historic. dynamic. new friends. among. friends are passed down here in moscow this is russia's laying into the e.u. for taking a unilateral approach to get syria foreign minister sergei lavrov says the ease plans for a new way to go all the steroid any part of the like approach to solving the our country's crisis since. the gas pressures are in ukraine with another winter of discontent moving off to kiev failed to successfully negotiate with russia over its previously agreed to fuel bills bomb the kremlin maintains the current deal complies with international requirements and can't be revised unilaterally.

russians were the victims of the beslan school siege seven years ago over three hundred and thirty people were killed after on terror to help children and teachers sit straight and three days without food on board. all next we put the spotlight on chicago's long serving mayor whose timely reforms transformed the city stay with us . hello again and welcome to spotlight they enter the shelf. i'll bring you all ben today my guest is richard daley. the longest serving mayor of chicago has

left our first office twenty two years and the trip he managed to turn the declining rest city into a distillation city pushed through immigration reform and massively dealt with the 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 no longer serving mayor of chicago richard daley. richard daley was the patriarch with a very influential political family often compared to the kennedys he was just the best mayor out of the cities in the us for make the chicago business friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party is supported barack obama during the presidential campaign three years ago his younger brother william white house chief

of staff. all of us availing thank you very much all the thank you very much a pleasure having you be here right from moscow to petersburg well we will be talking about mawson's. let's start. off the first question i want to ask you why do you go on record breaking politician so how difficult was the decision to leave washington. it was your decision you you decided to quit like and nothing 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 a mayor for twenty two years and prior to their ten years as state's attorney i was a full time public servant for over thirty two years and eight years as a state senator which was a part time and so i enjoyed my public career i was a public servant and enjoyed every minute of it and i sacrificed but i thought of that 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 or could we could run again and win 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 we're happy for you have they were a wonderful family for wonderful children and wife and friends and all that and you know and so it's a part of public life was there or so it wasn't like a burden you know i enjoyed it when people think that being a mayor 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 your burden people call you like twenty four i don't have

a logo there that they somebody told me don't have a mono but you got to move all in 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 are so you have to have passion and 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 have people be part of a block of community organizations in the busy. really and the realisation that the greatest gift that i could give to any child is a good education if i give a child on 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 that you are giving people a good education is not complex so what is i know you know it is if the teachers there is no that's not the teachers the role of the mayor says no and you say you are really giving education you take responsibility and so on the only mayor in the country it took responsibility and i played so myself that lie i want to you have

the system in your 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 give them an edgy but isn't just like the children schools are good oh you get into the program into the clouds ground 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 and it was eighteen years old a 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 because some of 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 you know 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 is the only use or

parents who founded farm for the use of six students were well two terms in office is one of the fundamental principles of american democracy democracy in a lot of countries in the world that shouldn't be applied to kids and to the post of the mayor and i was you put your name up you say you want to lead here now that's a that's the first well not that i think people say well the public is that smart we have to limit terms the public to smart. and anyone else they can say we like you or reject you why do we need to credential to them well i don't know i don't know the american people elected their academic for the fifteenth and i wouldn't i wouldn't i wouldn't mind i think any president should want but when you start limiting 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're right for you one for a lot 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 resource i mean you can you you can you can put more and more money more resources to being relaxed you've got to go out there in the market because if you just weren't really elected and you not worry about doing your job then you can't be like most people worry about that maybe they don't accumulate money or 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 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 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 it's not just the wheel either way but it requires everybody behind you you are credited for saving she

cardew from a decline suffered by other rest both centers like detroit for example what exactly has been done to revitalize the that's the best rule so this he should call is a public private partnership a business so on the mayor we are elected officials we work with the private business we say what you need the city's always change we see of the chicago stockyards always they have chicago. huge industry and it changes so city has to be willing to change if it doesn't change it was in the past and it gets now you have to change our public private partnership we court 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 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 more than another city in that in america chicago was. in the woods with this personally through the parents for segregated maybe through divides of racial politics you tried hard to break these barriers but do ethnic divisions still clearly louis have to win some ethnic divisions you have like a german community you 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 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 know 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 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 with i have an asian community and i haven't. span a community i have a. community i have. an arab community i have a chinese agent we have committees set up so we can help new immigrants who arrived in the city chicago is old so known in russia to movies and as a gangster. 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 labeled the gangster capital of russia couple of years ago so did you did the did you see some similarities with the chicago you you saw

in the movie l l e l composes nineteen thirty one i don't anybody was alive then it was like nineteen thirty and so late touchable zur always played so piano at the end you know we have universal chicago are we're great universal medical institutions and you know it's just a great city and so you know people to watch untouchables you know there's a probably you know you met most commuters again and you know if you want some advise do you discuss something where we all discussed that there was a and on a course many people said talk about traffic and traffic it is a problem for all the urban areas in the next ten or fifteen years but 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 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 a lot of passion and you can't solve everything but at least a striving to solve them. says richard daley veteran u.s. politician and longest serving mayor of chicago retired just in may spotlight will be back shortly right out there break so don't go away stay where you are. i got out of the military in ninety six and six i got over because the things i saw the things i was doing any reason separately were given for doing and there was

a personal protest. during the vietnam war and the war movement emerge that altered the course of history this movement didn't take place on college campuses but in berets and on ships atena traded lead military colleges like west point and it spread throughout the battlefields of vietnam. today few people know about the g.i. movement against the war in vietnam. ask the army and we always said free the army or fun travel and adventure but it really meant the.

plane. welcome back to spotlight on a mound we know of in just a reminder 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 reform for racial problems but mr daley thinks that he's biggest achievement is giving the kids a good education be ready for leadership to 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 the were you the guy who advocated to become little or no leadership michelle obama came from she was you're you're you're you're going through your advisor or watching plan in development she's she's while educated woman and her brother and came from a wonderful family who parents again when they strive for education she was a means of yes she worked in the mayor's office and of course she was your assistant well because she was in the plane in development office and she was a wonderful ploy and 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 would 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 in see people in a different light he sees and 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 of the your opinion still counts in the democratic party while everybody counts i mean everybody counts i mean it will you go to i mean you're you're right why i don't think i think you listen to everyone it's not just goals and government or have an opinion it's you have to really listen to the people. that's why 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 only 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 he has a great feeling that people when people meet him one hand 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's that we're go 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 compare bama to kennedy and well you would of course say they're different can't compare people because if you start to

kind of 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 greatest 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 presidents to our country in the world do you think michelle about her own political ambitions 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 in 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 and a wonderful family and keep their best. family life even in the white house her song is her influence on the president would you say well i would know i wouldn't know how much stronger influence that they have but they're loving couple that

respect each other and it 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 we're never people get a lot of frustrated ever after party gives 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 in 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 this is the right 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 well a bomber would what was

a great hit when he was elected well i mean worldwide but his popularity has been has been falling pretty dramatically for the last the last month or so and many many say it's be is because of the economic problems that lead us did he believe this is i doing so because he only reason every president for two years hit all time high then all of a sudden in the midterm elections midterm elections of of the president they lose every president if you look back so they lose but in a recession when there's a recession you know in people worry they start worrying about economic development in jobs or what's going to happen to their parents or what's going to happen to them or when they graduate everybody is looking for opportunities but he's he's hailing the straight out any he's looking at the eyes of the people he says listen we're trying to do everything pounds. well 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 harming as you say 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 point is finger back and said i'm taking responsibility you know when you get elected to take responsibility and that's what he's done he's not blamed anybody he says saying yes i have done this and this is how moving forward and people want vision they want they want a leader they have passion and understanding at the same time this economic problem is all over the world so it's not unique united states is a look at what's happening in europe today in china and other places and the recession is affecting everyone so illinois still supports the war it's a gonna do you think that's why it's so like his stronghold there you know i think you know one of president hails from respective bill clinton hail from arkansas and

jimmy carter hail from georgia and. bush one to hail from texas so 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 you mentioned meeting people you told me when you came into the studio today that the that you use the television you are used to giving their like for us conferences that we easily you know moscow me russian politicians are the scale they meet like once one a year do you only them or should they envy you well you know one thing you know i am now not to talk about whatever the moscow or it was in petersburg but i made it a point that not three or four days or even saturday i came i worked there is saturday to make sure because the public is not working so. that's when america should be out in 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 the press but they do give you a hard time i mean and these to do in the state and we were for example the your your your government mr blagojevich you know well he's he's shown as an example of patronize corruption and things like that while 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 knowledge a lawyer well educated in just didn't understand what public service was about but that's it doesn't reflect on people and you know it doesn't refer to everyone or 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 a it's one of the failures of people that had isn't it sort of also traditional in chicano or from the times of al capone in the now you know i don't think so i mean you take if i had to evacuate europe was all about you wouldn't want to live there again. you know i mean there are there are issues there in europe and they want to get into on you know what i'm asking is because i would like to be 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 wear but this is what it is all about you do you never go to a doctor with without carrying chocolates or a bottle of vodka you know the a 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 world that is changing rapidly. at the st petersburg

a 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 the first thing they're asked and so if it is a tradition you think it is doomed anyway one has to be because it's. 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 q. and a story to 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 want to thank you thanks just to remind you that my guest today was richard daley that's when the u.s. politician had longest serving average native how chicago twenty two years he spent in church that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your serious

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