[applause] [cheers] so, you see, i knew dr. king. and to talk about dr. martin luther king is to talk about hope. the first time i met him in the early 1960's, when i was about 12 -- [laughter] i was really struck by what a quiet man he was. always seemed quiet, but the first time i heard him speak, suddenly, it was is it if he was bringing up fire of hope over all of us -- it was as if he was bringing a fire of hope over all of us. we all needed, desperately, a man like dr. king to turn our hopes and dreams into action. he aroused in us a total commitment to his dream, which drew 1/4 of a million of us here in 1963. in those days, i must confess that i was afraid to come to washington, because it was the south and it operated like the south. i was of little girl from new york, and not always scared the hell -- i was a little girl from new york and that always scared the hell out of me. i can remember good reason for it feeling that way. taking the train from new york to visit my grandmother in north carolina -- and it was here in our nation's capital that

dr. king the man was really about and so i think the play inspires young people to make a difference in our country. and it brings a smile to my face most nights when i see young people coming out of the theater >>nd i feel sometimes we have a very simplistic idea of dr. king. that he s just this perfect man who was supposeed to stay on the wall, and he's not. he's an inspiration. like john lewis said, an idol, but at the end of the day he went into the grod as a man. >> rose: we ntinue with chef jacques pepin who talks about cooking and teaching cooking. >> you know, when i did that book, the conundrum for me was do i leave those recipe it is way i did them 30 years ago, 35 years ago to show a moment in time or then do i make it so that it's simpler, more usable? and i chose the second option which actually then was more work than doing a book from the beginning. >> rose: the broadway play "the mountaintop" and the chef jacques pepin, nex. captning sponsored by rose communications from our st

dr. king's life. postponement was a divine interruption to remind us of the king that move us beyond the dream of racial justice to the actions and work of economic justice. perhaps god wanted to remind us that 43 years ago when our father was taken from us that he was in the midst of starting a poor people's campaign where he was galvanizing poor people from all walks of life to converge on this nation's capital and stay here and occupy this place, until that was changed in the economic system and a better distribution of wealth. perhaps god wanted us to move beyond the dream into action and maybe we were unable to dedicate this monument on august 28 just because of that and he said to us it is time to readjust. in fact, over 43 years ago, he told us that we must become maladjusted to certain social ills. we should never adjust to the 1% controlling more than 40% of the wealth. we should never adjust to an unprecedented number of people being unemployed. we should never adjust to any person being with

when dr. king said find his moral center, when him to our cause, this was in the of not even knowing the man. -- in lieu of not even knowing the man. we did not meet on the corner, we did not have a social engagement. we were in a world, a society that was fiercely adversarial from the point of view of race. distractedthat was scarcel by the lust for power and greed -- buthe central to our culture. with all these forces coming at you, if you are the oppressed, you have to find a way in which to work through this. you can do it violently, or you can do it as dr. king suggested. to find this methodology through nonviolence, to try to find a way in which to redeem relations with individuals. i did not much believe in the idea of nonviolence. after all, non-violence was the teachings of christ, the most powerful institution to rise up from the legacy was the church. i did not find a place more oppressive or more crowells, not just from a large sense of violence but in the daily since the violence. a pr

but dr. kingat he understood all that we felt, all these wrinkles in the kennedy dossier and all the things we hato look for but he felt that we had no choice. we needed the federal government we needed these men on our side and he said the task is... he said your task is to go up... in this man resides good. your task is to go and find his moral center and win him to o cause. well, that was a rather daunting instruction. and we had to really press ourselves to find how do you work this turf, how do you get to that place? and although we werenother, essentially the kennedys and particularly bobby and i came to a place where we began to rely on one another for information and for intervention given moments when things could not be on the record or directly exposed to where the person would have access. and in the space of confidentiality we developed a friendship that was to endure up to the time that he, too, was murdered. the last time i saw both those men in the same space-- king and bobby-- was

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dr. martin luther king, jr.. wow, they have really retooled spider-man. newt gingrich says he's against gay marriage. that explains why it's the only type of marriage he hasn't tried yet. this is "the colbert report." (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcome to the report, everybody, good to have you with us. (cheers and applause) good to have you with us. >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! >> stephen: thank you so much, everybody. good to have you with us. and a merry christmas, nation. and it is about damn time, i got to say. so far this year i have really been letting christmas down. it's my last week of shows before our christmas break and i have been soarly remiss in my bell jingling, my yule logging and my angel harking so i'm making up for it tonight. i'm cramming a full advent's worth of cheer on to my set. jimmy let's deck my halls, buddy boy. all right, look at all this good stuff. (cheers and applause) i got a great deal-- i have got a g

outpaces all those other sectors you show there are so simply put dr king why is financial sector debt important. well financials like that it is like any other form of profit when you're actually creative you create money now the trouble is that's when you win when you're big when you have a industrial corporation borrowing money from a bank that also creates spending power that doesn't come out of the silo was in services that actually as to that demand that's where we really finance investment from the fundamental source of new investment is not it's actually the increase in day that ends up in the hands of industrial corporations when that happens they invest they build new widgets we get new production coming out of it. it's from replacing all products and so on it's the what i call the i pad effect and that's part of what gives capitalism is that it's useful dynamic the trouble is when the financial sector does that some of the money can go in that direction but they can also get themselves caught up in gambling over the process of assets and not producing new factories but again

dr. martin luther king. robert kennedy, days before the start of the and the big games 1600 students and workers slaughtered in mexico city. these are things john and tom the new very well. what is somebody takes a shot at us? he says you know, we're trained to listen for the gun. [laughter] and you know, we are fast. we will do the best we can. [laughter] they get up there peter norman at the greatest sprinter in the history of australia chose to wear a patch for a human-rights and he stood with him on that day and continue to stand with them every year for the rest of his life much to his eternal credit even with all kinds of pressure to recant on his actions and they stood up there to raise their fists when the national and the began and john said, it got so quiet in that stadium you could have heard of frog this on cotton. [laughter] then the of anger started and the then there's the famous shot of their yells at them they paid a terrible price he suffered his kids suffered the fbi tailed him long after

out of that model of dr. kingders across the country the wall street project, to talk about in to shift to economic justice. we did a study with the wall street project six years ago. we look at asset manager across the country, public pension funds. of 20 states. all of the state from 19 states were below one half of 1% minority management of asset. the state that had 11%, illinois. why? where is operation push, rainbow/push not locate? in illinois. there is no coincidence that because of the political heat, organizational skills and all that he learned from dr. king, he was able to poured into economic justice. so luke apple and others in chicago are asset managers at 11%. >> okay, and i think there's that economic development that reverend jackson, the reason when i go to the clinton global initiative, he's one is not the only black leader at those kind of forums as was the world economic forum, because i know he follows the money trills across the water. again, given its international acuity about how the econ

so we're actually educating young people and i guess other people to the fact that dr. king was under a lot of pressure as that icon that you love so much. >> stephen: absolutely. >> that had fears. he was very knowledgeable about of his imminent death. he knew he was being followed and harassed by the fbi. he was a loving family man who spend a lot of time away from his family. sow spent a lot of time on the phone talking to them. and we just want people to know that the sacrifice he made was a great one, as an individual, and not just-- there have only been a few people like him on the planet, right, agree with that, right. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: i think he is an extraordinary man, extraordinary man. >> nd you got jesus, gandhi, martin luther king. >> stephen: ronald reagan. >> ronald reagan i-- . >> stephen: are you, by the way, this is a serious question i asked before, are you an african-american because as i said, i took king's lesson to heart and i don't see the color of everyone's skin. i only see the content of their character. >> really? >> stephen: yeah

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then i thought about dr. king. gandhi and tried to put perspective on this. >> that was him remembering the day of his arrest. he turned to poetry when talking to reporters after the sentencing. >> if among the things he wrote was, if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters the same, patty and i, this is a time to be strong. this is a time to fight through adversity. this is a time for us to get home to explain to our kids what happened. what all this means. and where we're going from here. we'll keep fighting on. and see you soon. >> blagojevich is the second consecutive illinois governor to be sentenced to prison on corruption charges. george ryan currently serving six and a half years. blagojevich getting 14 years. in the state of illinois, a sex offender gets a sentence of nine years in jail. >>> still ahead on "way too early," a new jersey man at a town hall meeting accusing chris christy of planting questions at his events. we'll show you his response in a moment. >>> plus who kne

dr. martin luther king jr. >> dr. martin king died trying to organize the poor people's campaign. occupy wall street has picked up the mantel that was dropped on the balcony in memphis, tennessee. >> the occupy the dream movement will hold their first major event january 16. they want people to leave crutches and prosthetics at the federal reserve to demonstrate how financial institutions crippled the u.s. economy. >>> looks like our weather warmup comes with rain. when those showers move in. but first, a sign of compromise. democrats hint at a concession in their demands for the payroll tax cut. details when we return. >>> the washington, d.c. veterans affairs medical center and wusa9 salute all who serve at home ask abroad this holiday season. >> we would like to say happy holidays to my family in takoma park, maryland. happy holidays uncle john, my cousin, and his wife karen. we miss you and we love you. >>> let's talk about the money coming home in your check. tonight, congressional officials tell the ap democrats may be willing to compromise to extend the payroll tax cut. par

that's why you saw all these pamphlets being passed out about how dr. king did what he did.y of working people and people of color in this country to actually cast their franchise without having to pay a fee, without having a take a test, you actually send a signal to the rest of the world, and it's the wrong signal that our country is sending right now that so many states are sending right now. and that's why we're asking folks to join us on saturday, 61st and madison just before noon. >> here in new york city. ben jealous, big day tomorrow. thank you for coming in. a programming note, politics nation is reverend al sharpton is featuring a special series called "block the vote" focusing on voter i.d. issues. 6:00 p.m. right here, don't miss it. >>> this will fire up occupy wall street, our personal wealth has take an hit. we have the new numbers from the federal reserve. >> americans households net worth in the july to september quarter dropped 4%. that is its sharpest drop since that rocky period we went through after the september 2008 bankruptcy of lehman brothers. so wh

dr. king's vision. i look at the work and how we try to embody that here.ng you. >> the need that he refers to is being met every year when he offers free dental care on martin luther king's birthday. >> i started my practice in 1998 in the summer. in that first martin luther king day, there was a family that had some needs. my office, i knew they couldn't afford them. i said come by on martin luther king day. it kind of moved from one family. as a dentist, what is the best way i can give back? the best way i can give back is what i'm trained to do. >> he said when he accepted his diploma and walk across that stage, that he would never leave anybody in discomfort. that statement was the honest truth. he's never left anybody in discomfort. >> from humble beginnings, this doctor is no stranger to the african proverb, it takes a whole village. >> the community has through my entire life supported me and helped me to get through some challenging times. so part of what i would like to do here is just make a thank you back to people because i have been able to be

dr. king's children. with coretta king's children. going to bow down, we're not going to bend. we're not going to buckle. stand up, america! stand up, america! stand up, america! >> i've talked to a lot of powerful politicians on the show, but the interviews i cared outside washington, people like dorothy cooper, the 96-year-old who voted throughout the jim crow era, but voter i.d. law. >> i haven't had any problems at all to this time. this is the only time i've had problems. >> are you surprised that they would change and make these strict requirements at this stage of the game? >> no, i never thought it would be like this, ever. >> or when i spoke to spike dolomite ward, a cancer patient who spoke out to praise the affordable care act, despite the criticism it's gotten from the right. >> when i found out that this obama care's program was literally going to save my life, i owed it to the president to publicly apologize and humbling admit i had checked out, and that's wrong. >> you see, i never spent a lot of time four months ago an

we met with dr. king. he came to our church. he was beaten. you could see that on television every night where the ministers were beaten trying to get people to vote down in new orleans and baton rouge. when i came down here, the same thing was going on. we went to san francisco state university to get my credentials and my master's degree. we had to close the school down to get to ethnic studies. the police marching on us at san francisco state. after leaving new orleans and coming here, it was still a fight. comparing the schools, yes, i can see the different -- i can see the difference. those parents are there, and they bring in money for those schools, and they have all kinds of book fairs and arts festivals, computer labs, and at hunters point, it is a whole different story. you do not have a computer labs there. we do not have a parent involvement. it is a total difference. >> your perspective on jamal, awaiting the decision on whether he will be executed or spend his life in prison. >> he should be released. [applause] one of my profess