phil: to never allow yourself to become cynical. never cynical.re you speak in such dire terms that you turn people off, and you say you are right, you cannot do anything. you kept your chin up and your spirit, and even smiled, both of you, very well. tavis: i think skepticism is healthy. cynicism is deadly. but skepticism is healthy. i think if people get a chance to read it, they will come to terms with what we have come to terms with, and that is we are a better nation. phthe book of which you speak is called "the rich & the rest of us: a poverty manifesto." my thanks for letting me be part of this conversation. this has been a kick for me over the past couple of nights. gentlemen, thank you, and good night from new york. [cheers and applause] >> for more information on at pbs.org. hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with -- a political writer and his explosive new book about the obama economic team. that is next time. we will see you then. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all

we can talk about cynicism. talking about is using a slush fund that is provided to the secretary to spend as she sees fit. that is perceived as an attack somehow on women. what a surprise in this election year. another 30 seconds, please. there are multiple, multiple sources of funding, of programs that can address women's needs. i think it is cynical to suggest that we are somehow attacking women and their health by going at a slush fund that has no control, no oversight, irresponsibly give. the president himself has already proposed taking $4 billion from the slush fund. this is the way to go. let's address the immediate needs of our students and work together on a long-term solution. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. tierney: the republicans' long-term fix was voted on a couple weeks in their budget which allowed the rates to go up to 6.8% an took away the in-school subsidy for interest rates, driving students' costs further up. tha

and cynicism is cancerous. the american public is cynical, if you look at some of the polling at rates never before seen. they don't trust large financial institutions. they watch wall street go broke, they watch their taxpayer dollars pay them out and watch bonuses paid to the very people who caused the problem in the first place. and then the very people they expect to see oversee things being done do the very same thing. mr. denham said this attack on trust is so frustrated at a time when, yes, we're all sbg asked to provide efficiencies and get things out of this. but i think to put this into perspective, to understand the choices that were made here, for you to understand the folks who made those choices, exactly what this means, i would like to just talk a little bit about what it means, the choices we have. we have an unprecedented number of veterans. in my sunday paper in minneapolis this weekend, it talked about this. $1.25 million veterans were preet treated for health care. 70% of these providers sai

i find that very cynical. i find that, in fact, quite repulsive. and i hope we will reject this bill. we are all for, according to the debate, making sure that we mainta the current interest rates for the 7.4 million students depending on these loans, but i don't find much sincerity when we see a proposal coming from the republican majority to pay for that by cutting out preventive services. there's got to be a better way to do it. they are not looking for a better way, they are just looking for a way to cover their rear ends. i urge people to vote against this bill. yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from illinois. mrs. biggert: thank you, mr. speaker. at this time i would yield three minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. stearns. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized forhree minutes. mr. stearns: i thank my distinguished collgue. let me just say to the gentleman from california who just getting ready to leave the for, when he mentioned that republicans are going to prevent t

it got he has an issue of authority and probably cynical in this movie. >> high character who is an x- special operations guide. he has been through many treacherous situations, and the story begins, set in the future of 27 the night. it is set on a prison in outer space, and the president's daughter ventures cowherd just to make sure that is being treated well. she is taken hostage, and they decided, the powers that be, and i am the man to rescue her, and with his rather cynical attitude, he doesn't want to be doing this sort of stuff anymore. he would rather be sitting on the couch watching sports. he has a friend at the prison, and amy and they have a fairly, you know, a tumultuous relationship from the very beginning. he is a funny guy, and he thinks he is a funny guy. >>-trying to think of your porpoise, and how often is before you have been drawn to the futuristic scene. thanhaven't really, other by machine. but no, nothing with that specific genre. prometheus, as well. the small part. i am currently floating around in a couple of futuristic spots. >> of this is more of an actio

tavis: call me a cynic, but why do i a believe that these cuts are going to happen as opposed to somehow, the cuts hitting the military do not go through. are there really going to happen across the board? >> i will always call you a friend, but we just saw a house republican budget that shelter the department of defense from any of those automatic cuts. the department of defense is supposed to contribute half of those cuts discretionary programs. the republicans put together a budget that would shelter the department of defense for many of those cuts. tavis: the ryan budget? >> it passed the house and i voted against it. i think that you were on the way to start the america that could be the force is always been. it is not the america where you or i grew up in. in those good old days, my dad found a way to put four kids through college working as a construction worker. i don't think there are a lot today that can look forward to having their kids going to college. >> if we are talking about shared sacrifice, how was that the congress agrees that these cuts are going to take place and we

we can talk about cynicism. what we are talking about is using a slush fund that is provided to the secretary to spend as she sees fit. that is perceived as an attack somehow on women. what a surprise in this election year. another 30 seconds, please. there are multiple, multiple sources of funding, of programs that can address women's needs. i think it is cynical to suggest that we are somehow attacking women and their health by going at a slush fund that has no control, no oversight, irresponsibly give. the president himself has already proposed taking $4 billion from the slush fund. this is the way to go. let's address the immediate needs of our students and work together on a long-term solution. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. tierney: the republicans' long-term fix was voted on a couple weeks in their budget which allowed the rates to go up to 6.8% an took away the in-school subsidy for interest rates, driving students' costs fur

i have a very cynical e-mail. >>> mother nature was cooperating on the big day. topper, it was picture perfect. >> very nice. we're looking at a nice day, even though it's 12 degrees cooler than yesterday. remember, we started at 89 yesterday. look at the temperatures. look off to the west because now it's getting cooler. 52 in oakland and then the 60s in cumberland, martinsburg, and winchester. cooler air is moving in. still 70 downtown. but still 70 in manassas. so for tonight, increasing cloudiness, cooler. mountain showers will continue. lows 46 to 52. winds will settle down and become northerly at 10. if you're headed out in the next couple hours, i would recommend a light jacket. we will come back and talk about the prospects of showers and rain. you might be able to put a dent in this drought. we'll explain. >> a dent in the drought would be good. the budget battle rages on in the state of virginia and tonight, the state senate killed the latest budget proposal. that would have been a two-year spending plan that was negotiated during the special senate. se

if you get bored it's easy to get cynical. skepticism which is necessity can morph to cynicism.hat never happened with him. he never lost his enthusiasm or vibrancy. when you watched him doing an interview or working a story you couldn't take your eyes off of him. he was so interested and enthusiastic it made you that way. that is the secret. >> bret: brit. thank you. end of the rare indeed. our condolences to chris and the rest of the wallace family. mike wallace was 93. we'll be right back. eden prair. in here, the landscaping business grows with snow. to keep big winter job on track, at&t provided a mobile solution that lets everyone from field workers to accounting, initiate, bill, and track work in real time. you can't live under a dome in minnesota, that's why there's guys like me. [ male announcer ] it's a network of possibilities -- helping you do what you do... even better. ♪ sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get bk to these invoi

from skepticism to morph into cynicism, if not, outright mealism where the only thing matters is the ability to interpret the negative. maybe we're there and these talking heads are taking cue from a novel. they only want to destroy your capital. you see this kind of logical with the power company -- and they would have been much lower from the weather had been warmer. the only group with strong, pent up demand as well as consumers, surely, it must be the weather that's driving the numbers up. therefore, the good news merely stealing sales that would occurred in late spring and thus revealing shortfalls. qed, better start selling fast. i say let's forget this twisted sister logic and deal with some fact about the strength of retail. every time vf corp. went high, you've got to sale the stock. why? because part of it is in north face and you buy north face when it's cold, so we should except it. it happens. companies can do well. there is natural demand and improving demand. people thought pbh through january, then business improoued in february. got better still in march. that's pret

critics say that the us russian reset in general has been pretty cynical it's been based on the afghanistan trial so many american transit through russia in exchange for blocking the case. by the congress do you think this was a simple as that you know. and now i speak as an american with regret you're not supposed to criticize american foreign policy when you're abroad but i don't know if being on television means you're in my view is that once again the problem here is that the united states during the reset took concessions from russia which are transect creating an entrance a group to supply american troops in afghanistan but it didn't give them and it got russian support for the sanctions against iran so we got the two things the united states wanted from the reset it did not give russia the two things russia wanted that was it wanted in the nato expansion including our deciding not to rearm georgia we wanted that and didn't get it and it wanted a resolution of missile defense in a way that russia felt they could live with it's gotten harder so i thought the moment it looks at least fr

there is also a more practical, cynical if you will view of this, which is that eisenhower never enjoyed the enthusiastic support of the right wing of his own party and maccarthy was threatening to him in some eyes in that regard and you could imagine a situation where the right wing conservative wing of the party could've bolted on and. and eisenhower, because he really was a determined centrist can never really had the strong loyalty of that part of the party and confronting mccarthy could have exacerbated. so there were practical, cynical and also understandable reasons why he would decline to take on maccarthy directly. what is also clear is once maccarthy altered in the beginning of the end of maccarthy has been eisenhower directed his subordinates not to testify about conversations and the white house, that he invoked executive privilege in order to do that come to power by the way he probably did not have heard that the home of the constitutional conversation. he invoked privileges he may or may not have had and used it to cut off access to maccarthy. that is the beginning of the

but 50 days later i think when the family says it's cynical that you have to ask a question.s not a question of the family's çforgiveness, it's wee never heard this in 50 days. >> well, i think the family had a right to feel cynical, of course, but from the defense point of view, it was a very smart thing to do and what he did was let the world see him in a different light. they can see he's not so large. they can see that he's sort of soft spoken. i didn't take it as a sincere apology but at the same time i don't know how anyone else would say it's not necessarily so. i thought what was most important to me, listening from a defense point of view, is his comment that he didn't know if he was armed or not because that goes to his self-defense argument and i think this is all about what the judge -- the judge is looking at this himself and saying, what is this evidence going to look like. i think he laid more ground for his stand-alone defense that is going to be utilized later. so the defense did a nice job in sort of projecting out some of these defenses and did a nice job

i mean, does the transparent dishonesty and cynicism of this now well-known karl rovian tactic make itless effective? i mean, we have been through this for a decade. everybody knows that this is what they do. everybody knows this is a transparent tactic. even the guy who is best at this, even the guy who invented this, karl rove himself isn't very good at pulling it off anymore. you may remember karl rove writing in the "wall street journal" last month, trying sort of a variation of this tactic recently. instead of just putting your own candidate's weakness on the other guy, the other side of this, right, is taking away your opponent's greatest strength. taking on whatever it is your opponent is best at and trying to make it look like a liability. mr. rove took a quote from bill clinton completely out of context, thus reversing its meaning, in order to try to portray president obama's order to kill bin laden as no big deal. he tried to say it was an easy decision that any president would have made and he deserves no credit for it whatsoever. it's classic rove, right? if president obama

what he has said as president for criticism, skepticism and cynicism. what the republicans decided to do, they decided they wouldn't grapple with who he actually is and what he actually represents as president, which is really a pragmatic incrementalist. they decided to treat him as every worst nightmare in the white house. it gets awfully frustrating to liberty to. >> i'm sure, a measured and moderate man, but according to some, a lunatic. thank you all for joining us. have a great weekend. next, more positive signs of an economy on the rebound. >> we welcome today's news that our businesses created another 121,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate ticked down. ohhh my head, ohhh. [ speaking in japanese ] yeah, do you have anything for a headache... like excedrin, ohhh, bayer aspirin... ohh, no no no. i'm not having a heart attack, it's my head. no, bayer advanced aspirin, this is made for pain. [ male announcer ] bayer advanced aspirin has microparticles, enters the bloodstream fast, and safely rushes extra strength relief to the sight of your

there's been a lot of cynical mockery of the buffett rule over the last few days as being a kind of gimmick saying it doesn't fix the deficit. it's true. it is in some ways symbolic. but it is more than symbolism. it goes to a core existential crisis this democracy faces right now. that's the question of whether our political institutions can enact into law positions favored by a majority when those majority positions will result in diminished wealth and power for the most wealthy and powerful in society. joining us now is the author of the buffett rule legislation, democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. thanks for being here, senator. >> good to be here with you, chris. how are you? >> i'm good. i'm bummed. i think the policy is a kind of test for this basic principle. when i look at the history of taxation policy in this country over the last 12 years, what i see is one party implaque bli opposed to raising revenue in any way, one party that will talk about raising revenue at the upper end but has not been able to put it into effect. i despair of whether we can make a more

explain that to people who are cynical. >> i am not a cynical person. i am always said when i come across people like that. i would say he represents a kingdom and a land that is an iconic symbol of something very profound. it is something about the. the world that needs to remain what tibet is. there are just eight universal human rights. why is the attention focused there? there are enough tragedy's to go around. we do not seem capable of giving equal attention to all. there are some reasons why. >> you gave your first award to the dalai lama. so it is the honor of its. it is a small organization. there's not a lot of prize money attached. we would like someday to be able to do that to advance the human rights of that individual. our second recipient was the famed writer and holocaust survivor. a recipient last year was the hero of hotel rwanda. some people did not like that. >> people were basically the advocates on behalf of the presidents of rwanda. >> he is a friend? >> no. he was in some ways the savior of rwanda. he was the one he brought to an

this is not a cynical, or pessimist or neonnist poem. join deaths to your life and you will live as if there 1 drum to march to. there is no march at all. you are there. all will be well for all. [applause]. >> >> >> >> >> one of the most extraordinary things to me about this program is we are going to

. >> you may perhaps more cynical.hey learned it but they chose to forget. >> i won't fight that. >> for whatever reason they're prescribing things that are a disaster. you have 31 years of institutional knowledge and knee enormous understanding of government. is it possible for those who have a progressive agenda to operate and be persuasive when the public is so cynical. >> you asked the right question in a very profound and thoughtful way. ironically here is the problem. we are getting blamed, we the democrats, for their mistakes. barack obama inherited the worst economy in years. it was worse than we thought it was. while we were making progress and improving, the progress has been slower than anybody wanted, and we get blamed for it. we're in a vicious cycle and it's exactly as you said. the people are angry at the government. they don't provide the resources that we need to improve the quality of life because the government is not doing things to improve the quality of life people get angrier. when they get angri

that is kind of a cynical position. that said it was a lousy investigation.every fact has borne that out and whatever the motivation was, there is only one person, there's only one person who knows what the motivation of that was. but i think something was very telling recently. there was a federal lawsuit filed against the department and there was all this back-and-forth over who believed he was a member of the bakery and fill in the department that he was the black muslim and who thought he was a black muslim sympathizer. all of that was going on in the police department prior to bailey's murder. there was a lot of that in the police department. there are people who did not trust him because they thought he was with the base, the way that he was with them. what was really interesting was the lawsuit against the department a federal judge wrote there is absolute nothing in the record that would make a reasonable person considered longmire wasn't associated with the bakery in some way. there is a lot there that in a sense he could only kind of blame himself f

. >> sean, you often criticize me for cynical motivation. i do not believe that it is a coincidence that reverend wright has now surfaced after four years i years years in abs. what may be happening is a deliberate orchestrateed effort by the obama white house to promote racial division that gives them the basis for stoking an african-american turn-out in the election. if you look at the signs and connect a couple of dots you realize this is not a coon dense. this thing. >> sean: i got to ask you about this. he engaged in the sandra fluke controversy but ignores all the people that donated to him or raised money for him that have said outrageous things about women. tried to make this an issue about women. you mention trayvon martin, another case. attack on the supreme court is another one. like one a week now. you cynically or realistically believe this is by design. and you think maybe word was sent to reverend wright? >> the president of the united states doesn't do anything in an election year. unless it's calculated. i think the trayvon

i think it's very deliberate and very cynical. what they are saying is we're not going to tell you anything about mitt romney if we can get away with it. we want the focus on president barack obama. we want you to look at what he's done or not done. we're not going to tell you anything about what's behind the curtain. that also happens to fit with mitt romney's life and personality. i first interviewed him back in '94 when he was running for the senate. cards very close to the vest. very guarded. he's like that personally. also, his faith is like that. it's one where a lot of the elements of the faith are private and he keeps them to himself. when he was at bane capital, if you're a takeover artist, if you're in the investment business the way he was, you don't broadcast your plans. you keep them to yourselves pm also, he made a lot of money at bane and a big thing for wealthy people is to keep the strategies that use to protect their wealth private. he's a quadruple private guy and that fits into the strategy which is to say noth