. >> we have the pleasure of having with us today attorney, brandeis university professor, and authora new book, "reimagining equality: stories of race, gender, and finding home," anita hill. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you so much for having me. >> now, in your book you talk about these kind of intersections between race and gender. how does this crisis of home particularly affect women of color? >> during the years when subprime loans were really raging through communities of color, many of the women who were taking out those loans were african-american women and latinas. they were taking out these loans on their own without a spouse or without a partner. and we know that there was racism involved, that there was sexism involved. people were given loans that they didn't really understand and maybe were misrepresented to them. so the reason they didn't understand them, it was being hidden from them. people were taking out subprime loans or high cost loans when they qualified for conventional loans. >> exactly. qul and all >> and all of this has been well documented.

aaron zemin, a brandeis university researcher, he says it's the largest cyber attack on al qaeda. >>tially al qaeda's lifeline to the outside world since it has to do with their communications systems. >> it appears to have begun on march 23rd when the site, a forum for al qaeda messages, suddenly went dark. other sites soon followed. some briefly came back online only to disappear again. al qaeda has been a savvy master of cyberspace for years. for example, messages may come from aman al zawahiri in pakistan, al qaeda's core leader and it then perhaps is packaged into a slick video and then distributors send it out to trusted al qaeda forums where jihadists can log on. a former state department counterterrorism official says the attack breaks key al qaeda links. >> because this is the primary point of distribution for al qaeda propaganda, when the website is taken down the al qaeda supporters don't know where to go to find new propaganda, to find guidance from zawahiri so it puts the global movement into a bit of disarray. operatives don't know if they're communicating with their le

vietnam when the war was the dominant while we were in college, graduated 1969 and actually from brandeis university actually one day after graduation was able to start as the senate in turn for jacob javits for the summer. i guess i was impressionable but it made a big impression on me and i decided to go to law school and came back in 1975 and spent 12 years in the senate and in a sense writing the book because i've been fascinated by the senate for a long period of time. >> host: you make no secrets in their book that you are a liberal progressive democrat. you ran for the united states congress. talk about that and then do you feel that your political views play by the way you read the book or do you think you could be more objective? >> guest: flem clearly a progressive democrat. i've been involved in a lot of democratic campaigns, presidential campaigns and certainly my own campaign in 2001 and 2002 to try to get congress. but i don't think the book will reflect that on the early reviews of the book and the comments have been noted that it's quite fair. >> host: do you think republicans should