organize conversations in the great minds are joined by axel kabhie out o. is the founder and producer of may and mike when tommy dot org and news and activism site focused on issues of importance to the latino community he also runs the spanish language opinion site metaphor apocalyptica dot com and is part of the brave new films brave new foundation team for the past decade axl has used the visual and film campaigns to advocate on a variety of campaign issues ranging from nuclear disarmament and environmental protection to immigration and human rights with particular emphasis on latin american affairs and he's played integra role in several teams both in the united states and in mexico he's also served as the media and relate and community relations director for the peace education fund and peace action west is a graduate in political science and international relations as well as law and study and visual arts studies at the university of california san diego and received his master's degree in international law and the protection of human rights from the

joins us now from our studios in los angeles axel welcome. hired thank you friend you for having me on today thank you for joining us it's an honor to have you with us what's your story your personal story how did you become an act of us what brought you to this moment in time. my personal story i'm originally from mexico from northern part of mexico and so nor i was born and raised my first ten years there but i really am what do you consider a cross border child the new kind of generation that lived in bold size of the border and grew up in both sides of the border my dad's american my mom is is from mexico and i always went back and forth and i saw a lot of the issues that we're fighting for right now particularly within the latino community i saw it growing up while working in restaurants going through college while. work at home and seeing friends and family migrated from doing work in arizona even when i was living there and going to high school there and just seen a lot of my fellow students and students in classroom and part of the so

cheering the home favorite but crueller took the lead again in just a minute carl crossed and dick axel son put his name on the scoreboard three to gauge shell superstar defenseman ko made it two goal lead with his third scoring with four distance slipshod with down minutes to go russia threw everything into the final minutes of the game and pulled the goaltender for an extra player but failed to cut the deficit for two was how it's finished. this is a big you need to know this is us and we were fortunate to win a lot of cards don't leap from there and create a lot of chances for that but it's hard to name the reasons for our defeat right now we have to analyze our mistakes we shouldn't be too disappointed too we just have to work hard to improve our play so russia suffered their first defeat with billie jean lafitte the hell however the head coach was optimistic about the lessons his chargers can learn from this loss i think we deserved this defeat sweden played really well aggressively and put constant pressure on our defense that's why we made so many mistakes we didn't expect the sw

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. >> a program note, obama campaign senior adviser dafed axel rod and reince sprkz-- pre will be guests on "meet the press". >>> in a lengthy revealing interview about his contact with young boys, an interview with jerry sandusky. >> reporter: jerry sandusky again denied charges that he sexually molested children. but has he also given prosecutors frash ammunition that he can use against him? >> these allegations are false. i didn't do those things. i don't know what to say. >> reporter: the former penn state defensive coordinator spoke for nearly four hours to the "new york times," his most detailed conversation yet of the conduct that had led prosecutors to file 40 criminal charges against him for allegedly abusing eight children over 13 years. sandusky provided his version of the crucial moment when penn state's then athletic director, tim curley, confronted him about a 2002 allegation involving a 10-year-old boy in the shower in the school's locker room. >> he was coming to me with a concern because -- and i guess in his words, somebody had talked to him about an inappropriate behav

>> reporter: but a lot of romney's supporters would likely say, we just axel rated what needed to be done anyway to make companies more profitable. >> romney's argument is, we're in a global economy, we have to do what is needed, that's the way we can grow out of this. >> reporter: romney does not offer a net gain of jobs at bain capital, but he did say this so far. "sometimes we acquired businesses and tried to turn them around and typically," he says, "created tens of thousands of new jobs." we know that didn't happen at every company and tomorrow, mitt romney comes to new york with fund-raisers with some of the same investors who were his peers at bain capcapital. >> thank you, david. >>> and during the financial crisis, the system was rigged against the middle class in favor of the rich. today, three men, former top executives at was once the largest savings and loan, washington mutual, reached and agreement with the government. they earned some $95 million in the three years before the bank failed in the biggest bank collapse of all-time. federal regulators had sought $900 milli

the great minds that we think were quite poignant we begin with another look at my interview with axel caballero a true advocate for immigrant rights and a champion of human rights internationally and for the latino community here in the united states actually has put media and technology at the forefront of his efforts to push for change and educate.

students and faculty at virginia last nightogether honor that to happens police officer, axel duringe atds arlington cemetery. they came all the way and put them onill gravestones. >>> as we take a look of on our saturday sunshine thisy of afternoon winds out of the north at 10-15 m.p.h. over night, temperatures will fall into the 20's. good,y tomorrow, looking 40-454 i i. the redskinsf game, you'll want to bundle up. be out of the north. it will feel colder. here is the extended outlook. for milderlooking temperatures, on the way. have them.l we have to wait a couple of days. on'sto the upper tuesday. wednesday, look for highs to the lower 50's. even the mid-50's until the end of the upcoming week. , you're on my home for abc7 weather. >>> thank you for watching. [ female announcer ] more people are using wireless devices... in more ways than ever. and our networks are getting crowded. but if congress frees up more wireless spectrum... we can empower more people to innovate... putting momentum behind our economy. and we can reduce the deficit... with more than thirty billion dollars

the increases for multi axel vehicle start in january.he popular build a pair workshop is recalling hundreds of thousands of bears and the u.s. and canada because they may be on safe for kids. the eyes can come loose and fall out and it that would pose a few choking hazard for young the children. so far no injuries have been reported. their owners can return their bears or they will receive a key part for any other available animal. you could begin getting robocalls on your cell phone. it would allow companies to quickly place in the park -- important informational calls to a massive amount of consumers. an attorney explains that the bill is an important way to keep up with the times and changing phone patterns. >> that is everything from fraud alerts today to breach notifications to product recalls to flight change notifications. >> opponents are concerned businesses would be able to make those calls without your prior consent. another sticking point, people who did not have an unlimited amount of minutes could actually end up paying for

. >> they start axeling. >> thank you, dan. doreen has a preview of what's coming up. >> energy regulators slap fines. >> last minute holiday shopping. we'll check on that and a fedex delivery guy tosses a package over a fence and smashes it. the whole thing is caught on camera. those stories and much more coming up in a few minutes. that's no way to treat a possible christmas gift. >> that is not what president obama does. >> he can't say that wasn't me. >> busted. >> cameras everywhere. >> see you in a few. thanks. >>> still ahead, prosecutors say he's a murderer. this woman calls him buddha. what inspired him to become the >>> say the name joran van der sloot and people all over the world recognize it. he's on trial for the murder of a woman in peru and was a suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway. >> he's getting help from an unlikely source. >> my guardian angel, i have a tear in my eye as i write this letter. i love you, joran. >> yes, joran van der sloot, a florida radiologist sent him care packages, visited hi

you had a conversation today with david axel rod, one of the president's chief advisers. talk to us more and i'm not asking you to spill the beans, but about the conversation in terms of strategy that the democrats will be using going forward. >> pretty interesting couple blocks. i knew i wasn't dining with a consultant as david could only be called chicago slump attire and sweat pants and northwestern university basketball with a jacket and jeans and far from the maddening fray of the beltway. >> live it when we have writers where we get that type of description about the interviewees. >> yeah, this wasn't a male contestant on project runway. >> what did he say? >> no surprise on the payroll cuts as least in a short-term early christmas present for the democrats and very much a continuation of what he has always called the ub rus of republicans in the way they assessed a supposed mandate from the 2010 mid-terms and interestingly to the combative capitol hill politics associated back then in the mid 90s with then speaker newt gingrich. though i did not know about the bide

instantly you had david axel rod send out a tweet as the words were coming out saying tell that or whenay appeasement, think about bin laden. why go down that road. it's like hitting a brick wall. >> no, and that's a great question. when you are running against the incumbent, you want to go after their perceived weakness and not the strength. one area where the president is strong in all the polls is foreign policy. romney is just not adding any credibility. it's part of the problem that romney had all along. when you are stuck at 20 to 23% in the polls and all do is sit back and hope and watch while all of your opponents implode, at some point they are not going to. instead of playing the front-runner strategy, he ought to speak to the rest of the republican electorate that is not supporting him. that is not supporting him and trying to give them a reason to give him a second look. >> i want to get michelle in real quick. last word here. was it a mistake for romney to not go in swinging. if you will, for a lack of a better description doing trash talking all week. he did seven differen

so there's a buick out there now without an axel. this counterweight was probably a flywheel from an early piece of farm equipment, maybe even steam powered-- we're not sure. i see a coke can. (chuckling): i love this. so we got the open end of the telescope at the top. and light comes down reflects off the curved mirror and light reflects back and comes to an eyepiece under that coke can. and if we wiggle this coke can a little bit like this there's the eyepiece. we're ready to go. there it is. all right, this isn't the only telescope i see back here, al. no, there's a couple others. let me pull this one out for you. okay. this has got to be the most homemade-looking telescope i have ever seen. is this a lawn mower? that is a lawn mower base. this is what the family has called the grazer gazer. he looked at this and said "it's got wheels got a hale. we need to put a telescope on that so i can push it around." how to make a portable telescope. absolutely. he built it strictly on a utilitarian base out of what he had which was thin pl

. >> his name was axel and merman. he could not have invented this guy. this guy has never been out of hand for but his life. he is -- >> rocks and trees and every monday night in this huge center where all the guys in and for trade talks. his hobby is bachmann j. which i have never heard of which is a sport where they're is a wooden bird on a hundred foot pole all these men stand around and she had it with crossbows. this is a real sport. i had never heard of. he is this guy, and he sees this and the internet, have moon rocks herself. he is a big believer in right and wrong, so he really called the fbi, you know the fbi in tampa. it became this big sting operation. taken down. i mean, i always give it away, but you know he got arrested. >> you obviously have come off of the enormous success with not only the books of and also the fact that they are then converted to movies, which obviously helps in terms of the notoriety. >> they're lowest since the titles of my movies, and it's really annoying. sex on the moon is the press what they have to keep. >> you

right thing to do instead of extraneous issues from holding us up, having us all wound around the axel where we can't even fund the government of the united states. so maybe some reasonable minds are coming together to start working out these issues. i certainly hope so. in the meantime, what i want to speak about is something that is even more pernicious, and that is making it harder for our people to express their constitutional right of casting a vote. we have seen a pattern in 14 states -- 14 states enacting new election laws that basically are a i suppression of voter rights. and one of those states that is glaringly, dubiously at the top of that list as being the most severe in cutting back on people's ability to vote, to know that that vote that they have cast is going to be counted as they intended it, and in the first place making it so that they can register to vote, that that very fundamental constitutional right for merntioamericans is being thread through these laws in the states, including my state, of suppressing the right to vote. now, if you look at the similarities of

they were going out of ambition to axel in their -- excel in their work. is really about joy and the test of one's purpose in life that work can pose. these -- these medical students who really were put to the test like very few young men i've ever written about would later refer to it as the happiest time of their life, and yet it was the most difficult time of their life, and i think there's something very important in that truth, something important we all -- the ease and pleasure are not necessarily synonymous, and i didn't find one single example of any of those young people, male or female who went to study medicine-under-par the most difficult -- medicine under the most difficult positions, particularly the language barrier in the beginning, not one of them who quit said this is not for me or can't take this and went home. there may have been, but i never found one that did, and all of them later on would talk about that time in paris. the other thing i love is that henry, one of the doctors who went over to study in paris, he 4 a son years later wh

they say they axel in mediocrity. >> the second best pickle on the planet. >> and we're never open.st they're strong. a little mistype on the bowls. unfortunate for -- yes. joni hoffman from minerstown, pennsylvania, submitted this photo. >> who let the dogs out? >> they were in a poarking lot t the store. >> there's a third one in the back. >> we have a photo from susan allen from merlin, oregon. my kind of nutrition. house of nutrition. san di's candies & fudgerie. they did have to move it. from new britain, connecticut. this photo. do they come with cookies? >> girl scouts sold here. >> they sell all their stuff. clearly someone didn't read that sign and think this sounds a little funny. >> you never know. you never know. >> these days, come on. finally, annie crawford from chicago, illinois, sent me this photo. does this happen so often it was necessary to write it in? >> or cell phones? that's just a natural part of modern life. >> i've almost lost my audio in there. >> if you lose your cell phone in the toilet, i'm just saying, you can -- it's either -- it depends on what stag

the fbi creates a case using axel as the main source, and he was my source, reached out to me, a wonderful guy, and nasa people were feeding him things they wanted me to know. i decidedded i wanted to go to nasa. they said no one could talk to me. i went on the website, nasa.com, whatever it is. i signed up for a high security tour. they let ten people go doo it today. it's a government bureaucracy, so i show up at nasa, i get a security badge, and i'm inside nasa. then thad robert texts me, the main character saying, okay, there's a door at the back of the cafeteria, go through the door. i was guided by the guy who robbed nasa. i was able to get all the court documents. i have a little group who helped me. i have a lawyer's who is like the guys who can do anything lawyers, and he's got private eyes who can go to tampa and get me the records. >> host: they should be public anyway? >> guest: i got the fbi files. they took a year for them to send them to me. i was amazed they sent them at all. it was thousands of pages, and literally, so i knew everything that was said was true. i knew i cou