wendell? >> mr. president, republicans point to some of your executive orders as reason that they say they can't trust you to pass the legislation. do you hold yourself totally blameless in -- it appears to reach agreement with the republican led house? >> well, wendell, you know, let's take the recent example of immigration. a bipartisan bill passed out of the senate, cosponsored by not just democrats, but some very conservative republicans who recognized that the system currently is broken. and if in fact we put more resources on the border, provide a path in which those undocumented workers who had been living here for a long time and may have ties here are coming out of the shadows, paying their taxes, paying a fine, learning english, if we fix the illegal immigration system so it's more efficient, if we are attracting young people who may have studied here to stay here and create jobs here, that that is all good for the economy, it will reduce the deficit. it might have forestalled some of the p

has conducted so far on isis pin pricks. >> wendell, thank you very much. we'll turn now to air strikes and new rounds of humanitarian aid from the u.s. in attempts to help the thousands of helpless refugees trying to escape from the extremist offensive there in iraq. now we have more from d.c. with more on this escalating crisis. doug? >> the president finds himself in a crisis he did not want, a military return to iraq, a crisis with short and long-term implications. in the short-term, there is the need to resupply the religious minority trapped on mountain sinjar. those dropses are continued today. the president said the more complicated issue is finding them safe passage through the mountains. air strikes also continued today carried out by predator drones and super hornets launched from the carrier george h.w. bush targeting convoys, isis forces, artillery and mortar positions. holding isis at bay in iraq is a short-term concern. they already have acquired strategic components of the iraqi infrastructure like iraq's largest dam. >> okay. not only have

wendell is at the white house. was there something new of substance, wendell?> well, i think we need to look at the questions in light of an nbc/wall street journal poll. there were not a lot of questions about the summit itself, but this poll that came out today suggests americans don't buy the president's claim that the economy's engines are now revving. 60% dissatisfied with the state of the economy. 70% blame the inability of elected officials to get things done in washington. the appellapresident was asked t of some of his criticism of the george w. bush administration whether he feels -- for exceeding or boosting executive power, whether heefl feels the refusal of house republicans to work with him gives him an imperial presidency. he denies it. he said congress has the power of the purse. he said americans expect differences between parties that the democrats and republicans should be able to at least move forward on the things they agree on. one pollster says the results of the nbc poll says americans have moved on beyond asking americans to feel our pa

willkie if there's a secondary hero to the story it is wendell willkie, he is now little remembered unfortunately because he was a very significant statement, and he was a utility's executive but very charismatic and came from nowhere. captured the republican nomination and charmed the dickens out of the republican party but there were some that didn't like it, that presented him. the old style conservatives didn't much care for him because he had so recently been a democrat and this is personified at one point by a chance encounter wendell willkie had with a former senator from indiana, james watson, former senate majority leader who said wendell, you are a nice fellow but i don't much like your politics and wendell willkie said that is true, i was a democrat until recently, but i am now a republican, i have seen the light and i plan to win this nomination. back in indiana, we don't let her lead the choir on the first night. they all got over it eventually. wendell willkie really distinguished himself during the election, he took a courageous stand in favor of the first peacetime d

wendell goler is live in martha's vineyard where president is on academics. hi, wendell. >> hi. the president's advisors say attacking isis targets in syria is an option though not one mr. obama has signed off on yet. getting involved in that country's civil war is complicated by the fact there are at least three sides and attacking isis actually strengthens bashar al assad. still the brutal murder of it american journal jim foley infencified the calls from lawmakers to go after isis more aggressively. >> the best way to send a message to isis is through ordinants dropped on their heads and blowing them straight to hell where they belong. >> john mccain is not the only lawmaker who wants to take the fight against isis into syria and even the president's own military advisors say eventually, isis will have to be defeated there. deputy national security advisor ben rhodes says there's already a strategy to do that. >> we are who iing training and equipping and assistance to the iraqi security forces and kurdish security forces fighting them on ground in iraq and also providing sup

wendell. >> mr. president, republicans point to some of your executive orders as the reason they say they can't trust you to implement legislation as they pass it. even if you don't buy that argument, do you hold yourself totally blame lost in the inability it appears to reach agreement with the run-led house? >> wendell, let's just take a recent example of immigration. a bipartisan bill passed out of the senate. cosponsored by not just democrats but some very conservative republicans. who recognize that the system currently is broken, and if in fact we put more resources on the border, provide a path in which those undocumented workers have been living for a long time and may have ties here are coming out of the shadows, paying their taxes, paying a fine, learning english, if we fix the legal immigration system so it's more efficient, if we are attracting young miami who may have studied here to stay here and create jobs here, if that all is going to be good for the economy, going reduce the deficit

wendell? >> mr. president, republicans point to some of your executive orders as reason they say is they can't trust to you implement legislation as they pass. even if you don't buy that argument, do you hold yourself totally blameless in the inability, it appears, to reach agreement with the republican-led house? >> wendell, you know, let's take the recent example of immigration. a bipartisan bill passed out of the senate, cosponsored by not just democrats, but some very conservative republicans, who recognize that the system currently is broken, and if, in fact, we put more resources on the border, provide a path in which those undocumented workers living here for a long time and may have ties here are coming out of shadows, paying their taxes, paying the fine, learning english, if we fix the illegal immigration system so it's more efficient. if we are attracting young people who may have studied here, to stay here and create jobs here, that that all is going to be good for the economy, it's going

wendell? >> mr. president, republicans point to some of your executive orders as reason they say they can't trust you to implement legislation as they've passed. even if you don't buy that argument, do you hold yourself totally blameless in the inability, it appears, to reach agreement with the republican-led house? >> wendell, you know, let's just take the recent example of immigration. a bipartisan bill passed out of the senate cosponsored by not just democrats but some very conservative republicans who recognizes that the system currently is broken, and if, in fact, we put more resources on the border, provide a path in which those undocumented workers who have been living here for a long time and may have ties here are coming out of the shadows, paying their taxes, paying a fine, learning english, if we fix the legal immigration system so it's more efficient, if we are, you know, attracting young people who may have studied here to stay here and create jobs here, that all is going to be good for

wendell. >> mr. president, republicans point to some of your executive orders as reason they say they can't trust you to implement legislation as they pass. even if you don't buy that argument, do you hold yourself totally blameless in the inability -- it appears -- to reach agreement with the republican-led house? >> wendell, you know, let's just take the recent example of immigration. a bipartisan bill passed out of the senate. co sponsored by not just democrats, but some very conservative republicans. who recognize that the system currently has broken. and if, in fact, we put more resources on the border, provide a path in which those undocumented workers who have been living here for a long time and may have ties here are coming out of the shadows, paying their taxes, paying a fine, learning english, if we fix the legal immigration system so it's more efficient, if we are, you know, attracting young people who may have studied here to stay here and create jobs here, that that all is going to be g

so wendell, the president seemed to prepare the american people for the mission. a little bit more about

wendell goler on martha's vineyard. but we begin with national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentecost with breaking details about american boots on the ground in iraq. good evening, jennifer. >> reporter: good evening, shannon. u.s. defense officials tell us just under 20 u.s. special operators spent the past 24 hours on mount sinjar to assess the situation of the yazidis refugees waiting to be rescued. we're told they have been airlifted off the mountain. >> i believe this is not a combat boots on the ground operation. we're not going to have that kind of operation. >> reporter: a pronouncement that came as 129 armed marines and u.s. special operations troops arrived in erbil assessing if its possible to airlift the thousands of yazidis trapped by isis on mount sinjar. they flew in b 22 ospreys which will remain there and could be used to airlift the yazidis. in recent days u.s. fighter jets bombed 17 targets to protect erbil from isis. >> these 130 personnel are not going to be in a combat role in ir

wendell goler is live in martha's vineyard where president is on academics. hi, wendell. >> hi.he president's advisors say attacking isis targets in syria is an optn

wendell goler is with the president on martha's vineyard. catherine herridge reports on what the intelligence community is learning from the execution video, but we begin with amy kellogg in london, on foley's murder and the british connection. good evening, amy. >> chris, it is believed that foley's killer hailed from britain and that won't come as a surprise to those terror experts who say that british jihadis are among the most violent. james foley's family said despite being gikilled in the mt barbaric way imaginable, they believe he remained brave to the end. he was beheaded by isis terrorists for air strikes in iraq. the 40-year-old correspondent from new hampshire had traveled the world fearlessly for global post and other agencies, covering some of the world's most dangerous places and bloody conflicts. his father said jim wouldn't have considered himself a hero. instead, he dedicated his life to documenting the lives of people he felt were. >> he was always a listener. and just couldn't -- couldn't detach from other people's lives.

wendell goler at the white house where the president made the most of the republicans' problems. but we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live at the capitol with the latest on the house effort. good evening, mike. >> reporter: chris, good evening. there is action on the house floor and votes are expected late tonight. after the initial, house gop leaders fine-tuned the language, made some adjustments, and looked for votes. >> this is a copy and paste or cut and paste of existing language of what was already there. >> reporter: roerps skeptical of the border package says the focus should be on stopping president obama from taking more executive action, such as putting deportations on hold for two years, known as deferred action for child arrivals program. >> that is the most important part of this, is stopping the ununderlying cause of the problem, which created a tsunami of humans come across our border. >> reporter: after gop leadership met last night with conservatives inclined to vote know, the new package grew to $694 million, including $405 million t

wendell? >> reporter: well, uma, first we could point out the return is only for a couple of days and it was scheduled even before this vacation began. no doubt there's been a steady stream of tragedy we've seen in iraq but the president has got good news on a couple of fronts from there this week. prime minister nouri al maliki agreed to step down. maliki had been digging in his heels and refusing to go. and the christian and yazidi refugees on sinjar mountain seem to be finding their own way off and away from isis rebels. a u.s. military team found far fewer refugees than expected about midweek and an evacuation was cancelled, though mr. obama said the u.s. would continue air strikes against isis. >> we will continue air strikes to protect our people and facilities in iraq. we have increased the delivery of military assistance to iraqi and kurdish forces fighting isil on the front lines, and, perhaps most importantly, we urging iraqis to come together to turn the tide against isil, above all

wendell tech feds are not taking over the investigation? >> both the missouri senators, one a republican, one a democrat, call it's parallel investigation, after speaking with the president. but the two seem to differ on how aggressive the feds should be. republican senator roy blunt says the feds can assist but should not assume local government responsibilities, and wisconsin republican congressman paul ryan agrees. >> i believe local officials are clearly the boots on the ground. that's the jurisdiction, but there's no problem with the federal government having a role, but in all of these things, local control, local government, local authorities, who have the jurisdiction, should be in the lead. >> claire mccaskill wants an aggressive federal probe, duplicating forensic work and re-interviewing witnesses. the civil rights groups say they're already finding the witnesses more forthcoming than to local police. mccaskill says historically the federal got has fostered more progress on civil rights issues than state and local issues. both sh

wendell. >> chris, the president says there are several objectives in the iraq campaign and not all of them are under the control of the u.s. and its allies. the first is to defend the u.s. consulate in erbil where there are several hundred marines and to stop the attack on refugees from sinjar mountain. there are artillery pieces firing at civilians. mr. obama says the military is confident they can protect the refugees, but soon enough, they'll have to form a corridor to get tens of thousands of refugees safely off the mountain. >> the next step, which is going to be complicated logistically is how do we give safe passage for people down from the mountain and where can we ultimately relocate them so that they're safe? that's the kind of coordination we need to do internationally. >> the president spoke with the leaders of germany, france, and britain about joining the effort to deliver food and water to the trapped refugees while probably not joining fighting. he suggests though not openly, nuri al maliki needs to give up his quest for another term. he claims he's biased against sunn

now the legend has grown up it was oliver wendell holmes that yelled at lincoln, get down you fool, or get down you damn fool, and instantly regretted saying it. i have a whole chapter in the book about that incident, and basically, well, i came to the conclusion that's a hi pockriful story, didn't come out until 1928, it was published in "atlantic monthly" in 1928. supposedly holmes had been telling it privately. i looked into it, i have a whole chapter in the book and going back to letters at the time, memoirs written shortly after the war, and, yes, lincoln did stand here, and, yes, someone yelled at him to come down. more than likely, it was general horacio wright, who said this in 1866, didn't say get down you fool or say that he said that, but i go over that in the book. it's an interesting story, and it's not true. early is at the gates over here outside fort stevens with the capitol dome in his sight. at that moment, grant the day before finally seceded and sent the rest of the 6th corps, along with the 19th corps, down in new orleans, they were going to go to the outskirts of

chris. >> wendell goler traveling with the president in martha's vineyard. thanks for that. >>> joining us now at the map to break down the military situation in iraq is retired four-star army general and fox news military analyst jack keane. general, as you sit there, show us what isis' position is right now in northern iraq from mt. sinjar in the west to the mosul dam all the way to erbil in the east. >> certainly, the red diagonal indicates isis. you can see they dominate almost all of northern iraq and they extend over the serious border. what is in question is mt. sinjar. they control everything around there, all the routes leading up to the mosul dam to the north and extending to kurdistan, and erbil is in question in where the air strikes are supporting. >> so where are the u.s. air strikes so far, and what have they been able to accomplish? >> sure, friday night, the air strikes went in here in the vicinity of erbil to stop any potential assault on erbil. they were targeting mortars, artillery, et cetera, and the last two air strikes on saturday and

wendell goler has our report. >> with a house vote on the child migrant border crisis almost irrelevant since the senate has gone home, obama said that he will have to issue another of the executive orders that are examples of the overreach. >> we don't have enough resources and we been very clear. >> republicans blame mr. obama's past decisions to go around congress and the house decision to sue him. but the president says the government has to provide the ability to properly house the children to get them back to their home country more quickly. some republicans say the president shoulder the blame for the crisis. >> the truth of the matter is that he created this with his memorandum in june of 2012 which went into effect in august of 2012 are dead so he was there about 110% if that was possible. >> the deferred action doesn't apply to current migrants, but mr. obama's critics say gave the mistaken impression that he would be here. the struggle that house republicans are going through let's the president turned the tables. >> that's not disagreeing between me and the house republicans

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. >> thank you, wendell. >>> coming up, how hydraulic fracking has led to an economic boom in one state while a bust continues in another. >>> and i'll talk one-on-one with ben rhodes about president obama's plans for iraq. u.s. employers posted 4 2/3 job openings. stocks were off today. the dow lost 9. the s&p fell 3. nasdaq dropped 12. >>> a study tonight with political overtones. the shale natural gas boom has turned things around for parts of pennsylvania with a reported 8,000 wells drilled so far. but next door in new york, there's no fracking and there's no boom. david lee miller looks at both sides of the border. >> reporter: times are tough for parts of upstate new york. statistics show a region called the southern tier recently lost 2.7% of its jobs. but directly across the state line, the economy in pennsylvania is booming. unemployment is lower and job creation is up, almost 9%. a key reason for the economic disparity, hydraulic fracking. the process injects water, sand and chemicals into the ground to fracture rock of which there is a massive supply in the region. fracking i

wendell. >> mr. president republicans point to some of your executive orders as a reason they say they can't trust you to implement legislation as they pass it. even if you don't buy that argument do you hold yourself totally blameless in the ability it appears to reach an agreement with the republican-led house? >> wendell, let's just take their the recent example of immigration. a bipartisan bill passed out of the senate cosponsored by not just democrats but some very conservative republicans who recognize that the system currently is broken and if in fact we put more resources on the border, provide a path which those undocumented workers who have been living here for a long time and advertise your are coming out of the shadows and paying their taxes, paying a fine, learning english, if we fix the legal immigration system so it's more efficient, if we are attracting young people who may have studied here to stay here and create jobs here, that all is going to be good for the economy. it's going to

wendell goaler with the news from martha's vineyard. >> harris, the president return to white house untilressure to address the threat posed by isis, which conducted the first terror attack on the u.s. with the murder of journalist james foley. critics who say a tepid u.s. response enabled isis to grow now say the u.s. should go after them there. >> there's for boundary between syria and iraq. one key decision that the president will have to make is airpower in syria. we cannot give them a base of operation. >> the violent protests following the shooting of a black teenager in ferguson, missouri, demanded comment from mr. obama on two occasions, though his comments didn't satisfy some civil rights activists who say they will push for legislation. mr. obama is sending several white house officials to michael brown's funeral this week, including one wo went to school with brown's mother. he announced plans to review the sale of surplus military hardware to police agencies to see whether police are provided with the proper training and whether the equipment is being used appropriately. he sp

wendell goler is traveling with the patient at martha an vineyard. critics don't seem to like the way the fight is beginning. >> reporter: you're right, harris, but the president doesn't think it's our fight. he says it's up to the iraqiss, though the u.s. will hold out of i.s.i.s. mr. obama says his and protecting the tens of thousands of refugees on sinjar mountain until a corridor can be established, but some republicans want the u.s. to take the fight to i.s.i.s. and not just in iraq, but in syria as well. >> if he doesn't go on the offensive, they are coming here, this is just not about baghdad, this is not about syria. it's about our homeland. other critics called it pin predicts. >> how is the white house responding? he says it would enable the shia majority to continue its bias which helped to fuel the rebellion in the first place. as you notice, at the start, malaki may have frustrated that, announcing he'll file suit against the country's president. mr. obama says there's a lesson here for afghanistan. >> whether it's, you know, different e

ed third on michael brown. >> wendell, thank you. more on that with the panel. the largest dam in iraq is back in iraqi hands tonight. kurdish and iraqi forces retook that facility today with the help of american air power. president obama says it's the type of team work this operation calls for. >> if they continue to do so, they will have the strong support of the united states of america. >> senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live again in iraq. >> in his comments earlier today, president obama also said the u.s. had a national security interest in containing isis, a group he branded as savage. the last couple of days we've been watching some pretty muscular containment. it appears kurdish fighters and iraqi forces have won back control of a strategic dam. the dam itself is bobby trapped with bloefs. -- explosives. it was helped in large part by a coordinated u.s. air campaign. bombers, jet fighters and drones hitting isis armored vehicles, checkpoints and fighters. 15 air strikes today alone. they are said to be ongoing. the current deputy p

ed: wendell goler on martha's vineyard. thank you, wendell. >> to another story we're following. two amish girls abducted near their home. they're now back with their family and safe but the mystery is far from solved. police say the sisters managed somehow to get back home but it is unclear what happened during the 24 hours they were missing. chief correspondent jonathan hunt live for us in new york. jonathan, how exactly did they return, let's begin there? >> reporter: even that is unclear at this stage, heather. what we know there was a statewide amber alert issued on wednesday after the two girls were apparently abducted from the rural farm stand their family operates near the canadian border. then late last night this flury you see here of police activity, when a call came in they apparently showed up at a home in the small village of richville near the canadian border. it appears they were quite simply dropped off possibly by the same person or persons who originally abducted them. the good news is, that both girls, delay yaw miller, variously reported either 60 or seven an

wendell is calling from atlanta, 54 years old. good morning, wendell.you are on "the washington journal" caller: good morning. how is everybody today? host: good. caller: i was listening to dr. butler. dr. butler, i don't think you have a complete grip on what's going on. a couple of years ago, the hispanics had a thinking on cinco de mayo where they were not going to come to work. i went to get some black kids to come to work and the things i was told well, i don't want nobody telling me what to do and they said how much does this job pay? and i said $15 an hour. he told his mother he was going to work a job. the a lot of kids feel they are going to become ballplayers like you say or become hip-hop artists. so many kids locked up in jail. when is the black kids going to stop selling drugs and stop robbing the adults, the again men, when are we going to start mentoring these kids so they can do better? host: tell us about yourself. you are 54 years old living in atlanta. caller: i am living in atlanta from new york city. i have been eat up can cops and

wendell go goler is in mar that's vineyard. >> mr. obama has made clear he won't use the u.s.ilitary to prop up maliki's government. he blames maliki in large part for the current fight against isis which may have begun in syria but found 0 lot of rake recruits, including some former officers in sudden saddam's party because shia militants took all the pear. secretary of state kerry said today that has to change. >> one thing all iraqis need to know, that there will be little international support of any kind whatsoever for anything that deviates from the legitimate constitutional process that is in place and being worked on now. they need to finish that and give a new government an opportunity to be voted on and move forward. >> u.s. officials have cheered iraq's selection of a kurdish president and a sunni speaker of the parliament. it was at the president who chose the shia other than al-maliki as prime minister. >> how involved is the president on this matter, wendell? well, as critics say, not enough, given he is on vacation. though the white house says the president take

wendell goler is standing by with details. >> hi, monica. the president said it will be tough to put back the cease-fire between israel and hamas, but the u.s. will keep working toward it and called on people to stop criticizing secretary of state john kerry for his efforts. he said the israelis have a right to defend themselves but innocent civilians in the cross fire have to weigh on our conscious. he also touched on the border crisis saying unaccompanied children have to be cared for. and since congress hasn't been able to pass money for it, he'll issue another of the executive orders that republicans have criticized him for. >> i'm going to have to act alone because we don't have enough resources. we've already been very clear, we've run out of money. >> the president also defended cia chief john brennan, some of whose workers snooped on senate staffers. and he said a soon-to-be released report will show the u.s. tortured some people after 9/11, but said we shouldn't be sankt moan yous about it. >> wendell, thank you so much. >>> another

>> wendell goler live on the north lawn, thank you. >>> several of america's adversaries are essentially sticking it to the president over ferguson, from china's state-run news service, quote. what the united states needs to do is to concentrate on solving its own problems rather than always pointing fingers at others. russia's foreign ministry urged its american partners, to quote, pay more attention to restoring order in their own country before imposing their dubious experience on other nations. even iran got into the action, quote, we are still witness thing the phenomenon of racism in the western societies, and it is regrettable that those who claim to be advocates of human rights are pursuing such an approach. >>> and this tweet by a self-proclaimed isis sympathizer, the terrorist army, so how is democracy treating you guys? #fergusonunderis #ferguson. all of this drew, us a imagine, a sharp and strong response from the state department. >> we here in the united states will put our record for confronting our problems transparently and honestly and openly up against any other countr

wendell goler is live from martha's vineyard. some of the president's critics say that he's underestimating isis, right? >> reporter: you're right. they want a much more aggressive response to the group, especially in the wake of the murder of american journalist jim foley, which the white house concedes was the isis' first terrorist attack on this country. senator john mccain wants u.s. troops imbedded with iraqi forces. >> the best way to send a message to isis is through ordinance dropped on their heads and blowing them to smithereens straight to hell where they belong. >> reporter: the president's own advisors say eventually isis will have to be defeated in syria as well as iraq. deputy national security advisor ben rhodes says the u.s. already has a strategy to do so. >> we're not going to be restricted by borders. we've shown time and again that if there is a counterterrorism threat, we'll take direct action against that threat if necessary. >> reporter: that strategy, however, does not involve u.s. boots on the ground in s

i doubt that that happened, but there were people that said that that is what oliver wendell holmes said. this is the only time that a president of the united states has actually been under fire while president of the united states. so abraham lincoln here standing on the parapit looking out to see where the enemy troops actually were. >> you can watch this and other "american artifacts" programs any time by visiting our website, c-span.org/history. >>> american history tv in prime time continues wednesday with the civil war battle of the crater which took place during the siege of petersburg, virginia, on july 30th, 1864. the battle failed with heavy losses for union troops. at 8:00 p.m., the national park service commemorates the 150th anniversary of the battle and honors the role of u.s. color troops. at 9:20, we discuss how the attack failed and why u.s. color troops were unjustly blamed. and at 10:15, author kevin levin discusses how color troops were remembered in the years immediately following the civil war. the battle of the crater at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >> here's

all iraqis can buy into to stop driving sunnies to join the forces to defeat them. >> thank you, wendell, traveling with the president at martha's vineyard. >> breaking down the military situation now in iraq is retired four star army general and fox news military analyst. yen, tell us the position in northern iraq from the west to the mosul dam to the east. >> the red diagonal is isis and they dominate all of northern iraq and extend over to the syrian border. that is in question is mount sinjar. it extended over to this area. >> where are the airstrikes so far? and what have they accomplished in ought irstrikes went in the area to stop potential assault targeting mortars and artillery, et cetera, and the last two airstrikes on saturday and, also, today, are taking place in the area of mount sinjar targeting the isis capability and truck convoys,eth. >> we are just taking out individual artillery mortars or artillery. >> that critical. this is defensive air-strike campaign designed to protect the united states presence and irbil and the refugees on the mount. it is not taking away isis

wendell is calling from atlanta, 54 years old. good morning, wendell.you are on "the washington journal" caller: good morning. how is everybody today? host: good. caller: i was listening to dr. butler. dr. butler, i don't think you have a complete grip on what's going on. a couple of years ago, the hispanics had a thinking on cinco de mayo where they were not going to come to work. i went to get some black kids to come to work and the things i was told well, i don't want nobody telling me what to do and they said how much does this job pay? and i said $15 an hour. he told his mother he was going to work a job. the a lot of kids feel they are going to become ballplayers like you say or become hip-hop artists. so many kids locked up in jail. when is the black kids going to stop selling drugs and stop robbing the adults, the again men, when are we going to start mentoring these kids so they can do better? host: tell us about yourself. you are 54 years old living in atlanta. caller: i am living in atlanta from new york city. i have been eat up can cops and

>> well, wendell, you know, let's just take the recent example of immigration. a bipartisan bill passed out of the senate, co-sponsored by not just democrats but some reconservative republicans who recognize that the system currently is broken. and if, in fact, we put more resources on the border, provide a path in which those undocumented workers who have been living here for a long time and may have ties here are coming out of the shadows, paying their taxes, paying a fine, learning english, if we fix the legal immigration system so it's more efficient, if we are, you know, attracting young people who may have studied here to stay here and create jobs here, that all is going to be good for the economy, it's going to reduce the deficit. it might have forestalled some of the problems that we're seeing now in the rio grande valley with these unaccompanied children. and so, we have a bipartisan bill, wendell, bipartisan agreement, supported by everybody from labor to the evangelical community to law enforcement. so, the argument isn't between me and the house repu

wendell goler from the white house. the intent of the president's comments during the preannounced break from his august vacation yesterday afternoon, wendell? >> reporter: the president aimed to trying a balance understanding the need for law and order and needs for black community in ferguson. he cite ad gulf of mistrust between local residents and law enforcement in too many communities in this country. he appealed for calm and understanding on all side and all sides is important because there appear to be more than two sides, the president says it is not clear, those inciting the violence are seen from ferguson. some of the locals were clearly trying to tamp it down. mr. obama said it is true that young black men commit crimes and interact with law enforcement too often but he also said that there are things that police can do to establish trust. >> this is not an argument that there isn't real crime out there and law enforcement doesn't have difficult job. but what is also true, is that given the history of this co

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just like wendell used to say, you know what, go ahead and chew on my hide. chew on it.ws back tougher. i've been around a while and you're looking at one tough son of a bitch. >> conway will be there again because he's running for governor. so will his opponent, rand paul. but of course the main event is the matchup between republican senator mitch mcconnell and his democratic chal earn, alison grimes who last shared a stage at fancy farm one year ago. >> i want to say how nice it is, how nice it is to see jerry lundegan back in the game. like the loyal person he is, he's taking orders on how to run his daughter's campaign. they told him to make a pitch on the internet for the women's vote and he sent a check to anthony weiner. >> if senator mcconnell had his way, his version of kentucky health care for our seniors, grandmother, would be to walk it off. if the doctors told senator mcconnell that he had a kidney stone, he'd refuse to pass it. >> there you go. this is actually the kickoff to a very, very busy campaign weekend. august 1 is the new labor day. >>> turning ba