everyone of you are heeding the call to be an additional voice for our citizenry. i want to thank all of you for your contributions that you are about to undertake. to just representing the diverse fabric of our city. you come from all walks of life and some of you -- come out of safety havens and coming to a public dialogue about what is important. how do we think and act and feel about the city? you'll hear it raw and in a very nice way, e-mails, texts. can i have a word with you? this is our great city, this is why we have so many commissions. i celebrate all of that with you. if you are ready, please stand up and raise your right hand. and repeat your name in unison after the word "i." repeat in unison at the commission's you are about to join. i do solemnly of firma but i will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that will bear -- to the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california. that i take this obligation free

yeah power will corrupt people in power they really push fear mongering perspective on the american citizenry. to a great degree you could say that who is the father of fear mongering united states . you know unequivocally i can say this j. edgar hoover it's no surprise then that this was one of the stops on the tour but as we know scandal comes in many forms as to be expected an overarching theme was sex and all the politicians caught with their pants down or with women who weren't their wives apparently and happen all the time where i'm standing right here the side of a very popular strip club in the seventy's called the silver slipper and then there are those scandals that have it all politics sex and drugs here at d.c. city hall to talk about one of the city's former mayors who still reports here to work and the city councilman i'm talking of course about marion berry bitch said i'll be god that bitch that bitch did that to me from the set ups of sung to the

then what is needed is a citizenry and government workforce that includes substantial numbers of persons professionally fluent and culturally literal. research shows that professional level knowledge of language is highly sensitive to cultural signals and cues of understanding not only what people say but also how they use language to communicate, to modulate, meaning to conceal values or communicate intentions in their aspirations. to build rapport with one another, to persuade, to negotiate, to establish trust or fail to establish trust as the case may be. information transferred by the way some machines are fairly good at is a minor part of communication as you look at the documents we have. the cultural component is

government of britain is one hundred percent convinced that the citizenry should rely on the government of britain for everything they are the ultimate nanny state and this is just one more example of them saying don't take care of yourselves we've got to we'll be there to clean up the mess you know will take the fragments of your skull up off the thing and we'll pay your survivor something but don't take any responsibility for yourself we've got to and that's a problem you know i think human beings have a fundamental right to self-defense it's probably the most basic one there is and to say that someone who's teaching you how to keep yourself alive in a bad situation is doing something wrong that's nonsense all specially since he was going to go teach in these places where there was really have a right in a lot of violence going on i mean people obviously want to be taught how to defend themselves how to defend their businesses and you know this is exactly why he was not allowed in the country i mean what do you what precedent do you think this sets for other countries or do you think

it's about time we create a first class citizenry for every american, this should not be a popular voteething we do now. to me it's ridiculous and offensive that we're still having this debate. it should have been done months if not years ago. >> on the day that president obama announced that he, too, believes that same-sex couples should have the right to marry in this country, we are joined now by newark mayor, cory booker. mr. mayor, thank you for being here. >> it's very, very good to see you. >> it's a little weird to make you sit there and look at three minutes of yourself. >> it's also weird to hear that, as you called me many other things. >> i called you, hey, you, for a long part of our adulthood. cory, you were publicly here on this issue a long time before the president said he agreed today. >> he's done a lot for equality, but to have barack obama, the president of the united states, to stand on the public stage and say, once and for all, i believe in equality of all citizens, i think, it has a very powerful symbolic effect, i think it puts the light on many people, democra

he believes there are ideas and images out there among the citizenry that need to be reflected in what the city does. i do not stand here to say that we have all the answers. we are going to ask the questions. we're going to work with everyone. i was so grateful to talk to jennifer from the coalition on homelessness. she has embraced me. i treasure my friendship and working relationship with her and other advocates. going forward, this is about a partnership of public engagement. i expect to work with the press. you have seen the work the media has been able to do. every discussion of this issue, even if you challenges and say we can do better, that is an important step. people do not want to walk away from homelessness. for too long, people have been afraid it is a losing issue. that was part of the reason i wanted to have hope. i do not want to be the director of losing. i want to be the director of an initiative that will change things for individuals and families. it is a tremendous honor. when the 10-year plan was adopted, it gave us hope. there were many great things happening in

requires as we've outlined in our international strategy the development of global competencies in our citizenry. this will lead to positive outcomes all around. in addition to the very focused national security concerns, there is improved understanding of the world, greater effectiveness in our business dealings with other countries and other regions of the world. also, greater understanding of the diversity within our own country as we draw from we're going to be working in the future. we have -- as we draw students from across the world, they represent a potential untapped resource because they are really bridges to communities all over the world. we are a nation that unlike many other countries, we are defined by an idea that draws people from all over the world. and it has for the lifetime of our country. and so that is -- that is a very powerful asset that we have. and i think that preserving and expanding that cultural diversity and the language that people bring is something that i think will stand us in good stead in the global society of the future. >> well, i've always felt the divers

on the other hand there are certain areas where there are programs that are of importance to the citizenry. but which the private sector can't or won't invest. and those would seem to me to be exactly the sort of thing that governments are designed to do and that indeed our government has done in the past. there are two areas where the private sector particularly reluctant to invest. the first of these has become known as the valley of death. in the case of energy research, i think there's a second valley also second valley of death, if you will. the first of these describes a situation where basic research leads to a promising idea but it's not yet been proven to be feasible in practice. and it is very risky, because applying research or performing research is a long-term proposition in terms of time. it often produces failure and even when it succeeds, the performer over the funder of the work may not be the end beneficiary. yet the work may well benefit society as a whole. the second challenge, the case of the energy field, is energy is so capital intensive and that tends to discourage

the actions of those who would do us harm as the nsa director has stated, then what is needed is a citizenry and government workforce that includes substantial numbers of persons professionally fluent and culturally literate in the major languages and cultures of the world. research shows that professional level knowledge of language is highly sensitive to cultural signals and cues of understanding not only what people say but also how they use language to communicate, to modulate, meaning to conceal values or communicate intentions in their aspirations. to build rapport with one another, to persuade, to negotiate, to establish trust or fail to establish trust as the case may be. information transferred by the kwa, something machines are fairly good at is a minor part of communication as you look at the documents we have. the cultural component is what is essential. it's specific to each language, not something generically global. here i defer a bit from one of the comments made earlier today. it's specific to each language. it can be very hard to discern, especially if you've never set foot

and then conveying those to the citizenry of the country. and, finally, managing the war, acting as a military commander in chief. i think if you look at davis in all three of these areas, you can form some perspective for making a reasonable judgment of him as a commander in chief. now let's start with number one, understanding the political situati situation. davis was convinced that an armed struggle between the south striving for its independence and the north would be long and bitter. from his tenure as secretary of war and leader of the united states senate, he understood the potential law making power of the north in both human and material terms. the formation of the confederate states did not alter his outlook. when war broke out, only two months after he was inaugurated as provisional president, he acted accordingly, expecting a lengthy conflict in which the confederates would have, in his words, many bitter experiences. he called for congress to accept enlistments for the duration of the war or for at least three years. in contras

we capture who is still very widely held among the white loyal citizenry. so i can't even give credit for going to war, most of them, to limit -- the democrats certainly didn't. 45% of the north are democrats. they're not on board with anything. >> it's that other democratic party in that other century. >> when does it become, though, like a semantic question, because if the thing that's threatening the union is the extension of slavery, you may be for union but the thing that's actually fighting and is excuse. zpz i have decided. those are two different things, with you you fight to save the country examine why you fight to succeed. those really are to my questions. i think an application to the user stories are popular stories. and this is not a coincidence -- i think it's not strange. i think that in the era of modern industrialized warfare doesn't provide opportunities for heroism. heroism on the battlefield is unavailable after the rise of certain forms of weaponry. so pictures charge. why tu be a triumph of heroism in the face of natural and industria

investigation have are important to nothing, and in many cases, they're important to the entire citizenry. when you said the budget would take a big hit, it would be a very hard hit, is what you just said, i recall when the secretary of defense was asked not just about the hit on the budget but the effect on the country on his ability to help defend the country. could i ask you to respond to the question about the fbi's ability to do the important work that it has. the secretary of defense called it catastrophic. how would you characterize the affect of the sequesteration of the across the board cuts. >> i misspoke before. i think i said it would be a 7% to 8% cut. i should have said we would lose 3500 positions. as opposed to 15. 3500 positions, 1500 special agents, 1100 analysts, and 900 professional staff. it's hard for me to categorize and use a word such as sc catastrophic. i withed sai eed would say as i a word, devastating for a variety of reasons. >> that's bad enough. >> devastating as you point out, the impact it will have not just in the bureau but on people that we serve. the

down to money and all the risk of possibly your health and the health of democracy and an informed citizenry here in america it's a sad too is that example of how lobbyists of corrupt the country they've successfully managed to even get the f.b.i. to label environmental activists as terrorists and even make investigative journalist and practices seem illegal or sketchy so for balloting to massive corporate interests for attempting to intimidate americans or practicing their first amendment rights and for over using the term terrorist more than ever before the f.b.i. is tonight's tool time we're. all right it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening alone a show producer jenny churchill and kevin glass managing editor at downhaul thanks for joining me guys to be here having where do we start ok i know that i start up the whole show going crazy on the media because they will just not let this trump further story i mean sure you can talk about the fact is a why is mitt romney standing next to this guy while he just announce it but it's not worth spending every hour of every day on ther

we as as as a citizenry really had no popular or you know mechanisms propelled mechanisms by which we could fight back and we changed in the one nine hundred seventy s. in the words of the harvard historian charles mayer from what he calls an empire production to an empire of consumption in short we began to borrow to maintain both an empire and a level of consumption that we could no longer afford now the credit is dried up those mass produced goods especially with the rise of fuel. prices are no longer cheap and the only mechanism the state has left security and surveillance state has left are these very trying coney and harsh coercive forms of control which is why we're seeing legislation like the national defense authorization act. the refusal on the part of the obama administration to restore its corpus the use of the espionage act to shut down whistleblowers and leakers anyone who provides information to the press that counters the official narrative i mean they they certainly know very well what's coming and you can look around you i mean look at what's happening in chicago rig

believed you could never know enough and that one of his arguments for free speech is that an educated citizenry is absolutely essential in a democracy. and that we don't censor speech so that people can hear all sides of an argument. i think he would have thought that anybody could sit down in front of their computer and get all that information would have been wonderful. on the other hand, the fact that it intrudes in so much of our daily life, you walk down the street now and you see people talking to themselves, well, of course, they've got the earplugs in. it wasn't long ago they would have arrested people walking down the street talking to themselves. phones, cell phones are everywhere. he didn't even use a phone late in his life. he thought it was an intrusion into his privacy. i'm sure he would have objected to cell phones and the ubiquitousness today. he would have had mixed reaction. >> where did he live here in washington? >> he lived up on florida street -- i'm sorry, california street. >> not within walking distance. >> he used to walk down. >> really? >> yeah. >> i want to make sur

forth but you know, this broader issue of inclusive growth of states that are responsive to the citizenry. you've will an interesting innovation, this social accountability fund. this concept that you know, both -- is the world ready for this concept, and to what extent does you know, civil society itself need to mature as an actor helping if states ultimately because it is a country ownership frame. meet their poor citizens and also effectively manage their budgets in such a way that we aren't seeing corruption. >> yeah. well, at one level, just to give you a sense, i think i'm trying to remember exact but this is a rough number. the world bank probably provides about $600 million a year to civil society groups as part of development. so -- let me give you a practical example. when we work with the government of afghanistan on a development of basic preventive health care, our idea is again the government has to own it. so one of the dangers is people of good will go in, they try to develop it, but it's not no connection with the government and society and when they leave it, dies. so ou

we capture who is still very widely held among the white loyal citizenry. so i can't even give credit for going to war, most of them, to limit -- the democrats certainly didn't. 45% of the north are democrats. they're not on board with anything. >> it's that other democratic party in that other century. >> when does it become, though, like a semantic question, because if the thing that's threatening the union is the extension of slavery, you may be for union but the thing that's actually fighting against is the expansion of slavery. >> they would have said the thing threatening the union is the class in the south decided to dismember the union just because they didn't get the president they wanted. >> didn't they dismember the union? >> yes. those are two different things, why you fight to save the country and why you fight to succeed. those really are to my -- two different questions. >> there is a military dimension to the lost cause. i think an application to the user stories are popular stories. i believe i'm right when i say there is an underpopulation

to this country so the surveillance cameras filming us on every corner should be the right of the citizenry to film and keep law enforcement in check on illinois it's already illegal to videotape the police and under the auspices of eavesdropping it was previously illegal to record audio of them too but just yesterday a federal appeals court struck down the illinois eavesdropping act citing a violation of the first amendment there are countless cases of police abuse and brutality that would never have brought to light or justice without video footage some of the most infamous of them being rodney king and oscar grant which brings us now to the case of kelly thomas it's a tragic story of a schizo frantic homeless man who was brutally beaten to death by police officers the story is just a year old but yesterday a new surveillance tape from across the street was released to the public and it shows the grisly details of the beating. very hard to watch the graphic beating but this videotape provides important evidence of their readers abuse of the news of the org that's out it the officers might

lincoln in his usual way captures brilliantly what is really very widely held among the white loyal citizenry. so i can't even give them credit for going to war most of them, to limit the ex -- the democrats sure as hell didn't. i mean, 45% of the north are democrats. they are not on board with anything relating -- >> that other democratic party in the other century. >> when does it become like a semantic question. if the thing that's threatening union is the extension of slavery, you may be for union but the thing you're actually fighting against is the expansion. >> the democrats wouldn't have said the thing threatening the union is expansion of slavely. it's an all a garky class is decided to dismember the union just because they didn't get the president they wanted. >> they wanted to dismember the union. >> those are two different. why i fight to save the union and fight to secede. they are different questions. >> go ahead. >> there is a long side this a military history dimension i think to the lost cause, this is an application of the loser stories are popular stories. i think, i believ

way that they support right things, provide the right resources, and do all the things we need the citizenry to do to create the justice system? >> i think you're asking the right question. i do think there is a lack of understanding of precisely what the judicial function and role is supposed to be. i think we have become so overwhelmed by politics and by -- this is a point i wanted to get to earlier about the supreme court. the encounter that most citizens have with the justice system is usually traffic court. so, i mean, the personal encounter, frankly, is with the judge who is, with all due respect, traffic court judges, the lowest end of the totem pole, not because they've encountered john roberts. mostly it's that. most of us don't sue someone. and most of us are not sued. even the civil system is not the spot. so, actually, if you judged it based on people's actual encounter with the system -- everybody comes mad out of traffic court, right? but the reality is, that's not what's shaping people's views in many ways about the court -- about courts. they're having that encounter. they're

lincoln, in his usual way, captures brilliantly what is really very widely held among the white loyal citizenry. so i can't even give them credit for going to war, most of them, to limit -- the democrats sure as hell didn't. i mean, 45% of the north are democrats. they're not on board with anything relating to -- >> it's that other democratic party in that other century. >> when does it become, though, like a semantic question, because if the thing that's threatening the union is the extension of slavery, you may be for union but the thing that you're actually fighting that's threatening the union is slavery, then -- >> they would have said the thing is -- >> isn't that why they dismembered the union? >> yes, but those are two different things. why you fight to save the union. why you decide to cesecede theye related of course but they're different questions. >> i really -- go ahead, john. >> there's a military history dimension i think to the lost cause, and this is an application of the loser stories are popular stories. i think -- i believe i'm right when i say there's an underpopulation of

and that's the backbone of citizenry and that's where the action ought to come from ...ous experience ... the financial industry contributed $318 million to washington lobbying the health-care industry many many more millions ... it is no surprise that we have watered down financial reform and no public option to health insurance ... and no budget reform >>those industries bought it and paid for it and got exactly what they wanted >>should we be taking a harder look at the politicians? >>absolutely i think there ought to be transparency in the budget process ... >>you would think these politicians are wearing nascar sponsored uniforms ... >>now the supreme court is made it difficult to anything about money they are saying that it is being treated as is free speech which i believe is ludicrous ... political campaigns spending need to be limited and we need to look get public financing of these campaigns and we need to take special interests out of the whole thing >>how concerned are you about the polarization in congress? >>it's very bad, and i believe that there have bee

if they can protect the citizenry from this guy and his grandma's house, i would rather see him do that than go to jail. >> i guess the solution is, you can commit a crime and your punishment is your wonderful grandmother cooks for you while you read. >> they just need education. if they had books they wouldn't rob people. >> this guy has to read a book a day and then write a book report every other day? what is he an x man? >> he only has to do 90 minutes of reading. >> a half hour of book reports. but a half hour of book reports every day. how many books can he do? >> maybe he is afraid of books. maybe this is like the perfect sentence. >> they found out -- they did a psych exam and found out he is definitely afraid of books. >> she should read a book on calculaters. you can't read a book a day and do a book report every day. >> bill, last word, we made you do a book report for your punishment, but then realized you couldn't read. >> i showed you. score one for the illiterate guy. excuse me for a second. secondly, i am fine with him reading, but i don't like indock trough nation and i