i can say american renaissance. the writing of history and politics and political history in the united states. i think sean has written the foreword. so you are the person who will go forward and start. thank you very much. >> well, thank you, and that. can you not hear me? is that all right quirks to need this for tv or something? no? great. it's great to be here. it's great to celebrate david's book. i get to do this twice. two years ago i had the honor and privilege to read a brief forward to a new addition of the american renaissance, david's book. my main point is the book would shift and come to terms with the great american writers of the pre-civil war years. first, the book expanded simply enough to include background poet emily dickinson hawthorne, melville and whitman. among other things, but talked about how the writing of the american renaissance did some very odd things because he was trying on some very odd things. was able to fuse in new ways to and rational to create for example stories a figure of

all of the first code talkers were americans, but many were .ot american citizens that did not come untilhe code talkers of world war ii were often barred from full participation in american life, that they still served with pride, patriotism, honor, and sacrifice. i am proud that congress is recognizing that unique service. i appreciate my friend dan boren's role in that, and by honoring these code talkers, we honor all native american warriors past, present, and future. good luck. god bless. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states representative from the third district of wisconsin, the honorable ron kind. [applause] >> good morning. colleagues, established guests, 33 tribes that are the recipients of the congressional gold medal today, and most important to our native american veterans and our code talkers, those that were able to make the trip, and those who are unfortunately still at home, we welcome you. we'll you a debt of gratitude that could never be repaid, and on behalf of a grateful nation we thank you for your service and sacrifice. just a couple of weeks ago in thi

all of the first code talkers were americans, but many were not american citizens.did not come until 1924. the code talkers of world war ii were often barred from full participation in american life, that they still served with pride, patriotism, honor, and sacrifice. i am proud that congress is recognizing that unique service. i appreciate my friend dan boren's role in that, and by honoring these code talkers, we honor all native american warriors past, present, and future. good luck. god bless. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states representative from the third district of wisconsin, the honorable ron kind. [applause] >> good morning. senator, my colleagues, established guests, 33 tribes that are the recipients of the congressional gold medal today, and most important to our native american veterans and our code talkers, those that were able to make the trip, and those who are unfortunately still at home, we welcome you. we owe you a debt of gratitude that could never be repaid, and on behalf of a grateful nation we thank you for your service and sacri

but i've heard the model american stereotype may be contributing, very existent of native americans and problems of u.s. colonization. i want to get in this video comment. >> my parents are refugees from laos that emimmigrated to the ultimates in the 1980s. my brother and i grew up on a failing education system. a lot of my friends couldn't graduate high school, they joined gangs and started families early. only a handful of us went on to college. these stories are not unique to me. these experience are also experiences from southeast asian americans and are discredited by the model american stereotype. >> we are getting feedback that asian americans do not live up to this quote unquote model american stereotype. >> this study showed asian women were the most sought after. which gave up, the hashtag, the is. >> i'm a police officer. i know in fact i'll end up.marrying an asian girl. i just know that. >> my name is gordon. i'm a white caucasian male. it makes no difference where she's from within the asian subcontinent. >> that was a clip from debbie lum's documentary, seeking asian

terms of american foreign policy. at that time, america was exercising its muscle, and it was getting used to being a world power or aspiring to be a world power. it was looking for an empire, looking for colonies, looking for competing against the european powers to show we, too, americans, were a force in the world. the -- there was a revolution going on in cuba, the cubans were fighting the spanish for independence, and there were people pro and con, and americans liked the fact there was a revolution going on because they didn't -- they wanted spain out of america, and we thought we had a lot of investment in cuba, wanted to trade with cuba, and we sort of would be good if cuba was more open to u.s. influence and exchange. there was pro-spanish riots in havana, in january, and so teddy roosevelt and others sent the uss maine to havana harbor in february, and the idea was the show the spanish sthorts in cuba that america was intent on at least helping these revolutionaryies overthrow the government. maine was in ha

we lost american lives. we had four americans killed that day, an attack that should not have happened. if it did happen, it should have been stopped. there should have been more reinforcements. >> we just had an american teacher killed not far from the consulate. what do we know about this? has al qaeda, has anyone taken credit for this? what does this say about the protection and security for americans in libya? >> there's not enough protection. put out a message in arabic, calling for the killings of americans in libya, but also the other day jay carney at the press conference said that the administration is asking the libyan government to look into this. first of all, the fbi should be involved and secondly, as there is no libyan government. why do we hope that the libyan government will find out what happened here? >> it took the fbi three weeks to get there when we supposedly had a great relationship with the libyan government. so maybe jay carney is saying that because he's saying we're not going to g

>> americans have not and will never give up on american exceptionalism. but the report does sense that something is wrong here, that we are not just doing as well as we could or short or have done historically. that is why you're seeing a surprising number of americans saying we have got to get it right at home. >> thank you very much. the dual legacies of the war in iraq and the crash of 2008 on american attitudes there on foreign policy. when you think of a typical computer programmer, i'm willing to bet what you think of as a man. let's be honest, there are not a lot of women writing computer code. our next stories about a woman who is determined to change that. she began coding in 2008 after losing her job in america during the economic crisis. now she is helping other women break into the tech industry. bbc has the story. in 2008, i was working in tech in new york and the entire economy just exploded. i was working at a company where they laid off most of the workforce, myself included. i remember looking around the room and realizing that none of th

i'm a -- american college. the american colleges and universities helped take me as a kid with a single mother raising three kids all by herself in brooklyn, new york and turn me to a college professor with tenure. >> host: you and your sister. who is an m.d. >> guest: yeah. my sister is a pediatrician in d.c. i've always thought of higher education and colleges and universities. the benevolent institutions. the institutions that do good things if we can get access to them. what the research began to expose was the other role that universities can play. universities can be, in my mind, weapons of social just u, but what shocked me they could be weapons of social destruction. >> host: in what way? >> guest: they can play a huge nart undermining the integrity of native american nations and civilizations. one of the things i write about in the first chapter is the desire to christianize native people in the americas. several attempt to build colleges -- which was all the early colonial colleges have as a primary m

i don't think that's what the american people want. i know it's not what the founders intended when they gave the minority a voice in this body. and i do hope that we can get back to a regular order where, yeah, we have a limitation on amendments that is reasonable, reasonable time limits. that's true, we need to get our work done. but let's allow amendments to be offered. let's allow the voices to be heard. let's allow, in case of these nominations, to have some input from the other side. i'm very concerned about where this is headed. the logical extension of what the democrats have done, of course, would be to extend this to legislation as well, which i, again, i think creates even more of a problem than we have already in terms of legislation being passed here that is not reflective of the will of the people, that is not subject to the kind of checks and balances that we would have under a rule where you have to get 60, not 50 votes to be able to pass legislation. a prime example would be obamacare. let's be honest, the reason it go

uninsured americans, insured americans, families with high-value insurance plans. high health costs, small business, individuals who need medicines or medical devices and employers that provide retiree drug coverage. employers that provide retiree drug coverage, we taxed them. the bill cut $466 billion in medicare to fund new government programs. medicare faced at that time a $38 trillion underfunded liability and insolvency that was projected to be 2017. instead of fixing those problems, this bill raided medicare to start a new government entitlement. the bill cut medicare advantage. it cut hospitals. it cut nursing homes, cut home health. it cut hospice. nobody in the administration can go out today and say my gosh, we didn't know this was going to happen. we talked about it right here day after day after day. these are not things that we made up. if we did, we would be prophets because they're all coming true. everything is aligning with what we said. the bill would increase premiums making care more expensive, not less. let's get past what was the easy part, an

all of the first code talkers were americans, but many were not american citizens.d not come until 1924. the code talkers of world war ii were often barred from full participation in american life, that they still served with pride, patriotism, honor, and sacrifice. i am proud that congress is recognizing that unique service. i appreciate my friend dan boren's role in that, and by honoring these code talkers, we honor all native american warriors past, present, and future. good luck. god bless. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, united states representative from the third district of wisconsin, the honorable ron kind. [applause] >> good morning. senator, my colleagues, established guests, 33 tribes that are the recipients of the congressional gold medal today, and most important to our native american veterans and our code talkers, those that were able to make the trip, and those who are unfortunately still at home, we welcome you. we'll you a debt of gratitude that could never be repaid, and on behalf of a grateful nation we thank you for your service and sacrific

it's actually not making american diplomats safer, because it's so difficult to get into an american embassy that today go out to have their meetings -- that they go out to have their meetings. so they are less well protecteddal hoe they're doing their jobs well. they're out and about in foreign societies being the america that people see. >> host: i'm going to read a quote you have here in your book, tell us who this is from. washington awoke, a capital at war. the indecisions, hesitations and doubts of the past year, the pretenses and fumblings were gone. argument other the country and its capital turns to what americans like and do best, action. in a few months, half a continue innocent and 130 million people were transformed into the greatest military our the world had seen. >> host: what is that from? >> guest: yeah. it is dean acheson writing on december 8, 1941, right after pearl harbor. he was at that time the assistant secretary of state for economic affairs, and he was exasperated to see that the state department wasn't with better at its job when he goes on to say further

american crew were. in the same question in that document there was the this is this is the point and jeff thank you very much for that and that goes back to the to the earlier caller which is is this the best you've got really i mean and so you know i think it's. i'm starting to get redundant here but i think it's fascinating that. it's birth or is it it's it's and what this does is it demonstrates the you know the the amount of space between the klan and donald trump . and the others who are saying oh you know he's got proof that it's spread there on done one bank's website you know we've got proof that obama was actually a citizen of indonesia you know it's all about you know this this tells me and i hope it tells you. the nature of these arguments these arguments are essentially racist they're fearful these are you know fear based arguments and the way how do you evaporate that you evaporated by exposing dana in new britain connecticut hey dan what's on your mind. yeah this is. going to get broadcast

americans,ssues of all americans. and their responsibility to get these done -- and we have a responsibility to get these done. i do not want to disappoint my mom. our republican colleagues are paying attention to mama crowley. maddo not want mama crowley at them. do-be labeled as the most nothing congress in the history of the united states. that is what they have become. that is not a marker i would like to have on my mantel place. we as democrats will continue to encourage, cajole, do everything we can to move the agenda forward to address these critical issues of our country. jobs, infrastructure, immigration reform, and the list goes on. we have the ability to get these done if the republicans would set the agenda. one action in the caucus, to buy mrs. crowley an amtrak ticket. thet six weeks ago, republicans realize the recklessness of the government shutdown and the harm it was doing to the country and came to an agreement with those of us who wanted it to end all along. the story became the real and difficult

that is supposed to target non- americans. >> yes. -- should heans american people know how many americans are caught up in that? again, and i don't mean to hedge. let me tell you the difficulties. in a terrorist that we are going after talking to another person, in that communication, there is nothing that says, i am an american, here is my social security number. the fact is that when we are tracking a terrorist, if they are talking to 5 people and one of those is american, the chances of us knowing that are very small. aree find out that they american, there are procedures that the attorney general and the courts have given us on that data. >> ok, well, i guess my question asks, calls for, the nsa to report how many americans' information has been searched, how much has been looked at by agents. i am not talking about a precise 7.0.2 says that you can only look at non-americans. my feeling is this. the american people are tactical of -- skeptical of the use of power. when there is a lack of transparency, they tend to -- theythat something are very skeptical and they suspect abuse. the r

>> guest: i try to be careful with native americans and african-americans in the way i try to be cautious because for instance with the native americans king philip's war has a hand doom the resistance campaign to the english call king philip and it is that a combination against the puritans and it comes very close to conquering but without some external help christian new england might have fallen. serving with king philip one of the native people who were educated at harvard. that is also of two centuries later as we begin to take young black men in black women to prepare the of for these various roles. so as it becomes a radical experience not necessarily civilize but the benefactors. but the capacity of people of color to use their education to pursue their own project of liberating their people. i am sure they should not be ignored or swept under the rug. i am careful much to make the argument educationally succeeded but to say that we could use it strategically is one thing. but in fact, native americans will find loads of examples of people who took the education turning it into ra

of americans feel.y have had a sliver of the advocacy groups, i don't think they've seen anything yet from the majority of americans. >> now, jimmy, we've heard the defenders of robertson. as i said, sarah palin who hadn't even read what he said when she defended him at first, governor jindal, and others. but now there's a new defender. meet alabama republican state senator jerry fielding. he's introducing a resolution in support of phil robertson saying he should be celebrated as a hero. and, quote, phil robertson's family values are shared by the vast majority of alabamians who are rightfully concerned by the vitriol aimed at his christian stance. >> yeah. i have a problem with that as a christian. i think that's just absolutely wrong. i would like to see someone in the congress republican or democrat for that matter offer a resolution saying that the "duck dynasty" people are wonderful, godly christian people. i would like to see how both sides would vote on something like that. there's no difference

child -- i'm a proud american of african descent -- we did not dream the american dream.ite boys always said they wanted to grow up to be president of the united states. idea what itve any would be like to grow up to be president of the united states of america. president has that thoseat dream young boys dreamed, but his hands are so tied from the beginning. he was supposed to be a one-term president. in my estimation, he has not let america down. he has done everything he possibly can. he is in an element that we know nothing about as african- americans. there was a lady who called in earlier who was an african american lady who is angry with the president. her anger is misguided. whos surrounded by people did not want to see him succeed. a few more e-mails to read to you on the subject. steve enables rights, with so many americans and legal residents unable to find any job and living on the streets, democrats are pushing hard to pass comprehensive amnesty to million new job seekers and allow businesses to import more than 200,000 new workers every month. an e-mail from

when 3,000 americans were killed , more or less 3,000 americans killed by one of the most her risk terrorist acts to occur in our lifetime and hopefully ever will occur again. well, after that, the department of defense decided to use its discretion to award the people who were injured or killed in that incident the recognition and benefits that they deserve under our laws. purple hearts and other death benefits. but when i and my colleagues on the other side of the capitol, congressman john carter and roger williams, sponsored legislation to recognize that this attack at fort hood that cost the lives of 11 americans, including 10 members of the united states military and 30 more people were shot and injured, many of whom bear those wounds even today, when we filed legislation on the national defense authorization bill in order to amend that bill in order to give that same recognition to these 11 americans who lost their lives and the 30 more who were injured in that terrorist attack on that day at fort hood, texas, in colleen, texas four years ago, that amendment has been shut out of this p

and you talked about how a lot of americans at the time, not all americans but a lot of americans were comfortable criticizing mormonism. and i think you said not so much catholics and jews as protestants. whitey think mormonism was seen as so dangerous? what is it about marriage or property or why was it so alarming to people? >> guest: that's the fascinating history because some of the other groups about to my talking this is not an immigrant group. so these are not the issues. of the outside threat coming in in the way that you have like irish catholics. so they were entirely homegrown and fees for periods that were just a couple centuries we find that the antagonisms were by different ideas. so one of the ideas of the time in the beginning of mormonism was a very strong sense of republicanism that is used in the united states. and so you have now a religious group that talks about establishing the sign-on and seems to be moving in the separatist direction and so that leads to the various concerns about the national order. and then in the turn of the century when the first mormon se

and the american people.f the path to getting this done depends upon convincing people in smoke-filled rooms in washington, it can't be done. the only way this happens is if we break out a traditional washington rule. >> getting this done means killing obamacare before it fully takes effect. >> between now and september 30th, we need to stand up, and defund obamacare. >> september 30th is when funding for the gofrt expires. cruz says that gives congressional republicans extraordinary leverage. >> the house of representatives should pass a continuing resolution that funds every penny of the federal government. everything in its entirety, except obamacare. >> what are the senators telling you, then? >> there was significant resistance internally. a lot of people were urging that we had just come through the sequester battle and we need to focus on that. >> there is a new paradigm. >> you have health care, so can we. you have health care, so can we. you have health care, so can we. you have health care, so can w

that is not american democracy. so i talk about the library and in the internet service provider to fight back and he was not allowed and he and librarians were not allowed to testify before the congress. this is further than we have gone before allowing them to use powers in this includes the great poet and playwright. i heard him speak a few weeks ago and he said that people thought it couldn't happen and he had come here as a messenger to say be careful what powers you give the government. he was responding to this and a lot of people were to say why should i care what the government goes about me if i'm not doing anything wrong and that would be with disbelief and derision. and i think that there are a lot of reasons that our freedom of speech goes down. >> do you censor yourself these days? electronically or in any form? >> i really try not to. the pan american center says that one in six have been censoring themselves and one additional one in six said that they seriously thought about censoring themselves, pe

, not all americans but a lot of americans were comfortable criticizing mormonism and i think he said not so much catholics and jews as protestants were comfortable with that. why do you think mormonism is seen as so dangerous? was it about marriage? was it about property? >> guest: yeah that is a fascinating history as opposed to some of the other groups whom i am talking. there are not the issues, the same issues of an outside threat coming in the way you have with the irish catholics. so that mormons were entirely homegrown and over different periods, over a couple of centuries we find they differ by different ideas. one of the ideas at the time in the beginnings of mormonism was a very strong sense of republicanism in the united states. you have now a religious group that talks about establishing a a psion and seems to be moving in a separatist direction and so that keyed into various concerns about the national order. and then let's say the turn-of-the-century when the first mormon senator was elected and wasn't allowed to take a seat for three years because the senate was invest

because the americans took it at face value. and there are many revolutions in my book and we've really dove into this, with the state department, we've gone to the former presidential library, eisenhower and nixon libraries to find the material. and then towards the end i went after these factors because officials would say things in the american officials would say, no, and both side had a different narrative and then i decided that it was too much. and then they would say that the drone strikes were part of it. but the truth is the american embassy was burned down in 1979. in the earliest anti-american demonstration was in 1948, which is like barely 70 months. so what is the truth? and i have found that actually the first time the american officials complained was in 1946 and they were still demanding the creation of this and the newspaper talked about this. saying that the americans were becoming the new superpower and they don't really care about this or et cetera. so i investigated this all the way back and the fact of the

i'm a simple american. i'm just an american that works hard, and you're running me out of my home. now the bill that passed, biggert-waters, was well intentioned, but it was drafted inappropriately and it has some very pernicious guidelines or rules in it that can only be changed by congress. some people want to think that fema can just wave a magic wand and make it work. fema cannot wave a magic wand. we have to do our job as senators, and i hope this senate will do its job. now, we can't agree on everything that needs to be fixed around here. i understand that. there's lots of arguments about other things that some people think need to be fixed and others don't. but i don't know anyone or have heard anyone -- anyone -- on this floor, walk to the floor and give us one good, solid reason that the menendez bill shouldn't pass. i don't like section 1. i don't like section 2. i don't like section 10, maybe section 5. not one. it's all just kind of posturing. please, let's get over the posturing and help people that live nowhere near a beach, who are going to lose their homes, who need

this is where we get back to native american history where native americans become key. american colonists were really quite skillful at raising money, using the evangelization of native people as the goal, sending missionaries or emissaries to england and raising money under the claim but evangelizing native people, the first brick building at harvard is the indian colony. that is where the money is coming from and where donations are coming from. >> host: this allows the expansion of the colonials and the expansion -- >> guest: facilitate economic expansion, accelerates the crumbling of native society on the frontier and on the borders. so they are not, quote, slaveholders but eventually after independence -- >> guest: they turn -- they can pretty quickly. if these are religious schools to begin with and they are all religious schools, very quickly they have to figure out the sources of funding, one source is going to be europe, england in particular and raising money on the claim of the evangelizing native americans. the other source of money available to them is the

and other intelligence agencies are not spying on americans. we have had less legal constraint in terms of what we are doing internationally, but i think part of what's been interesting about this whole exercise is recognizing that in a virtual world some of these boundaries don't matter anymore. and just because we can do something doesn't mean we necessarily should, and the values that we've got as americans are one that is we have to be willing to apply beyond our borders i think perhaps more systematically than we have done in the past. ed henry. >> thank you, mr. president. i want to follow-up on that because -- merry christmas, by the way. >> merry christmas. >> when edward snowden first started leaking the information, you told the american people you already reformed them. my team evaluated them. we scrubbed them. we expanded some of the oversight. you also said we may have to he rebalance some. there may be changes. you concluded, you can complain about big brother and how this potential program run amuck, when you look at the actual d

it isn't just that a quarter of americans don't get any vacation time, it is that fully half of all-americans took less than a week off last week. last year. this is absolutely disastrous. and they do it out of fear, they do it because the sense is that -- they may be fired. they are required -- this is -- yes, at the tom levels i think people are overworking by choice, but a lot are not overworking by choice. it is a good point, and i agree with that. >> given that all the studies agree, that vacation is important, and good for our health. sure, if the employees would pay attention, they could learn they could be much more humane, they have to pay attention to these studies and the data. >> we have to leave it there, thank you. let's check back in. >> antonio, a new study revealed that this year for the second time in 19 years there were fewer than 40 executions across the u.s. the study was done by the death penaltilele information center. that is against capitol punishment. its executive director told al jazeera that he estimated it is "within the realm of possibility" that the death penal

how harmful is it for asian americans to deal with this stereotype? >> growing up in the united states or anywhere else in the west, it's really impossible to not encounter someone who has asian fever or yellow fetish. it gets under the skin of us asian women and men. love should not be dependent on the color of your skin. yet some people are honing in on one race over any other races. and also it affects people outside who are not asian women who wonder why asian women in that new study get the most attention online? and so, you know, that's one part of it. >> jenny, you know this must be very confusing to young asian women. >> oh yeah, of course. i mean here's the problem with this whole idea that asian women being desirable should be a good thing. i love that i can get a date. that's great, right? but the problem is, in the end i want to be loved for me as a whole person, right? and most people want that. but the problem is my round chinese face we're one fifth of the world population but it might be a mask if you are loving me if you have this fan

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americans are far more likely to suffer from lack of opportunity. higher unemployment, higher poverty rates. it's also true that women still make $0.77 on the dollar compared to men. so we're going to need strong application of anti-discrimination laws, we need immigration reform that gross the any and takes people out of the shadows. we're going to need targeted initiatives to close those gaps. [ applause ] >> but -- but here is an important point, the decade's long shifts in the economy have hurt all groups, poor and middle class inner city and rural folks, men and women, and americans of all races, and as a consequence some of the social patterns that contribute to declining mobility, that were once attributed to the urban poor, that's a particular problem for the inner city. single parent households or you know drug abuse or -- it turns out now we're seeing that pop up everywhere. a new study shows that disparities in education, mental health, obesity, absent fathers, isolation from church, isolation from community groups, these gaps are now as

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it's wrong to leave more than a million americans behind.ans restore unemployment benefits now. >> and yet, as senator paul and republican members of congress relax in their respective hometowns for a month-long vacation, they basically closed their eyes and ears to the people they're supposed to serve. >> we lose our benefits at the end of the month so we're on the federal plan right now. been very tough. i haven't had any real offers lately. >> going on to unemployment has -- it's better than having no money but my whole situation is caused me to become homeless. >> cut by my government so i can't provide for my daughters is a hard pill to swallow. >> this comes from left field right before christmas. merry christmas. you might not have a hawes very much longer. >> i need the benefits so that i can keep pushing forward so that i won't need the benefits. >> it's hope. if you don't have the hope, then it's truly over. >> joining me now, former vermont governor and my former boss, govern hor dean and msnbc contributor and columnist goldy tayl

because 14,000 americans -- [ applause ] because 14,000 americans lost their health insurance every single day. even more died each year because they didn't have health insurance at all. we did it because millions of families who thought they had coverage were driven into bankruptcy by out-of-pock costs they didn't realize they would be there. tens of millions couldn't get any coverage at all. dr. king once said, of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. well, not anymore. [ applause ] in the three years since we passed this law, the share of americans with insurance is up, the growth of health care costs are down to their slowest rate in 50 years, more people have insurance, and more have new benefits and protections. 100 million americans have gained the right for free preventive care. more than 7 million americans have saved an average of $1200 on their prescription medicine. every american who won't go broke when they get sick because their insurance can't limit their care anymore. more people without insurance have gained insurance. mo

american. america wasn't a democracy if you were white unless you owned land. so 200 years ago women couldn't vote, couldn't own property, couldn't go to college. right? we've come a long way. the women's rights movement, the civil rights movement, the movement that gave workers' rights. we've come a long way. and what percent of the american population made that change happen? what percent of the american population actively participated in the civil rights movement? less than 1% actively participated. what percent of the american population actively participated in the women's rights movement? press than 1%. that's why henry david thoreau said there are 999 patrons of virtue for every virtuous person. one person might do something about it. he said there are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and do nothing about it. that 1% can make a huge, dramatic difference, but they have to be very well trained. and that's one area where i think the peace movement can learn a lot from the mi

if anything, americans are too sensitive. for example, prom innocent ambassador pickerring and colleagues warned after some iranians complained that iranians, quote, ripped out the use of the phrase, carrots and sticks, depicting them as donkeys and implies a threat of beating iran into submission if they could not be bought. put aside the rig iranian chapters, death to america. they used the phrase carrots and sticks, and accepts manufactured grievance as real, they effectively infused iranian sincerity and blame america. never poalingsz to rogue states. they demand apologies, for example, for the 1953 coo. let's put aside the debates with regard to 1953 coo for a second. iran's religious clergy at the time was a coconspirator with the united states and great britain against the soviet union leaning leader, suspectedded of leaning, and iran's communism party. when officials have apologized for that episode, for example, secretary of state albright in 2000 and obama more recently, the iranians upped the antiand demand compens

so it's an american issue. and in a nation that's as rich as this country, when you have 46 million people in poverty and the number of people across all demographics that will enter in and out of poverty over the course of their lifetimes, it just doesn't make sense that we can't have common sense conversations about policy ohs that strengthen the social safety net, about a jobs bill that puts people back to work. about access to affordable health care. about really reforming our educational system. you can talk about ending the war on poverty all you want to, but if we're not talking about those issues, we're not going to end poverty in this nation. >> i have to talk politics with you. it does seem that where democrats want to go in january, where they're going to go first is not so much on the anti poverty issue but really to unemployment insurance benefits. give us some idea of what democrats can do realistically to try to get that issue through. because it's going to be very difficult, as you can imagine,

in late july a majority of americans wanted it repealed. new generation of gop lawmakers who thought they saw a way to do that were selling their strategy last august. >> i am very pleased to introduce senator ted cruz. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: 42-year-old ted cruz of texas is the son of a cuban refugee father and a working-class irish-american mother. princeton, harvard law, supreme court clerkship, the youngest state solicitor general in the u.s. he ran for senate in 2012, upset the gop favorite, and headed to washington with what he believed was one overriding mandate -- repeal every word of obamacare. >> i promised texans, i'm going to do everything i can to stop this failed law. >> you have someone who's dogged, determined. i've been in politics. i know horseflesh. >> reporter: democrat pat goodell began working in politics when jimmy carter was still a candidate for president. >> we've had someone who's been in the senate five months. he's the focus of the president, the vice president, every democratic mailing, because th

no americans held more keenly or assertive more fervently that the surrender marked a new era and african-americans. for then the union victory vindicated because a black freedom and racial justice. appomattox, the last clash of grant and lee at the end of the desperate chase from be is work to appomattox, lee's army had tried on the morning of april april 9th to break free of the federal trap only to find its last escape route blocked by a black soldiers. blues six regiments with one other way in the wings. when they heard of the capitulation of black troops exultation knew no bounds. they shouted, danced, sang, and embraced each other. the black regiments at appomattox numbering 2,000 men in all or a microcosm of black life in america including sex slave straightneck and techies can nelson and free blacks trained at philadelphia's camp william penn. race leaders such as the renowned historian george washington williams and the baptist editor william j. simmons, the journalistic mentor to none other than item b. wells. for all of these soldiers regardless of background, their presence on the battl

terms of american foreign policy. at that time, america was exercising its muscle, and it was getting used to being a world power or aspiring to be a world power. it was looking for an empire, looking for colonies, looking for competing against the european powers to show we, too, americans, were a force in the world. the -- there was a revolution going on in cuba, the cubans were fighting the spanish for independence, and there were people pro and con, and americans liked the fact there was a revolution going on because they didn't -- they wanted spain out of america, and we thought we had a lot of investment in cuba, wanted to trade with cuba, and we sort of would be good if cuba was more open to u.s. influence and exchange. there was pro-spanish riots in havana, in january, and so teddy roosevelt and others sent the uss maine to havana harbor in february, and the idea was the show the spanish sthorts in cuba that america was intent on at least helping these revolutionaryies overthrow the government. maine was in ha

i am an african-american. i think there are plenty of opportunities to climb up the economic ladder. i grew up in a single-parent home. my parents did not pay for college. i have an undergraduate engineering degree, a master's degree. one of the things i have seen is that a lot of americans are not really prepared to do what is necessary to climb the economic ladder. every childto have have a cell phone. every child has an ipad. people are spending money, consuming things they do not need. the economic ladder is a combination of your income and out build. i think that has to be a part of the equation as well. host: caroline in mississippi. how old are you? turned 74.t i have the same birthday as harry reid. [laughter] we are as different as two people can be. host: [laughter] what is your story? theer: i appreciated previous remarks from the callers on the articles you were showing. i agree with your article and the last on him and who called. -- gentleman who called. he's jobs at walmart are not supposed to b

support of the institutions of african-americans.frican-americans have 2rib9 greatly to the prosperity of san francisco. as such inspections of african-americans should be supported. as promises have been mate utilizing public dollars on behalf of community to build the fillmore district where it's been documented it african-americans were treated unjustly we ask the city to insure with the jazz heritage center will be kept in piss it's location or if moved it should be moved to a more viable location. it's a place for all san francisco and rossly and others and i signed the early one, too. i'm asking you not sell out the jazz heritage center >> (calling names). >> interviewed one second i continue to see members of the public coming up with condominium cards i'll ask mop who wants to speak i'd like to close the line to whichever cards you have we are going to stop there. >> i'm with the st. john orthodox church on fillmore street. i'll open up and say that jazz can change the thinking of the people. and i don't know maybe we're not

not many americans -- >> yes.i imagine that they don't appreciate that quote, but he is -- what he's affirming is he's loyal to his own government, even to its own ability to defend the country provided it stays within limiteds set by the public. >> interesting. so does he ever -- does he believe he'll ever leave russia or is it -- is he comfortable with fact he may stay in that country forever? >> he's not answering a lot of speculative questions. it's important to understand he did not choose russia. he was literally changing airplanes there. he's in russia because the united states revoked his passport in the transit lounge and he was therefore unable to fly out. >> there was word a couple of weebs ago that he wanted to go to brazil, so did you ask him about actively trying to leave russia? >> he has sought asylum and continues to seek asylum from a substantial number of countries. he had said from the beginning even six months ago when he was in clandestine contact with me and two other journalists if he had h

the american airs to is the military expression of the american aviation industry, right.rican intelligence enterprise, american cybersecurity are the espionage and military expressions of the american telecommunication and computer industry. i mean these two things are wedded. and if for one reason or another these are separated, american security is harmed and american commerce is equally harmed. >> do you think that could happen. >> yes. >> absolutely. >> it's great. >> james bamford to you. what needs to change? i mean you came with a long list of abuses that you believe need to be fixed. what are the main ways it needs to change? >> well, what i think has to happen is we did this in 1975, we had the church committee. it took a very comprehensive look at the entire intelligence community and looking at the abuses that took place back then. we haven't had such a comprehensive look at the intelligence community since then. and in that time we've had allegations-of-torture, allegations-of-eavesdropping on so many communication and so forth, picking up all the telephone da

but it comes just days after al qaeda's american spokesman adam gadna taking vengeance on american's interest. no claim of responsibility so far. it could have been a random act of violence. however, when we look back and see what led up in the days before when chris stevens was killed in benghazi, american ambassador there at the time, we saw just days before that, al qaeda again, the leader of al qaeda, making a statement, putting it out, and calling on libyans to attack american interests. there are similarities there that it would be hard to overlook and ignore. we know al qaeda under the direction of zawahiri, head of al qaeda, has set up camps in that area of libya. >> nic, i mean, certainly it is tragic, a horrible thing to have happened i've got to admit, talking benghazi, eastern libya, american in public doing his exercises, do we know how many americans might be in that dangerous neck of the woods, civilians? >> reporter: we know it's a very low number. look, the reason that adam gadan called on lib rans to attack americans the united states, two months ago, picked up al l

filipino americans were not ethic filipinos they were americaners they are americans and have lived theirce deserve to be recognized as such. today, we wrap up our slkts celebrations in the heart of this city standing in the halls that our generations may not have imagined in their day. they broke their backs and offered their sweet and tears in the canries of the alaska and in the field of hawaii and in the streets of san francisco so the next generation could sit at the table what the rest of the community. that's a dream that's been released for some time now but it's important for us to understand and to continue to celebrate the tour of how our community came to be what it is today. thank you and good evening. (clapping) >> thank you so much. the council general's partner is a tremor partner and we appreciate their sponsorship. thank you, council general. what the deputy coincidental general was speaking about i had a father that served in the military. tonight it's my honor to recognize the san francisco filipino cultural center. the san francisco filipino cultural center will be on