cory booker. >> cory booker.et a stat like you just indicated. mayors and governors have to make decisions. you were just talking about congress. let's defer that tax until 2018. mayors and governors can't do that. they have to -- you need a fire hydrant? you get it now. >> the governors wanted health care in their own -- they wanted to be able to decide what was going to happen for their states. that's why the governors were very upset. >> cory booker is a hero, has been a hero of mine for many year, and the rest of america is going to be more aware of cory booker in the next decade. >> inherited a terrible situation, horrible corruption by his predecessor. >> and turned it around. >> beginning to turn it around. >> looking good. >> as we discussed earlier, the poignancy of this occurring this month, murder free in newark when it was in this month a couple weeks ago the cold case department in new york solved a murder from 33 years ago. people were arrested. >> a new video in overnight from australia, where a ti

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the mayor of newark, cory booker. good morning to you. >> good morning.scription drugs for pretty much anybody who needs them. >> yeahment we thought that the problem really was -- the idea was that people using hospital emergency rooms for their primary care driving up health care costs like crazy. so we wanted to say if we could incentivize you to do care with a physician beforehand, preventative care and get you free prescription drugs, we can have a win, win, win. >> sounds great. who is paying for it? >> that's the thing. we brought together pharmaceutical companies along with a great foundation, the heinz foundation to create a model program and the pharmaceutical companies love it. foundation work is doing a great thing. it's a public/private partnership driving down costs and saving us as taxpayers a lot of money because now people aren't knowing when it's really expensive, when the problem becomes an emergency. >> how does this mirror the obama health care initiative? >> it's not really an either/or. we should be looking at a lot more local initi

breakthrough about this generation of young or younger african-american politicians, not just obama but cory booker and arthur davis and all the rest. and it was just germinating in my mind. i'd written the piece called the joshua generation for the new yorker, trying to get a handle on what had happened, which was an astonishing event just after the election. and started going to chicago as often as i could, which meant weekends and little bits of time here and there, and i had never attended writing a full-blown book while editing at the magazine. and it just became more and more and more interesting. the more i spoke to diesel acquaintances whether it was at harvard law school, chicago, hawaii, all of the obvious spots. >> you do much to fill and i don't want to save the blanks, but to fill in spaces in his own book because he has told us his own story, but you learn much more in researching this book. did you find it was difficult to get people to open up and talk to you about this because it is one thing many of his friends and acquaintances have been regarded with his story. >> i didn't find

gwen ifill talks about and others, includes the present mayor of philadelphia or arthur davis or cory booker and newark. there are a lot of them. these are all people in their 30s, 40s and maybe in their early 50s who were too young to have experienced the civil rights movement except on television as children. >> thank you. >> it was suggested to racism and discrimination because of his skin color. he was not subjected to the legacy of slavery, and the transgenerational transmission of trauma drama which often involve some self destructive aspect in one's life. the first issue, how important do you think this is? some people say he is not african-american. he is african and american because of this distinction. a second quick.. apart from the tea partiers, do you think that there, that the opposition to him, which is typical but maybe more so during his administration, to rise from unconscious and conscious racial aspects? no black man should have this much privilege. he is uppity and we have got to get him. >> to the last question, to say that everybody who opposes barack obama has conscio

support, but if we are going to have a base of conservation leaders it has to include the people cory bookert has to include my friend over here. it has to include the native americans the hesitated engaging because they are worried about sovereignty and this is the enormous light i'm sitting next to the first hispanic secretary of the interior, a proud generation of leaders in the west and i think that is what i see of the importance of the historical and cultural preservation is who we are bringing all of them into this movement. >> thank you very much. let me just say you heard from one of the greatest panels that we have ever assembled. governor richards and who i think many of us believe he is one of the greatest governors in the united states of america. give him a round of applause. [applause] whose historical writing seven from this you today and will continue to inform us as we move forward on the conservation, thank you for joining us, bill cronon. [applause] to soudet for bringing the voiced the business community to be heard strong and allowed across the capitol and over the stat

[applause] >> one of the finest young mayors in the country, mayor cory booker.o all of the outstanding member [applause] as of congress -- [applause] >> and to all of the outstanding members of congress. i am thankful that the first such conference was held over yuan century ago by one of my favorite presidents, and one of the greatest presidents, and certainly our greatest concentration presidents -- upon taking office, did their roosevelt, an avid bird watcher, a bear hunter, set out on a tour that would change his life and our life forever. he camped in a snow blizzard at yosemite. he stood on a cliff at the grand canyon. the ages have been at work on hand, he declared. man can only market from that sense of commitment sprang at five national parks, 18 national monuments, 51 federal bird reservations and 150 national force. that meant the sprained an effort to save the great red words of california. -- redwoods of california. from that commitment sprang a breathtaking legacy of conservation that still enhances our lives. that legacy is an extraordinary achiev

called the breakthrough about this generation for younger american politicians not just obama but cory bookerand arthur davis and all the rest. and, it was just terminating in my mind. i did a piece called the joshua generation for "the new yorker," trying to get a handle on what had happened, which was an astonishing events just after the election, and started going to chicago as often as they could which meant we can send little bits of time here and there. i ever attempted writing a full-blown book while editing the magazine. it just became more and more and more interesting. the more i spoke to these old acquaintances whether it was harvard law school, chicago, hawaii, all the obvious but. >> you do much to fill in-- i don't want to save langston to fill in spaces in his own book, because he is told us his own story but you learn much more in researching this book. did you find that it was difficult to get people to open up and talk to you about this? one thing that many of his friends and acquaintances have been guarded with historic. >> i didn't find it fantastically. what you get into

[applause] one of the finest young mayors of the country, mayor cory booker.ause] and to all the outstanding members of congress, who have been so diligent in promoting the conservation agenda. >>i am mindful that the first such conference was held over one century ago by one of my friends -- my favorite president, one of our greatest presidents, and certainly, our greatest conservation president. upon taking office, theodore roosevelt, avid bird watcher bear hunter, set out on a tour of the american west that would change his life and the life of the nation forever. he stood in awe of the geysers of yellowstone. he can't in a snow blizzard at yosemite. -- he camped in a snow blizzard at yosemite. he stood on a cliff at the grand canyon. from that sense of commitment spring five national parks 18 national monuments 51 federal byrd reservations, and 150 national forests. from that commitment sprang an effort to save the great redwoods of california and the petrified forest of arizona the great bird rocks of the aleutian islands. and the congress of thongas of a