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chris christie reelection campaign. christie's former aids are suspected of closing lanes of the george washington bridge for political revenge. those are the headlines. "consider this" with antonio mora is next. we'll see you back here at 11:00. ♪ you crane's protests erupt in violence as is russian president putin pulling the strings. also a look inside the world of the al-shabab terror group. and why the web can't stop talking about whisper. hello, i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this." here is more on what is ahead. ♪
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[ gunfire ] >> the white house says it will consider sanctions against ukraine. al-shabab one of the most fear feared al-qaeda affiliate. >> i don't understand the ship the size of a care -- care rorer into a nuclear plume and expect there to be no difficulties. we begin with the crisis that has turned deadly in ukraine. opposition party members met with the president thursday. talks between the president and the opposition lasted for more than four hours. afterwards opposition leaders
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told the crowd that a deal had been offered. a deal the protesters then rejected. for more, let's go to jennifer glasse in kiev. jennifer good to have you with us. we saw some ugly scenes of violence wednesday. what is the situation like now >> reporter: there's a very odd standoff going on a few hundred yards from here. the police are there in their lines holding their shields. the protesters standing maybe 50, 100 feet from them behind their tear barricades, some of those tires burning, but no stones being thrown at them, none of the flash grenades or any of the violence we have seen. >> what can you tell us about the deal the government offered and why the protesters turned it
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down. >> reporter: well, the -- the three leaders of the opposition went to the presidential palace today, to the president's office today to talk with the president and they were offered essentially a deal that -- sorry -- i know it's a bit loud behind me, they do this every hour, they are singing the national anthem on independence square during these demonstrations, they do it every hour. i know it's a bit loud. but the president offered the opposition an opportunity. they said if they pulled the demonstrators off of the street where clashes have been going on since sunday that the government would agree to release anybody who had been detained during those demonstrations and considering lesser sentence for anyone who has been arrested. kiev officials tell us 70 people have been detained just this week. the opposition, though, would
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like all of those charges waved. that brought that offer to the people here in the square. they turned it down. so right now protesters are staying where they are, both here at independence square but they have appealed for calm. >> and a widely shown video shows a protester who had been stripped naked by police who then photographed him outside in the freezing weather before letting him board a bus. bad reaction to that in kiev? >> reporter: ann tone know, we have a bad line here in ukraine but i just want to talk about what is going on in the rest of the country. it is not just here in ukraine that the protests are going on. we also have protests going on in other cities, in laviv, and others, and in those places,
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demonstrators have taken over state government buildings. now the opposition leaders say the president seemed very upset about that. and i think you may have also mentioned that video of a protester stripped naked by police and brought out into the freezing cold and the temperatures have been sub zero temperatures all week long here. that -- that video has been all over ukrainian television all day here, and many say it shows how police have abused their powers here. the kind of things that they do, protesters here say -- have been arrested. a b in of protesters have been lifted off of the streets or beaten by police. we saw yesterday when police moved forward in the street where they have been fighting, when they catch a protester they beat him quite brutally. so we have a very different
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situation here in ukraine tonight. >> the interior minister, i know apologized for that scene with the naked man. jennifer glasse thank you very much. and now for more i'm joined in the studio by a professor of international affairs at the new school and author of an upcoming book. she is also the great granddaughter from the former head of the soviet union. it's good to see you. >> thank you. >> ukraine is the biggest country within europe. are most of these protests on the western part of the country that is more attached to europe? >> it is a national movement because kiev is on the eastern part of the country. so it is a national movement although, of course, the western part of the country is much more
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attuned with what is happening in the west and is much more willing to go with the european union than the eastern part. >> what can you tell us about the opposition leaders? a lot has been paid to one who was a former heavyweight boxing champion of the world. do you think they can negotiate something? >> well, i think they have done a really, really good job so far. they come from different walks of life. one was a former politician, one was the very right-wing leader, and as you mentioned another is the heavy weight champion, but they so far have been very good in appealing to various segments of the ukrainian movement. he promises change, we don't know how much he really is -- as your correspondent just said, we have to wait until tomorrow, but will is some willingness to at least do little steps,
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and -- and basically make some concessions because he probably understands that he is facing a civil war -- >> he needs to passfy the people or there could be a civil war. >> it could be civil war, but also does he really want to be completely bought by russia or even invaded by russia if it goes badly? >> the protesters want the president to dismiss the government, to call an early presidential election, cancel the new anti-protest law that really set off the violence last sunday, do you think they will agree to any of that? >> they may agree to some of it. they still -- so far there is still some sort of truce. so it is possible that he will
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take some deal. i know the session is happening on next tuesday, so there may be some questions addressed. so it is probably -- probably viable that he would come up with some solutions in and especially in the [ inaudible ] maybe somehow soften it, because for now it is really brutal and tough law. >> the vice president called on the president to de-escalate the violence in kiev and protect the rights to freedom
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[ technical difficulties ] >> certainly has very important strategic importance to the russians because it's where most of the black sea fleet of the russians is. >> well, the original russia was kiev in russia. so the history goes way, way back, but unfortunately a lot of
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western response is also about putin. not so much how to help ukraine but how to stick it to putin. and when each side is trying to pull it together to stick it to the other side, ukraine is really lost in that battle, and that is a problem. >> and very quickly, the french prime minister is in davos and blaming foreign interference and saying the west wants a coup. >> that's basically the party line so to speak. they always blame the west for -- >> in order to justify themselves. >> right, and also to say our people are great it's just your bad influence that makes them not to great. >> it's a pleasure to have you here. >> thank you very much. switches topics now from ukraine to somalia, we're going to show you extraordinary video of al-shabab fighters shot last
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year. the group still controls large areas in the countryside where it's fighters train for more attacks like last year's massacre at nairobi's westgate mall. but they are more than those fighters, it also provides policing and a sort of structure in an area where the somali government has no presence at all. these are pictures of what life is like under al-shabab. >> reporter: i followed the al-shabab on their bit. the first stop was this restaurant, telling the female owner to remove the rubbish from outside. then they make their way to the local hospital, where they check the pharmacy for out of date medicine, but as soon as they
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hear the call to prayer, everything stops. people head to the mosque for midday prayer whether they like it or not. passing vehicles are pulled over. the al-shabab police make sure everyone goes to the mosque. >> or else. for more on al-shabab, i'm joined by john timmen, director of africa programs for the united states institute of peace, also from los angeles is tim, a former fbi special agent and counter terror investigator. great to have you both on the show tonight. john, i want to start with you. this week's somalia's prime said. . ..
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can the government do that? how strong is al-shabab? >> the government certainly can't do that on their own. they may be able to do it with assistance, particularly from the african union mission in somali, and one of the positive development has be that that au mission has beefed up its capacity by adds several thousand ethiopian troops. shabab itself is not that large. you are looking at something like [ technical difficulties ]
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>> so this was shot for british tv. the question was about britain but clearly that terrorist said that america is number 1. tim how much of a threat does al-shabab really pose here in the homeland or to american interests in east africa? >> there are hundreds of thousands of somalians living here in the united states, and that's a recruiting grown for al-shabab. fortunately most of them don't hate americans like al-shabab fie -- fighters do. but even recruiting a small group can pose a huge problem. it's a considerable problem, because their recruiting efforts
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have been not been diminished anywhere in the world. >> the report asked what they thought. >> reporter: the locals may not agree with al-shabab's military campaign, but they appreciate them for bringing law and order. i asked this man what life is like now under the self appointed al-shabab rule. >> so she said it's very good day and night it's a safe place. we're not afraid. we don't hear gunshots, but in
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[ technical difficulties ] >> small slice of the country, so there may be places where the kind of order that shabab brings is appreciated, but i don't think that by and large they are popular at all with the somali people, and many somali people given the option would prefer a non-shabab government. >> but it seems like the extreme elements do have some appeal to people. and it is said that the suicide brigade, a group of suicide bombers is overscribed, that there's a waiting list years long to join, and only the best recruits get in. is the suicide brigade the biggest reason to be concerned about these guys? >> absolutely. because that's a weapon that is very, very difficult to fight against. it's easy to defeat an enemy in battle when they have a will to live. when those individuals utmost desire is to die and die while
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killing their perceived enemies, that's a big strong threat. because they can take down a plane or kill children in a movie theater or adults in a mall. and what these guys did -- they walked into that mall and sought the weakest and most vulnerable people. and they killed dozens of children, just mowed them down, using the excuse that their own children had been killed by african union forces. bringing that war to nenth sillians in a mall to prove a point shows the absolutely brutality out there. >> in this story this spokesman clearly regarded that attack on the mall as a triumph and a great thing. john what will it take to end the threat to africa and america from al-shabab? >> it will take a more
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legitimate, more organized government in somalia, and again, that hasn't been done in more than 20 years, since the blackhawk down incident, if not before. and we're starting to see the beginnings of that with the new president who was installed a couple of years ago, and seems to be better organized but there is a long way to go. but a lot of what needs to happen is drying up the recruitment pool for shabab and the youth that are attracted to the group. if that pool can be diminished then there are military options. >> all right. it is great to have you both on the show. thank you for joining us. coming up we'll hear from a sick u.s. sailor who is among dozens who are suing because of the radiation they were exposed
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attacked. the mourners have been re
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nearly three years after a deadly tsunami in japan caused the worst nuclear disaster since chernobyl, sailors are sues, because of illnesses they
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received. >> what i went through has 100% changed my life forever. >> reporter: 70,000 military personnel were located in the area where fukushima leaked radiation. >> the background radiation in the air was 300 times higher than a normal day of the sun. >> reporter: he and his team say they were exposed to these levels, and now three years later he is feeling the effects of radiation exposure. >> i have about 60% -- 50 to 60% of the power i used to have out of the right side of my body. >> reporter: steve simmons says his life will never be the same. they say they drank contaminated
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water without warning. he says the effects are now delil taiting. >> i ended up dropping between 20 to 25 pounds. my lymph nodes started swelling. >> reporter: signals between his brain and bladder are failing. his kids are afraid of what is happening to their father. >> our oldest for the longest time, she -- you know, i think she could think about was dad's going to die. >> reporter: navy personnel who say they were exposed have banded together in a lawsuit against the tepco which operates the fukushima power plant. >> tepco lied. i don't understand how you can place the ship the size of a
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carrier, and expect there to be no harm whatsoever to the human life. >> reporter: regarding the possible effects, a defense person wrote . . . >> at no point am i ever casting blame or putting blame at dod, or the u.s. government, because i honestly believe that if they had accurate information in a timely manner then things would have been done differently. >> reporter: he says it isn't about the money. >> i'm looking for a medical fund someplace where all 70,000 people can be taken care of down
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the road. >> joining us is michael seaborn, who dealt with aircraft and personnel that had flown into the area after the tsunami. michael it's very good to have you with us. first we just heard you have been through a lot. how are you doing? this >> well, physically, i'm -- i have my issues, but i'm -- i'm okay. day by day. i'm doing good. thank you. >> the lawsuit initially was dismissed late last year, but the suit is being refiled. the number of sailors suing is growing. and they say tepco knew there were dangerous levels of radiation in the area, but they said nothing. >> that's correct. you know, it -- it's almost -- we -- we take -- we take
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[ technical difficulties ] >> if, to be able to assist, so we took what tepco was saying, and the high ups came up with a plan on how close we could get, and the kind of relief efforts we could provide based on what we were being told. >> you were doing your work at an american air base which was quite a distance away, but you were checking airplanes and helicopters as they came back from the area, and you found some incredibly high numbers as you were doing that. >> that's correct. we started off our base had completely evacuated. all of the aircraft has gone to guam. the family members evacuated.
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we were told we may never come back to that base again. because it may be too danger to ever come back to. we did relief efforts out of a much safer area, but it gets very cold up there, and because of the snow and the mountains, we couldn't get over the mountains to continue the relief efforts. so we went back to continue relief efforts on basically a 24-hour notice that if anything got worse we would be evacuated out of there. >> and you said you were going through these plains without any suits on, and at one time you found levels that were four times higher than the level of where you would be required to wear a suit. >> absolutely.
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we still had aircraft that were radiated, but we would decontaminate and measure the outside skin of the aircraft, which is what we were taught and instructed to do, but we had aircraft that had flown back -- they had stopped performing missions. the levels were down. we thought they were safe, and because of preventative maintenance, it is time for us to pull a radiator out. and everything that comes out of the aircraft has to be scanned for radiation exposure, and it is reading 20,000 ccpm, which like you said is four times the level that we should be wearing a suit and rubber gloves -- and this thing has been growing, and we didn't know to take out internal components of the aircraft. we were just doing the outside
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airframe. so yeah that was a scary moment. >> and many of the people who are suing were on the uss ronald reagan which was sent to the issue to help, and the problem is, they went right into a radiation plume. and they desail leen at it the water from the sea, and this obviously made them terribly sick. so why hot sue the navy? >> first of all there are a lot of guys that are still in the military, and you can't sue the navy, you can't do that. we signed paperwork and contracts when we upped for service
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[ technical difficulties ] >> or plume of radiation. if -- if he knows what is safe and what is not, and if he has the correct information then they wouldn't have been as close as they were. so we were there to help, and like i said, we can make risk decisions and figure out how safe we can get, how close we can get while not putting our guys in danger. and if the dangers are higher than we are being told, then i think the navy did the best they could with what information we had. >> i hate to be a devil's advocate, but let me ask, if there were thousands on the reagan, why didn't more people get sick. and residents who were evacuated
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were exposed to so little radiation that health problems are unlikely to be detected. >> those individuals who were evacuated haven't even gone back home. and if these are 100% safe why did tepco agree to pay each individual in that area 50,000 yen to compensate them. as on the reagan why so many? a lot of these guys who are still in the navy don't want to come forward because they fear backlash, and there are also a lot of guys who if you are not having medical issues at the moment, i'm sure they think nothing is wrong. you have people in their 20s and
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30s that have come down with cancer, 20, 30, 40 in their 20s -- >> but the navy say they don't believe the claims. a spokesman says . . . what do you think of that? are you upset that the navy isn't taking your side? >> well, honestly, to that point, i was there. so i'm measuring the background radiation. and if the normal background radiation is normally between 9 to
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[ technical difficulties ] >> we need them to be allies with us. i was in japan for 17 years. i saw the crimes that hand ge z hand -- against the japanese people. at a certain point we were completely on lockdown where we couldn't be outside the base because there was a curfew in place because of crimes committed by service members. in okinawa they questioned whether the navy should be able to operate there. so for us to go help them, and then sue the power company for what happened, i completely understand the u.s. navy taking this political side to be able to keep on the good spirits of the japanese government. so i don't blame them whatsoever. that's the stance they have to take. so it's understood with me. >> well, michael i hope you get
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well, and also hope for all of the other sailors and we'll have to see what comes of this investigation. thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. have a good night. now let's check back in with he herr. >> we spoke with american journalist who was kicked out of russia. >> action taken against me is intended to intimidate everyone. >> according to the foundation which protects freedom of expression in russia, intimidation of journalists are rampant in russia. 84 cases of reporters detained by authorities, 71 attacks on journalists, and 4 deaths. 16 reporters have been murdered in russia in the past decade, in 13 of those cases no one was
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brought to justice. the results journalists are afraid to expose corruption behind the $51 billion sochi gains . . . for more check out our website, america.aljazeera.com. >> that's a terrible shame. thanks hermela. straight ahead, instancely personal posts why the web is going crazy for whisper. also what is the best field to work in these days. the somewhat surprising list is coming up. and later political cartoons used to drive public opinion so what happened to them. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt
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>> from unexpected viewpoints to live changing innovations, dollars and cents to powerful storytelling. >> we are at a tipping point in america's history! >> al jazeera america. there's more to it. why have more than 11 million young people reportedly abandoned facebook since 2011? one of the places they are knocking to is an app called whisper where people can post their secrets and desires in total anonymity. but what makes this so attractive to our younger generations. we're joined by the editor of the online newspaper, the daily dot. and author of the bling ring who is currently working on a book that covers the new culture of social media, and the way teens act and live because of it. it is great to have you both back on the show. you type a message, you pick a
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picture that the website offers you and then you share it with people. this one says i screwed up by leafing maria, true story. another says i secretly want to try online dating. this one says i just gave my favorite umbrella to a woman carrying a baby in the rain. honestly, i don't care who these people are. they don't want me to know who they are, so why is it so popular? >> most teenagers and kids are on multiple types of social media. they are on five, ten, sometimes more. so i think this is a new one that is proving interesting, and that they are flocking to maybe right now. and anonymity is a big part of the whole lure of soebl media,
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even when people make comments online, they do so and sometimes get into arguments with each other, because anonymity frees up inhibitions, i think. >> molly, the app reportedly gets over 3 billion page views per month, that is more than linked in, word press aaron alexis worthy combined. but can't you do the same thing on reddit or with an an anonymous twitter account? what is the difference with whisper? >> you can do this on any social network if you want to. the difference is there's a simplicity in choosing a picture, writing a message and putting it up. it is just yours and no one can argue with it. you just throw it into the ether, and you get to leave a
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mark without at least seeming to be traceable. >> you have written about young people seeking validation on social media, and where is the validation in sharing things when nobody knows who you are, and you done know who those people are who are clicking that they liked what you posted. >> well, i mean, there's a creativity to it, that's the light side. the dark side is there's a kind of power. there's a whole stalking lurking element in social media that we didn't dismiss as part of its appeal, i think. >> the early internet was completely anonymous, nobody knew who they were talking to in those chat rooms that people were using 20 years ago, and then online identity became everything when we saw myspace and instagram and twitter. why are people going back to anonymity? >> facebook made its value by
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tying itself to identity. and why you can use facebook to log in to different things, and that's where their value is. but kids are smarter and they know that their facebook makes them traceable. when i had facebook and it first started it was cool because you had to have a college email address, and my parents and i thought my future employers won't see this stuff, but kids know that you will get caught, and the backlash is they don't want to leave a footprint. they want to share and post and be social and even go viral, but on their own terms. it's like the digital equivalent of running to your room, slamming the door, but still talking to your friends on the phone. >> i don't think people are going back to anonymity. i think part of the allure of
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social media is the narcissistic element of being validated and having likes and followers and friends and all of these things. your popularity is very quantified. however, teenagers also like to have a place, as she was saying where they can do something in secret. it's the equivalent of the place in the woods where kids used to hang out and drink beer. that is going to be part of it. but the whole way in which social media is creating a kind of pressure to become sort of famous in a public way has not abated at all. >> and molly, talking about this narcissism, it's kind of weird if nobody knows who you are. what do you think about this? you are closer to the generation that seems to have adopted this, than we are. >> i am definitely considered too old for whisper as far as
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internet terms go, which is a whole other problem, but kids know what it is go to viral. when i had facebook and i would get liked or tagged in a photo there was a certain validation to that. but i didn't have this concept of going viral on the entire internet in my mind. and now we'll see whisper posts that are going viral. but kids want to write things that get the internet talking, and this is a way to do it without -- you know, getting in a lot of trouble -- >> i would bet as soon as these things start to go viral, people will takenership of them. >> very quick, just a quick answer. is this a flash in the pan or not, molly? >> it's hard to say. i think they have a lot of staying power at least right now, they have a lot of investment. they are hiring really, really
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intelligently. we could see this -- it's hard to say, but we could see this stick around for quite a while. >> what do you think? >> i think it's just another aspect. this is our culture now for better or worse, and i think there's going to be all kinds of different types of social media. there will be those where people want to be known, and those where people don't want to be known, but overall it's going to continue to be a way in which people try to promote themselves. >> molly and nancy thanks for your time. straight ahead, should you envy your dentist? and the lost art of political cartoons why some of the most influential people at your local paper have gone away.
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today's data dive looks at jobs. what are the best industries if you are hunting for work? health care and technology. the top 15 jobs are all in those two industries. the study looked at several factors, including jock growth, rate of salary, rate of people in the field who are employed, among other things. pharmacists is number 5. nurse practitioner should see even more new jobs which helped it get into fourth place. dentists grabbed the 3rd spot, they are ranked highest among all health care jobs.
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computer systems analyst came in second, partially do to a $12,000 jump in average salary in the past decade. the top spot, went to software developer. from candy crush to the flashlight app for your iphone and way more we all depend on them one way or another. experts say the worst time to look is when you are overworked or about to go through a major life change or on the verge of buying a house. and it is still tough out there, and most people are happy to simply have a job. coming up a look at the man who connected nixon to watergate. we'll explain next. what to expect. >> international outrage. >> a day of political posturing.
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for decades in washington,
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one of the most powerful political commentators was a cartoonis cartoonist. >> if someone had said all right what do you think that guy does for a living? i certainly wouldn't have said, the most feared editorial cartoonist in the country. ♪ >> sometimes you would open up the "washington post," and it was be like a punch in the face. >> i don't think he fell in love with presidents. i think he fell in love with what they could achieve. >> i bet ya they said holy molly a couple of times. >> you get someone with that kind of vision that's a once in a lifetime deal. >> george stephens, jr. produced
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the film, he is also a multiple emmy award winner, his son directed the film. such an honor to have you here with us. >> thank you, antoine -- antonio. >> what made him so powerful? >> he really was a cartoonist [ technical difficulties ] >> nobody told him what to draw, and he just did it so well -- >> five
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and [ technical difficulties ] >> and recently the number is down to 40. why has that happened? >> well, the world is changing. we have al jazeera, and the newspaper is not what it used to be. >> it really is a sad statement, though, to lose this art form that has been so important, but ironically in the movie, tom brokaw talks about the modern version of the satire that political cartoonist brought, and he refers to people like jon stewart and steven colbert. are they taking the place -- >> i don't know if they are taking the place, but they are doing the same thing in a different way.
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jon stewart is in the film and he refers to herb as a touch stone for political statutory. >> the importance of his political satire and his perception and understanding of the political scene was exceptional. >> we were interviewing woodward, michael stevens, the director, handed him a cartoon to look at, and it was one of -- that footsteps going towards the white house with names on them, and it was the watergate people. and bob looked at the date, and he maid my god this is six days after the break in. he said herb knew. it took us a year to find out. but he said he had known nixon from the beginning -- >> and he didn't really like him very much, did he?
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>> oh, no, but it was about character and he had a sense. and he was a very hard-working reporter researcher. his cartooning was based on information and fact, and he was very determined to get it right. >> and he was also courageous going back to the 1950s and mccarthyism, in fact he is the one who coined the term. >> exactly in a cartoon with -- after a famous wheeling west virginia speech, i think they are showing it -- >> yep. >> and he wrote at the top mccarthyism, and mccarthy was ruining people right and left -- >> in washington and out in hollywood. >> yeah. >> so it took a lot of courage to stan up to mccarthy at that point. >> exactly. but herb was fearless. >> it is really amazing he was
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able to stand up to those power players as a cartoonist. he really had a very interesting background. >> that's why we made the film because people don't know that. >> you found he was a very humble guy, but then you found out he was unbelievably rich. >> katherine graham the publisher of the "washington post" had famously said don't mess with herb. he was a tough guy, but you are talking about, herb wore a gabardine jacket and a little hat and very modestly dressed. never owned a car. played golf another the public golf course down by the jefferson memorial, but along the way phil graham when the post was the third-ranked newspaper came to herb who was a
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bachelor and saved some money and said i need an investment, he invested in the post, and when herb died, haines johnson in the film says -- the lawyer called me and said herb has asked you to be on a foundation, and he named 20 people to be on a foundation. and haines said well, may i ask how much money did herb leave? and i thought he said $6 million. he said $60 million after taxes, 90 million, so herb had accumulated all of this money but it didn't change his life at all. >> yeah. incredible character. it's a wonderful story to tell. and you tell it very well. it's great to have you here. >> thank you antonio. >> the show may be over but the conversation continues on our
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