three thirty am in moscow these are already headlines making a splash in russian politics and billionaire mikhail prokhorov launches themself as the leader of a liberal business minded party setting his sights on becoming prime minister he was elected on a promise to make the right calls are the second largest after united russia and the upcoming parliamentary election asking if not mean than the. dozens killed in a terror attack on a hospital in eastern afghanistan while president obama pushes forward plans for

a drastic troop reduction labeled risky by some commanders in the u.s. military obama wants to reduce troops in the country by a third amid a surge in violence following the killing of osama bin laden. in the u.k. queues of double standards for providing safe harbor to egypt's former finance minister who was convicted of corruption despite london publicly supporting the pro-democracy movement you said he was sentenced in absentia to thirty years in jail but fled the country. coming up long time chicago mayor richard daley turned america's third largest city from one in decline back into an attractive place to live out finds out if he has some advice for moscow spotlight coming up. wealthy british style is not exactly that's not on. the. market why not.

find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. hello again and welcome to spotlight they enter the shelf. i'll bring all then today my guest is richard daley. the longest serving mayor of chicago has left our first part of the twenty two years and which he managed to turn the declining addressed well city into a distillation city pushed through immigration reform and masterfully dealt with racism issues winning support of the black chicago these problems are characteristic for many big cities so what the brights does the experienced mayor

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 family often compared to the kennedys he was told it is the best mayor out of the five largest cities in your ass for making chicago florida and business friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party he supported barack obama during the presidential campaign three years ago his younger brother william the current plight house chief of staff. close a daily thank you very much all the things. thanks to those who are having to be here right the must see perjury well we will be talking about what's in the forest bed but let's start let's start with when i was the first question i wanted to ask you you like you've got a record breaking politician as so how difficult was the decision to leave out who

it was your decision your you decided to quit like enough as it was it or was it maybe a wife we kids or who made it is no you know what happened is that i enjoyed public life i was 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 their time there many times in wherever you are in life if it looks too easy it gets too easy it's a disservice to myself for the public and i thought the best decision i could make up could i could run again and went and all that but i just felt it was time and people would try to figure that out you just you just wake up and you realize that once you've made your family happy. we're happy for you have you were. a wonderful

family for 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 enjoy it but people think that being a mayor is such a big cities even is even more time consuming than being president of the u.s. role 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 still in the four hours a day are thinking about a garbage so your original then people call you like twenty four i don't have there you go to play somebody so we don't have a mono but you had moved when you were no i never said no because good decision. i drove around the city 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 the realisation that the greatest gift that i could give to any child is a good education if i give a child a good education i give a gift for life but if i fail they become a burden upon their family and society or another generation you giving people a good education is not complex so what is the no you know it is you know it's the teachers is no no it's not it's not the teacher is 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 it took responsibility and i played so myself that lie i want to eat out the system in you're the mayor you're responsible they're going to hold you responsible that i hold to hold the mayor responsible in chicago and so when you want to do we want to give or we give them an edgy but isn't just until june schools oh oh god oh you got into the program into the plugs into exams here is no no here's an exam we here's an example we teach arabic we take russian and we

teach the 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 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 you don't 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 a you sort of person who founded farm for the use of six through well two terms in office is one of the fundamental principles of our. american democracy and democracy in a lot of countries in the world so shouldn't it be applied to to the post of the mayor in the us you put your name up you say you want to lurk here now that's it and that's the third one with yeah i think people say well the public is not that

smart we have to limit terms the public is smarter than anyone else they can say we like you or reject you why did you do with the presidential term well i don't know i don't know the american people elect were active i'm afraid of 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 you the accept you then you carry that around well maybe maybe they just think that when you are in office you you've got too much of what we call the administrative resources i mean you can you you can you can pull more money more resources to being reelected that's the graph and there's no more time because you just weren't really elected and you not worry about doing your job then you can't realize that most people worry about that maybe they had accumulated money i got my campaign going and they forget about doing their job and so the mayor is more it's not

partisan job the mayor is about people and that's where the mayor's office is i'm 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 then includes everyone is that just in school we lead the way we require as everybody behind you you are credited for saving she carding from the decline suffered by other rust belt centers lie. detroit for example what exactly has been then to revitalize the that's the best rule so well this he should call is a public private partnership a business so i'm the mayor we're elected officials we work with the private business we say look you need the city's always change we have 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 a business come along and 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 deficit we have a difference of opinion so our public private partnerships as help the city tremendously one than any other city in america chicago was. in the world through the especially through the prince for segregated neighborhoods one for divide the racial politics you tried hard to break these barriers good do ethnic divisions still play with him when time and ethnic divisions 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 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 in diversity is good but also it can create its problems so we're very diverse city were founded by immigrants jean baptiste do sabo is french haitian he found a 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. 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 for me human human rights commission human relations so they were very proactive in any activity in

the city of chicago so they're out there where i have an asian community and in a span of community we can be community i have. arab community every china asian we have all different committees set up so we can help new immigrants who arrive in the city chicago is all we're also known in russia to movies and as a gangster. against theirs in chicago are our a legend today we're in moscow the gangsters are still alive and st petersburg even as it is right now it was once labeled the gangster capital of russia couple of years ago so this is you do this you see some similarities with the chicago you you saw in the movie l o l composer one thirty one i don't know anybody was alive then it was like nine hundred thirty and so late a touchable zur always played so beyond that the end you know we have universe in chicago or we have great universal medical institutions and you know just a great city and so you know people to watch untouchables you know there's about

here he met most commuters that man and you know if you want some advise do you discuss something when we all do stuff that there was a panel and of course many people start talking about traffic and traffic it is a problem for. 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 the environment is economic sense environment of the land the air in the water which is really important for a city we talk about traffic we talked about. anomic development housing you talked about i'm urgency 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 well at least

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welcome back to spotlight on now do you know of and just to remind that my guest today is richard daley veteran u.s. politician and the longest serving mayor on chicago the guy did a lot for the city for the environment universities for for the racial problems but mr daley thinks that he's biggest achievement is giving the kids a good education the racial leadership and leadership of the 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 to become a little or no leadership and i'll show mom i came from she was here you know you went through your advisor or she played in the garden and she's she's a well educated woman and her brother and came from a wonderful family who parents again when they strive for education she was

a means of the action worked in the mayor's office and of course she was your assistant or weren't although she was in the plan in development 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 u.s. senator and now we're very proud of him to be our president and he really we flex america first african-american mayor but he was elected on that alone he was elected and his competency and in his passion a willingness to look at people and see people in a different light he sees and looking at them and trying to give them as 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 well everybody counts i mean everybody counts i mean look i mean you're right. well 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 on my life the people who 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 them a special only his style 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 it as president yet he has certainly great feeling people when people meet him one on one it's amazing they'll tell you about in a course very successful campaign and 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 know there's light at the end of the tunnel but we're

going to get there people rush to the often compared bama to kennedy and well you would of course say that difference can't compare people because if you start to kind of each one has their own identity they're all character they're all ideas of what their president should do but most importantly the 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 that someway have made a wonderful contribution all of the presidents to our country in the world do you think michelle obama has the own political ambitions could could could could should 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 and families and and not just the. in the country but in the world and she's a wonderful spokes person as the first lady around around the world and you see in

a wonderful family keep their their family life even in the white house how strong is her influence on the president would you say what i would know i would know how much influence that they have but they're loving couple that 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 about the tea party in general how do you really a challenge what remember people get a lot of frustration here to the 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 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 this is the route that's part of democracy in a person it was willing to listen in 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 good new jobs who we have to train for so he's out there are responding to people. a bomber with what was agreed hate when he was elected well i mean worldwide but his popularity has been has been falling pretty dramatically for the last of the last months or so and many many say yes but it's because of the economic problems that lead us to do believe this because if you only reason you know nor every president for two years hit all time high then all of a sudden in the midterm elections midterm elections of every 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 to them or when they grow. wait everybody's looking for opportunities but he's here 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 if you watch him almost every day talking to the american public and not running or ducking from these issues what a chance it is in two thousand and twelve harman's 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 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 yes i have done this and this is how moving forward and people want a 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 and united states is look at what's happening in europe today here in china other places and a recession is affecting everyone so illinois still supports the ports of gravity i

think that's why it's so well is from hell there you know i think you know what a president hails from from we speculate bill clinton hail from arkansas on jimmy carter hail from georgia and. bush one to hail from texas and i'm very proud of that so you get that identity from chicago now on our 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 a television you are used to giving like for us conferences that we easily you know moscow may russian politicians are scale they make like once one a year do you envy them or should they envy you well you know one thing you know i am down to talk about whatever the moscow or is in petersburg. but i made it a point to know three four days and even on saturday ok i work there is saturday to

make sure because the public is not working so this one america should be out in so we get there for the not jewish no i was not there all the time and working and so that press always had access to me 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 is well well the press but they do give you a hard time i mean you know i mean i had these to do in the state room for example here you are your governor and mr blagojevich you know well he'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 one. lawyer well educated in a just didn't understand what public service was about but that's it doesn't mean facts

are people and you know it doesn't reflect everyone there are people who are corrupt in every facet of life in 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 and she kind of from the times that i know capone in the now you don't know i don't think so i mean you take if i had to if not just cry what europe is all about you wouldn't want to live there again. you know i mean there are there are issues there in europe and when i want to get into on you know with martin starr is here is because we like me talking about germany and that's you know 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 we want this is what it is all about you do you never go to the doctor with. without carrying a large chocolate or a bottle of vodka you need a new briefcase i mean i mean this is how it works but it can't because you 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 buy out the russian investment fund where the russian government put enough money for foreign investment to come here and the first question open she 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 really like anything else it affects the quality of service and the quality of service of government into any place in the world there could be any place in the world thank you thank you very much for be a doing the story did 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 done a tremendous job representing united states russia come again bring your family i would think you can't just remind you that my guest today was richard daley

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