Aaron, thanks. Good evening at a moment of sweeping change in this country. On the question

of race, in just as the President of the United States, today signaled his resistance to

it and showed in ways that we'll talk about tonight how out of step he appears to be

where a significant part of the country now is. He's been building up to this for days

now, as senior advisors battled over whether he should give some kind of address the nation

on the subject, and one cabinet secretary said, stay tuned.

I believe you're going to be hearing from the President this week on this topic in

some detail. And I would ask you maybe to reserve judgment until after that time.

Well, the question, tight, did we just witness that moment that Dr. Ben Carson was saying

stay tuned for? Where his remarks, where the President's remarks this afternoon to a handpicked

round table in Dallas, all there is. Because if so, nothing much has changed. The President

began today by praising himself. From day one, I've been fighting for the forgotten

men and women of America. I think we've been doing a great job of it.

He praised himself as he has, of course, many times already for low black unemployment

until in his words, the plague from China arrived. He then addressed the issue of systematic

racism by alluding to it, then undermining the notion.

In recent days, there have been vigorous discussion about how to ensure fairness, equality,

and justice for all of our people. Unfortunately, there is some trying to stoke division and

to push an extreme agenda which we won't go for that will produce only more poverty,

more crime, more suffering. We have to work together to confront bigotry and prejudice

wherever they appear, but we'll make no progress and heal no wounds by falsely labeling

tens of millions of decent Americans as racist or bigots.

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