to put this to you, we're not talking exclusively about marijuana, we're talking about drugs more broodlyfewer than 1% of people incarcerated in the united states on drug charges are on soul possession charges -- >> lisa that's actually incorrect. point of fact, one third of all americans, you have large numbers of people in local jails serving weeks, days, months -- >> right. and i'm talking about prison, nationally it's 1%. but paul you said we have to bring the hammer down, and if it feels like this so-called war on drugs, that the government has been trying to bring the hammer down for decades. we need a new hammer. what do we use? >> wonderful. i have my book out about drug trafficking organizations. we don't have a war on drug addicts. we have a war on drug cartels. we have to make a distinction. i would also like to go back to the taxation of this. in colorado they are putting a 27% tax on marijuana. after a little while, people are not going to pay the 27% tax, black market is going to come in as it always has to undercut that. and while washington and colorado approved marijuana

american people for the syrian people to know, is that we will continue to support the people of syria, broodlyken, every step of the way as they fight for freedom and for the dignity and stability and security in the future that they deserve. i would be happy to take a few questions. i think jen -- >> one at a time, please. the first question will be from margaret brennan. >> reporter: thank you very much. diplomacy diply works when there is a parallel pressure track. should increase be a consequence? and what assurances do you have that the syrian opposition will still participate given today that the syrian foreign minister said that assad's exit is not an option? did that surprise you? >> no, that was fully what we frankly expected, and, you know, opening positions are opening positions. who knows where they decide to go as this goes on. but the bottom line is that the support for the opposition is already augmenting. it is growing. it is continuing from many different sources of support that exist for it. and i'm confident that that will continue in the days ahead. now there are still othe

by the way if you have a 401k or something that invests broodly, you are probably a shareholder. wall street is a little tone deaf. >> i have met him, and you are right he is a likable guy. meanwhile the stock is up, is d diemon's raise, a signal that they haven't been hurt. some would say they are not so much crackdowns? >> well, i guess that sort of speaks to the whole too big to fail thing, if you can pay out $20 billion in fines and settlements, and still be a very healthy bank, i guess that is it. others might say you got us out of that. we're kind of through most of this. and under jamie diamond's solid leadership, we have gotten through this. he is directly at odds with the views of most americans who are polled on the issue, while many americans don't wanti end less government involvement in their lives they do want regulation over the banks. so this is the by fur indication in america of the haves and have nots. he is a hero of the haves, and is be rewarded for it today. >> good way to put it. we'll be right back. ♪ >>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie s

and as adam's talked about here the let's talk more broodly about let's what all of this means.bout it is a social community that a social community has made judgment here. judgment >> yeah, i became very >> yeah, interested in vine early on, when i saw the intense community interested in vine early on when i saw the intense community that was that was building, the meet-ups, the meet-ups, the the fact that people were using people were this new platform to bring platform to bring people together, and as you together. and as you mentioned, i was at that first that first meet-up meet-up where jesse and curtis and curtis met and met, and it was overwhelming, it overwhelming. there had had to be a couple thousand thousand younger to older younger to older people there there excited to excited to see them. and i don't know >> a couple of thousand people >> consume. a get together to essentially go together to essentially go on the first date of couple. quasicouple? >> yes, in >> yeah, in that case you could say it was a say it was a first date. and then in and then in other cases wh

let's talk more broodly about what all of this means.t is a social community that has made judgment here. >> yeah, i became very interested in vine early on, when i saw the intense community that was building, the meet-ups, the fact that people were using this new platform to bring people together, and as you mentioned, i was at that first meet-up where jesse and curtis met, and it was overwhelming, it had to be a couple thousand younger to older people there excited to see them. >> a couple of thousand people get together to essentially go on the first date of this quasi couple. >> yeah, in that case you could say it was a first date. and then in other cases which are happening all over the country and even internationally, it's really a chance to meet your favorite viner, and i see a tremendous potential in that. and i would like to harness it for something good, unfortunately, as we have seen, people make mistakes things happen, there are misunderstandings, that has always been the case vine or not. >> when you first met that couple,

we've always had a broadly conservative party in our politics, a broodly progressive party.lways been at each other's throats an its he easy to just assume that that is what our political discourse looks like. this book says rather than take it for granted let's think about what it is, where it comes from and why, one good way to do that is to think about the first real instance of the recognize nizeable left right divide which we find in an intense idea logical debate that was taking place in britain and america at the end of the 18th century. when we identify with the american revolution an french revolution. but it is also about a struggle to define the free society, the struggle about the tension between progress and tradition that is still very much with us. it can be difficult to discern beneath the intense debates about particular policy questions that our politics are about. >> why this debate, this particular-- there were others who were writing, who were thinking why these two men, burke and paine. >> in a way the back looks at the broader debate that gripped anglo