coming up, a conversation with singer-songwriter loni hall alpert. tavis: grammy-winning singer loni hall alpert began writing songs over 40 member -- 40 years ago when she was a member of sergio mendes and his group. she has gone on to record dozens of albums with her husband of 40 years, herb alpert. continued writing prose as well as lyrics and now onto memoirs.ries and good to have you on this program. click such a pleasure to see you. i didn't know that you were a writer of short stories. i knew you wrote lyrics and stuff. >> just for 30 years. [laughter] tavis: i am slow catching on. forand when did this start you, the idea of writing short stories? >> well, i always wrote. i wrote your extended points and in the early 80's, i started writing short stories. come rain or come shine was the first short story that i wrote. i really enjoy the process. i would write a story and put it in my drawer, and write another story and keep putting them in my drawer. i really wasn't thinking of what to do with the stories until about a year and a half ago, a

the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome, but be forewarned -- a few scenes in this hour are disturbing, because we are dealing with violence and don't want to hide what is true about it. as you know, one year ago this weekend, 20 school children and six educators were massacred at the sandy hook elementary school. the killer also murdered his mother, and then killed himself. 28 deaths in all, from guns. and across america, perhaps as many as 30,000 more have been killed since that fatal day. this is why i have asked richard slotkin to join me. he has spent his

the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. last month in sydney, australia, they threw an annual event called the festival of dangerous ideas. one of the main speakers was david simon, the writer and producer who created "the wire" and "treme," two television series that vividly portray the vast gap between rich and poor. nothing drives that great divide home, he said, like our prison system. >> you're seeing the underclass hunted through a war on dangerous drugs allegedly that is in fact merely a war on the poor and has turned us into the most incarcerative st

with its effects on wall street, daniel alpert. atounding managing partner lamson capital. rule?in the volcker what is it all about? >> you have a very nice summary. thank you for having me. things.two it tries to restrict proprietary trading and investments in hedge funds, and it takes 950 pages to do it. >> if it takes 950 pages to do it, can you explain exactly why it takes so many pages to put ofether the details something donald just described in a sentence? sadly, there are still some ambiguity in the rules as to how banks determine what is proprietary trading versus a connection with market making and client related services. developres that banks policies and procedures, test them, and maintain them to force compliance with the volcker rule. it does not apply to chief executives to test whether they are in compliance in entirety with the volcker rule. >> policies and procedures. do policies and procedures mean more expenses? >> i'm sure it will be more expensive. when you actually look at what the law actually says, those policies and procedures are pretty detailed, more

consumers even creepier as a result the kind of restriction not the kind people that came before alpert that you have to stop people from the lighthouse be there to make and the people it into her left . when done now to get the prize. we find out how will they didn't understand the cost of living today we have people that treat to get the price of two years' worth of classes. but the look of the gap. then the price might be three hundred to five hundred and eight. i'm thinking ok we can keep it for school but the action only choose one or two programs based on the tap on the ancient overwhelming encounter with high praise for granted that idea. so in the wake him up. maybe it could cost about five thousand us dollars pre schools are too much burden for children and they are providing to the level of musical education. children nowadays are always exhausted from attending preschool. so there's no need for children signed up for early education at all i couldn't allow you to get a concocted four to nine thousand dollars. i don't think it's worth it charter hall is too young to even go to

the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. you knew from the start that pope francis was going to be different. the first pope in history to take the name of the patron saint of the poor, he speaks differently, in a voice we're not used to hearing, criticizing the "widening gap between those who have more and those who must be content with the crumbs." in his recent "apostolic exhortation" on "the economy of exclusion and inequality," he said quote, "the worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the

the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org." anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. i want to tell you about a book you simply have to read. i promise, you will laugh and cry and by the end, i think you'll be ready for the revolution. the title is "this town," an up-close look at how our nation's capital really works. i can tell you, it's not a pretty picture -- the story of a city's bipartisan lust for power, cash and notoriety, so overpowering that everyone and everything else gets sucked into its undertow. government becomes no longer the servant of the people, but in the thrall of big money, lobby

. >> richard alpert, i've had the privilege of trying cases against him, understands this young man didn'tke life. this is a case where a tragedy of unspeakable proportions occurred. this judge decided in this case, this was the appropriate punishment. and i don't really think we get to second guess that decision. >> i understand it an i know it's been said in the media that the prosecutors could appeal and i understand under texas law there probably is no basis for an appeal here. one last question in understanding whether this was fair. this kid in particular, the idea he has a background where he's made mistakes in the past, he's been involved with the law in the past and he hasn't gotten a lesson, is that a fair appraisal of the kid? >> i think when you view it through the prism of what the facts are and the facts are stubborn, the only involvement this young man had was a minor possession of alcohol. there's been no indication in this kid's history, upbringing or background that he's engaged in any kind of criminal wrongdoing that would have been a precursor, that would have told peop