i grew up in birmingham, alabama. i was born in 1954. i was 55, so you don't have to start counting. fifty-six next month. [laughter] an appearance there in birmingham, alabama, fully segregated. i did not have a white classmate until we move to denver when alice 12. you couldn't go to a restaurant you couldn't go to a movie theater. and yet, my parents and the people in our community -- it's also true of this little enclave in birmingham called titusville, a little community i grew up in. this middle-class community have been commenced or may not be able to have a hamburger at the lunch counter, but we could be president of the united states if we wanted to be. and so that's the extraordinary part because they believed very strongly that if you couldn't control your circumstance, which you certainly couldn't in segregated birmingham company can certainly control your response to them. >> that is the extraordinary part of this because the ordinary, if you're african-american, it meant you had to have an extraordinary capacity to rise abo

i grew up in birmingham alabama. i was born in 1954. i was 55, so you don't have to start counting. 56 next month. [laughter] and my parents in birmingham alabama segregated, i didn't have a white classmate until we moved to denver when i was 12. you couldn't go to a restaurant or stay in a hotel or go to a movie theater, and yet my parents and the people in our community in birmingham and the committee i grew up in. this little middle class community had been convinced we might not be able to have a hamburger at the counter but could be president of the united states if you wanted to become so that's the extraordinary part because they believed very strongly that if you couldn't control your circumstances which you certainly couldn't in segregated birmingham, you could certainly controlled your response. >> that is the extraordinary part because being ordinary, african-american and you had to have an extraordinary capacity to rise above jim-crow depression and the lesson for that today i feel like there is still time there's a way to r

, birmingham, alabama. dr. clark, when is a person categorized as homeless? well, the most important thing is to recognize that when a person lacks a permanent, fixed residence, they meet the category of homeless. now, there are a number of temporary arrangements that people have; for instance, it's estimated that roughly 1.6 million people are living in transitional or shelters, and they also meet the definition of homeless. so it's-we're looking for people who have permanent, fixed residence, and if you don't have that, then you're defined as homeless. and dr. milby, can you sort of take us through those categories a little bit? well, there're, there're lots of services that are provided for the homeless, from basic emergency shelters that just provide overnight stay, and people have to leave after-usually serve breakfast and then have to leave after. there are shelters that are more permanent and give people a chance to find more permanent housing. there are shelters also for women with children, for exa

trying to drive from birmingham alabama, back to atlanta.n the sides of the road but there's a clear path in the middle and we're staying on it. doing exactly what i shouldn't be doing in the aftermath of an ice storm. it's okay. i don't know but it's what you don't see that you need to be worried about. after three and a half hours of very careful driving, we got to the outskirts of the city. one car after another keeps skidding in front of us. and met a very frustrated stranded trucker. have you been talking to other truckers? >> everybody's talking. >> reporter: what are you saying? >> the worst area to be on the road conditions. >> reporter: the storm that brought chaos to the south is now setting its sights on the mid-atlantic and northeast. >> we're expecting four to eight inches in and around philadelphia. new york city, 6 to 12. but the worst of this storm is going to be across southern new england, where hartford brov dense, boston booster, massachusetts, they could see over a foot, with lots of blowing and drifting. >> reporter: th

they are getting bail money to take down to birmingham, alabama. i thought as i was using an analogy in the first -- i talk about in the opening paragraphs, i talk about -- i said to him a good analogy would be you can't believe that we've come this far as negro people. we can't believe we've come this far. i think i actually said we've come here today -- that's what it is. we've come today to -- no, we've come here today to redeem. >> host: uh-huh. >> guest: okay. >> host: yes. >> guest: a promissory note that's been unpaid. >> host: because of rockefeller. >> guest: and we can't believe there's not sufficient funds in the bank vault. i said i can't believe there's not sufficient funds in the vaults of justice to redeem this promissory note. >> host: yes. >> guest: essentially that's what -- and then i add on some other things. and so i didn't -- they were saying clarence to a certain extent, talking points, outline, some of the language and stuff you had helped him with. >> guest: there's no question about it. >> host: here he is on the podium. w

money at the manhattan bank of going in to a bank vault and they are getting money to to to birmingham alabama. as a, i fought as i was using an anthology i taught that in the opening paragraph i talked about i said to him a good analogy would be you can't believe that we have come this far as negro people, can't believe we have come this far or think i actually said we have come here today, that's what it is, we've come here today -- know, we've come here today to redeem, too greedy and a promissory note that has been returned unpaid for insufficient funds. >> host: in terms of a promissory note because of dhaka father. >> guest: that's right, and we can't believe that they are not sufficient funds in the fault. i've been to the bank vault. i've not been in, but i've looked, and so i said i still can't believe that the non-sufficient funds in the fault of justice to redeem this promissory note. essentially that is the and then on and on some other things. >> host: to a certain extent the talking points, the hot line, the language and stuff you helped him with. so here he is now on the podium.

host: birmingham, alabama, independent line. caller: i believe that the guest is absurd. i have been to some of the countries he mentioned. for example, moldova has a gridlock situation with ethnic tension and they have more political parties than we do. when i watch the media there, i am always in formed. i can pick up bbc and cnn and i can pick up russian media and romanian media. people are more literate. russia has over 40 political parties. it has more independent news outlets. it has problems, for sure, but this guy has a right below argentina. it is just absurd. i am calling you from a city in the united states where two of the last four mayors are in prison for corruption. i believe there is a bias that this is a relative cold war. this person is speaking nonsense. guest: the collar and i will have to agree to disagree. the fact that the officials where he lived have gone to jail for corruption suggests that the system works. in officials engaged inappropriate behavior, there is a system in place that holds them accountable. in the case of moldova, a number of pol

bail money to take down to birmingham, alabama. so i thought as i was using an analogy, i talked about in the opening paragraph, i said to him, a good analogy would be you can't believe that we have come this far as negro people. i cannot believe you have come this far more at think i actually said we have come here today we have come here today to redeem a promissory note that has been returned unpaid for insufficient funds. >> host: that was the key thing. rockefeller. >> guest: and we can't believe that they are not sufficient funds in the vault of been in the bank vault. i have looked. i said, i can't believe there is not sufficient funds in the vaults of justice to regain this promissory note. >> host: yes. >> guest: essentially. and then i added on some other things. so i didn't -- >> host: to a certain extent the talking points, the outline, some of the language and stuff you had helped him with. >> guest: no question about it. >> host: here he is on the podium. where are you? >> host: off to the side in the back. >> host: h

getting money from rockefeller of going in to see money they are getting bail money to to to birmingham alabama. so, i thought as i was using an analogy in the first -- i talked about in the opening paragraph i talked about i said to him a good analogy would be you can't believe that we have come this far as negro people, you can't believe we've come this far. or i think i actually said we've come here today, we have come today to redeem its class a reno that has been returned unpaid for insufficient funds. >> host: in terms of a promissory note because of rockefeller -- >> guest: that's right. and we can't believe they are not sufficient funds in the vault. i've been to the bank vault, i haven't been in the bank vault but i can't believe that the non-sufficient funds in the justice to redeem this promissory note. it is essentially that is -- and then i added on some other things and so i didn't -- the work not sitting the talking points, the outline, the language and stuff, you had helped him with. security is now on the podium to retire watched on the side to the back. he gets to the word i t

one that occurs to me is the 1963 bombing of the 16th street baptist church in birmingham, alabama. it was a moment of heightened political conflict. really the peak of the civil rights movement. in the middle of that, you had a whole series of other acts of violence that had not in fact called the question. but when this happened, killing famously four little girls, children who became really a symbol of the kinds of escalating rhetoric and the kinds of violence that had been occurring around the united states, you did see a moment in which americans stepped back and not only sort of said who did this, what was going on with this particular individual, what were his politics? was he mentally unstable, but really asked, you know, is there something about us? is there something about the united states, about our laws, about the way we go about our politics that make things like this possible? >> did that happen after oklahoma city as well, beverly? >> well, to some degree it did and it didn't. oklahoma city is probably our best parallel to this current situation. oklahoma city in 199

there is no earthly reason i ought to be soviet specialist from birmingham alabama, okay? you're welcome. >> any more questions? >> my name is hannah and my question is are you going to plan to run for office again? [laughter] no. i actually never was even in my high school student council. did you run for student council? she won the presidency twice, i knew it. i was never -- never ran for anything and probably won't. i left public service. i'm very involved in cable education, very involved with the boys and girls clubs. probably will get more involved with my cousin and the work that she's doing it because i care a lot about those issues and the state of california and where we are going that is the public service and i was the secretary of state, there is no better job. >> ladies and gentlemen, would you please help me thank the absolutely wonderful condoleezza rice. [applause] >> condoleezza rice served as united states secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the national security adviser from 2001 to cause a fight. she is currently a senior fellow with the hoove

wall of resistance, and my father, this mild-mannered postal worker -- remember this is 1946 birmingham, alabama, so for a black man to stand up to a white police officer was to invite a special kind of trouble. and he wound up being wounded when the police officer gun discharged and grazed the side of his leg. he had to get out of birmingham jury quickly after that. and the rest of the brothers had to get out of birmingham. they couldn't stay carrying the north main at that point became a bit of a risk. there were ever consequences that i only understood in the writing of this book. the great opportunities to have jobs and the way they do, when the six sons moved to visit from time to time. parents continue to age. there will continue to deteriorate. there will left alone in the later part of their life because their sons moved north and felt they could no longer come back. the more you understand this migration you see the benefits that were great. >> your mother is a fourth generation. how did her and her father's experience meet? what did she teach you about life in the north? her experience

a place for you expect a winter day, this one from birmingham alabama this note is letting go, the iceof big snowstorm is making headlines all across these half of the country. james. they will wish they lived here when you see this, traffic is moving fine the update from church in a moment. whether rise coming 53 years ago calling back down to the 49 degree range by 8:00 p.m. this evening. we do have some of that lately falling in the north bay, storm tracker 4 is showing you where it's coming down near petaluma. you have a cell moving to petaluma, a checked out rainfall rate, for hundreds of an entry now are not talking about a lot of rain. just a sprinkler to, other cells moving their way through as well. east bay, really light, moving its way through concord. as it makes its way down towards mt. diablo. radar, like, why expecting much to fall. 49 degrees in san francisco, 47 across the bay and oakland, 44 hayward, 44 livermore. 40 then said jurors said. in terms of their graiinto the rain really let your today, temperatures were mostly steady. 54 santa rosa, 56 in santa rosa, 50 li

wall of resistance, and my father, this mild-mannered postal worker -- remember this is 1946 birmingham, alabama, so for a black man to stand up to a white police officer was to invite a special kind of trouble. and he wound up being wounded when the police officer gun discharged and grazed the side of his leg. he had to get out of birmingham jury quickly after that. and the rest of the brothers had to get out of birmingham. they couldn't stay carrying the north main at that point became a bit of a risk. there were consequences though they didn't understand when they moved north of only understood in the riding of this book. the greater opportunity when they moved north. they had jobs, they could use the g.i. bill of more than ways they could not in the deep south. but also, when the six sons moved north, even though they came back and visited from time to time, they left behind parents who continued to age, whose homes continued to age, whose health continued to deteriorate. and what i realized, the letters that i discovered and the interviews i did, that my grandparents who gave birth to the s

host: "the wall street journal" control ut guestthe gun situation -- birmingham, alabama. c.j., independent. you are on with mr kristol. caller: i am concerned about what we are teaching to our young people. it seems we teach young kids to deal with difficult matters in different ways. people get very defensive when they are on the wrong side. there is a thing called responsible media. if you take any media culture class, it shows you we can have civil discussions but we have to start from the foundation of an even scale. the inconsistencies about knowledge, like death panels when you are talking about health care. when you do not call out your own group as well as the others , then we all have a responsibility to make sure that we do our part. we can point out problems of the other guy but we need to be true to our own as well. guest: we need to be judged by what we say and write. i am happy to be judged and for criticized by what i write in "the weekly standard." i have said alicia things and you are right, personal responsibility is a key component of a civilized societ

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host: birmingham, alabama, independent line. caller: i believe that the guest is absurd. i have been to some of the countries he mentioned. for example, moldova has a gridlock situation with ethnic tension and they have more political parties than we do. when i watch the media there, i am always in formed. i can pick up bbc and cnn and i can pick up russian media and romanian media. people are more literate. russia has over 40 political parties. it has more independent news outlets. it has problems, for sure, but this guy has a right below argentina. it is just absurd. i am calling you from a city in the united states where two of the last four mayors are in prison for corruption. i believe there is a bias that this is a relative cold war. this person is speaking nonsense. guest: the collar and i will have to agree to disagree. the fact that the officials where he lived have gone to jail for corruption suggests that the system works. in officials engaged inappropriate behavior, there is a system in place that holds them accountable. in the case of moldova, a number of pol

host: "the wall street journal" control ut guestthe gun situation -- birmingham, alabama..j., independent. you are on with mr kristol. caller: i am concerned about what we are teaching to our young people. it seems we teach young kids to deal with difficult matters in different ways. people get very defensive when they are on the wrong side. there is a thing called responsible media. if you take any media culture class, it shows you we can have civil discussions but we have to start from the foundation of an even scale. the inconsistencies about knowledge, like death panels when you are talking about health care. when you do not call out your own group as well as the others , then we all have a responsibility to make sure that we do our part. we can point out problems of the other guy but we need to be true to our own as well. guest: we need to be judged by what we say and write. i am happy to be judged and for criticized by what i write in "the weekly standard." i have said alicia things and you are right, personal responsibility is a key component of a civilized society.

host: birmingham, alabama, independent line. caller: i believe that the guest is absurd. i have en to some of the countries he mentioned. for example, moldova has a gridlock situation with ethnic tension and they have more political parties than we do. when i watch the media there, i am always in formed. i can pick up bbc and cnn and i can pick up russian media and romanian media. people are more literate. russia has over 40 political parties. it has more independent news outlets. it has problems, for sure, but this guy has a right below argentina. it is just absurd. i am calling you from a city in the united states where two of the last four mayors are in prison for corruption. i believe there is a bias that this is a relative cold war. this person is speaking nonsense. guest: the collar and i will have to agree to disagree. the fact that the officials where he lived have gone to jail for corruption suggests that the system works. in officials engaged inappropriate behavior, there is a system inlace that holds them accountable. in the case of moldova, a number of politic

host: birmingham, alabama, on our republican line. caller: i will be the first to admit that i am no great political mind. our president seems to be taking a lot of a vacations. every time he takes a vacation it takes a lot of money to start up air force one. he went to chicago, came back, went to a barbecue, and his wife went to spain. can we take the money than he is living the high life on and move it to public services? i do not think he should be living such a good life while people are having their lives but in danger, in jeopardy because we are having to cut fire and police. i detest do not think that is right. -- i just do not think that is right. host: off of twitter, one issue is a pension and not negotiations. guest: there are lots of complicated employee issues. one is the current employees and then pension benefits with the baby boomers about to retire and moving into the "the pension age." then there are health care benefits. all this is on the table right now. we are saying local governments restructuring pension plans.

he would look at that decade of the 1960's, which led this nation's eyes to birmingham, alabama and the letter from birmingham jail and the battle against bull connor and the way the dogs and the hoses of bull connor shot to this nation into the cause of civil rights. it was a decade in 1963 when the great field secretary for the naacp in mississippi, medgar evers lost his life while standing in front of his own home. a year, 1963, when 250,000 people of all races, creeds, colors, religions, dispositions and natural -- national origins marched on a mall in this city to proclaim a new commitment and a challenge to this nation to live up to the true meaning of its creed, a that 50- year. 50-yeark at -- period and look at that march and determined it was not a march for television. it was not a march to give speeches. it was a march to compel the president and the congress to pass a civil rights act consistent with the ideals of this nation. he would have witness in that year another unspeakable tragedy, the tragedy in dallas, when that great young president, john f. kennedy, lost his life

if you look at that decade of the '60s, which led this nation's eyes to birmingham, alabama, and a letterst bull connor and the way in which the fire hoses and the dogs shocked the conscience of this nation, and accelerated the coalition and the commitment towards civil rights. he would look back in that decade which began 50 years ago. it was a decade in 1963 when the great steel secretary for the naacp in memphis at the -- in mississippi, medgar evers, lost his life while standing in front of his own home. a year 1963, when a quarter of a million people of all races, creed, color, religion, dispositions, national origin, marched on the mall in this city to proclaim a new commitment and a challenge to the nation to live up to the true meaning of its creed, that indeed we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men, and i would say all men and women, are created equal. he would look back over that 50 year period and look at the 1963 march on washington, and recall that it was not a march for television or public relation purposes, it was not a march whose aim was to give flowery co

he told birmingham news in alabama, in washington, the view is is that the banks are to be regulated.my view is that washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks, end quote. and according to "politico," the incoming house government oversight and government reform committee, big oil, big farmer and big health will be helped. instead of all this business as usual and we are headed right back into where we were before 2006, what i'd like to see is an honest attempt to create a set of rules that provide for openness, transparency and good government. this set of rules is not that document. and i hope the other side, although i believe have good intentions, will join us in supporting this effort. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: madam speaker, congratulations, it's very nice to see you in the chair. let me ask unanimous consent that a section of section analysis of the resolution appear at this point in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

. >> i think, first of all, the good news is for someone who grew up in birmingham, alabama, in the '60s and saw the attitudes then, you've got republicans electing the guy, beating a fellow named thurman in the primary i believe, represents the district and has fort sumter in it. those white republicans get elected -- >> health has indeed frozen over. >> i think that's something -- >> come on now. >> i think that's something to acknowledge it and to celebrate for what it is, but not to be blinded to think that that means anything, other than, you know, the mere fact. i can come as a needed said, the focus on the voters and our minority voters electing people in fair numbers. whoever they want. what it is representative cohen or a person of any other color here is what the voters want and whether minorities are winning on an equal basis. >> think what the voters want, typically when we have these discussions they largely are, do they look like us? that what you look at is the election return. you got to minority precincts, you got the white precincts and there's mixed precincts. it's

told birmingham news in alabama, in washington, the view is is that the banks are to be regulated. my view is that washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks, end quote. and according to "politico," the incoming house government oversight and government reform committee, big oil, big farmer and big health will be helped. instead of all this business as usual and we are headed right back into where we were before 2006, what i'd like to see is an honest attempt to create a set of rules that provide for openness, transparency and good government. this set of rules is not that document. and i hope the other side, although i believe have good intentions, will join us in supporting this effort. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserv the balance of her time. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: madam speaker, congratulations, it's very nice to see you in thehair. let me ask unanimous consent that a section of section analysis of the resolution appear at this point in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr

he told birmingham news in alabama, in washington, the view is is that the banks are to be regulated. my view is that washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks, end quote. and according to "politico," the incoming house government oversight and government reform committee, big oil, big farmer and big health will be helped. instead of all this business as usual and we are headed right back into where we were before 2006, what i'd like to see is an honest attempt to create a set of rules that provide for openness, transparency and good government. this set of rules is not that document. and i hope the other side, although i believe have good intentions, will join us in supporting this effort. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: madam speaker, congratulations, it's very nice to see you in the chair. let me ask unanimous consent that a section of section analysis of the resolution appear at this point in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection

he told birmingham news in alabama, in washington, the view is is that the banks are to be regulated.my view is that washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks, end quote. and according to "politico," the incoming house government oversight and government reform committee, big oil, big farmer and big health will be helped. instead of all this business as usual and we are headed right back into where we were before 2006, what i'd like to see is an honest attempt to create a set of rules that provide for openness, transparency and good government. this set of rules is not that document. and i hope the other side, although i believe have good intentions, will join us in supporting this effort. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: madam speaker, congratulations, it's very nice to see you in the chair. let me ask unanimous consent that a section of section analysis of the resolution appear at this point in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection.

and politics institute has carried members of congress through alabama and walked through the history of the civil rights movement in birminghama, with john lewis leading us. we had about 30 members of congress over the years. the first time we went, george wallace was still alive. it was the last year of his life. he was in pretty rough shape. the congressional delegation went to see him. i remember john lewis, earl hilliard, the african-american congressman from that area, they walked right in and were as comfortable as could be. i remember a couple of our white, midwestern, liberal members, standing at the edge of the door wonder whether they wanted to walk in or not. george wallace received them with wonderful spirit, they responded with wonderful spirit. two years ago when we went back, peggy wallace kennedy, george's youngest daughter, came to sell my, spoke at the church, and join us in the march across the bridge. i think martin would look down and say, yeah, you got it, keep going. thank you. kim [applause] [applause] >> thank you very much to everyone. we would like to begin the conversation and also, we plan to have

the faith and politics institute has carried members to alabama and walked through the history of the civil-rights movement in birmingham, montgomery, and some elma with john lewis leading us. we have carried 120 members of congress over the years. the first time we went, george wallace was still alive. and he was -- it was the last year of his life. he was in his house. she was in rough shape. the congressional delegation went to see him. -- he was in rough shape. john lewis and earl hilliard walked right in and were comfortable as could be. i remember a couple of our white, midwestern and liberal members standing at the edge of the door not knowing whether they wanted to walk in that room or not, because something was really bad. george wallace received them with wonderful spirit. and two years ago when we went back, peggy wallace kennedy, came to selma, spoke at brown chapel, and joined us in marching across the pettis bride. ge. i think martin would look down, and say, yeah. that's it. you've got it. keep going. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much to everyone, and we would like to begin our conversation and

the result earthly reason i have to be a soviet specialist from birmingham, alabama. you're welcome. >> i have a question. hi, my name is hannah and from middle-school and my question is, are you going to plan to run for office again? [laughter] >> no, i actually never even was in my high school student council -- does she run for student council? yeah, she won the president the twice. i knew it. so i did never run for anything it publicly while. i love public service. i'm very involved in education, very involved with the boys and girls club, probably will get more involved with my cousin and the work that she's doing because i care a lot about those issues, about the state of california and where we're going. but that's all public service. on the secretary of state. there is no job and government. that's enough. enough ladies and gentlemen, which you please help me think the absolute wonderful, condoleezza rice? [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> condoleezza rice served as the united states secretary of state from 2005 until 2009 and is a national security advi