officer cobb's testimony was all of the commonwealth offered. but the chronology of the demand is not dispositive in this case. because the demand itself is not dispositive. the demand removes any doubt that the officers were not seeking a consensual encounter. but you still have the behavior of banging on the door -- >> well, does it turn on how loudly they knocked? they just knocked on the door and say this is the police. is that -- is there anything wrong with that? >> it depends entirely on whether a reasonable person would interpret that behavior as the officer conveying the impression that entry was eminent and inevitable. this feeds back to justice scalia's question. what is unreasonable about what the officers did here? >> what was there here to make a reasonable person believe that entry was eminent and inevitable? if all that's done is to knock on the door and they say police, police, police, this is the police. maybe it turns on how loudly they spoke, or how loudly they knocked. is that the point? >> that is the point. it's relevant c

cobb. [laughter] okay. i thought one of the most interesting observations in your book which i actually had not thought about until i read it in your book is the fact that black candidates have historically done better in states and districts where there are less black voters. why is that? >> well, one of the things that's interesting is this, when barack obama won in iowa, people had this kind of hallelujah moment and were like, you know, a black person won in a state where there's, where there's a 4% black population. and, you know, i was saying of course he won in a state where there's a 4% population. but as i was saying in the book, white voters in mississippi would not get within a cotton field of a black candidate -- [laughter] .. question, the number of poor black people in iowa. the number of questions people have in the other places. there is not -- we also forget when jesse jackson ran, there was by and large the same reason or at least one of the dynamics involved here. >> they both know we have

cobb has experienced this but when you are a minority or a woman or statistically the majority but in terms of power, minority, you are undoubtedly compared to other minorities particularly in your field for i have probably been on television a hundred times i either get confused with another black woman on television or they say i prefer you to fill in the blank and it was another black woman. okay you put me in the same category as james carville? when they you did a great job is complicated relationship with the men he has been compared to so to start by asking edward, you wrote about the deceit. can you talk about that and also his relationship today? >> when i was elected the first time i encountered obama december 1999 a staff writer for the chicago reader and my editor who is now in new york who i saw last night set me down to the sell side and he just lost the race against mayor daley. >> so just a little background? >> bobby rush the congressman from the first district and this is the district has a but congressmen longer than any other district in the united states. and bobb

byron cobb, who has five wins. and buddy, my second husband, what's the secret to winning? >> stay on god's good side. >> ah, that sounds good. now what we're going to do is ask you to go up and gib these fine people a sample of the championship bell-ringing that you have done since, oh, gosh, i can't even -- when cable car was in black and white. it's been a long time. mr. carl payne, the winningest cable car bell ringer ever. [ringing bell] [applause] >> carl payne, ladies and gentlemen! fantastic. you're the best. carl payne. i know. now somebody has to follow that. let's introduce the amateur bell ringers and see what they can do, huh? what do you think? first up, a woman whose enthusiasm and support over the years has helped gain international recognition for this competition. last year's celebrity bell ringing second place winner, who has promised this year to try even harder. abc 7 and view from the bay host shanell wang. >> nice to see you again. i'm really nervous. i don't know why. because everybody is watching me. i'm really honored to be part of this event becau

you have someone like wendy cobb in teach for america. there are over 1 million kids who are educated who are teaching below grade school. that is a wonderful thing to see in this country. i hope that youthful idealism. >> this is previetnam, john. there was idealism in 1961, '62, '63. the assassination, the murder of john f. kennedy put a pall over this country. by '66, we were divided as we've ever been. >> what is it today,it cynicism? is it skeptic nix. >> i look at the millennial generation, volunteers are not take together streets like their elder idealists did. i think people are working to make lives better in smaller ways. i think sargent shriver was not only an idealist, he was a hard-hitting businessman as well. he really regretted the lack of resources which is why the war on profit could not be concluded, if you will, because the resources went to war basically. >> i also think -- [ all talking at once ] >> whahe's through. >> what does that have to do -- >> let me tell you about new york. there are 12,000 institutions in new

the business is for this hour but you can always find more stories on the website that started at cobb's last business stay with us. repairing a broken. highway construction and humanitarian aid. but as shady officials market the spoils of war it's the people who pay the price. profiteering here is no longer just down to drug trafficking. afghanistan and the dollars. some. odd. the enemy. this is street still keeps its secrets but now it's time to reveal the head of the soviet finance house on the embankment and on t. v. first verses of the bible that all human beings are created but seldom it all came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or non jews. sixty to seventy percent of what i did as a combat soldier and united by territories was to do with deterrents doing what we call making our presence so you go out should some bozo they hear a knock on some doors run to the other corner and they don't know the house religion and nationalism not as judaism have been a part of the problem they've been part of what leads to. bloodshed if you want to bomb guys are and kill. a thousand fo

cobb? >> i think, one, i'd like to echo your sentiment about dr. dodson who i respect tremendously, whom i met when i was, i think i was maybe a junior in college. and i was working on some project, and he kind of came over and asked me what i was doing and offered some advice, and from that point to, you know, being a tenured professor at various junctures i've had the pleasure of interacting with dr. dodson. and i think that he has really, really provided an example of how our cultural institutions can operate and the important, the importance that they have and so on. i think that we should just acknowledge that. before going forward. regarding the election and, you know, the results of the midterm elections, i think there are two points. one, you mentioned the 90%, over 90% approval rating that african-americans have for him and the 37% approval rating that he has among the rest of america or white americans. i don't think those things are unrelated. [laughter] i think that in part because the 90% approval rating among blacks because he has suc

donovan mcnabb is a candidate, vince young or kevin cobb if the eagles don't keep him. >>> there is anotherrch of a different kind. going sell looking for the next whiz kid. the website launched a global online science competition with several companies. it's open to teens age 13 to 18. prizes include trips with the national geographic, scholarships and work opportunities. >>> i bet they can find more than one whiz kid. multiple births more common than they used to be thanks to fertility treatments. multiples conceived the old-fashioned way are rare. natural quadruplets, two fraternal and two identical teens. they were born october 1st in the bay area. first the doctor told them they were having twins, but then the next ultrasound showed three babies and finally. >> she called me at work and she was actually scared and crying. >> i was crying. >> they told her she had four. >> he told me i have a fourth baby. i was really overwhelmed. i was shocked. >> but the couple says they're getting used to the idea. samantha says she might be willing to add to the family later when they're in college.

cobbs called "the substance much hope: obama and the paradox of progress" and mr. mcclellen is called "young mr. obama and the making of a chicago president." they will be out in the lobby. thanks so much for joining us tonight. [applause] [applause] >> this event was hosted by the new york public library center for research in block harlem new york. for more information visit nypl.org/locations/schomburg. >> former senator george allen, senator george allen, "what can washington learn from sports." >> a great deal. i learned a lot on the sidelines and training camp. probably the most important thing that washington can learn from the world of sports, in sports where someone is from their race, religion, ethnicity doesn't matter. can you help the team win? it's americatocracy. everyone has the opportunity to compete and succeed, not equal resulted, but equal opportunity. which is what our country was built on. you would never see the way that washington operates redistributing from the winners to those who are not winners. if we are up to washington, they take one

happy note because -- i have to give a shout out to jake from the young turks and a writer named andy cobb. they were so positive about the media system. they had so many great things to say that are left los angeles thinking there's hope for democracy but it is really just thanks to those two people. so thank you. we have developed a free market of truth. this impact is going to be seen long-term. right now we are fighting about whether president obama is actually from kenya. the truth is out there. we just have to get to it. but in the long run we really are developing the free market of truth where there are so many documents available and this is a boon for us. we can access so much more material to find the truth and help uncover things that are interesting and write. so it is there and that is also happy thing number 2 because there are plenty of places to go. you don't just have to go to one news site. you can pick from a whole bunch and if you don't like the ones in this country you can pick the ones in great britain. my friend mark the guardian, every day. that is really terrific

[laughter] my great-grandmother who we believe to have been born to sleeves grew up in marietta in cobb county georgia. my grandmother grew up in the marietta and was a master gardener and when i got here to georgia, something to over me. i could never grow anything anywhere before it out here to georgia. hostas grow like weeds everywhere else. i got here and something inside of me just took over. she used to grow american beauty roses that with the size of saucers the people wanted to buy for a dollar apiece that in the 30's and 40's which is astounding. she's a beautiful gardiner and when i got here i had this inexplicable urge to start digging in the soil, and i have planted almost every quarter inch of my house in the highlands as a result of this. even to grow the most difficult things, daphne's, which people say you have to plant five in order to get one and one is in these implanted exactly in a pot and it's still living which is astounding to me. so my grandmother has come through to me here and so this is a really special spiritual place for me, and it is the only place i could

these tended to be people who are let's say the king kissinger, marvin cobb, joe kraft, henry brandon. kissinger approved some of his own staff, approved it has to go to the fbi to institute these wiretapping. the idea i believe was to another quirk in the relationship to nixon and kissinger was kissinger had to keep proving to nixon how hardlined he was about ellsberg, about leaks against the press. it was quite a funny little footnote to the hotels are business. and that is the reason all straight -- i didn't notice until i i worked on the boat. the reason all of her had access to the pentagon papers, which were stored at the rand corporation is because he was doing a study for kissinger. >> host: i'm curious to hear little bit more about the madman theory and specifically whether or not it worked. i mean, do we have any knowledge they resented their about nixon at the top levels of the soviet or chinese government? about what you're saying about the mainstream can in temperament, if they might actually affect reason to be concerned. >> guest: that's a good question. i haven't seen

[applause] >> next to him the honorable gilda cobb hunter, state representative from south carolina.[applause] >> and obviously you brought your own fan club. just want to embarrass the rest of the panelists. and last but certainly not least, from my native texan and houston, the honorable state senator rodney ellis. [applause] >> senator ellis is in a little pain these day, he also graduated and finished from the university of texas law school. they lost on thanksgiving. he's in a little bit of pain. you didn't think i was going to pass that over. you followed me on twitter. you didn't say anything that night. so again, this whole notion of reapportionment in terms of how we are going to be operating in the next ten years is so vital. i'm going to ask a political question before policy question. it amazes me how this issue was rendered totally irrelevant and silence. it rarely came up the stakes in terms of every ten years how districts are redrawn. from a political stand point and even if you don't get involved in politics, why is that this is such an important issue but it's as if