dan white had cracked. he had been mentally ill all along, with a severe depression, although nobody noticed. he had never seen a shrink and it had never been diagnosed, and as if to underscore that, dan white sat there throughout the trial, like something of a zombie. the shell of a man. he stared straight ahead. he showed no expressions on his face. he seemed touting -- to take no notice of the testimony. he would have been catatonic and yet he wasn't, as his other defense lawyer told me, he wasn't catatonic, i played chess with him in jail, but you have to adopt some persona for a trial, and dan white sat there like a shell of a man, and his lawyer, who resembled him physically, strode around the courtroom, young and handsome and vigorous, as if to say this who is this man was until this tragedy befell him. it worked. the defense called four psychiatrists and a psychologist to support their theory that under pressure and in the heat of passion, dan white cracked and he was not able to execute a plan. his

walter white. and he lived up to his name because he could pass for white. he had blue eyes. he look -- you see pictures of him, he looks white. and that was -- he was an incredible salesman, and james johnson met him and said i got to get this guy into an naacp. he said you're not going to make as much money but it would be exceeding, and it was, they used him to go into areas where there had just been riots or just been lynchings, and he would gather information, and he was incredibly good at it. sometimes a little cocky, and sometimes he would regularly risk his life to do so. one story i'll tell you, in 1919, he is in arkansas, and he -- there's a terrible -- what can only be described as a slaughter of black sharecroppers there. he goes to the town to investigate, and he is walking around the town talking to people, and a black man passes him in the street and says, hey, come into the alley with me. i got to talk to you. the guy goes, they know who you are. you got to get out of here. so, white high tails it to the railroad, jumps on the train, catches the train and is l

>> there's no evidence that the white house was involved in the loan this is the white house involved, because they weren't. the white house was involved in trying to find out when a decision would be made. so they could make -- the staph could make a decision about the vice president's having an event. -- >> sean: no evidence? really? i have a feeling that is a sound bite you are going to regret delivering in the future. joining us jay sekulow is back and white house former counsel lanny davis. what carney said is not true. meetings that took place, for example there were solyndra executives that were in the white house, according to white house logs, the week before the company received the 535 million dollars. the meetings took place at the white house, while a white house budget analyst warned in an e-mail, this deal is not ready for primetime. the office of management and budget said they had a gun at their head. there isn't time to negotiate. the vice president's office was told we would prefer to have sufficient time to do our due diligence reviews. one of the top guys bundled

from then on, i knew that i was not supposed to talk to a white child or interact with a white child. that was a very early age. i was maybe around five or six years old. then, my mother explained to me about -- and words stuck in my mind -- "white folks." another occasion happened to me in a five and ten-cent store. i have to tell you this to put it in perspective. it was not just march 2. it was all the bad experiences that i have had as a child at that young age that i should not have had to have gone through. there was a lunch counter. i still tell everybody i love the smell of that by then 10 -- that five and ten. i looked over and saw these little white kids sitting on coca-cola -- sipping on coca- cola. they were eating double-decker'' sandwiches, and my mother was looking away, and i sneaked over there. i knew she would come over there and buy me one. she came back and grabbed me by the back of my collar and pulled me -- she said, "i told you, that is for white folks." you learn at a very early age. she said, "honey, are you hungry?" i was not hungry, but i saw what those whit

and it was because he was white, and he could pass for white. they used him to go into areas where there had just been riots or lynchings, and he would gather information. and he was incredibly good at it. sometimes a little cocky, and sometimes he -- i mean, he regularly risked his life to do so. one story i'll tell you, in 1919 he's in arkansas, and he, there's a terrible what can only be described as a slaughter of black sharecroppers this. he goes to the town to investigate, and he is walking around the town talking to people, and a black man passes him in the street one day and says, hey, come into the alley with me, i've got to talk to you. and the guy says, they know who you are. you've got to get out of here. so white high tails it to the railroad, jumps on a train, and he's leaving town, and the porter, the white porter comes through to collect the tickets, and he goes, why are you leaving town? at that time they used the term yellow negro. and he says they were just going to lynch a yellow negro, it was going to be a great show. and wh

that's much more complicated than that, and that does the white house but it also has a white heroinin the center of it, and that has a set of black characters were very palatable, but i'm reluctant to say more about the movie i haven't seen. >> host: next call for ellis cose, ruth, santa monica. good afternoon to you. >> caller: hi. thanks for taking my call. i'd like to thank mr. cho's for his insight and everything but what is going to talk about was mr. obama's administration, being that he is present i think that he has opened up a dialogue of racism and its in the open where people can discuss, and yes, it's pretty nasty and very ugly at times, but at least it's in the open and people are able to think about maybe, you know, how their ideas are about racism and people of color in this day and age. obama was elected president for the whole country, and i know because he's black people say well, he needs to have special preference for black people, but if he is helping the whole country is helping black people at the same time. unfortunately, i think a lot of black, some of black

winning the white house. that's when black voters really gravitated toward him. so, by the time he gets to philadelphia, the philadelphia speech, black voters were solidly behind him. what he had to do was continue to shore up white support and this was important in his doing that. what he was saying in this speech was to you white voters who are anxious about me, anxious about my sentiments come anxious about my background, anxious about my agenda, anxious about my allegiances, let me say something to you that will really your anxiety and that is was he presented to do. >> host: the author of "the persistence of the color line of racial politics in the obama presidency," randall kennedy is the author. we will be back to talk about this great book. your insight and much, much more. >> guest: great. thank you. >> host: we are back with author and harvard law professor randall kennedy, the author of "the persistence of the color line racial policies -- racial politics and the obama presidency." mr. kennedy, thi

the white house learned a lesson from that. they learned that if in any way obama was remotely considered to indicate that he was more sympathetic to blacks than whites it would be used against him. so they have tried very hard to avoid that. they tried in the campaign to avoid that and ultimately had to face the issue of race because the issue became such a big issue. the big racial speech in philadelphia. that was the one racial speech he gave so far as the campaign was considered. it was over and dealt with. because obama is the first black president, i think he has scrutiny around race that perhaps second or third person of color won't have a. part of the burden of that is he finds himself basically constrained against speaking out or acting in any way that would put him in danger of being perceived as acting in solidarity with blacks. there's even a gust up in the public arena when between al sharpton around this question of whether obama could have a black agenda and al sharpton arguing sharply that he couldn't have a bla

> reporter: this was the white house before.second story porch. but it created an uproar. yet, for some reason, the usually uncertain political wife said she was going to do it anywayay do you think it surprised him how she emerged in the white house? suddenly? >> i think it surprised her. >> reporter: she made her move on donors. >> you know, people weren't going to give up good pieces of furniture. you'd have 9 cups of tea with some old lady and she'd give you $50. >> reporter: and the girl who loved books and history used her scholarly passion and hours of research, studying engravings, finding the french inspired antiques of monroe and madison. >> she helped america to come of age after world war ii. we were the only superpower in the world but the symbols didn't look that way. >> reporter: you can see her moments. only the lincoln bedroom, she says, is the one not to be changed. the end result, staggering. these are iconic white house rooms, the east sitting hall before and after. the yellow oval room before and after. and

white men love you. they spend so much time worrying about your penis they forget their own, and white women chase you all to corners of the earth, feel for you under every bed, colored women worry themselves into bad health just trying to hang on to your cuffs. even little children, black, white boys and girls eat their hearts out because they they you don't love them, and if that ain't enough, you love yourself. nothing in the world loves a black man more than another black man. it likes -- it looks like you, the envy of the world." next call from washington. >> caller: i'm -- [inaudible] i want to know your views on how our president unfortunately has unwillingly started reverting to what i can tell from my friends who are black around the united states, around illinois and other places that are complaining that they find more racism is coming forward now due to the fact we have a black president because at one time in our country, politics and racism can go hand-in-hand. one time we had a black cultu

men twenty dollars an hour and the white women seventeen dollars the unemployment rate for white people in america is a percent for blacks it's in a depression era level of sixteen point seven s. just over eleven percent for hispanics the civil rights act of one nine hundred sixty four didn't suddenly make everything equal in america it just laid the groundwork so the minorities can at least compete on a level playing field in the economy something they were barred from doing for our nation's entire history and of course without affirmative action programs there's no way the playing field could be imagined to be level because even if the descendants of slaves jump into a field to compete against the descendants of twenty generations of slave owners they're not starting from the same place and if a group of college republicans in california or even members of congress here in washington d.c. think the civil rights act alone was enough to give minorities a fair shake in america and they really are naive or just plain ignorant or maybe they could according to the research done by richard w

is mainly a white electorate. tavis: what does it say that about black folk, what does it say about black folks along that color line that you so easily say they wanted somebody who could win, as opposed to somebody who stood by their issues and on their principles and number two, there was no suggestion at that time, just because she had won iowa, hillary clinton could not win. choosing a person who could win over somebody who is standing on your issues on your principles and they had not figured that out prior to ira. how do they figure that out post-ironwood? >> black people, did they the policies of barack obama and hillary clinton side- by-side and said this one is better on this one? i think the both figured -- and they figured clinton and obama were liberal leaning democrats. there was a difference. the difference is, barack obama is black. i think many black people thought, this would be a wonderful, an extraordinary thing for the black family to occupy the white house. not only black people, lot of white

, hispanics and whites. >> guest: absolutely. in every aspect of american life i don't care if we are talking about life expectancy, i don't care if we are talking about access to medical attention, i don't care if we are talking about employment, housing, incarceration. you name it and we still have a racial hierarchy where people of color are getting the short end of the stick by and large white americans are getting, you know, a better deal. that was the case before barack obama, that is the case now and frankly it is going to be the case after barack obama leaves the white house. i think most black americans had some inkling of that. they understood that and they also understood that with respect to racial policies the detractors of the president, that is to say barack obama would have -- they would be waiting for anything that they could jump on to say see this black guy is showing favoritism to black america. that's a dilemma. are there people that are looking for any and every opportunity to accuse the president of racial

and the attitude of white people. when i was growing up, my father did not mind people calling him by his first named. hirs

white house officials say there was actual notice paid, they were notified. whether or not they raised objections to it privately before raising their objections to it publicly is also a matter of dispute. and again to john's point, if they cannot agree on this, then they all look bad. this is small ball politics for both sides, but let's pretend this letter was sprung on these people, there's a dispute over what the reaction was when they were first informed, but the letter was not how this thing broke between the two parties. they should have made it clear beforehand. the fact they cannot make it clear isn't just about democrats playing softball politics than republicans, democrats hated president bush, they loathed everything he stood for, particularly in the second term, yet they still respected the presidency when it came to these ceremonious moments. this isn't happening with this president and with this republican party, and there's a basic question why not. >> john, i got to think that the white house saw it as a win either way. either boehner says ye

white house has nothing to hide. they would go slow on the investigation. >> this is huge concern. this is waste of our tax dollars. big concern is you have special interest groups or individuals who are driving president obama's clean energy policy. you have george kaiser, jeff imeldt he has vested interest in this and john dorr he has substantial independent in they want the renewable energy market to thrive and kill fossil fuel. >> it's bad for every company, that gets contracts -- >> $535 million. >> it was begin through the stimulus. this was the big one. this was supposed to be the poster child for green and look how it turned out. but the real issue is going to be exactly as you put it. can the department make a step by step analysis and show, look it was that cronyism. >> the department is obama department so they are investigating the white house. >> i would even call and independent counsel at that point. bring back the independent counsel. >> that is something we can agree it's just the beginning. a lot mo

i have a very personal feeling about the white house. c-span: you went to the white house that night with your three kids, your new kids. they went upstairs to the solarium and had pizza. you were downstairs with 60 people having what? >> guest: a wonderful dinner. c-span: who are some of the people you were there with? when was this? >> guest: i think that the only republican there was alan simpson, and he was very humorous about it, pointed it out constantly. i sat at the table with president clinton, and he had helen thomas on his right, a table that was a mix of legislators -- well, congressmen, a number of black congressmen. he had people from arkansas, and i loved it when the strolling strings came in and played "the arkansas traveler." i thought to show that the white house is full of people from all parts of the country and not just one coast or the other was a great tribute. it was very convivial. we were dining in the blue room, and i think the piercing eyes of john tyler were on us, who incidentally -- you know, i collect hist

mike viqueira at the white house, glen thrush who covers the white house for politico, co-sponsor alongith nbc of that debate and our great mega panel. karen finney, susan del percio and jimmy williams. welcome ant lialysts all. political event. five great brains to dissect it simultaneously. vic, start with you. jay carney went through a painful press briefing asked repeatedly who really dropped the ball at the white house to be in a situation where this kind of date wasn't vetted properly in advance and the president looks once again kind of weak, and it's kind of the gang that couldn't shoot straight. what are you hearing? >> the suspicion in the press room, it was vetted in advance, and they tripped up on their own selves in having a conflict and having john boehnane describe boehner to describe asking for a new date. the american public does note give a lick whether this speech son wednesday or thursday. having said that, carney said the reason they went for wednesday is because the president wanted to speak to congress since they'll have to pass many of these 3r0er8 proposals he'l

the white house likes the contrast.hey like the idea of the president speaking down to the chamber of commerce, accusing them of -- sorry. speaking down to congress accusing them of doing nothing on the job. they like the idea of the republican field raising their hands saying they will reject $10 in spending cuts for $1 in taxes. they like the idea of obama coming out like an adult. i think they wanted it.ç >> contrarian view to that i'll call it reasonable ground. in the end, independents are the ones who are going to call the shot in this. another argument out there says the base is now so offended with what they perceive to be his caving in, some may not be as motivated? >> that's the thing. this whole argument over the speech is a trivial superficial argument. no one will remember in a week. however it reinforced the narrative that existed a lot longer than this. obama will not fight for even minute matters. he looks liked adult in the room, but a depressed base doesn't like to see the president cave in on even th

even the white house. here's the issue we have to highlight.ple involved in this deal that benefitted from the -- the government -- i would love to start a business and have 535 million dollars guaranteed by the federal government and i have no incentive to succeed. they predicted, that this company would fail in 2011. the question is, to what extent did the people that bundled money for the president for his election in 2008, how did they get the access? how did they get the money? when everybody said this company was going to fail? >> right. it is easy to see how he got that access. if you just put out your moneybags and collect hundreds of thousands of dollars, you get that clear pass that green path to the white house. that's how they got access. the bottom line question is what did they know and when? they all knew it was going to be a failure and they knew well in advance, weeks and months in advance of announcing this half billion dollar loan guarantee. that it was set to fail. it is ironic of course when president obama stood in front o

there were doubts that were not being connected. >> host: the white house opposed the creation of thecommission for months. how long was that push back and why were they opposed to its creation? >> pushed back for many months. the better part of a year or much more than a year. their argument was we cannot divert the central intelligence agency and the fbi from their central mission which was preventing another 9/11. we can't force them to answer the question of the independent investigation which they need to focus their attention elsewhere and there is a legitimacy to that argument but obviously i have people acknowledging this in the book at the white house that there was a terrible political fear at the commission that it could do great damage to president bush and condoleezza rice and others at a time the president was planning his reelection campaign. >> host: y after a year did the white house capitulate and permit the creation of the panel? >> guest: not too much to use the word shane. they were shamed by the families. the mac family's mountain remarkable lobbying effort if on

they are in the white house and they leave. that allows for a depth of reporting that i think at the end of the day the president rightly would like to respond to. i think it is better if you have these disclosures at the end of the day that to have the president so nimble and to say, let's go through it. this gives a whole mess to it and helps when the book comes out rather than hurts. it is an hour in each case. he goes through it a letter and verse. i really do think having read all of the interviews that he has done, he is stretching to think about how he has changed and maybe needs to change in terms of being a more engaged leader in a way that is not customary for him. readers can decide for themselves. tavis: tavis: there are some people who see his job speech and is throw down conversation where he drew a line in the sand with republicans. some say that he is a changed man. he is starting to find a spine, find a backbone. there are others who see this as pure political calculation. his back is against the wall, his numb

there are allegations by white house critics that it was because the white house had a horse in the race they had a financial interest because thinks a big political donor and making things easy on them, but is that true? come up in about 40 minutes at 2:15 eastern time phillip falcone who is the founder of light squared will join me here, live, right her on "america live." we can get his side of the story and i will ask him some of these unanswered questions. stay tuned for that. major controversy today over a new book by officer ron suskind, a book that paints a bleak picture of the obama administration and a book in which the obama administration cooperated. the book is called confidence men, wall street, washington and the education of a president. there are allegations of a hostile environment where there's quote, no adults in charge of our economy. the white house is challenging many of the facts but suskind says he did over 700 hours of interviews with more than 200 people, including president obama himself. so, what should we believe? pwhrad blakeman is a former deputy assistant

yeah, those aren't in the white house logs. that's another study we've done is to look at the white house logs. that's another issue in which they're claiming unprecedented amount of transparency. yet the white house logs don't give you real pictures as to what's going on either. >> lot of questions. frustrating. fred doing a lot of reporting. >>> before we go, i want to use the wall to show you at home the issues at stake here. this can be confusing. lightsquare got the contract. the department of defense raised objections. what are we talking about? lightsquared is trying to build the nationwide wireless broadband network. the country could use that. 260 million people would be connected. there are issues. imagine a broadband network like radio, it's complicated, it has a frequency. one of the issues here, if you tap this in, normal gps on this frequency. lightsquared on this frequency. if there are variations and that's routine, you have interferns. what could that impact? your ability to get driving directions if there's a

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dunn now says she does not think the white house is hostile. the larger push-back against the book has to deal with its central thesis that the president is not a strong leader and does not willingly make tough decisions. the white house spokesman today said he is a strong leader with a clarity of vision about where we need to move as a country. diane? >> all right, jake, thanks. jake tapper reporting from the white house. >>> we turn to that terrifying air show disaster in reno. another spectator died today bringing the death toll to ten with dozens still seriously injured. and three days after the tragedy, the investigation is focusing on the pilot in the stunt plane. racing at speeds up to 500 miles per hour before he crashed tearing into the crowd. abc david's wright is in reno. >> reporter: it all happened so fast, the spectators barely had time to duck. >> we didn't have time to be terrified. you know, it was just so fast. >> reporter: 59 people were hurt badly enough to be sent to the hospital. five are still critical. ten died. the p-51

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white house claims that there was no push back from john boehner. they took that as a yes and they moved forward and announced it. the john boehner side of it is they wanted more time to go through this and they got a 15 minutes heads up in that call before they here at the white house announced it to the world and they don't feel that is adequate consultation. boehner fired off a letter and said, look mr. president, move it to thursday. the white house didn't want to do that you have the nfl kickoff on thursday, there will be millions of people watching football not interested in politics. the white house backed down late last night and will move forward and have the address on thursday night instead of what they wanted on wednesday. they are trying to figure out the time. they haven't quite figured it out. they'll probably do it 7:00, 7:30 because there is an 8le pm kickoff. megyn: the question for you as someone who has covered the white house for a number of years, is this just a big distraction? was this a mistake by both parties? we'll start w

you were in the clinton white house. you know what it's like when you have to have this communication with congress and you're trying to do a joint session speech that isn't a scheduled one a la the state of the union. your assessment on how the white house handled this? >> i think that weirdly in the end, i think dan pfeiffer is right, it's not like voters are going to care about this. i guess the one thing i would say is they probably should have anticipated that the press would have a big reaction to going the same night as the republican presidential debate even if they hadn't intended that, that there would be a lot of speculation about is this a political speech, you know, people would have gotten distracted on it, and i understand once you decide you're going to go to congress, you only got two nights to deal with so i can understand trying to push the first night. but knowing that they don't need any distractions right now, you would have wanted to work this out more in advance. >> were you surprised that in all

the words of white house communications director dan fifer, jack lew is the director of white house budgett. it doesn't appear as if the plan that was released yesterday is being seen as some sort of serious proposal to be compromised with congress. here's a "new york times" headline, obama confirms new hard stand for debt relief. no hard compromise. >> there's another article that goes through proposals the president put out yesterday that would mean reductions in medicare including med dare benefits. there are dozens of proposals in this plan which take on sacred cows from agriculture subsidies to military health benefits. if you look at the overall plan the president put out, it's tough balance, it's balanced but asking for spending cuts and tax increases. the president has democrats saying that a plan that includes benefit reductions is something that they're open to. on the other hand, we have republicans saying anything with taxes is off the table. i think there's room here for this gap to be closed. >> my question is why not, if you were willing to have a plan that was markedly diff

previous administrations had actually sold white house antiques. she used her scholarly passion to study the documents and engravings and restore america's treasure. the end result? staggering. the east sitting hall, before and after. the yellow oval room, before and after. and then, the woman who liked to stay in the background decided she would show the white house to americans. unprecedented. all three networks, 80 million people would watch.. >> when we first came here and started searching for old things, , found a pier table in the carpenter shop that was being used as a saw horse. so, we took six weeks to restore it and then in the men's room downstairs, we found that bust of washington. these two pieces are exactly where monroe had them in the room, which we also learned from studying old engravings. >> reporter: and soon, we were a country imitating her, wanting to entertain like her. there was a 30% increase in college students enrolling in french courses. >> every item shown is examined in the light of the new first lady's taste. >> repo

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general's not white.uld leave. what about jews? >> schoep: they're also a race of people. >> stahl: so they should leave? >> schoep: correct. >> stahl: he knows that won't happen anytime soon, but he's preparing. ten white supremacists of various groups were on the ballot in 2010, including three for congress. one candidate seeking local office was jeff hall. >> schoep: jeff hall ran for elections in california and took in almost 30% of the vote as an open national socialist. ( applause ) >> jeff hall: it was a good run, it was a great run. >> stahl: beside that unsuccessful run for local water board, jeff organized patrols at the mexican border, just a short drive from his home. they would show up fully armed, with night-vision equipment, and round up migrants as they crossed into the u.s. two weeks before his death, jeff bragged about taking his young son with him on patrol. >> jeff hall: my son was able to operate a gen-1 night vision and the infrared scope. at the age of nine, my son's out at the bord

the president -- the white house, now, this is the white house, remember this, it is the white house9% unemployment all the way through next year's election. it's not a bunch of critics of the white house. it's the white house itself. and this is extremely negative number. and they're saying, look, based on what they've seen in the last couple of months in the economy, we've got to downgrade our forecast for growth and upgrade our forecast of the unemployment rate. >> and it's the white house we remind folks who say if we pass this stimulus bill, we can keep unemployment below 8%. new fox poll, not good news for the president, needless to say, how many approve of the president's handling of job creation. 35% approve. 60% disapprove. those are record numbers in that poll. so why, then, if you're the president, do you make this announcement? i'm skeptical, do they want to lower expectations and say we need stimulus spending ahead of this jobs speech? or are they just being realistic? >> don't lower expectations, please. you got to raise expectations that you're going to come in with a

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it's hard to find a white house that's an exception.o the conversation as someone who has worked in four white houses and there's always a lot of grunting, sighing and sometiming panic when books are written. we talked about a workplace environment question there. i want you to listen to this. this is a policy issue heading into a campaign when the economy is the issue. he's quoted this book as saying obama is smart, but smart is not enough. leadership is another thing entirely, about knowing your mind enough to make real decision, ones that last. that's a pretty damning portrayal by a man who is described by this white house as a senior economic adviser sometimes. >> well, it is, john. as you well know, there are a number of arguments in this book that the president was in over his head, that he had a team of people around him on the economic side who were frequently clashing with each other, had the knives out for each other. most of the top economic advisers have specifically refuted what's been attributed, led by secretary geithner,

and when whites had to in effect cover black music in order for white listeners to pay attention to them. i think it's a reflection of some of the larger trends i talk about in "the end of anger" where, among the younger generation, particularly what i call generation three, the idea of racial barriers and rigid racial distinctions is seeing more and more unnatural and in many respects just silly. >> host: married in spokane, washington, fewer on with ellis cose. it helps if i push them button. sorry about that. go ahead. >> caller: i have a couple quick comments. when we talk about racial in our society, i find that redheads, doesn't matter what school, what class people you come from, a redhead walks into kindergarten, they teachers connect a child and think the worst and that shows automatically typecast first time they walk into the classroom. you don't see it happen with any other race. i really feel that number one minority in our world today is a disabled person because they are walked on, push down and stomped everywhere in society. and recalled nothing more than applied on the g

house says that the white house's agenda be accepted by the white house in the same way that media that as media that it. well don't forget right now we have a white house that's being blasted by fox news news is not really an outlet that they like over there you have to live in the real world and the real world is many different voices in terms of al-jazeera they have basically not really praise them silly clinton made a statement in congress to an appropriations committee and said look these people are very successful give us some money so we can be successful in our foreign broadcasting she wasn't really praising al jazeera she was citing it as as a case example to be emulated by u.s. government propagandists i mean but you just mentioned fox news and fox news is a news agency that gets white house has gone after we've seen them call them a republican party mouthpiece call on other news organizations to isolate and alienate fox news to declare it not a news organization david times not given gas pox news so i guess if you're not in line with the white house agenda is it impossible to

teh white -- the white section was empty, and the colored section was full, so i sat in the middle, thet on the left, the last one in the middle. i was not thinking about anything in particular. i had a chocolate candy bar, and i was looking out the window. an older girl sat next to me. i continued looking out the window. more people got on the bus, and some more color and some were white, and soon, no more seats were available. colored folks started getting up, and white folks started taking their seats. i just stared straight ahead. "make light on your feet." other people got up, but i told myself that i would just stay seated. folks started staring at me. you know why -- you know, white folks. [laughter] "she knows where she belongs." open " i hope she is not one of them troublemakers --"i hope she is not one of the troublemakers." me? a troublemaker? just because of how i was born? my daddy that -- got a cowboy hat and cowboy boots. board rogers was coming to town -- roy rogers was coming to town. it was for white kids only. why? they think we are troublemakers? i do not want to mak