i think that's why people are cynical about government but not cynical about america.e goes on to criticize some of our worst instincts in politics are being rewarded. this sounds the obama of 2008. but even some on the left have said they missed that guy and feel instead of changing washington and those politics he has become a part of them. >> whether a person is a president center, left or right, i always say once they become elected watch them become part of that. when i was sitting with my unemployed republican friends, i have more than one. an was watching one of his three 60-inch screen television i was confused base thought he and you and other republicans don't want the government to help they will. they want less government. so perhaps some of our cynicism is we need to look at this as an opportunity and not just an obstacle that we can overcome. we have overcome 9/11, we have overcome pearl harbor. we can overcome this. >> there is a huge company in america that makes engines for trucks. the epa says we want to you build cleaner engines. that sounds good. th

this is cynical. obama needs to do something to attract hispanic voters in november and right now he's barely clinging to a 43 point lead. sounds impressive but remember that's in pesos. bottom line, folks-- bottom line, folks, i and all my republican friends know that this was the wrong thing to do. >> i think it's the right thing to do, actually. >> this a good way to do it with a good policy. >> it was the right thing to do. >> stephen: fine, but the president's not supposed to do anything in an election year. let alone the right thing. now maybe i am a conspiracy theorist but i'm beginning to think that barack obama is trying to get re-elected. you don't see republicans cynically pandering to latinos like this. i mean just look at the gop's hispanic outreach web page. last week the front banner featured a stock photo of asian children. i mean i think that is wonderful. it's the promise of america. these kids can grow up to be anything they want to be, even hispanic. meanwhile, meanwhile, folks you

a cynical political ploy before the election. president obama circumvents congress and institutes policy to stop deporting as many as 400,000 illegal immigrants illegally. there are parts of his plan that i support. most especially military kids should certainly get work pefr mitts for jobs. if you defend this country, you ought to get work heere when yo come home, but by passing congress? that i can't accept. take a listen to this. >> it is the right thing to do. excuse me, sir. it's not time for questions, sir. the next time i prefer that you let me finish my statements before you ask that question. is this the right thing to do for the meamerican people. i did not ask for an argument. i'm answering your question. >> very odd story. we talk about the dow. it climbed 115 points, the s&p 500 up 14, the nasdaq closes the week up 36. the world economy continues to teeter over the outcome of the greek elections on monday. in the worst case scenario that could include a major run on all the southern european banks. it really is the g

just be cynical and don't believe in america, you get to stay. but if you believe it's a better country, you may be sent from here, never to see your friends or your family, to live in a land you don't know. look at the courage of these young people, look at their beliefs in who we are as a country. and they stepped forward, when it was hard, when nobody would have counseled them to do it. and moved a president, moved a nation, so now look at these young people, can we be as courageous as these young people? look at the ones who watched the hopes of a planet be destroyed by a do nothing obstructionist congress that still has not moved on climate change, that still has not moved toward clean energy, that has been stuck on stupid, that have not believed in science now for three or four years. they're saying the big environmentalist folks can't move congress, maybe we should go on and do something else. but they didn't, the young people said we're not going to let them jab this dirty needle of a pipeline into america. we're not going to take the dir

. >> do you think there's any way if you're looking at it ultra cynically, actually countries like the united states and france and great britain may be thinking that it suits them that russia is blocking any potential movement on the ground. because at the end of the day, everybody is scared of what may come after assad. >> i certainly hope not and one can always have a cynical assessment of everything. i think what matters is all of us who are not cynical and have good intentions do everything we can to halt the killings in syria. >> what about the evidence that you have collected, your organization from having spoken to some of the people who survive the houla massacre. >> the evidence we gather, testimonies we gathered, makes very clear that witnesses and survivors said they saw people dressed as soldiers in military uniforms carry out the killings, specific testimonies about the execution of unarmed women and children in particular. all of the evidence that we've seen from independent investigators and observers to date put very strong indications this was a government sponsored,

all of that is enough to leave anybody cynical. but the fact is that every time in the past the leaders knew that it was a game and they weren't actually going to endanger the full faith and credit of the u.s., and they had votes in reserve if they needed them, lots of members needed cover, so that they couldn't be attacked for voting to increase the debt limit. this was different. i don't hold much truck with ratings agencies and i've ude standard & poor's as both standard and poor, but when they wrote about this and said here is another 11th hour rescue, we've had that before but the politics of this leave us with no confidence that you'll be able to manage the future, and then we looked at the debacle that followed with the super committee. here are the political equivalent of "the avengers" but with cryptonite, and they can't act, and now speaker boehner, who said when he became speaker, there's some things now we have to behave like adults and be responsible and that includes the debt limit, leading the charge for another host

the second thing is extraordinary psittacism -- extraordinary cynicism is needed on this issue and a the staff tends to be pollyanna yes about that. he need to be in the real world. there will be abuses because there will be a financial incentive for abuse. some people, the original owners sell it to another person who's into cutting costs, so this is a necessary step but i would go back -- it needs to go back before any bonuses and that means it needs to go back to the bonuses developed in the '60s because they still exist. those buildings were built with bonuses of a widening sidewalks and given for observation decks. all of that was obliterated when they did be downtown plan. the spaces are grandfathered and you should go back and find the observation decks. i could probably go into my dusty file just-you could probably do that. as well as pull out the old newspapers. there were scandal articles. there was a double page split in the examiner which i still have in my desk the record. but you have to have an extraordinarily cynical attitude and require maintenance because of the art

. >> well, if you're cynical, i'm cynical as well. after 18 months of being stonewalled, you have ever reason to be cynical, but the house of representatives, according to congressman issa, is ready to have his committee issue contempt citations against attorney general holder, and it's my understanding the house is committed to bringing that up if the committee votes it out. now, what the meeting hopefully is about tomorrow, but i won't know until it's over, is that the attorney general is going to deliver the documents and avoid the contempt citation. >> greta: if he doesn't deliver the documents tomorrow but shows up and says let's talk about it. >> then i think that that's not a good faith effort from my point of view. it's a matter of either the contempt citation or the documents, and i'm not in the house of representatives, and i won't have a vote on this issue, but i hope the house is going to move ahead with a contempt citation if the documents aren't delivered. >> greta: have you spoken to congressman issa in the last few day

. >> watergate implanted a cynical bomb in american politics that will probably never go away. >> reporter: chuck todd, nbc news, washington. >>> up next here tonight an honor long overdue for a name once known across this country. hello? the words are going this way-there's no way. oh, the lights came on. isn't technology supposed to make life easier? at chase we're pioneering innovations that make banking simple. deposit a check with a photo. pay someone with an email. and bank seamlessly with our award-winning mobile app. take a step forward... and chase what matters. >>> in the studio across the hall from ours tonight a chapter in local television news will come to an end. if you have ever lived in new york or passed through here for any length of time over the last three decades, then you know sue simmons. tonight at 11:00 p.m. sue will say good-bye to her audience on wnbc tv channel 4 and her long-time co-anchor and virtual common law tv husband chuck scarborough. sue has always been a piece of work and those of us who have been so proud to work with her wish her nothing but the very

damage to talk about the sarcasm in the cynicism that is there. there are reports that the two junior members of this new coalition have refused to sit in the new cabinet because they do not want to be associated with any new budget cuts that, of course, will have to come. >> the terms of the bailout agreement was a big sticking point during the coalition talks. all three parties that are going to be in this new government have distant viewpoints on the bailout situation. i think we will see some very difficult decisions made in the coming weeks. i think this government will get off to a very difficult start. they have not actually formed a new cabinet complete yet. that still has to be done tonight. i think there are still a lot of obstacles to get over, and the problem is, as i mentioned, all three parties are a different cut when it comes to the bailout. they want concessions. a lot of breaks up behind that as well. i think if the government wants to pursue cuts, they will see more people taking to the streets in protest. >> it could be a very

anyone who worked so hard to clarify the law could hardly be cynical about its foundation. the fine al theory not often pressed but necessary to consider are that his views were shaped by the west. there's no doubt he loved this part of the country. he returned annually to ski in the winter and in the summer, to trowel the waters of the flat basin. as they have written, the west holds a powerful grasp on the imagination and affection of its tenets. empty arid land produces vivid color and is rife to opportunity and danger. passion for place does not translate into philosophical contradicts. they point to his physical vigor, self reliance, and his extraordinary work ethic. and his unadorned modesty. i would agree he bore all of those traits. but not because he grew up in the shadow of the medicine bowl mountains. indeed, i think he could have been the same man had he grown up when he did in ougaudubon ij where his uncle lived and practiced law. small, rural, agriculturally dependent and in poverty, but the whites who remained in audubon when they moved west, manifested the s

there was lots of cynicism frankly about the future. meanwhile, at the gas station, i remember that for a while, cars with license plates ending in odd numbers could only gas up on odd numbered days. and those ending in an even number on even numbered dates. we can't have vanity plates then. the soviet union was the country in afghanistan. and perhaps in the biggest headline, iran took our embassy personnel hostage resulting in a long and frustrating standoff. from the technology perspective, we had not quite hit the boom years. desktop commuting was just emerging from steve jobs' garage. in fact i hand typed my chemistry ph.d. thesis and had to use stencils for the chemical structure illustrations. cut an pasting back then really meant cutting and pasting.d pasy meant cutting and pasting. i said to my wife, six months of my life down the drain. and just to top it off, we had runaway inflation. when sarah and i moved to indianapolis in 1979, we felt lucky to be able to buy a starter home in broad ripple with a state subsidized mortgage

obama saying positive things about the gang of six deal -- i have a more cynical take on that. that was his way of killing it. the quickest way for obama to kill a deal he doesn't like is to praise it. i've actually toured with the idea that maybe we should raise the taxes on the 1% because many vote for obama and they deserve it. the more serious part of the theory is if you want people to want less government, mabel they will pay for the government they're getting and they will want less of it. under obama, we have seen the federal government's share of gdp go from a historic range of .3% in peacetime to 27% su we have already had this wretched with obama care and the stimulus. we're told meet us halfway. they are open to higher revenues but not necessarily higher tax rates but obama does not want to have that are given. he believes in punitive liberalism to tax the rich. people will have to move off of that if there will be in a move on the republican side to. >> do you want to respond? >> i could give a fairly robust response to that. including that the elected government o

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anyone who works so hard to clarify the law can hardly be cynical about its foundations. a final theory, not often pressed but necessary to consider in this venue, is that byron white's complex views were shaped by the west. there is no doubt that he loved this part of the country. he returned annually to ski in the winter and in the summer to prowl the waters of the platt, the hooter basin and up and down further points along the range. as was written, the west holds a powerful grasp on the imagination and affection of its denisons. empty arid land produces vivid color and is ripe with both opportunity and danger. yet passion for place does not translate into philosophical conviction. those who see white as a distinctively western justice point to his physical vigor, self-reliance, his blunt talk, his extraordinary work ethic and his unadorned modesty. i would agree that he bore all those traits, but not because he grew up in the shadow of the medicine bow mountains and rabbit's ears range. indeed i think he could have been the sameman when he did when he grew up in and

, and i don't want a generation of cynics, but i do want a generation of people who say prove it to me and go out and look for multiple truths. >> that's easy to say but hard for the average citizen to do unless you're going to spend a lot of time. how is someone here who is checking on their device, as they are dashing for a plane, a train, a car, what have you, right, supposed to check 12 sources to make the story is right? >> how many times have you gotten an e-mail from somebody saying don't click on this thing, you know, because your machine will blow up or the post office is going to start charging for e-mail and blah, blah, blah. there's easy a website called snopes and it's well worth spending a moment to go there, type in whatever the headline was of the e-mail that you got, and by and large, and if it's one of these silly crazy things they will tell you it's nonsense and isn't true. every once in a while it is, but most of the time it's not so it doesn't take very long thanks to good search engines to figure out whether you've got a piece of bogus information. >> all right. h

in one nine hundred fifty five when they were widely trusted it's mostly because more people are cynical and like to pretend that they are better than everything else around that vanity has more to do with rising distrust than anything else so brooks is basically saying that we're bad at playing follow the leader well forgive me for saying so but isn't that the whole point to challenge us already when they're overstepping their bounds to not allow the government to roam free trample on raids no questions asked well no apparently brooks wants us to welcome us or it's hereon as i'm with the red carpet treatment and you know he's right a lot of americans do not trust their institutions take for example a recent poll showing disdain for supreme court justices it proves that point only forty four percent approval and we all know that congressional approval is at an all time low but with skoda specifically i just wonder why the trust is lacking maybe it has something to do with their refusal to hear a certain cases involving get the detainees or wire warrantless wiretapping or extraordinary re

who plays the cynical anchor man. plus the hitmaker with a hit show, ll cool j, one of my favorite guests, joins me again. this time, he's opening up about his private life. what it really means to be a role model. first, the big story. hbo's "the newsroom." welcome to you both. so si was at the premiere of "te newsroom" in new york. lots of cable news anchors racing to see how accurate this was. and i think it's fair to say the general consensus was it was pretty darn accurate. people really enjoyed it. i found it -- very sort of pr s thrilling reality check. to see it through the prism of your character, jeff. i'm curious about your motives here. i'm an unashamed "west wing" fan. it's a great privilege to have you here. what are you trying to achieve with the cable news june rgenre anything? >> i've got one goal. that's to interstaentertain thee for an hour. we are going for the exact same thing. >> are you though? because i always see underneath this stuff. you do like to make a point. some of the criticism in the

the republicans ever since mitch mcconnell said a lump and republicans together are there people cynical people who use this pragmatically yes well let me say it wasn't important is it john boehner and i don't believe that no i don't only why have they not passed a single piece of legislation that would put people to work why are they talking about blocking don't i wait until there are two different worldviews in this election and the midterm elections told us that the american people don't agree with all the changes that are having a military told us what happens when three hundred million dollars comes in from billionaires always go back to the boogie man that had the house and united we are we are the time mark caroline thank you both for being any time thank you. for coming out of my june seventeenth marks the fortieth anniversary of the water new burglary and just in time for the anniversary of the arrival of the explosive new book that sheds new light on the scandal and on president nixon started the book's author lamar waldron a special wednesday edition of conversations with grea

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]. >> >> >> >> oh, my! haa ha ha! ha hha ha! [snortg] >> patricia leanne caldwell born in tennessee. daughter of robert and irma. at age of 3 moved to missouri and returned when she was 12 years old. patricia grew up with segregation and injustices which she writes about. she spent many countless hours in the nashville public library. it was her family life that was bountiful and flowing with tales told by her story telling grandfather. raised with love of reading and oral tradition. graduated from tennessee state and degree in english in 1964. she married her childhood friend on december 12. they are the parents of fredrick and twins robert and john. her education continued with a master's degree in early childhood literature, and programming in 1975 from webster university. patricia has a successful career as a teacher and children's

we have enough cynicism in our politics. i don't need to add to it. but it's something that he has done that is traditional in the bush family. his brother did find a path on immigration, not successful but he did try. as his father did. perhaps this is something in the bush family to create a wiggle room and central to the likelihood of republican victory. let me go to the past of what the republican party was like. richard nixon, an essentially conservative president he permitted the state to hire teachers, cops, and firefighters. would that notion be supported today? >> it's very hard to think that that could be a tenable view in the republican party. there are governs in southern states, i mean, george w. the president, and jeb, they had to deal with hispanic communities, huge cuban community obviously in florida. so this gets real. it gets outside of the campaign rhetoric when you have constituencies to deal with. this is a demographics where the most hispanic country and diverse country and republicans know a lot of those states out west, they n

the morn 0.10 -- the more important move is that it is more cynical. he has said he is responsive of a plan that includes cuts to medicare, social security, and medicaid which is what the gang of six plan did. you'll have a hard time backing away from that and you have laid down a marker that is very different that republicans rather than john boehner have laid down. as soon as they got to negotiations, erick kanter walked out. -- eric cantor walked out. we have a population that is aging and living longer. however you want to deal with it, we will have some increases in entitlement although we can curb that rate of growth. when you have taxes at the lowest level of gdp since the 1950's, the idea that cutting them further will enable you to deal with the deficit and the debt, i find that just bizarre. >> the next question. i get this one all the time. this is a classic question of any speaker. we have members of the media here. this is a terrific opportunity to beat up on somebody. how much does the media make the republican party look more extreme tha

it is so far from where they have been, it is hard not to be very cynical and despairing because basically, you have a failed strategy. it bought them a few days, but no more than that. >> everybody has been focusing on that, but would it be better off if greece left? >> and nobody wants to be the one to pull the plug. neither do y., to be honest. it is hard to see how they can make it work. there is no plausible path back to anything acceptable. the bigger question is, can the euro be saved as a whole? and yet, there is no strategy that will make it possible even for spain tuesday. >> spain is already handling the banking crisis. if it does spread -- >> the european central bank and come up with as many heroes as needed. they would also be basically accepting the reality of creating some inflation for europe as a whole. if they are willing to do that, they can belau spain. dogged there anything they can do to try to sort this out -- >> she can't come from the congress to tell us what to do. we are basically horrified onlookers. the foreign public opinion matters a little bit. we are looki

but that cynicism might be justified. >> we're watching it.ing to happen tomorrow. 10:00 a.m. thank you, appreciate it. >>> coming up, tens of thousands of evacuations as a wildfire threatens more neighborhoods around colorado springs. literally to run to her apartment with her young son. that's coming up next . catch a show. make your point make a memory make a masterpiece. read something watch something and learn something. do it all more beautifully, with the retina display on ipad. delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet the house is considering a bill to close thousands of offices, slash service and layoff over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem ? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. house bill 2309 is not the answer. with two times the points on dining in restaurants, you may find yourself asking why n

>> if you want to be cynical, i the 1930s, it was war. >> rose: exactly. >> think about it. we've been at this now for almost four years and there's no end in sight. >> rose: 2008. >> that's right. first in the u.s. and then in europe, and in our economy, the american economy, we've had a few bright moments here and there but mostly we have struggles. and we continue to struggle. >> japan he belie doing this now for over 20 years. i'm of let me stress-- heaven forbid we see the social tensions become, newscast yore but there aren't mean positive models that doesn't involve a lot of stagnation or pain or sacrifice. >> rose: i had to leave it there, but thank you. >> so do we. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: back in a moment. stay with us. >> rose: sergeant shriver is often remembered as a kennedy era of idealism. he was the founding director of the peace corps. he championed civil rights by integrating the city school systems and with his wife unis shriver advanced the special olympic games. "could anyone really be that good?" in a new book "a good man: rediscovering my fathe

. >> that's respect, with all due respect to your cynicism. dollar earned by a man. women are faired for simply asking for being paid fairly. this is wrong, and 90% of the people support us. so here's the point. if we're never to bring anything forward because the republicans say they're going to filibuster it, no know will even know about these issues. this is a representative government. where 90% of the people think something's wrong, we need to fix it, and so i feel if the republicans choose to filibuster this and stop us from even voting on it where we have a majority vote, the people need to know who is on their side. it's as simple as that. >> do you think that in this bill itself that you guys didn't make it clear enough on how you would implement this policy. that is how republicans would keep all of the members because they made the argument. trial lawyers is always a favorite bogeyman of the right. they have the loophole and it will have a bunch of money for them, and did you have a better way of how you would implement this law? >>