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three thirty am in moscow these are already headlines making a splash in russian politics and billionaire much power proper of launches him self 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 cause are the second largest after united russia and the upcoming parliamentary election asking if not mean then 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. the u.k. accuse 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 the country. coming up a long time chicago mayor richard daley turned america's third largest city from one in decline back into an attractive place to live finds out if he has some advice for moscow spotlight coming up. wealthy british style is not exactly that's not on the front. of the. markets 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 show. alvin hall ben today my guest is richard daley. the longest serving mayor of chicago has left office the twenty two years in the chair he managed to turn the declining the rest built 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 advice does the 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 of a very influential political family often compared to the kennedys he was billed as the best mayor out of the five largest cities are you asked for making chicago

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 white house chief of staff. close a daily thank you very much on the thank you. thanks it's a very leisure pleasure having to be here right from moscow st petersburg and well we will be talking about moscow in a forest but let's let's start with chicago illinois off the first question i want to ask you you like you've got a record breaking politician as so how difficult was the decision to leave office because it was your decision you you decided to quit like enough as was it or was it maybe a wife we kids who maybe didn't know you know what happened is that i enjoyed public life i was mayor for twenty two years and prior to that ten years the state's attorney i was a full time public servant for over thirty two years from 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 and 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 the best decision i could make it could we could run again and went 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 once you've made your family happy now you know that were you happy before because you know they were a wonderful family four wonderful children and wife and friends and all that and you know so it's a part of public life was there or so it wasn't like a burden you know i enjoyed it but people say that being a mayor is such a big cities even is even more time consuming than being president of the us one 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 is you know then people call you like twenty four i don't get there you mobile that somebody told me don't have a mono but you know you haven't moved when you know i never did know because good decision. 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 the realisation that the greatest gift 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 said you giving people a good education is not complex so what is the you know it is you know it's the

teachers is no no it's not no it's not the teachers the role of the mayor says no when you say you're really giving education you take responsibility and so i'm the only mayor in the country that took responsibility and i played so myself that lie i want to the system and 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 what do you want to do we want to give our we're give them an edgy but isn't just a children's schools all good oh you got into the program into the. exam here's no here's an exam we here's an example we teach arabic we take russian and we teach. chinese said it was a literal decision it was it was not a political decision it was an education decision to give young people opportunities to realise 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 this city he said you have to have

a learning environment in the home and in the community it isn't just going to school and 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 pass you found from four of the you sort of six students well well two terms in office is one of the fundamental principles of our. american democracy democracy it in lots of countries in the world so shouldn't it be applied to to the post of the mayor oh yeah i noticed you put your name up you say do you want to elect me or not that's it that's the third volunteer i think people say well the public is not that smart we have to limit terms the public just smarter than anyone else they can say we like you or reject you why do they believe in the presidential term well i don't know i don't know the american people elected barack obama for the fifteenth and i wouldn't i wouldn't i wouldn't mind me i think any president should run but when you set limits in people that means just 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 your they accept you then you carry that out well maybe maybe they just think that when you are in office you you've got too much of what we call the administrative resource i mean you can you can you can you can pull more more money more resources to being reelected that the got there is no more time because you just worry about reelected and you not worry about doing your job then you can't be reelected most people worry about that maybe they even accumulate money i get my campaign going and they forget about doing their job and so the mayor is more it's not a partisan job the mayor is about people and that's what a mayor's office is about look at 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 point 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 the we lead the way but it requires everybody to be behind you you are credited for saving she cargo from a decline suffered by other rust belt centers lie. detroit for example what exactly has been done to revitalize the the industrial so well this see should call is a public private partnership with business so i'm the mayor we're 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 to have should call huge industries and it changes so city has to be willing to change if it doesn't change it lives in the past and 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 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 the business community and 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 more than another city in that in america chicago was well known in the world through the especially through the prince for segregated neighborhood and yet one for divisive racial politics you trying aren't to break these barriers but do ethnic divisions stupid i only have one time ethnic divisions you have like a german community you 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 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 can have its weakness and i say whatever happens in the rest of the world it should not bother you. 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 form a human human rights commission human relations so there are very proactive in any activity in the city chicago so they're out there where they have an asian community going to span a community. community i have. arab community. china asian we have all 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 while 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 did you did you see some similarities with the chicago you you saw in the movie the l o l composed one thousand nine hundred thirty one i don't know anybody was alive then it was in like nine hundred thirty and so late a touch of wills are always played so beyond that in you know where the university of chicago where great university medical institutions you know just a great city and so you know people to watch untouchables doesn't go out there he met must commanders to ban and you know this isn't some advise that you discuss something when we all of a star said there was a panel and of course many people start talking about traffic and traffic is a problem for all big urban areas in the next ten or fifteen years almost eighty percent or more people believe 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 and vironment of the land the air in the water which is really important for a city we talked about traffic we talked about. konami development housing you talked about 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 you have to have a lot of passion and you can't solve everything but lisa striving to solve it says richard daley veteran u.s. politician and longest serving mayor offshoot toggling of retired just in me spotlight will be back shortly right after a break so don't go away stay where you want.

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but mr daley thinks that he's biggest achievement is giving the kids good education the right leadership program and leadership to be a spokesperson for education ok now one of your best pupils the personal best pupils was michelle obama was she yes this is the you're the guy who advocated it to become or all you know leadership but not all michelle obama came from oh she was you're you're you're you're going to your advisor or she plan in a valid when she says or what well educated woman and her brother and came from a wonderful family who parents again what they strive for education she was in the mayor's office yes she worked in the mayor's office and of course she was your assistant or it was she was in the planning development office and she was a wonderful ploy she had that 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 and willingness to look at people and see people in a different light he sees in looking at them and trying to give them as whole in a better world in a better country this is your opinion today when you're a time did this your opinion still counts in the democratic party while everybody counts i mean you know everybody counts so many vote i mean you're you're right. well i 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. 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 his style bill 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 he has a great feeling to people and people meet him one on one it's amazing they'll tell you about and of course very successful as 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's got 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 bama to kennedy where well you would of course say they're different can't compare people because if you start 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 have made to the country and i can't speak for him but he's taken a part of all of them that some way have made a wonderful contribution all the president's to our country in the world do you think michelle obama has her own political ambitions could she be like like 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 spokesperson as the first lady around around the world and you see in a wonderful family and keep their family life even in the white house her strongest influence on the president was you say well i would know i would know how much stronger influence 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 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 and so like anything else they're had to be heard in so you listen to them where they say in their freighted the debt 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 president it was willing to listen he's making great strides of cutting back various programs and cutting back red tape and efficiency listening to the business community trying to understand how people get hired the new jobs that we have to train for so he's out there responding to people well a bomber won't what was agreed to hate when he was elected well i mean willed wide but his popularity has been has been falling pretty dramatically for the last the last months or so and many many say it's because because of the economic problems

in the u.s. did you believe this because of the only reason no no 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 them when they grow. wait 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 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 bomb 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 the 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 moving forward and people want a 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 to united states is look at what's happening in europe today let's have been china other places in the recession is affecting everyone so illinois still supports supports about how do you think it's a whole why it's so light like his stronghold there you know i think you know when a president hails from respectively bill clinton hail from arkansas on jimmy carter hail from georgia and. bush one to hail from texas they're very proud of that so you get that identity from chicago known or 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 that you use a television like you used to giving them like four news conferences that we. must come a russian politicians are of this scale they make like once one a here do you envy them or should they envy you well you know one thing. you know i am now not talk about whatever the moscow or is in petersburg. but i made a point to three or four days and even on saturday i can't i worked every saturday to make sure because the public is not working so that's when the marriage should be out in so we get there for the not jewish. i was not there all the time and working in 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 as well will the press but they do give

you a hard time i mean you know i mean i had these to do in this state and we were 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 right well you know it's funny he's already convicted of perjury and to retry him but he was he was somebody that. young man that is well educated lawyer well educated in just didn't understand what public service was about but that's it doesn't reflect all 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 non for profits it's one of the failures of society it's it's one of the failures of people that have isn't it sort of also traditional and she canno from the times of al capone and the no you know no i don't think so i

mean you take if i had to that describe what europe was all about you wouldn't want to live there i guess you know i mean there are there are issues there in europe and they want to get into and you know what the reason i'm asking is because we're like me talking about germany and that's what we're trying to fight corruption here in moscow and everybody in russia and many people are saying this is difficult because it's a tradition this is what the russian russian business russian wear but this is what it is all about you don't you never go to a doctor with a. without carrying chocolates or a bottle of vodka you need a new briefcase i mean i mean that 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 is putting up 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

a first scene there asked and so if it is a tradition you think it's doomed anyway what has to be because. 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 being you enjoyed it being here in moscow and st petersburg and i wish the people of russia the best to the future and to say we have wonderful embassador burly he's done a tremendous job representing the united states to russia come again bring your family i want to thank you thanks 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 that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your serious problem or if you have someone in mind you think i should be next time to drop me a line at algernon at r t v dot our year and let's keep the show interact there will be back with more until then stay on r.t. and take care.