really have to understand history to understand what the present is and certainly to move forward into future. and i was raised by parents who were born in 1911 and 1912. and i was raised by parents who raised ten children in jim crow education. i'm the granddaughter of a man who was born a slave. and i talk about that in "reimagining equality." seeing that in two generations that my family moved from being property to owning property is one of those things that's inspiring. and it says, look, if you can't be optimistic you really have already lost because you've seen so much positive change. not just in my lifetime but also in the lives of people that you love. >> i'm always moved by your strength, your courage, your brilliance, and your insight. i'm grateful you spent time with us today. >> oh, this was a pleasure. thank you so much. >> stay right there. we'll be back with more "our world with black rent-prizeente" >> diversity is ♪ ♪ ♪ need you, need you ♪ oh, i need you [ horn honks ] [ female announcer ] the epa-estimated 42-miles per gallon hwy cruze eco. from home to where your

that's just life in government and i understand that. >> i understand that. again, because i'm not being accusetory. when you look at the numbers in 2006 there was 38 employees, if 4 is totally accurate. this is from a website also a federal government website. all this is public. i do commend you for that. 2006, 38 employees earning $150,000 or above. 2008, 46. and then in 2008 from 46 to 431 in 2009. a 17 in 2010 and 535. i'm not great at math, but there's a pretty substantial increase no matter what. we're not dealing with people that went from $75,000 to $85,000. we're talking about people make over $150,000. again, those are astonishing numbers. these raise some serious questions. mr. alexander maybe you look at ways to reduce that 2% increase. >> thank you. >> thank you, madam chair. i appreciate you both being here. i appreciate your service to our country. a chance to have a conversation this afternoon as we look at how we move forward. certainly this committee and this congress seems to be focused on job creation, economic growth, reducing and bringi

is that your understanding? >> it's my understanding. but we have the administrator here. >> i'm just asking you as the i.g. what your understanding was. was your understanding miss brita was acting alone or at the direction ever martha johnson? >> i viewed the deputy administrator as the alter ego of the administrator. >> so the sequence was, though you had been on the job since 2005, the first anybody in the agency alerpted you to this kind of excess, for this kind of occasion, was when susan brita acting miss johnson's behalf alerted you to the fact we think something's wrong here. >> miss brita came to our office in december 2010, and alerted us. we did not get any hotline report on it. >> when were the events in question? when did they occur? >> october 2010. >> so about a month and a half or so later. >> yes. >> okay. did she indicate to you how she was made aware of these, of this information? >> she said she had heard rumors and heard things, overheard conversations. >> now, your view of this matter if i understand miss johnson c

you can't understand burke without an understanding of english history. i think you cannot understand the origins of america and therefore american history unless you understand burke. i guess what i am really saying bottom line is that you can't really understand american history, american political philosophy, american conservatism without an understanding of english history. i have thought for many years that american history really didn't begin to start in 1776 or even 1750. it started probably in the norman conquest in england in 1806. it helps you understand burke because it is that background and that history that it all happened before edmund burke arrived on the scene in 1729. consider that just 40 years before burke was born, that takes us, what, back to about 1970, a long time ago for many of you and not so long for me. just 40 years before burke was born there was an english revolution. it was called the glorious revolution and for the most part bloodless. michael barone is going to talk sometime in this series and michael barone is the author

is that your understanding? >> that's my understanding. senator, if i could, i think that's a key point because i think the concern that i hear, that we all hear is just that key point. how do you do this in such a way that helps industry without i'll use the term overregulating and this is outside of my area of expertise, but how do you get them the standards and help them build a more resilient network, a more defensible network, if you will? that's the key to this. i do think that's the key issue that you're wrestling with, and i think that's where we can provide technical expertise to dhs and others, and i think that's where we've got to partner with industry and just as you said, i agree with the way that you've stated it. i think that is extremely that extremely important that bringing the industry folks together to help decide, is what i get, because they want to be a player in this. because this is from their perspective important as well. >> in fact we need the expertise of industry, of nsa, of dhs, of everybody working together,

it is the case that sba works with these organizations to try to help small businesses understand how to get credit and fine tools to be able to do that. sba programs cover a wide range, and i will talk about this range of lending and the kinds of things we do, but in many ways, we do not do it alone. we do it with partners, and that is the takeaway message, the sba lending activity, while would guarantee loans through a number of lenders, we do it with a lot of other partners as well. let me give a little bit of a sense of what the small business administration does and is. we in san francisco covered the bay area and north coast counties, and we do a variety of things. i will come back to the credit card because i know that is what this session is about, but before i do that, there's two other roles we play that are important as well. one is about helping small businesses understand how to start businesses, getting good technical assistance, getting good advice about starting and managing your business. equally important is being prepared for credit. one of the things we tried to do

you have to understand those mew man beings. i think that's true about teaching any aspect of history, american history or any history. >> peter? >> i'll pick up on that, david. that makes a lot of sense to me. the humanity of the founders and identifying with what they did. i would say there are a couple of problems that explain the dire state of constitutional studies. one is they've been dominated by lawyers. i think -- i think akhil will agree with me. and it also is something we set aside when i was a boy and when many of you were in school in civics and this was the stuff that was so boring. because it wasn't part of our history i think we need to take it back into history and historians have their share of blame here, too, in that very few of us have focused on the founding. now i blamed gordon wood for that because his book was so great that nobody bothered to st study the subject anymore. so i think we've broken through and there's actually very lively constitutional scholarship that hasn't made it to the schools yet. i

yes, i understand. i understand he's in the middle of-- yes, i'm sure it is. but this is important too. - help us to locate her-- - i'm here to see jamal al-jibali. - take a seat. i'll be with you in a minute. - has jamal been arrested ? - just take a seat ! - fine. fine. i understand. could you please hold on ? i carry different tools for different jobs. why do you keep asking the same questions again and again ? i was just on the phone with someone who claims to work with mrs. jibali. - el-bially. - what ? - we have different last names. - whatever. anyway, they're trying to find her now. can i see jamal now ? who ? i'm here to see jamal al-jibali. i'm victor brashov his employer. he is being questioned. why ? he's a possible suspect. you do not know jamal. i would swear my life on his good name. i appreciate what you are saying. have a seat and relax. jamal is not a criminal. have a seat, or you'll have to wait outside. who is still booking for us ? thanks. good-bye. henry, that's the fifth call you've made in the past half hour. - what is going on ? - new

i understand there's no reason. my understanding is that the principal doesn't need to have a reason and frankly, there is no reason to let her go. and i feel it's wrong that we begrudge her another job with the school district, that's how it came down but i want to end with a note that for every parent here there are dozens who couldn't make it tonight and ms. monica has the support of the school and we don't understand and it's just wrong to let her go for no reason. i'm going to give someone else a chance. >> thank you for listening. i am the teacher they've been talking b. i am monica swartzlander, kindergarten teacher at visitation valley elementary school. this is my second year. i've been working with children since i was 8 years old and got my first babysitting job and i haven't stopped. i've worked in japan, i've worked in private schools, public schools around the country and international. i have many, many qualifications but that's not why i'm here. i am here because i love the school they am at now. i l

but we've had very little scientific understanding of it. so hip october rattees already spoke about psychotic illnesses but it wasn't really until the beginning of the 20th century that we began to make sense out of it. people didn't know how many different psychiatric illnesses were there, were all psychotic illnesses, category, subcategories of one or were there many different once. and our first hero was the one without began to put psychiatry in a scientific basis. he said we must make diagnosis like they make in other areas of medicine. in the absence of biological markers, you can use aspects of the clinical history to help you. you can see what are the nature of the symptoms the disease has, was's the course of the disease over time, and what's the final outcome. and when he looked at psychotic illnesses from that point of view, which he focused on, he found he could divide them into two major groups, disorders of thought and disorders of mood. he called disorders of thought dementia precox and he called it precox that is dementia ea

now, understand, this is a small business. you've already alluded to the fact that so many of the things we're talking about, i think the commissioner said it a minute ago, a lot of these businesses are very small businesses. in his case a very, very small business. this is an extraordinary hardship on the company to try to meet these demands. so what gives? >> the eeo obligations in general are very long-standing at the commission and serve very worthy purposes. >> i don't dispute that at all. >> i understand that. i'm not aware of the specific concerns. i will say that as a general matter anything that we can do to reduce unnecessary burdens, particularly on small businesses, we will be very open to looking at. we do run general proceedings asking for input on how we can reduce unnecessary burdens. i appreciate the question and we will go back and look at any issues in that area and make sure that any recordkeeping requirements are required necessary and efficiently meet the purposes of the rules. >> commissioner? >> well, i

once you understand what i showed you before coming to understand the story. that is what wolfowitz. he gave a stable which you all know some are long ground in the green into their nests and they say why do you work so hard to come and join me. the days are long. have to stay up for winter. the winter comes and the grasshopper is freezing and starting and she says care come and they say no, careless and liberty to this is one of the central plains the liberals need to understand about the tea party and it's not that they hate government from the heat to government that they see is subverting fairness as proportionality. in other words, the welfare state. that is what they hate. so that is the new cultural war that ran from 2009 until january 15th of this year when the obama mandate on hostels went into effect and then we had the old cultural war. remember that one of the religious right and secular left. the remaining foundations are really about finding groups together and keeping them strong and coherent, so one is loyalty. there's a number that can hunt in

, several of the labs involved understand that now. we need to make sure that's broadly understood. i definitely agree with that. i just want to make one point of minor disagreement if you want to call it that with what my esteemed colleague says that if we only looked at the short-term benefit of research, we wouldn't do a lot of research at the nih because you very often have a situation where it is incremental and you build up into something that really becomes important, so although i understand the point is being made if you look at what immediate benefit of those mutations will have us right now, sure, you can say that there isn't a lot of surveillance capabilities, of high sequencing, et cetera, but the incremental accumulation of knowledge is one of the fundamental principles that the nih research agenda is built upon. i think there is a little bit of a disagreement on that. i don't think you need to have an absolute immediate benefit for research not to be ultimately important to do and publish. >> do you want to respond? >> i

>> on the understand what uncle tom was actually meant to be as the author harriet beecher stowe presented her novel. i think over the years both because the way the character has been portrayed in the show's and others is become distorted. if you read the novels she meant for tom to be an archetypal. he died because he to show the whereabouts and even while he was dying and one that i. if the interest in learning more i'm happy to tell about the character. islamic the subtitle, the whole purpose your book you have. >> the idea came about because a lot of times when you are a person of color and you have a conservative political view you get certain things your mother never intended for you and instead of doing that i use the title because it grabs you and then a sort of highlights one of the themes in the book which is if we are going to have an honest discussion in america about the topic of race. so the book in fact came about because of eric holder the attorney general making a statement because of our. i took exception to that comment because to me if we can't have an honest. to speak

>> i understand that. i understand that's true. >> i'd like to be clear on that. >> the loss of captain heaneys a tragic loss. the loss of any fellow airmen we take very seriously. they're a member of our extended air force family just as a loss of anyone who serves in uniform. the accident investigation board looked into the conditions surrounding that evening of the 26th november, 2010, they looked at it in great detail. in fact, we waited until the summer/fall came alaska to recover additional equipment which gave the board more insight. faced with the complex emergency procedure at night, cap taken heaney was unable to maintain aircraft control and impacted the train. that incident, that accident, and other things which have been reported because we have a culture of safety in the united states air force, of reporting when things don't go as they should be, and as general martin said we train to these high poxia like symptoms on the ground is one of the first thing is i did 31 years ago, before i set f

traffic by understanding mechanics of the cars we should not try to understand brains to understand the idea of responsibility. >> right. the notion is that responsibility is not to be seen as a function of the brain. responsibility is at the next level up. it's at the social level. we buy into the social level and the motion, when we buy into the social level is we're going to be held personally responsible for our actions. show think of it this way. if you're the only person in the world, right, are the idea of personal responsibility doesn't mean much, right. >> rose: you're not going up against the rights of anybody else. >> right. so now we sue people and now it's 6 billion. and what you do is you have, you obviously have a buy in to be part of the social network. and you, in that level, in that, it's in that agreement that the notion of personal responsibility takes hold and that's where you look for it. >> rose: do we mean by that moral responsibility too. >> well, moral responsibility is the norms we want to establish to function within a group, and to a large extent those a

in any case, i don't understand why we're doing this. this was put an end to this is a brand new category and this -- i don't understand, the conditional use process seems to be the perfectly fine process to go through with formula retail and it was going to come in there. and following up commissioner borden, i think in the future, i think that there is a question about whether or not there is a formula retail might be desirable in that area of. also, i think the problem for me is that i don't have the language in front of me, but for a special use district, aren't there specific language and the desirability and its contribution and the desirability, the contributions designed wise and everything that is going to make to the community in a letter? >> that is a special use district. >> i don't see why this is necessary. >> i would like to pick up on the comments and just say that it is very interesting. the building as designed is an inward-looking building. however, having said that, that in itself guarantees pretty much the larger ret

if we understand the enormous amount of our perception. let me give you an example.ou look at a painting, it's two dimensional. and yet if the artist was successful, you get a tremendous sense of depth, if he wants to create perspective, shows your face. you see it's sculpted. but the brain knows even though it's recreating this, that it's a flat surface in a painting. and i give you a good example. if you have a painting of a person that is made with the artist looking at the subject's eyes and it's hanging in this wall, you walk around the painting, the eyes follow you, you must have had that experience many times. >> rose: yes. >> okay. if you put a sculpture there and walk around it, the eyes don't follow you. because the brain knows this is a sculpture. the eyes don't follow you but it realizes the painting is a fiction. it's a two dimensional. this is wonderful to realize how much the brain really unconsciously knows about what's going on, compensates for it and gives you the sense but boy this is really a three-dimensional structure knowing on one level it's t

understanding the writing and ratification of the constitution is understanding politics. i think today the problem is that americans think that politics is so much worse than at any time in our history or even worse than that, they don't feel a connection between themselves and their government. the government is something in washington or in their state capital. i think there is just because people don't care or want to learn about history yuf, i think they don't understand the extend and the process of having a constitutional convention was fraught with controversy. the dynamics of the convention were bitterly contested. the ratification contest was a slugfest. i think peter talked about the 1790s. the politics of the jeffersonians and the federalists is every bit as bitter as it is today. i think another of the points that we can make as history teachers is that it's not so different in the founding era as it is today. it's the sense of ownership and the sense of connection we feel with the process and with our involvement that makes it different. i think there is a re

so opposite you understand this, just from these three lines, you can understand a hell of a lot about the new culture or the one that erupted in 2009. so you have liberals who prioritize care, and conservatives who prioritize fairness and liberty. everybody values all three but when push comes to shove and they contradict, which one do you go with? and if you see that, now you can understand this amazing moment from that famous tea party debate where wolf litter poses the question about a young man who decides not to bay health insurance and he has an accident is in a coma, going to be very expensive should we just let him die? who should pay, and ron paul says that's what freedom is all about. the idea you have to take care of everybody, blitzer says are you saying society should just let him die? paul didn't say yes. to his credit he thought -- give a knew -- nooned answer. -- nuancedmeter, but the point is that during the poise, some in she audience yelled out yay! so they love killing people? no. once you injured what i showed you on the graph you can understand the story is the a

in the age of internet comes free with ads and people understand that? >> people understand that and people want ads that are more relevant to them. if you're into sports sites you don't want to get ads necessarily about shopping sites so the ads are more relevant so it works for the companies to provide the free services and it works for the users because they're getting mortar get information. marc has a very european approach about privacy, which is that the information dad information you should have much more control over even if it's not personally identifyable. that's a european perspective that's been rejected in the united states we have a tort based information which is not the information itself it's how you use the information whether that can be used in a way that would be inappropriate would harm you. the expectations that users have and what gaog el is doing are consistent with the expectations that have when you go to the internet so when google announced that they were changing their policy users could have decided to relate vote. they d

i understand that. if there are no other comments from the committee, we can go to public comment. >> for those who were listening to this presentation, as was stated somewhere, this is like a conceptual plan. a conceptual plan is like a dream. you can wake up from your dreams and it could be your worst nightmare. having said that, we need and para o data on the last 40 years linked to quality of life issues. while the san francisco county transportation authority can come here and give their conceptual plans, that is fine. in order for us to make progress, we need the empirical data. let me state to you that i'm the director of environmental justice advocacy, but i also represent the first people of this area, the alone me. for thousands of years, this land was pristine until some strangers came here and contaminated it. within this history, we have to find out some base lines. for example, you supervisors and this committee should ask the san francisco county transportation authority to give us some s

i cannot understand why it would not include the cfpb in the process. we did not get a really good answer. given the new jurisdiction over servicers, what do you think? you have any desire to be involved in this process? >> we are taking complaint now on our website and in calls from people about mortgage issues. a few of those complaints deal with foreclosure situations and other surfacing issues. i think the congress is well served on any kind of significant initiative like this to exert oversight just as you exert oversight over our efforts and processes. the occ was the first of the federal agencies to step up and document the extensive abuses in the mortgage servicing sector. they issued a report on that that demonstrated the seriousness and realized it affected the safety and soundness of the institutions. that allow anybody to move forward toward the servicing settlement. we need to make sure all of these other processes are working as well as possible. the consumer bureau had significant authority here to examine institutions, banks and non-bank

and once you understand that it is actually. >> rose: evolution creates squirrels? >> yes, evolution creates squirrels not the other way around, right? >> and the thing is is that it is the great mass of, middle class customers that animate this feedback loop of the economy, and the more they thrive, the more businesses hire and owners profit, and so if you -- if you go from understanding the -- the rich capitalist, like me as job creators to understanding, i think much -- much more a accurately it is middle class consumers that are job creators -- and that -- and that that the economy doesn't orbit around this tiny group of rich people, it actually orbits around a great mass of middle class people you end up with a different set of ideas of how you would restructure the economy. >> rose: simplify the compelling other idea. >> it is this idea -- >> the true job creators are middle class customers, right? so henry ford economics is what we called it in part in this book, henry ford paid his line workers on the assembly lines more than they needed to when making model

you understand. >> i understand. >> that says it all. you understand me?nd. >> i tell them all the time when they come to the show, listen, i know. i know this is a bit over your head. lean over to your girlfriend and say, "isn't he amazing?" and then you, i -- i'm going to sing to her. you're going to take her home. think of it. you're going to take her home. did i get that right? >> you're moving me even now, lionel. >> am i moving you? >> you had the commodore stuff. >> i was going to retire as a commadore. exactly right. >> you could retire as a commodore. with the greatest body of seduction love songs and then you go on in this solo career and you explode to a -- >> you sound annoyed. >> i've remained grateful. >> yes, yes, yes. surprisingly enough, i was thinking of the catalog with the commadores, i'm pretty good. i'm good to go. and then all of a sudden a guy came along called kenny rogers. "lady." "endless love" right behind that. the doors blew off with "all night long," "hello," and all that. >> you've got five minutes left to live, you can sing

>> a couple of different understandings. the first was from the gentleman who said that the post office -- " we learned from him was that it was a place where people can get a prescription medication and they depend on it to pay their bills. lots of people use the post office as a bank. people depend on it for a lot more than just sending mail or stamps. a place where people can get together, where they can take care of their postal needs. there are different needs that can be had -- can be met in a community. the post office is the basis for a $1 trillion economy, and without the post office as it is today, there's a huge economic loss, and a loss to the community as a whole. >> what surprised you most about the post office you visited in florida? >> its size. it was actually a converted toolshed. it serves a population of 11. a lot of people might say that that is a waste of taxpayer dollars, but that population is entitled to a post office. the only way they can get those services is there. at the end of the day, the best

>> guest: i praised him because he seems to have an understanding what i just talked about. where the republican party falled down on the job when it comes to reaching out to people of color. being from the south, he seems to have a much more acute sensitivity to the relationship between black and white americans and a lot of others. i won't say i agree with him on everything but i do know that when the republican party struggled to get candidates to appear on a forum back in 2008, which was specifically geared toward minority voters and minority issues, he was one of the people that came out and was highly critical of those candidates who for whatever reason chose to attend. ironically mitt romney was one of the candidates. but i feel that he has clearly been affected by a lot of what's happened in the south and civil rights. i understand from just reading his own background he was profoundly affected by the assassination of dr. king. obviously he and herman cain are good friends. and so i feel he has a pulse on the conservative/republican outreach to the black community th

we have to understand where one another are coming from. i would like to leave with you this, i learned that 18 years old. it was written about 100 years ago. i am glad when i need a man who is white. because everybody has color and color is all right. i am glad when i meet a man who is black and simply understands that fact. i am glad when i meet a man of any color that simply understands that is character and not color that makes the man. >> i am with the local 87, representing the janitors. one of the great things about being at the helm of local 87 and treasurer is that i have to be able to represent a very strong and united community that is within our district. i want to be able to thank the supervisors for being able to take a position and being able to speak for the community. i think compromises are difficult, but sometimes they are necessary in order for both sides to be able to achieve the united goal. in speaking on behalf of our members, i want to be able to thank you being able to maintain your position, and i respect the mayo

but i think you have to come to understand your own perspective. it is much easier to do that -- i grew up in milwaukee. we were the only muslim family on the west side for i don't know how long. there was only one filipino family as well. are there universal values? it made me question the values that were taught to me and it also made me question the values that were taught to my friends. tavis: there are reasons for why there is that assimilation category. a whole lot of folks are in it. because the pressures of the culture and the pressures of the civilization you find yourself in -- when you are on the outside looking in, it forces people to abandon, to sacrifice, to assimilate. >> but it also offers some individuals an opportunity to see that it is all, as shakespeare would say, that all the world is a stage. it is all an unfolding play. and the only agency we really have is to understand our own place in it. does that make sense? tavis: it makes sense to me. dervish defined means? >> one who gives of everything for god. a sort of wandering m

we don't understand it. so i'm hoping churches will be more involved in reaching out to the struggling with that, and with other issues, welcoming them into the church and helping us see that there's another life choice that they could be making. that it's also meant to wake up america. i know that there's a battle taking place in our schools come into courtrooms and legislatur legislatures, and we need to know what's taking place. i don't think parents and citizens know what's taking place, particularly in our schools. there is an overt act of agenda to teach the young generation that this lifestyle is acceptable and normal, and from my perspective, i think biblically it's not. parents need to know what's taking place thinking they can have informed decisions and get involved to change the course we are on. >> more and more states are allowing gay marriage. is working its way through the ninth circuit in california. ted olson is supportive of it. is it inevitable that this country at some point will accept

you need people that understand health and understand music and understand biology and religion and work people together. and i do think that older people can have a great partnership with younger people. and i've been to your school. it's fantastic in terms of people being motivated. i also do think to have the possibility of understanding that you learn best by doing. that it is a great way to get credit for more than just sitting in the library. or really understanding the practical aspect and what i believe so fully is i believe in democracy, but democracy has to deliver. people want to be able to work and to understand what they are doing and give back. and i think the most exciting thing about everything that you're doing and all these it young people are doing is understanding that giving back is the way to make the world work better. >> go ahead. >> i just want to add something. sometimes, well, most of the times, students when we're in student mode, so we have this plan so, okay, i'm done with my college. now the next thing is, yes, grad school. yes, i will do my phd, as well. t

so it's easy to understand how the union forces find themselves surprised here, if you understand that if grant was to go and get viable intelligence, he was going to have to violate orders and attack the confederacy, period. and he's not willing to do that. because halleck was so adamant that they wait, they wait, they wait. so the federals totally misread the fact that johnston has roughly 44,000 men positioned to attack the union forces at pittsburg landing. if the federal picket front had been pushed in slowly over the course of the last two days to where it was closer in proximity to the union front than where it began, the confederate buildup and the union forces were still lulled into a sense of safety, everything was all secure. at lease the high command. there were men in the ranks, there were officers in the ranks who were of different opinion. one of them was a brigade commander under benjamin prentice, colonel everett peabody. he violates orders and orders out a combat reconnaissance because he's fearful that there's something in front of them based on the way he's reading