right and if you move from phones to parachute. for instance on t.v. dot com. welcome back you're watching r t here is a look at the top stories the u.s. congress rebukes president obama military intervention in libya by refusing to authorize it but lawmakers stopped short of cutting off funding for the campaign but. the former finance minister and hosni mubarak's ousted egyptian government has reportedly found shelter in britain despised being convicted of investment back at home and there is growing anger among egyptians over a london stance which have supported the revolution overthrowing the old regime.

and more and more israelis are lining up to immigrate opting for the e.u. or america they accuse a government of failing to make their country safe blades. richard daley the long term mayor of chicago has helped turn a city once and the quiet into an attractive cosmopolitan urban hub finds out that he has some special advice for moscow spotlight is coming right up. hello again and welcome to third party i am very sure i'll take i'll bring all ben today my guest is richard daley. the longest serving mayor of chicago has that power first off the twenty two years and the trip he managed to turn to

declining address city into a distillation city pushed through immigration reform and masterly dealt with racism issues winning support other black chicago these problems are characteristic for many big cities so what advice does need scariest mayor have for moscow my guest today is a veteran u.s. political war horse and the longest serving mayor of chicago richard daley. richard daley was the patriarch with a very influential political family often compared to the kennedys he was called just the best mayor out of the cities are you ass from a chicago glorifying business friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party he supported barack obama during the presidential campaign three years ago is now brother william our white house chief of staff.

all of us a daily thank you very much on the thank you very much a pleasure having you be here right from moscow. well we will be talking about monsoon but let's start with chicago illinois with the first question i want to ask you would you like a record breaking politician so how difficult was the decision to leave it was your decision you you decided to quit enough as it was it or was it maybe a wife with kids who maybe didn't know know you. what happened is that i enjoyed public life i was a mayor for twenty two years and prior to their ten years as state's attorney i was a full time public servant for thirty two years and prior to that eight years as a state senator which was a part time and so i enjoyed my public career i was a public servant i enjoyed every minute of it and i sacrificed but i thought of the time that many times in wherever you are in life if it looks too easy it gets too

easy it's a disservice to myself or to the public and i thought of the best decision i could make or i could run again and went and all that but i just felt that it was time and people would try to figure it out you just you just wake up and you realize that what you've made your family happy and now were happy before because you have you were a wonderful family of four wonderful children and wife and friends and all that and you know it is so it's a part of public life was there or so it wasn't like a burden you know i enjoyed it people think that being a mayor such a big cities even is even more time consuming than being president of the units were on is because it's yes because you have to have passion and you have to love people even though they say things and do things you're still in the four hours a day and think about a garbage so your original then people call you like twenty four i don't have your little girl there that they somebody told me don't have

a banal but you had moved well and you know i never did know because the decision when i drove around the city i took notes every day is sauce things differently and i never micromanage people i say you have to have passion you have to love people and you have to have a desire to improve the city in the first thing i did when it first things i did is you know that while cleaning up the city and having people be part of a block of community organizations in the business community and the realization that the greatest gift i could give to any child is a good education if i give a child. good education ideally good for life but if i fail they become a burden upon their family and society or another generation that you are giving people a good education is not complex so what is going to hear you know it is you know it's the teachers is no no no it's not the future it's the role of the mayor says no and you say you're really giving education you take responsibility and so i'm the only mayor in the country have took responsibility quotes of myself that lie

want to have the system in you're the mayor you're responsible they're going to hold you responsible and all that think they hold the mayor responsible in chicago and so what do you want to do we want to give or we give them an edgy but isn't just like teenagers schools are good oh you got into the program into the clouds into exam here's no here's an exam we here's an example we teach arabic we take russian and we teach. chinese and it was a year or two decision it was it was not a political decision it was an education decision to give young people opportunities to realize the world is changing and now only understand a language accustomed to history in traditions so that you have to you can't leave that to me size that we build sixty beautiful libraries in the city he said you have to have a learning environment in the home and in the community it isn't just going to school to learn there it has to be the whole community says this is a learning environment and so that's what we have to do this isn't a useful person further and far from the use of six students well well two terms in

office is one of the fundamental principles of our american democracy democracy in a lot of countries in the world so shouldn't it be applied to to the post of the mayor oh you know if you put your name up you say you want to elect here now that's it that's there for a while not there i think people say well the public is that they're smart we have to limit terms the public just smarter than anyone else they can say we like you or reject you want to do in the presidential term well i don't know where. the american people elect obama for the fifteenth year i would like i wouldn't i wouldn't mind a i think any president should run but when you start limiting people that means you say the public doesn't have a nuff education or enough confidence or were thought to understand whether or not you're doing a good job and so my belief is you run for you run for election and if they accept you the accept you then you carry that around well maybe maybe they just think that when you are in office you've got too much of what we call the administrative

resources i mean you can you you can you can call them more money more resources to being reelected that's the graph there is no more time because if you just weren't really elected and you not worry about doing your job then you can't be reelected most people worry about that maybe they have accumulated money i get my campaign going and they forget about doing their job and so the mayor is more it's our partisan job the mayor is about people and that's what a mayor's office is about ok what's your biggest achievement what makes you kid kids proud of you as a mayor who i think is giving them a good quality education striving to do that and i pointed out because you could do everything in a city but if you don't educate your children then you have really failed as a society and so the number one responsibility of government is to educate children and that includes the family and includes everyone is that just as we lead the way but it requires everybody behind you are credited for saving she cardew from the

decline suffered by other rust both centers like detroit for example what exactly has been done to revitalize the the industry of the seizure color's a public private partnership with business so on the mayor we elected officials we work with the private business we say what do you need the city's always change we said the chicago stockyards always they have chicago huge industries and it changes so city has to be willing to change if it doesn't change it lives in the past. and that's why you have to change our public private partnership require the business come along so what do we need in the workforce how can i raise money in order to provide a better education how can i do affordable housing what we can do for the environment so you build a business community and not for profit and academic community as a leader and say let's work together and that doesn't mean we have a difference of opinion so our public private partnerships has helped the city tremendously war than any other city in america chicago was. in the woods with this

person through the prince of forward segregated neighborhoods went through divisive racial politics you trying hard to break these barriers that do ethnic divisions so clearly you have wings that i think the visions you have like a german community have a polish community and you have segments of that but soul of witchery a generation intermarriage people being educated in so you have a total different generation you have more immigrants coming from the middle east you have more immigrants coming from north africa more immigrants coming from asia and so that when you try to do is you provide a good education and you diversity is good but also it can create its problems so we're a very diverse city were followed by immigrants got to do sabah was french haitian he found a city and today we welcome immigrants from all over the world into our great city and so that you you diversity is it has the strength but also going to have its

weakness and i say whatever happens in the rest of the world it should not bother you here in america and that doesn't mean there's ethnic religious or racial differences there will be but you try to really work at it we formed a human human rights commission human relations so they're very proactive in any activity in the city of chicago so they're out there when i have an asian community and i have an hispanic community i would. be community i have. arab community. we chinese asian we have different committees set up so we can help new immigrants who arrived in the city chicago is old also known in russia two movies as the gangster which. again says in chicago our are a legend today well in moscow the gangsters are still alive and st petersburg even as it is right now it was mostly it will be gangster capital of russian couple of years ago so did you did you see some similarities with the chicago you you saw in

the movie l o l composed one thousand nine hundred thirty eight look i don't know that anybody was alive then it was like nineteen thirty and so late a touchable zur always played so. on that in you know we have universal chicago are we are great universal medical institutions and you know just a great city and so and people to watch untouchables there's about here you know you met most commuters again and you know if you want some advice do you discuss something when we all discuss that there was a and on of course many people surcharge my traffic and traffic is a problem for all big urban areas in the next ten or fifteen years almost eighty percent or more people live in urban areas it takes one hundred years of america to be urbanized this world be urbanized in less than twenty five years or thirty years and that is amazing we talked about environment we talked about how environment it is economic sense environment of the land the air in the water which is really

important for a city we talked about traffic we talked about economic development housing you talked about the emergency police and fire and other things and mayors get together we talk about best practices what works and what doesn't work and the mayors are closest to the people and so they have to do if you have a lot of passion and you can't solve everything but at least you're striving to solve it. says richard daley veteran u.s. politician and longest serving mayor of all chicago retired just in the spotlight will be back shortly right after breaks out don't go away stay where you want. the easy. to

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welcome back to the spotlight and i would often just to remind him that my guest today is richard daley a veteran u.s. politician and the longest serving mayor of chicago. and i did a lot for the city for the environment universities for for for the racial problems that mr daley things that he's biggest achievement is giving the kids a good education the right leadership and right in a leadership to be a spokesperson for education ok now one of your best pupils your personal best pupils was michelle obama was she yes this is the you're the guy who advocated it it's a big no no leadership has been not michelle obama came from oh she was here you know you're going to your advisor or she planning a dog and she's she's a real well educated woman and a brother and came from

a wonderful family who parents began when they strive for education she was in the days of yes she worked in the mayor's office and. of course chose your assistant or it will go she was in the planning of garden office and she was a wonderful ploy she had the passion and dedication about it and of course president obama was a former community organizer a state senator us senator and now we're very proud of him to be our president and he really would flex america first african-american mayor but he was elected on that alone he was elected on his competency and in his passion and willingness to look at people and see people in a different light he sees in looking at them and trying to give them a whole in a better world and a better country this is your opinion today when you're a time this is your opinion still counts in the democratic party while everybody counts i mean you know everybody counts immediately you both i mean you're you're right. i don't think i think you listen to everyone it's not just those in

government or have an opinion it's you have to really listen to the people and that's i did all my life the people have more to say and then just political leaders well we have today u.s. presidents from illinois he's an example from chicago but from illinois it's a very special place do you think that being from illinois made a bama special his style bill he came he lived in chicago and he be represented chicago and not only that but he has a different feeling from the midwest and the values and he understands the closest you have to be to people and he never lost it as president yet and he has a great feeling to people when people meet him one hand one it's amazing they'll tell you about in a course very successful campaign young people felt that he's making changes and even today with a deep recession a tough recession he's still very optimistic you have to be optimistic because

everybody that we're going through a recession so you have to know there's light at the end of the tunnel what we're going to get there. people rush to the often compare it to kennedy and well you would of course say they're different can't compare people because if you start each one has their own identity they're all character they're all ideas of what their president should do but most importantly they understand the great sacrifice that former presidents have made to the country and i can't speak for him but he's taken a part of all of them. have made a wonderful contribution all the presidents to our country in the world do you think michelle obama has the own political ambition could she be like right hillary clinton number two while she's well educated in she's the first lady and she's making her voice heard and many of the issues confronting children in families and and not just in the country but in the world and she's a wonderful spokesperson as the first lady around around the world and you see it

a wonderful family and keep there that family life even in the white house how strong is her influence the president what would you say what i would know i would know how much stronger influence that they have but they're loving couple of respect each other and and she has a great education background and well respected well is it more than the tea party or less than the tea party what do you think that the tea party in general how do you really a challenge what remember people get a lot of frustrated have a vodka party give a beer party a good tea party have a coffee party whatever party you want in a democracy you know people form different things to get it and so like anything else there had to be heard in so you listen to what they say in their freighted that they're afraid that america's going into bankruptcy so you have to listen to everyone and there's nothing wrong that's part of democracy and the person it was willing to listen he's making great strides of cutting back various programs or

cutting back red tape and efficiency listening to the business community trying to understand. people don't get hired that new job so we have to train for so he's out there are responding to people so. adama won't what was agree when he was elected well i mean worldwide but his popularity has been has been forming pretty pretty dramatically for the last the last months or so and many many say it's be is because of the economic problems that lead us to do believe this. because if the only reason every president for two years hit all time high then all of a sudden in the midterm elections midterm elections are very present they lose every president if you look back so they lose but in a recession when there's a recession you know people worry they start worrying about economic development and jobs and what's going to happen to their parents or what's going to happen to down when they graduate everybody's looking for opportunities but he's he's

handling that straight out any he's looking at the eyes of the people he says this is what we're trying to do everything possible nothing's perfect we're going to come through it's challenging there's a hardship and he's out there if you watch him almost every day talking to the american public and not running for docking from these issues what a chance it is in two thousand and twelve as you say the chances of obama in two thousand and twelve oh i think they're good i think i think he's done a very very good job and in difficult circumstances and he's that point is finger back and said i'm taking responsibility you know when you get elected you take responsibility and that's what he's done he's not blamed anybody he's saying this i have done this and this is how i'm moving forward and people want vision they want they want a leader they have passion and understanding at the same time to this economic problem is all over the world so it's not unique united states and look at what's happening in europe today we have been china and other places and

a recession is affecting everyone so illinois still supports what it's about to do you think it's a whole. lot like when kids. well there no i think you know what a president hails from we started with bill clinton hail from arkansas on jimmy carter hail from georgia and. bush one to hail from texas and they're very proud of that so you get their identity that is from chicago and on our we're very proud that he hails from there. you mentioned meeting people you told me when you came into the studio today that that you use television like you used to giving them like for us conferences that we easily you know moscow me russian politicians are the scale they meet like once a year do you envy them or should they envy you but well you know one thing you know i am now not sorry about what happened in moscow or it was in petersburg but i made it a point to not three four days and even on saturday i can't i work every saturday

to make sure because the public is not working so this one america should be out and so we get their view not jewish and. i was out there all the time and working in so that press always had access to me and so that was that was something i was proud of and they ask any question any any question whatsoever and so that's all part of communicating with the public as well will the press but they do give you a hard time you know i mean and these two do it in the state room for example the you're you're you're governor mr blagojevich yeah well he's he's shown as an example of patronize corruption and things like that well you know he it's funny he's already convicted of perjury and retrying him but he was he was somebody that. young man that is well educated lawyer well educated in

a just didn't understand what public service was about but that's it doesn't reflect on people and you know it's. reflect everyone there are people who are corrupted in every facet of life in the public and private sector academic community and non for profits it's one of failures of society it's it's one of the failures of people that isn't it sort of also traditional and chicano from the times of al capone and the now you don't know i don't think so i mean you take if i had to describe what europe was all about you wouldn't want to live there i guess but you know i mean there are there are issues there in europe and when i want to get into on you know what the real market is because we're like me talking about germany and nazi is we're trying to fight corruption here in moscow with everybody in russia and many people are saying this is difficult because it's a tradition this is what the russian russian business russian way but this is what is all about you do you never go to a doctor without carrying chocolates or a bottle of vodka you case i mean i mean this is our world us but it can't because

you can't survive on that because it's a it's a world that is changing rapidly. the st petersburg conference they tried to buy the russian investment fund where the russian government put enough money for foreign investment to come here and the first question opens the transparency corruption all the issues the legal system and all that that's the first thing they're asked and so if it is a tradition you think it's doomed anyway why has to be because venture like anything else it affects the quality of service and the quality of service of government into any place in the world it could be any place in the world thank you thank you very much for being q. and a story being here in moscow and st petersburg and i wish the people of russia the best the in the future and to say we have wonderful embassador burly he's done a tremendous job representing united states russia come again bring your family i

will take your place just to remind you that my guest today was richard daley a veteran u.s. politician. had the longest serving average mayor of chicago twenty two years he spent and i'm sure that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have yourselves probably or if you have someone in mind you think i should be next very good job milan algernon at r.t. given our year and let's keep the show interactive we'll be back with more until then stay on r.t. to take care.

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