but our roland martin has a thing or two to say about that one.'re watching "cnn saturday morning." >>> welcome back. it is the first day of fall, and to mark the occasion, we've got a challenge for you. go outside, i'm sure it's a beautiful day out, use your smart phone to take a picture, then up load it to cnn ireport. perhaps you were one of the lucky few to get an iphone 5. the only requirement that the photo be horizontal and unfiltered. check back to see if yours is chosen. >>> on thursday, we announced our top ten cnn heroes of the year. each of those heroes will receive a prize of $50,000. so now it is your turn. you will decide the cnn hero of the year, and the winner will receive another $250,000. anderson cooper tells you how to vote. >> now that we've announced the top ten cnn heroes of 2012, i want to show you how you vote for the cnn hero of the year. it's very easy. this is the main page of cnnheroes.com. down here, you'll see all top ten cnn heroes. each one will receive $50,000, plus a shot at becoming cnn hero of the year. that's

>> i love roland martin. i completely disagree with him. the palace is saying enough is enough.nce william protected. they are saying this is too much. they're seeking damages. they're seeking an injunction. they don't want the photos to continue being published. and they're also seeking a criminal complaint against the photographers. now, they are leaving it up to french prosecutors to pursue a criminal case for either breach of privacy or trespassing. but what they want, i think, is a line in the sand so that this family can be protected because while they are public, of course, this is the royal family, they also have private lives. and i think the palace wants that distinction made. they want the distinction between the public life of this duchess and the private life of this duchess. and let's face it, this is very personal to prince william because his mother was the most photographed woman in the world and was mowed down by paparazzi which led to her death. so this is a very personal, i think, thing at this point for the palace. >> final point, this is the point on the ot

. >> it is and the question is, who gets the credit ryan joins me now along with roland martin. nd, that was the kind of, you're not afraid to say what you think. a kick in the you know, at least they're saying they feel the way they feel. >> actually, honesty is always the best policy. it's amazing they are making sarah palin out to look like a you know, profit, if you will, when she said they should go rogue. they're going to have to get more aggressive in this campaign in order to close this gap. these debates are going to be critical, but again, these ceo frankly is giving a muddy story if you will as to why he should be the person. i love boxing, erin and they say you don't win the belt of the champion on points. you take it and mitt romney hasn't done that. he has to take it if he wants to win the presidency. >> it makes sense, but ryan, what in the world is he supposed to do? it sounds like he tried to be aggressive. after the attacks on the consulate in libya. he came out and it seem people thought too soon he got picked on for being aggressive there. how can he be aggres

well, stop buying the magazine. >> we could go off on that, but i have to stop, roland martin. roland's article, go to cnn.com. and to you watching, tell me what you think. send me a tweet. i read all the tweets. >> keep it real. >> tweet me @brookbcnn. >>> coming up next, the leader of the terrorist group hezbollah makes a rare public appearance and uses it to call on muslims to unite against america. you'll hear his direct orders next. >>> want to show you video taken in the streets of lebanon just a couple of hours ago. see the protesters there, clearly filling, calling for more anti-american demonstrations. the comments come days after violence erupted outside the u.s. embassies after that anti-islam video. want to bring in cnn's mohammed jamjoom. the leader of hezbollah rarely makes public appearances, the clo crowd looked pretty huge. do we know how many turned out, a. an b, was there any violence. >> reporter: you're right. it is rare that he would show up in public. it is the first time he made a public appearance since last year, 2011. that was a brief one. he spoke for

. >> "outfront" tonight, roland martin and john avalon. ll, roland, you seem really happy. >> well, no, first of all, i think what this says is this is the m.o. of the republican party when you talk about what romney, he's not going to bother with him. all they want is a bunch of government assistants. >> i'm going to play that one in a second, but let's stick with this one about the latino joke how bad is this for him? is this going to come off as a racist kind of a joke? >> a poll came out today showing he is 53 points down to president obama among latinos. all i'm saying is it's not going to get you a higher amount of latino votes. and so he might think it's cute, but it doesn't play well. and the more damning comment is what he said later. >> i'm going to play that right now and let's go to you after that. here is another clip of mitt romney at the same fund-raiser. here he is. >> there are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. there are 47% who are with him, who believe in big government, who believe they ar

. >> "outfront" tonight, roland martin and john avalon. , roland, you seem really happy. >> well, no, first of all, i think what this says is this is the m.o. of the republican party when you talk about what romney, he's not going to bother with him. is a bunch of government assistants. >> i'm going to play that one in a second, but let's stick with this one about the latino joke. n how bad is this for him? dot come off as ce kind of joke? >> a poll came out today showing he is 53nt d to president ama among latinos. all i'm saying is it's not going to get you a higher amount of latino votes and s he might be this, but it doesn necessarily play well. what he said -- >> i'm going to play that rig no anlet's go to you afte that. here is another clip of mitt romney a >> there are 47% of the people involved in the -- all right, there are 47% who were with him, who we who believe they are victims, who believe they are tix to health care, food, housing, you name it. >> ryan, that has got to be something his campaign is pretty upset, whatever will

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but our roland martin has a thing or two to say about that one.'re watching "cnn saturday morning." >>> welcome back. it is the first day of fall, and to mark the occasion, we've got a challenge for you. go outside, i'm sure it's a beautiful day out, use your smart phone to take a picture, then up load it to cnn ireport. perhaps you were one of the lucky few to get an iphone 5. the only requirement that the photo be horizontal and unfiltered. check back to see if yours is chosen. >>> on thursday, we announced our top ten cnn heroes of the year. each of those heroes will receive a prize of $50,000. so now it is your turn. you will decide the cnn hero of the year, and the winner will receive another $250,000. anderson cooper tells you how to vote. >> now that we've announced the top ten cnn heroes of 2012, i want to show you how you vote for the cnn hero of the year. it's very easy. this is the main page of cnnheroes.com. down here, you'll see all top ten cnn heroes. each one will receive $50,000, plus a shot at becoming cnn hero of the year. that's

roland martin, leslie j. seymour and will cain. to everyone sitting at the table we have, from washington, d.c., cory clark, a former secretary of defense of public affairs. tori, we now have the statement from hillary clinton in which not only does sthee, of course, profess profound sadness but she also mentions shawn smith. can you tell us who shawn smith is? >> i don't know shawn smith personally but there are scores and scores of people, jamie ruben knows this, who work at our embassies and work overses.s so many things you want to talk about this morning but my heart is breaking for the families of these people, for the ambassador, for shawn smith and othe others. i give them my thoughts and prayers. >> absolutely. and i can fill in the blanks here as i'm looking at this statement from your boss, from secretary clinton. she says shawn smith, a foreign service management information officer -- this statement goes on to say they're still making next of kin notifications for the other two individuals. our hearts go out to all the

let's bring in roland martin from the democratic side and ron avalon. that has become a rallying cry. there have been a lot of carefully constructed polls put together by those on the right saying the polls assume a higher turnout and they call more democrats than republicans. so, it doesn't seem from the analysis we just provided that it adds up. >> and the the echo chamber of politics, the news has been bad for republicans. new hampshire margin is stunning. so in an attempt to keep moral up, they start to reach for conspiracy theorys. they're grasping for silver linings to keep moral up. it's an understandable impulse. but just because everybody in their circle remains committed, doesn't mean the polls are wrong. yes, there are some that are outliars. that florida poll might well be be, but the overall trend is in the other direction. republicans aren't happy about it and so in effect, they're in denial about the direction the polls are going. >> and this issue, if there are more likely democratic voters in a state, then it is not unfair to have more

>>> bring in our cnn contributors, roland martin and alex castellanos.tching a major league pitcher throw effortless strikes from center field. quite a speech. but two things. democratic party under bill clinton became a party of fiscal responsibility, not the party of george mcgovern that spent too much. barack obama is seen as a george mcgovern like figure. he spends too much. that's what concerns independents. bill clinton came back to do the laying of hands and said no, he's not, more of a centrist like i am. that may or may not be true, laying of hands helps. the other thing clinton did, he didn't just endorse obama, he gave him a campaign, gave him a narrative, a story. before last night, we didn't know why we should keep barack obama. bill clinton said the sun is going to come up tomorrow, the economy is getting better. it would be a risk to change. >> he did a powerful job. >> of course, but here's the deal. you can't paint a picture unless you're provided the tools, provided the paint. if he had nothing to talk about, he couldn't stand there and

so let's talk about that cnn contributor will cane ling is right and roland martin is here.lafgt samuel l. jackson? >> oh, my gosh, sam is the man. first of all if you don't follow him on twitter, you need to.>> . first of all if you don't follow him on twitter, you need to. some people will say, oh, my god, it's the language. guess how much money r-rated films make all the time and we know his rants in "pulp fiction" and "shaft" as well w why not have shaft get people excited about voting? way to go sam. >> give me your critique of samuel l. jackson's ad? >> my film critique. rolling on a three-second delay here? i do get the same liberties that samuel l. jackson takes? >> no. >> try it. try it. >> no. >> should i try it? no. whatever. it's fine. i mean, it's funny. i think we take politics too seriously sometimes. yeah exbring a little colloquialism to it. >> dick morris is saying, yeah, president obama maybe leading among minorities and young people but those people traditionally don't get out to vote and really not that excited about president obama anyway. so is dick mo

the left, roland martin. on the right, will cain, a cnn contributor and analyst for the blaze. welcome, gentlemen. >> good morning, carol. we should point out to the viewer that that was not the entire speech. that was highlights. the entire speech was 49 minutes. i know that seemed long. but the real thing was much, much longer. >> he ad libbed nearly half the speech. >> you know what, carol? >> yeah. >> you know what? here's what is amazing. a lot of people talk about bill clinton's speech in 1988 at the democratic national convention in atlanta, how long it was, that was 36 minutes. i was on the floor. in that room. trust me, nobody ever even felt like 50 minutes. probably for will cain it was 50 minutes of getting his butt kicked, it was painful for him, so i'm sure he did not want to have to have that feeling for 50 minutes. >> before we go on, we have to show the image the democrats would say the coupe de gras, the hug between barack obama and president clinton. can we show the picture? they had on identical ties and it looked like matching suits. it was beautiful. the fa