism? if you're a liberal, you want an effective liberal. someone like rachele is responsible, she makes her point, she believes what she says, she's not malicious. >> no, i don't think so. >> why can't you hire a few more of those kind of people? now make a prediction. make a prediction, is comcast going to step in and do anything about this network? >> well, i would like to think they would. my prediction is some time in the next 12 months, especially before the next presidential election, you'll see the swinging door at msnbc again and there will probably be new faces and some of the newcomers of the last year or so will be gone. >> maybe they'll make you a big offer and we'll have to top it. >> yeah, bill, that's going to be a tough one. >> ms. laura ingraham, everybody. plenty more ahead this evening. kelly on two-court rulings, one on religion, the other on welfare drug use. >>> then charles krauthammer on the far left taking over new york city. we hope you stay tuned for those reports. would you like apple or cherry? cherry. oil...or cream? definitely cr

rachel. >> just because i have been marinating in this indictment since it came out this afternoon, i've got to say, bribery does appear. counts 2 through 4, defendants, robert. mcdonnell, maureen mcdonnell, and others, knowingly and intentionally, having devised and intended to devise a theme to defraud the citizens of virginia through bribery. also, the word "extortion" is in there two pages later. this is absolutely -- this has been a scandalous story from the beginning, but the detail that is in this indictment is, i've got to admit, even for just a layman, it's almost mind bending. i almost can't believe this isn't a move. also, today was governor chris christie's inauguration day in new jersey. and lots of activity surrounding that governor's bridge scandal managed to transpire today, despite this other scandal and despite the inauguration and despite the huge snowstorm that is socking the east coast in the face as i speak. lots ahead. stay with us. >>> in the middle of all the intense political news today and the giant snowstorm hitting the east coast, today was also election day. today was the day that virginians of all the beleaguered folks in the c