who got the holy water? who got the holy water? [laughter] >> next question. >> hello, my question is, we talked about the young people and then we have -- you talk about the gap. my age group is, i guess we don't get a voice because a lot of us are educated and we are not employed as well. we are not being considered and i wanted to, as somebody who grew up in the city who moved to other states and who is a very persevering person, i would like to know one of the things that specifically this book fair is about books. my industry that i am interesting -- interested in publishing and was outsourced to years ago, the company i used to work for reader's digest went bankrupt. i am a non-super knower, but who is going to employ me? i just traveled an hour and a half to stanford connecticut for a technology job and after doing a great job was turned away because i was told i live too far away and i would leave them. i am the most loyal person and because of that loyalty, i am not employable. i am highly overeducated and a lot of differe

who pays the price? most immediately, of course, low income african-americans and other people of color. students who end their education after high school will earn over the course of a career $1 million less than their college educated counterparts. they earn less because the best paying and fastest growing jobs and careers require college as an entry-level requirement. the next level of jobs, the assembly line jobs that require only a high school diploma and a good work ethic, the great majority of those jobs have evaporated. when people came from the south in 1930s and '40s from new york and pittsburgh and detroit, left the farms, left the sharecropping to come north. they came to take jobs on the assembly line. they didn't have to have a great education. they had to have a great work ethic and they could earn a good living, support a family and buy a home and move on up. the jobs don't exist anymore. if the jobs at the top require college and the factory jobs have disappeared or moved off shore, wha

this is who we are, and that's who we want to be, okay? receiving enough nods to satisfy himself, ansil pecked up his -- picked up the hand drum and stopped. what does the beat remind you of? one child said heart beat. he asked who knows what a pow wow is. everyone had good guesses, and then answered the question himself. it's a celebration where some of us sing and we dance. we also make new friends and renew old friendships. it is made up of four circles. the first circle is the drum representing the heart beat. the heart beat of the pow wow and mother earth and the heart beat of her children, all of us in in room and outside the room. without this heart beat, there will be no pow wow. >> there we are right away, an individual who lives in this very city who if you saw on the street, it may not occur to you you're seeing innative american -- native american, but when you scratch the surface, talk to the individual, you learn about his culturement we're not in the world of either/or. this book is not about either/or, but with regard to an

there are employers who use health reimbursement accounts who i believe use them properly, who do not have expirations. who provide benefits statements regularly, who allow the broadest possible use of the account, and whose employees may elect to use their benefit to be part of healthy san francisco, to be part of a spouse's health plan, to meet a copayment, or to drop it down any way they choose. we have such a diverse employment base that we have people who work five hours a week. but in cases i know they get $1.37 per hour, and when the have a package of receipts for clarity and, -- claritin, aspirin, contact lens solution -- they submitted. my concern is our small employers and our high road employers who are doing everything to comply with the spirit and letter of the law, which is to make money available to employees for their personal health care. to that, i have to say that 55% reimbursement rates for medical reimbursement accounts, i think, is a really good goal. if that is what the city can do with all of the city's outreach, education, language -- we have a very educated a

not happy because they have a lot of friends who are progressives who are are often unhappy with the president but you can't please everyone is for sure you wrote a piece about religion versus races that it was titled is religion a greater political barrier than race can you recall in that. sure happy to refund that you know it has a lot to do with my new novel that you mention in the opening that you can candidate one of the things that i found which is about let me just say really quickly is about what happens to a group of friends when one of them decides to run for president and vice sheer coincidence the candidate governor cooper is handsome charismatic and black and he also happens to come from a multiracial family and his case his adoptive parents are jewish and the reason that that was interesting to me and important for me to to write about and why it ended up talking about this issue of religion versus racial identity in terms of which is is the greater obstacle on the campaign trail is because one of the things i was absolutely captivated by during the campaign and subsequ

>> who else came calling? a man meeting a boy who told him he's 14. wait till you hear what he wanted. >> what's up with the cameras? what's the police officer doing there? >> get on the ground now! >> a television technology teacher who learned something new about hidden cameras. >> how old are you? >> too old for this. >> and a man carrying a badge and packing his own arsenal, locked and loaded. >> there was probably an angel sitting on everybody's shoulder that night. >> chris hansen with "to catch a predator." >>> we've had our share of scary visitors during your investigations, but no one quite like the man you're going to meet tonight. thanks for joining us. i'm stone phillips. we're back in florida, where over the course of our four-day investigation 21 suspected predators showed up at our house on the beach. some brought candy, some brought condoms. but one man brought something we didn't expect. a warning, some of what you are about to see and hear is explicit. here's chris hansen. >> who wouldn't want to visit flagler beach? the small idylli

i wonder who? on the day of march 1st in the 5th year after the second millennium, a massacre took place in babylon. it's my pleasure it introduce the next poet, george evans. . >> first, i would like to read a poem by my dear friend and wife, daisy samora, who was to be here today but is in nicaragua, keeping in mind what michael said about jorge and casablanca, i will read it in her language or my spanish first, then in translation. it's a poem directly addressed to poets but certainly to activists as well. (speaking spanish) no man's land. we are a mine field of clarity and whoever crosses the barbed wire comes back to life. but who is interested in crawling through undergrowth? who dares sail a tempest? who wants to come face to face with purity? that's why we're fenced off in this no man's land

who is it exactly who will make the decisions of which obligations they are. if it's the treasury department, you're looking at the republican, a small executive branch making the larger pow transfer of power. it's a staggering change in the way we run or finances as a country. >> but the whole macroeconomic reality on this, help me, ezra, when the country puts out the world we're not paying our bills, and we're going to pick out a few people we're going to pay, that's bankruptcy. >> and it reverb rates throughout the entire economy. 80 million checks that go out. a lot of businesses that contract with the government. they begin hoarding money, laying off people in anticipation of not being able to cover their bills that month. you have seniors, folks who are low income, who rely on transfers to pay their rent, they begin hoarding money, reining in spending you have an economy in a deep downturn in which a large number of businesses and larger number of individuals have suddenly stopped spending because they're terrified, and then that reverb rates out to coff

people who are children people who are a security firm and so in my opinion you know we just have to go back to the basics i know of no code of ethics no court of ethics with christianity judaism. islam buddhist hindu or really just being a moral person that says that it's ok to just ignore him neglect the most vulnerable people in our society only talks about seniors these are people who blazed the past for us young folks these are people who fought in world war two the ones who defeated our country they're the ones who built our country that we could have stayed that year thanks for all you do for us but we're not there for you grandma grandpa i think that's repugnant and so that's that's where i'm coming from and i hope a lot of people agree with me on this point and thing is of course is that it's not just seniors it's the entire middle class right now especially when you look here fact that corporate profits are reaching record highs that corporate executives are having have record bonuses right now while the middle class is shrinking is it really just about getting back to basi

it is individuals who are in the national guard, who are a special group of people who actually belong to a state militia. we have individuals who have served in reserve components of each of the individual services who may or may not be in active status. and then we have a whole host of the family members who come into relationships and have relationships with those individuals who may be attached to an active-duty military base, who may not have any connection. and then we have veterans, and we have veterans who are disbursed all across the united states and may or may not have access to va services. so it is a very important definitional issue. and, captain hunter, let's talk a little bit. kathryn just mentioned the families. how does the family, then, approach an individual who may have a problem? what are some of the issues that they need to be aware of? my experience in the national guard has been that ptsd and mild traumatic brain injuries affect the whole family. one person may be the person who has the disorder or the stress symptoms, but it goes throughout the whole family. y

ray manzthea who ferreted out who owned what and what the taxes were. bob alexander. johnny behan has a defender for life and bob is an example how you can disagree with someone and do it pleasantly. jim donovan, who is doing a wonderful book about the battle of the alamo. other authors. casey tfortiller and a special manner still -- i am grateful to him because i read his book, bill michelle ngburg. two people all of us should recognize for their contributions to our knowledge even though there is controversy involving them. maybe deservedly but for tonight let's just credit them for the things they have given us. carl chafing and glenn boyer. some of the people who contribute most are those who don't necessarily do the research themselves but they do the things that make it possible for the rest of us. when i met bruce i wanted him to read my manuscript because i knew he would give me a fair and objective opinion what i was doing well and what i needed to do better and there's a special woman named christine roads and under her direction, the recorder's office, plac

on it who have who are working overnight shifts and rely on food stamps rely on medicare people who will lose these if this passes right will the reality is the people who really need these programs which they were designed to help will still get them but we have far too many people who are on it but one thing you realize that the wealthiest among us billionaires can still get medicare that can't assist them and they can still get it one that we don't need and they would even say we don't need that you know we don't even my opinions with this one but we don't need to take that for ourselves but they still get it but little things like that there's work all over the place including defense that can be removed and we've got to come to the table and and make those serious changes medicare is one of those programs that need to be revamped then it is another program let me get your reaction your head there says republicans are advocating for the poor talk to me what do you think. short well first of all i think the republicans have the best track record and they don't really have a lot o

and who didn't. in this case, it was, did they go there specifically to learn d to improve themselves in order to excel in their chosen field. did they keep a diary or write letters. were th changed byhe experience more than improvements in their skills as parenters and pianiss and di what they bring back matter. there's a lot of people who qualify for that criteria but you can't include them all, so otherwisit becomes a the catalog. so i picked those people whose story seemed to me the most compelling and whose fulfillment of the dream uly mattered to our country. >> charlie: you have said before that americans do not appreciate how much the culture comes from france. >> we do not. here we are in a country where our capital city was designed by a frenchman, whose revolutionary war was won largewe because of french financial backing and because of the presence of the french army. most people haveno id, for example, that the army under roschambow, was bigger than the army under washington. we have a c

you know the whole thing about this story though the whole thing of who put who would it show holder who pushed who isn't this point there's really there's no telling what actually happened but if you're just as ought to state supreme court with brinkley would have better judgment than to make yourself look guilty but i think that most people would agree that if somebody runs in the media slams the door in their face it looks like they have something to hide from the looks of this story it appears that just as david prosser needs some anger management classes you know i was accused of putting a fellow colleague here at our t.v. show called believe me i've been my best behavior around the office of course that would never happen i'm a peace loving person but this thursday incident of grabbing a reporter's microphone is not going to win the justice any new france and in fact it'll probably already confirm what a lot of people are thinking that he's got a temper so police and a judicial review board it was constant are investigating the choking incident but no word on when they will be

i would like to identify who those are. first, it impacts the employees, the workers of the city and county of san francisco. these workers have been harmed by this loophole because they have been unable to get the health care that this health care security ordinance invasion that they would get. we have heard testimony from many employees, and you will hear from many today, that talk about how the limitations on how the health reimbursement accounts work make it impossible for them to access the very basic health care that was intended by the law. i have heard countless stories of workers who sought reimbursement only to discover that their accounts had been wiped out by their employers. others who have put off critical services as they waited to accumulate money in their accounts, only to learn that that money was no longer available. we heard when the matter was heard in the commission -- we heard the story at the small business commission where they talked very passionately and very courageously because it is not easy t

king, who's impacting the civil rights movement, who's impacting the state department and cia who's following his every move because they're scared of what he's doing in the north africa and the middle east. and malcolm's revolutionary approach to islam is something we should all think about now in this age of the war on terror. malcolm had a different conception of islam. malcolm looks upon islam as this global human rights philosophy that can be melded with anti-imperialism, a critique against capitalism and a human rights revolution. so he goes to both conservative and liberal muslim clerics and says how can we refashion, um, islam in the united states and build these bridges for a human rights movement? >> can you comment on that as well, please? >> yeah. well, first there is, you know, manning marable taught that history is a con testation of interpretations over facts. so there is, you know, think of how many books there are on abraham lincoln, on george washington, on john f. kennedy, on martin king. there should be no one book on malcolm. there's always going to be an ongoing conversa

bauer's information comes from a man who's a jew who lefteurope in '38 and who lives in argentina asw. he hides his jewish identity. his daughter dates eichmann's son and brings him home one day and eichmann's son has the name eichmann. but the man doesn't recognize the name eichmann because it's not a well known name. but the young boy at dinner says "they should have killed all the jews." later this guy reads an article about bauer wanting to try a man named adolf eichmann and he puts two and two together. he lets bauer know. finally bauer gives the israelis more information and he says "i'm convinced." he goes to david ben gohr i don't know, the prime minister of israel. and ben gur i don't know who is a genius made one of his seminal decisions in this regard. ben-gurion. he could have said bump the guy off, let him end up in a ditch it will a warningto other nazi war criminals don't sleep soundly in your bed. but he says capture him, bring him here and we'll put him on trial. he understood the importance of trial. he fund importance of the judicial process and he's demonstrating

who last saw her? your basic csi stuff, and they had junk science and weird science and air science and the garden lady and all kinds of interesting characters in the trial. that is why i knew that no matter what they could not convict with the death penalty. yes, some strong stuff needs to be there for the death penalty. and it is our criminal justice system and it worked today and that is what our system is, 12 jurors listening to the evidence and then taking into consideration and then issue a verdict and that is what happened here. >> and savannah, on the charges of providing false information to law enforcement, and how does that gel with everything that we have seen? i mean, are we looking at not having told them the information that she had available to them in the 31 days that the child was missing? >> oh, yes. i mean -- >> the list is on and on? >> well, absolutely. that is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and i mean, i would have went out on the limb and predicted a guilty verdict on that, a

it is a person who has one who generally makes a lot of money. making money leads to new business which ultimately leads to job creation. here is a note to the recent under grads. i have never been hired by a guy who hates rich people or jets. more important, if you will rail against the rich, know who you are attacking. somebody making 250 grand can't afford the wheel of a private yet. -- jet. you may want to pick an ed hardy t-shirt. even i hate those. so the economy really sucks which is why obama is grasping. when you are a progressive demegod it is never the world of the rich. it is the rich folks and the companies they create that suck. and that's why we have to suck them dry. it won't help the economy, but maybe it will help a struggling president. and if you disagree with me, you are a racist homo phobe who is wealthy. >> if you take a wide shot, i feel like i am at a newlywed style game show where there are two couples facing off. >> exactly. and the winner gets a trip to puerto viarta. there you go. the couples look really, really happy

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the american police state, the spy who got away. who was that?>> that was edward lee howard a c.i.a.. >> oh, he went to russia what happened to him? >> he died there. >> rose: was he treated as a hero? >> yes,hey ve him adash that. i've been in the catch the that. he invited me to lunch catch the that. d head two servants, the k.g.b. provided whim a couple that cooked for him. >> rose: so he'd been a great... >> hwas a benefit to them. he had a drinking problem. >> rose: whs the most spectaculaspy story success against united states? >> wellyou have to look at the last two that i've written about aldrich ames in the c.i.a. and robert hanson. >> rose: right, right. >> in the f.b.i. and i don't know if there are any secrets left after the two of them. >> rose: and most spies get uncovered by somebody walking in and saying "i have this document" or... somebody telling on them >> yes, somebod telling on them. it's usually a defector or somebody who wants money who betray it is spies that's the one flaw in being a spy. if you decide to be a spy, charl

it is the voice of reasonable, fair minded people, who love this country, who are patriotic, who seee indispensable nation of this world. [applause] and my voice is one that is part of a much larger movement to take back our country and i wan to take that voice to the white house. it is the voice of constitutional conservatives who want government to do its job and not our job, and what our government to live within its means, not our means, and certainly not our children's means. i am here today in waterloo, iowa to announce -- we can win in 2012, and we will win. [cheers and applause] it may have started small, but our voic is growing louder. our voice is growing stronger, and it is made up of americans from all walks of life, like a three-legged stool. it is made up of strengt conservatives, and i am one of those. it is made up of fiscal conservatives, and i am one of those. it is made up osocial conservatives, and i am one of those. [applause] and it is made up of the tea party movement, and i am one of those. [cheers and applause] the liberals, and to be clear, i am not one of t

the shooter was, didn't see who by and did the shootings, didn't see who shot tupac. but somebody knows. somebody helped orchestrate that b.s. gangster crap, and they literally have gotten away with murder. i do believe that somebody is going to man up at some point in their life and say, this isn't right. biggie had friends, relatives, he had a mother, people that love him. tupac had lots of people, he has surviving children. they need justice. and you're just a coward if you don't man up and say, i think i know who did it. this is who it is. this is what happened. i don't want to leave my name. get you back on track. you can break this case. >>> still ahead, two of the oldest and most notorious cold cases of all-time. the vicious murder known as the black dahlia case, a 22-year-old woman tortured and killed by someone police said could wield a knife like a surgeon. plus the zodiac killer, blamed for a string of murders in northern california. the killers coded letters to police have inspired countless theories. john walsh believes the zodiac may have threatened him

are adjudicated felons or people who are convicted of domestic violence or people who are, who haveeen admitted to mental institutions are allowed to acquire gunses, then there's something -- guns, then there's something deeply wrong. so i thought about that. and my editor, in fact, asked me about that. and i just said we're going to have a generic president here. it saddens me to say that, but, um, that's why. >> okay. well, so you said you've known the last four presidents, so that includes obama, of course, but also, obviously, george w. bush. um, was there any -- did you and he talk about literature, about perhaps, you know -- [laughter] having his political life thrown into the pages of fiction? >> yeah, well, i should say that i knew his dad rather better and knew the second president bush through him. you know, we -- there are enough differences in points of view on some issues that i don't know that it would have been very useful to sort of go there. he was always great fun to be around. you know, he's a lively guy. you know he's in the room. and you can see why he succeeded

for who they are. we are not going to let this divide us or break us apart. we are not afraid of those fictitious sharia laws that they want to invent. it is nonsense. nobody is asking for this, but they have created this straw man because they want to create your between me and you. that is what it is all about. i am telling you, once they pick out one, they are going to pick out another one. so we have to hang together, folks. each one of us has got to be a soldier and say liberty and justice for all. that is right. if your whole political philosophy is the elevation of greed to an ideology, that only serves 1% or less of the american people, then how are you going to get 50% of the american people to vote for that program? first you have to suppress the vote. you have to tell them they need estate issued identification card even to vote, even though the constitution says nothing of the sort. you have to make them scared of each other, suspicious of each other. you have to make them not want to hang

there are those who say that is okay. that we have enough college graduates and we don't need any more. a few months ago i debated a pair of these college the nighters as i call them, college professor at a writer on a pbs debate and posed this question to them. is this the answer you give to your own children and grandchildren when they ask you whether they should go to college? do you tell them you don't need to do that. we have enough of those. they didn't answer. they didn't need to. we know the answer. that is not the answer they give their own children. that is the answer for somebody else's children and we know who that is. it is not only non college graduates who suffer. families pay the price. low incomes mean less security. less ability to send the next generation to college. communities suffered too. lower incomes and less security translates to less taxes paid which means less money for schools, roads and parks. nor is the price communities pay the nominated warmly in dollars and cents. college graduates vote

it's a reputation memorialized by those who knew him best, the men who served with. he was a leader among leaders, said one. his drive to be the best motivated all of us to reach our potential. another said, he led from the front. he inspired everyone around him to better themselves. perhaps the most poignant was this simple post on a local newspaper site. my son was killed with sergeant procter. private first class dylan johnson and the rest of the soldiers in the unit all looked up to russell for leadership and guidance. they are both heros to me as well. it's signed, a grieving dad. i had the honor to speak last week with sergeant procter's widow. she's also active duty army. they met while serving at fort hood. she was deployed at the same forward operating base as russell. they were bill letted together, she was nearby when he was killed. i cannot begin to imagine the hell that she has been through. yet having endured all this, she plans to continue her service to our country in the u.s. army. mr. speaker, james mitch for the's question thunders down -- james mi

and the people who support the i.m.f. the terrorists as i mentioned like eric cantor they're helping to facilitate the thieving of that twenty four hundred tons of gold because that is meaningful yeah of course because they need that gold because of course is the i.m.f. going to get the airport landing fees from naples or sicily. no but italy is a foreign country to look at it i mean it's kind of berlusconi is a media tycoon he owns ninety percent of the media there he's the murdoch of italy and yeah even more than that but this is why you know this ugly old buffoon who runs a country into the ground. and the population seems happy with it because he has lots of breasts on his television shows and in all his media and porn stars that he nominates for it to run the economy and they seem all perfectly happy with that but when the i.m.f. comes and takes their gold i think somebody else is going to have the last laugh they might have had real fun with this before but. look stacey i think this is incredibly important ken can y

we all know way too many folks who are struggling in a minimum wage jobs pirouette of folks who have been laid off at work. i think as a city, we need to do much better at creating an environment where we have more jobs and more economic development. i know that all of us are committed to ensuring that we have a budget that not only provides basic city services that we have come to expect but make sure that we take care of our most vulnerable. whether it be our at-risk use, our seniors, are disabled, our working families, folks who are out of work. i know something that every public servant who is here is committed to. adding with all come together as a board, as a city. we should come together as san franciscans, and, colleagues, at this time, i hope, and i asked that we unanimously vote for ed lee to be our next mayor. this is also a historic day for the asian-american community. for a community that has been here in santa francisco, for over 160 years, i am a product of that community. i know the ed and all of us of asian-american decent feel the legacy. i want to thank all of you

rowling, who at that time was a single mother on welfare when she came up with an idea about a boy who does not know he's a wizard. do you remember how -- it's impossible to say how an idea came about. do you remember, though, the creation of this concept? >> it came to me on a train going from manchester to london in england. it came very suddenly. >> what came? >> the idea for this boy who didn't know what he was until he was 11. then he got this invitation to go off to wizard school. i had this very physical response to the idea, i felt so excited and i just thought it would be so much fub to write. >> the first book was released in 1997 released as a simple children's book by a a first-time author. many people including j.k. rowling herself, didn't have high hopes. >> in all honesty, i thought if it ever got published it would -- it is kind of a book for obsessives. i thought, well, there would be a few people who would like it a lot. i never thought it would have a broader appeal. >> rowling who was turned down by several publishers, has become the richest woman in the world, so s

so i just want to say thank you to the providers who provide space for people like me, who had nowhere to go. so thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is ann cochran. i'm the executive director of the san francisco conservation corps. we provide job readiness, education and career development services for over 100 low-income young people ages 18 to 25 annually, and we've been doing it since 1983. we have partnered with both larkin street services and community housing partnership for many years and find them to be an excellent partner. the young people that join sfcc to gain job skills, their high school diploma and access to jobs, training or post-secondary education do so because they want to make their lives better and that of their families. one of the reasons, one of the primary reasons that the young people leave or fail in our program is a lack of affordable and stable housing. there is not enough housing to support this population who are facing many challenges and working very hard to become self-sufficient young adults. please support edward ii transition youth

>> i'm not privy to it but the producers who have been involved with it, many people who come from rockmy guess is that the thinking behind it, it's not bad thinking this at all, my guess is is that they really are thinking of this as a long-term project for arenas, for rock places. therefore, they are perhaps looking at this as a bit of a lost leader, and i think they got themselves into more of a tangle than they thought. >> how are they dealing with it? they're only used to unparallel success in the rock business. this has been by most people's argument would be it's been a bit of a turkey for them, which they're not used to. >> i was sitting behind them last night, practically next door, and they were really delighted. the reception from the audience was generally very, very good. >> from a musical perspective, how would you rate it? >> i'm not a critic and i never talk about other people. but you know, there were a couple of really good songs in there. and the thing about it is, is that writing for the theater is actually quite specific. and you could write a really, really great s

if there is any other speakers who would like to speak who haven't given a card, line up there. otherwise, i will be closing public comment after nina. >> thank you for having me. i was born and raised in san francisco. my mother is actually an immigration consultant. i think growing up here, it was very aparent a, how much more vibrant this community because of the immigrants who are here. i graduated from laurel high school, which is the school where the majority of students are students of color. apart from my caucasian friend, i don't think a single one of my friends came from a non-immigrant family. the other thing growing up in this climate is how polarizing the issue is. it seems like there has been a battle between people who are pro immigration and people who are anti-immigration. but i think, especially seeing all the faces here, just putting faces on this issue makes it so there aren't two sides to this people, that there are two grooms of people opposed to each other. somewhere down the line, all of us came here at some point, except the native americans. but yeah, i

i know who did it, how and why. and by god, when i write that book, i'm going to make sure justice is served. i think that's why people keep coming back to lawyer books in particular because there's a lot of drama in the courtroom. there's always a murder. there's always big stakes. i've written books about death penalty cases. the stakes don't get any bigger than that. and i think it was important to me to have the center of my books a defense attorney who is the kind of guy, the tony serra's of the world, the person you would call if you got into serious trouble. and there are a lot of corrupt lawyers in my books. there are a lot of nasty people in my books. there are a lot of lawyers who are not portrayed in a particularly favorable way. but the centers of my story are two small time criminal defense attorneys who work on michigan street. and if you get accused of a crime, those are the people you want to call. >> that's my approach. and they're both former public defenders, right? >> yes, they are. they are both

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the capital punishment system was put in place by humans who sometimes have agendas, who have blind allegiance to the system, to where they believe what a police officer or a prosecutor says no matter what because you are the defendant. i honestly believe that the defendant has the burden of proof, to prove that you are innocent in a court of law. this system has been broken for decades. when you have prosecutors and police officers who have qualified an absolute immunity for their conduct, they will continue that misconduct in order to gain convictions. they deal lead to much. in my case and in the rest of these guys cases, that is what happens. that drives people into the system. tavis: before we go on, you are the only white male with five african-american males. when we tend to think of criminals, when we tend to think of those who are sitting on death row, those who are incarcerated, for whatever reason, we tend to think of it in color coded ways. we do not think of white guys in this country being wrongfully convicted. we do not think of what guys sitting on death row. what do you have t

also honor those who contributed, those who helped her along the way. though she may be the one out front, she is always backed up by good health, and that is what made her and pushed her to be who and what she is. without some of your help, they could have chosen a different name, but i'm glad you chose to honor her in this way because if you had given another plaque and award, she would have just waited until you left and then told me to go put it in the closet with the rest. [laughter] so, of course, she is very thankful. very thankful. let us not forget about those who sacrificed so much on behalf of us. for a lot of them, it is on, you know, their shoulders many of us stand. because we stand on their shoulders, we get benefits, but it is based of somebody else's sacrifice, work, bloodshed, tears, and everything else. so i stand here grateful to be a great grandson of ms. westbrook. may god bless me to be worthy of such. thank you all. [applause] >> we have just a couple more people. let me just say, it is not in what order you come to the podium. i

who's the one who sees clearly? it's not atticus finch. he's not even a very intelligent father. i love him. i love him. but who lets your kids out in the middle of the night wearing -- dressed as farm animals and fruit when there's a craze killer who's vowed to get them? you say, fine, you don't need me to walk you home. you can do it yourself. is that -- is that smart? is that a good dad? bo radley is the one who actually has it straight, right? he knows those kids are going to get into trouble. he's out there and he does something about it. he's the one who gets justice in the book. you know, and so when you really think about it, if you can put through this wonderful vision of the child, if you can stop looking at this problem from a child's point of view, then you'll get a new take on "to kill a mockingbird," i think. you know, one that's much more actually meaningful to you. so -- >> ok. thanks. mary. >> yeah. >> oh, great. we lost you for a minute there. >> i know. >> yeah. so tell us -- how did you choose "to kill a mockingbird" as the subject for your book and for your f

we're going to give a senior who has invested in america, who has worked all of his or her life, who as my colleague has said maybe has fallen on difficult times with a 401-k and certainly that is because markets have gone up and markets have gone down and you're going to say, you're ggget to get a quarter. now, -- you're going to get a quarter. now bring us forward. that bill was passed by this house, the predominantly republican with any number of members who believe there's nothing wrong with that, it has gone nowhere in the senate. now we're at a crucial point where the president has asked for us to all be adults, to sit around the table and talk about how can we work this together? can we do it with airplanes and jets? can we let the bush tax cuts expire? can we call upon our friends in the energy industry that is leaps and bounds and profit to craft or to understand a way that we can recraft those particular provisions, to bring that money here into the federal government? and i want to say to my good friends in business where it might be. the climate of the united states allow

that was the type of, of society that i grew up in. >> but describe to the people who are watching, whond he with a shotgun facing you. >> well, because i was a very angry young man at the time. very angry. and i confronted my brother, my brother james, who was a highly successful academic. he was going to harvard. he was one of the youngest to graduate from harvard university with a ph.d. he late every became the superintendent of schools of boston, you know and, i was in and out of reformtory schools during my youth, you know. so, my father had to sort of choose between which one he was going to support. i confronted my brother because when i came home from the military in 1956 i heard that my brother was hanging out with homosexuals. that he had known when we were child, children, growing up. when we were children all of these folks used to dress up on halloween like women. and they looked better than the women on the streets, you know. and but now he was home on vacation from harvard university and they were doing the same thing. so i confronted my brother about that. and we started