america great? >> if i could say it in one word, opportunity. having the freedom and the democracy and the openness of this country for people like us and businesses to have unequaled opportunity in the world. >> that's really what america represents. my grandfather came to this country in 1919. you could imagine what he was feeling, what your ancestors were feeling, leaving a place so familiar with friends and family, because of the promise of opportunity, because of the promise of freedom and opportunity. when you look at america and you think about it, what has america given to you? >> it gave me the opportunity to never give up. the road is not smooth. the journey is not equal. the situations have to be overcome and you don't succeed in every step of the way. but in this country, you learn from what you need to learn by that bumpy road and you never give up, taking advantage of the opportunity america permits you. >> i think as immigrants, we appreciate this country sometimes even more than the

we're celebrating america, with what makes america great and what things make america great. much more after this. >>> here is an independence day fact, there is not a treasure map on the back of the declaration of independence. we'll be right back. look at that beautiful hotel on tripadvisor. wait. why leave the site? don't you know the tripadvisor you've always trusted for reviews, book! now checks over 200 websites to find the best price? book...book...book! over 200 sites checked to find the best price. so don't just visit tripadvisor... book at tripadvisor. >>> here is another all in the usa cookout spectacular beach tip. look out for sharks. >>> all right. we're back here on a beautiful green terrace amidst the comcast building, newly renamed comcast building. there is fun happening, staged mostly your enjoyment at home for the viewers. we're talking about on this patriotic evening before the july 4th weekend. still with me to talk about the things america makes that are great, see what i did there. lanette lopez, here is one thing america makes. i'm slightly obsessed w

presents only on al jazeera america >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. start your day with a view of the world. catch up on what happened >> after gun fire tragedy, the facial conversation we've seen returns again and again, that a controlling firearms, more regulations, stricter enforcement, a debate we've blade out so many times seems to have lost its fire power. the focus is on lives lost overlooked is that most gun shot victims survive their wounds and what might change those repeated arguments over guns and control may be a more frank consideration of a cost of a bullet often that, here is "america tonight's" sarah hoye. >> it was july 27th, 2005 . it was a mighty day, great day i got paid that day. asking me questions about the job we were talking, the shot rang out. about. >> reporter: derrick owens was just 20 years old when a stranger shot him twice when he was on his way home from work. >> worst pain i ever felt, i couldn't make a sound, i was burning like hot lava. >> doctors confirmed he would never walk again. >> i was doing everything i wan

secondly last i checked it's legal to own money in america. you're allowed to own the money travel with the money and in order to take the you're supposed to have a federal judge get a warrant. >> coming from cates some might find that strange. coming from cates as a high ranking official who helped establish the aggressive use of civil forfeiture. >> what was going through your head in 1983 that made you think this is a good idea? >> the war on drugs. we were seizing millions and millions of dollars from international drug dealers. now there are 400 federal laws for which you can invoke asset forfeiture. so we went from a very targeted specific purpose to a widespread program in america. >> that was never your intention. >> no, no. >> now as a result of cases like the skinners, new mexico has become the first state to abolish civil forfeiture outright. cates helped legislators write that law. >> you want your thumb print on the fix? >> very good yes yes. >> denying he's getting soft on crime, cates points out the new law be focuses on crimina

[applause] america, america is an extraordinary country. our greatness lies in our people.ach day americans demonstrate tremendous courage, but many of those americans have in knocked down and they are looking for a second chance. let's give them that second chance. let's give them real leadership. let's give them a future greatest -- greater than our past. let's give them a president that leads us in the direction of our highest dream, our best dream and our greatest promise. thank you and god bless you. [applause] [applause] ♪ ♪ >> ♪ hate me if you

as america goes, so goes the world. we are the light of freedom in a dark world and it's time we started acting like it. i will not be intimidated from talking about the fact that radical islam is evil and it must be destroyed! [cheers and applause] governor jindal: containment is a strategy for losers. as general george s. patton famously observed, americans play to win all the time. americans don't play to lose. president obama has it wrong. secretary clinton has it wrong. our allies need to trust us, our enemies need to fear us. it is time we play to win again! [cheers and applause] governor jindal: as president, i will have four objectives. i will secure our borders! i will replace obamacare with a healthcare system that focuses on reducing costs and restoring freedom! i will grow the private sector economy by shrinking the size, scope and reach of the federal government! and i will rebuild america's defenses and restore our standing on the world stage! [cheers and applause] governor jindal: i'm not asking you to si

in america.aughter] so next time you're doing this -- [laughter] hunger is your fault. [laughter] by the way i need somebody to go to the bathroom really quickly before i forget and get me a roll of toilet paper. can somebody do that? just grab a roll of toilet paper. anyone volunteers? thank you. i'll get back to that in a second. [laughter] so so this is perfect because -- and everything will be safe for work, so don't worry about that. [laughter] so here we have bernie sanders who, by the way, who are some of his biggest donors and friends? ben and jerry's from ben and jerry's ice cream. oh and how many flavors of ice cream do they sell? [laughter] i propose that bernie sanders' first act as theoretical president be that ben and jerry's only be allowed to sell one flavor of ice cream, venezuelan vanilla, okay? [laughter] could this be more perfect? the idea is that somehow we should be punished because we have choices, a myriad of choices. guess what? bernie sanders, you can buy my book at ama

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"america tonight" has closely followed america's rappic addiction and now confirms what we've seen an explosion of death due to heroin nearly four times higher than over the last decade and on the streets, "america tonight's" sarah hoye is finding the drug trade is luring even more victims to their deaths. >> reporter: the north philly where neighborhood of kensington. from the monument that symbolizes philadelphia. the district was once thriving now an eyesore. attracting heroin pushers and users. it's a neighborhood where the people have been forgotten and where the forgotten go to forget. >> this is the place that people choose to turn their headway from, turning a blind eye. >> one person that's not turning a blind eye is carol rochester. carol knows too well the pain of addiction. her 25-year-old son drew used to live on the kensington streets when heroin took his life. >> the first time he used heroin he was looked. i don't know the life, the euphoria. >> carol patrols the neighborhood on a daily basis, handing out food , clothes, toilet tris. ries. >> hi michael did you get the

so we called the "america tonight." we called mel sas clugian. >> she blamed the legislature for not acting on the commission's recommendations. chick thinks the whole thing including clugian's salary has been a waste of taxpayer money. >> i know so many schools, so many senior meals programs, so many veteran crisis centers, that would do 96 anything to have an extra $120,000 a year to do their good, hands-on direct-services work. but it's being wasted in sacramento. >> reporter: becky denison couldn't agree more. >> those amounts in skid row could be used ten times over for bus benches, for restrooms, to help communities. >> helping l.a.'s homeless on skid row it recently lost $60,000 in funding that paid for a nutrition program that's now dead. >> it's incredibly frustrating. domestic violence providers, where these committees continue to get funded no matter what they do. >> we're talking about a symptom of what's wrong with california in a bigger picture. we spend a lot of money. we say we're big. what does $100,000

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america. thirty years later he buys the factory. so he works his way up from sweeping floors to becoming an amazing entrepreneur and employing all made in america 125 people at martin greenfield clothiers in brooklyn and still in the same building that he started whenever he came to america. a lot of amazing things happened along that journey. the first time that he was introduced to a tour of new york was quite interesting. he had come from a world where people were suffering and starving literally walking skeletons. and his his aunt was driving him around the town, and he saw a huge building and a massive line out front of this building. and he said, he said, wynton, when i saw this, i became crestfallen. i couldn't believe, i thought that things were better in america. and so i told my aunt, i said this is the longest bread line i've ever seen, this is horrible. i thought this was a place of opportunity. and she said, honey that's not a bread line, that's yankee stadium. [laughter] they're

walker: that is why i love america. that is why we, we, we love america. and working together, we can fight and win for america. thank you for coming out. god bless you all for being here. bless our military. and may god continue to bless the united states of america. [cheering] >> major political events. the only place to watch in their entirety is friday night. we will the in cedar rapids for the democratic dinner. all day on saturday, we will be live for the leadership summit. on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.org. we take you there. >> the biggest planetary unveiling in a century. there will be a close flyby of pluto. that is live on c-span 2. guatemala here about deportation cases and administrative legalization. jeh johnson testifies. at 2:00 eastern, a look at the future by the subcommittee. >> clinton said she would benefit everyone. if the democrat underwhelm'ss wall street and the performers -- we will watch the remarks from new york city. i'm delighted to be back. over the past few months i have had the opportunity to listen to americans' conc

america tonight only on al jazeera america. >> first i.s.i.l. now the kurds. turkey confirms its fighter jets have launched strikes on pkk camps in iraq. and i'm jane dutton with the world news from doha. also ahead tunisia's parliament passes antiterrorism legislation, calling it draconian. >>> it is months since a huge quake hit nepal. plus. >> i'm neave bark

only on al jazeera america debate for gun violence. and sara hoy considers the high cost of a gunshot. >> reporter: what would you say at the end of the day was the total bill, from start to now? >> almost $10 million. >> reporter: $10 million. >> on a lot of drugs, machinery, health care nurses. >>> also, highway robbery. alone. >> he said "what are you doing with this money?" i said we are going to vegas to together. >> lisa fletcher, with the rules letting police take cash and cards, even if there's no evidence of crime. >>> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen - innocence until proven guilty, the base of our system of justice, except when things don't work out that way. consider it civil asset forfeiture allowing police to seize prop, cars or cash, that they think may be the ill-gotten gains of illegal activity. it's a power tool benefitting abused. used against those that have not been charged with crime. "america tonight"s lisa fletcher found unlikely voices calling for an end to it in new mexico. >> repo

. >> on america: cosmic cash. buying in on the most valuable souvenirs from space. >> did it go to the moon and orbit the moon, did it land on the moon, was it taken out of the lunar lander? >> "america tonight's" adam may. >>> and gearing up, the pentagon's most expensive weapon system ever and should it be cleared for takeoff. >> figure this as a blow torch surrounded by fume. >> "america tonight's" continued investigation into the f 35. >> thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. we begin tonight with the ongoing saga of the f 35, the most expensive weapons system in u.s. history. a pentagon leaked report, is it worth the $1.4 trillion price tag? the defense department insists the answer is yes. with no more vigorous supporter than middle eastern. "america tonight's" sheila macvicar spoke with an official that says that's premature. >> reporter: what does it mean if the marine corps declares ioc in 2015? >> it's a sham what it means. >> tom christie, from 21 to 2005 he was the senior advisor to the secretary of de

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they going to put me outside of my house. >> "america tonight" averages sarah"america tonight's" sarahhoye, why many women fear it will leave them homeless. >>> thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. we begin by looking at safety and shelter and the challenge facing those threatened by domestic violence. put yourself in their shoes. in a moment of december operation should you call for help? now you may think the only concern is whether the 911 may agitate the abuser, make things worse but in dozens of communities across the nation "america tonight's" sarah hoye found a different reason, it could force them from the safety of their own homes. >> nobody would choose to live like that. that's a hard way to live. that's a hard way to live. >> reporter: for months lekesha briggs lived in fear. after police responded to a call to her home after her boyfriend became violent, she warned her two more calls there would be trouble. >> nobody ever called again from our house. that with was it. what else do you want to draw? >> instead of protection, the mother of two working double shifts making ends

"america tonight's" michael okwu investigates the long list and >> al jazeera america primetime. get the real news you've been looking for. at 7:00, a thorough wrap-up of the day's events. then at 8:00, john seigenthaler digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective. weeknights on al jazeera america. >> for native communities across the united states, the long struggle to stand their ground and protect their rights to it has inspired generations of protest, the latest brought a trail of tears and determination directly to the door steps of the law makeers lawmakers. adam may joined the marchers at their journey's end. >> reporter: for nearly a month, naylan pike and other members of the carlos san carlos apache have been on a be journey to the nation's capital. >> what does oak flat meanwhile to you? >> the future of my people, as apache girl, what my sister had her family at was at oak flat. that means so much to her and to me. >> oak flat sits on the top of the world's richest copper deposits. under the protection of mining since 1955. a company

now more than ever america needs a president who will fight and win for america. so first, so first, let me tell you why i'm for real reform in washington. our big bold reforms here in wisconsin took the power out of the hands of the big government special interest and put them firmly into the hands of the hard-working taxpayers. today, today in this state, people who are actually elected by local property taxpayers literally run our schools and that means we got rid of things like seniority and tenure. we can hire and fire and pay bids on terperformance and put the best and brightest in our classrooms. now think about that, four years later graduation rates up third grade reading higher and act scores second best in the country. our reforms work. [ applause ] [ cheers ] >> that just goes to show that government closest to the people is generally the best, which is precisely why we need to take power and money out of washington and send it back to our state in key areas like medicaid and transportation and work force and education. sadly, though sadly though washi

america did not create religious liberty. religious liberty created the united states of america.eers and applause] governor jindal: and it's time we stopped trying to divide ourselves against each other. hillary clinton's always trying to divide us by ethnicity, by gender, by economic status. i don't know about you but for me, i'm sick and tired of people dividing americans. [applause] governor jindal: and i am done with all this talk about hyphenated americans. we are not indian-americans, african americans irish-americans, rich americans or poor americans. we are all americans! [cheers and applause] governor jindal: and while i'm at it, here's another thing you're not allowed to say but i'm going to say it anyway. we cannot allow people to immigrate to our country so they can use our freedoms to undermine our freedoms. [cheers and applause] governor jindal: that is exactly what has happened in europe where they have second, third generations of immigrants who refuse the embrace the values and culture of the countries they have moved into. we must not let that happen here. [appl

chaising bail only on al jazeera america >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings.rt your day with a view of the world. catch up on what happened . >> it is a remarkable story of the drug addiction fuelled on the job. most stunning is that the addict in this case was a federal agent who stole from confiscated evidence. he is now headed to prison, but the fear is that his case points to a bigger reason for concern, a wider when of failure that could impact fbi cases across the nation. "america tonight"s lori jane gliha with the background and the backlash. >>> the incriminating evidence in this black chevy impalas seems like a slam dunk drug case in september 2014. a gip locked baggy on the floorboard, heroin on the center console and guns. this car didn't belong to a drug dealer, it was a government vehicle issued to a washington d.c. fbi agent, one addicted to the drug he spent his career trying to combat. >> i was dealing with a horrible addiction, and the lies that i did was related to that. >> reporter: matthew was a rising star in the fbi, he worked on a task f

>> she hates america.ean wronk she knows what that means to say that but that's part of the larger problem and words don't have meaning anymore. you can throw them around on social media. >> i said the supreme court showed us that. that words have no meaning. we can do whatever we want. >> not just hollywood celebrities. take a look at this manager. remember this is mainstream. people look up to their managers. look what happened at panera bread, manager and one of his employees. >> don't punch me. >> don't hit -- oh! >> so john i mean are these people taking cue from the celebrities and the athletes? >> it's based on whim emotion. not thinking about the consequences. i thought the girl licking the donuts is a big deal. we all do stupid stuff as kids. when it comes out to assaulting people when it comes to -- anyone getting hit like that i just think that that's people's emotions taking over. >> it seems like they're getting more and more violent or at least we're catching more and more of them on tape. >>

"america tonight""america tonight"'s adam may reports. >> does location of this detention center play into the corruption that happened here? >> i think it plays a vital role. >> until now ralph johnson has never talked on national tv about what he witnessed as a supervising corrections officer at the baltimore city jail. >> people from the neighborhood that become correctional officers and you have inmates that become correctional officers. >> an institution recently overrun with sex drugs and corruption. >> what happened? >> it blows old identity of control in 2004 when the state started hiring 18-year-olds. i think that was kind of crazy because how can you put an 18-year-old that does not have any experience in life and you put them on a section of 120 seasoned inmates and expect that nothing is going to happen to that child. >> maryland's short-lived experiment hiring male and female officers as young as 18 was intended to address a shortage of qualified applicants willing to take low paying entry-level jobs but critics like johnson who's written a job about the jail say it backf

a strong america is a safe america. [applause] mr. pataki: ronald reagan proved that peace through strength is more than a slogan. peace through strength is a policy that works. weakness, equivocation, leads to brutality and war. the world is a better place when america is strong, and a champion of liberty and freedom. [applause] mr. pataki: allies and friends of america must know that our word is our bond. we will stand with our ally israel. [applause] mr. pataki: we will stand with our allies in nato and the free baltic states against a resurgent russia. we will make sure the number one sponsor of state terror in the world, iran, never has a nuclear weapon. [applause] mr. pataki: we will provide whatever aid is necessary to those already fighting isis on the ground, to stop their barbarism and inhumanity. and yes, if necessary, american forces will be used to defeat and destroy isis so they can pose no threat to us here. [applause] mr. pataki: we will not spend a trillion dollars on a decade of nation building overseas but i will ne

that is why i love america. that is why we, we, we love america.t is why working together we can fight and win for america. >> for coming out, god bless you all for being here, god bless our military, and may god continue to bless the united states of america. charles: there he is, scott walker, wisconsin governor, just made it a formal announcement, his bid for white house, and a rousing speech that covered a loot of areas -- a lot of areas beginning with a story of local veterans, a heartland speech how perhaps he can take his values and his ideas spread them in the united states, a lot of it we heard before, less big government, and people pulling themselves up, we have or same panel to you sense tear brown your thoughts on -- senator brown your thoughts to walker's announcement. >> well, the 5 key themes, reform, growth, safety, opportunity and family those are 5 powerful themes that resonate not only middle america but every american, an opportunity, i thought it was up lifting and positive, and he was drawing contrast with washington, ern kno

if it landed on the moon, was it taken out. >> "america tonight"s adam may with the lowdown. and gearing up... ..the pentagon's most expensive weapon system. off. >> thing of it as a blow torch surrounded by fuel. >>> sheila macvicar's investigation into the f-35 >>> thank you for joining us. i'm when. we begin with a saga of the f-35, the most expensive weapons programme in u.s. history. a pentagon report raises questions about performing in combat. prompting many to ask is it worth the $1.4 trillion price tag. the defense department says yes, with no more vigorous defender than the machines, set to declare its use in summer. others say it is premature. >> reporter: what does it mean if the marine corp declares i.o.c. in 2015? >> it's a sham. that's what it means. >> tom christy is a high ranking pentagon official. he was the senior advisor for the secretary of defense for the testing of weapons, the sham is a decision by the marine core to declare its version of the fighter plain ready for combat or i.o.c. >> the programme has been embarrassing and they are at the get. >> d

i love america.er david and i used to love to go over and visit one of our neighbors by the name of clair conn. mr. conn had served our country in world war i and world war ii. then like so many other veterans, he came back and served his community. over the years, we used to love to see him down at the concession stand at legion baseball. he'd help out in our church and he was a leader in my boy scout troop. i can remember over the years before memorial day he would organize me and all the other scouts as we would go through and put up flags on the graves of the fallen. it was impossible to be around mr. conyer and not share his love for god and country. i think back 30 years ago. mr. conn and his american legion post helped me attend the program called badger boy state. it was there i learned about state and local government. along the way it was interesting. i got the chance to be selected to represent wisconsin in a program out in washington, d.c. called boys nation. and there i met another veter

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in america. and i met him too because he had a picture there of him a soldier. i remember what it was. i left it there because they didn't let us take any pictures anyway the germans. but i met the admiral. so his -- and i met his father with the long beard in america. and so i am an american. and i -- [inaudible] because i like to play cards and i lost a lot, but i i had the best hand three kings and two aces but somebody had three fives and the fourth five and now i'm broke. [laughter] so i borrowed $10. it took me a while to convince him that i'll pay him back, and i did pay him back. i found him in new york. and that's how i came to this country. when i came to this country the first week as god is my witness i worked, they showed me a job i should be a floor boy. and i did whatever they asked me. so mr. rosenberg was my boss. i said, can i talk with you? because he spoke my language. i didn't speak english. but he spoke be, he came from the same area. i said i need $35 but i can't work here.

what does become the united states central america. and south america. so we can speak to the history of all of the americas through these different components of the collection. his name was thomas gilcrease. he was born in 1890 in louisiana. but as an infant his family relocated to indian territory, the creek nation of indian territory because his mother was a quarter creek indian. one of the acts of congress that brought the gilcrease family from louisiana to the creek nation of indian territory was the daus act. the daus act broke up the tribal holdings of indian land. the creek nation as a child of a mother who was a quarter creek indian thomas gilcrease received an allotment and this allotment ended up sitting on top of one of the most productive oil fields in american history at the time, the glen pool of oil about 20 miles south of tulsa. so by the time thomas gilcrease is a young man, 20 21 years old, he's a millionaire circa 1910. what's happening in the united states at the time is the automobile is becoming the primary means of transportation

i love america. brother david and i used to love to go over and visit one of our neighbors. he was a bit of a legend in our small town. he had served our country in world war i and world war ii. [cheering] gov. walker: then, like so many other veterans, he came back and served his community. over the years, we used to love to see him at the concession stand. he helped out in our church and he was the leader of my boy scout troop. i remember over the years, before memorial day, he would organize me and all the others out to go through and put up flags on the graves of the fallen. [cheering] it was impossible to be around him and not share his love for god and country. i think back 30 years ago -- he helped me attend a program, and it was there that i learned about state and local government. along the way, it was interesting -- i got the chance to be selected to represent wisconsin in the program and washington, d.c. there, i met another veteran from georgia by the name of bob turner. bob and all the

start weekday mornings with al jazeera america.n your eyes to a world in motion. >>> welcome back to "inside story", i'm adam may, filling in for luis suarez. 2014 represented the sixth year in a row that the birth rate in america declined. on average the number of babies born is 1.86, below the 2.1 needed for a stable population. perhaps one way to reverse the trend it to make starting a family or having another child more tonne duesive. we are -- conducive. we are joined by libs peters. from the urban stoout. and horace cooper, a fellow at the public policy research center. do you think that this country has the will to move sfad forward and enable to live. >> i don't know that the country has the will. i know a discussion is happening. there seems to be movement with the states adopting paid family leave, and the conversation really turning to making the business case. it's happening. >> so california now have had the law on the books for a number of years, looking to expand the benefits, the conversation is starting, hillary cl

america owes me absolutely nothing. i have a debt to america i will never repay. this is not just a country i grew up in. this is a nation that literally changed the history of my family. when my father was nine years old his mother died any of the stuff going to school and go to work. it would work for the next 70 years of his life. when he was the young man he had big dreams all young people do. his streams became impossible so he made it the purpose of the site to ensure all the things that couldn't happen for him would have been for us. and so he worked on nights weekends, holidays well into his 70s as a banquet bartender. he worked behind one of those portable bars in the back of a room just like this so one day i could have a chance to stand on the stage in the front of the room like i do tonight. the journey from behind that far to behind his podium, that is the american dream. and that is not just my story. that is your story. in this country we are all but a generation removed from someone who did that for us and whether we remain a special country are no

but they are then shoveled around north america and south america and central america. even sort of the migration stream is so connected between the caribbean and the united states, what becomes the united states. so there's just the systems of trade are incredibly integrated and dependent upon each other. i'm sure we all have other examples. prof. michelle mcdonald: i don't teach the atlantic survey, i teach the world survey. in the atlantic survey i have no problems incorporating the caribbean in north america and south america and africa and europe together because it is seen as one system. but more directly to your question, i think part of what we're trying to suggest, and i heard it in all the presentations today is that if you think about not just incorporating the caribbean and u.s. history verrilli thinking about the united states as part of a larger system, it makes you question your touchstone moments, if you will. i try to take this question of independence. i actually see probably notwithstanding the fact that i took aim at just after the seven years war, i

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"world news america."resident obama is in kenya, the homeland of his father on a chair of eight deepening economic and security ties with africa. the president sat down for an exclusive interview with the bbc, speaking to our north america editor. the president said america has to support countries like kenya. reporter: barack obama right in kenya this evening, the first visit to his ancestral home becoming president. given the recent history of township avenue attacks it probably was not the top choice of the u.s. secret service. why was he so insistent? president obama: it is important that the president of the united states underscoree our commitment to partnering with countries around the world and we are not intimidated by terrorist organizations. second the counterterrorism cooperation between the united states and kenya and uganda and other countries in east africa is very strong. >> you are going to talk about entrepreneurship at the summit. is there a link? president obama: i believe there is. whe