it was a quarter. of the city. streets to keep secrets for the time to reveal the soviet files on. three thirty pm on saturday here in moscow you with our headlines now one of russia's richest men in mikhail prokhorov has become the high profile new leader of a political party the billionaire is targeting second place in december's parliamentary elections and is even hoping to become prime minister if his party is successful in. the u.s. congress rebuke president obama's a military intervention in libya by refusing to authorize it but lawmakers stopped

short of cutting off funding for the campaign. and more and more israelis are lining up to emigrate opting for the forty year war america they accuse the government of failing to make their country a safe place. richard daley the longtime mayor of chicago has helped turn a city once in decline in see one attractive cosmopolitan. i'll gun off now finds out if he has some special advice for spotlight is coming up next. hello again and welcome to spotlight they enter the shelf. i'll bring all ben today my guest is richard taylor. the longest serving mayor of chicago has left our first half the twenty two years and which he managed to turn the declining

address trail city into a distillation city pushed through immigration reform and massively dealt with racism issues pulling support other black chicago these problems are characteristic for many big cities so what advice does the experienced mayor have from 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 panel often compared to the kennedys he was billed as the best mayor out of the five largest cities are you asked for make the chicago laura xiong business friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party you supported barack obama during the presidential campaign three years ago his younger brother william hahn white house chief of staff.

all of us a daily thank you very much all the thank you very much a pleasure having you be here and rock the moscow petersburg we will be talking about boston for smell but let's start let's start with chicago illinois was the first question i want to ask you i did want to record breaking politician and so how difficult was the decision to leave office because it was your decision you you decided to quit back and nothing was it or was it maybe a wife or your kids who maybe didn't know know you. what happened is that i enjoy public life i was a mayor for twenty two years and prior to that ten years a 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 to get so

easy it's a disservice to myself or to the public and i thought of the best decision i could make i could could run again to win and all that but i just felt that it was time and people would try to figure that out you just you just wake up and you realize that what you have made your family happy and now you know that we have before because you know they 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 but did the people think that being a mayor is such a big cities even is even more time consuming than being in prison so you won't is because it's true yes because you have to have passion and you have to love people even though they say things and do things you still in the four hours a day and think about garbage so your original then people call you like twenty four i don't have to move out there that they somebody told me don't have

a mono but even if you had moved when you would no i never did no 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 one of the 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 their realization that the greatest gift i could give to any child is a good education if i give a challenge. good education i give a gift 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 how do you know it is if the teachers is no that's not the teacher's the role of the mayor says no i mean you say you are really giving education you take responsibility and so that in turn the only mayor in the country took responsibility and i played so myself that lie once you have

the system in you're the mayor you're responsible they're going to hold you responsible they're all the take they hold the mayor responsible in chicago and so when you want to do we want to give our we're give them an edgy but isn't just like teach you schools are good oh you got into the program into the clouds into exams here is no no here's an exam we here's an example we teach arabic we take russian and we teach it in chinese said it was a little 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 the language the custom the history in traditions so that you have to you can't leave that then besides 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 you have to do this isn't you surpass you found in far one of the you sort of six through the world well two terms in office

is one of the fundamental principles of american democracy and democracy in a lot of countries in the world so shouldn't be applied to two to the post of the major only in the us you put your name up you say you want to left here now that's it that's the one with it i think people say well the public is that they're smart we have to limit terms the public to smarter than anyone else they can say we like you or reject you why do you believe in the presidential term well i don't know why . i know the american people elect their academic for the fifteenth and i wouldn't i wouldn't i wouldn't mind 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 your run for election and if they accept or they 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

resource i mean you can if you can you can pull more more money more resource to being relaxed that there is no more time because you just were not reelected and you're not worried about doing your job then you can't be reelected most people worry about that maybe they get accumulate 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 where the 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 we lead the way but it requires everybody behind you eat 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 that's the best rule so well this he should call is a public private partnership a business so on the mayor we are elected officials we work with a private business we say what you need the city's always change we see of the chicago stockyards we still 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 it gets 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 put 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 in the not for profit and academic community as a leader and say let's work together 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 wood through

the especially through the prints for segregated neighborhoods one for devising racial politics you tried hard to break these barriers but do ethnic divisions still clearly really have wings i mean i think the visions you have like a german community have a polish community and you have segments of that but slowly but surely 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 endurance 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 founded by immigrants jean baptiste do sabo is french haitian he found the city and today we welcome immigrants from all over the world into our great city and so that you huge diversity is it has the strength but also can 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 when you try to really work at it we form 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 with i have an asian community and i'm going to spend a community we can be community i have. arab community. i have the chinese asian we have all of different committees set up so we can help new immigrants who arrive in the city chicago is old also known in russia to movies as a gangster. but again stars in chicago are are a legend today well in moscow the gangs through the still alive and st petersburg events it is right now it was once labeled the gangster capital of russia couple of years ago so they did the did you see some similarities with the chicago you you

saw in the movie l o l composed one thirty one i don't anybody was alive then it was like nineteen thirty and so late touchable zur always played so beyond that in you know with the university of chicago we have great university medical institutions that you know just a great city and so you know people who watch untouchables you know there's a brother you know he you met must commuters to be and you know this is some advise do you discuss something where we all despair said there was a panel and of course many people start talking about traffic and traffic is a problem for all the 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 to urbanize in less than twenty five years or thirty years and that is amazing we talked about environment we talked about how the environment is economic sense environment of the land the air and 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 they have to have a lot of passion and you can't solve everything well at least in striving to solve them. says richard daley veteran u.s. politician and longest serving mayor of chicago retired just inmate spotlight will be back shortly right after breaks out don't always stay where you want to play. play. play. play live. information cluster in the center of siberia one city has

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welcome back to the spotlight on are we not in just a reminder that my guest today is richard daley veteran u.s. politician and the long. third being mayor of chicago the guy did a lot for the city for the environment universities for. the racial problems but mr daley thinks that he's biggest achievement is giving the kids a good education be ready for leadership and rise in a leadership be a spokesperson for education ok now one of your best pupils you have the personal best pupils was michelle obama was she yes this is were you the guy who advocated it to become or oh no the leadership. came from all she was you're you're you're you're going to your advisor or she plan in a garment she's she's

a well educated woman and the brother in came from a wonderful family who parents began when they strive for education she was in the leaders of yes she worked in a measures artist and of course she was your assistant or it was because she was in the plane in a 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 any thoughts america first african-american mayor but he was elected on that alone he was elected and 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 there's your opinion still counts in the democratic party while everybody counts i mean you know everybody counts for me to let you go to i mean you're you

know right now we're 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 that i did all my life because people have more to say and then just political leaders well. we have today u.s. president from illinois he's not exactly from. chicago but from illinois it's a very special place do you think that being from illinois made a bama special well his style you know he came he lived in chicago and he 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 that as president yet and he has certainly great feeling the people and people meet him one on one it's amazing they'll tell you about and of course very successful campaign young people felt that he's making changes and even today with a deep recession and

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 you know there's light at the end of the tunnel of what we're going to get there people rush to the often compare bama to kennedy and well you would of course say they're different can't compare people because if you start to climb for each one has their own identity their own character they're all ideas of what their president should do but most importantly they understand the great sacrifice that former presidents had made to the country and i can't speak for him but he's taken a part of all of them some way had made a wonderful contribution all the presidents to our country in the world do you think michelle obama has sued own political ambition could she be like right hillary clinton number two well 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 a wonderful family keep their their family life even in the white house her song is her influence the president will just say well i would know i would know how much straw informs that they have but they're loving. couple 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 party give a beer party have a tea party have a coffee party whatever party you want in a democracy you know people form different things they get it and so like anything else there had to be heard in so you listen to them where they say in their freighted that they're afraid that america's going into bankruptcy so you have to listen to everyone and that's part of democracy in

a 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 how people get hired that new jobs that we have to train for so he's out there are responding to people. a garment what was agreed hated when he was elected well i mean worldwide but his popularity has been has been frankly pretty pretty dramatically for the last in the last month or so and many many say it's be is because of the economic problems that lead us to do you believe this. because of the only reason no no if every president for two years hit all time high then all of a sudden in the midterm elections midterm elections of any president 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

today 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 listen 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 almost every day talking to the americans. but and not running for ducking from these issues what a chance it is in two thousand and twelve i mean if you see the chances of a 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 now pointed his 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 yes i have done this and this is how i'm moving forward and people want vision they want they want to lead or 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 isn't look

at what's happening in europe today we have in china and other places in the recession is affecting everyone so illinois still supports what it's about how do you think it's a whole. lot like when kids from health care you know i think you know when a president hails from we started with bill clinton hail from arkansas on jimmy carter hailed from georgia and. bush won to hail from texas so they're very proud of that so you get that identity that is from chicago known or we're very proud that he hails from there. you you mentioned meeting people you told me when you came into the studio today that you use television like you used to giving their like for us conferences that we easily you met moscow me russian politicians are the scale they meet like once a year do you only them or should they end the well you know one thing you know i am going to talk about whatever the mask hour is in petersburg but i made it

a point to note three or four days and even saturday ok i work there is saturday to make sure because the public is not working so that's when the marriage should be out in so we get there we not jewish and. i was out there all the time and working and 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 the press but they did give you a hard time you know i mean i had these to do in the st louis for example your your your governor mr. lee's he's shown as an example of patronize corruption and things like that well you know 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 he didn't understand what public service was about but that's it doesn't reflect on our people and you know it doesn't reflect everyone there are people who are corrupt in every facet of life and the public and private sector academic community and not for profits it is one of failures of society it's that it's one of the failures of people that have it isn't it sort of also traditional in chicago where from the times of al capone in the now you're not offering so i mean you take if i to describe what europe is all about you wouldn't want to live there i guess you know i mean there are there are issues there in europe and we don't want to get into on you know where the real market is because we're like me talking about germany and that's usually what 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 will look this is what it is all about you do you never go to

a doctor with without caring about chocolate or a bottle of vodka you know the real kids i mean i mean this is our world us but it can't because we can't survive on that because it's a it's a world that is changing rapidly. at the st petersburg conference they tried to bribe the russian investment fund. where the russian government is putting up 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 what has to be because it. 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 a doing 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 basser burly he done

a tremendous job representing united states russia come again bring your family i want to thank you thanks just to remind you that my guest today was richard daley that's when the u.s. politician had the longest serving average mayor of chicago twenty two years he spent in that there's an hour from all of us here if you want to have your serious problem i have someone in mind you think i should be next time you drop me a line of algernon at our t.v. dot our year and let's keep the show interactive we'll be back with more until then they are to tape here.

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