state assembly chamber in albany, new york, in the new york state capitol building, finished in 1894. we're also pleased to have join us a studio audience of albany area residents, some college students, some historians, some interested in al smith folks here. and they'll also have a chance to ask some questions of our two guests about al smith and the 1928 election as will you. we'll put the phone numbers up on the screen. we're not going to take phone calls up for a little while. we'll put them up on the screen so you can start to dial in now. this is the sixth in our 14-week series "the contenders," the focus, 1928 election, al smith. 202-737-0001 in east and the center of -- central time zones. 202-737-0002 if you live in mountain and pacific time zones. john evers, what kind of candidate was al smith in 1928? >> he was a fighter. if you look at him and you see the short stature and the pugnaciousness of him. his gravelly voice comes out. this is one of the first campaigns where radio plays a role. he campaigns from the back of trains which is very common, but he goes out th

what al smith did in new york and what fdr did in new york with. the way that the economy is today and the debates over government and smart sizing, smith would probably lick his lips and say i'd love to go to d.c. and try to figure this out. that's what he did in albany. he did it in a republican state with a republican legislature. so even the discussions now with the bipartisan gridlock, smith had that in new york. so he would probably sell himself very well today by saying i've done this in new york, i've battled the legislature that's hostile, i know how to get government under control, i know how to get the economy back moving again. not flashy, but probably someone that would be the brain trust kind of guy. >> james in dayton, ohio, good evening. james? >> caller: yes. i was wondering if -- i know that al smith lost the election in 1928. in 1929, of course, wall street collapsed initiating the great depression. i was wondering if he had any party platform which might have contributed to, perhaps, avoiding that -- anything that would check ma

and in terms of new york state politics, i mean, john would know this better than i. but i don't have the perception that it really transforms his candidacy. >> not at first. in fact, smith was not in favor of women suffrage. he changed his mind. in fact, smith's mother said, i'll never vote. there's no need for me to vote. and she does. she casts her first ballot, i believe, for her son for governor. but smith's hook on women's suffrage is, he gets belle moskowitz and a lot of these people involved and he starts to realize, these are new voters. and they said, how do i talk to these people? they said, talk to them like you would talk to a chamber of commerce. like you would anybody else in a campaign. smith starts to realize that women suffrage is a good idea. i can enlighten these people. i can get them to vote democratic. that's where he gets the brain trust and many of the people who work for him for governor, for president, a lot of reformers that become sturdy supporters of the democratic party. smith capitalizes on that. >> just a few blocks south of here is the

in new york state, it was not that much different. it had functions, but it did not go out and regulate utilties or have the interaction with people that needed it. so if his overall accomplishments in new york tate was to launch us on a social welfare in the best positive sense of the word. >> when you are here in the new york state capitol, beautiful old building finished in 1894, here in albany, surrounded by state government office buildings, would al smith -- what would he think about the growth of state government in new york? >> i think that he would be okay with state government as it is. when smith was governor, it was ten, ten and a half million people. he realized that new york state government needed to be housed. in fact he was one of the people that said you have to get all of these agencies not only coordinated but he used to yoek and say, we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to rent offices, can't we build office buildings and professionalize the state workforce. he believed that using the government to deliver ser

and he always did well in new york city. he did extraordinarily well in his own district. but he just couldn't make it over the whole state. the other question -- what was the other -- >> well, he wanted to -- did he win new york city, do you know offhand if he won in 1928? >> i don't know. i don't recall. i don't think he did. >> not even new york city? >> well, new york city also had outer boroughs that had republican dominance, which is still the case in staten island. but in pockets of queens as well. >> social security was another question. >> social security. the issue on social security is something that smith had tried to implement in new york state when it came to widows and orphans' pensions. he tried to experiment with health insurance for industrial workers. and he also tried to do all kinds of social security issues when it came to trying to support those that were downtrodden. make work projects were something that he had experimented with. and it might have been one of those programs he would have carried into the new deal, had he won. >> we have -- please go

he was in new york city from 1940 until he passed away in 1967. ple do not think of him as a new yorker, but that was his home town for most of his life. he was 27 when it came to new york. that is 20 road "this land is your land." can you imagine? what are you doing when you're 27? >> what about the forbidden covers -- verses? >> it was a cause appeared i of irving berlin pause song "god bless america." kate smith had a hit song. i never considered it anti- berlin and refused to consider it as such. and a lot of people at made a big thing of that. but i think it is an extension of "god bless america." one is the voice of an immigrant coming from a really hard time in russia, and really glad to be here, and the other is when you are born here and it is the next extension, chapter 2 of a song about america. anyway, nobody asked, but that is my thoughts about it. he wrote a ton of stuff in new york city. ats to go along the bars ninth avenue and 10th avenue on the west side. >> those are sailor bars. >> sailors and guys who worked on ships, etc. the

a few months ago we came across a small bridal design company right here in new york. it was an interesting company with what i thought were really fabulous designs, but something on the business side seemed to be missing. and we found out that the company was in trouble. that's why we decided to step in and give the owners a "your business" makeover. ♪ >> when brothers steve and gregory started their bridal depress company, fancy new york in 2008, they couldn't believe the initial reaction. at their very first trade show, while they appeared sneaker, the bridal editors took notice. >> tall, elegant, woman walked right over to us. i love that you have sleeves and collars. tell me the story. >> that's when i knew there was something about this business that's going to work. >> fancy new york was doing something different. nowhere in the collection would you find the commonplace long strapless dress that is most brides were wearing. their look was vintage inspired, comfortable, primarily tea-length dresses. >> the mood of our brand was to have a nostalgic approach to dres

he always did well in new york city. he did extraordinarily well in his own district. but, he just couldn't make it up over the whole state. the other question, what was the other? >> he wanted to, did he win new york city, do you know off hand if he won in 1928? >> i don't recall, i don't think he did. >> not even new york city? >> it had outer burroughs that had republican dominance that is still the case in stanton island, and pockets of queens as well. >> social security was the other question. >> the issue on social security is something that smith had tried to implement in new york state when it came to widows and orphans pensions. he tried to experiment with health insurance for industrial workers and he also tried to do all kinds of social security issues when it came to trying to support those that were down trodden, make work projects were something that he experimented with and it may have been one of the policies he carried to the new deal had he won. >> i want to address one other aspect that came up and that was the south. one of the strange things that ca

you talk to people in new york. the united states was still much, much more a set of separate entities, separate states in the middle of the 19th century, and so he just didn't get -- he didn't get any play until the centennial, until 1876. and there in philadelphia the celebration in fairmount park of the 100th anniversary of the declaration of independence, and for that bartholdi sent over the arm and the torch of the statue of liberty which he managed to cobble together some money in france, after his trip in 1871. he goes back to france and he starts to -- he comes up with his definitived mo el. starts to raise money. not easy to do and finally gets enough money to build the arm and the torch, and it goes up during the centennial celebration in philadelphia, and zillions of people go to see it. it's the most popular attraction and the most photographed, and then bartholdi gets an idea. he says i can make some money by selling souvenirs, and so all of the kitch that we see if we go out to the stat you've liberty a

and he was the only one to take up, the only black fly in new york that i could find during, based inyork during that time. so i think it was really pretty interesting. i just wish somebody would do a story on this julian fellow. or a documentary or something. kind of a fascinating fellow. any other questions? yes, ma'am. >> not so much a question, a comment. but cradle aviation is having a celebration, and the grandson of lindbergh is supposed to be there. i think it's next weekend spent is that eric you are talking about? okay, all right. >> amy phipps had been from westbury wanted to fly the atlantic, and ended up financing i understand the flight that amelia earhart took as a pastor. >> there was also the designer of, designer of chamberlain and levine's plane. he was married to a woman from omaha, nebraska, and her sister, myrtle brown came out from omaha wanting to be an art student in new york. you know, she sat around a table while all of this was going on and she decided she was going to be a flyer, and she decided during this period she was going, also going to be the first

there are asking why are you building the statue in new york? ta to people in new york. at the unite states was still much more a separate entity of her states in the middle of the 19th century. it just did not get any play unl the centennial, really, until 1876. there, in philadelphia, the celebration, fairmount park, the 100th anniversary of the declaration of independence, and for that, he sent over the arm and the torch for the statue of liberty. which he managed to cobble together some money and france, after his trip. he goes back to france, he comes up with this definitive model, tries to raise money. he finally gets enough money to build the arm and the torch, and it goes up during the centennial cebration in philadelphia, and zillions of people go to see it. and for that,it is the most popular attraction, the most photographed. then he gets an idea, i can make money by selling souvenirs. so all of the cakes that we see if we go to the statue, into the gift shop, the sculptor even before he built the thing, he was already figuring out how to make money from souven

talk to people in the york. the united states was still very much a set of separate entities, separate states, in the middle of the 19th century. he did not get any play until the centennial, until 1876. in philadelphia, the celebration in fairmount park, bartholdi sent over the arm and the torch. he managed to cobble together some money in france. he goes back to france and comes up with a definitive model. he starts trying to raise money. he finally gets enough to build the arm and the porch. it goes up during the centennial celebration in philadelphia. zillions of people go to see it. it is the most popular attraction, and the most photographed. bartholdi gets an idea. i can make some money by selling souvenirs. so all the kitsch we see if we go out to the statue of liberty and go into the gift shop, bartholdi, the sculptor, even before he built the thing, was already figuring out how to make money from souvenirs'. that is actually how this fund- raising got off the ground in this country. once philadelphia di

speak for the rest of the states but certainly in new york. we maintain the choice component of nclb in our waiver. what has driven the access to additional charter advocacies is the raising of the cap that was part of how we won race to the top. the biggest challenge to the growth of high performing charters a capacity challenge. we are being very selective about which charters will give them only given to organizations that demonstrate capacity at a very high level land larger providers on common schools with achievement first, many of them are stretched with the schools they have and trying to figure out how to build capacity to grow. the challenge in new york is a statutory challenge and a regulatory challenge and a capacity challenge to continue to grow these organizations. >> don't know if it is related to the waivers but there remain states with statutory framework for charter schools is not what it should be. in terms of funding parity and continued obstacles to growth and back to the idea of structural change and creating a district wi

after they scored extras in the ninth new york took the lead back in the 10th.he gap and the mets were up 4-3. bottom of the inning, one aboard for rookie sensation bryce harper and he delivered a triple over the head of scott hairston. in came the tying one. pedro was brought in to end the inning. instead he did this, a wild pitch. in came the winning one. the nats rallied twice to beat the mets. david ortiz wearing a boot on his right foot. he's out at least a week with a strained achilles. nothing wrong with kevin youklis. hit a ton of home runs at fenway and here's his first as a member of the white sox. a three-run shot into the monster seats. chicago won 7-5. the jays ortiz also injured monday. cc sabathia made his return from the d.l. and was lights out. struck out the first three hitters he faced. andruw jones provided all the offense cc needed. a three-run homer in the second. the yanks get back their ace and win it easily 6-1. a great grab to show you from the orioles game. tracks it down, hits the wall and went head over heels. reynolds put his body o

crime went down 22% over the past 10 years in new york. same thing we saw in philadelphia.t a similar process in place where they could stop and frisk people looking for guns crime went down 21%. they have to have some sort of suspicion. can't be just like you over there. >> bill: that's the rub. the suspicion is the guy wearing a hoody so they shake him down. >> that's what i'm getting at. cops like it because crime is down and residents like it because crime is down. but, the civil liberties union doesn't like it because they think they are being racially profiled. >> bill: people who live in new york city should know this, 8,000 weapons were seized. 8,000 illegal weapons. only 365 days in the year. >> the flip side of that coin is of all of the people who are stopped and frisked, 88% were doing nothing wrong. >> bill: but that 12% is a big number. >> right. >> bill: it's a big number. >> depends on what group you fall into if you are 88% and the cops stop and frisk you and you don't have a gun you say whoa, whatountry am i living in? >> look at it this way, if they didn'

york. it is accepted to the point of maybe being desirable in certain circles. i think now that these medications are more common, new york is the place where people are going to be comfortable with it and going to be open about it. >> you make a point of saying here that this is brain styling, not mind altering. you make a clear distinction between the two, do you not? >> yeah. i think people when they have actual problems like anxiety, depression or insomnia. they take these drugs. they become normal. they don't become drugged out. >> but you're differentiating certain kinds of drugs from very serious drugs, and you can speak to this, dr. doyle. >> sure. >> and that, say, schizophrenia. we're not in that category of drugs here, are we? >> it is highly unlikely for people in new york to pop antipsychotics for the fun of it. >> we're not talking about bipolar, are we? >> we end up talking about that, and that's in ariel's article. >> is it a national trend or just in manhattan? >> i'm sure it is true for washington, but i don't know how true it is representative

all right chris whalen thank you so much for joining us here in a million new york on your turf well yes indeed welcome home thank you know the last time we spoke it was in d.c. in our studio so now that we are taking our show on the road to new york your stomping grounds anything i need to know peking duck house twenty eight mob street . if nothing as far as dealing with the wall street crowd on there really who we're reducing the population as we go you're going to probably see wall street shrink to about half of what it was five years ago well said to say we have too much capacity move but wouldn't that be a good thing couldn't you argue this country has been massively overbanked the financial ization of the u.s. economy yes but you know what it all goes back to world war two it all goes back to the baby boom so even the victors in that conflict and paying a terrible price because of the distortion caused by the baby boom after the war ended too many people too many people they all need assets and also the changes in the u.s. economy the tendency of americans to use debt to replace

i lived in new york city. i technically lived in brooklyn with access to new york city, and my mother brought me to shows, broadway shows. so think living in new york was a world of opportunity that maybe is not as readily available to others who grow up in more rural communities. that is not to say that that stops them. they just have to travel farther. tavis: yeah. bob dylan was not born in new york city. >> no, he wasn't, but he showed up. tavis: yeah, so it can work even in duluth, minnesota, i guess. >> that's right. tavis: but to your point about your mother exposing you to the arts, what impact do you think that had on your i am trying to figure out beyond that piano and maybe being exposed to the arts, what allowed you to tap into this gift? what were the conditions? >> just the exposure to great music of all kinds, first classical, then broadway shows, then popular music, and then the music that alan freed brought into my teenage world, it kind of hit at the same time as me feeling the lower half of my

and they're the images that made a movement in from this new york's finest to squaring off with occupy wall street protesters and the violence that ensued coming up we'll tell you about a new report that says the n.y.p.d. violated a basic human rights in its crackdown against those protesters. plus nearly ten years and trillions of dollars later the war in iraq is still draining the u.s. economy as well as the patients of the iraqi people but with the amount of money taxpayer spend they expect results ahead we'll find out what was also if any have come out of our reconstruction efforts in the country. there it is monday july thirtieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for zero and you're watching r t well when it comes to our financial woes in this country there's a common perception that only a few things are to blame. the reason why we have the national debt at the level we have is because of spending and also the dramatic expansion of entitlement programs without paying for this is a budget busting health care bill that i think is going to bankrupt our country bottom line. we

it was in the "new york daily news" article today. s at "larger than a jail cell but smaller than a mobile home." do you think that that's just the price of being single in new york? >> yeah. i mean, i think everyone has a new york real estate story about their first apartment. even the mayor has one. and i think it's a part of the process of living in this great city of ours. and, you know, living in a small space and how you manage that creatively is one of the great challenges of this great city. >> come on, sean. you wouldn't be cloaustrophobic? >> me, personally, no. i think smart design and this competition that the mayor is spearheading is going to be great because it's going to open up the door so to speak to think outside of the box. and, you know, create what you can in a very small space. >> tell me a little bit more about what the mayor is pitching. i mean, he's sort of calling on designers, right, so figure out how to design, build, orchestrate 300 square feet. so what does he do with that once he gets those pitches? >> we

>> well, i was born in new york. >> rose: right. >> and i had been completely happy in new york until i was five when i was ripped out of new york city and plopped into beverly hills by my parents who went out there to become screenwriters. >> rose: and did. >> and did. and the thing, the thing that is probably one of my earliest whole memories, a whole paragraph of memory is of standing on line at nursery school in doheni drive in beverly hills and looking around at all this incredibly beautiful sunshine and happy laughing children and saying to myself what am i am doing here. i knew it, i knew it at the age of five. and i thought i'm in the wrong place. and i've got to get out of here. i think a lot of kids have this growing up, by the way. i think a lot of people who end up in new york city are people who always felt this, wherever they were growing up. i didn't feel it until i was suddenly in the wrong place and i knew it was the wrong place. >> rose: now here we are at new york, a landmark, you, this city is you. you can't imagine even though you spent a few years in los angeles

i was up in york, the teachers here from york can tell you, their school district was flat stripped of money. the reason is this godawful recession they inherited and the nature of the change of the city of york. more poor than it ever had before. they have a contract that allowed them to get a pay increase, but the teachers and all the school personnel got together, gave up that next year's raise in order to keep kindergarten going in york, pennsylvania. [ applause ] by the way, by the way, i'm confident and i apologize for not mentioning the hundred other yorks out there, for not mentioning what you guys have given up in the midst of this recession. ladies and gentlemen, you're the same people who coach your team all week at school and then go volunteer on the little league field on the weekend. you're the same people who organize the fund-raiser for the family whose house burned down and they lost everything in the house because they didn't have homeowners insurance. you're the people in the community that people turn to. you're the people who organize the bake sale at your church t

chicago expecting high temperature at 99 and 95 in new york city. closer look temperature at 101 degrees. heat index values into the northeast. a number of heat advisories are in effect. we have severe storms in parts of new england large hail damaging winds and isolated tornadoes possible. keep a close eye on that. >>> now stories you can bank on this morning in this tough economy don't look for the huge increase when you have your annual review with your boss this year joivenling us with all of the details lauren simonetti with the fox business network. good morning. >> good morning. you have to be thankful for the job that you do have. all of your hard work is worth three percent. consulting firm group finds workers can expect to see an average 3 percent pay increase next year by comparison salaries increase by 4.4 percent in the year 2000. biggest are in oil sector and luxury retail. >> unless you live in scranton. >> facebook mark zucker berg has refinanced the $6 million morton his palo alto home with a 30 year adjustable rate loan of 1.05 perc

. >>> and a healthy debate over the proposed restrictions on super-sized sodas here in new york. health experts and civil libertarians weigh in. >>> this is the cbs morning news for wednesday, july 25, 2012. >>> good morning everybody. good to be with you. i'm terrell brown. the funeral for a victim of >>> the shooting unfolded. some victims say the alleged gunman, james holmes was shouting as he stalked victims. holmes remains in soli the courtroom. meanwhile, one of the victims became a father. teresa garcia in aurora has that story. >> katie medley gave birth to her son tuesday morning there in the same hospital where katie's husband caleb is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. >> baby is doing good. katie is, she's recovering. caleb, he's still in critical condition, but he is stabilized. >> the medleys went to go see the new batman movie last friday night in aurora, colorado, for their last date before she would deliver their baby. a half hour into the movie caleb was fighting for his life with a gunshot to his eye. on tuesday, he got to meet his son. >> she put hugo

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to date, more than 7,000 couples have tied the knot in new york city alone. of those newlyweds is christine quinn. she married her long-time partner in may. speaker quinn joins us now on set. it's a pleasure to have you on the show. welcome and congratulations. >> thank you very much. it was a perfect day. >> 7,000 marriages in the last year. >> at least. you don't have to put your gender down so those are the folks who identified. >> incredible, incredible. the other story is the economic impact in the city. an estimated $259 million economic impact resulting in $16 million in city revenues. >> pretty good. >> impressive. this was really interesting. same sex marriage average cost is $9,039 here in new york city. we don't know what heterosexual marriage is. >> the average is about $30,000. for whatever reason, i was speaking to the gentleman who runs new york city and company, our tourism bureau, he said the lgbt ones have been a little smaller. >> interesting. i want to ask you about sort of changing attitudes towards same sex marriage. i bring to your atten

in the bronx. after a surprise trade yesterday. the new york yoofrankees acquir the ten-time all star outfielder and cash considerations in exchange for two minor league pitching prospect prior to the opening game of the three-game series against the mariners in seattle. so he just moved over a locker room. the 38-year-old ichiro in the final year of a five-year, $90 million contract and will primarily play left field for the yankees. his numbers are way down this year. but still worth a shot for the yankees. last night ichiro wearing number 31, the number of retired hall of famer dave winfield. he got a standing ovation prior to his first at bat as a member of the yankees. he acknowledged that with a bow as can you see there and then quickly proceeded to do what he does, smacking a line drive single, the only hist the game in four trips to the plate. he also then stole second base. his 16th of the year. in the eighth inning, yankees up a couple. a-rod crushes one to left center. yankees win 4-1 with ichiro now onboard and snap a four-game losi