chicago. >> chicago, chicago, chicago, señores y señores, acá estamos en "despierta américa" por cuanto lo harías. >> a las 1, ponte duro, pone ese duro. >> yo siempre estoy duro. >> 1, 2 y 3. >> mira, le quedó re bien. >> sí, 20, 40, 60, 80, abre la banita bien. >> amado público, todo el mundo, cuando se toquen con allan, siganle subiendo. >> sí, pidan más, pidan más. >> hola buenos días, amigos de "despierta américa", somos la familia martínez @ >> en un mundo dominado por modelos delgadas, surge un grupo que están rompiendo con los estereotipos, consiguiendo contratos millonarios con grandes empresas y una de ella es nuestra invitada, que nos acompaña esta mañana para hablarnos de su trabajo, muchísimas gracias por estar acá. >> gracias. >> cuéntame de esta mezcla de cultura cuba haití y puertorriqueña. >> no conozco a mi papá, pero es que es una mezcla súper rara, es shakira. >> sí, bueno, hablemos de tu trabajo,o, é significa ser modeo plus hoy en día? pues hay muchas jovencitas que tienen anorxia y bulimia. >> sí, la mayoría de las mujeres en estados unidos son 6-14, yo soy 6-14 y me siento

chicago in 1917 as a 13-year-old to get away from eastern europe. that is the history of chicago. cityis the history of our and holds true for every city america. state, also true of any there is a history of immigrants that are given opportunities. you cannot give them a national story, so there are anecdotes in the history of kansas you would have to we've yet and i would not treat it disrespectfully. i could tell you a story about chicago hundred different times in a hundred different languages. there has to be a story from kansas you have to find. i cannot give them a chicago example. they have to find a kansas example where they find an opportunity to see their future. >> coming out of that environment, that story -- [indiscernible] i was driving off to do early meetings and we saw karl rove driving by. the drivers were left wing liberals and they said i want to take that guy on. i said he was speaking at 8:00. a guy went and he said karl rove made a lot of sense. basically, from your corner of the woods, somebody walked into the lions den of hyper-liberals and talked about immigration reform and i bet he got a couple of gop sign-ups. i am wondering given your role, the role of karl rove and george w. bush, where were you a few years ago? is this not a cynical move by some in the republican party to say now it is pragmatic because we are a dead party if we do not bring in hispanics, or is there something deeper than

even chicago, chicago is about 12.8 miles an hour. so, we've got our work cut out for us and we're obviously operating at slow speed. so, the question then becomes why, why do we operate at slow speeds. obviously there's a number of reasons. there's no one specific reason, but they all kind of rollup, we operate in a dense urban environment, we have a lot of stops [speaker not understood] every block and a half. we have aging equipment so our vehicles breakdown often and we have narrow streets with constrained right-of-way. all those relations to the customer, you can see these pictures right here, how those challenges relate to the customer. there's a lot of gaps in service, crowded conditions, the buses are overcrowded especially on some of our major corridors. and buses get stuck in traffic because we operate at grade with the congestion that's out there right now. so, what is muni doing to address some of these issues? there's a lot of different attacks we're taking. system wide we're really focusing a lot on trying to improve the

chicago. 11 of them dead. all were black according to the chicago tribune. as you may know the murder rate in chicago is a disgrace. and 75% of all the murdered victims were black according to the latest stats available. but this story is largely untold in america because the national media refuses to cover it. meantime the george zimmerman trayvon martin trial is saturated with media coverage. the reason is race. the light skinned hispanic accused of murdering a black teenager. believe me, the 11 people shot dead in chicago over the weekend will not get a smidgen of coverage because it's likely that blacks killed blacks. fact of life in america, that there are some stories that will not be told because of race. new rasmussen poll illuminates that. when asked which racial group was most racist, 37% of americans say blacks. 15% say whites. 18% hispanics. even among african-americans themselves blacks come out as the top racist group, 31% of black henderson say their own race heads the list. while 24% consider whites the most racist group now the media wants to it part of any of that i guarantee you th

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got to be chicago chicago fans are very brutal although i haven't the one time we played in philly it was kind of muted it was that tuesday night game because they were worried about the snowstorm but i've heard philly fans can be really really old cure for cancer yeah exactly. biggest misconception about punters that the locker room doesn't like us. that's a misanthrope that's a misconception i'd say you know most vast majority of us get along very well with with everyone else on the team best part about being a professional athlete salaries not. just being able to have the free time to do what you want with your life as well as the resources to make that happen and hopefully more guys use that in a positive way. biggest funniest teammate you played with funny teammate probably jared allen he's he's a pretty funny dude thank you very much very very much appreciate our guest has been chris cooley the book is beautifully unique sparkle ponies. i love that title in stores everywhere and you can find. one of the greats blind to what is happening in their country. the american dream is di

got to be chicago chicago fans are very brutal although i haven't the one time we played in philly it was kind of muted it was that tuesday night game because they were worried about the snowstorm but i've heard philly fans can be really really cool cure for cancer yes exactly. biggest misconception about punters. the locker room doesn't like us. that's a misconception that's a misconception i'd say you know the vast majority of us get along very well with with everyone else on the team best part about being a professional athlete salaries not. just being able to have the free time to do what you want with your life as well as the resources to make that happen and hopefully more guys use that in a positive way. biggest funniest teammate you played with funny teammate probably jared allen he's he's a pretty funny dude thank you very much very very much appreciate our guest has been chris cooley the book is beautifully unique. sparkle ponies i love that title in stores everywhere and you can find me on twitter at kings things i'll see you next. it is easy to. shoot easy. to. see. the la

chicago to help people of all religions, and none, help themselves. >> it's not at all unusual for the call to prayer to be overwhelmed by the wail of a siren, not in this southwestern chicago neighborhood. it's known as chicagoawn, a tranquil name for a very unsettled place. this is usama cannon. >> there are people who are here who have sleepless nights because their hearts are torn apart by what's happening to the human family. there are people here. >> what's happening to the human family, and more particularly families living in desperate situations, is an obsession of rami nashashibi, a palestinian by birth. it's why he started the inner-city muslim action network, also known as iman, 15 years ago. >> i always kind of had an active bone in me, an activist bone in me, and so i was moved by the framework of islam as a powerful framework for social justice. i was moved by that. >> iman is all about social justice, about providing basic quality-of-life services that make a community a community. it's a big job even for a guy with a doctorate in sociology from the university of chicago. rami has traveled extensively and didn't become a devout muslim until he moved back home to chicago's south side. this has

chicago. chicago has high gas prices as well. my advice to the viewers would be this. if you're getting close to empty, don't pass that gas station. hurry up and fill up short-term. it looks to go up higher in short-term before it comes off lower later. >> that's good advice from a speculator wearing a cow jacket. excellent stuff. thank you, sir. we'll see you tomorrow morning. >>> security line. too slow? just cough up some dough. the new fee that will have you flying faster. >>> new york city mayoral candidate anthony weiner is set to hold a news conference moments from now after more lewd pictures surface online. please remember. it was pictures like that, lewd pictures, that's my description, which got this man out of politics sometime ago. he's going to hold a press conference because more of these pictures have surfaced. he has issued a statement. i'm going to quote from part of it. this is mr. weiner. >> he says "i said other texts and photos were likely to come out and today they have. but as my wife and i have said, we're focused on moving forward." he's holding a press conference moments from now. i believe at 5:00 p.m. eastern. that's about 13 minutes away. this is a very interesting development for a man who is disgraced because of lewd pictures. more pictures surfaced. he holds a press conference. he's still, i believe, a mayoral candidate in the city of new york. attorneys are joining me now to discuss this news alert literally the news has just broken. what do you make of this? is this the kiss of death to his mayoral candidacy? what do you think? >> i believe so. i really do. it's a very bad situation to be in. >> he's been through this before. he's bounced back. he was leading in the polls. you think his campaign cannot take more pictures. it depends which pictures, does it not? >> again, it's a disgrace to his campaign and it's something that, okay, the public may forgive you once but to happen again is just not -- i think it's going to be hard to recover from. >> okay. eadvantage leavan >> i think voters will forgive him once again. >> he's leading in the polls. >> they did forgive him for the first round of transgressions if i can put it like this. >> they'll view this as a distraction. >> doesn't this depend upon what pictures we're talking about? >> exactly. what types of photos. if they are similar to the ones released before, i don't think it will be a problem. something more lewd, that's much more grotesque, you might have issues. >> let me turn to you. what about the impact on mr. spitzer's campaign for comptroller of new york city? he too resigned the governorship of new york in disgrace over a sex scandal consorting with prostitutes. now we have something resurfacing with mr. weiner. would that affect him negatively? >> the public will look at it saying this is happening with mr. weiner. it happened with spitzer. a lot of times the public will forgive and allow them to do it again. it's to a point where it is becoming ridiculous. >> i'm with you on that one. all right. what do you say? >> it's a whole different orbit as far as i'm concerned. i'm very shocked that people are actually supporting him. the types of acts that he committed were different and the fact that he had support is very surprising to me. >> he's leading in the polls. he's got significant -- he's got a big lead in the polls actually. >> polls don't vote on election day. he's got a strong candidate running against him with a wonderful record. i asked if mr. weiner wins the mayor's chair and you win the comptroll comptroller, he said doesn't new york become a laughing stock. he said i was asking an insulting question. >> they are public figures representing the people. if new york elects these officials despite these ridiculous things that have happened, it will make new york a laughing stock. it's a very legitimate question. and concern. >> what can you tell us? >> apparently the married disgraced congressman didn't learn his lesson after a sex scandal that led to his political demise two years ago. once again anthony weiner and his inappropriate sexting with women other than his wife has been exposed to the public. the site is called the dirty posting images of conversations that came from weiner under carlos danger to a 22-year-old woman. the unanimous woman told the dirty her online relationship with weiner lasted for six months and he promised her many things. most notably a condo in chicagoiner issued a statement which reads in part, "i said that other texts and photos were likely to come out and today they have. as i have said in the past, these things that i did were wrong and hurtful to my wife and caused us to go through challenges in our marriage that extended past my resignation from congress while some things that have been posted today are true and some are not, no question that what i did is wrong. this behavior is behind me." weiner goes on to say he and his wife have since made up and she forgive him and they are focused on moving forward. as for his future political career, that comes into question again. does timing of these alleged messages -- the woman tells the web side she carried on the relationship until august 2012. you would remember that that is well after his resignation in june 2011. if you remember, weiner publicly apologized to the voting public and vowed that he would get help and that he would learn from his mistakes. the most recent mayoral p

emergency summit in chicago. chicago state about gun violence, thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> in washington, president obama's pick for the number two job, the department of homeland security, denied at a senate hearing yesterday, that he helped a company run by hillary clinton's brother obtain a foreign investor visa. >> i have never, ever in my career, exercised undue influence to influence the outcome of a case. i have never based my decisions on who brings a case but, rather, upon the facts in the law. the allegations as they have been framed are unequivocally false. >> he is the current director of u.s. citizenship and immigration services. he's under scrutiny by the department of inspector general for allegations he misused a visa program. the lawmakers who may need the most convincing, the eight republican members of the senate homeland security committee, they boycotted the hearing, objecting to holding a hearing while an investigation is ongoing. oklahoma senator tom coburn said in a state, quote, are

i was born in chicago i was born in chicago i was born in chicagoe thing you can say about johnny he made the front page ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that is the way to do it right there! dan aykroyd, everybody! dan aykroyd! [ cheers and applause ] oh, my goodness. the one and only. please. woo! woo! >> thank you, young ladies and gentlemen. thank you. >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about. dan aykroyd, so great to have you here. that's the way to do an entrance right there, my friend. >> well, that was your idea. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: well, we loved it. i asked you, yeah. i'm a giant fan of yours, my friend. >> yeah, yeah. you know how to use the talent. you know how to exploit them. get him up. get him singing. get him up there right away. >> jimmy: get them right off their feet. oh, my goodness. >> but i know you're a "blues brothers" fan. >> jimmy: i'm a giant "blues brothers" fan. i love them so much. [ cheers and applause ] >> you never met johnny. he would have loved

if you look at chicago, chicago's on track for two sandy hooks per month. usually against another black person. yet chicago is about a third, a third and a third black, white and hispanic. why would so many murders come from the black community? the answer is so many kids come from parents without fathers. you look at violation, we're talking about gang-related kids, usually young kids. there was a documentary that my dad and i discussed in the book called resurrection, and it was about truth pack shakur. tupac shakur. and he said white people may like hearing me say this, but i know for a fact if i'd had a father in my life, i would have had discipline and confidence. and he went on to talk about the fact that he joined a gang because he didn't have a father, he wanted structure, he wanted protection. and he went on to say in a way maybe a conservative right-winger might say that it is important for a boy to have a father in his life. a boy needs a father. tupac shakur said this. there's also a pole that the l.a. times took in the mid '80s where they asked poor people and non-poor people the following que

chicago. [laughter] so it's kind of a rite of passage. you go to high school, you go to college, you spend a year or two on a low-wage job and then move to chicago, which was what i did. i followed all my friends to chicago in the mid 1990s. they just were suddenly picking up and moving during that recession. and, i mean, chicago finish there are a couple reasons. back in the '80s when i, during the period where i was reading about when stanley was losing his job, people really did think it was going to go the same way as detroit and gary and buffalo and just become a casualty. and a couple reasons were, one, it had a more diversified economy. i mean, the steel mills were only in one small part of chicago, but chicago had publishing, it had advertising, and most importantly it had finance. it's the financial capital of the midwest, so it was well positioned for when finance replaced industry. and mayor richard j. daley, he had really worked hard to preserve downtown. he inherited a downtown in which no buildings had been built since the 19 -- since the great depression. and, you know, he left it with the john hancock center and the sears tower, and he also made sure that o'hare, as transportation switche

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chicago. >> now we go to chicago, and the outrage being expressed there today over mayor rahm emanuel's plan to close dozens of that city's public schools. >> one 9-year-old student at a rally had no problem giving mayor rahm emanuel a piece of his mind. >> rahm emanuel thinks that we all are -- he thinks he can just come into our schools and [ inaudible ] we don't care about these kids, but they need safety! rahm emanuel is not caring about our schools. he's not caring about our safety. he only cares about his -- he only cares what he needs. he does not care about nobody else but himself. >> joining me now are chicagoublic school student sean johnson and his mom. america, i want to introduce you to a family that is well invested in the fight to save schools in chicago and do things right for all students across the city. sean, good to have you with us. it's been great to get to know you over the last few days here in new orleans. i admire your tenacity and your fight, your spirit, all of it. but this young man is a very impressive 9-year-old who had the guts to stand up and tell everyone, not only in the city of chicago, but across the country, how important public education is. sean, tell us, what motivated you to do that that day? >> well, we just came off of a three-day march before the school closings were happening. before the vote was in. and i felt like i needed to come straight to rahm emanuel and tell him that he should not be closing these schools without looking into them, himself, and seeing how good they are. and why would you close all these schools if you can -- if cps knows everythi

home to his hometown of chicago to enjoy the best of what it has to offer this warm month. >> i went to chicago -- remember when the "today" show was going to do the show from chicagornado in oklahoma changed the plans. i did spend enough time there to focus on why chicago is all about summer, one of my favorite cities during its best time of the year. >> reporter: everybody likes to talk about chicago's winters. >> they call it the windy city. >> reporter: they can be cold and snowy. lake michigan really does freeze over and singer lieu rawlk. chicagoans endure long winter months because they know what many outsiders don't. no city celebrates summer like this one. >> the first few weeks we get weather like this, we walk outside and you can feel the energy. >> winter hibernation ends here on chicago's lakefront where sandy beaches dotted with sun bathers stretch out beneath the shadows of skyscrapers, long and ex-fan sive water that might make you forget you're in the northwest. >> i've met random people that have come here, and they say this is amazing, i've never known chicago has a beach. >> reporter: move over miami. it has beach volleyball, too. >> pretty much

chicago know michigan avenue, know the magnificent mile. it produces more sales tax for the city of chicago than any other one-mile stretch in the city of chicago hispanic area, the city of chicago i call, on 26th street, the two magnificent miles. it produces the second most amount of sales tax revenue for the city of chicago and for the state of illinois. full stop. so outside of michigan avenue when you pull out, you know, it's pretty high-end shopping. the most productive area from a sales tax revenue for the city of chicago is 26th street. and it's, and it pulls people literally from all over the midwest who come in. on a weekend, you cannot find parking, let alone the parking meter issue, but you cannot find parking in the city of chicago near or around 26th street because from as far as minneapolis, minnesota, to columbus, ohio, people come in to get things they cannot get in their communities that are reflective of their home country. so just in a sense of what's happening in the city for us, today i signed an executive order with the immigration office, we are creating what we call citizenship corners if every library and neighborhood

chicago with the news. mike, a dramatic afternoon in detroit. >> whether that's chap term 9 how they go to the motions i don't know but jeff lock does. he's right near detroit in chicago. >> john: really? chicago. so you have reporters take gun fire in war zones all over the world. you've had them gear gassed during protests. you've forced them to take 200 miles an hour winds to the face during storms but apparently having them stand on a corner in downtown detroit, oh, that is just too dangerous an assignment. [ cheers and applause ] tell that exactly... exactly how are things in detroit? >> the detroit has lost more than 237,000 residents in the past decade. >> 78,000 city structures have been aabandonned. >> 50% of the parks closed in 2008. 40% of the street lights don't work. >> this is a city that is closed 100 schools since 2004. >> folks in detroit wait an average of 58 minutes for police to respond. that's compared to the national average of 11 minutes. >> john: it takes 58 minutes for the police to come. so wait. hold on. if you get shot in detroit, you can get a pizza faster than you can get a cop. in fact maybe that's the only way to survive there. hey, dominoes i would like one lar

chicago to me has been the center of a huge metropolis. chicago, its government has been divided through latina, through blogs, through white's. what do you see as the future, like 20 years from now? what kind of governmental structure d.c.? d.c. one ethnic group popping up? >> i don't think there's a way to predict. there's so many things that just pop up into the public i in so many ways that the media determine what's going on in government that just no way, we know it's happening with population trees. we know that chicagos becoming increasingly minority population. so that's going to change the map on politics and change the politicians. the exciting politicians are leading the scene because politics isn't as important to anybody anymore as you've been observing as government -- the newspapers today, dick malka singh is going to leave city council hopefully to find way to make room for said daughter to take over his ward. but we just can't tell what's going to happen. of the economy is going to go one way or another and that's going to determine what happens to politics. >> i think demographics are powerful. i think the hispanic population, the mexican population is going to get very large within our lifetime, within the next 10 or 20 years. if i was a betting person i would say we'll probably have a hispanic mayor within the next 20 years. i think that's a pretty safe bet. spent i'm going to send out to buy these books with the notion, given both of these books, contemplate for a moment if mayor washi

chicago district. >> candy, i would do it in a heartbeat. to-your chicago district. >> candy, i would do it in a heartbeat.o-your chicago district. >> candy, i would do it in a heartbeat.-your chicago district. >> candy, i would do it in a heartbeat.your chicago district. >> candy, i would do it in a heartbeat. but i want to understand. i am not only a mefb congress. i pastor a church. as soon as i get off this seat right now, i'm going to jump in my car and head to my congregation to preach this morning. all right? the englewood community is probably the most violent communities in the city. i'm there. i'm there -- i've been there for ten years. what i'm calling on not only newt, but the other republicans, is if they are really believing in their faith, if they are really going to church this morning, and it really makes a difference to them, then would be lord, one faith, one baptism, then demonstrate that. demonstrate that by not just pointing fingers, not pointing fingers at the problem, but understanding that there is real serious issue of disinvestment in our communities. >> i hope that you will come back, congressman. i'm really runni

chicago for a second to something that is a little more sobering. chicago your city has seen a spike in homicides. what needs to happen in d.c. for chicago to have less gun violence. >> i don't think a whole lot needs to happen in d.c. i think the problem there is really less law abiding folks will be carrying guns. what we do in chicago with the folks who are not so law abiding who are carrying guns. i think if you look closely at the situation in chicago you see in part, i mean a whole bunch of elements. it is complex, and it has to do with the high drop-out rates and huge concentration of poverty that you can't kind in los angeles, new york, but the culture there that just treats guns differently. i would argue far more passively than they do in in a place like new york. we knew a couple of years ago a new york giants football player got caught with a gun in a nightclub, and he did time. you can no more imagine that happening to a chicago bear in chicago than my doing a triathlon as soon as i leave the studio tonight. >> michael: the two of us. >> part of it has to do with incredible concentrations of poverty and hopelessness. and it'

chicago-based correspondent. back in chicago tonight, john, what was the financial news out of the city of chicago today? >> reporter: well, moody's gave a big hit to the city's credit rating, knocking it down three pegs. moody's mentioned not only a $36 billion unfunded pension obligation that the city has, but interestingly, they also mentioned the gun violence that's been plaguing this city. chicago, from the beginning of the year through may, has paid $40 million in police overtime. brian? >> john yang on the news from chicago today and of course, the very bad news out of detroit. john, thanks. >>> in texas today, governor rick perry signed into law some of the nation's toughest restrictions on abortion. the new law bans abortions after 20 weeks and requires clinics to make big upgrades. already, planned parenthood says it will close three of its clinics in texas. the law takes effect in about 90 days. and in the meantime, opponents say they will challenge it in court. >>> a great deal of frustration heard today about the civil war in syria, as u.s. military leaders told congress and washington the as

chicago. since the night trayvon martin was killed, over 700 black teenagers have been killed on the streets of chicago alone. why is the 700 teens killing in chicagod in florida? i'll tell you why. when we talk about 700 blacks killed in chicago, we're notice going to polarize blacks against whites. i mean all the people on facebook who tweeted, how angry they were that the young black man was killed and didn't get justice do, you think they're going to head to chicago? of course not. they don't care about the death of young black kids. they tweet about trayvon martin the same way they tweet about super bowl and the freakin' oscars and they go on with their lives. one black teenager killed in florida is a tragedy. 700 black children killed in chicago is a freakin' epidemic. he's passionate and he's live with us. good morning. >> thanks for having me. >> are you concerned oughtal that one -- >> nighttime say o i'm not saying one is less important. we're making it more important. one, we're making that more important than 700 killed in chicago. i'm not saying one less is important. we're making it more. talking divide? we're dividing the country in

a diary of a woman from chicago, grew up in chicago, went to the university of chicago. during the war she was a teenager and kept a journal and was very politically active as a teenager and really smart, started at the university of chicago as a 16 year-old, got then. her daughter founder journals much later in life and published them. so published the journal as a teenager during wartime in chicago. really wonderful little glimpse of what it was like to be in america on the home front during the war. >> now from the libertarian cato institute in washington d.c. his book global crossings. the booklet sets the reasons people risk their lives to move to foreign lands. compares migration trends over the past decade. this is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome, everybody, to the cato ins

chicago. >> in chicago. very ground breaking restaurant that started cooking italian food. when i talk about italian -- this is a very large discussion about whether it's italian, italian american, so on, so fort it was the end of knew vessel cuisine in the late '80s, i started in 1991 so it was risotto and bell general endive and it was an amazing experience for me and i got the bug there and never left it. >> kate, you were mentioning these ingredients and we talk about the respect for and purity of ingredients. do you think there are ways we eat right now that are so consistent with ma what makes italian food special that that's the explanation for why it's so enduringly popular and now sort of the default upscale cuisine of choice? >> well, i think that it's such a -- we're so addicted to comfort food now and chefs are having so much fun with it. i think one reason it's so exciting to eat italian food now and has been for a couple years is that chefs have discovered things like pasta extruders and there's a chef in st. louis at a restaurant called pistoria who is making his own alphabet pasta. it's so great that you have an opportunity to do something like that and like wise i think chefs are having fun with pizzas and they're geeking out on what kind of flour they use or they have, like, these pizza ovens that are you know, like they're cars. they sort of deck them out like that. and so i think that --. >> bruni: there's almost a whole fetishism to it. >> exactly. fetishism is a good word. but i also think that that chefs like these two great chefs are pushing the boundaries and doing cool things with them. like i remember i think you were playing around with ramen and doing peppe ramen and i think michael's done extraordinary thing first at marea and now at costate and it's fun to see the boundaries being pushed. for a while it was so purist oriented. >>. >> bruni: one of the reasons i wanted to have you two gentlemen on -- >> i knew that was why. >> bruni: i have to say, it's disappointing to be sitting at a table near each of you and not be eating food that you've cooked for me so you've let me down a little bit. you've opened many restaurants recently, both of you. you opened these restaurants chat italian have been popular for a while. let's talk about torrisi italian specialties which you opened in the last days of 2009. how high was the bar to do something different and how did you come up with an italian restaurant that was going to do something different from this bevy of italian restaurants already having swept through manhattan? >> well, my oorjnal business partner, or the reesesy, we set the bar, i think, for ourselves. we had amazing mentors, daniel, mario, wily, we had the best mentors you could possibly have and then all we knew was we had this need inside of us to do something on our own and we pretty much set out to do that before figuring out what that was. and we learned and taught ourselves what that was along the way and the first set of menus we sat and wrote were pretty much directly related to our old bosses and we'd look at them and it would be our first default and then we'd realize, wait a minute, we weren't born in italy. this isn't our food. we started writing this regional italian food that i know so well through mario and so on and so forth and we had this epiphany that hey, we're from new york. we're italian americans and for so long that was looked down on during this tidal wave of -- just the italian title wave. >> right, are we going to do piedmont, poulia? >> it opened my eyes to it when i was working with those regions and restaurants. but we came to this kind of italian american epiphany that that's who we were and to do something, whatever it was that was really true to us. >> bruni: you wanted to do food that could be called italian but not be called in italy. food of downtown manhattan. >> so we said we're going to stop bringing in ingredients outside america. we're going to make it with american ingredients and we believe that's the truest sense of italian cooking-- or any sort of regional cuisine. use what you have around you and the techniques that you've learned from that country and make something new. >> bruni: but you also did something that always captured my imagination. you decided the whole concept of terwar was wrong. it didn't need to mean a patch of soil but the neighborhood. you'd grown up in nakdz that had chinese next to italian, jamaican beefpattis in a pizzeria. talk about a ditch that was the fruit of imagining that sort of conjoining of two ethnic traditions that, in manhattan, do occupy the same terrer. >> we were envious of these chefs that had gardens in the backyard and they could sniff the greens and they had free range animals and you look at renee and things he has around him that he's forced himself to use. well, we're on prince and mull bury. will let's force ourselves to use the neighborhoods. okay, well, can't go pick anything but i have chinese sausage down the block and i can go down into the lower east side and get mat sew that got made this morning and teach yourself mow to make new food. and it was exciting. and i remember we did a dish was that was curry cavateli this was jamaican beef patti ragu. >> i rather liked that dish. (laughter) >> i grew up in queens where the lunch ladies were jamaican so we were eating beef patties for lunch as kids, that's what they were serving us in public schools so i remember falling in love with the beef patti and it was always served -- if you go and buy one like golden crust is a great one, you get has been narrow sauce. so you have cur reed cavatelli, then the curry goat aspect, the other side of it. there was three parts of this dish, curried get to, beef patti it was my childhood. there was like three different things that happened. >> bruni: i can say as someone who's eating it, i feel like someone eating something italian. >> at the end of the day that's what you get. hopefully you get as a customer is this dish of just heartwarming food, it's a new flavor profile but it'ss no stall jim at the same time. it pulls at you in several different directions and that's when something successful at stories zi. >> bruni: not so longer after that you opened marea which is an italian seafood restaurant which, like torrisi, is a remarkable place to eat. as you put that together, how did you say to yourself, "okay, italy's all over the place, i need do something distinctive." what's the thought process behind marea? >> what mario does and his team is very much italian thought process. you know fact that you're using ingredients. at marea we -- we do many, many dishes that are very italian but could you couldn't find in the italy because we talk about the flavors that we do, whether it wiese the cruda, we'll saute eschar role with garl lick and chilis like you have in the rome but then we'll blend it with extra virgin olive oil and we'll call it oyster crema and serve wilt artichoke, shaved artichokes so if you put this in your mouth you have a sensation of eating this kind of -- you know, the flavors of escarole and burned garlic and anchovies as well. things you think of as italian but you could travel italy all over and you would never see something like that. but at marea we would never go outside of the bounds of what is available in italy, if you will. >> bruni: you're mostly focusing on the north of the country this. >> well, we do things from sicily. there's so much coastline. >> bruni: marea means tide. >> tide in italian. so all the way down to sicily and the fact of using cous cous and all these separate ingredients, people that think italian food of being one type of food and that's really what we grew up with. i grew up with italian american as well but if you go into the austro-hungarian empire and we start talking about it in that sense of wienerschnitzel, mil, these are italian but they are also austrian, also german and it's the same thing. at marea we use fantastic italian ingredients, we use local ingredients. but we really stay true to the thought process of italian to a certain point. for example, we use cheese with seafood which is considered a faux pas to some extent but at marea we push the boundaries of what italian can be but we would never use coriander or cilantro. it has to exist in that area. >> bruni: do you think italy is an inexhaustible lardner terms of the country? >> i think people are very interested it. when i got to meet michael it was when we did a story in "food & wine" about a region that i'd never heard about before -- >> we covered an earthquake there once. >> so you know it. but it was -- i feel like it's -- you find these different regions you don't know about and they provide you with all these, like, great sounding dishes and cool ingredients and so, yeah, i feel like -- just when you think off sense of southern italy you get to deep go deep on some part of sicily. >> one of the things important with mario and myself is we didn't grow up in italy and therefore we don't take the italian food for granted. we think about in the different ways. >> bruni: nor are you slaves to a certain tradition. >> exactly. i am more of a slave to a region in the north of italy where we do do tortellini, all these things are not so conducive for hot summers. >> bruni: let's turn to your newest restaurant, carbone. i feel almost bad we're talking about it because viewers will think i want to go and it's one of the hardest tables to score in mat hat tan. you are actually doing the food you grew up with. the italian american food that italians almost had to move past to get respect you're say nothing, we don't have to move past it, we just revisit it with greater standards and more ingenuity, right? you're making a caesar salad for $17, $17. >> yeah. and it's -- the restaurant that i wanted to build that is carbone is the fancy restaurant i grew up going to, right? there's a handful of them that still exist and they're fabulous and i love to go to them. >> bruni: but not as good as yours. >> i wanted to make a newer one because i wanted to make sure this thing stood the test of however much longer because i'm not sure how long these are going to be open when the generations get passed on again and again so my partners and myself wanted to open a new one and we got that great old space in a restaurant that used to be there for a hundred years and the bones of the building are amazing and we started in a great place and i had -- >> rocco's. like a red and white -- >> you almost expect to see sinatro r.a. in the corner booth when you walk in. >> we walked in and we were like this is it. we're going do this place. and i had a vivid memory of those joints that i went to for confirmation, communion and you get the big menu and you're in the fancy -- >> and that means serving certain dishes. but how do you make the dishes special enough to be worthy of regard and be worthy of -- >> you start with the dishes that you say have to be on this menu. we're like okay, chicken scarp has to be on this menu and we have to figure out how to make it great. you care about each one of the ingredients and care about how each one of them is prepared and treated. that's what we do at carbone is that i don't stray. it's not torrisi. it's completely inverted. i don't stray from the box. we play inside the box. here's the box, it's italian american fine dining. if mrs. wilson in the dining room orders a chicken scarp yellow and there's an odd ingredient in it this is something people have eaten all the time. curry cavetelli has never been eaten before. >> bruni: so mrs. wilson has to recognize it and understand why she's paying $30 for it. that seems like a tough needle to thread. >> it was not easy. i realize how difficult it was when it opened and i was like oh this is really hard. i'm giving people food that they've eaten hundreds of times before. >> i was surprised when i went there i think it's rigatoni vodka. i think of any pasta allah vodka which i don't recall ever finding in italy, do you? >> we both live there and i think of that have as a pasta dish although americans who know nothing make and i thought it was a guilty pleasure. then i go to carbone, it's a fantastic dish. what are you doing to rigatoni vodka to elevate it to that level? >> we do very little and a lot at the same time. we care enough about it, that's an extruded pasta. >> you're also playing with spices. that's a spicy, spicy -- >> it is a spicy dish and at carbone as opposed to torrisi we do import ingredients because it's important so we use a calabrean chili paste that i'm infatuated with. it's a fresh tomato compote, chunky tomato sauce. a french technique of cooking onions called sue'd have where it's just sliced white onions cooked low all day in butter and that goes in with tomato and the chili and -- >> i think of you to two guys i think of these sorts of efforts to bring italian restaurants to places they haven't been. you opened i fiori, now you have an italian steak house. what is an italian steak house? >> we treat the cuts of meet as if you were in romagnia. we season them with rosemary salt, a mixture of kosher salt, lemon peel, black pepper. some that impart this is flavor we're using. also extremely aged meat from the midwest of america, so we're using cuts. the restaurant is called costada and the namesake cut is a rib eye. so that's the main steak and we're treating it in italian way. we're also make manager, many hand made pastas as well. so it's very much a marriage of marea and costate is to meat. the. >> bruni: is the sky the limit? when you look around the country, do you see things happening with italian restaurants and food that suggest this can go on and on and people can keep finding new iteration? >> it's amazing. if i think back to going to torrisi and the first time i went there the first thing you get is this warm mozzarella, just made mozzarella with this incredible garlic bread and i'm not sure how you make it. i think it involves some really cool techniques and whatever ingredients you got in little italy. but that makes me think anything you turn your attention to --. >> bruni: what are things you've seen around the country. i know you travel a lot when it comes to italian restaurants in other cities. >> i think one of the most -- i think another fantastic italian restaurant in this conversation ifosca food and wine in boulder. and the chef there came up -- he worked at the french laundry but became obsessed with this region called freuli, which is in the north part. so it lets you dig into austrian and it's not -- >> slovenia. >> precisely. >> bruni: you mentioned french-trained chefs. we've seen a lot of them that. people who have cooked in one genre but almost like they're not complete until they try italian. i think you were telling me that april bouncio who is so associated with english gastric pub food is going to open an italian foot restaurant. >> you guys come to it so honestly but someone like april who i think can do anything, it's funny to think of her turning to tackle italian food >> she owns sfoted pig and now she's going to do italian. >> and river cafe in london which is a fine, fine italian restaurant. >> that's true. but we paerd paul cahan, one of the great chefs in chicago, he has black bird, he's opening up an italian restaurant in chicago later this year. even just randomedly there are these two guys in a restaurant, that part of m.p. called tribeye and they're going crazy avant-garde food and they opened up a pizza place called "the pig ate my pizza." i think that's what it's called and people asked them why and this this guy said-- i hope he was joking. he said "we're fat and love pizza. so i hope people -- so people have different reasons. >> bruni: i was going to mention you said paul is italian. that's why i have him as one of the cooks in my kitchen. so now i know why. >> now we know why! stealing secrets. >> bruni: we have all these chefs going italian and meanwhile we have italy which is i'm told one of the most popular tourist aattractions in new york an italian food supermarket. we have no eat-a-france. the we can get all those products. french products, whether you're going to a fairway or whole foods. those are available. >> i think the gr

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- one of the biggest offenders of pollution is just to the south just come in chicago -- to the south of us, chicago. chicagon a continual basis does raw sewage that goes into the river, and one of the things they did is they reversed the flow of the chicago river, lake michigan water, and you being there in louisiana, you actually get the pollution from chicago through the fact that they don't have proper filtration plants there. theepa will go after company, but when it comes to municipalities in a place like chicago, where obama is from, there is absolutely no penalties against this whatsoever and it is very, very aggravating. i think at the end of the day people have to realize that if yourook at what is in house currently, some of these light bulbs, they are all mercury-laced, and if you break one you have to call the environmental hazard person to clean it up. you can't even do it yourself. host: ok. congressman? guest: david, you make a couple great points. the politically well-connected mayor of chicago is able to circumvent laws which would apply to the rest of us. the private industry, which create

chicago i think we're going to bail out of chicago it's a big one whether they will bail out detroit or not you know they're not that so far they're not doing it and they're not talking about it they may bail out let's say if you're a businessman you've sold things to the city of detroit you're not getting bailed out i think we can be one hundred percent sure of that will the unions be bailed out you know possibly will the chicago unions and the chicago city government bailed out i'm afraid you know rahm emanuel and sort of say is probably going to get in the way and the you know again the fiesta the fed is just going to create the money out of thin air. so when this all comes to an end i wish i knew i'd be rich right if if i knew that but i don't think there was any question it is coming to an end the fed and all its subsidiaries central banks have set up the world in a situation that's never existed in the history of humankind the amount of money creation that they've undertaken so when when the n.b.a. you know becomes a knives are going to happen in china something else going. happened in europe is going to be rising interest rates in the u.s. side by i don't know my guess is it's going to be something nobody's expecting just like it's going to come out of you know of nowhere as far as the presidents of the plunge protection team in the rest of these people in washington. and it's going to knock them off the

chicago tribune." detroit sounds warning for chicago. let's ask our next guest whether chicago might be next. i loved the article and that's why i wanted you on. you made the case why chicago is not detroit yet, but you certainly sounded the warning alarm. how come? >> well, i mean, i think, you know, if you look -- it goes back to what hemingway used to say about bankruptcy. how did it happen? well, gradually and then all at once, and i think one of the things that you can take from what happened in detroit was it wasn't as if no one saw this company. they have been functionally on a balance sheet at a loss for years now, and so at some point unless things pick up treng tremendously and in a no way that anyone has a right to believe it will happen you have a bankruptcy situation. i think if you look at what's happening in chicago, and it's not unique to chicago, you know, you'll see similar columns about this written in a lot of cities, one in the "new york times" this weekend, by bill keller. you look at some of the unfunded -- underfunded pensions, to the just in the city with say the cools