of a red america and a blue america or purple america. have you found that? >> guest: yes. >> host: what their different snooze one hand there's very strucking contrast between the north and south and a lot of people might say everyone knows that. what is interesting is if we look from a comparative angle it's not the same in other western nations. if you leave paris for rural regions of france you might miami people who are more consecutive and if you leave amsterdam, you might people people who are more conservative as well but you're very unlikely to meet people who are in favor of teaching creationism in public schools or would think that universal health care and abortion or some of the greatest evils that humankind has known, by contrast, these are common beliefs in the red states. what is also interesting is to look the data that huge regional contention within the united states and a contrast at a partisan level nationwide. so even conservatives in blue state take vary hardline position on a broad range of issue if the perfect exa

the heart of white america. i wanted to about issues of police brutality, of racial discourse, i wanted to be honest about the fact that we feel that we have been deeply entrenched in the culture of privilege on the other side, white privilege, white vulnerability in the find ways to talk about it honestly and openly. here we are in the age of 12 speaking about not being politically correct. can you take that both ways? can you also as white americans into her beyond the onslaught of brutally frank conversation hopefully inarticulate black american trying to say this is the kind of stuff we want to say anat we talk about behind your back and not want to talk about in front of your face and these are the challenges that i want to levy in the kind of conversation i want to engage by being open and honest in the way that often doesn't occur. not nasty, not preaching, down from the pulpit, i'm not that kind of preacher. i believe in getting in the trenches with the people to say what can we do to lift thehe burden t

countries in africa and latin america. once those slaves and those environments became independent, they became whole nations. they had an identity. they could call themselves brazilians and haitians and jamaicans with a sense of history and a sense of the right to exist. here, we have never been able to overcome at once. i am an american. i do not do that without am big wens. i have to say the quick exchange through the mental gyrations, what am i, really? what is an american? what does it mean to a person of color to be an american under the conditions we were forced to defend that title. it doesn't make sense. we find ourselves tripping on the words we speak and the things we say because you never squared that issue. i don't know, really and truly, what i have expected to do other than what it is that we do. constantly fight for the right to be human. >> somebody once said to me that black folk have learned to love america in spite of, not because of. that comes to mind listening to you wrestle with this notion of what

latin america, next on great decisions. (jubilant orchestra music) - [announcer] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. (soft music) - [narrator] the 1960's in latin america was an era of political revolutions. the reverberations of which are still felt today. - latin america was really defined, the 1960's by the cuban revolution. there was a greater push for independence, sovereignty, autonomy from the united states. - it was a region where some of the battles between capitalism and communism, oritarianism, played out with the greatest drama. it was an era of military coups everywhere from central america down through brazil and argentina. - there were movements not just in latin america, but in other parts of the world in the 60's and 70's to bring more left progressive government into power and in reaction to that, military dictatorships took hold in much of the southern cone and brazil. - [n

in none of indexes, to make the claim atmosphere wealth from white america to black america, can be really supported or substantiated by your argument. i would ask the calling to think seriously. black and brown people are not getting jobs ahead of white people. the fire departments are dispoportional white and construction workers are disproportionally white. there is no increase in african-american and latino people in every group in america. when you look at congress people, senators, presidents, across the board. i think unfortunately this is what donald trump has brought us alternative universes of facts and fake news and unfortunately white innocence has been the ultimate fake news. and even if you don't buy by book barrow it or go to the library. martin luther king, jr was in jail and his white jailer came to him with an alternative fact. he said dr. king, his warden and jailers, segregation and right and integration is wrong and your movement is wrong. dr. king said no, that is not true and dr. king asked the poor white people how much money do you make and after they told him he s

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because they will put america on that product if it was made in north america. host: to your earlier point about an emport tax, an editorial talks about that. they say more potentially dangerous teeing up tariffs and steel imports. he president ordered -- host: mike in pennsylvania, republican. mike, what do you think of the president's efforts here? do you try to buy american? caller: yes, i do. i buy as much of it as possible mostly. i buy it because it lasts. i have tools and equipment that are 40 years old. i don't mind spending like $25, $30, sometimes 40% more for an american made product because i know it's going to last. that's why i buy it. host: ok. mike there in pennsylvania. mike, what do you do for a living? caller: i am a contractor. host: do you hire -- do you make a point of hiring americans as well or are you forced to -- caller: absolutely. you know, i use as much american made -- when i go to somebody's home like a bathroom or something, i use only america made fixtures. i use only america made cabinet tri, that type of thing. it's just better

america is trembling on the verge of war.the enthusiasm with which the american people have received the president's advice to declare themselves at war with germany. great britain will find part of a burden taken off her hands by the united states. an australian at the front line, private james joseph macon, wrote to his mother and father in london on the 9th of april, 1979. i suppose you are following all the latest operations with much interest, and you should be exceptionally glad america has come in at last. >> from a diplomatic message sent by foreign minister of the hungarian empire to the declaration of war to germany. since the united states of america has declared that the state of war exists between it and imperial german government, austria, hungary and the german empire has decided to break off diplomatic relations with the united states and the imperial and royal embassy at washington has been instructed to inform the department of state to that effect. while regretting under these circumstances to see a termina

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world. >> guest: consecutive conservative america is what america has been since 1776 and that's the exception. we are country based on the accountability of individuals. individual freedom. you judge people on their merits regardless of their origin. the left is driven by density politics which is anti-american. it's racist. you judge people on the basis of their skin color. this is what democrats believe. on the basis of their gender. on the basis of their sexual orientation and they have a hierarchy and a freeze for it -- a afraid for it. people of color. it's not even english. we don't see is a crayon of color. you call people colored people you're a racist. what is the ideological function of people of color? if you think about mexico, it's two manith anything group -- ethnic groups the dedescend dens of the spanish conquistadors who slaughter the indigos anyones but when they cross the border they're people of color and therefore depressed and deserving special privileges. people in india are people of call, the islamic beheaders inin raqqa and iraq, they're people of color. wh

formed inue they were central america and well-established in the central america and millions of the members of these gangs came to l.a. and to america legally or illegally and they formed these ms 13 gangs by taking over games that had already been established in these cities because of the violence and ruthlessness they have become the most dominant force. actually ms 13 formed in l.a.. said in theas i early 1980's. some of them went back to el when they held to expansion of ms 13 in central america. what is important to say there is that actually ms 13 games became famous in central america. over there it became very violence, very brutal. 13 expanded as a consequence of what happened in central america. regionally ms 13 was formed in southern california. trump is aling to -- result of these gangs and an excuse for the increase in the budget -- increase the national guard to the point where he's not have enough citizens joining it to pull people in the united states because the rich people's join.en don't have to ist he is going to do increase national guard and try to pull people

america is leading.ed in being global cop, were not going to be the world's policeman. there are standards that we insist on. the international system cannot function in a vacuum. in the last eight years, that's what obama created. a vacuum, as a result we had a world on fire. >> sean: i agree with the world on fire analogy but it also created an opportunity where sunni nations like saudi arabia aligning with israel, the jordanians, the egyptians probably wouldn't have happened had obama not betrayed israel given this horrible deal to iran and the possibility of irani and hegemony in the regio region. maybe a lot of good came out of that. maybe even a breakthrough in china, time will tell. >> i think you are right. some positive things can come out of that. look what we've done already, we've reinforced those positive developments that happen in a vacuum. look at the meeting with president, look at how we've revitalized the relations with israel. king abdullah, i don't know if we're tired of winning it b

america has to take this seriously. only those of us that have responsibilities at the democratic congressional campaign committee and various campaign committees as democrats, but all across the country. we have to make sure we are stepping up with united states can do to identify everything that russia touched, figure out how to stop them, and it has to be done in a bipartisan fashion. i appreciate what the u.s. senators are doing. our u.s. senators on the intel committee recognized that there is a threat when any foreign actor tries to enter our elections in america. and that's why they are getting to the bottom of this. it shouldn't be a partisan issue. we need to get to the bottom of this to ensure it doesn't happen again. susan: are there any leverages the united states can have against russia, if they are intending to influence the elections? what can we do? rep. lujan: the first step is understand some of the sanctions that were put in place by president barack obama. what worries me is there has been conversati

we seem like we don't want to include into the fabric of america. they are part of america now. we have to include them. we have to take care of their thoughts and their passions to make this work. you cannot exclude people from a situation. it is impossible to do that and not have a problem. we do not need to go to war ever. we should learn from that. every president once of being a lame duck or like bush. what about the first thing he said? connecting the good work you do to people in the field working with young people. guest: i think walter makes a good point, and thank you for what you are doing in inglewood. we know it's a harvard community and there are a lot of -- hard-hit community and people are working to make conditions better for young people in the community. i have to say you should go to our website. rg.ommittokids.o reasonsay part of the the presidents came together in philadelphia 20 years ago and part of the continuing reason is there are all kinds of good things going on for young people in the country. but they feel disconnected. they are little islands of b

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north america editor jon sopel has this. jon: the president's spokesman sean spicer came to debriefing to talk about the seriousness of last week's sarin attack in a series in which the administration holds bashar al-assad responsible corporate but then he turned to history to make this point. mr. spicer: we didn't have chemical weapons in world war ii. you have someone as despicable as hitler who do not even think to use chemical weapons. jon: but that statement drew an incredulous response from journalists attending the briefing. >> i will give you an opportunity to clarify something that seems to be gaining some traction -- "hitler did not sink to the level of using chemical weapons." what did you mean by that? mr. spicer: when it comes to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. jon: millions of jews were gassed during the second world war in the network of concentration camps built in what was called the final solution. the director of the anne frank center condemned the re

to said i don't want america just be energy independent, i want america to be energy is thet and that today steps we're taking to provide a greater regulatory certainty and bold action to unlock america's resources. it is now my honor to introduce a great american, my friend, the secretary of the interior, secretary reince thinking -- ryan zinke. nation cannot run on pixie dust and hope. the last eight years show that. i can tell you the hallmark of a great president is one that and thatisive action is exactly what our present it. decisive action. -- and that is exactly what our president did. why is energy independence necessary? one is the environment, i can tell you the former commander -- i can tell you as a former commander, it is better to see energy produced here with less regulation than it is to produce enough. secondly is a jobs, jobs that are. matter. hard-working americans deserve a future. montana, in the great cremation, he said coal and for the best job some of our communities, coal jobs are the only job. and lastly, national security. the world is safer when america is

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carbon pollution is destroying the resources of rural america. it is destroying our forests, our farming and our fishing. the fire season in oregon is now two months longer than it was decades ago. the streams are warmer and smaller because of the smaller snowpack in the mountain. over on the coast, we have the difficulty of oysters being unable to reproduce correctly because the water is so much more acidic because of the burning of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide has become carbonic acid and is making it very hard for shellfish to start their life. not to mention coral reefs around the world. 80% of the great terrier reef -- barrier reef dying in the last few years. the list goes on and on wherever you look. that group of four assembled across the city is standing up and saying we are going to try to increase the destruction of our forests, increase the destruction of our farming with less irrigation water increase , the destruction of our fishing and we are here to say no. we are here to say we are going to resist this and every possible way w

and in that extent, america is -- america is not exceptional.this is where we are, right now. although, what is exceptional is that he won the whole thing. one could mange comparisons to him and silvia berlusconi, a businessman. the other thing about this election that was interesting was while the centrist candidate -- the center left candidate, in france is the socialist party, but it would be more like the democratic party. while their vote collapsed, melson, hard left, he did really well. >> sounds like bernie. >> most european countries have a bernie. france, germany, to a lesser extent. britain, with corbin. grease, portugal. and so, you have these two countervailing responses to the anxiety around neoliberal globalization. >> is it enough in it wasn't enough to save off a trump victory here. is the other approach, the other alternative enough? >> not yet. no. not yet. and in a few places it's done well. portugal and greece, it's done well. but i think what's important, in this moment, where there's a lot of despair everywhere, is to -- at

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about the real bounty and wonders of america's natural world. and this painting when william bartram was rather old is a really nice character study. he is calmly sitting there. he has a wonderful bald spot on the top of his head and a really prominent vein on his temple. charles willson peale has really looked at the subject to depict him in detail with a lot of care. william bartram was charles willson peale's friend, but i think he was also his colleague as a fellow naturalist. and that portrait really reflects that professional association. next to william bartram is william clark. and i always have enjoyed this picture, because liam clarke was a vivid redhead. and charles willson peale did a really nice job with william clark's red hair. william clark is half of the famous team of lewis and clark, the explorers, who traveled during president jefferson early in the 19th century to surveillance the territory we now know as almost a third of the united states, the territory america gained through the louisiana purchase. william clark was a sol

global leaders growing accustomed to america not saying radical islamic terrorism, america cutting dealsith rogue nation, and the number one state sponsor of terror like iran. they flat up a trail of one of our closest allies, israel. instead of taking a tough stance with russia from the start like what president trump is now doing, the world was used to and so hillary clinton offering to l reset relations, you mayow remember this. >> in anticipation of this important meeting and our time here together, i wanted to present you with a little gift which represents what president obama and vice president biden and i have been saying. that is, we want to reset our relationship. so we will do it together. [laughter] >> thank you very much. >> you are very welcome. we worked hard to get the right russian word, do you think we got it? >> you got it wrong. >> i got it wrong. >> this says which means over shots. >> we won't let you do that to us, i promise. >> sean: we all know how that turned into complete and utter failure and a disaster.e instead of pushing the russians to change their behavio

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and reduce the america to ashes.is hard for me to get scared when north korea message translates to the. >> the north korean media warmed of a super mighty preemptive strike. super mighty preemptive strike. >> a super mighty preemptive strike against the united states. super mighty even. >> greg: i feel so bad for those serious news people having to say that ridiculous phrase. i hope charlie rose set it. >> super mighty preemptive strike. [applause] >> greg: that a boy charlie. props all of them, they said that with a straight place. that doesn't sound like nuclear war to me. it sounds more like a sure gear toward 11-year-old boys. >> super mighty preemptive strike so that's the threat we are dealing with. i'm a little scared but amused. i have this theory, that when your enemy is comical we don't take it seriously. it isn't funny, i mean it shouldn't be funny, but to us it is. so we don't think anything that is ever going to happen, but it could. >> i've always thought about it like bottle rockets and then i was loo

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build it in america. buy american. and we'll put thousands, in fact, tens of thousands, of people to work. i'm going to give you another example. the american maritime industry has been in a very steep decline for the last four decades. following world war ii, we had over 1,500 american ships. a decade ago we had over 00 american ships. on the ocean. our ship yards were making l.n.g. tankers 20 years ago. and they were american flagged. american mariners on those ships. today we have less than 80 american flagged ships and we don't make large commercial ships in the united states except on rare occasions. the maritime industry is absolutely critical to national defense. how do you think our men, women, and equipment get to the trouble spots of the world? you don't fly the m1 tank on an airplane. you put it on a ship. put the trucks on the ship. put the artillery on a ship. where are the american ships? oh, i know. we'll call china. and they'll deliver our goods to the south china sea. doubt it. i don't think. so if you

it's not going -- it's not what america needs.chris: but senator, here is what you failed to mention in your critique of the tax plan, the president's plan would also double the standard deductions. you can see it up on the screen from 12,000 to 25,000 for married couple, 70% of americans plea low to moderate income easterners take the standard deduction and they would benefit from that doubling of the standard deduction. this would be a tax break for them. >> well, but he also takes away things like the mortgage interest deduction, the local -- chris: no, no, sir, that's not true. he does not take -- he does not take away the mortgage interest deduction. >> you cannot do it if you use without the standard deduction. he takes the state and local as well and middle-class people get far less of a benefit, many of them will hurt, one estimate said that millions would pay more and the rich do extremely well. they seem to get 90, 95% of this tax plan. that is not how donald trump campaigned. it's another broken promise. that's not what

over the last period of time china has understood what it wants from america more than america understands what it wants from china so the chinese system has helped to pursue interest more efficiently and america has allowed to pursue its interest so china looks that the relationship but clearly based on specific national interest where america has a tendency to look long term and not worry about short-term interest that has created problems for the united states more than chinese and this has benefited then in the short-term or if you put money down today hoping to get something tomorrow so from now prospective the chinese and the government have played america better than america has played to enact maybe they have relatively more success. >> you spoke earlier about the demographic issues so please compare and contrast those demographic issues with those facing the united states. >> that's a great question. sometimes this year but definitely by 2020 the average age will be data above the united states title of a larger percentage of the population above 60 by 2,025,100,000,000 people wil

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america.his is not go well for them. >> harris: what i was alluding to, senator schumer said when we call this whole thing off and sit down, come up with a different candidate? >> sandra: richard fowler was sitting in your chair saying this is about america garland and is revenged to make revenge. >> howard: this is middle school politics. we talk about senate stalling tactics and each side will vote the minority, it's getting a little old. >> harris: no one had good hair and middle school, by the way. the republicans gain any street crowd by saying we are going to do this and now we'll do this or does it backfire on them? what your take? >> howard: given that harry reid illuminated certain filibusters, he ran the senate, i don't think they took a big hit on that. yes, it cause president trump to not put major pieces of legislation on the board. this would be a major delivery of a campaign promise and republicans can take some credit for it. it will be ugly. >> harris: speaking of health care,

i was proud of america. black people didn't elect barack obama. america elected him.ted, there is a feeling, maybe we've crossed a threshold. and there is a lot of exuberance. maybe an irrational exuberance that we had overcome. ♪ whether you're after supreme performance... ...advanced intelligence... ...or breathtaking style... ...there's a c-class just for you. decisions, decisions, decisions. lease the c300 sedan for $389 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. ♪ ♪ >>> i became involved in the black lives matter movement when it was the killing in missouri. we knew that every 28 hours, a black person was killed by a police officer or vigilanty. and we knew that we could not rely just on our president. that we really had to rely on ourselves. jesse jackson came to ferguson and we marched to one particular church. i think he tried to hav us sing "we shall overcome." >> that's not where these kids are coming from. they're not going to a christian church like that. they don't have the same tradition. >> the song doesn't tell us w