ben franklin is not only a great businessman, not a make remind an innovator, but in many respects he was a great american. unlike most people in the 18th , benry, as i mentioned franklin lived in multiple places. he was not bound by geography in the way that most people back then were. most people never traveled more than 20 miles from the spot in which he was born. he becomes an emissary of various colonies, living in -- he develops his own life in philadelphia, but then becomes an emissary of various colonies, living in london and later in paris. and all of this gives benjamin identity that is uniquely american and allows them to understand all of these different regions, when their ideas are brought together, are capable of much more than when they are forced to stand alone. benjamin franklin is perhaps the ofatest american embodiment the enlightenment. i think if you were to expand your scope across the atlantic, there is somebody else who probably contributes even more. i would go so far to say, if i have a top 10 list of the most important people to live in the past 1000 years,

as i mentioned, ben franklin lived in multiple places. he was not bound by geography in the way that most people back then were. most people never traveled more than 20 miles. he becomes an emissary of various colonies, living in london and later in paris. and all of this gives benjamin franklin and identity that is uniquely american and allows him to understand all of these different regions, when their ideas are brought together, are capable of much more than when they are forced to stand alone. he is perhaps the greatest american embodiment of the enlightenment. across the atlantic there is someone who contributes even more. if i had a top ten list of the ten most important people who lived in the past 1000 years, this individual would be on it -- john locke. john locke is known most famously for his two treatises on government, his essays on human understanding, his toleration,rning his thoughts concerning education, and of course, for his uncanny resemblance to the late great actress jessica tandy. so, john locke is an individual, wh

here i took an oath of office, and i take that oath of office in front of a portrait of ben franklin,rn in by a jewish woman, ruth bader ginsburg, who was my neighbor at the watergate. i thought what would old been think of this? in some ways it showed how far our country had come. i always felt when i was out there that i could speak about the hard road to democracy, about the importance of institutions becoming more inclusive over time, to people having those challenges, because i had personally experienced them. david: let's talk about today's situation. we face the north korean problem. you have negotiated with the north koreans. what are the chances north korea, the u.s., and south korea can come to agreement? condoleezza: when i heard the president had on the spot accepted kim jong-un's invitation, i thought what is he doing? then i thought, nothing else has worked, so why not? i actually think they set the table pretty well. one of the conditions that is different is that once kim jong-un's programs got to the place where they threatened the united states, i think it got china'

ben franklin thought, we need not accept this. so he is the person who pioneered the installation of sidewalks to elevate people out of the muck and mire. benjamin franklin understood that one of the great factors of this 18th-century enlightenment is the proliferation of printed sources. yet books were quite expensive. so wouldn't it be great if people could voluntarily pool their resources by joining a private lending library and buying a membership that would allow the organization to purchase new books that would then circulate among the members that would allow them to go and check out a book, read it, return it, and check out something else. the libraries come from benjamin franklin. in these 18th-century cities that remain principally of wood , fire was a terrible and horrifying threat. yet benjamin franklin was able to gather a group of people together and establish a private firefighting company where subscribers again would voluntarily pool their resources that would allow for the purchase of the best equipment that would

and i take that oath of office in front of a portrait of ben franklin, sworn in by a jewish woman, ruther ginsburg, who was my neighbor at the watergate. i thought what would old ben think of this? in some ways it showed how far our country had come. i always felt when i was out there that i could speak about the hard road to democracy, about the importance of institutions becoming more inclusive over time, to people having those challenges, because i had personally experienced them. david: let's talk about today's situation. we face the north korean problem. you have negotiated with the north koreans. what would you say are the chances north korea, the u.s., and south korea can come to some agreement? condoleezza: i have to say when i first heard the president had on the spot accepted kim jong-un's invitation, i thought, oh my goodness. what is he doing? then i thought, nothing else has worked, so why not? i actually think they set the table pretty well. one of the conditions that is different is that once kim jong-un's programs got to the place that they actually threatened the united

ben franklin investment down 35.et managers not working. >> are they that important to the market i can almost take issue with that at this point >> sure. they're the second or third biggest by weight in the s&p but in terms of the life blood of the system, the most important sector by far. and they're not acting well, a plain simple sort of. >> it's incredible the market has been able to do what it's been able to do without virtually any participation from the financials >> there are two components to the success for financials one which we commonly talk about which is their interest margins which you expect with rising rates would improve. but the other of course is the fundamentals of the business which includes among other things commercial loan growth, the housing market, those types of things. the luxury housing market, a the least seems in many markets to have peaked a bit you know, those types of weeks, on auto, if we reached peak that's an area of heavy finance. speaking to that s&p to dan's point, the trade

that most of us do know for making complex decision in our lives and it actually dates back to ben franklin. so we have this kind of strategy for making complex decision and trying to be creative about coming up with all the potential variables and factors and that strategy has basically been stagnant for 200 years, we haven't seen innovation in terms of tools for making these kinds of choices and turns out that there's very rich literature, some of it scientific but some of it creative, artistic that has developed over the last 30 or 40 years that actually does help us make more complex decisions and much of it overlaps with the tools and strategies that we use to be more innovative and creative in our lives, farsighted is lots of crazy stories, whole theme running through through it aboue march and novels and parallel simulation that helps us make choices and big analysis, the decision that led up to the raid on bin laden's compound. i think it's the only book, i believe in existences has threat of bin laden. but anyway, out of two weeks ago. >> already helped me make some complicated --

of course ben franklin. and so i love people who cross different silos and with the dami damian wetsel, here is someone who studied chinese, and dance. and focuses in on becoming a great dancer. but now a head of jewel yauilli. he can combine many different things. >> you talk about mixing disciplines. hari, we are going to play a clip with your interview, and i know him as mr. serena williams. let's play a clip. >> i remember reading about the enlightenment. and when i was studying it in history, i assumed there was this enlightenment. and after that, cool, rational thought. great, world is fixed. it is ton. and this is surfacing now, this reality that no, actually, there are a lot of people who sort of missed or even today don't care. and would rather see things that reinforce their world, would rather see things that reinforce their world view than challenge it with data. how are flat earthers coming back. we can go into space now. >> it is shocking that not only just a flat earth theory, but so many of t

it was true of ben franklin's terribly worried that we were to meet german eyes and that the germans were going to take over. alexander hamilton. foreigners as he called them were going to four and is america. in the 19th century there was animus towards the irs. towards people with central europe. and the earliest 20th century. towards europeans. we like to think of these people today is a europe is all one big happy family. they did not think that about the italians or the jews were some of the other people that were coming. so a lot of it is fear that people are not assimilating. but all of the evidence shows that people no matter where they come from two in fact assimilate and assimilate quickly and refugees seem to assimilate more quickly than immigrants. they are already doing a pretty good job of assimilating. see mac i work for senator ed markey. our office is actually working on a bill right now to set a minimum number and i wanted to hear your input on what that number should be. i think 100,000 is probably a good number to start with. we approved that we can do that. when

i remember those times where when i first was in band class, jack martin's ben franklin middle school band, and the first day, because i talked too much, mr. martins made me write lines. but i also -- after i finished writing those lines, he told me i had a lot of talent. he told me i could be anybody that i wanted to be, and he was willing to take extra time out of his schedule to tutor me because he knew i really wanted to play french horn and be first chair. that helped me be a first chair advanced band sooner than anticipated and that's what mission neighborhood is about. we can't leave any of our kids behind. we know what the numbers say. mostly, sadly, the loss of so many african american boys and latino boys in san francisco out of high school, they have an opportunity to succeed if we move forward with programs, we invest in the right programs for the purposes of providing them with the support they need to be a success, and we have proof right here with us today. i want to thank leader pelosi who has been a fearless, fearless advocate. she's not just fighting the challenges o

so those of us following that level of detail say, as ben franklin said, half a truth is often a greathe has been more like -- he has had less than half of truth. so what that means is we see him differently. the public who doesn't have that level of detail just sees emotion. >> i will say this, we do not have polling on all this, and not like polling is the most important thing in the world. i am desperately curious about what people believe in the wake of that and how the gender split's happened and all of that. i don't know. i really don't know. i know how it read to me. jessica valenti, christina beltran and maya wiley, thank you for joining me tonight. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. what a week, joy reid, who is in for rachel maddow. >> you can't make it up. if you made it up, no one would believe any of it at all. >>> thanks to all of you for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. okay. so when we woke up this morning, we all thought we knew how today was going to go. despite wrenching testimony from christine blasey ford ye

is a large-scale united ion in the fears have e dominated among the population much it was true ben franklin was terribly worried that we to be germanized and the germans would take over the alexander hamilton thought that foreigners, as he alled them, were going to foreignize america. century there was toward the irish, scandinavians. in the early 21st century, we like to think of europe as one big happy family, didn't think about that r- the -- about the jews or the polish. all of the evidence shows that eople, no matter where they come from, do, in fact, assimilate and assimilate refugees seem to assimilate even more quickly are already ts who oing a pretty good job of assimilating. >> hi, i work for senator ed markey. bill fice is working on a now to set a minimum number, and i wanted to hear your input on that number should be. 100,000 is a good number to start with. we proved that we could do that. 2016.d that in the key to that is the three p's. you need to put people behind to have process, and then you have to figure out policy. and what we're doing right now the reductions is we ha

so those of us following that level of detail say, as ben franklin said, half a truth is often a great and he has been more like -- he has had less than half of truth. so what that means is we see him differently. the public who doesn't have that level of detail just sees emotion. >> i will say this, we do not have polling on all this, and not like polling is the most important thing in the world. i am desperately curious about what people believe in the wake of that and how the gender split's happened and all of that. i don't know. i really don't know. i know how it read to me. does " catch us every week night right here on msnbc. >>> she was a person out of a 40s film noir movie. with life full of mystery to match. >> she was a stunner physically. she was able to say jump and the men would say how high. >> married to a wealthy lawyer. >> he always said she has this hold over me. >> but there was someone she seemed even choserer to. >> they bought matching underwear together. >> they shared everything. >> they're eating together, they're sleeping in the same bed together. she's living

right across the ben franklin bridge, the center of the cheesesteak universe, but what if it isn't?, and the best cheesesteak in the area might well come from new jersey. donkey's, opened by leon lucas 71 years ago. a heavyweight contender in the 1928 summer olympics in boxing, he was known during his time in the cavalry as "the donkey." >> robert: they said he had a punch like the kick of a mule. so somebody gave him the handle of "donkey." and he kept it. >> anthony: his son robert runs the joint now and this is what they do here. behold, the jersey cheesesteak. >> robert: pleasure to meet you. >> anthony: so this is the place. the best cheesesteak in south jersey unless i'm mistaken? >> robert: eh, in new jersey. >> anthony: new jersey, period? >> robert: yeah. >> anthony: is there a difference between jersey style and philadelphia style? >> robert: yeah, we do ours on a round poppy seed kaiser role. >> anthony: really? i'll have one of those. what's the way to go? i mean anything i need to know or just -- >> robert: no, regular, cheese and onions. >> anthony: beautiful thing. >>

immigration into the united states these fears have predominated among the population, it was true with ben franklin who was terribly worried we would be german iced and that the germans were going to take over the new country. alexander hamilton, himself an immigrant from the west indies, thought that foreigners, as he called them, would foreign eyes america. in 19th century there is animus towards the irish, towards germans, towards central europeans, scandinavians, and the early 20th century, southern and eastern europeans, we like to think of europe today is all one big happy family but they did not think that about the italians or the jews or the polish, or other people, so a lot of it is fear that they are not assimilating. but all the evidence shows that people no matter where they come from due in fact assimilate , they assimilate quickly, and refugees seem to assimilate more quickly than immigrants who are also already doing a pretty good job of assimilating.>> i work for senator. ed markey in our office is working on a bill right now to set a minimum number and i wanted to hear your input

survey and grandson or great grandson of ben franklin that might be accessible. >> okay, thank you. >> we three are the only -- >> mr. krist, mr. lawler, any that you'd recommend that were sort of the small pieces that, you know, you couldn't expand on? >> i think that there are some wonderful biographies of some of the character that i touch on, particularly -- one thing that amazed me in researching this book was how much wonderful writing there has been about early hollywood. there are wonderful biographies, an autobiography of gloria swanson. you know, it sounds like it would be totally puff. it is actually extremely well written, extremely informative and hard to put down. i think it's called my life. but also hollywood historians who are just fascinating, and i never really expected that to be the case. maybe that was con descending of me or something, i don't know, but i was very pleasantly surprised by that. >> well, i'm kind of nerdy about early american history. david quinn was the great roanoke scholar. he was irish but lived in england and died in 2002, and his set sail fo

public corporation i tend to think that a well-intentioned, good sole proprietor starting with ben franklinnd now going all the way to mark benioff is probably a better way to run a news operation. that's what henry luce did when you start making it a public company that can be bought and sold and activist shareholders, you lose what a media company has to do, which is keep an eye not just on the shareholder interests, although that's part of it, but also the stakeholder interests, the reader interests and the public interests. as you know, tyler, because you passed it on the old 34th floor at the time life building like i did, henry luce's will used to sit on that floor and he said that time, inc. be, had to be operated both in the interests of his shareholders and the public interests that's probably easier to do with a sole proprietor. >> so, walter, if you're a sole proprietor of one of these organizations, these news organizations, is there an expectation of a return on investment or profitability or is this sort of like owning a sports team? it's a passion project in the end. >> well,

that most of us do know for making complex decision in our lives and it actually dates back to ben franklin. so we have this kind of strategy for making complex decision and trying to be creative about coming up with all the potential variables and factors and that strategy has basically been stagnant for 200 years, we haven't seen innovation in terms of tools for making these kinds of choices and turns out that there's very rich literature, some of it scientific but some of it creative, artistic that has developed over the last 30 or 40 years that actually does help us make more complex decisions and much of it overlaps with the tools and strategies that we use to be more innovative and creative in our lives, farsighted is lots of crazy stories, whole theme running through through it aboue march and novels and parallel simulation that helps us make choices and big analysis, the decision that led up to the raid on bin laden's compound. i think it's the only book, i believe in existences has threat of bin laden. but anyway, out of two weeks ago. >> already helped me make some complicated --

ben franklin performed a critical role at the convention in bringing about the spirit of compromise that ultimately allowed them to get over the finish line with george washington as the presider as the convention. and that compromise is contained in the words of the document. of course precedent is part of the system we have now. i like to add that. that precedent is critical to how we today decide cases. but the original meaning of the words control over any intent of any one person or group of people. >> briefly, do you put much stock in feran's treatise, compilation, discussion of the records? >> i find them fascinating, the notes of the convention, seeing the day-by-day convention, how things changed and how close we were to different things, such as proportional representation of the senate. that was close. a 1-term president, that was close close. the debate over the necessary and proper clause. some of those things that caused geary and randolph and mason not to sign the final constitution because they had such profound disagreements and were concerned with having a bill of right

it was true of ben franklin who was terribly worried we would be geminis to, and the germans were going to take over the new country. alexander hamilton, himself an immigrant from the west indies, thought that foreigners would foreign eyes america. there was animus towards the irish in the 19th century, toward germans, and scandinavians. towards europeans, southern and eastern europeans, we like to think of them as europe is one happy family. and the italians or jews or polls or other people who are coming. all of the evidence shows that people assimilate and assimilate question and refugees seem to assimilate more quickly than immigrants do a better job assimilating. >> my name is neil and i work for senator ed markey. we are working on a bill to set a minimum number and i want to hear your input on what the number should be. >> i think 100,000 is a good number to start with. we went from 75,000, to 85,000 in 2016. the key is what i call the three.s. process, figure out policy. with the reductions among the ones that/their staff and everything else, the process for doing that. we have

. >> or member what ben franklin once said. three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.'t trust anybody with us. i agree with the criticism, but i don't think it impairs her credibility with respect to the specific allegations against judge kavanaugh. >> with interesting is senator feinstein who was pushed hard on that by chuck grassley did not address it at all. did not address it. just talked about how difficult it is for women who are victims or alleged victims of sexual assault, how hard it is for them to come forward. she never ever directly asked him why did you sit on this for so long, why did you choose the moment you did to suddenly release this in the process of a nomination for bret cavanaugh. >> judge, maybe you can answer this. why is it that someone, when someone is perhaps in the process of ruining the career and reputation of a man nominated to the supreme court, why is it that someone who is, in many ways undermining the integrity of the court and the nominee, why can't that person be questions question vigorously. why do we have to step back, and with a

ben franklin performed critical role in bringing about the spirit of compromise that ultimately allowedthem to get over the finish line with george washington as the presenter of the convention and that compromise is contained in the words of the document. of course, precedent is part of the system we have now i would like to add that precedent is critical to how we today decide cases. the original word control over intent of anyone person or group of people. >> reflate, do you put much stock in the treatise compilation discussion of the convention records? i find them fascinating, the nose of the convention to see the day by day debate on the convention and how things change, being such a proportional representation in senate. a one term president, that was close. the various compromises that were reached, the debate over the necessary and proper clause. some of those things had caused gary and randolph and they said not to sign the final constitution because they had such profound disagreements with the structure in concert in some respects of having a bill of rights, which was not pa

ben bland. our top stories: a star—studded send off for aretha franklin at a funeral ceremony in her hometown ofetroit. the world is celebrating you. and the world is mourning you. and the world is going to miss you. the trump administration confirms that it's stopping all funding for the un agency that supports palestinian refugees. a bbc investigation uncovers evidence of the mass—detention of members of china's uighur community. how genetic science is helping britain's magnificent golden eagles spread their wings. and the latest film by oscar—winning director alfonso cuaron is getting top marks in venice. but the decision to stream it first gets mixed reviews. hello. some of the greatest musical performers of the last 60 years have joined leading politicians and civil rights leaders to remember the life of aretha franklin. she died earlier this month from cancer, at the age of 76. the funeral service for the singer — who became known as the queen of soul — has been taking place in detroit, at the church where she sang as a child. our north america correspondent, aleem maqbool, was there. # it

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