for more we are joined by sunita patel, co-counsel on the case. your response to judge scheindlin's ruling? >> it is an astounding victory for everyone in new york city. she has very correctly and barley decided that the city is engaging in racial profiling. it is a victory for so many hundreds of thousands of people who have been illegally stopped and frisked over the past decade. >> to those who say that this is the reason crime is down and that the number of lives that whatbeen same -- saved -- did i hear one pundit say today year.0 murders a that this is a result of racial profiling. thing, there is no empirical evidence linking stop and frisk to crime reduction generally. secondly, this is a tactic that this murder rate reduction in the news -- is a little bit blurry. that is a statistic that spans the course of 15 years. it is not within the time period we are talking about. when mayor bloomberg came into office, the murder rate was already down to a very small number. they are taking credit for something that happened way before them, and t

david ourlicht and nicholas peart and sunita patel, i want to thank you all for being here tonight and telling your story. and i want to congratulate you for your courage. it's not about gloating. it i is not we didn't beat the city. >> we are the city. we are the city. and we got to work with them. >> i'm glad to have you on. i'm glad for the spirit in which you operate. >>> coming up, attorney general eric holder makes big news today with a major step forward for justice. >>> plus, this rodeo clown wearing a president obama mask in missouri showed the problem in today's republican party. more on this offensive display ahead. >>> and oprah winfrey headed into a career in politics? she has been speaking out more. some on the right are worried. >>> also, what is on your mind? e-mail me. friend or foe, i want to know. >>> up next, a huge step forward in the fight for justice. what eric holder's major announcement means. that's next. e. we've had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that's how we make our living and that's how we can pa

well, thank you so much to seema iyer and sunita patel.he country, communities are running out of water and it's because of something we're doing. we could stop, but we don't want to. that's next. more nerdland at the top of the hour. a-a-a. f-f-f-f-f-f-f. lac-lac-lac. he's an actor who's known for his voice. but his accident took that away. thankfully, he's got aflac. they're gonna give him cash to help pay his bills so he can just focus on getting better. we're taking it one day at a time. one day at a time. [ male announcer ] see how the duck's lessons are going at aflac.com >>> welcome back. i'm joy reid in for melissa harris-perry. a shortage of water in the state of texas has left residents thirsty, frustrated, and saying what the frac. according to recent reports, the process of hydraulic fracking, more commonly known as fracking, which is used as oil extraction, is making the drought problem in the lone star state much worse. these areas in red that you're seeing on the map are parts of texas that are experiencing extreme and excep