HARLOW: In the wake of the deadly Charleston massacre, strong words today from Hillary Clinton, appearing at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco. She is urging Americans to have a frank discussion about race. Sunlen Serfaty joins me now from Palm Spring, California. The president is in California this weekend. Sunlen, let's talk more about what Hillary Clinton said today. What stood out most to you?</s>SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, she really had some emotional and blunt words, Poppy, about what this shooting in Charleston reveals about the state of race in America. She said that it's really tempting to treat this as one isolated incident, but it's also time to admit that the nation's long struggle with race is far from over. Here's Hillary Clinton earlier today in San Francisco.</s>HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I know this is a difficult topic to talk about. I know that so many of us hoped that by electing our first black president we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. I know there are truths we don't like to say out loud or discuss with our children. But we have to. That's the only way we can possibly move forward together. Race remains a deep fault line in America.</s>SERFATY: And she did call for additional gun control steps to be taken while at the same time, though, admitting the political realities that politics has really poisoned this debate in the past -- Poppy.</s>HARLOW: Sunlen Serfaty, reporting from Palm Springs, California -- Sunlen, thank you for that. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be back with more news on the other side.
Clinton Talks Tough on Race, Guns in U.S.