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This is The Political Scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, August 21st.

I'm Amelia Lester in this week for Dorothy Wickenden. After nearly two weeks of protests and violence

following the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Attorney

General Eric Holder arrived on the scene. And we also want to listen.

That's the main part of this trip.

We want to listen to hear about the issues that you all are dealing with you can see.

Are there ways in which we can have?

That was Holder speaking to diners in a local restaurant on Wednesday.

To talk about what's going on in Ferguson and beyond,

I'm joined in the office by Amy Davidson

and by phone from Ferguson by Giulani Cobb.

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