. >> arianna?first ever all, i think this is really to not even let us have just the one moment when we can actually use this tragedy to come together. i'm really surprised by your rant at the moment. but let's put that aside. i think that the most important part of the speech for me was not that he asked us to tone down the rhetoric but he asked us to do more than that. he asked us to expand our moral imagination, sharpen our empathy and to expand the circle of our caring. these were his words, in order to bequeath the american dream to future generations. that was much more than tone it down, it was a much more deliberate request really for the country to become more empathetic, to look at when's happening in the country and i hope he would take the opportunity to say to the union to go the next step. people are suffering out there, including in arizona. mental health services for example had to be cut by 50% because of the incredible strain on the state budget. so because of all of the suffering

i am joined by a terrific panel including david brody, maria teresa kumar, dana milbank, arianna huffington, maria bartiromo, cornel west, david frum, and john s. chen. we are glad you have joined us. coming up now. [applause] >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment, one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] [applause] tavis: hu jintao is on his way to the usa. what's to we expect our government to get for us out of those conversations? what ought to be bringing back to is when the summit is over? >> open the market, with as played evenly, fairly, and transparently. by the way, it goes both ways

they are going to be tarred -- tavis: all of this conversation leads me to you specifically, arianna. the tea party, we have been talking about two african-american congress bhone just happen to be republicans. republicans now control the house as we all know. tell me why i should not blive that the sthradge president obama is going to employee over the -- strategy that president obama is going to employee over the yeast is going to be clintonian to the core, for pages stolen out of their play book which means more compromise and capitulation. >> would you like to go to david to do that or to me? before i would not -- i would like to respond this fascinating discussion because actually we need dr. west. basically what we are talking about is something very fundamental about human nature. we've seen it in every period of history. when there is an economic crisis that fundamentally affects people's survival, the worst comes out in people. we've seen that again and again and again. [applause] that's why i'm saying we need to go to the source rather than immediately assuming these are the

of our panel includes david brody, maria teresa kumar, dana milbank, arianna huffington, maria bartiromo, cornel west, david frum, and john chen. we are glad you've joined us for night one of our conversation, coming up right now. [laughter] [applause] >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment, one conversation at a time. >> nationwide is on your side >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- [applause] tavis: i think i want to start our conversation first with dr. west. i only do this because i was reading some clips of some of his media appearances of late, one in particular, where

>> this is where i tip my hat to arianna huffington. she has one of the most diverse online di platforms. [applause] what her work demonstrates is that we are --the online platform tis the rest of us. we can have someone with a differing opinion or different boys in their rise writing and talking. in theiro- -- voice garage writing. it deals with the uncomfortable about where bill so i today and about where i am today, have anyone to talk to, it is easy for me to conclude that i am not at fault. there is a responsibility in the media. we need to hold people accountable. words do have consequences. >> i have some sympathy for what is being said here. >> as a white male, we appreciated. >> i was on a television show and we were talking about rick sanchez being fired. i look around the room and i realize there were four jews talking about it. i understand where you are coming [laughter] from. -- i understand where you are coming from. i do not understand what the mainstream media we are talking about is. is's its -the washington -- it "the

>> this is where i tip my hat to arianna huffington. she has one of the most diverse online di platforms. [applause] what her work demonstrates is that we are --the online platform tis the rest of us. we can have someone with a differing opinion or different boys in their rise writing and talking. in theiro- -- voice garage writing. it deals with the uncomfortable about where bill so i today and about where i am today, and i do not have anyone to talk to, it is easy for me to conclude that i am not at fault. there is a responsibility in the media. we need to hold people accountable. words do have consequences. >> i have some sympathy for what is being said here. >> as a white male, we appreciated. >> i was on a television show and we were talking about rick sanchez being fired. i look around the room and i realize there were four jews talking about it. i understand where you are coming [laughter] from. -- i understand where you are coming from. i do not understand what the mainstream media we are talking about is. is's its -the washingt

at one to ask a question of about arianna huffington's point. answer the question first. >> i am a counter indicator. if this government were working well, i might be out of a job. [laughter] i point out what is wrong with our government. i would take the deal. i would find another line of work. maybe i could get something on wall street. i would take that deal. my job is to point out what is wrong and why things are going as badly as they are. i think we identified that fairly quickly here. there was a question to maria earlier. why does wall street get help before main street? the same thing that is expiring day tea party -- our government has been sold to the highest bidder. this was a problem before the financial crisis. the tea party was so upset with the way the elites were governing the country that they forced a change. they have been had. 13 of the new republican freshmen in the house have hired lobbyists as their chiefs of staff. they have been having fund- raisers all over town raking in money from lobbyists. a lobbyist is john boehne

reaction by people who are scared so my device to the huffington post is let people speak perhaps arianna huffington should stop getting tossed off airplanes for refusing to turn off her blackberry and focus more on letting opinion responsible contributors do their jobs and express their opinions on her website and that's why the huffington post is tonight's tool time award. now the tragic shooting spree in tucson over the weekend is an all too familiar story in this country when it comes to gun violence what's also very familiar here in the u.s. are politicians who have knee jerk reactions to tragedies then rush to pass new often new laws which are often very invasive after violent or tragic events and we know politicians on both sides of the aisle who are rushing to pass these laws to protect themselves and to limit speech so tonight some of our favorite ideas being tossed around on capitol hill and i don't mean favorites in a good way here pennsylvania democrat robert brady he wants a lot of curb speech that could be perceived as threatening to public officials and if passed the use of

studied the writings of george washington and every night he kept a diary of his surveying in the one ariannand one night around the fireplace at the blige, a group of indians indians, fortunately they were friendly, they came in from a war party and he greeted them and the chief asked him had he ever seen have you ever danced a war dance? washington said know i have not so the chief said we will show you what it is like and brought washington into the bay and and when around and around and he was allowed to go all-around and afterwards he said i wish i had been with you on this party because you only captured one and i would have liked to have seen all little more blood. [laughter] so i think i enjoy looking at the maps because with the comments by washington, this is wilderness and he reacted. thank you for your time. >> what services did you use from this library since we are here? >> from here is a collection of washington's rating is published for the bicentennial in 1932 her keira in the digital age, one kn search the web some papers were digitize or a facsimile, transcription facsimile

>> this is where i tip my hat to arianna huffington. she has one of the most diverse online di platforms. [applause] what her work demonstrates is that we are --the online platform tis the rest of us. we can have someone with a differing opinion or different boys in their rise writing and talking. in theiro- -- voice garage writing. it deals with the uncomfortable about where bill so i today and about where i am today, and i do not have anyone to talk to, it is easy for me to conclude that i am not at fault. there is a responsibility in the media. we need to hold people accountable. words do have consequences. >> i have some sympathy for what is being said here. >> as a white male, we appreciated. >> i was on a television show and we were talking about rick sanchez being fired. i look around the room and i realize there were four jews talking about it. i understand where you are coming [laughter] from. -- i understand where you are coming from. i do not understand what the mainstream media we are talking about is. is's its -the washingt

tavis smiley leads a discussion on the war, the economy, education, jobs and america's future with ariannaana mill bank beginning at 6 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> middle and high school students, it's time to upload your videos for c-span's video documentary competition. this year's topic, washington, d.c. through my lens, get your video to c-span by january 20th for your chance to win the grand rise of $5,000. there's $50,000 in total prizes. c-span's student cram video -- cam video documentary competition is open to students in grades 6-12. go online to student cam.org. >> now, scott walker's;w9s inauguration as wisconsin's 45th governor. from the state capitol reton da in -- rotunda in madison, this is a little less than a half) hour. [cheers and applause] >> please, raise your right hand and repeat after me: i and state your name. >> i, scott walker -- >> do solemnly wear -- >> do solemnly swear -- >> that i will support -- >> that i will support -- >> the constitution of the united states -- >> the constitution of the united states -- >> and the constitution of the state of wisconsin

today, given what arianna huffington is doing, it is very difficult to get away with it. immediately, on the internet, there is a correction. there is conversation. there are the people. the people are speaking. i like this is news for that reason because it can be measured engaged. there is not as much room for opinion. frankly, i do not want to turn on the news and hear someone's opinion. i do not care. i have my own opinion. [applause] >> i think the problem is not opinion. is it opinion based on fact or is it opinion based on fantasy? that is the distinction for me. i do not have a problem with opinion or faction. i have a problem with people making stuff up. our fact checking process is completely non-partisan. we will get republicans, democrats and everything in between. this is not a partisan issue. whatever the opinion, we recognize our reverence for fact. it does not always to be found in the middle. sometimes the truth is on one side or the other side. the earth is not flat. [applause] [unintelligible] the object is to stay in the middle and state your views. >>

taves smiley leads the discussion on the war, the economy, education, jobs and america's future with ariannabeginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. middle and high school students, it is time to upload your videos for c-span's student cam competition. get your video to c-span by january 20 for your chance to win the grand prize of $5,000. c-span's video documentary composition i guess the is open to students in grade 6-12. >> president obama spoke at a memorial service last night for victims of saturday's shooting in tucson, arizona. these speakers collude janet napolitano, attorney generic holder and arizona governor joon jan brewer. this is an hour and 40 mince. >> ladies and [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] ♪ ["fanfare for the common man" playing] ♪ ♪ [applause] >> welcome. let me start in the traditional way by introducing myself. i am carlist and solace. on my mother's side, i am -- carlos gonzales. on my mother's side, i am mexican. on my waterside, i am yacci refugee from mexico. we have been here -- i a