Now that he mentions it.

Via Mediaite:

. . . MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin asked Sharpton to respond to radio host Tavis Smiley who, on NBC’s Meet The Press, said that he was frustrated by the fact that the president had to be “pushed” to make it in the first place.

Sharpton declined to echo Smiley’s assertion. “I helped organize a lot of the outrage around this,” Sharpton said. “None of it was focused on pushing the president. It was pushing legislation and pushing the criminal justice system.”