, islamic attacks on america, this book america answers a domestic critics of people in america who say the wealth of america is based. host: in your book, the real shock of asian dominance for people in the west is to see how differently the world is going to be run when america is no wrong longer running it. guest: america is arguably an empire, but if it is an empire it's a very different empire than the roman or the british, those are empires that were based on exploitation. their goal was to extract wealth, minerals, free labor, from colonies. they were typically settled by those countries. america has essentially governed the world as an empire, america keeps their free lanes open of the commerce of the world and circulates without being attacked by pirates it has not used its power to conquer other countries. we have been invaded other countries but we go in and we go out and unlike other colonial expeditions that often cost us money. we lost a lot of money in iraq, if you were truly a colonial expert dish and we would've made money. so america seems to me has been a benign empir

impact america has made on the world what will the future look like if america begins to subside or recede into answer the critics of america not the critics abroad because i wrote an earlier book called what's so great about america which is an answer to the european critics in america and islamic radical attacks. this book america answers domestic critics who say that the wealth of america is based on theft. >> in your book the shock of asian dominance for people in the west is to see how differently the world is going to be run when america is no longer running. >> america is arguably an entire but a very different and higher than the romans were the british. those were empires based on exploitation. the goal was to extract wealth, mineral, free labor that were settled by those countries. america is centrally governed the world as an employer and keeps the lanes open so they can circulate. america doesn't use its power to conquer other countries. grenada, iraq. we go in and out. unlike other expeditions it's costing us money. we lost a lot of money in iraq. as it were in expediti

start weekday mornings with al jazeera america.ur eyes to a world in motion. ♪ ♪ ♪ get excited for the 1989 world tour with exclusive behind the scenes footage, all of taylor swift's music videos, interviews, and more. xfinity is the destination for all things taylor swift. >> what gaffer until watts rights in los angeles 50 years ago ago this summer turned out to be the first volley. it's become a large conversation about race urban unrest and how america monitors these crises. whatever happens in those five dates ago, remains in a unresolved anger. joie chen sat down with fred harris who worked with the white house in afternoon effort to solve these simmering issues. >> six days of royaltying in a section of los angeles. >> days after lbj signed the voting rights act, watts was a reminder that even a bold push for greater equality couldn't stifle the anger not just in south central los angeles but around the country. the contagion spread. in the summer of 66 it was chicago. the huff riots in cleveland. detroit's 12th street riots

everything was made in america. entity in our factories the only thing that is made in america is the suit. we have to buy everything from all over the world because nothing is put out there. this is not the way the country was created. the country was created to create jobs, not to have the government give you money to live. we paid the government money. they have no money. through our money they pay other people. jobs are created in america, and we can continue to do that, in my opinion, because there are so many people in america today without jobs. there's just the same for me because it wasn't like that when i came. that's all i could tell you, and i hope you like what i'm saying. and if you have any questions i'll be happy to answer them. thank you. [applause] >> if you have a question, please state your name and where you were from first. >> my name is katrina. i am from washington state, and i'm an intern here at young america's foundation. i was wondering what you think the greatest issue facing our nation

let's take america back. [applause] think how different our country would be if they had to live under the same rules they applied to the rest of us. it is time for us to get part-time, term limited legislators and let's pay them for every day they stay out of d.c. rather than every day they go to d.c. government.nk our i want to say something that is politically incorrect. the idea of america is slipping away. the idea of america is slipping away right in front of us. what do i mean by that? that manyn by that is americans are attempting to take america for granted. my parents would never take america for granted. every day, they give thanks they were blessed to be born in the greatest country in the history of the world. seeing.what we are hillary clinton, barack obama are trying to turn the american dream into the european nightmare. give bernie sanders credit. at least he is honest enough to call himself a socialist. [applause] these other two aren't any better. they just won't admit it. is slippingameric

we are one america. there's together, nothing we can't accomplish. whether it's here in iowa or anywhere in america, we should be trueand it should that the 21st century is one of unlimited opportunity and the greatest century america has ever had. thank you for listening to me. if we have any time, i'm happy to try to answer a question. harry truman said if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. i'm trying to get into the kitchen. the heat doesn't bother me. [inaudible] let me repeat that, nancy is an educator in iowa and she loves all the kids of iowa and pointed out how her statistic is 41% of kids in iowa today are growing up poor and how education has always been the great equalizer. that's true for me and it's something i care about greatly. my father was a mailman. when he went off to the first grade he could not speak a word of english. my mother had a scholarship to go to cornell but she had to turn it down because she was the only one in her family working and she was supporting her parents and brothers and sisters. they did not

as much as america loves your father, it means even more to america.nation too long sometimes to say so, because sergeant shemin served at a time when the contributions of jewish americans were often overlooked. he saved lives, he represented our nation with honor. it is my privilege on behalf of the american people to make this right and award the medal of honor to sergeant william shemin. i want to invite his daughters, 86, and 83 and gorgeous, to accept this medal on their father's behalf. [ cheers and applause ] >>> the president of the united states of america, authorized by an act of congress, awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor to sergeant william shemin of the united states army. he distinguished himself by extraordinary acts of heroism while serving as a rifleman. in connection with combat operations against an armed enemy in france from august 7th to august 9th on 1918. he left cover and was in a open space of 150 yards and made himself vulnerable to gunfire to save bounded soldiers. sergeant shemin's extraordinary heroism and

ger joins us to discuss his latest work, "america 1908." publishers weekly has said of the author, he renders 1908 as a series of snapshots and his camera never blinks. please join me in welcoming jim rasenberger. [applause] jim: thank you for that introduction and thank you to barnes & noble for hosting this. above all, thank you for all of you being here tonight. today is the official publication date of the book, so i'm especially honored to have all of you with me. the book, as you may have gathered by this point, it's about america 1908. [laughter] it, part ofind of the idea, anyway, that as we stand on the threshold of 2008, the year i think most was will inee will be fairly critical setting the future course of the country with the election coming up and outstanding questions iraq, it isr in pivotal to look back at another period in america 100 years ago. moments happenng in 1908, some of which literally put modern america in motion. it was the year the model t came out. there had been automobiles before the model t, but this was hen

america's veterans. we are letting them down. any veteran who served, they are not going to wait in line to see if they can get services out of the v.a. system. we will give them a card where they can go to any health facility in america they need. we are going to make sure they get the mental health support, -- the vast majority of them don't need it, they come back stronger and better -- but for those who do, it is the federal government and president's role to make sure they get the mental health support and counseling they need. and just to digress a little bit more. we have seen horrible incidents of violence in america. you will say, we get to do this, we got to do that. in almost every one of those incidents it was someone who was mentally ill, and others knew that he posed a threat of violence to himself or others, and we did not do anything. we don't need to change the gun laws. we need to change the mental health laws so we can protect ourselves from those who are clearly violently mentally ill

the school was an america high school. i love the name america's. it is so eve talkative and representatives. the name implies what we are talking about is a story particular to the south, to america, is an american story. here is the twist. many years later, some of those who stood by as he was tormented in high school tracked him down in west virginia where he had lived and wrote him letters of apology asking for his forgiveness. they wanted him to return to georgia for their 40th class reunion. it was a remarkable gesture but i wanted to know how sincere it was, whether it was remorse and guilt of people going into their retirement years or something deeper. i didn't want to just write about bad things in the south half a century ago. a capacity for change and growth about the promise of redemption and reconciliation. let me back up and tell you a little bit about the city you had never heard of until this book came out and there are a lot of people who had never heard of it. is a communal farm of few miles south of america in southwest georgia n

america is not safer. since secretary clinton took charge of our nation's diplomacy, we abandoned american leadership in the world, forgotten that america is an exceptional country and lost faith in america's ability to influence world events. the results speak for themselves. hillary clinton tried to appease vladimir putin with the reset button. sensing weakness, he has rejoined the map of europe with loaded guns. he is dismembering ukraine, trying to destroy nato, and threatening to use nuclear weapons. hillary clinton a pivot to asia that proved hollow, and she downplayed china's abysmal human rights records. this is the result -- the chinese are aggressively expanding their territories, building islands of military bases in the south china sea. beijing conducts massive cyber attacks against the united states, stealing classified military data, sealing the personal information of millions of americans, and stealing billions of dollars in intellectual property. sadly, there is more. hillary clinton, hill

critics of america, islamic radical tax on america. >> : . >> >> we lost a lot of money in iraq. but julienne say claudio expedition with the cost of innovation that we cannot do that. >> america added. [inaudible] empire. if it were to go to somebody else they would use that phar-mor brutally so i feel that america has bedded positive influence in the world. so this book is a passionate argument for intelligent favoritism based on america's standing in the world. >> is it inevitable with the mayor cut down vote -- dominance is coming to an end or returning to china? >> i think it is inevitable the chinese economy will be larger it is already happening now because it has a much bigger population three or four times as many people as the united states so it can have a bigger economy even though the per-capita income will be lower. it is not a question as its leadership i don't think it does but it could we is still the center of global leadership and global innovation and i am hoping by holding onto what is best about america united states will continue to play that role. >> host:

specialists observe that europe had consensual empires in the americas. britain, france, spain, and portugal offered by consent, not by force. that is true enough in many ways. but consent is based on a realistic assessment of alternatives. and guns, like ideas, can profoundly change those assessments. firearms exercise power over the immaterial as well as the material. they reconfigure wills and imaginations as well as bodies. they do this by changing calculations of what they are willing endure, risk, and imagine for the future. the second reason that the arms trade matters is that it bound up three independence wars in dependent relationships. in a nutshell, my argument today is that neither the haitian revolution nor the spanish-american wars for independence could have possibly prevailed without the free trade in arms that came from the u.s., which was itself a neglected but extremely important consequence of the american revolution. prior to the american revolution, a tangle of formal rules, informal structures, and historic legacies made it impossi

, all of america.public law and consistent with the wishes of the doolittle raiders, our nation's national museum of the united states air force located at wright patterson air force base in dayton, ohio, will place there a congressional gold medal on permanent display within the doolittle raider exhibit in our world war ii gallery. it will be next to the display case continue containing the 80 silver gop let, one for each raider, donated by the city of tucson to the raiders in 1959. the medal goes on display this weekend to begin its twofold mission of helping to inform and educate the american public about the doolittle raid and our military history and heritage and, secondly, to inspire and motivate current and future generations of american youth toward grateness. at our national museum of the united states air force, we keep this story alive and prominent. more than one million visitors annually will see the medal and read about in the person and another more than four million visitors will see hi

we'll have more of "america tonight," tomorrow. >> opening old wounds.ea's president says japan still hasn't gone far enough in its apologies for world war ii. in doha with the world news. also in this program, people near the scene of the deadly blasts in china are evacuated because of contamination fears. ♪ ♪ >> we meet the young iraqi activists at the peaceful

to help america.o when i talk about democratic socialism, i'm saying take a look at what is going on in sweden. free college education. free health care. i think it makes sense to look at countries who are doing good things for working families. i'm sure we may have a disagreement on this. we may. [laughter] let me be very frank, when you have the most unequal level of income and wealth inequality of any major western country -- when you have major corporations, not talking about small businesses, but major multimillion dollar corporations stashing money in the cayman islands to avoid taxes, i think that is wrong and i would do away with those loopholes. javier: i did want to hear from you in particular how president sanders might address the needs of minority owned businesses specifically hispanic. can you address that? senator sanders: when real unemployment is as high as it is right now, i think we have got to invest in rebuilding our crumbly infrastructure. spending one dollar trillion over five y

only on al jazeera america >> for all the coverage of police clashes with minority neighborhoods, ferguson, north charleston, staten island and the rest, you would think that this was unique to this country but it is not. brazil also faces serious allegation of s of excessive actions against black minorities. our guide to the streets of bahia state knows racism in both countries. >> my name is . living in a world is designed to believe that your life has no value. i never believed that. i was taught the truth. i knew my people built this country and once i learned that brazil was a product of the same slave trade i became obsessed with comparing systems. so once i got the chance to actually come here i took it. being outdoors is to be connected to african itself whether it's the food you eat, the music you play, those things come directly from your culture, from west africa. brazil is home to the second largest group of afte afro descendants. the celebration of african culture is everywhere here is really impor

"america tonight" is up next, i'll see you again in an hour. >> on "america tonight": a way of life. at risk. >> if i took a big knife and cut a big scar right across your cheek, how much would that change you? that is just what this is going to do. >> "america tonight" april adam may, with the rancher determined to stand his ground. and also, who cares, a for profit health system and the vulnerable patients, left at risk. >> my father passed away as a direct result of neglect. >> the real price of for-profit health care. good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. the great concern for all of us who have had to make health care statisticians for us that we've made the wrong one. case in point, skilled nursing homes, most are run by for profit companies, more than 15,000 nursing homes but there's also increasing evidence that the priority for these types of facilities isn't always on the vulnerable patient. and as "america tonight's" michael okwu found in his investigation the outcome can be deadly. >> reporter: robert pineda was a free spirit, an accountant by training pined

next on "reel america," "the moment in time." the year 2000, which tells the story of the race to create the bomb. this hour-long

what america was. and -- >> you want to keep it that way? >> that is what they say now. american people should have been asked about it but no lied to and a if you say hey, you guys lied to us that's the answer, you're racist. clearly what is happening is america is being transformed into latin america particularly mexico more than a third of all legal immigrants are from mexico. at least 60s, 70% of illegal immigrants are from mexico. can you ask the american people -- would you refer to livering in mexico let's change our country. no country in world history has transformed itself into another country like this about with and it was done without which checkg with american people and, in fact, directly specifically knowingly lying to the american people. >> how many of you agree with her on this? >> a few -- okay. >> they don't want to be called racist accuse anyone who disagrees with what we've done to the country. call them racist. but i notice none of you immigrated to america for fear of being cal

only on al jazeera america an and an and >>> welcome back to the special edition of "america tonight", where we continue an indepth look at the world of weed. so many consumers cool here to get high legally, and as more states consider making recreational marijuana legal, i travel to the netherlands to see what we can learn center a country that wall rated pot use for decades. in amsterdam there are plenty of places to purchase pot. >> it's easy and open here. >> yes, everyone is so welcoming. it's so normal. it's so comfortable. >> reporter: with the 17th century buildings, lining 60 miles of canals, the capital city is a magnate for millions of visitors. many drawn. >> there are 200 coffee shops. even though it says cope shops, this is where you buy marijuana. >> people with cannabis in their spare time. >> in their spare time. >> they are not working. >> this man owns one of the most famous coffee shops in the country. get? >> well, we sell hash and weed. and cannabis. >> the idea behind the dutch approach is that street dealers who cell hard drugs will be put into business, if lic

only on al jazeera america. >>> there's an energy revolution going on in america's heartland.rude oil is flowing from the plains of dakota at a rate recollects thanks to fracking. the united states is expected to overtake saudi arabia as the top oil producer. it is bringing big-town problems to boom towns like willis tonne, north dakota. christopher putzel brings us the story of sex prairie. >> reporter: how would you describe how this looked 20 years ago? >> i don't want to say dead, but i will say probably dying. >> reporter: the sign says is all, williston, north dakota. boom town u.s.a. over the past five years, williston mayor saw the town come back from the brink of death. >> it's growing faster than any place in the country, it's amazing what oil can do for you. black gold. >> reporter: the race to attract the black gold is evidence everywhere around willis ton . risen carefully, and you can hear liquid money filling up tanks. trucks haul it in tankers to the nearest train depot, and trains pulling the crude rumble through long. >> it's a quality of oil. it had a hugely

are reflected in brazil. , next week on "america tonight." tonight." i'm gonna make it happen. >> choices made. >> i'm gonna lose anything left that i have of the mexican culture. >> fighting for their future. >> it is imperative that i get into college. it's my last chance to get out of here. >> the incredible journey continues. al jazeera america gives you the total news experience anytime, anywhere. more on every screen. digital, mobile, social. visit aljazeera.com. follow @ajam on twitter. and like aljazeera america on facebook for more stories, more access, more conversations. so you don't just stay on top of the news, go deeper and get more perspectives on every issue. al jazeera america. >> for all the coverage of police clashes with minority neighborhoods, ferguson, north charleston, staten island and the rest, you would think that this was unique to this country but it is not. brazil also faces serious allegation os of excessive actis against black minorities. our guide to the streets of bahia state knows racism in both countries. >> my name i

that is not where america is. where america is is that women should have access to health care.cheers] i want to close on retirement security. there is a very clear contrast between where republicans and democrats are on a secure retirement. 50 years ofbrated medicare and 50 years of medicaid and 80 years of social security. programs insure that if you work hard throughout your life, if you play by the rules, when you retire you will not have to worry about falling to the floor. you are going to have a floor that will support you, that ensure that you can feed your family, that is going to ensure that you can keep the roof over your head, that you will not have to choose between medicine and meals. democrats passed social security and medicare, support strengthening social security and medicare, and have strengthened them. republicans like jeb bush believe that we should privatize social security. jeb bush supported his brother's plan to privatize social security. remember how well that debate went. that went down in a ball of supportecause americans that security. americans sup

and advancement of america. what we need to do -- this is what we do in new jersey. i think each state should be able to do the thing that works best for them. i drive throughout iowa and see wind power all over the state. it makes sense in a big wide-open state to be able to have wind power be part of what we do, to have a cleaner footprint in terms of our energy and lower-cost electricity as well. in new jersey, though, we are the most densely populated state in america. 8.9 million people in that little space. if we put wind mills up, it would be a riot. here's what we're going to do -- go sit up on a bar and say to someone to name the top three states in america in solar energy production. they will get the first two because the first two are california and arizona, but you're going to win on number three because number three is the garden state of new jersey. solar power works in our state. you don't need as much space for it. we use natural gas, and we are the third largest solar producer in america. you k

that is the america we love, that is the america we are fighting or.y, that is what is at stake in this election. whether our country keeps moving toward opportunity and prosperity for all, or whether republicans get another chance to rip away the progress we have worked so hard to achieve. we have come a long way these past six and a half years. forget what we inherited from the republicans. the worst economic crisis since the great depression. thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of the american people, and the leadership of president obama -- [applause] we are standing again. but we are not yet running like we should. this election is about the best understands the pressures facing the families of america and the challenges facing us in the world. and who has the skill and tenacity to tackle them. today families are stretched in a million directions and so are their budgets were costs for everything from prescription drugs to childcare to college are going up faster than wages minimum-wage jobs cannot lift you out of poverty. middle-class paychecks

"america tonight" visited a few of them. a mile from mercy. >> it's where we met watchdog richard parks. >> you can see how close the residents are to the site. we are literally feet apart. and so on this side of the wall, there'll be workers and head to toe protective gear standing behind red danger tape while residents here, in the bedroom windows, where they have no notification that any toxic chemicals are pumped under their home. here, the view of kitchen window with several barrels. do all the sites have the same standards in place. >> absolutely not so the drilling sites were outside the beverly hills oil field. they are closed. protections there. they have not been afforded to the hill site. there's not monitoring here. >> we found the same thing a few blocks away. at first residents had no idea there was drilling going on behind the walls, all they knew, it seemed everyone was getting nose bleeds and headaches, including this 15-year-old. we met her on the roof of the apartment building. >> what were you going throu

and have a great america to love. [applause] but if we are going to make the country great, we have to make some big changes. not little things. we have to make some truly major get the fair tax passed and quit punishing people and forr work, and once all, get rid of the criminal enterprise known as the internal revenue service. be rid of them. [applause] let's get our military strong again where no one wants to fight with it. the bully in your school when you were a cake, and i hope it was not you, but the bully in your school only picked on the kids he thought he could beat. he never takes on a kid that was so new it would put the bully on his rear end. if we want to keep america from having to go to a war, it may sound counterintuitive, but the best way to do it is to have the most robust, well-trained, well-equipped, best ever military in the history of the world that nobody on this globe once to ever pick a fight with. that wants to pick a fight with. nobody [applause] ask what is the most important issue facing

♪ america! united states house of representatives, the reverend patrick conroy. >> let us pray. god of power, god of justice. it is because of the weakness and failures of our human nature that the terror of war so often plagues the human family. and yet it is during war time that the greatness of human spirit is so often demonstrated. in 1942 our nation was reeling from a preemptive strike by japan upon the pacific fleet. japan, no doubt, feared what the united states might use that fleet for. it was a shocking blow. the 80 men who volunteered for a virtual suicide mission did not strike a similar blow upon japan. little damage was done to the military force of that nation. but the success of their mission rather was in the tremendous message of hope that we americans could respond to the dangers of powerful enemies despite impossible odds. today only two raiders remain. lieutenant colonel dick cole and staff sergeant david thatcher. may the breadth of god uphold their noble and historic story.

friday on "america tonight". friday on "america tonight". . >> al jazeera america gives you the total news experience any time anywhere. more on every screen. digital, mobile social. visit aljazeera.com. . >> hunted to >>> in ferguson we saw a movement take shape and take off. biggest supporters may have been the ones left behind. black women are seen as members of the movement those associate are african-american men. now the voices are raised loud louder. >> on that here is christopher putzel >>> the morning, march 31st, 2012 a month after the murder of traifon martin. this man turned on his tv to the news that two had been shot. >> i'm looking at the tv. there's a surgeon on the tv and says that the young lady who was shot - there's a slim chance that she'll survive. they don't want to operate or do surgery, because it will kill her. i'm looking and i see 22-year-old girl 39-year-old man shot. i sent my prayers to the family i hope god heels their minds, soul and i hope they are all right. >> reporter: what he

>> why they love america. what is it about this country that they think is special and unique and what are they going to do to preserve it and to move it forward? >> that's like my question. >> it was actually better and more artful. >> no. it was just faster. >> your was sort of verbose. >> i was meandering. >> i like both questions. >> thank you for maintaining. >> happy five table. >> juan if you had a question what would it be? >> i guess something substantial like how we deal with the fact that so many people feel they can't get ahead in the country anymore and like they're treading water when it comes to bringing money, in sending kids to school and all the rest. >> you have a problem with treading water? >> a lot of people are treading water at a pretty low level and could drown pretty soon. we don't want that to happen. >> that's a downer. >> these are serious questions. i don't think by the way how do you make america great again? talk about an empty question. >> it's an empty question if you don't ha

america is not safer.ce secretary clinton took charge of our nation's diplomacy, we abandoned american leadership in the world, forgotten that america is an exceptional country and lost faith in america's ability to influence world events. the results speak for themselves. hillary clinton to appease vladimir putin with the reset button. sensing weakness, he has rejoined the map of europe with loaded guns. he is dismembering ukraine, trying to destroy nato, and threatening to use nuclear weapons. hillary clinton a pivot to asia that proved hollow, and she downplayed china's abysmal human rights records. this is the result -- the chinese are aggressively expanding their territories, building islands of military .ases in the south china sea paging conducts massive cyber attacks against the united states, stealing classified military data, sealing the personal information of millions of americans, and stealing billions of dollars in intellectual property. sadly, there is more. , hillary clinton pushed for the

so, they decided to leave america to avoid such a fate.y of them happen to be in hiroshima and nagasaki. ms. rios: is there an aim that the japanese use for those people who did survive the bombing? professor wake: yes. it is literally people who were exposed and received radiation from the bomb. so yes, it is a commonly used term among japanese people, but also among americans. ms. rios: and this term would also apply to the japanese-americans who were in hiroshima and nagasaki at the time? after the bombs were dropped, what happened to the japanese-americans? what was the situation? professor wake: immediately after the explosion, i think the situation was very comparable to many other survivors regardless of their nationality. obviously, the devastation was overwhelming but as part of my work, i have been conducting oral history interviews with those u.s. survivors. and one thing i am very fascinated by is how their national belonging to both japan and america came out very strongly even as they tried to respond to the devastation in 19

we have to protect america from freedom. and by the way -- by the way -- the response of this administration to our marine recruiters being shot was for them to take off their niforms. america is not going to bow down when i'm president to radical islam anywhere in the world, and certainly not in the united states. our marine recruiters should not be taking off their uniforms. they should be putting on their guns and we will be a lot safer across this country. it's not just enough to ignore the fact that isis has recruiting centers, training centers, planning huts, hundreds of millions of dollars, sophisticated weapons, social network capability and thousands of people with western passports. we have got to destroy their training and planning centers over there before they have a chance to attack us here again. let me tell you what i do first. directly aid the boots on the ground, which this administration is not doing. the kurdish army is fighting isis, but they are not getting the supplies, training, financing and help the

that is not america. e can, we can join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all people as a right. [applause] we can have the best child care dysfunctional one. we can join other countries and make sure that every person in this country, regardless of income, can get a higher education. [applause] mr. sanders: we can make certain that every senior in our country can live in dignity and security. [applause] mr. sanders: we can make certain that a veteran that his or her life to defend us gets the quality health care and benefits they have earned. [applause] mr. sanders: and we can make certain that no american, regardless of their race, their religion, their disability, or their sexual orientation, we can make sure that all americans realize the full potential of the quality that is our birthright -- of the equality that is our birthright as americans. [applause] mr. sanders: if we stand together as a nation, if we do not allow them to divide us up by race or sexual orientatio

west to america. west to the america those young americans would never go home to. an america they love. -- loved. i think they are in silent judgment of us. we have to ask ourselves how we lived up to their sacrifice? have we earned their respect? the way we live our lives today, the way we are engaged in this process of democracy in america. i know one thing, the people of iowa understand that. that vete of iowa these candidates that expect us to be here to come to our hometowns to talk to us that you can ask the questions of what is your idea to get this country back on track. i believe in this country's future. i believe those men, those young worth.n's sacrifice was over the next six months as we come to iowa often, we will have the opportunity to talk about our visions. we will have the opportunity to talk about the future of this country. i happen to think the future of this country is bright. there are things to be pessimistic about. i know we can do better. you know we can do better economically. we turn on tv and we see christians being led to a beach in n

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protect america from freedom. and by the way -- by the way -- the response of this administration to our marine recruiters being shot was for them to take off their uniforms. america is not going to bow down when i'm president to radical islam anywhere in the world, and certainly not in the united states. our marine recruiters should not be taking off their uniforms. they should be putting on their guns and we will be a lot safer across this country. it's not just enough to ignore the fact that isis has recruiting centers, training centers, planning huts, hundreds of millions of dollars, sophisticated weapons, social network capability and thousands of people with western passports. we have got to destroy their training and planning centers over there before they have a chance to attack us here again. let me tell you what i do first. directly aid the boots on the ground, which this administration is not doing. the kurdish army is fighting isis, but they are not getting the supplies, training, financing and help th

the armed forces, america's police departments. later, black lives matter, in a place you might not expect. why the deaths of michael brown and freddie gray are di >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. >>> we tend to see the only spark ta ignited ferguson, as the death of michael brown, at the hands of a local police officer. investigation into brown's death uncovered a grim reality that simmering tensions between law enforcement and the community saw citizens locked up to minor offenses and tickets handed out were the real fuel that burnt in the flashpoint. a year later, with the reality exposed, "america tonight"s lori jane gliha went back to ferguson to find out what, if anything, has changed. >> this was once kiarna williams home, and the car she was in june. >> i went straight to gaol and stayed for two weeks. >> it

and he fled to america with nothing. in 1957, 1 hundred dollars in his underwear, he could not speak english. making $.50 an hour. that would be the obama justice department cutting off my microphone. apparently they really don't when you to know that my dad washed dishes making $.50 an hour. and he worked full time. he paid his way through school. he went on with my mom to start a small business. today my dad is a pastor and he travels the country, preaching the gospel. when i was a kid, my father used to say to me over and over again, when we faced oppression in cuba, i had a place to flee to. if we lose our freedom here, where do we go? that is why we are here today. we are here today because the men and women at this state fair, the men and women of iowa, the men and women of america, we are not prepared to go quietly into the night. we are not prepared to give up on our children and grandchildren. we will stand and fight for freedom. we will stand and fight for the constitution. what we are doing now isn't working.

he said no, america was worth the wait. he was right. america was worth the wait. we had been a country that puts the law above the people making and executing the laws. the greatest protection each of us has is that no one is above the law in america. that includes presidents, justices, and yes, immigrants. the law that kept my father and grandfather apart was passed because our nation needed to balance labor markets and national security interests and a number of other reasons that were prevalent in the day for limiting new immigrants. but the immigration act of 1921 and 1924 targeted italians and jews in part because of concerns of assimilation and in part because of rank prejudice. oddly enough, the clause in place today were less significantly altered in 1990, a bill authored by ted kennedy, nothing like the laws of the 1920's which limited immigration not just in nationality, but in numbers to a mere 170,000 people per year for what turned out to be 40 years. the kennedy bill was designed to remove the need for illegal immigration by increasing the immigrants

thank god this kind of thing is rare in america. effort to harm black people by white people. that doesn't exist here. the real racism is looking way from what is really harming black americans. the root cause of poverty. as talking points has reported over and of and over again that is the disillusion of the african-american family chaos on the streets in poor neighborhoods and an educational system that does not demand the same standards of achievement that are demanded in the white neighborhoods. in many schools if black students miss behechemisbehave, nothing is done. they promote them or get them the hell out of the school. that's racism. all americans should be treated the say way. the excuse that slavery, jim crow other other son-in-law injusts thes is how black americans should be treated is insane. barack obama a poor boar of mixed race rose up with little parental help and became president. did these anti-american folks who are exploiting chars ton miss that? governor bobby jindal a man of indian descent rose up to run for

senator rubio: but i think his america -- that i think america is great. and i want to do what my parents did for me. >> let me ask you -- talking about immigration, trump finally putting out a paper. what are your thoughts on his plan? senator rubio: i have not read his plan. there are a couple ideas he shares with multiple people. i have not a -- i have not had a chance to read his plan. we need to start by enforcing immigration laws. once we do that, we need to modernize, so the people we allowed to come in come in on the basis of building a marriage. and then we have to deal with the reality that we have 13 million emigrants, many of whom have been here longer than 10 years. if there are criminals, they can't stay. that is the lesson from our efforts over theea

upon saw -- america's opportunities. and certainly no one deserves that a net more than america -- has ever had. number deserves that safety net more than america's veterans. we are letting them down. any veteran who served, they are not going to wait in line to see if they can get services out of the v.a. system. we will give them a card where they can go to any health facility in america they need. we are going to make sure they get the mental health support, -- the vast majority of them don't need it, they come back stronger and better -- but for those who do, it is the federal government and president's role to make sure they get the mental health support and counseling they need. and just to digress a little it more. we have seen horrible incidents of violence in america. you will say, we get to do this, we got to do that. in almost every one of those incidents it was someone who of violence in america. you will say, we get to do this, we got to do that. in almost every one of those incidents it was someone who was

i believe in america. if we can believe again and come free market principles and constitutional liberties that made america great, we can turn the country around. i believe 2016 is going to be an election like 1980. as ronald reagan said, we will in bold colors, pastels. mr. heath: thank you. some felt the government is far trying to collect data and information on terrorist activity, even against individuals if they were innocent. do you think he made an effort to do that, to get away with the data mining made the country safer or less safe. do you also, second part of this, do you trust no one in the misuse phone and internet records? mr. rubio: let me say as a member of the united states intelligence committee. on a daily basis i review the threats coming at our country. we are living in a period that is more dangerous than any we ever lived through before. all the attention paid to isis is not just isis, al-qaeda still exists and is an organization looking to remain relevant and the best way for them