people originates in concepts the beauty from the white slave trade of eastern europe and whiteness it remains embedded in visions of beauty of popular culture and art history. today most americans envision whiteness as racial the indivisible although ethnically divided. is the scheme anthropologist laid out in the mid 20th century. by this reckoning there only three it -- three real racist want lloyd and negro. but ethnicities. today however biologist and geneticist not to mention literary critics no longer believe in the physical existence. >> thank you. >> tell me if any of this remains on my forehead with little bits of white stuff that stick to you. it is not funny. [laughter] it is true. where was i? >> they continue to recognize the power of racism the believe that exist better than others and it took two centuries to reach this conclusion after countless schemes have spread out countless different numbers of racist even of the white races in and classification produced frustration and even science day nine ase race as an objective truth in the u.s. census faces the economic

who just happens to be white.both of these books still stand that people who classify themselves as white still a land that wasn't originally bears, still own and control resources that weren't originally bears. so with your boat, either just to apologize and give the land and resources back to the rightful owners because now they understand they were tricked into whiteness? or is this work were just a pla on semantics, but the overall world power dynamics will not change. >> these are the choices? >> yes. [laughter] now what is the intended goal or hopeful goal of your boat? >> i don't think i can win here. if those are the only choices, i'm going to have to check the other box. my book is the book of a historian, not someone who's making policy, not what? [inaudible] not an advocate. well, i don't know. that's a hard one, too. let me just say that my goal was not to change the world. so, what i would like people to know from reading my book is that whiteness is a concept. it is not something biological impermane

the job of white house press secretary requires a good working relationship with the white house press corps. that relationship is now perceived as far from harmonious. the press sees gibbs as smug, sarcastic, and disliked, if you believe the remarkable reporting on gibbs behavior in a front page four column out of six above the fold 2500 word recap by reporter horowitz in the influential "washington post." and the press/gibbs relationship is ted to be -- said to be degenerating by the day so much so they are expected to meet with exchange availability. unlike other press secretaries, pat, who would make rounds of calls to reporters as they neared deadlines, gibbs is notoriously tough to get on the phone. his is a little low qis are full of "first and foremost," and "i will say this." and he relies on escape hatch promises to check and get back to you, unquote. then there's this. check out the web, the white house. it all turns out to be a suite of social networking tools. youtube, white house tt gov, twitter that mixes noin vation. on the morning of march 12, gibbs broke major news in

girls are the white kids. and i was all excited about going to an integrated school. i wanted to get to know them. i wanted what was perceived to be a better education. after we got word that summer that emmett till have been married i thought i was going to stay in the all-black environment and get as much as members of that was the kind of world i have to face. i saw something happen in our community and probably seven years, john. when we got word in indiana that and it happened murdered for whistling at a white woman in mississippi, eyewash grandmother hold my little brother closer. i washed away code of the eyes of our elders feared in the resentments. and i can't tell you how proud we were when rosa parks, that following december sat down on the past. and it wasn't because her feet were hurting. she was thinking about what they did to emmett till. and of course you have a history better than i. that was the beginning of the dr. king movement. >> host: it was a turning point. >> guest: he didn't want to d

black american but then if you look at the english white it is one basic white category. the question is what will it take and when will it be desirable for the white people to describe themselves to the same degree that other races are asked to describe themselves? or is there a fear there will be a loss of power because one statement i heard a lot like to hear a comment that there were not any white people until they came to america that is on the italians and english and, etc. united. and there is a fear there is a loss of power. >> and a stand. >> >> it is already under foot to zero or in the air. without tampering any further with the categories. they tend to lag behind for the power arrangements. has ages become richer they will become more beautiful. as it gets mixed up it will somehow have to catch up to us. what americans have found very frustrating we have a lot of trouble classifying people according to wealth and income. much more useful way of dealing with the inequities of the society. thank you very much. [applause]

none of these individuals is white but being white these days is not what it used to be. [laughter] thus it is sensible to conclude that the american is undergoing a fourth grade enlargement. although race may seem overweening without legal recognition it is less important than in the past. the darkest skin who also happen to be rich, say people from south asia or african-american or have a hispanic background and the light of skin from anywhere or beautiful are now all the way to inclusion. in america? is this the end of race in america? >> no. >> i think we need democracy here. [laughter] let's take a vote. if you think yes put your hand up. two of you? three. if you think no, put your hand up. fisa noes have it. >> demand a voice vote. [laughter] >> recount, yes. okay. we have had our vote. and we will sign it tomorrow. [laughter] at the turn of the 21st century it was starting to look that way, back in 2000. remember that, in the 90's? urged the american government to phase out the use of race as a beta category and substitutes' ethnic categories instead. geneticists

candidates, and my predecessor as white house council.nd it is mitchell and nixon. barry goldwater can't remember william rehnquist, working for you. the president's lawyer, it is ignored. hi happen to work at the department of justice, they are scrambling. it is a lot of who is available to get confirmed that a given time. box a reader through, and william rehnquist was my candidate. i was later shocked to the degree of his conservatism, more moderate than he turned out to be. and another guy who walks into nixon's will office. howard baker, lewis powell, nominated and howard baker, and the minority leader. fairly young, nixon would make good justice and probably would. the kids put through college and the financees, it was on the high court. and put into a conversation with nixon close to the chest. it is not until richard more mentioned he was a law clerk for robert jackson, robert jackson is a great justice bite any partisan's definition whether you are republican or democrat. nixon recognized that. that seemed to close the deal. he i

white people talked, black people did what they were told. the plantation was named for alice colder the wife of the man who once owned the property in the black slaves who worked on the fields. the main plantation big house is and 1850's revival style structure with a grand foyer. at the rear was a sweeping lawn that runs of. stately oaks stricken with moss, oaks that she did my grandmother, my mother and me as we played as children. we had from the sun, ran up the steps and ruled in the dewar debate could dirt oblivious to what had gone before. this is the deep south, between black leaders and white wealth. of 1860 st. mary parish was home of the machine tells of 57 sleeve's more than just about any other parish in the state. my grandmother was born there november 22nd, 1929. there are no records of her birth but she knows that to be her birthday because the family friend remembered her own daughter had been born on the same day. when she was two months of my grandmother was given away by her mother who worked for a family moving in new orl

not nearly as much as though as latinos, whites, mormons, catholics. why do you scapegoat, why would people scapegoat us? so this is really sort of a very relevant issue to the book which is like this sort of cynicism, faceless mass and the african-american community as the inability to recognize for who we are. there is a tremendous amount of homophobia in the community. it just so happens not nearly as much as other communities so why are we always singled out? there is a nuance that's complicated. i don't want to make it seem as though we are perfect. we are not by any stretch the imagination and we need to deal with this idea of also be but it's a lot more nuanced than you will see in the mainstream press. on the issue of i've never spoken to terry miller. i don't expect a call from her by the week. [laughter] and on the last question, i am aware of the sort of phrasing of the language for the census. i'm kind of diagnostic. i think especially now when you look at the unemployment right now what everyone, not just blacks, the real unemployment rate

one thing to see a great white shark from the boat.own in the water, to be, you know, six, seven feet away from one, it is an extraordinary experience. this experience has become a major draw for tourists. each one of these people paid $150 to visit this reef off the coast of south africa known as shark alley. >> that is a great white shark. >> it is one of the best places in the world to see great whites and shark tourists bring in $30 million every year to south africa. is this really good for sharks? the battlelines are drawn. at issue is how the sharks are brought to boat. chumming, mashed up fish parts and blood are thrown into the water and the scent attracts the great whites. once the sharks arrive a tuna head attached to a rope is used as bait to get the sharks to lunge at the cave. >> the bite is a visual reference to the smell. we don't let it take the bait. we are trying to full the bait so the animal can come closer to the cage that the people can see a bit better. >> but it does sometimes get the bait? >> it does sometimes

it was not 100% white. was it 99 % or more white? absolutely. but to say that there are 1500 black members of the militia out there is simply false. host: francine on the line for democrats, go ahead. caller: i would like to make a statement in reference to the last caller. why do they call themselves militia? to me, they are terrorists. what is the difference between them and the ones from other countries? there are to overthrow the government. -- they are allowed tout to overthrow the government. host: let's go to round rock, texas on our line for independents. caller: thank you for the opportunity to speak. a recently moved back to texas after being away for 40 years. i grew up here. i am a black person and i have in my family about five different cultures and i'm very pleased about that. but i do think that much is racially based. i have been pulled over by police more times than ever. i find the best

don't think the code of the mafia should be the norm for the white house aides. so i should go three litany of activities where i think liddy as evidence of some signs of a very distorted if not evil personality. >> host: and you filed a lawsuit against him? >> guest: gispert that is another story. where were we on the other one? >> host: had nixon served two full terms how different would have been. >> guest: there's no question the biggest thing set aside that nixon was working on for the second term was a rather major reorganization of the branch. he realized he could never get the legislation through the congress because when you recognize the bridge to affect the committees that have oversight over those particular at ministry of agencies or departments and what have you so he had devised a system that my office worked on and i had people from department of justice working on it, ehrlichman work donner and many months and what have radically redesigned and modernized if you will into a functional area the have grown up over the years and there was a national

there are white families, particularly poor white families that have been shattered by the incarceration of loved ones. the drug war was declared with black folks in mind, and mass incarceration as we know it would not exist but for the racialization of crime in the media and in our political discourse. but just because african americans have been the target of this war doesn't mean that people of all colors haven't suffered as a result. and so, for the first time i think we have a nation may have the opportunity to see how racial caste systems can harm people of all colors. and that truly few benefit from the imposition of these vast systems of control. >> moyers: two progressive groups, the economic policy institute and the urban league both say that structural inequality, as a sort of situation we have in america today, can not be confronted if we practice what conservatives call "identity politics." and these progressive groups are asking for targeting universalism. what does that mean to you? >> universal policies are policies that apply to everyone, right? and obviously, health car

use or sell illegal drugs than white. stereotype of a drug dealer is a black kid standing on the street corner with his pants hanging down. well, drug dealing happens in the ghetto, depr sure. but it happens everywhere else in america as well. in fact, you know where significant differences have been found frequently suggest white yourts are more likely to engage in illegal drug dealing than black youth. but it'sçó been black youth, an particularly black young males that have been -- associated with the drug wars. there's excellent data that can be found through the sentencing project. the sentencing project based here in d.c. has done a fantastic job of analyzing and through its report the department of justice publish foff many of the reports that have been done by the sentencing project. >> calls. host: atlanta is first on our democrats line. you're on with michele alexander. she tess the author of "the new jim crow." caller: i found out the prisons and coups they are in and some of them moneys from the federal governm

so i wasn't his source in the white house. the part i was referring to on countdown was the fact that the last story is about the fact that one or more tapes have a potential erase sure onyx son's -- on nixon's secret tapes. on "the washington post" story as opposed to the book when you compare the two, all five sources in "the washington post" story are white house sources. since we now know it's felt, it strikes me -- and that seems to be the only piece of information that felt gave to woodward is because felt -- woodward doesn't know where felt got this information. and it may have been that felt said, listen, i heard from somebody in the white house, and i'll tell you how that could happen, that one or more of the tapes might have erasures. and then they got four other sources that confirmed that, so they may legitimately all be from the white house. now, what happened? when rose woods discovered that she had erased what she thought was five minutes and then later turned out to be 18-and-a-half minutes, i'm sure he talked

the former white house counsel to president nixon. he is an author of 10 books including an updated edition of "blind ambition." that is sunday at noon eastern on quality "booktv." all this month, south carolina the wonders of the student cam video documentary contest. students submitted videos a one of the country's greatest strengths or it's a challenge the country is facing. watch the top winning videos every morning on c-span at 6:50 a.m. eastern, and just before washington journal. during the program, meet the students who made them. for a preview of the winners, visit the web site. c-span, our public affairs content is available on a television, radio, and online. and you can also connect with those on twitter, facebook, and youtube, and a sign up for our schedule alert e-mails @ c- span.org. >> the federal government has a new effort to implement workplace flexibility programs that are being used in the private sector. the first lady spoke earlier this week in a conference on this subject. she is introduced by the senior white

in his white house in the first three months.the so-called on moon period which he sad and clinton did not have. in the first three months they took president bush and made him go around the country and make statements on public policy to demonstrate he knew the issues. two, they kept the vice president highly experienced behind closed door this is the shadow and during the first three months, every major decision made, the white house leaked it to one of the prime news sources that it was the president that made it. he established himself in the presidency despite the election at the end of the first three months, and then he was able to get his tax cut through. then there was something he didn't anticipate the de text of james jackson from the senate turning it over to democrats. the economy was getting in some trouble and he waffled a bit. he came back early to fix the economy and 9/11 came and he redefined his presidency. host: what can prepare a candidate for the first year of presidency? anything? first year of presidency?

materially very little has changed for his black countrymen since the vanquished white-minority rule in the space election. on and plame it is higher than ever. economic disparities have grown. the crime rate has soared, schools are crumbling and the farmland the country's most valuable resource remains almost wholly owned by whites just as it was during the days of apartheid. walk into any restaurant in k-town and see who sits and serbs, who drives their mercedes to work, the fleet of credit microbuses that swarm johannesburg and cape town and durban like pingree buzzing bees. who owns the house and who cleans it? mandela has come and gone from the main stage and voters are preparing to elect a third black president. this is 2008. but the for defining truth of the land now as always is the darker the skin the poor you are. what good does it to a prisoner of the jailer looks like you but doesn't set you free? black south africans turn to one of their own and to govern but wasted the opportunity to transform the value in post on their country by outsiders and lee can hardly bear the t

for the white house. it's not like you're important like a garbage collector or something. >> i'll give you my white house beef. my white house beef is timing. briefings by chance or appointment, you simply cannot have briefings that are scheduled that we're told about are going to be noon then decide to hold them at 3:30. that is absolutely unacceptable. >> why is he so bad at time? obviously the bush people made a point of being on time. but when it came to press briefings, clinton's people were not bad. but this is a a joke. >> robert, in addition to being spokesman for the president is special assistant to the president. he is in the room when obama is doing things. he's much closer to obama than any of the previous press secretaries were. >> i think mike mccarty was fairly close. i watched them on several trips with the clinton administration. you could see they were banging each other, laughing, sharing a joke, probably an off-color joke. >> let me just make a point about that administration. there

white house council, former white house counsel greg craig hired by goldman sachs to defend them in allof this. big irony? >> irony. revenge is a dish best served cold. he is serving it hot. >> bret: that is it for the panel. stay tuned for a very tough story to cover for perfectionists. oh! blue! i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! it's the championship game! i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team! alex! good call. >> bret: finally tonight, the ash cloud from that volcano in iceland caused major problems for flights all over europe stranding tens of thousands of people. it's a really big story. the official name of that volcano is tough. >> >> the name of the volcano. >> the. >> eyjafjallajokull. >> fiddle faddle banana ramah show no, sir signs of abating. >> bret: wel

and erica john told you she did not want anyone writing about her, especially a white woman for a whiteublication. and she said, oprah winfrey, i don't need a white magazine to cannonize me. what do you make of that? >> in the book, she'd gotten hammered by barbara harrison in "the new york times" sunday magazine, and i think she was responding to that. she has really never gotten over that interview, and howie, you've got to understand that for the last 25 years, oprah has really, for the most part, had halo coverage. and so when barbara harrison came out with this piece in "the new york times" sunday magazine, oprah was incensed. >> do you think the press has been overall, i mean, she's a major, wealthy, self-made woman, do you think the press overall has been too soft on her? >> no. >> you said "halo coverage." >> she has had halo coverage. >> why does anybody in our society get halo coverage? >> i wonder. i wonder, howie. >> well, she -- some of the things that people have said about your book, that oprah herself has talked about her sexual abuse, the child he gave birth to at 15 th

he once even caught a ride on a great white's dorsal fin.sists these animals might be top predators but they're not the man-eating machines so often portrayed in movies. we decided to take him up on his offer to dive with sharks without a cage to see the great whites in their natural state. what do i need to know before going down? >> whatever you do, don't make fast movements. what we are is the same as a jackal at a lion feed. as long as the jackal behaves it doesn't get killed. >> we're like a jackal in a lion feed. the great whites are the lions, we're the jackals. >> exactly. >> they'll let us be there as long as we don't interfere with them. >> don't try to grab a bite and run away. >> the water is filled with chum, fish parts and blood. a number of sharks are already circling the boat. so it's time to go. to get to the bottom, i climb into a cage which is lowered about 20 feet to the ocean floor. mike's already there scouring for any sharks. then he signals for me to swim out. almost immediately, my weight belt falls off. struggling w

a statement today, white house officials say that the white house is declining comment on the blagojevichawyer's subpoena to president obama. that's that june 3rd file, and we just heard from pete williams it is not unprecedented but unusual for a sitting president to be subpoenaed. >>> airports in scandinavia are closed right now as shifting winds again sending volcanic ash over norway and sweden, creating more flight disruptions just as the debate heats up whether flights should have ever been canceled. nbc's chief science correspondent, robert bazell, live in iceland. there is a big debate. there has been a huge economic impact on the airline industry and they're saying the government leaders acted too precipitously. >> reporter: well, and rhea, absolutely, this is an issue where the regulators got out ahead of the scientists. what happened was that there were a few instances as recently as 1989 where aircraft flew into volcanic plumes, but they flew right over the volcano and the ash knocked out the engines on the airplanes. fortunately, nobody was killed in those incidents, but nobod

i wasn't his force in the white house. the part i was referring to on countdown was the fact that the last story is about the fact that one or more tapes have a potential erasure on nixon's secret tapes. in the washington post story when you compare the two, all five sources in the washington post story are white house sources. when i thought about that since we now know it is felt, and gave to woodward. woodward doesn't know where he got this information. i felt with somebody in the white house. one or more of the tapes, they confirmed that. they would legitimately all be from the white house. what happened? when rose woods discovered she had erased what she thought was five minutes and later turned out to be 18-1/2 minutes i am sure she talked to her other friends in the white house and there were people, they were in the basement, they were in the io be. some of them who do all of the clearance procedures for cabinet members and white house aides and do this sort of work. we are now dealing with potential erasure and a

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dean could say a little about why white supremacy, white racism is such an important component in this american conservativism? i mean, you've mentioned barry goldwater's 1964 campaign and his trips to the south. clearly, with white spremmists and his interactions down there. so i'm wondering why this is, why they have, why the american conservative movement has allowed white supremacy to be such an important component in their development and rise in america? >> guest: well, i think it's a rather new phenomenon. as a matter of fact, if there is anybody who was not a supremacist or a race cyst, it's barry goldwater. he's the man who integrated the arizona national guard long before truman had even done so with the, with the armed services. he's somebody who, for example, there were black and white theaters in the phoenix that he as a member of the city council eliminated. he's somebody who voted against the '64 civil rights bill much to his later chagrin on the advice of two lawyers who he was very impressed with. he said there was a young -- i asked him this question one day, i said,

over whites. that was the incident for the drug war, not drug crime. >> host: our guest with us until 10:00 a.m., and if you want to ask her questions about her book and her themes of her book. there's how you can do. -- african-american men, especially who have dealt with the drug war policy and a deal with >> host: what's been the end well, the expo 911nal spreasfrolve -- in an incredibly shortt period of time. we went from a proven population to of 300,000 to more than 2al million. our prison population quintupled inçó a remarkably short period of time. we now have the largest we now have the largest press on population and the highest rate of incarceration of any other country in the world. we dwarf the rates of even highly repressive regimes like china and iran and most people targeted in the drug war are not violent offenders or drug kingpins as you might be led to imagine. in fact, four out of five drug arrests are for possession, only one out of five for sales. most people in state prison

the white house never wanted it. i think it is a red herring and when it comes out the republicans bluff will be called and then they can come up with some reason why this leads to taxpayer bailouts. there is a critique from the left. >> chris: the $50 billion fund is paid for by the banks, it is not taxpayer money. >> fine, i think it will disappear fast. it is not something the white house wanted. there is a critique to be made of the bill from the left that it is not tough enough. the capital requirements are not high enough. that is not the critique that the republicans have been saying. they have been saying it leads to bailouts. they say it is the $50 billion fund is it and soon it will be googone. >> chris: you can get into the woods on this and it will be over my head and i suspect a lot of people's heads. we have the sec charging goldman, sachs with fraud for developing an investment security that it knew was going to fail so it could make some money allegedly. on the simplest level going back to brit's orig

extremely white, almost 90% are white. 1% black. they do not like this president. they don't -- large majority do not think he shares the values of this country. 92% think he's a socialist. 94% hate the government. but we also learned about a tension, they do not like the size of government but they like social security and medicare, which are responsible for the size of government and its growth smed. >> so good or bad for the republican party? >> it's a mix. there are good things for the republican party. in some races there are quite good. they are helping very conservative candidates raise money, get a lot of enthusiasm going on. but i talked to somebody in one of these races who's very involved in one of these races, one of these red-hot candidates the tea party loves. they say we have to keep our distance for two reasons, one, the tea parties are disorganized and there are some -- as in all political parties -- there are extreme people who behave in ways that are embarrassing and our candidate, this person is saying, we don't want to have to have him answer f

what it does, it does not coordinate with the white house. we receive no advance notice of any enforcement act. >> reporter: goldman denies the government charges and said it did not need to disclose paulson's role and it itself lost $75 million on the deal. bret? >> bret: peter, thank you. well, stocks were mixed today. the dow gained 73 1/3. s&p 500 up 5 1/3. nasdaq lost one and change. it's all your money. in this segment, the white house made a point to say one way of coming up with revenue to help reduce the deficit is not on the table. there has been speculation as we talked about that a value-added tax, a v.a.t. might be in the cards. chief washington correspondent jim angle reports the administration says no deal yet. >> the white house reacted sharply to a report administration official calculated the impact of a 5% value-added tax to help bring down huge annual deficits. >> this is not something the president has proposed, nor is it under consideration. >> reporter: value-added tax is imposed at each stage of production, when wheat

>> chris: major garrett, reporting from the white house, thanks for that. the screening policy for travellers flying to the u.s. inspired by the christmas day bombing attempt is on the way out. caroline shivley tell us what will replace it. >> reporter: the obama administration is making major changes in security screenings, for passengers, flying to the u.s. moving from a system based on your home country to one based on threats and that means the u.s. gets a tip it should be on the lookout for a terrorist fitting a certain description or background. and, then any u.s. bound flyer fitting the profile gets extra pat downs and checks before being allowed on the plan and the head of homeland security says this is a better system. >> it is a more information based way to screen and stronger way to determine whether passengers should go through second terry examination, and not just primary examination. >> reporter: for example, if the system was in place before the attempted christmas day underwear bombing, u.s. officials passed on information they were search

who said he would always marry a white girl and why did they say that? >> if it was an internal feeling on my part. i grew up in i think a fascinating time period in the 1960's. we are one of the few laughs african-american families to ride the wave of the millions of those who left urban america in that time period. at the same time many african-americans were coming off the land in rural america and going to the city so i felt very unique and caught in between and i think the two groups almost like two sides and there is a time period this cultural so i felt internally that i was destined to marry someone who was white rather than african-american.

who feel that this is not the country are christian, white forefathers built. the reality is that we are, for the first time in our history, becoming a genuine need multi- racial democracy in which no one group dominates, not whites, not protestants and so on. it is a bit of a brave new world. these changes will be reflected in some ways in the policies of our states and our country. host: let's take this call from tim in the west virginia. caller: i would like to find out why you are going up against kevin mcdonald because he has written articles about how these -- it seems like you are a zionist front. have you read that article? she called i have read all of missed -- guest: i have read all of mr. macdonald's work. it is not discouragement of the jewish neo-cons. the the reality is what he theorizes, in his infamous trilogy is that he theorizes that jews have a collective, evolutionary strategy that because jews generally live in societies in which they are outnumbered, that what they do collectively, through some sort of -- i guess they get this from the cl

by the way, table white house is right. do we need to spend more billions of dollars to bail out institutions? i thought the object was to make institutions too big to fail, to do away with them being too big to fail so the taxpayers wouldn't have to be used. i agree with the white house. on this business of leaving. >> chris: so what is the hold-up? >> leaving fannie mae and freddie mac out of it. they were two of the major catalysts in this whole melt down, this indiscriminate lending of money to buy hom hom s from homes for people who could never take it back. the community reinvestment act to give homes to people who would never make their mortgage payments. fannie mae and freddie mac being left completely out of it. we have to look at a number of other aspects of it which increased the role of unelected, unaccountable officials and a greater role of the congress of the united states. >> chris: you're upset about the fact that the fed would have a bigger role overseeing this? >> it concerns me because the fed didn't pla

he didn't hold a press conference to attack a white cop.omeone brought it up. >> i'm not saying i agree with that. but it's not out of left field here. >> ann, neither is it out of left field -- >> what percentage? >> 60. >> it is also not out of left field when sarah palin puts up that target sign on certain districts on her website that people are concerned about which raises this question for me -- sarah palin, is she uncivil in her discourse? beyond that, why do you think we are so fascinated with sarah palin? >> that's a great question. the poll i'm referring to from a month ago shows 20% of the tea partiers voted for obama. they don't like the big government policies. i want to cite that poll as long as you have your poll. and sarah palin and the target thing. that sounds like the sort of princess and the pea whining i hear from a different cable network of oh, oh, we are so upset. >> come on, ann. >> no, no. kill the bill? liberals act like it's assassination rhetoric. what was her name? joan benatar? hit me with your best shot. >> i

white, you need to pick one or the other. so houston and white pic education.harles hamilton houston was a graduate of amherst college, graduate from hammers at the age of 19. served in the army and went on to harvard law school and was the first african-american to serve on the harvard law review. he earned a doctorate of -- doctorate of judicial science from harvard, studied in spain what he was at harvard law school, and was very famous at this time because he had recently defended a very high profile, sensational murder defendant out in rural virginia. was widely known by americans across all races and classes at the time. he wanted to attack segregation in a way that, of course, would be successful, the law of the land at the time was plessy v. ferguson, a 19th century supreme court decision that established the doctrine of separate but equal. and those words never appear in the decision to be sure, but the law was that so long as states, so long as the government provides separate and equal facilities for african-americans and for white americans, the con

we have two big white house correspondents. why is barack obama not doing the big presidential press conferences, the kinds that presidents do in the east room. surprisingly, richard nixon reportedly liked the chance to jousting with the press. here he is. >> if you are a lawyer and given the state of the situation and what you do, could you give us some reason why the american people shouldn't believe that that was at least a subtle attempt to bribe the judge in that case and gave at least the appearance of a lack of moral leadership. >> the only part of your statement that perhaps is accurate is a lawyer. [laughter] chris: ronald reagan loved romancing the tv cameras. >> the stock market is going down and some say we will be in a recession perhaps this fall. do you think we are headed for a recession? >> i didn't think anyone would get around to some pleasant subjects. no, i don't think we are. chris: bill clinton welcomed the chance to show his grasp on issues. >> social security will be invested in some way and come back wi

net yo chicago white sox fantasy camp. fars >>> hello everyone welcome to this edition of net impact. the boys of summer are officially back. are you ready for the new season? for most major league baseball players the work for the new san has been going on for months already. take for instance santana who spent his season -- kirk from comcast sportsnet new york got a chance to travel with yohan. >> thanks. i learned one thing santana has a heart of gold to match his golden arm. let me introduce you to his remote hometown. during the journey you'll get a newfound respect for this two time cy young winner. the mountains in venezuela picturesque and tropical. nestled in these mountains is a baseball haven. this is the quaint warm and humble r bl hometown of santana. this is where he grew up thousands of miles away from the big city life of the big apple. yohan returns home to give back to his community. for four years running he hosts a children festival which he calls the cy young big bash. they call it the -- it take place

whites will be below 50% of the population. that kind of change, very real change which we see all over the country occurring, it is very much representative of kind of in the election of obama, of a black man living in the white house. so i do think there's a great deal do that. i think a lot of is it not perhaps open white supremacist feeling, but worries and fears among many people who feel wrongly. but i think in any event, they feel this is not the country our christian-like forefathers built. that kind of idea. the reality is we are for the very first time in our history become a genuinely multiracial democracy in which no one group dominated and so on. it is a bit of a brave new world. and these changes will be reflected in some ways in the politics of our states and of our country. >> let's take this call -- >> host: let's take this call from tim in clarksburg, west virginia. good morning. >> caller: thanks for taking my call. i'd like to find out why you're going up kevin mcdonald because he's written articles about no

in white marsh, much better. we had traffic at a stand still, now it's monthing headed down towards beltway and we'll switch to a live view of pulaski. that's the latest on traffic pulse 11. now we check in live again with sandra shaw celebrating spa week, and we all could use some pampering, right? >> we're here at the tuscanny med did spa in little lit i. this is spa week and one treatment the pina colada pedicure usually running $75 dollars. you can get it for $50. right now takia is applying a manageo mask to her feet. what sort of services do you have here? >> we do anything from a manicure and pedicure also to a ma ridian stimlation for smoking sensation. >> it is a med did spa so they have a wide variety of things offered. this is weatherwise more of a down day but by thursday 70 again, time to wear those cute, strappy sandals and ms get a pedicure for that. >> need to get ready for your cute, strappy sandals, san. >> if i can find some in a size 15. [laughter] >> coming up a 3-year-old girl gets on the jo

the white house never wanted it. i think it is a red herring and when it comes out the republicans bluff will be called and then they can come up with some reason why this leads to taxpayer bailouts. there is a critique from the left. >> chris: the $50 billion fund is paid for by the banks, it is not taxpayer money. >> fine, i think it will disappear fast. it is not something the white house wanted. there is a critique to be made of the bill from the left that it is not tough enough. the capital requirements are not high enough. that is not the critique that the republicans have been saying. they have been saying it leads to bailouts. they say it is the $50 billion fund is it and soon it will be googone. >> chris: you can get into the woods on this and it will be over my head and i suspect a lot of people's heads. we have the sec charging goldman, sachs with fraud for developing an investment security that it knew was going to fail so it could make some money allegedly. on the simplest level going back to brit's orig

so he goes to the white speed shop, down the road that is a friend of the black owned, and the white speed shop owner sold them the motor for $17,500. subcontracted the whole motor for 14,200. the five black players were running around pounding their chests in washington d.c.. i did not go to that man. and he was hurt. he was totally hurt. this is the type of thing that we can't get into black self patriot but we can get into a lot of those stories. we are almost alone out here. >> there is always a solution to the problem, so to try to get around what we just described, we are pushed out into international waters. i would say we had to get a company from china, india, england, south america and bring them into the u.s. because if they do business in the u.s. or maybe they want to increase their business in the u.s. and offer auto racing as a platform for that and some of these other foreign countries, they don't have the same prejudices that the u.s. has because they are older countries and they have been through all of that. that is what i say. we have looked at drivers in south af

i mean everyone in the white house and the press corp. reads this stuff and knows he's a step ahead of a lot of people in covering that. but michael enis covering-- he is setting the agenda for the day in all of washington. are you right, not just the white house. and that's extraordinary. and you see him, i mean he's a guy, people say he is like ralph nader, he is a mystery and stuff like that. >> rose: he is everywhere. >> he is a mystery to me. >> rose: you see him at parties and everywhere. when we come back, michael en, the subject of the cover story in "the new york times" magazine this sunday. stay with us. we continue our conversation about the changing media landscape with a look at "politico", the web site and papers changes the way we consume political news. each more about 30,000 people wake up to an e-mail tip sheet called the playbook. joining me is michael en. "politico"'s chief white house correspondent, also the subject of a profile in this weekend's issue of "the new york times" magazine by mark leeb very much t is calle