throughout his solo career and his years with the byrds; crosby, stills, nash, and young; and now cpr, he's demonstrated that music can make a difference. now he's teamed with david bender, a founding contributing editor for george magazine, to write stand and be counted: making music, making history. welcome, gentlemen. it's a book about courageous musicians and courageous music, and at a time when i read on the front page of the new york times that record companies are routinely self-censoring themselves to enhance marketability of music, why this project, why the book, and why the television show now? well, to pick one of your words, courage. we are both very taken with human courage. our heroes have been people who had the guts to stick up for what they believed in, and we saw that there had been no one looking at music being used to gather people in a cause as a phenomenon. the two biggest events in the last 50 years in american history were civil rights movement and the vietnam war. civil rights movement was all activism. all. vietnam war-- strongly affected by it, strongly affe

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i liked that he used so much of senator byrd's speeches.e gave a whole series of speeches on the history of the senate. i think senator byrd would have loved to watch the documentary. he would have liked the fact that it was a good portion of his speeches included in it. but he believed in the institution. he believed that people had to rise above the politics and the emotions of the time. said, all legislation is a form of compromise. there are certain moment when we all marched together in the same direction, but for worst of our history there is a lot of continuity. -- but for most of our history there is a lot of continuity. host: has there been a great compromise since the one that is documented? guest: there have been many compromises. among the greatest is the missouri compromise of 1820. the other was the compromise of 1850. both of those dealt with the issue of new territory that we have incorporated. how with the territory becoming into the union of states? -- how would the territory becoming in to the union of states? they tried

members of the ku klux klan and forget about former senator robert byrd, the grand dragon of the ku kluxny years ago? >> but he was still the grand dragon. if he had been a republican he would still be vilified today. if you're a liberal grand dragon and republican grand dragon. >> how many black people do you have to lynch to be a grand in the ku klux klan. that's my question. i want to piggyback off what my ideological brethren have been saying and i think we need to hold both accountable. we need to hold the republican establishment accountable for not doing enough to convey how some republican policies can benefit the black communities and hold black people accountab accountable. don't dismiss something someone is saying by virtue of them being -- by virtue of them being republican and don't automatically accept what a democrat says. i believe in a la carte politics. look at what both sides have to say and make -- form late an objective opinion. i don't believe that i want all black people to become republicans. but i would like to see -- >> democrats. >> i would like to see xe ittit

he was in a group called the byrds, and then they started the quintessential country western called thearrido brothers. after his death, but after i had only known him a year and was converted to country music and found my voice in that harmony singing and that kind of music, i really felt like i was supposed to carry forward his music, in a way, or at least try to convert people of my generation to country music. we tended to kind of dismiss it. i still had my love of folk music and i was still inspired by folk music, because in a sense they are all coming from the same pool. but when you are working on something that you love and you have the opportunity to learn with graham, who was kind of my teacher, and then to find myself with a really good people, really good musicians, the opportunity to make a record, and then lo and behold i had an audience, there was nothing to stop me but to keep learning those songs and trying to write. a lot had to do what the people who came in my sphere, wonderful talented young writers aware of my generation -- young writers who were of my generation,

oddly enough, his name, marlon byrd. >>> up next here tonight, back to basics at a place that makes what's old new again. >>> if you watch us even a few nights a week, you know the world is changing quickly, and some places the violence has been unrelenting. so perhaps it's no wonder that something simple like nostalgia is making a big comeback these days. anything to get us out of today and transport us to another time. nbc's anne thompson tonight looks at one store that's making a lot of americans very happy by taking them back to basics. >> reporter: tradition marks vermont's landscape. people take pride that life moves a little slower here. trendy is taboo. what's time-tested is treasured. no place more than at the vermont country store. a centuries-old tradition. and the orton family business for 55 years. >> my grandfather was a wonderful marketer. and he really understood that even in 1946 people were yearning for simpler times. >> reporter: simpler times defined by everyday products bearing brand names from long ago. >> gee, your hair smells terrific. >> i remember that. >> reporte

the late senator robert byrd spoke about the plan. >> under the virginia plan, both houses of congressould be apportioned by a population. an arrangement that would favor the larger states. >> the smaller states felt threatened. william paterson countered with the new jersey plan. >> the delegates rejected the new jersey plant them about the small states had enough boats to keep the virginia plan from succeeding. >> the convention split 5-5. the delegates appointed a special committee. to solve the dispute. >> the compromise determined how the legislative bans -- branches run today. >> a compromise in apportioned the house by population and gave the senate a quality. >> this would be known as the great compromise. >> the great compromise is one of the more. momentous events in our country's history. >> this helped create the government of checks and balances that we have today. we have a political climate today like the founding fathers would many opposing viewpoints. we can agree -- >> is imperative that we work together to find a compromise. >> people need to compromise. >> compromis

space byrd has leaders spoken for the society at the smithsonian and jim and kate lehrer spoke and theyill be speaking for the garrard society. it's one of the examples of ways that we today partner with the smithsonian. estimate is there any truth to the rumor of the institution and his wife? >> i might as well let you know my wife is nancy is the director of library of the smithsonian and we enjoy being -- >> it also settles the relationship, doesn't it? >> we have the center for the book for the website and the bear the society information which is going to start to be available i think tomorrow. >> and i also discovered looking at your web site today that there actually is marketing information on the encyclopedia. we put a link up there. as to get somebody wants to buy the encyclopedia go to your website or our website. estimate exactly. that's bookguys.com. >> we are just getting access to you for the opportunity for you to take advantage. >> the press release is great. >> speaking of the whole cooperative effort here between the book by is it's time for the quiz brought to you by

you mentioned robert byrd. he knew the history of the congress and how it worked. anyone fill that void? guest: there are a lot of candidates. he was a very unusual senator. he went to law school at night while he was a u.s. senator. he felt because he did not get a formal education as a young man the rest of his life was learning. he continued to read. he got very interested in not only that history but the rules and the presidents of the senate. of thethe presidentence senate. usually every friday afternoon he would stand up and give some speech about some aspect of the history of the united states senate. these were compiled. almost no one else has matched that kind of devotion to it, but certainly among the senators, especially among the senior senators, people like senator alexander and other people who have been here for a while and to our real institutional list, you often feel in their speeches they will talk about the historical precedents of whatever the issue is today. there is a lot of continuity. if you are debating something today, it is not the first

you mentioned robert byrd. he knew the history of the congress and how it worked. has anyone fill that void? guest: there are a lot of candidates. he was a very unusual senator. he went to law school at night while he was a u.s. senator. he felt because he did not get a formal education as a young man the rest of his life was learning. he continued to read. he got very interested in not only that history but the rules and the presidents of the senate. of thethe presidentence senate. usually every friday afternoon he would stand up and give some speech about some aspect of the history of the united states senate. these were compiled. almost no one else has matched that kind of devotion to it, but certainly among the senators, especially among the senior senators, people like senator alexander and other people who have been here for a while and to our real institutional list, you often feel in their speeches they will talk about the historical precedents of whatever the issue is today. there is a lot of continuity. if you are debating something today, it is not the f

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immediately told by powerful senators who control his budget-- mitch mcconnell of kentucky and robert byrdof west virginia-- "oh, no, you're not. we'll cut your budget if you try to tamper with our baby." it's as if tony soprano had a seat in the senate. if this congress can't even clean up the most egregious polluter in its own backyard, how can they deal with the problem across the entire united states? >> smith: but in 2008, there was a new push on capitol hill to rein in carbon emissions. >> sir, i started by members... >> ...that were highly controversial in the energy committee. >> smith: senator john warner had drafted legislation, along with senator joe lieberman, to mandate a 60% cut in greenhouse gases by mid-century. >> well, we have a prodigious task. >> smith: and while how the industry does that is unclear, the bill's authors are betting on it. is there a future for coal? >> there's got to be a future for coal in the us. it's too important to us. and again, i think once you create this law, this mandate, the coal industry and a lot of others are going to figure out how to use

that is senators byrd and stevens. we have a full program ahead for you this evening.ll be giving out two awards -- the joan s. barone award and the david bloom award. we will hear from several members of congress this evening. we will conclude our evening with larry wilmore of "the daily show with jon stewart." [applause] wait. there is more. please join us at the after party sponsored by our friends at the national cable telecommunications association. many of us on the board are members of that association. it will be held outside in the atrium where we held the reception. that immediately follows the dinner tonight. by the way, i expect that some of you will be tweeting during the dinner tonight. use the hashtag use all on the screen tonight. that way, everyone will be able to access your tweets more readily. we have a non-washingtonian here with us this evening. i want to introduce everyone to miss america, teresa scanlon. there she is waiting. we appreciate it very much. [applause] mayor gray is with us this evening. thank you for being here. there he is. [applau

there's a lot of aaron byrds. that's what we have to work with. secondly, there are no magic bullets, there's no simple solution to the problem. we can't buy off pakistan. we tried to do that in the last decade. we gave them $12 billion in unaccounted funds. that's an estimate. because nobody in the united states government knows how much we actually gave them. we can't invade them. this is a country twice the size of california with the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world. invasion is crazy. but under some circumstances, you can envision an american president with very few options otherwise the use of military force. there are extraordinarily difficult tradeoffs in this relationship. and the most difficult ones involve around the nature of our relationship with the isi. the isi is our most important partner in the war against al qaeda. the isi has delivered more al qaeda prisoners and has given us more targets than any other liaison and yet is our most difficult at the same time. leon panetta in hearings just a few weeks ago summed it up

donna byrd here, thank you for being here today.p on demand as well as spike lee, founder of 40 acres and film works that everybody knows. what a great panel to talk about the subject today. as you know, the entire subject we look today in the state of race in america. i want to start by asking you what the state of race in media is. if you could give me your thoughts, and spike, by the way, i forgot to mention, he has to leave at 4 for a plane to catch heading up to new york, and there's a reason for this, and you can explain what you have to be there for. >> well, i have to be there for my man. tonight, chris rock is making his debut on broadway. the name of the play is -- please excuse me for leaving early, and i thought i would be in the earlier panel, but i have to leave, so please excuse me, thank you. >> i wanted him to announce the name of that play. [laughter] spike, you're doing that. why don't you start then for us, how about that? your feelings about the state of race and media. >> to be honest, it seems like there's pan

byrd said the other night that presidents often come in wanting be changed.but as he said, quote, big change on a continuous basis is a mirage, cannot be done. i think a lot of modern presidents are haunted by the ghost of franklin delano roosevelt and think to get in a you need a new deal. and issues very difficult for presidents to do this. i would simply be called to you, i think was in the second debate with john mccain that barack obama was asked, you want to do all these things, you what reform healthy, completed refigure foreign policy, you want to do a whole bunch of other things, can you do this all at once? and he said yes. i can do this all at once, which is also sort of what george bush was saying, and also i think bill clinton was saying in 1993. the fact is presidents cannot do it all at once, but he often tried to do it all at once. and i guess what i'd like to do to illustrate the difficulties they have been trying to do it all at once if you talk about some research i've done presidential political capital. that's a phrase you've heard before

byrd mine and workplace safety and health act of 2011. it is designed to improve compliance with existing mine and occupational safety and health laws, empower workers to raise safety concerns, prevent future mine and other workplace tragedies and establish the rights of the families of victims of workplace accidents. last week i spoke again to tommy davis, the man who lost his brother, his nephew, and his son at the upper big branch mine. when i asked him what he was doing these days, tommy gave me a simple answer. he said, joe, i'm back in the mines. tommy's proud to be a miner. and while he and all of us have much to mourn today, we also have the chance to honor the memories of the 29 dedicated men who died a year ago and their colleagues who continue their work with respect and dignity. finally, gail and i and all west virginians pray for continued strength and courage for the families who lost loved ones on this sad day a year ago. may god bless each one of them. may god bless the great state of west virginia, and may god continue to

donna byrd here, thank you for being here today. will griffin, thank you, present ceo of hip hop on demand as well as spike lee, founder of 40 acres and film works that everybody knows. what a great panel to talk about the subject today. as you know, the entire subject we look today in the state of race in america. i want to start by asking you what the state of race in media is. if you could give me your thoughts, and spike, by the way, i forgot to mention, he has to leave at 4 for a plane to catch heading up to new york, and there's a reason for this, and you can explain what you have to be there for. >> well, i have to be there for my man. tonight, chris rock is making his debut on broadway. the name of the play is -- please excuse me for leaving early, and i thought i would be in the earlier panel, but i have to leave, so please excuse me, thank you. >> i wanted him to announce the name of that play. [laughter] spike, you're doing that. why don't you start then for us, how about that? your feelings about the state of race and me

senators byrd and stevens. we have a full program ahead this evening. we will be giving out two awards. we will hear from several members of congress this evening, and we will conclude with larry will more of the daily show. [applause] d. we'll conclude our evening with larry willmore of "the daily show" with jon stewart. but wait, there's more. ease join us for the after party, sponsored by our friends at the national telecommunications -- national cable and telecommunications association. many of us on the board are members of that association. it will be held right outside in the atrium where we had the reception. that is immeately following the dinner tonight. by the way, i'm suspecting that some of you will be tweeting during the dinner tonight. if you would, use the hash tag cong dinner you saw up on the screen earlier. that way everybody will be able to access your tweets more readily. want to acknowledge a special guest, a nonwashingtonian we have with us this evening. we want to introduce everybody to miss america, tresa scanlon. formerly miss

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donna byrd here, thank you for being here today. will griffin, thank you, present ceo of hip hop on demand as well as spike lee, founder of 40 acres and film works that everybody knows. what a great panel to talk about the subject today. as you know, the entire subject we look today in the state of race in america. i want to start by asking you what the state of race in media is. if you could give me your thoughts, and spike, by the way, i forgot to mention, he has to leave at 4 for a plane to catch heading up to new york, and there's a reason for this, and you can explain what you have to be there for. >> well, i have to be there for my man. tonight, chris rock is making his debut on broadway. the name of the play is -- please excuse me for leaving early, and i thought i would be in the earlier panel, but i have to leave, so please excuse me, thank you. >> i wanted him to announce the name of that play. [laughter] spike, you're doing that. why don't you start then for us, how about that? your feelings about the state of race and me

byrd miner safety health act. how many miners have to die before we take action? worker safety, not just in mines, but in workplaces above ground and across the nation, is under siege thanks to irresponsible cuts in the republican continuing resolution. fully half of osha staff would be furloughed if h.r. 1 becomes law. a weak economy like this one we're living in now also further undermines workers' safety because workers who want to report violations know there are dozens who would take their jobs in spite of unsafe conditions just to have work. mr. speaker, last congress i was chair and now this congress i'm the ranking minority member of the work force protection subcommittee, and in that role i'm absolutely committed, along with congressman george miller and nicky rahall, to bringing osha and msha into the 21st century, strengthening regulations, protect people from injury, sickness and possible death on the job. needless to say, the upper big branch explosion has devastated a tight nit community with a tight knit community. one said the life has been sucked

there's a lot of aaron byrds. that's what we have to work with. secondly, there are no magic bullets, there's no simple solution to the problem. we can't buy off pakistan. we tried to do that in the last decade. we gave them $12 billion in unaccounted funds. that's an estimate. because nobody in the united states government knows how much we actually gave them. we can't invade them. this is a country twice the size of california with the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world. invasion is crazy. but under some circumstances, you can envision an american president with very few options otherwise the use of military force. there are extraordinarily difficult tradeoffs in this relationship. and the most difficult ones involve around the nature of our relationship with the isi. the isi is our most important partner in the war against al qaeda. the isi has delivered more al qaeda prisoners and has given us more targets than any other liaison and yet is our most difficult at the same time. leon panetta in hearings just a few weeks ago summed it up

grew larger and larger and a and an inferno in sudan by the time was the morning 300 acres of the byrdand was burned to the dust. during this young man's own time he was cascaded as an enemy of the environment. the referred to him as which i think was pretty damning 1844 and it's hard to think of course of any boston merchant who did much damage to the environment as this young man. of course this young man today is the secular of the american environment and now there's a lesson here which is we are a destructive species and if you love nature and often makes sense to stay away from at. malae in fact also when i started acquiring small children about five years ago you can tell i am an economist i also moved to the woods not that far from concord and i also started to do a heck of a lot more damage to the environment then. now it's not -- i am taking note stand on the science of global warming in this book but certainly either you worry about global warming or you just worry about the price of the gas pump that in fact living in a relatively compact urban space with a significant ener

. >> what is james byrd -- when they tried to diminish bush's vote, that was one of the tactics used.> that was run by a third party. we had nothing to do with it. hands clean. come on. the statue of limitations has run -- >> you're saying democrats don't play racial politics. >> i'm not saying we don't play. i tell you, we had a 6:00 strategy. of course we played. everyone has played the race card. we're not purists here. this country, we don't have any purist when is it comes -- maybe native americans. but we're not purists when it comes to race. the race card has been played up and down the deck. >> that's what i say. >> what i'm saying ishat over time, racial identity will not -- will not be a factor, because the racial identity is already blurring. it's blurring in many states. >> it is. >> and so we have to be very careful not to make a district racial appeal. whether it has to be based on economics and -- and aspirational goals of all people, and you have to be very careful. we're -- we're not talking past tense yet, but i'm just telling you, it's been a struggle. >> that's whe

donna byrd here, thank you for being here today. will griffin, thank you, present ceo of hip hop on demand as well as spike lee, founder of 40 acres and film works that everybody knows. what a great panel to talk about the subject today. as you know, the entire subject we look today in the state of race in america. i want to start by asking you what the state of race in media is. if you could give me your thoughts, and spike, by the way, i forgot to mention, he has to leave at 4 for a plane to catch heading up to new york, and there's a reason for this, and you can explain what you have to be there for. >> well, i have to be there for my man. tonight, chris rock is making his debut on broadway. the name of the play is -- please excuse me for leaving early, and i thought i would be in the earlier panel, but i have to leave, so please excuse me, thank you. >> i wanted him to announce the name of that play. [laughter] spike, you're doing that. why don't you start then for us, how about that? your feelings about the state of race and me

. >> what is james byrd -- when they tried to diminish bush's vote, that was one of the tactics used.> that was run by a third party. we had nothing to do with it. hands clean. come on. the statue of limitations has run -- >> you're saying democrats don't play racial politics. >> i'm not saying we don't play. i tell you, we had a 6:00 strategy. of course we played. everyone has played the race card. we're not purists here. this country, we don't have any purist when is it comes -- maybe native americans. but we're not purists when it comes to race. the race card has been played up and down the deck. >> that's what i say. >> what i'm saying is that over time, racial identity will not -- will not be a factor, because the racial identity is already blurring. it's blurring in many states. >> it is. >> and so we have to be very careful not to make a district racial appeal. whether it has to be based on economics and -- and aspirational goals of all people, and you have to be very careful. we're -- we're not talking past tense yet, but i'm just telling you, it's been a struggle. >> that's w