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as fast as the ocean will. jacob ward, aljazeera, california. >> i'm richelle carey and thank you for watching. the news continues now with john seigenthaler. a bomb might have brought down the airliner. the brich governmen british govd ireland suspend all flights to sharm el sheikh. lisa stark has more. >> according to the associated press there have been communications that were sprept
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intercepted, that a rebel group may have put a bomb on this plane. egyptian investigators have not officially determined whether an explosion or mechanical problem brought down the plane but the british government says information now points to a bomb. >> we have concluded that there is a significant possibility that that crash was coughed caun explosive device on board the aircraft. >> the british are advising only but essential travel be permitted through sharm el sheikh. >> there will be no commercial flights permitted to sharm el sheikh from now. all commercial passenger flights will be returning from sharm el sheikh. >> have restricted u.s. embassy employees from traveling to the
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area. >> it's important to tell works not to go to the sinai now. >> in the sinai, egypt is fighting rebels associated with i.s.i.l. alert to u.s. airlines to avoid flying below 26,000 feet there. warning, exercise extreme caution during flight operations, to avoid violence or unrest. >> there are no regular carriers that regularly operate out of the sinai peninsula. in fact the airport in question at sharm el sheikh is in fact not the last point of departure into the united states, for any airline. united airlines does fly over the sinai, the only u.s. carrier to do so, with flights to dubai and kuwait. united says it is diverting until further notice.
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investigators have both black boxes. there was good information on the data recorder but the voice recorder will take more work to decipher. heat flash around the russian jet as it broke up at nearly 30,000 feet. the question: does that indicate a bomb. former ntsb board member says the wreckage will reveal the answers. >> if it was strong enough obring the aircraft down it's going to do a lot of wreckage to the frame, to the airframe. >> now one thing we are fairly certain is that a missile did not bring down this jet. the rebels in the sinai simply do not have the capability. and found no evidence of a missile launch. >> lisa thank you very much. robert goyer, vice president of
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plane and pilot magazine, in austin tonight. what is the significance that the u.k, ireland, cancelled their flights in and out of sharm el sheikh? >> it is hard to say because they are keeping mum with the details of whatever the investigation hasound out that's led them to cancelling these flights. but o it's clear they suspect there was a bomb that was planted on the airplane at the airport of sharm el sheikh which has made more sense from any scenario from the get-go. >> give us an idea how that would work. >> well, it's -- unfortunately there are so many points of access. it all has to do with how good the security is. if security is tight, you can restrict those things and if there's a culture of less than absolutely strict security then there are all kinds of access points. and we've seen it happen before like the turtle tragedy over lok
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lockerbie. >> what size of explosive does it take? >> some pretty good size explosive. it depends where it would be in place. it came apart at aldality altit. it camso it must have done somey good damage to take it apart at 31,000 feet. >> does the bomb need to be on board to detonate? >> absolutely. sometimes they can be snuck on by people who have security clearance to the ramp. and they can be done with timers or there could even be more elaborate kinds of detonation
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devices that could even use altitude or gps altitude device. >> different reputations when it comes to security. what was sharm el sheikh's reputation before this? >> well, the united states has chosen not to have any flights and i think you reported on this earlier, not have any flights that end in the united states from sharm el sheikh. and it's also a destination that u.s. air carriers don't fly to. which -- all of which indicate that there's some suspicion that security is less than stellar there. >> what about the thousands of passengers who are stuck at the sharm el sheikh airport? is this just an overabundance of cautioucaution in your opinion. >> in my opinion, there is an overabundance of caution. you know there is a problem and can you do a great deal against security getting these passengers stranded.
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it would be the right thing to do. >> robert goyer thank you very much. >> thank you. >> in pakistan, rescuers are trying to find survivors from a deadly building collapse miles from islamabad. 18 people are dead at least, dozens more thought to be trapped in the rubble. john terret reports. >> reporter: does have been rescued but more than 100 have been trapped under the rubble with they made -- where they made plastic bags. >> the operation is underway. it will take time because the building structure is big. they have all the necessary tools with them to make a rescue, like cutters and bulldozers. pray to god we rescue more people. the efforts are going on. >> reporter: the building was under construction when it
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buckled. >> a fourth story was being constructed. the actual reason will be revealed later. at the moment we have our emphasis on rescuing more and more people. >> reporter: some laborers say the structure suffered cracks after an earthquake that killed over 200 people last month. the country has a history of poor oversight and regulation. in december of 2012, 289 people burned to death at a clothing factory at the southern city of karachi that lacked proper exits. that same day 29 people were killed at oshoe factory in lahor. urban search and rescue crews are heading to the site of wednesday's building collapse. john terret, al jazeera.
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>> romania president victor ponta has resigned. thousands have taken to the streets to demand ponta step down. jacky rowland reports. >> romania's president has resigned saying his government will also step down. >> translator: i'm doing this because in all the years i have been in politics i resisted conflicts with political adversaries. but i have never fought against the people. this would be a big mistake, and everybody will suffer as a result. >> on wednesday night, a large crowd estimated at about 30,000 people, rallied in the capital bucharest. there were other big rallies in other cities in romania. some carried signs this says, "corruption kills." >> people have not taken to the
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streets to say replace the government with another. >> i'm here because i want my country back. i want justice to be done. i want people to take responsibility for what they have done. i want the dead to rest in peace. >> reporter: they're angry about a fire at a night club last friday that killed more than 30 people. it started when a band playing inside the club set off fireworks. >> translator: we have lost friends, brothers, comrades. we have to be together and we have to push aside those who are responsible. now, this is the moment. it's enough. >> reporter: many romanians are frustrated by what they call corrupt local authorities. they say public venues don't respect safety standards but are allowed to stay open to attract tourists. ponta was accused of cruchtion tacorruption,tax evasion and mo
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laundering, charges he denies. >> this has boiled over, and finally, finally, after years and years of putting up and having small protests against corruption, romanian society has stood up for the rule of law, the most important thing. >> three are put up against manslaughter charges. jacky rowland, al jazeera, bucharest. >> now to asia where once bitter cold warren miss are coming together. the presidents of china and taiwan will meet this weekend for the first time in six decades. they are looking to forge closer economic and political ties. not everyone approves. a group of pro-independence demonstrators protested in
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taipei today. critics say the meeting is designed to influence taiwan's elections in january in favor of the ruling party. justin trudeau sworn in as canada's prime minister. the school teacher turned politician campaigned to raise taxes on canada's wealthiest citizens. trudeau's father pier air served as prime minister for two decades. hope to carry momentum straight into 2016. david schuster has administer. >> for just the second time in 40 years, kentucky will have a republican governor. >> what an extraordinary night this is! >> reporter: tea party
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favorite matt devin scored an upset. he defeated by nine points democratic attorney general jack conway. >> folks, tonight was not the result that we had hoped for. but it is a result that we respect. a few moments ago i placed to governor-elect bevin and wished him well. >> bevin is the same hard core conservative that lost to mcilroy lasmitchmcconnell last a primary race. but the governor elect says that once he takes office he will follow through on his pledge to dismantle kynect, the state's health care law that covers 500,000 people. in virginia. the body below came to democratic governor terry mcauliffe. even though he wasn't on the
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ballot mcauliffe campaigned hard to try the have democrats take control of the state house but republicans won every race. antidiscrimination ordinance. in ohio buckeye state voters by a 2 to 1 margin rejected the legalization of marijuana and giving exclusive growing rights to a handful of wealthy investors. even in san francisco the sheriff who defended the city's progressive where slate lost handily. ross mirkarimi. francisco sanchez is charged with shooting and killing a woman after he was released. this summer republican presidential candidate donald trump highlighted the case and gave it national prominence. >> illegals come in and illegals killed their children.
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>> reporter: political results across the nation are a great sign for republicans in general and for antiestablishment candidates like donald trump. by all accounts the political power of conservative outsiders is growing. >> kentucky is a crown jewel in the crown of america. we truly are. >> reporter: david schuster, al jazeera. >> democrat gene woo is a texas state representative who supported houston's antidiscrimination ordinance. he's in houston tonight. representative what happened to that ordinance last night? >> well, unfortunately the voters that came out for this election voted it down by about 6-4. this is a great disappointment for all of us who supported it. but this fight is not going to be over. >> why didn't it pass? >> i think one of the may, key reasons was the opponents of it went out and just spread lies and misinformation about what the ordinance was, what it did
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and the reason behind it. >> what was the worst -- >> you know voters -- assemble what was the biggest myth in your opinion that they spread about this ordinance? >> well, unfortunately i think they -- you know were able to brand this ordinance as, quote unquote, the bathroom ordinance which it was not. there's nothing in the ordinance if you actually read the entire ordinance, there is nothing about bathrooms or anything be like that. this is truly by nondiscrimination wanting houstonians to be nondiscriminated against. >> they didn't want the wrong gender in the wrong bathrooms bathroom right? >> that is the lie that is being spread about this. it is unfortunate that that was the message that caught on. whether this ordinance really was about making sure that every single houstonian whether it's on their gender, their race, their cultural heritage, their
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ethnicity, country of origin, military status, a whole host of things, whether they are discriminated against on those sort of things. >> houston is known as a progressive city. so in addition to defining this ordinance as the bathroom ordinance, what else did it do, to tolerance in the community of houston? >> well, i mean houston's not just a progressive city. i think it's much more than that. houston is a very diverse, multicultural city. houston is about to become the third largest city in america. it's a city with incredible international business presence. it is the capital of energy for practically the entire world. and houston is really a place where we're trying to tell people not just in the other states but telling companies from other nation this is the place you want to be. because this is the place that we will welcome everyone and
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everyone will get a fair chance to make money become wealthy raise money and be happy. i think the message that -- >> transgender people you believe they are not protected right now? >> here is the thing i want to be very clear about. the hero ordinance, the houston equal rights ordinance, wasn't about lgbt individuals it was about all houstonians every single person. that's what the intent of the ordinance was to protect every single person. because everyone no matter who you are, you are of a certain gender, ethnic background, cultural heritage. you are of a certain ethnic origin. everyone has some characteristic. and houston we want to make sure every single person is protected. the people who oppose this made it into a fight about gay rights, made it into a fight about gay marriage, made into it a fight about transgender
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people. that is simply not true. this ordinance was to protect every single houstonian who wants to have a good life here. >> representative, thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> u.s. fed chairman janet yellen said, the economy is performing well, but she admits there's some soft spots in areas like inflation, trade, job growth. yellen says she expects those to improve and says it could be a good time to raise interest rates. coming up next on the broadcast, the search of a killer of an illinois police officer, ends with a bizarre discovery. and notorious rbg. how turned supreme court justice ruth bader ginsberg into a cultural icon. cultural icon.
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>> air traffic into san diego was halted for much of the day during a stabbedoff between police and an alleged gunman disperse responded to a call, inbound flights were diverted. after hours of negotiation police say the man turned himself in and air traffic resumed. illinois investigators say a police officer who some portrayed as a hero who was killed in the line of duty actually killed himself. in september charles joseph
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glenowitz radioed saying he was following a suspect. authorities thousand say glenowitz took his home life. >> this is the first time in my law enforcement career that i felt ashamed by the acts of another police officer. >> reporter: harsh words about a police officer that gripped the nation. illinois officer joe glenowitz, radioed that he had stumbled upon three suspicious men. >> lieutenant glenowitz informed communication he that he was in foot pursuit. then communications lost contact with him. they found glenowitz shot with a
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gunshot wound. >> cost the city more than a quarter million dollars, shortly after her husband's death glenowitz's widow told crime watch daily there was no way that her husband killed himself. >> there are two slots. somebody who is going to kill himself is not going to shoot twice. >> reporter: thit hit his bult proof vest. it was an elaborate reduce to hide criminal activity. >> thousands of dollars were used for glenowitz for personal gym memberships, adult websites. >> investigators say they uncovered text mechanisms and online, prior to his suicide. one text message said, and if
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she gets ahold of the old checking account i'm pretty well, expletive. the fox lake police department had been under review for its conduct and the chief of police resigned just days before glenowitz' suicide. >> our intention, we completely believed from day 1 that this was a homicide. through text messages that we retrieved that the stress in his life began six months ago, when he indicates in exchanges of text messages, that he's feeling some pressure with the new management within the village. >> reporter: the medical examiner found that glenowitz died due to a single devastating gunshot wound. the examiner said it was self-inflicted. others were aware ever glenowitz
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logisticathis is aljazeera. i'm john siegenthaler. >> dash cam videos. >> when you are walking about this way, make sure you're on in side of the road. >> sparking a new debate on race. and the notorious rbg, ruth bader ginsburg. >> when they say that muslims go back to their own country, i'm from new jersey. that is my country. >> and break up audiences all over the world. an african american woman is stopped by two white police officers. was it racial profiling, or polite reminder to be careful? we'll talk about that in a moment. first, the story, the video that has many people talking. saturday morning, october 24th. dorothy bland is exercise-walking on a
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residential street in corinth, texas. she's not alone. a police cruiser is following the african american professor and dean of the adjournment school at north texas with the dash cam on their dashboard rolling. >> when you are walking up this way make sure you're walk on this side of the road. >> the officers told her to walk on the sidewalk or the other side of the road that it is safer for her and for passing drivers. then they ask to see her identification. >> you mind if i get your name and date of birth real quick? >> sure. if i'm going to get stopped again i would certainly want it on the record. >> during the entire three minute encounter, the conversation is cordial. she takes pictures and then they part. that's when the story takes a turn. days later in the op ed, bland
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said she was racially targeted for walking while black. writing for anyone who doesn't think racial profiling doesn't happen, i can assure you you, it does happen. debra walth rarvetionthal said s intent was simply to keep bland safe. writing, the citizens of corinth as a whole are a highly educated population and it is disappointing that one of our residents would attempt to make this a racial issue when it clearly is not. dee watkins is the author of the b side, living and dying while black in bloarp abou in baltimo.
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what do you think happened? >> one, i wasn't there but the video seemed like it wasn't the most brutal exchange and i think what a lot of people are getting mixed up are her feelings versus what the video actually schoad. ishowed. if the video showed people having a conversation and it didn't escalate to violence, thank god. a lot of people look at it and assume there is not a problem but we know of course there is a bigger issue to be considered. >> i see a woman walking along the street, being stopped by two police officers who got out and they told her she should be on the sidewalk or the other side of the road, i can understand that. but it's when they asked for her i.d -- >> that's a problem. >> -- and then they call it into the police department. i don't understand that, do you? >> yes, i actually do understand
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it. because it happens to me all of the time. you know, i'm going to be super-honest. i drive, you know, if the sign says 30 miles an hour, i drive 29 miles an hour. i pull my seat as close to the steering wheel until it touches my chest and i put on my seat belt and make sure i'm strapped in extra-tight because i always get stopped just for being a black person. so you know it's a reality that i'm not comfortable with but you know, beyond professional bland, this is an issue that you know police officers have created, a culture of african americans feeling uncomfortable not being stopped by them. we almost never feel like they want to help us. >> when you listen to her say look, i live in the neighborhood. and she is -- she's the dean of adjournment school at north texas university. you know, it makes you wonder about why they chose her to check her i.d. i mean, i think a lot of --
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we've heard many black, african americans in this country say, it's happened to them all the time. lots of white people haven't experienced this kind of thing. what -- so on a scale how big a deal is this? >> so on a scale of 1 to 10, i think it's a 10. unfortunately, in this country, being black is enough for you to be stopped and frisked and harassed and treated like you're not a citizen of this country. and ifort it's something that ns much media attention and attention in general because it's a problem. we pay our taxes and we work like everyone else. so we deserve to be treated like citizens because we are. she pays their salaries -- >> how do you fix that? >> having this conversation is the first key in raising awareness to letting people know
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there's a problem. right now we're doing what we're supposed to be doing by talking about it, and hopefully, the issue recess inflates. times are different now, technology has given us a chance to get a lot of these things on film so we have these videos and we have these things on tape and we can archive and share them and build websites and things like that. we are on the right path, to get the right things done but we are fighting against a culture that has been in place for hundreds of years. >> i would encourage people who have not seen the video to go online. it's all over social media. make a judgment for yourself. dee watkins, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> the hacking group anonymous is vowing to take aim at the kkk. threatening to disclose the flames of more than 1,000 members of that group. the kkk say it will hold an
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anti-anonymouanonymous rally. jonathan betz is here. >> a force for good, or evil? exposing criminals or harming innocent people? the mysterious activist hacking group anonymous, some consider cyber-terrorists, others digital crusaders. >> does that mean in 100% of the time their interventions are positive? no. but the motivations that drive them are driven by noble intention. >> anthropologist gabriella collins has studied them for decades. formed four decades ago, it is known for pushing for social justice, hacking to get
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attention. whether it's about police brutality or online bullying. >> we didn't have this kind of support when everything happened but now that we do have a lot of support and people listening it's like a miracle. >> reporter: in steubenville, ohio, a 16-year-old was raped, anonymous helped identify suspects. uncovered deleted tweets. >> it is like rape, it is rape. >> even an alleged video of the crime. two players were convictand the school superintendent resigned. >> this community is fixing things. this community is holding people accountable. >> reporter: but anonymous is also a loose collective, impossible to be held accountable, and which they were wrong. in which they misidentified mb's
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michael brown's killer. >> kkk is responsible. >> although it soon will reveal the correct information. >> we are stripping you of your anonymity. >> raising troubling questions about how a group that shrou shs itself on anonymity, can be incorrect about others. >> the correct methods especially along the lines of illegal versus legal methods. >> she said wikileaks partially inspired the group. it's inspired many other hackers willing to reveal secrets
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willing to further their own cause. john. >> thank you jonathan. canadian company behind the keystone xl pipeline, president obama is critical of the pipeline and is widely expected to reject it. some have said they will stall until mr. obama leaves office. school start times, suggest high school students do better when they start the day later. but student performance isn't the only factor. there's also a cost. allen schauffler is in seattle tonight, sanl. allen. >> john, teenagers need more sleep, that's what's behind this. that runs into complications in the real world. breakfast at the time wallen household, as henry and olivia
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get ready for school. for second and fourth grader it is a couple minutes drive to school but it's an hour and a half before their classes start. mom has to go to work so kids go to day care before school. it's five days a week, $600 a month. >> despite the hard costs and human complications like that the seattle school district wants to get more teenage students to school later in the morning. studies show they need their sleep. >> if you can't fall asleep until 11 and you need eight to nine hours, and we're getting you up early to go to school. then that's sleep deprivation. >> national grass roots organization start school later, whose name is its mission. they say they have seen some progress in pushing back the school bell for teens across the country, but they also understand, for any school
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system, tackling this problem will take time. >> because you're asking a big bureaucracy to change and that's not easy. and there are a lot of complicated factors. you are dealing with transportation. you're dealing with cost. so it's not something you can just do overnight. >> simplifying the system from the current three start times to just two, early for most elementary students like henry and olivia and later for middle and high school students would actually add millions in transportation costs. one proposed plan: eight to $15 million more. sam handles the logistics. >> all the drivers and transportation it adds up very quickly. >> and it means not everybody will be happy here with the likely compromise. which guys teenag emphasizes, kg
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elementary schools and the wallens on the same frustrating start schedule. >> not only the early start time, which is frustrating for elementary school kids and the cost for families like mine and certainly there are less fortunate families. >> seattle is one of the few school districts to push for later start times for older students. here is another real world complication. the school board was set to vote for that issue tonight, but that vote is delayed. we'll not find out whether this deal is approved for another week. >> there are other school districts around the country dealing with this. if the changes are approved when might they take effect. >> if they're approved they frankly do expect the board to vote yes on the most recent agreement for school start-times, if that is approved they'll start the beginning of next school year, so school year 2016, 2017. fest. >> is that the end of the debate
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in seattle and what else is happening around the country ? >> you know, we don't expect that to be the end of the debate in seattle if this is voted down. it's something in the works for some time and various sides are working to find a middle ground, so we expect the discussion to go on. you can bet this is a push, that's going to be taking place around the country. >> reporter: allen schauffler, thanks very much. now to a surprise parachute landing caught on video in arkansas. loslosing nnlosing engine power. the plane hit a pickup truck when it landed. no injuries reported. a passenger in the truck was treated for shock. no surprise there. coming up next, how supreme
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>> first i didn't no what to make of this, because i didn't even know who flow or the use biz was. [applause] >> and then my law clerks explained to me you had something in common, you were both born and bred in brooklyn, new york. >> a national reporter at msnbc and co-author of flow or the use rbg, the life and times of ruth bader ginsburg. the book debuts at number 7 on the new york times best seller list. you just got the news. >> pretty exciting. >> it's a pretty good book and i encourage people to pick it up. the notorious rbg, why did you decide to use that as the title. >> my co-author started a blog,
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important cases that had to do with voting rights, racial discrimination workplace protection and affirmative action. it imagined her as a tough swaggering rapper. in contrast she was a soft spoken woman who was speaking truth to power and captured the imagination of so many power pee that were dismayed the way the court was going in. we wanted this book to tell story of her life, find out how she became so though or the use and take it to the next level, about the causes she has committed her life to. >> she faced, diversity. talk about that. >> her mother died the day before she graduated. she suffered cancer later as a justice, had cancer twice never missed a day on the bench. throughout all of the discrimination she faced for being a woman a mother and a
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jew, she faced it with grace and integrity and always fought hard for the values she believed in. >> what do you expect from her this term? >> the term, the court is poised to take cases very dear to her heart. we already know they are going to revisit affirmative action, quite likely they are going to hear cases that feature the test to religious freedom and women's contraception. will they find a way to work behind the scenes the convince justice kennedy? >> were you personally obsesswith ruth bader ginsberg? >> as a jewish opera fan, i felt something in common with justice ginsberg. >> in fact justice ka caig kagad
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she made possible my own career. is that among her biggest achievement? >> if she had never been named as the supreme court, she transformed the understanding of the constitution and mate maid it such that women and men were equal under the law. that hasn't happened before she got to work. >> you talk about the odd couple in this court, justice scalia and ginsberg, how did this begin? >> i 30 she finds justice scalia for all they disagree with totally hilarious. >> you talk about new year's eve parties i believe and the two of them having parties together and they didn't talk anything about politics nothing about the law, right? that plus have been a boring
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conversation. >> i think it's entertaining for them. anyone who can make justice ginsberg laugh, is ace in her book. >> do you think she's going to retire any time soon? >> no. she has no intention to quit until she can't do the job anymore. can you see she's as sharp as ever. she could have retired when the democrats controlled the senate. but she has more work to do. >> the notorious rbg. thank you so much. >> thank you for coming. >> "ali velshi on target" takes a close look. ali. >> john, president's policy is contradictory, he wants to defeat i.s.i.l. and at the same time keep underpipelining syrian president bashar al-assad. help exposed how tough it will be for obama administration to have its cake and eat it too,
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>> comedian maysooner zayid is executive producer of new york arab comedy effectively. her ted talk about her cerebral palsy got 7 million views on youtube. i asked her why it was important to include it in her act? >> i included in my act. when i started to do standup comedy, if i didn't make a joke of it, people would want to know what's going on. i shake it shake it shake it like taylor swift but hers is voluntary and mine is just there.
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as it's comedy gold. hillary and bernie are a good laugh too. as a comedian i'm excited and as an american i'm slightly terrified. i think it's horrible that the gop uses islam and being muslim as a slur as something to ratchet up points with their constituents. bkdben carson says he would be uncomfortable having a muslim as president. >> what do you tell ben carson if you could? >> first of all, i'm born and raised in new jersey, i could have a better chance to be president than him. but i'm from new jersey, that is my country. new jersey. >> there are other things that disturb you about what's going on in our country these days?
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>> i'm disturbed that people thought that kkk costumes were a good halloween costume. i'm disturbed that we have to have the black face conversation every single day. i'm disturbed that there's a day of mourning for people with disabilities who have been killed by their caretakers and what disushe disturbs me the moe walked in war zones at 2:00 in the morning and i feel safer at a war zone at 2:00 a.m. than an american college campus, and as a woman i feel very, very upset by that and we need to did better in america. >> do you find discrimination against muslim comedians? >> here is what's about american arab comedy festival, we're doing a show called the judgment day show and we have arab comics
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who are jewish muslim christian buddhist. we had a mormon but he had to do a show in african. africa. you can be any ethnicity and these are not intertwined. my mother didn't have a curse on her uuterus. >> how many people on television do we see folks with disabilities on a regular basis. seems like we don't have enough. >> we're missing. often when you do see us, we are being played by actors who are able bodied. and the disability community finds it offensive and cartoonish. these folks are winning awards,
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michael j. fox and r.j. middy, people out of -- two people out of thousands are not enough. >> bernie sanders recently hugged a muslim at a rally and vowed to fight discrimination. >> hillary has been really an advocate when the attacks that houma got, and bernie hugging a muslim it was beautiful and uncomfortable at the same time. there is so much tokenism involved in that. i'm down to hugging bernie but they're a certain face. >> thank you very much for coming. >> thank you so much for having me on. >> that's our broadcast. i'm john siegenthaler.
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"ali velshi on target" is next. i'll see you back here tomorrow. tomorrow. >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight, solving syria. i'm looking at the real reason america is putting 50 special forces trooms on th troops on t. how the styles of george w. bush an barack obama led to infringements on your civil liberties. >> syria's war
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