the passenger liner sank and killed 1500 people and heart was among 700 that survived. thanks for joining us. back with more lose at 11:00. >> gun violence spreads throughout chicago over easter. the reverend jesse jackson joins us. the fbi accused of using the no-fly list to force muslims to spy on their communities. and railing for other nations. and the fda tries to regulate e-cigarettes but is the government doing enough. welcome to "consider this." here more on what is ahead.

>> we heard three to four gunshots. >> much of the violence is gang-related. >> why shoot innocent children that's just trying to live day-to-day. >> it is a wake-up call. we have a lot of work to do. >> the middle class is no longer the world's richest. >> the gain is to for those who want money and power. >> we want to help middle class out and bottom up so everyone has a chance. >> everyonthe government is tryo crackdown on the e-cigarettes industry. >> it's like the wild, wild west. >> out in the wild west you've got dangerous things happening. >> there are 41 women on the list. that's the highest number ever been. >> we love people to argue about the list. >> the list is not only about good people, but the influence for the negative. >> reporter: we begin with a troubling explosion of violence in chicago. nine people were killed in 36 others including children were shot and wounded over easter

weekend. five of the injured were between the ages of 11 and 15, and playing in a park next to an elementary school. the weekend before easter 37 people were shot, four fatally. on tuesday the chicago tribune editorial board bluntly asked if chicago was helpless? and the department of justice moved to create a special federal unit aimed at curbing the gang and gun problem that has given the city an unwelcomed named, chirac. >> i have made decisions in the mayor' office. there is nothing harder to do than to reach out and try to put your arms around a mother, a mother and a father who have lost a child to senseless, meaningless violence. >> pick the sound of gunfire. this is at home.

these streets do not belong to the gang bangers. they are our streets. >> for more we're joined by reverend jesse jackson, founder and president of the chicago coalition and long-time resident of chicago. reverend, good of you to join us today. the shootings just horrific. the murders this year 90. the shooting of children, bullets flying in a park, and they've shot children, people, kids are traumatized. chicago has been the murder capital of the u.s. for years now. what is it going to take to stop this? >> it is a painful state of under class emergency. there, there are three areas of chicago, inglewood, lawndale, austin, and roseland where unemployment is around 40%.

there are other parts of chicago where unemployment is at 4%. all of this where you have cut schools and hospitals and trauma wouldn'ts and jobs and post offices. it's the land of deprivation. and i submit to you that drugs are coming in, and guns are coming in and jobs are going out. there must be some commitment to deal with the poverty and disperty. >> and it's drama. >> 3500 blacks die a year. 3500 because of lack of access to healthcare. health disparities, there is no locking up solution. we have 10,000 youth i in in prn

at $50,000. there is no lock-them-up solution to this crisis. >> you have within a matter of two blocks you can go from one of the most dangerous parts of the united states to one of the safest. >> well, you look at first-class jails and second class schools. i think that the mayor must reach beyond the limits of chicago. they make these guns in barrington over a suburb. so we know where guns are manufactured. we know the route, we know the store that sells 7% of the guns that kill chicagoans, we know where the gun shop is. we need to stop the gun flow. we know where the guns are coming from. there are no gun shops in chicago. there are no gun ranges in

chicago. we need targeted job training or we're missing the mark. >> the crackdowns and strategies in the most violence-prone areas, do you think this new federal unit is going to change anything? >> most of this kill something taking place in the area where president barack obama was an organizer. what other place to have a reconstruction plan right there giving all the number of vacant homes, the lots, having hud come in to begin to rebuild and build houses or it's the area where you have all these businesses that have closed, the economic investment. what would be a better place than the zones of crisis to invest in job opportunities, and some of those youth have been in jail for so long, they should be job trained and monitored, not

just turn them into criminals in that cook county oven. >> do you worry without investment and without jobs the cold winter may have kept the violence down. now that this nicer weather has come out, this is what people have brought up. now that the weather is nicer there has been this eruption of violence. emanual said it's not weather. is chicago helpless? >> we saw a program featuring the mayor and police chief and school principal roma romanceizg chicago. poverty reduces life options. it undermines the will for education. it weakens it's mind, the body,

the spirit, poverty matters. >> and last year the number of killings reportedly dropped to 415, the lowest in nearly a half century. but those statistics have come under serious scrutiny. there is allegations and investigate if i have report by chicago magazine that maybe the books are being cooked. what do you think? do you think the problem is getting worse or is it getting better? >> those numbers gave us a false sense of hope. you go to those same communities. you look at the abandoned lots, and the vacant houses of when the bail out. i went to citibank in st. louis. they havthey have 467. million dollar$467 million bailf of that kind of loans, and you

could be rebuilt. the 1% are getting 1% justice. and the 1% opportunities. but for the 99%, we're building more and more jails, burying our youth younger and younger, and the hopthis is a state of emerg. i hope the president and his cabinet will see that necessity to come into this zone and prove that we, in fact, can do something, and we can. i believe we really can, but we cannot just do it in passing. we have to invest time, money and job training. >> given the level of violence and what's going on in parts of chicago for many years now, i think its little doubt that there is a state of emergency. reverend jesse jackson, a pleasure to have you on the show tonight. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> is the fbi using the know fly list to coerce muslims into spying on their communities? that's what four muslims, all of

them legal residents of the u.s. are alleging in a federal lawsuit o filed on tuesday. they claim that fbi agents offered to take their name off the no-fly list if they would become spies. >> representing the plaintiffs in their lawsuit against the fbi. it's good of both of to you join us. you last saw your family in afghanistan including your new newlywed wife two years ago. you were detained multiple times during your return trip. what did the fbi agents ask you at that point as you were comi g to the u.s.

>> i was interrogated for four hours, and they asked me what training, if i had been to training camps. have i visited neighboring countries. do i know people who are a danger to the u.s.? they took all of my documentations and they made copies of it. and it was--it was four hours, and then--i mean, that was some of the questions they asked me. >> you tried to board a domestic flight only to find yourself on the no-fly list. you met again with fbi agents, and that's when they offered to make a deal. what did they tell you? what did they offer?

>> they said you don't have a job. we'll pay you money, and you help us, we help you. that's the quote they used. >> the conclusion of course i came up to was i will take you off the no-fly list if you become an informant for us. >> all your clients, all your clients in this case all seed the quid pro quo of the know fly. >> yes, they all had very similar experiences. they were either kept on the no fly list or they were placed on the know fly list in retaliation for refusing to work with the fbi as informants in their communities. >> we had a former united states marine and muslim on our show, he said he, too, had been pressured to become an informant. >> they said we can get you off this no-fly list.

i said okay? but you need to do something for us? i said what do you want me to do? they said, we want you to become an informant, and this would be a paid position. you wouldn't have to claim it on your taxes. under the table money. >> he's part of another lawsuit against the government about these no-fly lists. has there been any progress? >> no, unfortunately the no-fly list has been litigated for many, many years. the fund mental flaw which is the fact that there is no adequate process. you get no notice when you're placed on the no-fly list and there is no meaningful way to challenge the no-fly list. >> and there is no success against it. >> define success. a malaysian p.d. student, she had to litigate for eight years. only after eight years for the court to order the government to tell her whether or not she was on the no-fly list. >> and she was removed, only because supposedly it was a

mistake at that point. >> it was a mistake. her placement was a mistake. that goes to the heart of the problem. an fbi agent can mistakenly or vindictively place you on the no-fly list and there are no checks or balances. >> there are a million people on the terrorist watch list. the numbers are in the somewhere 20-thus about the no-fly list. you're talking about so many different names that there could be confusion involved. now navid. you were nevada told why you were put on the no-fly list? >> no, i was never given any reason of why horror how i could get off the no-fly list. >> is that the same of all of your clients? >> i would add that is pretty much the same, but it was strongly suggested to them or told them that they could get off the no-fly list if they worked for the fbi. >> how concerned are you that this is a practice going on in other ways. we know about the new york police department unit that was spying on muslim communities,

and that unit has been recently disband: but again people will say, well, they're trying to protect the united states from terrorist attacks. >> well, thank you for bringing that up because i think it points out that the no-fly list, and it's abuse in this way is part of a broader set of practices primarily targeting muslim communities. the policies and practices have beehad lance of transparency. we talk about the american american-muslim commute has been the target of these programs, but what is important to remind everyone of, it starts with one community, but the tools that we give the government, if we don't constantly check those powers they'll continue to extend and they will be difficult to rein in, and they'll affect everyone, not just american-muslims.

>> navid, what do you hope will happen? >> i hope that my name is off the list and cleared so i could go and see my family. recently my grandpa just passed away and one of my uncle's wife, i was not able to see them because it's been 26 months. it's been very hard for us. so first of all i hope my name will be cleared, and changes would be made to this program, some openness, hopefully, that thousands of people that are affected by it will be hopefully a bit released. >> navid, thank you very much for joining us. navid, i hope you can reunite with your family shortly. "consider this" will be right back. >> god is life , so it's his to take >> see a 10 year old girl who's pregnant, and you tell me that's what god wants... >> a controversial law

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>> america's middle class once the envy of every other country

is no longer the weightiest of the world. in analysis going back to the 1960est "new york times" found if you are poor in the u.s. you're significantly worse on that your counterparts in europe and canada. that's a total reversal of 35 years ago. and that's despite the fact that the economic growth is equal to or stronger than growth in other countries. but those gains have gone exclusively to wealthiest americans and with less trickling down to the middle class. how did we lose the richest middle class title to canada? we're joined by a senior scholar at the university of new york. formerly served as lied economist and author of the book "the haves and the have nots." franco, good to have you with us. >> thank you very much for having me. it's a pleasure. >> now i know that the study

center has looked at these numbers, and the poor are getting poorer in this country, and it's also the case for the lower middle class. now we're saying that the middle american, the median american income, that's fallen behind the canadian. >> that's the point of the study. inequality has really started hurting. that's a big story. we knew that the american poor had been stagnant for quite a long time and falling behind the poor. and that has gradually gone up to lower middle class. now for the first time to some extent we have the data going back to the 1970s. but you can probably go to the pass maybe in 15, maybe 80 years maybe 100 years that the top middle class americans are not

really the top of the world. >> and this really happened after 2,000 because american incomes had kept growing by 20% since 1980. then the year 2000 came along and incomes stagnated, and that's where it really happened where other countries' wealth and those income categories kept going up? >> that's longer process because i think basically started in 1981980's. obviously it accelerated int into 2000, and accelerated even more with the crisis. but it's not something that just happened overnight. many people knew that for a while. it's just that inequality was not a big topic. the mill class did well and they were able to barrow a lot. all these combinations made more recent. >> why did it happen?

>> for many reasons. i'll go over just some of them. one is that u.s. has slipped into education achievements. the other one is that the affects of globalization and openness and outsourcing has been stronger in the u.s. >> we've been sending more jobs abroad. but on the education front there is a big difference between older americans and people 50 and older being better educated than their counterparts around the world, but that not being the case among younger americans. >> yes, that is one of the striking findings. that's been generally the case over 50 to 80 years that the americans send a high percentage of people with college graduat graduates, and now younger americans are falling behind and being on the level of italy and spain which is not the level that americans aspire to is somewhat of a shock. again, this is not the process

that started five years ago, ten years ago. it is something when you look at education it has to start from way behind. >> can the be that th the dollas not as strong as it was in the old days and could currency be part of the problem? >> no, this particular study that we do is you make really comparisons where you take actual incomes of people and then adjust for the cost of the basket which they used-- >> the cost of living. >> adjust for cost of living. this is why norway, if you compare norway, which is a very expensive country. if you compare them in normal dollars they would be richer. but because the cost of live something so high they have incomes that are reduced by 30%. on the other hand, the spaniards and italians get a boost. >> and one of the things that the article and the times mentions is that it's not just a question of the salaries, it is

that people in european countries have tremendous benefits. people in the lower middle class or poor or working they get much more from their government in way of benefits that aren't even monetary. >> the advantage of this study, this is data on income of households, and incomes are not the only wages. some of the dominant part is wages but it's income from capitocapital, self employment i say tax credits. >> you're not counting five weeks of vacation and other social services that other countries provide. >> that would make the u.s. comparison worse for the u.s. one thing key cannot include is how many hours do you work or if you get state provided healthcare or education. for many reasons it's very complicated to do. but if we were to include that,

that would make the u.s. fall behind further. >> so what does the u.s. need to do? >> that's the big question. there will be some change because i think political change would essentially respond to the awareness of people that actually the middle class is slipping. in other words, we should not look only at the means, is gdp growing at 3:00% or 2%. we should look at how the average person, which is called in the median, the average guy, how is he doing? he may be doing significantly worse than the gdp numbers would suggest. >> how to make them do better? >> if you look at what we just said, one way is education. another way is redistribution. >> higher taxes for richer people? >> probably higher taxes for richer people. it's not popular but this is one of the ways to do it. >> could that slow down gdp. >> that's an interesting point. people who argue that inequality and high tax and low tax are

necessary for growth they have to explain how come if it's the case how come we now have northern european countries taking over the united states in the median level. >> a lot of thought-provoking things in this study. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> sales of electronic cigarettes soared in the u.s. to become a $3 billion industry. many smokers have? ed them as and a less dangerous option and others have used them to quit smoking all together. but they are considered addictive and a gateway to other cigarettes. the long awaited proposed regulations for the controversial devices. it bans sells to minors and forces them to register with the fda about what is in their product. there has yet to be a definitive verdict of what health risks

e-cigarettes pose. we have a neuroscientist and contributor to "techknow" who recently just finished a two-part report on e-cigarettes and then professor of health policy and management at the harvard school of public health coauthor of the case study e-cigarettes, marketing versus public health. it is good to have you both on the show: they're proposing to ban sales to minors, not allow vending machine sales in venues open to minors and then that mandated ingredient disclosure, but they still can advertise and have those flavors that are appealing to kids? are the regulations going far enough? >> i think it's a start. i think the fda is uncharacteristically going carefully here. obviously we don't want to be distributing or marketing drugs

that effect the brain to adolescents whose brains are still developing. i think banning sales to those under the age of 18 is a really good start. we can take a look at the marketing and advertising practices, but just to start with, i think it's good. >> what took so long? these devices deliver nicotine as crystal said, and it's addictive. >> well, as crystal pointed out, there are still uncertainties regarding the impact of nicotine and nicotine addiction. i think most people think it's a bad idea, but the tradeoff that the fda has had to make is along these lines. on the one hand it wants to encourage the consumption of any product that migrates someone from tobacco smoking to something less harmful. on the other hand, as you said

in your introduction there is thathe conflictingthe conflict n younger consumers and this becoming a gateway to tobacco. >> you say that the e-cigarettes have led to a net number of smokers. those who have converted to e-cigarettes. but on the other hand, 713 million have gone to tobacco. do you think that they can be useful as a quitting device? >> the market of e-cigarettes sensebly position them from the outset as being a vehicle to enable people to quit regular tobacco smoking.

that gave them a certain degree of legitimacy and air cover but now with 200 companies competing many of them are being tempted into addressing an entire new market of individuals who are not currently smoking, but who can be attracted to the entertainment and pleasure allegedly associated with vaping nicotine. >> in that vein, crystal, almost 10% of high school students have tried them. so those numbers have to concern you. >> i mean, let's face it. this is a nicotine delivery device. whether you're using it for smoking cessation purposes or you're using it because you like

the taste of vapor better than the com combustion of tobacco. it does concern me the number of high school students, middle school students who are experiencing nicotine for the first time through electronic sick receipts. the juices, flavors, colors make them more attractive to younger consumers, and big tobacco and other producers of these devices will probably find themselves with consumers for life. >> you found there is enough evidence that e-cigarettes do cause harm, not only to users but those who are inhaling the vapors? >> there are exciting new results out that is showing that the e-cig vapor is not just water vapor. it does contain compounds that we should be concerned about, that we think about as causing

cancer and some particulates of heavy metals. you don't want to be taking those particles into your lungs. >> there are so many producers of this, until now they have not been regulated. hopefully that will happen, they'll be able to look at these ingredients and see what is in there. what do you think? do you think they're harmful? >> i'm not a scientist, so i'm not as well placed as crystal to judge that point, but i would add to your numerical analysis a couple of insights. there is a probably a significant number of people of when they migrate from tobacco cigarettes to e-cigarettes linger longer with e-cigarettes than they would migrating away from regular tobacco.

the key point to keep in mind as these regulations become more and more severe, what one would typically expect to find is that the big tobacco companies, which have already been acquiring some of the leading e-cigarette brands, they become in control of the portfolio of cigarettes. >> they're doing a lot of advertising that's very similar to the old days of cigarettes, very glamorous advertising. >> yeah, i think we'll see the fda start to regulate that. people, there will be a social push back if we started advertising alcohol to high school and middle school students. i think the advertisers' time will come. >> crystal, john, appreciate you joining us tonight. thank you. we'll be back with more of "consider this."

[♪ music ] >> as the fight for equal pay for women continues, a new book asks if lack of confidence is holding women back? research shows women are less willing to take risks, consistently under estimate their abilities and don't consider themselves as qualified for promotions as their male counterparts. why are women less confident than men and what can be done to bridge that gap. joining us from washington, d.c. is claireship man, she is the coauthor of a new book "the confidence code." the atlantic magazine may issue

features an ex excerpt from that book. congratulations on the book. women today are earning more college and graduate degrees than men. 23 of the fortune 500 companies have female ceos, countries have female heads of state. and the 100 most influence people, 41 are women. >> antonio, first of all, great to see you again. yes, this struck me and my coauthor as something that we call it in our book as a dark spot that we could not identify when we were writing our last book about the successes of women in the f place. but we were just struck because so many incredibly successful women told us they did not feel like they deserved the promotion that they had just gotten. and another engineer said i don't know if i should go for the next job. all right, is this all of us?

is this just anecdotal, are is there data there? and you talked about some of it. it's really striking, the thing that strikes us the most is this study that hewlett-packard did women will ask for promotions when they feel they have 100% of the job qualifications. men will put their hands up when they have 60%. >> is this going to be anecdot anecdotal, how do they prove that there is a confidence issue. many negotiate salaries, and when women do negotiate, they ask for 30% less pay than men do. and when college students are asked how much will they make,

they state something less than women. >> a study a researcher named zach estes was studying the difference between men and women in spatial ability. this is something that men were thought to have the edge. and sure enough, women were not doing as well, but women were skipping a lot of the questions. when he told everybody to answer all of the questions, the scores were almost identical, and then when he told everybody to rate how confident they were after each answer, another group of people, women's scores plummeted. we skipped the question. we think we're not going to get it right. then when we do answer, how confident are you go what you have just done, suddenly we're performing worse. >> the data you put out there is

fascinating. one of the points you make, which i thought was interesting, is that talent is not just about confidence. in effect confidence is an important part of it. is that one of the reasons why you think women are struggling in ways that they shouldn't be? >> i think there is a host and we've ignited something of a firestorm in various places on social media where people say what about the playing fields not level. are you blaming women? all women need to do is get more confident? why do you want women to be overconfident jerks like men? what are you talking about? >> we think this is one piece of it. of course the playing field is not level. of course they're playing by rules we didn't make. to some extent maybe this behavior is unnatural to us, but it's very clear to us that studies that have been done, especially one professor a atbercally who has been looking

at this, confidence is critical to success, and often as critical as competence. i think women have to recognize that for success, but the other reason we should success it is why shouldn't we evaluate ourselves in a more positive fashion if that's the reality? that's not a fun way to live to just be standing judging ourselves in harsh terms that we shouldn't be using. >> you refer to unnatural. you found that there are different reasons both nature and nurture that are leading to this. >> yes, this was another controversial part. we thought all right, let's look at where confidence comes from. let's dig in, what is this stuff any way? we have a great definition that we went with. confidence is the stuff that turns thoughts into action. and we started too dig, where do we get it? part of it is genetic, as it turns out. we never thought we would find that. that's not as much gender driven as just luck of the draw. maybe up to 25% genetic.

but we also found in terms of biology and just brain structure and the way men and women use their brains there is a lot there that can effect confidence. testosterone, for example, really encourages risk taking. men have ten times more testosterone pumping through their systems than women do, and risk taking is an incredible part of building confidence, feeling you could risk, fail, and move on, that's essential for confidence. there is some behavior that may not be totally natural to women. >> and you quoted saying if life were one long grade school, women would be the undisputed rulers of the world. >> but it's not. >> girls do so well in grade school, but then a whole bunch of things conspire against them. >> that's the dilemma for us. it's another college graduation moment.

so many girls are excelling in school, college graduate school. they're outpacing men. but what happens is that the rules they've been taught all through their academic careers aren't really the rules that work in the real world. hey, you got to turn things in when they're not perfect. guess what, sometimes you fail. take some risks. we're raising our girls, a couple of psychologists told us, we didn't think about this, to focus so much on perfection, not intentionally. but it's just the message they're taking in because they can, and that becomes what they feel their valuable for. >> i know you're right, you can't fake confidence. it's something that is easily identifiable if you're faking it. there is a lot of good advice, i think it's a good read and worth looking at. "the confidence code" is available for purchase in book stores and online. claire, thank you for being on the show. >> thanks, antonio, appreciate it.

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journalism. and author of the book, curbing cars." households have fewer cars, drive fewer miles, consume less gas, and that all started dropping in 2004. why was that the turning point? >> so a lot of people think this is related to the recession, but it started before the recession. one of the big reasons this is happening is the millennial generation. these are people who were born in 1980 and onward. there are interesting statistics showing many young people don't get their driver's licenses when they're 16, and these folks are driving less than their parents did. only about 25% fewer miles are being traveled by this generation compared with the

jen-xers and baby boomers. essentially it's young people and other factors. >> ofact. >> as a father of a daughter who could have gotten her driver's license two years ago, i can relate to this problem. why is it happening? >> a couple of reasons especially. many states have changed their drivers' restrictions for young people. if you look at the state of new jersey, for example, you can't get a driver's license, a full driver's license now until you're 18. many states are concerned about drunk driving and about accidents by young people, so they collectively change these laws. there is only a third of states now that offer free drivers education. that means that the kids have to go and pay for it, it could cost $300 to $400. when you're $16,30 16 ,$300 is f money. so it's the lack of time to get

their license. they've got lots of other things to do. it's these laws, and it's also the whole mobile generation, the idea of a smart phone is more important to me than an automobile. >> right, in fact, that's what the young folks these days have said in surveys. their mobile devices are more foreign to them than having a car. the trend isn't just that people are going car free but that they're going car-lite. explains that to us. >> this is a much more significant development than people giving up their cars all together. this is the united states. this is a big country. i've talked to numerous people who are rethinking how they use their cars. instead of a family of four, and you've got two parents who both have cars and a car for the kid, sometimes one of the parents is working from home and they don't

need a car very often. sometimes they're able to take public transportation to their workplace. so maybe mom uses the car because she's got to drive the kids around, but dad can take the bus to work or treat car to work. for the kids i see a lot of students here at asu using their skate boards. we have a light-rail system here in phoenix, lots of bicycles. everyone is rethinking the way they get around. they use a car when they need to, but when they don't need to use a car they're willing to use portfolio of transportation options. >> you have telecommuting, too and we have a guest who wrote a book called "the end of the suburbs." people who are living outside of big cities. >> this is a big, big development. a couple of years ago i was talking to a senior toyota executive who told me that they had identified 60 different cities around the country, this was a few years ago, where people were starting to move from the suburbs into the cities.

and it's two groups of people. it's millennials who think the cities are just great. they want to have that city. that urban experience. and it's also boomer parents who have raised their kids. they don't want to have the five-bedroom house with the big garage any more. they want to move back to the city and have a condo by the lake. but one of the things about moving back to the city there is not a lot of parking. so if you had a three-car garage in the suburbs of chicago, you might move to a condo on lake shore drive that only gives you one parking spot. it doesn't mean that you give up your car completely, but you don't have multiple cars. you just have the one. and this new kind of urban life lends to a lot of alternatives to automobiles. >> is there a negative identify to this? we saw the near disaster that was brought to the auto industry. this trend cannot be good for g.m. or any of the car makers. >> one of the things that i say in the e-book that was just

published, car makers have to embrace solutions. one of the things that they're doing is they're making their cars more expensive. they're loading them up with technology, collision avoidance systems. instead of trying to sell a bunch of cheap cars ail sell fewer but expensive cars. you won't make it up on volume but you get the bigger profits from the expensive vehicles. one of the things that they haven't done that i'm surprised at is that they're not sponsoring the new bike sharing systems. they're not making deals with zip car to provide them with a fleet of vehicles. i think we could see some smart vehicles tread into this area before too long. >> we a saw at the new york international auto show crazy expensive cars there, too, so it really does seem to be a trend

that is changing. we'll be back with more of "consider this." vé

>> "time" magazine annual list of the world's most influence people came out friday, and as always it includes some of the

world's best known and powerful figures along with a whole bunch of people that most americans probably never heard of. but they do know the entrepreneur who graces the magazine's cover, beyonce, who talked about what being on the list means to her. >> it's not about fashion, it's about the influence i've had on culture. and to be amongst the other influence people is a huge honor for me. >> for more i'm joined by international editor bobby, great to have you with us. let's start with the criteria. how are they chosen. >> it's chosen by committee, hopefully of smart and insightful people, writers at "time" magazine, but people who have been on our list before, the alumni of the list. we've done this for ten years,

this year is our 11th. we collect suggestions for this group of characters. we put them in the box. there is a lot of overlap, and then the editors and writers go through sort of discussions people argue for and against different consistents. then we also have an online poll which also helps clarify some of our thinking. >> what's the total number that you cull these names from. >> i suspect it would be the region of 500 or maybe more. >> has anyone asked not to be on your list? >> we don't necessarily require their permission although we do tell them when they have been selected that they are on the list. >> this year's list includes 41 women, that's a record for the 100 most influential. those who have been on the list for three times, president obama had a ninth appearance, and it seems like he's got two years

left in office, so i'm sure he'll get to 11 without much question. among the women there are a lot of entertainers from beyonce to miley cyrus and carrie underwood. and then there is an actress ya chen. >> she has millions of people following her on twitter. she's not simply a movie actress. she has become an activist, a voice that is speaking on behalf of chinese who are suffering from government neglect particularly in the area of environmental protection. she talks quite candidly in ways that prominent chinese people don't. about the pollution, air pollution, water pollution, quality of food in the country. that has as much to do with her

appeal to her fans, and if you don't mind me saying we also have very powerful women outside of the field, janet yellen, perhaps the most powerful woman not just of the day, but in my lifetime as the chairman of the fed is on the list along with beyonce and yau chen. >> you have some controversial choice. you have kim jong-un of north korea, and you have the head of ices, and president nichola ni a rue da. >> we live at a time when people have great influence over the world. the franchise of al-qaeda has killed more people and cleared mortar tore than even osama

bin laden. that makes his influence over the lives of people in iraq and syria and the wide middle east quite substantial. we do have to take note of people like him as well like we've always do. >> why seth meyers and not jimmy fallan. >> seth meyers is a new kind of late night host. this is not jimmy fallan who is my favorite, but seth meyers brings a different kind for cerebral approach to late night comedy, and we have to take note of that. >> now the biggest sports stars, big soccer star and serena williams from tennis. the others are a little more obscure, and certainly none of the big american big sports stars, lebron james and payton mapeytonmannings, why? >> lebron james had a good

year, and typically does have a good year as well as the both mannings. as an internationalist, 45 comes from outside of the united states. we did have to take note of christiano ronaldo. and that was difficult for me as i'm a barcelona fan, but it's hard to argue that he has had an amazing year. >> even if you have to root against him every time he plays. >> every chance i get. >> thank you very much. >> the show may be over but the show continues on our website www.aljazeera.com/consider this or on our facebook or google plus pages and on twitter. we'll see you next time. >> we pray for the children in the womb >> a divisive issue >> god is life , so it's his to take >> see a 10 year old girl who's pregnant, and you tell me that's what god wants... >> a controversial law >> where were you when the babies lives were being saved? >> are women in texas paying the price? >> who's benefiting from restricting access to safe abortions?

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