Eric Holder's Take: The Attorney General on 10 Hot Topics
Republican resistance, race in America, Redskins and more.
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IMHO - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder doesn't do a lot of sit-downs, which may be why in this ABC News interview, he was asked to share his opinion on a broad range of topics from Congress to the Washington Redskins' controversial name. — Joyce Jones (@BETpolitichick) (Photo: This Week via ABC)
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Republican Resistance - For whatever reason, [some] Republicans decided early on that this was a president they were just simply not going to cooperate with,” Holder said. "And over the past five-and-a-half years, we have seen demonstrations of that, where the president has reached out his hand, offered compromises that have simply not been met [in the way] they have been in the past by a Republican Party willing to do the appropriate things." (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images)
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She's No Judge - "She wasn't a particularly good vice presidential candidate," Holder said of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's call for Congress to impeach President Obama. "She's an even worse judge of who ought to be impeached and why.” (Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
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Syrian Crisis and Terrorist Threats - "I think we are at a dangerous time," Holder said. I think it is. In some ways, it's — it's more frightening than anything I think I've seen as attorney general. And 9/11 was something that kind of came out of the blue. This is a — a situation that we can see developing and the potential that I see coming up, the negative potential I see coming out of the facts in Syria and Iraq now, are quite concerning." (Photo: AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)
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Homegrown Extremists - "These lone wolves, these homegrown violent extremists are people who keep me up at night, as well, trying to monitor them, trying to anticipate what it is that they are going to do. And, you know, the experience that we had in Boston is instructive. It only takes one or — or two people to really do something horrific." (Photo: AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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