i grew up in south bronx and new york city, i went to public school.but i had mentors from first grade. my parents, up who encouraged me to do what i wanted to do and i became an attorney. i think, unfortunately, we have a generation of kids who aren't getting that structure that they need and that's important at home. so it's a multi-facetted issue. but i don't think legislation is the answer. >> that's what they said about sports. >> we are out of time on this topic. behind the headlines: madeleine kunin. the former governor of vermont and ambassador to switzerland is encouraging women to fight for their rights. in a new book she explains why american women have fallen behind their european counterparts. >> the new feminist agenda is a focus on families, how to strengthen the new american family where both partners are usually working or a single mom is supporting that family. and what does this family need? >> in her most recent book, the new feminist agenda, kunin outlines the three things she believes american women need. >> they need paid family

hip-hop was a culture born in the south bronx, now is a fabric of america.mailman has his hat tilted. that's hip-hop. so you're trying to figure it out. i called my friends, let's do a film. i'm not going to ask you about the money the cars or the girls. i'm going to ask about the craft. the movie was huge at sundance action and now a theatrical release, which is unheard of for a documentary. >> you say the music today doesn't reflect what's going on. even the rappers aren't talking about what's really happening in the world today? >> if you listen to music today, it doesn't reflect people losing their homes, unemployment, the issues in wall street. it just says we're all having fun, we're all rich and having fun -- maybe it's an escape, but i miss the conscious music that talks about what's going on. >> do you think that hip-hop has become nonracial? does it belong to both black and white? >> yes, i think eminem broke down that barrier. he's in the film, one of the incredible rappers. any art form, as long as you prove to people you're serious about it and

nothing compared to the south bronx section of new york city. we were their greatest treasure. all of us our greatest treasure today, they would not let us fail. too many children in inner cities. children are not raised and not fail in denver. for families to a private school or become valedictorian of his class and the first person in the family, how did it happen? never given the opportunity to fail. they felt that way about me -- i had to feel that way about me and i am first to finish high school. i have changed the history of my family and that is what we have to focus on. >> one chapter of your book is called tell me what you know. you wrote about what you developed for your intelligence tests, tell me what you know and tell me what you don't know and tell me what you think and always distinguish which is which. this brings us to iraq. the big question in huge capital letters, specifically, someone we identify with caution and use of military force never going in life, waiting our obligations carefully in reference to environmental policies tell me about the decision tha

tell us about the work you do off farm and that farm -- use that farm to distribute food in the south bronx do we grow limited amounts of produce at that farm, i will talk about that later, we actually right now, in the first year, started with four farmers, second year nine this year, working with as many as 15 farmers who have never, ever brought any of their produce into new york city. a quick fact, less than 5% of all the produce grown upstate ever ends up in this market aiding the people. >> less than 5%. >> of what's grown upstate. so, what we have been able to do is bring together these farmers who have absolutely no access to the market here, for one reason or the other, which we have aggregated the produce, they are now growing for the low-income community and we were able to aggregate that the first year, served 200 people in the south bronx and harlem, last year, 450. our first distribution this year will be next tuesday and we have 801 people who have signed up. >> the distribution is -- is there a farmer's market? >> not a farmer's market. we in a sense represent the farm everi

grew up in the bronx my father was a community organizer my mom was an educator she taught in the south bronx and you know i i was very lucky to grow up in a world you know my parents were very working class middle class but i was surrounded by a community of folks that were working in the bronx particularly in a period in the seventy's and eighty's where things were really rough in the borough and a lot of organizers people doing social justice work people coming out of very specific catholic social justice tradition my father had been a jesuit seminarian actually for seven years and never made the final vows he that he left to become a community organizer so my brother who the younger brother we were both just raised in this mill you in which we talked about political issues we talked about public life we debated things or the dinner table and we had adults who were who were model always modeling. work that they were pursuing because they thought it was going to make the world a more just and humane place that's the extraordinary. book meritocracy how do you define meritocracy for the purpo

my neighborhood the south bronx was tenements when i walk home from school they all hang out the window meeting on the pillow and did not go to the bathroom they were always there watching. if any of the cousins did anything wrong, instant retaliation. talk about speed on the internet. [laughter] faster than the speed of the aunt-net in the bronx. they would not let us failed. have two men aged children in america in the inner-city use and reservations where children are not being raised to not fail. a kid in denver lead to a private school and became valedictorian. he was the first in the family to have such an honor. i said how did that happen? he said i was never ever given the opportunity to fail. they would not let me. i was never allowed to fail. i had to feel that way about me. i was the first one to finish high school now i have changed the history of my family. >> host: one chapter is called tellme what you know, you're right about rules for your intelligence staff. tell me what you know, . tell me what you don't know. tell me what you think. always distinguish from each other.

it is an art form, born in the south bronx, it was a youth movement, and now it's part of a global fabric. so i wanted to explain that. >> you mentioned "law & order." you've been on -- >> 13 years. >> you're a fixture. how do you explain your success and longevity. >> law & order franchise is like an american staple. people that watch it are fanatics about it. they've got to watch it. they watch it all day. >> rerinse. >> marathons. how many people get to start in music, be in movies, be on a long-running television show and start to direct. >> i can't left you leave without talking about your love affair. coco is here. >> what's the secret. i hear you've only spent one night apart in your long relationship. what's the secret? >> i mean, it's all how you plan the relationship on. when i first got with coco, i was fascinated with sharon osbourne. sharon is such a hell of a woman, would ozzie have a mansion if it wasn't for sharon in he as an artist. i'm much like ozzie, i'm an artist but crossing the ts. >> we work together. right now it's my movie, she's my assistant. when she's doing he

in my neighborhood in the south bronx, it was all tenements, of course, and i had all thes living in every -- aunts living in every other tenement building. and when i left home from school, about four blocks, they were all hanging out the window leaning on a pillow on the window sill. they never left. [laughter] they didn't cook, they didn't go to the bathroom -- [laughter] they were always there watching. and if any one of the cousins did anything wrong or got caught misbehaving, it was instant retaliation. you talk about the speed of the internet, nothing compared -- [laughter] to the speed of the aunt net in south bronx city. because we were their greatest treasure. all of our children are our greatest treasure today, and they would not let us fail. and we have too many children in america today, particularly in our inner cities and in some of our rural areas and on our indian homes and reservations where children are not being raised to not fail. the kid out in denver who was the hispanic kid from a poor family, went to a private school, it was a catholic school, he became the v

dre, kanye west it is an american art form, it comes from the south bronx, it is something that we should be proud of, you know, the press like to deal with a lot of the negative aspects but it changed the world it is part of global culture. >> there is a quote, grand master cass has i love he said hip hop didn't invent anything it reinvented everything. very interesting the clip we have is of you talking to dougie fresh. >> can you off the head, break out one of your favorite rhymes from any rapper from any generation, from any time that you walk with that is stuck in your head. >> for me man, the three best mcs melly mel, grand master cash. >> right. >> i know all their rhymes. >> come on. just say one. say one. >> those who don't do it, you know, i am so impressed it is great that you ask him does he have any rhymes off the top of his head because all rappers do like any other music people remember their favorite lyrics and can repeat them, verbatim tell me a little bit about the performance aspect of this you get a lot -- there is unique performances in the film. >> i had 12 or 15 que

hip-hop was born in the south bronx by kids and now just part of the fabric of america. your mailman comes up and he has his hat tilted and that's hip-hop. i called my friends and i said, let's do a film. let's talk about the craft. they said, ice, no one ever asked us about that. we did the movie and took it to "sundance" and now a theatrical release which is unheard of for a documentary. >> i've seen the trailer only and very impress would the trailer. of course, a lot of folks know you as a regular on "law and order special victims unit" and you have your own reality show. what is it like to be on the other side of the camera. >> i say my lines, i leave and it magically appears on television. now, you're doing the film and you have to control every frame and you have to have the music, you have to have the licenses for the music and lots of paperwork. it took two years to do this film. i have a whole new respect for directors. but i want to do features. i had to jump in head first. >> how much of your own career as a rapper did you use in putting this together. how mu

it was here in this south bronx complex years ago that the company produced radar detection equipment>> reporter: as china flexes its military might, officials say defense contractors might be tempted by the promise of lucrative new markets, despite u.s. sanctions that date back to a brutal chinese crackdown at tiananmen square. >> the chinese, obviously, are a major market for aviation, civilian aviation, and given where russia's been able to provide a lot of technologies and weapons systems to china for military aviation. that really shouldn't be a surprise. >> but this time, exporters who skirted the rules got caught. pratny whitney canada pled guilty. the three firms agreed to shell out $75 million in a settlement with the government over its dealings with ch

. >> dretzin: jason levy is the principal of a middle school in new york's south bronx. >> to me, there should never be a question as to whether or not students should have access to technology. technology is like oxygen, you know, and no one would ever have an argument that we should take away they oxygen from the kids. >> dretzin: four years ago, the school was on the verge of collapse. >> kids were not being challenged. there were a lot of fights and arguments. a lot of gang activity. >> dretzin: only 9% of the students were meeting state standards in math. >> walking through the hallways, it felt like, at any moment, chaos was going to break out. it felt like, every day, we were holding on with everything we could just to get through the day. how you guys doing? >> dretzin: levy took over the school in 2004, after a string of other principals had been unable to turn it around. >> let's go. >> dretzin: he had an ambitious idea. >> jason said, "my vision is to have all the students, with laptops, do their homework online. i said, "jason, i've been doing this 25 years. you think this i

>> the army took me up as a young 17-year-old kid out of the south bronx in the rotc.lowed that career four years in rotc and 40 years of active duty. i am he sengsly a soldier. my whole career was being a soldier. even as national security adviser, i was a general. >> indeed. and in fact, when you were working with weinberger, you came up -- weinberger had the principles and you in a sense incorporated them. looking at syria today with the increased possibility of civil war, what does the united states do? >> well, i think it is really a civil war and probably has been a civil war for some time. particularly when the opposition is now starting to hold ground. it's going to a new dimension and the russians may be providing sophisticated weaponry. i don't know that there's much the united states can do other than work with the international community and try to apply sufficient economic political and diplomatic pressure on president assad who i know and i've worked with. it's a liar in the first order. anything you can do to get this guy to realize the urgency of the si

what works for me in the south bronx may not work in suburbia.eds to be looked at and addressed. i work every day as an emergency physician. many of our patients come in. we treat them. 2/3 of our patients we see in off hours between 5:00 in the evening and 7:00 in the morning. a lot of patients we treat, we make them better or admit them to the hospital. a couple weeks later i'll get hers from insurance companies stating we decide we are not going to pay for this visit. care was delivered, the patient was treated and hopefully made well or made better, and we get a denial letter. i sit down on my free time. we go through the chart and try to document and justify why we treated this person for their emergency medical condition. we send a letter back to the insurance company. many times they will stay we still deny it. so the point is we are doing the care no matter what. and our patients don't have access to their primary care physicians so they come to the emergency department. we still deliver the care. but where is the reimbursement for that?

. >> the army took me up as a young 17-year-old kid out of the south bronx when i entered the rotc.gave me a sense of structure, a way to err is of the country and a career. i followed that career four years in rotc and 45 years of active duty. i am essentially a soldier and my whole career was being a soldier even though i did other things. you remember, charlie, even as national security advisor, i was an active duty general. >> indeed. and, in fact, when you were working with cap weinberger you came up with the principles and then you in a sense incorporated them. looking at syria today with the increased possibility of civil war, what does the united states do? >> well, i think it is really a civil war and probably has been a civil war for some time, particularly when the opposition is now starting to hold ground. so it's going to a new dimension and the russians may be providing some really sophisticated weaponry. i don't know that there's much the united states can do other than work with the international community and try to provide enough pressure on president assad who i k

walker, how a struggling stand up comedian from the south bronx became a television icon. studios. >> say it. >> i will not. i will wait for him. >> say it. >> dine-o-mite. >> it was the anthem of our youth and we'll get the back story behind dynamite. we want to remind everybody you can watch cnn live on your computer or mobile phone while at work and go to cnn.com/tv. we'll see you in about 13 minutes. >> he doesn't look like he aged. >> at all. >> isn't that amazing. >> i used to watch him all the time. >> sure. looking forward to meeting him. >> thanks a lot. >> 47 minutes past the hour. count be down to the historic health care ruling, what the supreme court says today could force strategy shifts in the race for president. we're going to take a look after this quick break. why not try someplace different every morning? get two times the points on dining in restaurants with chase sapphire preferred. good afternoon. chase sapphire. (push button tone) this is stacy from springfield. oh woah. hello? yes. i didn't realize i'd be talking to an actual person. you don't need

. >> if you go into community in new york city like brownsville, brooklyn, south bronx, east harlem, heavily black and latino neighborhoods, they feel like they live in a different world. it's like a tale of two cities for these people. i spoke to several young men throughout the city. if you are in the age range between 14 and 24, this there is a huge likelihood you will get stopped. about 40% -- more than 40% of stop and frisks were of black and latino men between 14 and 24. they only represent 5% of the entire city population. a staggering statistic that gets cited often. the number of stops of young black men between 14 and 24 last year exceeded the entire population of black men. >> they stopped all of them and their friends from jersey apparently. as we look at these sorts of numbers, it's very easy to go to a position of either vilifying the mayor, police chief or front-line officers. from your asersment as a retired new york city police officer, is it your assessment that stop and frisk is a good policy, one protective of these community? >> well, there are several problems w

>> if you go through certain sections of the bronx or south side of chicago or parts of boston, theree no supermarkets. there certainly are no whole foods but there are no really good supermarkets. maybe the answer is -- i mean, we live in this computer generated age, maybe to have sort of a card that you give to families, to mothers who are on public assistance and the card is used to buy food but you code it so you can't buy junk, you can't buy junk with it. >> yes, i love it. i think mayor bloomberg is on the cutting edge of the most important health crisis of our generation. >> we're paying for it. >> i'll tell you what i can tell you this morning i am completely comfortable with, making sure for all the public lunches that we give at school that in the morning and in t'd even go late afternoon lunch that it is all very healthy food and we've got to. i know you always brush this off, we have got to go back to strenuous physical education. >> recess. >> i mean strenuous because i've said it all along. i promise you whatever kids in the bronx are eating right now, what i had was wor