we found the ethics commission response to our report most encouraging. they are the expert squz this sh the law they admin ister and they are open to improver it. they make no promises but they can't, they don't make laws so they can not promise or insure a particular law will be written and approved. that is up to the board and the mayoro the public if the matter go tooz the balment. the commission is willing to weigh our position squz take the lead in improve thg law z we sincerely thank them for that. mayor lee said the existing ordinance is just fine. it doesn't need change. well, with all do reexpect we looked that law and kis agree. the whistle blower protection ordinance is like a smoke alarm that never goes off even though fires occur. we know [inaudible] walk away with cash settlements yet existing law has never once soundsed the alarm. we don't think it is working and we hope that the board agrees. i thank you and glad to answer any questions you may have. >> somebody have a question? >> mr. read i wanted to ask a question because after reading

our center doesn't take a position ethically on the issues. it tries to bring the conversation into dialogue with the sciences in ways that otherwise wouldn't have been done. when i went to seminary 30 or 40 years ago these conversations weren't happening. science wasn't a part of the picture. when you read you couldn't find science in systematic theology. now you do. >> so you have doctoral students coming up. what are some of the passionate questions or questions that bring out the passion for them? not the ones you started with but the ones that they have. >> in fact one very impassioned question is what does it mean to be created in the image of god? you first have to ask is that about some characteristics that we humans share or is a purely a divine gift? is it about our capacity for rationality and reason? is it about our capacity of morality and empathy? is it about our capacity to vision the future, art, culture? of the four, five, six species that were around 100,000 years ago, they all had them, not just us. >> reasoning, inelect. >>

we found the ethics commission response to our report most encouraging. they are the expert squz this sh the law they admin ister and they are open to improver it. they make no promises but they can't, they don't make laws so they can not promise or insure a particular law will be written and approved. that is up to the board and the mayoro the public if the matter go tooz the balment. the commission is willing to weigh our position squz take the lead in improve thg law z we sincerely thank them for that. mayor lee said the existing ordinance is just fine. it doesn't need change. well, with all do reexpect we looked that law and kis agree. the whistle blower protection ordinance is like a smoke alarm that never goes off even though fires occur. we know [inaudible] walk away with cash settlements yet existing law has never once soundsed the alarm. we don't think it is working and we hope that the board agrees. i thank you and glad to answer any questions you may have. >> somebody have a question? >> mr. read i wanted to ask a question because after reading

that is why we need better ethics laws and more than that, we need better enforcement of ethics laws.ore disclosure. everything a public person does ought to be disclosed if it has anything to do with his or her business. hillary clinton is in trouble about e-mails. when you have great power and great wealth, there is a great opportunity that someone is going to take advantage of it, it is human nature and that is what we cover as reporters. brian: tom sherwood has been in washington for 41 years. we thank you very much for joining us. thank you very much. i am glad i gave some insights. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q&a.org very q&a programs are also available at c-span podcast. >> on the next washington washingtona today correspondent paul singer on congressional efforts to keep the government-funded beyond the end of the month in order to avoid a government shutdown. also jason oksana with the ele

that is why we need ethics, better enforcement of ethics laws. more disclosure.verything a public person does on to be disclosed if it has anything to do with his or her business. hillary clinton is in trouble for e-mail, her privates over a number of that. a whole different, complicated issue. when you have great power and great wealth that is a great opportunity that someone will take advantage of it. that is human nature. that is really covers reporters. ryan: tom sherwood has been in washington for many years. we thank you very much for : tom sherwoodan has been in washington for many years. we thank you very much for joining us. tom: thank you. ♪ free transcripts, rentokil initial comments about this program, visit us at q&a.org. also -- q&apts are programs are also available as podcasts. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> our history series has to have relevance. when we thought about what we sho

i have been chair of their litigation section, ethics committee.rian: why have you spent so much time with the aba? deborah: what did they say, why do you rob banks? that is where the money is. that is where the power to change things is. on many issues they are on the right side of the ledger. i'm very proud with the work i did in the commission on women in the profession and the reports that we produced on lingering discrimination, sex harassment in the profession. there is a lot that they do that is good. i got the pro bono award from them that i treasure. they have been very good around pro bono issues. brian: you write about pro se, translated to latin as "on behalf of themselves." deborah: in divorce courts, more than half of the litigants don't have a lawyer. in landlord-tenant cases, almost none of the tenants have lawyers. bankruptcy court, a lot of individuals are required represented. in immigration matters, it is particularly scandalous. deportation hearings, a lot of those people don't have counsel. brian: does it happen very often at

why does they have physicians ethical duty to prevent pain began only when someone is born? why shouldn't that duty began when someone can feel pain? why do we care so much about preventing even the most despicable criminals from feeling pain to the pain inflicted on innocent pre-born children? the supreme court has sd from the beginning that the right to abortion must be balanced with other compelling interests. why this medical knowledge matter when it facilitates the orphans that prevent the pain caused by abortion clinics this bill recognizes the indisputable fact that each of us including each individual member of the u.s. senate was a living human being before we were born. this bill reflects the indispensable principle that each individual member of the human family has inherent dignity and worth. prohibiting the killing of innocent human beings that can feel pain is only a small step in the right direction but it is a step that we must take a and i don't think there's a legitimate excuse for not taking that step. it's horrifying to me that some in the senate don't un

well in ethics, in medical ethic ethics you can sometimes say you can draw a line when an action that is morally controversial, and a su substantive action debt on it. in this case we can say maybe the fetus was going to be aborted any way. maybe it was going to be discarded. what is wrong with using that aborted fetus, using that organ and tissue to help people find cures for a morally laudable goal? the reason why you can make that kind of argument, the reason why you can make that distinction is because you feel there is a fire wall between the morally controversial action, the decision to end a pregnancy and the subsequent action to use the morally laudable goal and use those tissues and organizes. but in the case of the planned parenthood sting videos we see that there is not really such a fire wall. the abortion providers are modifying the abortion procedure in order to procure organs. they're talking about the crush here or avoid crushing there to obtain a particular organ or particular type of tissue. >> the ethics are very important. the line that you're talking about would r

russell: i don't think it's nothing abouto ethics, but it is not their job to care about ethics. the company has to hire someone who does. the engineer, you have a job, develop, code. there needs to be someone at the company who is thinking about privacy, and ethics, and the moral issues. i get your point, and with regard to that, i don't think it is in a vacuum. a company is not just -- just engineer oran designer, and i work at a tech company. ms. durkan: she does have morals. ms. russell: i have morals and ethics, and i would wait and on something like that. but i think it doesn't mean the company or the organization is off the hook. ms. durkan: i think there are three good points you brought up on that. one is, and i have been talking to educators, particularly in silicon valley, and i think instilling that sense of "should we."with a "can also, having the companies themselves have inte interdisciplinary teams. i think, making sure you have that in the roman stage. you are seeing the same thing around security. outstrips weighay security. .> i'm alfred from chicago i'm from t

there is no exception for the ethics commission. i know you have resisted having an executive secretary for the commission, but i think as you look forward to a new position you need to keep in mind that's a factor. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening commissioners. i want to thank you for the hard work you have been doing on the campaign trail. i know it's exhaustive and exhausting. i do want to also -- i know this process that the appointment of the executive director is not something where we really have to reinvent the wheel. there is plenty of technical assistance available to you and i assume your staff i think for the public that's watching this broadcast they would be interested in knowing how your sub-committee works a little bit, whether you have a staff or assistance, or perhaps interface with the civil service commission i would assume or some of the technical people there, so that you can get all the help that you need, and this is not coming off of the brow [inaudible] >> [inaudible] human resources provides wh

, ethical philosophy. the business school, he was trying to bring together and integration of catholic social teaching with economics and philosophy. is one place, i don't want to say it is the only catholic institution trying to do this but it is the mission of the school of economics. >> i second that point. one of the interesting points francis's predecessor benedict always made was universities are called universities because they aspire to a universal view of human knowledge, that we should not segregate disciplines into economic and political theory and ethics and philosophies, then these disciplines ought to be talking to one another and one of the aspirations of our university is to do that very thing, economics divorced from ethics brings about the kind of problems the pope is worrying about. >> our little institutes for policy research, it didn't say we have 15 fellows but we will keep going on our erroneous autonomy and do another one next june at the beginning levels of trying to place that tog

, of ethical philosophy. the business school of catholic u is trying to bring together an integration of catholic social teaching with economics and philosophy. it's at least one place that's being done. i'm not saying it's the only catholic institution trying to do that but it's the mission of the school in trying to do that. john: i second that point. one of the interesting points that francis's predecessor make, universities are called universities because they aspire to a universal view of human knowledge that we should not segregate disciplines into economics and political theory and ethics and philosophy that these disciplines ought to be talking to one another. one of the aspirations of our university is to do that very thing. economics divorced from ethics brings about the kind of problems that the pope is worrying about. michael sean: in our little institute of catholic u, i shouldn't say we have 50 fellows but we will keep going on our erroneous autonomy theories. we'll do another one next june. we

the ethics commission? it would be nice if we could get some funding for it. >> i think it's tremendous what you are doing, and it will be a great public service. [ inaudible ] >> i'm sorry? when will it be operational? >> i expect sometime early next year. i'm not sure if you are aware, but i will be on paternity leave starting in november, so there will be a slight break in the project. when i come back, i expect we'll get it up. in the meantime, mr. shen is unaware of this, but he is going to have to read all of this new content on the site before i get back. >> congratulations on the upcoming addition to your family. >> thank you. >> congratulations. >> i guess any public comment on this particular item? >> david pilpau as an individual i just want to appreciate all of steven's work. you see him every so often at the commission, but he does great work behind-the-scenes every day. the website, the data, public records, all kinds of things. steven is one of the great things of the commission. and i would

we found the ethics commission response to our report most encouraging. they are the expert squz this sh the law they admin ister and they are open to improver it. they make no promises but they can't, they don't make laws so they can not promise or insure a particular law will be written and approved. that is up to the board and the mayoro the public if the matter go tooz the balment. the commission is willing to weigh our position squz take the lead in improve thg law z we sincerely thank them for that. mayor lee said the existing ordinance is just fine. it doesn't need change. well, with all do reexpect we looked that law and kis agree. the whistle blower protection ordinance is like a smoke alarm that never goes off even though fires occur. we know [inaudible] walk away with cash settlements yet existing law has never once soundsed the alarm. we don't think it is working and we hope that the board agrees. i thank you and glad to answer any questions you may have. >> somebody have a question? >> mr. read i wanted to ask a question because after reading

the headline is, ethics violations. no congressman wants to have that headline next to his name. >> reporter: the investigation also found that congressman honda used official work events to drum up support and money for his campaign. despite repeated requests for an interview today, congressman honda's staff said he was out of town and unavailable. he did release a prepared statement saying, i'm rightfully proud of my staff for being extraordinarily hard working public servants but they are not flawless. as a result of this investigation, i have instituted one of the most aggressive policies in congress on the use of staff. a political science professor says the ethical lapses are about fairness of. >> give them an unfair advantage. incumbents already have significant advantages over challengers and if they also have free staff time because their congressional staff who are paid by the taxpayers are working on behalf of their campaign, then that gives them a double advantage. >> reporter: honda's democratic challenger

to be suspended at the very least, and referred to the ethics committee. if he is referred to the ethics committee he will have to stand down, since he will stand down anyway in february whether the new election takes place, i think this is end of blatter. >> long before the fbi's dramatic intervention in zurich in may, the swiss attorney general's team has cooperated with u.s. counterparts. this geopolitically sensitive work continues, with a farcically discredited president, with fifa torn apart by crime. >>> going to be joined by martin lipton. an expert in about 15 minutes time. >>> first the last british resident held by quoamen guanta, never been charged or been on trial. u.s. presidents george w. bush and barack obama have both previously cleared him for release. arrested in afghanistan under suspicion for work as a recruiter for al qaeda and reportedly worked for osama bin laden in the country. he has maintained he was there doing charity work. rosalyn jordan joins us from washington, d.c. judge why is he being released ? >> david cameron and jerem

but the fact of the matter is, nonpartisan office of ethics voted 6-0 to ask the congressional ethics committee to investigate further. well, you know what? that suggests that this story is not about to go away. >> now what happens? >> okay. look, the ethics committee can take one of three possible courses of action. one, the committee can basically bury it. we're done, thank you very much, file it, put it away. the second thing they might do is decide to have some sort of mild penalty, a letter, and imposing it on honda, and it goes away as well. the third thing they might want to do is investigate further. continue on, look for hearings to come out of this, weeks, months perhaps. and that's the most likely possibility of all. and that means that this idea, this concept, this research by the committee, public research, where they talk with people, could go on for months and months. >> okay. so there's a reelection campaign, honda's in that. all the other candidates that go against him, you know they'll make a big deal over this. how does that impact his chances? >> it's doubtful that

this raises profound moral and ethical issues for public health. in 2000, 4 million people died of tobacco related diseases worldwide. half in the developed world, half in the developing. to2030, the number will jump 10 million but of that, 7 million will be in the developing world as a result of the dramatic expansion of smoking taking place over the last 25 years. 4-5 timesris is doing his business in the u.s. overseas. it's making most profits by a wide margin by selling overseas. this is a chart from my colleague robert proctor. cited -- it'sdely a figure widely cited. 100 million people died of tobacco related diseases worldwide in the 20th century. the world health organization x more than one billion -- health organization expects more than one billion people will die of smoking related illnesses the 21st century stop this inverts our knowledge of the relation of science to practice. if we know more, we can use the knowledge in socially productive, important ways. we know more about the harms of smoking than any product and consumer history

we will be joined by mary rice hasson of the ethics and policy center. she is a senior fellow there. later, karen mills joins us to discuss a new harvard business school report about some of the potential consequences and remedies regarding income inequality, coming up later on "washington journal." ♪ >> the pope's visit to the u.s. tuesdayas live coverage afternoon beginning at 3:45 on c-span. we are live with the president and mrs. obama to greet the president. the welcoming ceremony for the pope as the obama's welcome him to the white house. live coverage begins at 8:45 eastern. later that afternoon, the at theation and mass basilica of the national shrine. pope francis makes history becoming the first pontiff to address a joint meeting of congress. friday morning at 10:00, live coverage from new york as the pope speaks to the united nations general assembly. later, the pontiff or hold a multi-religious service at the 9/11 memorial and museum world trade center. follow coverage of the pope's u.s. live on tv or online at c-span.org. >> "washington jour

, of ethical philosophy. the business school at catholic u is trying to bring to the an integration of catholic social teaching with economics and philosophy. that's one place it's being done. i don't want to say it's the only catholic institution trying to do this. but it's the mission of the school to try that. >> i would second that point. one of the interesting points that francis' predecessor made are that universities are called universities because they aspire to a universal view of human knowledge that we should not segregate disciplines into economics and political theory and ethics and philosophy, that these disciplines ought to be talking to one another. one of the aspirations of our university is to do that very thing, economics divorced from inch i ethics brings about the problems the pope is worrying about. >> our little institute at catholic u, the institute for policy research and catholic studies -- we have 50 fellows. we will keep going on our autonomy series. we will do another one next jun

the ethics committee, the body that handles the incident, he will have to step down as president, he will have to be suspended, but i think this really is the end for blatter. >> outside of fifa, long before the fbi's dramatic northwestern ifbi's dramatic incident inmay,y sensitive work continues and leaves fifa in complete turmoil with a farce cli discredited president, guardians of football torn apart by crime. lee wellings, al jazeera. >> one of the most powerful men in u.s. government has resigned. speaker of the house john boehner's resignation, under pressure to step down for months by members of his own republican party. kimberly halkett reports. >> one day after a private meeting with pope francis and presiding over his historic speech, the most powerful catholic in the u.s. congress decided it was time to go. >> this morning i woke up, said my prayers, as i always do and i decided today's the day i'm going to do this. >> since 2011 he served, second in line to the u.s. presidency. under mounting pressure from within his own party to step down as speaker. >> this prolonged le

mike: jack dorsey is an exceptional executive, a man incredible work ethic. if you have ever worked for a aretup, there are folks who .0 x in their ability to lead it is clear from folks i have woken with that jack dorsey has that ability. he is a rare breed of executive. given his work ethic and deep , i am optimistic he could do both jobs were that necessary. has a reallyquare good set of other executives who could run the business, but i jack is a product visionary and i think it is important he continues to lead square. think you are in the minority there. many experts i have in speaking to don't think it's a good idea for him to do both jobs. thank you both. --, a stock we are watching palo alto networks dropping after results from the software security company -- another security software watching -- shares rising on the back of that were cast. we caught up with the true point ceo about the next generation of cyber security. isthe biggest factor of risk e-mail. that's where hackers go and target individuals with enterprise. we are seeing social and mobi

so if the majority of journalists decide to be ethical. they make a repetition of the up. >> journalism is meant to hold power to account. as long as air time and column inches are up for sale... >> what do you want me to write? >> journalism will be forced. not all journalists are for sale. some are the watch dogs of their own profession. and for now it's a start. start. >> i kept >>> finally, back to the refugee story. hans is a swedish medical doctor, a statistician, an academic, a giver of ted talks, a big thinker that ends i'm on the lists of influential people. he comes at the refugee story as a director, as a measure of social progress. als a states tirn he looks hard at the numbers and academic. he nation the point. news coverage is not enough. without the background or the context. the headlines or images concues us. the answer, he says, lies in educating ourselves. and watching the news coverage. when is the last time you have seen an intellectual making the point. it's a salient point. see you next time here at the "listening po

and the first black to ever serve on the ethics committee, i later became chairman of that committee, during my chairmanship we handled the abscam cases where members of congress were being seen on national tv stuffing money from a scam operation into their pockets and that type of thing, it was a nationally recognized scandal and we handled those cases. i handled the cases involving sex and drugs involving members of congress and the pages. i handled the investigation of geraldine ferraro when she was running as the vice president candidate with walter mondale, and a number of other investigations of that type. it was a pretty intense period and with a great deal of national intention drawn to that committee. i was also put on the intelligence committee of the house, by speaker tip o'neill. and then later, speaker jim wright appointed me as the chairman of the intelligence committee, this was at a time when our nation found itself involved in the iran contra matter, where our country was found to be selling arms illegally to iran against our laws. that became a national investigation

we live in communion with it, since the environment itself entails ethical limits which human activitymust acknowledge and respect. man, for all his remarkable gifts, which "are signs of a uniqueness which transcends the spheres of physics and biology," is at the same time a part of these spheres. he possesses a body shaped by physical, chemical and biological elements, and can only survive and develop if the ecological environment is favorable. any harm done to the environment, therefore, is harm done to humanity. second, because every creature, particularly a living creature, has an intrinsic value, in its existence, its life, its beauty and its interdependence with other creatures. we christians, together with the other monotheistic religions, believe that the universe is the fruit of a loving decision by the creator, who permits man respectfully to use creation for the good of his fellow men and for the glory of the creator. he is not authorized to abuse it, much less is he authorized to destroy it. in all religions, the environment is a fundamental good. the misuse and destruction

there is no exception for the ethics commission.now you have resisted having an executive secretary for the commission, but i think as you look forward to a new position you need to keep in mind that's a factor. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening commissioners. i want to thank you for the hard work you have been doing on the campaign trail. i know it's exhaustive and exhausting. i do want to also -- i know this process that the appointment of the executive director is not something where we really have to reinvent the wheel. there is plenty of technical assistance available to you and i assume your staff i think for the public that's watching this broadcast they would be interested in knowing how your sub-committee works a little bit, whether you have a staff or assistance, or perhaps interface with the civil service commission i would assume or some of the technical people there, so that you can get all the help that you need, and this is not coming off of the brow [inaudible] >> [inaudible] human resources provides whatev

. >>> more transparency from their ethics committee. >> i think he will have to be suspended at the very least, the ethics committee which handles the sort of incidents within fifa, if he is referred, he will have to step down and be represented, since he's due to step down in february i think this is really the end of blatter. >> zurich in may, ended in 14 arrests, the swiss officials have cooperated are largely with the u.s. farcically discredited president an organization meant to be the guardians of football torn apart by crime. lee wellings, al jazeera. >> the last british prisoner being held at the u.s. detention center in guantanamo bay is about to go home. shaker aamer was a symbol of no charge without putting on trial. rosiland jordan has that story. >> reporter: after more than 13 years at guantanamo, shaker aamer will soon be going home. he's the only british resident left at the prison camp. at a statement on saturday, a senior u.s. official confirmed aamer's release is at happened. the secretary of defense has approved the matter, after a thorough review of this case, after

he can come in here -- he does not fit an ideological gap, but there is an ethical gap that he mighthe worst thing that's come out of the email situation for hillary clinton is one of these polls recently about what are the top three words you can think of when you think of the candidate and it was liar, dishonest, untrustworthy. those are serious issues that come out of the email situation. >> woodruff: and she was asked about that today, again, mark, by andrea mitchell and she says, our campaign goes on and i'm not worried about that, and we feel good. >> it hasn't been a great six months since hillary clinton entered the race. she still is the frontrunner and favorite and is still obviously quite formidable. on joe biden, his greatest virtue may be also his occasional vice and that is that total lack of artifice and i think he was being totally frank with that audience last night in atlanta and i think he's saying, judy, with the possible exception of asking someone to be a life partner, the most personal decision anybody makes is the decision to run for president. it is a difficu

donald tusk, the former head of state of poland saying christian ethics demands we take these people in, and don't be so afraid. >> prime minister orban made the comments for the meeting with the commission, and he referenced concern about economic migrants. that's factually incorrect. it's clear to anyone watching the images, coming from greece or budapest, or europeans across the region, we are dealing with people flying conflict in war from syria. we believe the prime minister is flawed in that approach. what we need to see is safe legal routes into the european territory. the basic fact of the matter is that these people assistant have to take undignified dangerous routes in the first place. >> you have seen conditions in the train station in budapest. i'm a little surprised this deep into the crisis, this is where we are at. people pitching tents in the heart of europe. why was there no global or pan european response, so the poor countries of europe, on the south-eastern flank get a little help from the richer parts of europe? >> ray, the dublin mechanism was intended to provid