. >> in 1975, howard takes on a prestigious summer gig in central park.n the calendar, "turandot," an opera written in 1924 by giacomo puccini. ♪ now, even if you're no opera buff, you probably heard the most famous part of "turandot," says fred plotkin, author of "opera 101." ♪ people recognize that it's been in an number of films. >> it was in "mission impossible," starring tom cruise. >> oh, and "the sum of all fears" and "the mirror has two faces," among others. >> so we know it very well. >> it's a percussionist dream. there are tam-tams, tubular bells, glockenspiel, and, most crucially, several different-sized gongs. [ gong chimes ] >> it's set in ancient mythical china, and puccini wanted to convey mystery. >> i won't get into the plot right now, but those gongs are really important to the story. so when puccini's writing the opera, he looks all over italy for just the right gongs. no luck. then he does what any perfectionist would. >> puccini had gongs manufactured specifically for "turandot" so that he could have those ethereal chinese sounds tha

among other jobs, he heads the commission that creates central park. >> central park, the metropolitan museum of art, the american museum of natural history. green would be largely responsible for creating the bronx zoo, the new york public library. >> there's very little green doesn't touch during new york's gilded age. in 1871, when city coffers are almost bankrupt, he becomes the city's comptroller. >> andrew green needed to be escorted by a ring of mounted policemen as he was approaching the comptroller's office on his first day of work. and this was a blood sport in this era. >> green exposes the shenanigans of new york's corrupt democratic machine, known as tammany hall, and helps send the city's notorious boss, william tweed, off to prison. oh, and one other little achievement... >> it was green's efforts to get new york to expand beyond the borders of manhattan island and to annex the municipalities around new york harbor, which included the city of brooklyn, and make that all one giant metropolis. >> so how could his own family 100 years later not know all about him? could it

and in the red sea and won the cold war there were the executions in central park and i might have been one of the ones getting executed and his vision of bernie sanders as this stone esque figure who's going to bring back the gulags and executions in central park is completely off base. message during the democratic socialism is something that is more like what we see in a lot of european countries working out of a great program and the great irony is we've seen it in the united states of america it is very similar to the new deal policies of franklin delano roosevelt so when they say that bernie sanders is some crazy radical no what he's doing now is a more inclusive reboot of really the greatest economic movement in american history at the end of the day you do have a deep generational divide and you will hear folks. certainly on the right who will say oh you know socialism is the same as communism but it's particularly troubling to people when you hear savvy engaged commentators who really should be on top of it kind of falling into some of those traps they're not interested in soci

five, who were exonerated in the rape of the central park jogger. >> and very recently, president trump was not only defending stop and frisk, but he was urging other cities like chicago to use exactly the same tactics. he, at one point, said that cops should not worry about suspects' rights and bang their heads up against a police cruiser. this is the record that is out there. >> or the death penalty for drugs, recently. >> the death penalty for drugs. look, it is going to be very difficult, if not impossible for a president trump to make stop and frisk a liability for bloomberg and not a liability for him. not to say that stop and frisk is not a real problem for bloomberg. his description of it in explicitly racist terms is a problem. but for the president to make those arguments, i think will be pretty tough, because to this day, it's not clear to me that president trump even thinks that stop and frisk is bad policy. he said that he wanted chicago to utilize it, you know, within the last two years, and then beyond that, i mean, i think that, as you pointed out, the central park

sports over these years i don't know what wow chris chris goes right through his own execution central park apartment during the word socialism so is this aeros 21st century democratic socialism going to lead us down to the path of stalin and communism and death and destruction oh well thankfully economist richard wolfe answers these questions and those viewers along along and a whole lot more and a whole book and his new book aptly titled understanding socialism and he joins us now from new york city to help us understand socialism a little bit better richard thank you for coming on the bay always a pleasure. thank you for having me let's just start with the basics to get all of the mass and the confusion out the way and all the mist take away all the mystery surrounding the concept in the world what is today's 21st century version of socialism what is it what is it today. well the only way the answer i wish i could give you a simple summary but really it's too big a phenomena to do that of 150 years ago nobody had heard of it today socialism exists in every country on the earth socialist

." ♪ in the city's spacious central park, more than a million persons gathered to hear president trumanorld affairs -- that the united states seeks no international expansion or selfish advantage, the return of sovereign rights to all people deprived of them by force, no territorial changes, for all peoples, the choosing of their own government, our assisting defeated enemy states to establish democratic governance. , established by force and equal rights of all through the trade of raw materials in the world. ♪ in new york harbor, 51 warships from the mightiest navy the world has ever known were anchored to be reviewed by harry s. truman, president and their commander-in-chief. ♪ the fighting missouri, flagship of the pacific fleet, which decimated the japanese navy and brought victory over japan, and namesake of the state in which harry truman grew up as a farmer lad, served as post to him as commander-in-chief. ♪ the president inspects the place on the missouri's deck, where the historic surrender of the japanese took place. a large plaque marks the spot where the war was brought to

i fought with them on issues that i raised there, central park five. he didn't settle that case.nd the stop and frisk. but he's come with this tulsa speech giving a whole program, he said he would support the proposed reparations study in congress -- by the congresswoman. and i think that the clear message here is that he is trying to say, i think, that if biden can't carry the ball with the moderates, i can. even the people saying today that there was an overheard conversation weeks ago with john kerry was saying he was thinking about running. is the problem that the party can't produce a moderate candidate? >> no, i think that the problem is that all we do is produce moderate candidates. i think, honestly, that we don't need a moderate after donald trump. donald trump and trumpism has pushed us so far right off of a cliff that the only way for us to get back right, to get back on track is with somebody with big, bold ideas. i don't think a moderate is what this moment is calling for, frankly. i don't necessarily know if it's bernie sanders, but that's what the polls are saying

cerca del lincoln center y el central park. ??2> no es una edificaciÓn para esta Área. pisos y la construcciÓn que los beneficios regularmente mÁs viejos no hicieron, son permitirles bajo la ordenanza actual. estos pueden ser cedidos o vendidos a nuevos desarrolladores. peggy: el basamento de edificios tendrÍa que revocar la licencia de construcciÓn que les otorgÓ. el edificio tiene 52 pisos. de acuerdo con los demandantes, 20 o mÁs tendrÍan que eliminarse. se espera que el departamento de edificio determine el nÚmero exacto, tras realizar una ley de mÁs de 1000 páginas. mientras, la deconstrucciÓn podÍa ser compleja. >> puede suponer altÍsimos costos. tambiÉn dificultades para realizarse por la altura del edificio, por los materiales que se usaron en la construcciÓn. peggy: entre los pisos afectados estÁn los penthouses que ven en $21,000,000. dijeron que esta era una pÉrdida catastrÓfica, apelarÁn la decisiÓn. enrique: el 24 de febrero entra en vigor la carga pÚblica, implementada por el presidente trump. con la que se espera, se afecte a personas de bajos recursos, s

anyhow, golden gate park had a rather auspicious start, when they invited olmstead who designed central park. well, he took a look at this terrible place, and he said, it's not going to happen, so that was not going to be the end of the park because the city leaders wanted to have a park here, so they turned to john maclaren who had a friend, john mueller, and he designed this absolutely beautiful park -- oh, here comes the rain. >> liquid fog. >> oh, it's just liquid fog. we as san franciscans know it's liquid fog. i have an umbrella here if anybody needs one -- everybody needs one. so when maclaren saw the park or this land, he thought this would be an absolutely great place to have a park, but he felt very strongly that it would never be a great park if there was ever a sign saying keep off the grass. so i think you all know there has never been and will never be a sign that says keep off the grass. so any way, it's an honor to be involved with the celebration, the 150-year celebration of golden gate park. and i want to thank our sponsors, our volunteers, the tree planters, everyone who's

the crime bill with biden and bernie and even former mayor bloomberg with stop and frisk and the central park five and other issues, we've not heard of any racial issues with elizabeth warren to date. yet we also have not seen specific policies addressing some of these issues of racism, inequality. elizabeth warren has a plan for everyone. what is her plan for people of color to close the race gap in health care and employment and in the criminal justice system. >> so i would invite you, reverend al, to look at the black women for endorsement that is very powerful and talks of very bluntly about elizabeth warren inviting people of color to the table. black women and youth and all communities to the table to talk about these important issues. and they trust her enough to offer their very powerful endorsement. she has gotten african-american support all over the country. she's gotten native american support all over the country. i believe that with we trust elizabeth warren to bring us to the table, to give us a voice as she has with all of the plans that she has made and i just think that -- t

said if there catcher in the reds had run the cold war, there would be a bit ask occasions in central parknd i might one of the ones executed and certain other people would be there cheering." suggesting, as he was talking about bernie sanders, bernie sanders would be responsible for his execution in central park. >> for me, this is all that i hear in all of this is an anguished fear that the politics is moving to the left. these are individuals who made a commitment long ago in their lives not to go to the left, even if they had sympathies there, to stay in the middle because it was the safe, wise thing for the future for the country and for their careers. and that is no longer the case. .nd they are outraged amy: we're going to go to break and come back to this discussion. we are talking 22 economist, richard wolff has a new book out called "understanding socialism." and paul krugman has a new book out called "arguing with zombies: economics, politics, and the fight for a better future." stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report

toward castro i believe if castro and the reds had won the cold war, there would be executions in central park might have been one of the ones getting executed and certain other people would be there cheering, okay? so i have a problem with people who took the other side. i don't who bernie -- bernie supports over the years. i don't know what he means by socialism. one week is denmark. we're gonna be like denmark. okay, that's harmless. that's basically a capitalist country with a lot of good social welfare programs. denmark is harmless. >> pretty clearly in the denmark category >> is he >> yeah. >> are you sure? how do you know? did he tell you that >> well, i mean, that's what he says and that's what his agenda calls for. >> seth: just as a reminder, the whole thing started with this. >> i have my own views of the word socialist i'll be glad to tell them, share them with you in private [ laughter ] >> seth: chris matthews's is definitely a guy who says he'll share his thoughts in private and talks to you in public for a full minute. [ laughter ] "i'll tell you what i think about this movie l

more on bowling park is a popular place for sunday outings but something like north korea's central park. we wondered why permission to film here took so long. people drawing park scenes hardly seem like a state secret. then there are also shooting ranges. dancers. and lots of picnics. on public holidays the state sometimes distributes meat and beer. the. thing that. kind of. thing. most. of. these pensioners free of family and professional obligations are enjoying a day out. like i was. their free style of dancing that's not easily defined and has the air of a show moniker ritual. in 1956 filmmaker chris marker who was part of the 1st french delegation to visit the north after the korean war recorded almost identical scenes of workers dancing by a train factory. but it does leave only stands to more and beyond park and you need to learn how we can play with full mcconnell takes a look at him we meet every sunday to down south. you know about the nazi gun. i. ended up passing thanks to you. why don't you stand down for this. the district next to the park is nicknamed little dubai at 1st

towards castro i believe that castro and the original one the cold war there were executions in central park i don't know the burning burning sports over these years i don't know what he means by social bernie coal seam self democratic socialist so you think flat out democrats can't defeat trump if they have to defend socialism i think is going to be incredibly more difficult political activist anthony religious right says that the saw in its campaign defies democratic traditions. senator sanders it's not just his policies that have the democratic establishment afraid it's the moment that he's been able it's inability. for you know more than 4 years now from when he ran in 2016 and his campaign is always represented in insurgency to establishment democrats in the democratic national committee now that we're seeing with fund raising numbers we're seeing with his rallies we're seeing with the polling these tactics at the democratic national democratic party have attempted have have not worked and so they're panicking a bit quite frankly because they know that seniors nomination which doesn't j

cause the shanghai stock market to fall by 8 percent before it recovered slightly the chinese central park attributed the plunge to what it described as irrational behavior the regulator also said it plans to inject over $170000000000.00 into the economy a move that would be unpowered out in scale in the past 15 years and if the bank's recent statements anything to go by more stabilizing measures are set to follow. the people's bank of china will provide liquidity to the market through a variety of monetary posed tools such as open market operations standing lending to sue its refinancing and re discounting no one lewis is a technology and business trends consultant he told us that all this market volatility is likely to be short lived. as a side i think you can still wish between the short term and what will happen in there in the long term we were docked at this kind of doomsday scenario. and what we don't recognise is that even within this crisis there will be enormous areas of growth i think the impact on the pharmaceutical industry is going to be huge now in terms of all of the russia

has likened saddam's possible presidency to a dictatorship with quote executions carried out in central park now another u.s. news channels do get lively but my apologies the media viewing this as almost like mageddon. i mean that's that that's absolutely ridiculous you know for for a candidate to talk about universal health care so everybody can be covered in had health care and you know live in dignity and not had that anxiety that you don't get health care at that armageddon i'll eat my hat but i think that's just fear mongering as i mentioned earlier kind of some just dropped out of the race to expect the likes of tulsa gabaldon the supposed war and even joe biden to follow suit. you know we'll see you know people are talking about so now carolina people are talking about you know how you have here is a little bit different in south carolina because the independent vote. is very strong there and there is an expectation that bernie would do well but you know let's see what happens when he goes into the more southern states. and it'll be interesting to see so. you know for me personally i

he goes after president obama and he goes after the central park five and every black person that hadd to say about sluvladimir putin. we got something to say. >> rina. did donald trump ever come up with this birth certificate he claimed he had on barack obama? >> never. this is what he was known for, right? it was the very thing that he led with. >> he brought it into politics. and now what? we come so far from that. we should not forget who the man is. he's a racist to the core. he has a problem with anybody who's skin color that's darker than his. the reality is this, he just, he has managed to stay above the fray time and time again but impeachment should not be forgotten. it was a history, it was a civic lesson for all of us. there is so much the house can do and my friends had put a excellent piece yesterday on actions what speaker pelosi can do and congressional democrats can do to hold the president accountable as he continues to assault the constitution. >> janelle and rina and michael, t thank you all of you for being here. >> coming up next, vanessa hauc of telemundo joins

there is a shot toward central park.ood morning, you are watching "fox and friends first" on this thursday morning. thank you for starting your day with us. let's get to bed urgent fox news alert, the fbi joining the desperate search for this missing 6-year-old girl, faith sweat, who vanished from her front yard after getting off the school bus, jackie ibanez joins us with surveillance video showing faith's final moments before vanishing. >> this is the last time she was seen getting off a school bus at her home in casey, south carolina monday. police say she was playing in her front yard when she mysteriously vanished. the community praying for her safe return at a vigil overnight. her grandmother as she pleads for answers in her granddaughter's disappearance. >> we are worried, very distraught but only thinking positive thoughts, the prettiest blue eyes you have ever seen, a smile that will melt your heart. >> investigators see these two cars were sitting outside the first grader's home at the time she disappeared. pol

and the caption of this being, "if a squirrel steelz your mango in central park, just buy another one that you-- you enjoy the mango. >> did i knock it on the floor? i'll eat it anyway. >> stephen: look at this. >> look how incredible that is. come on! tell me that's not love right there. this is the universe. ( applause ) >> stephen: it's your mango. >> no, absoluty, pase, plea. stephen: it was n eithero, mango or crack. we went with the mango. >> let's share a mango. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> stephen: i've seen "the god father." >> "godfather." i like to play with my food first. >> stephen: in light of the darkness, as the saying goes, in light of the darkness, what have you found out in the world? because you've been searching, i know, for light out in the world. right now it's mangoes. >> it's mangos right now. i went out shopping last night and looked for every mango i could find, so i plan to have them hand out mangoes to everyone in the tonight. that's right! a( cheers aulnd appladiuse ) you'cere going to get a mango ad you're going to get a mango and you're going to get a m

he made wishy-washy comments about the central park five. central issues to the democratic nomination contest and to our core voting block african-americans. can he fix it? depends how badly democrats want to win. that's what it comes down to. electability question. it used to be a conclusion it was joe biden. that's changing. people think amy and pete and bernie are electable. jillian is right. bloomberg has to prove himself on that stage. i welcome his addition. he has the money for it. we shouldn't talk about him as if he isn't someone with the bon fieds to do this. new york city was wonderful under bloomberg. >> he became a mayor for the third time. he has kind of rolled through this process like i don't know, i hate this word. honey badger. >> for the first time he will be challenged and have to start answering questions. he hasn't gone through the rigamarole to answer from voters. when you're on the debate stage you don't get to phone a friend or ask somebody else for advice. you see the core. he is on the record saying a lot of very de

. >> when it came to the central park 5, five innocent men put in jail for rape and murder donald trumpde on the opposite side. to this day he has still not apologized. >> we can talk about what is factual and we can specifically point and as president what donald trump has done for african-americans, criminal justice reform, thousands of people released from jail 90% of them being black, the black unemployment rate, support for school choice which the majority of folks that go to charter schools are african-americans and for so when talking about real issues, policies the change individuals lives we can point to donald trump and say this is the person who actually championing issues that impact african-americans. joe biden recently talked about the fact that african-americans have been taken for granted. he is absolutely correct. democrats continuously take african-americans for granted and that has talked with this administration. there is no another option name donald trump. >> don't piss on black voters and call the rains which is the reality. the reality is donald trump has attacke

if the red side won there would have been executions in central park and i might have been one of them. and other people would be cheering. i don't know who bernie supports over the years. i don't know what he means. one week it's denmark. that's harmless. that's social welfare programs, they're. >> clearly the denmark. >> did he say that? >> we haven't seen a campaign yet where video of him praising the other version has been used. it will be used. >> what effect that -- >> what does he think of castro? we thought he was great at first. and communist and shooting every enemy. >> hold those thoughts on the revolution. i have to go to the spin room and andrew yang. how are you doing? you had a moment tonight you cited mlk support for universal basic income which aligns with the signature policy proposal. you were sort of supporting it in a alternative to race conscious forms of redistribution. he thought both were necessary. affirmative action and universal income. what do you say to people that say it's not enough to redistribute or close the wealth gap. >> i would agree with him 100%.

another group of protesters showed up near central park. >>> mr.rump was hoping all of the senate republicans would vote for his acquittal. but that didn't happen. and now, the president has a new target in his sights. jim acosta has this report. >> reporter: a long voice of dissent in the republican party. >> mr. romney? mr. romney, quality. >> reporter: utah senator, mitt romney, sent shock waves through the gop, voting to find the president guilty in abuse of office in the ukraine scandal. >> the president asked a foreign government to investigate his political rival. the president withheld funds for that country to do so. it delayed the funds with the ally at war. the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust. >> reporter: romney defend his position as one of conscience and faith. >> my faith is at the heart of who i am. my faith is at the heart of who i am. i take an oath before god as enormously consequential. i knew from the outset, that being tasked with judging the president, the leader of my own party, would be the most di