proposed in terms of raising the capital in appalachia and improve the living of the citizens there was to build golf courses. once again. i expected a better laugh. because it's true. i didn't make it up. golf courses. they were going to build 16 golf courses there and make appalachia a place you would take a vacation. my family wouldn't, but others would go and i was stunned by this. it was amazing to me that attempt was made in some fashion or another as opposed to hoping and praying that an entrepreneur shows up on the scene. if i hear another thing about entrepreneurs and the fact that what we really need are more entrepreneurs, how do you think that happens, asshole? how does an entrepreneur happen? it's some schmuck has a learning disorder that's totally focused on something you would never obsess about. it's hard to find them. you don't have a school. there's one in chapel hill and i've told the guy who runs it that he's full of it. and entrepreneurship school. you can teach somebody who has an idea what to do with the idea. but to say it all going to be done from the privat

the white child in appalachia, the black child in watts. as powerful as he became in that oval office, he understood them. he understood what it meant to be on the outside. and he believed that their plight was his plight too. that his freedom ultimately was wrapped up in theirs. and that making their lives better was what the hell the presidency was for. [ applause ] >> and those children were on his mind when he strode to the podium that night in the house chamber, when he called for the vote on the civil rights law. it never occurred to me, he said, in my fondest dreams that i might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students that he taught so many years ago, and help people all over this country, but now i do have that chance, and i'll let you in on a secret. i mean to use it. [ applause ] >> and i hope that you will use it with me. [ applause ] >> that was lbj's greatness. that's why we remember him. and if there is one thing that he in this year's anniversary should teach us, if there's one lesson i hope malia and

mountains mark the point of western virginia that splits kentucky and tennessee-- the very center of appalachialand rich in soft coal and hard times. around wise county, folks are welcomed by storefronts to remember what life was like before unemployment hit 9%. >> teresa gardner: the roads are narrow and windy curves, so it's not easy to drive the bus. >> pelley: this is teresa gardner's territory. she can't be more than 5",4', but she muscles the bus through the hollers, deaf to the complaints of a 13-year-old winnebago that's left its best miles behind it. >> gardner: having problems seeing here. >> pelley: you really can't see. the wipers are nearly shot and the defroster's out cold. there you go, you can see a little better now. ( laughs ) i understand there's a hole in the floorboard here somewhere? >> gardner: yes, it's right over there, so don't get in that area. ( laughs ) >> pelley: the old truck may be a ruin, but like most rvs, it's pretty good at discovering america. gardner and her partner, paula meade, are nurse practitioners aboard the health wagon, a charity that puts free heal

ability to connect his experience with a brown child in a small texas town, the white child in appalachia, the black child in watts. .. as powerful as he became in that oval office, he understood then, he understood what it meant to be on the outside. and he believed that their plight was his plight too. that his freedom ultimately was wrapped up in theirs, and the making their lives better was what the hell the presidency was for. [ applause ] >> schieffer: and to talk about all of it, we have assembled our own little summit on civil rights we are joined by nicole hanna jones of pro punishable a and the atlantic, georgetown university michael eric dyson, plus evan wolfson of freedom to marry and out in los angeles pbs's tavis smiley. >> nicole i want to talk to you first, because you have done fj some recent research on this. do you think george bush is right? is this a national scandal we face here that the reading scores amongst black african americans is still so much worse than it is among whites? and what is to be done about that? >> well, i have spent the last year focusing on rese

it's not going to be the boy in the head or the white kid in appalachia.poor kid that really busted their butts and shows a great deal of character in spite of their economic circumstances. it is those who have the fortune of being born black or a woman and it's unfair. it's trickle-down social policy. i think that we need to make a shift and say that any individual regardless of race or gender, if they show character, which is a quality, and you can give them some kind of leaning and benefit for that. >> i spent this morning at my son's school preparing him as a guidance counselor for college. we talked about him and his grades. because the smart and that's the only way to get a make in this world. you guys are fantastic. you were coming on the show. and coming up next we have the business split. in chicago teaching kids how to use food stamps while they are in school? talk about expectation and then the tea party is back on. dick armey on all that is impossible. impossible. th[ doctor ] and in a inical trial versus litor, crestor got more high-risk patie

the white child in appalachia. the white child in wise.ame, in that oval office, he understood them. he understood what it meant to be on the outside. and he believed that their plight was his plight, too. that his freedom ultimately was wrapped up in theirs. and making their lives better was what the hell the presidency was for. >> the president also noted that the landmark civil rights legislation helped pave the way for him. as the first african-american president. >>> coming up, special coverage of the mystery of flight 370. air crews are preparing for takeoff after another possible ping from 370's black box. could this be the day? the "situation room" continues in f 60 seconds. >>> happening now, our special coverage of the mystery of flight 370. air crews are about to return to the search area where another possible signal from the jet's black boxes was detected. are they getting closer to finding a crash site? we're learn new details, including maneuvers that may have been intended to dodge military radar. plus new confirmation the

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kind of like the mob had in appalachia, new york, in the '70s, and that became the radical paramilitia movement in the '90s. sto that was a seminole event in the radical movement in america. and of course, then we had waco, which everyone here is talking about, but, just a few facts to clear that up. you know, you had a charismatic cult leader who would take a family into the cult. from then on, he would sleep with the man's wife, he would sleep with the 12-year-old and 14-year-old female children that the man might have brought in there. he would control their lives completely. he stockpiled machine guns and silencers and hand grenades and made all these things and he named the place ranch apocalypse. and he was destined for, you know, a huge apocalypse. and we found out after all this transpired at waco that before we even went on the initial raid that he had taken his mighty men, six or eight guys that were his, you know, bodyguard or pretorian guard that surrounded him, and they would practice going out, louding in cars around the compound, with all their rifles, and they were goin

>> in central appalachia, which is our higher-cost area, we have pulled out of some of the projects.ust brought on our bnx mine from our region in pennsylvania. it is our low-cost operation. we spent about $700 million of putting it on. so we are reinvesting in our colbies but we're putting in in areas where more profitable. >> if i could focus again on that question. was it the epa that forced you and their regs that forced you to pull out of some of those projects? >> we had some permitting issues to deal with and, and if you look in the central region where you have a lot of fuel switching between coal and gas, the high cost to produce with some of the regulations that do hit you along with the amount of natural gas impact made those projects not as economic as spending here in the pennsylvania area. liz: can we then interpret that it is actually less onerous as far as regulations is concerned to drill wells for natural gas? you did 35 wells drilled. 23 completed s the government making it easier to at least go the nat-gas route? >> if you look at the starting points, coal has bee

communities near his operations are suffering, feeling a health crisis that's expanding all over appalachia don, 30 seconds. >> i'm trying to prevent other families from suffering, if the government doesn't give people with expertise the opportunity to run their mines. >> okay. bob kincaid from the appalachian community health emergency campaign, and don blankenship, former chairman and ceo of massey energy. thank you both for joining us. that's "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" begins now. >>> that was riveting. thanks to you at home for joining us the next hour. the great steve kornacki sitting in for chris hayes for the last hour because chris hayes is at home with his adorable new baby boy. and in a heartless and shameless act, because chris is home with his new baby boy, i'm going to take advantage of the fact that chris is not here in the building by stealing from him the greatest piece of tape, the greatest assemblage of visual evidence that anybody has ever put together on the subject of obamacare. oh, yes, chris hayes. you may be a brand new father and everybody t

whether they're in the inner cities or in rural appalachia or whatever.edicare, medicate, social welfare programs, medicate programs, you name it. that speaks louder, the numbers there, reliable or not, speak louder than whatever he's saying behind closed doors to the congressional black caucus. my understanding from talking to some of those members is that was a point they made to him today. >> corey mentioned some of paul ryan's bigger political ambitions. we'll see whether there's a 2016 run in the works. we have interesting new numbers in our nbc news/"wall street journal" poll about other contenders and the landscape going into that race. one interesting thing we pulled out of that, 7 in 10 americans say there should be more candidates for president than simply a clinton or a bush. corey, do you think americans are over political dynasties? >> when they stop voting for the members of those political dynasties, yeah. then they'll really be over it. i think americans always want expanded choice. but the truth of the matter is, this is a -- america runs

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connecthis ability to with the experience of a brown child in a texas town and a white child in appalachia. tts.black child in wa , heowerful as he became understood. understood what it meant to be on the outside. that their plight was his white, too. his freedom was wrapped up in their livesaking better was what the hell the presidency was for. [applause] those children were on his mind when he went to the podium in the house chamber and called for the vote on the civil rights law. it never occurred to me, he said, and my dreams that i would have the help -- the chance to help the sons and daughters of the students that he had taught so many years ago all over this country. now, i do have that chance. i will let you in on a secret. i intend to use it. i hope you will use it with me. that is the greatness of lbj. that is why we remember him. if there is one thing that he should teach us, one lesson that malia and sasha learned from today is that, with enough effort and empathy, , peopleance, courage who love this country can change it. year, president johnson stood on the stage, with batte

i think on the positive side when johnson started the programs and bobby kennedy walked through appalachia and we had the children dying of starvation and if yo you have people dying wito food in the stomach the government intervened the child nutrition programs. we don't have those kind of horrid conditions anymore and that's good. the sad part about it is that we have created an industry out of serving poor people and we took money that was intended for the poor and converted it into services from the poor. and then they are driven by people that have no vested interest in solving the problem. it isn't that people working inside of the poverty industry are bad people. but they work and bureaucratic structure that causes good people to do bad things. so we are injuring people with a helping hand in the name of rescuing them. >> host: oxford pennsylvania calling on the independent line. sauron with robert woodson. >> caller: good morning. i was going to say the problem with poverty money isn't always the answer but goodness, look how the politicians send jobs overseas. i was in a shop the

facing obstacles, many know that one of the major movements of senator kennedy was his visit to appalachia and other places. my question to my colleagues today is how we can come together to look at a way of empowering those who are impoverished. making sure the educational system, regardless of your level of income, has the ability to treat you equally so that your school that you attend every day , that your parents send you there who pays taxes, that your school is not at the bottom rank giving you the bottom rank opportunity. that your family is not in the category with no access for retirement. no ability to help you go to college. highest number, 62% for african-americans, latinos 69%, which plays partly to the fact that latinos live in the shadow society, many of them, because we have not passed comprehensive immigration reform. so, mr. speaker, it is time now rather than to accuse individuals and to call people names and to use racist categories, it is time for us to come together and be united to lift the boats of all americans. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the time of t

--st: on the positive side when johnson started those programs and bobby kennedy walked through appalachiawe had children dying of starvation. you had elderly people in miami dying with no food. the government rightly intervened when a child nutrition programs and support for the elderly. we do not have those horrid conditions anymore. that is good. the sad part about it is that we have created an industry out of serving poor people. we took money that was intended for the poor and converted it into services to the poor. and then these services are chosen by people that have no vested interest in solving the problem. it is not that people working inside the poverty industry are bad people. but they weren't in bureaucratic structures that cause good people to do bad things. so we are injuring people with a helping hand in the name of rescuing them. on ourob, pennsylvania independent line. you are on with robert woodson. caller: good morning. i just want to say -- the poverty problem. people have got to start caring. look how our politicians just sent our jobs overseas. i was in a shop the o

i understand there are a huge segment, and new york covered this with a piece on appalachia, other impoverishedite people who do not have access to opportunity. we have to address it from an economic standpoint. we also have to be honest and admit that race might be a social construct, but it still permeates our everyday life. economics is important but race is also very important and how people are treated. i will end on this note, there are a lot of people calling in and stating we need to stop the screening, -- stop discriminating. we do. we need to judge people by the content of their character, this is true. by's be honest, we judge appearances, we have stereotypes about who people are based on their skin color and the class they come from. until we are all treated equally, we need to give people access to opportunities. about justice clarence thomas, i recently read the book by professor hill about clarence thomas. that stated he received affirmative action and attended yale, i will just say this -- clarence thomas is a bright man. i do believe, based on the school that he came from, ther

on sunday, a news program, "60 minutes" traveled down the winding roads into the heart of appalachia in an r.v. called the health wagon. it's the only source of health care for thousands of meashes americans in desperate need of medical attention. the vehicle is staffed by two incredible nurses including a doctor. after completing medical school, dr. smitty had to enroll in truck driver school so he can drive the health wagon's x-ray lab, an 18-wheel truck, to find diseases that would go undetected. these volunteers have seen the price of the american individual when the chamber puts the rich and powerful ahead of everyone else. he said of life in the cumberland, this is a third rld country of diabetes, hypertension and copd, madam speaker. the health wagon, though every day is heroic, no individual on the wealthiest nation on earth should be relying on the goo will of volunteers to be receiving modern medical care. doctors and nurses should not be relying upon federal grants -- ms. slaughter: can't do it? mr. mcgovern: i yield 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is r

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certainly the region of appalachia under the obama administration has gotten very conservative.virginia has a new motto open for business. the are very protective of those industries that they think have provided jobs for them. that "new yorker" article was great and i think it did a good job explaining the dynamic of how the industry has sort of worked to create this sort of cultural debate, right? it is a cultural war where protecting industry means protecting the west virginia way of life. that is sort of how he explained the very conservative culture that you describe in your comments. host: if you were says -- a viewer asked was this chemical required to burn coal now? not a natural chemical? is it required today to wash cold? guest: i think it is. these are like the specialized industries. almost acts as an intermediary for other large coal companies and industries in that area. they are sort of a middleman where they take these chemicals and they store them and then they buy them from the chemical companies and then they store them and sell them to other industries. it fi