the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from chris and lisa kaneb. support for "being mortal" is provided by the john and wauna harman foundation. (sirens blaring) >> atul gawande: i've been a surgeon for more than a decade now. in medicine, your first fear as a doctor is that you're supposed to be able to fix a problem, and our anxieties include wanting to seem competent, and to us competent means "i can fix this." in fact there's often a kind of implicit promise, "i'm going to be able to fix this, i'm going to certainly give you the best shot you can have. nobody could have given you a better shot." and then when things aren't working, part of your anxiety is, was there something i missed, was there anything else i could have done? when i started out in my training in surgery, you discover that all the stuff you learned about in the books in medical school is really just

number one, you know, support the people that work in if field of philanthropy, that work at the ford foundation or the gates foundation. we recognize that each of us is a philanthropist. so we are promoting a culture of philanthropy and investing more in our own communities. >> that's where it started. i wanted to talk about a few things and one of them is your gmp ala, you came out with a report called the right to dream, tell us about that. >> the president, last year, president obama last year, rolled out an initiative called my bror's keeper. it has been seen primarily as an african-american initiative. to support men and boys of color. we have seen, you know, a number of teenagers, you know, killed in some cases, you know, by police. there's violence. there's a lot of loss of human capital. our report looks at what that looks like in the latino communities. why? because if you look at the statistics, there are more latino boys dropping inping ou school, failing to read at a third grade level. going on to college. more latino boys and then that are encars rated. this is a huge loss for our

the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. >> narrator: this is a story about business and war. it's a story about a small group of americans and the choices they made many years ago. a story about the cost of operating in a volatile and remote country. its setting is a rubber plantation in africa, owned and operated by the tire giant firestone. >> i am charles bradford pettit, and go by brad. i worked 31 years at firestone. i really kind of felt that we were above this war somehow, and that both sides wanted us there, so that they're gonna leave us alone. >> we were one of the largest, if not the largest, employer in liberia, certainly paying taxes to the government, certainly providing a lot of employment for locals. and we would hope that they would honor that and just leave us alone and let us continue to do what we were doing. unfortunately, that didn't occur. >> we'd been through several coup

i was fortunate that the ford foundation came on board and this was the second film that they supported directly, and the third film that they supported regarding nelson mandela indirectly, public television, this is the, i believe it is the second film that they have supported through its, the independent television service, and there were a number of grants we were able to secure, the new york state council for the arts. brian lamb: the national endowment for the humanities and the arts, what kind of requirements did they put on you when they gave you the grant money to do this kind of thing? did they have any say so on the content? thomas allen harris: say so on the content, so you give a narrative of the project you are creating, and so the judge based on the narrative. brian lamb: how long does that process take? thomas allen harris: months if not years. brian lamb: you have a film that i read that you are working on, and i want you to tell me why you named it this way. "queer africans seeking exile in canada." i read that on wikipedia, what is that? thomas allen harris: my colleag

of giving to more of like a philanthropic type of model where it takes on the form of like the ford foundation and creates kind of an institutional model where they say, hey, we have these issues of domestic violence, of addiction, of brain injuries, right, and really start to invest in doing some systematic changes that now we can say this sport isn't just about greed but it's actually about doing some work to reform our entire world. >> so dave i have to say i know what's going to happen this evening. we're all going to tune in. when we tune in to watch the game, we'll also be watching on social media. for the first quarter or so, you will not so much be watching the game on social media, is that right? >> for the first 20 minutes i'll be live tweeting an episode of "the facts of life." it's my act of civil disobedience as everybody tunes in to watch the super bowl. it's also a way to say as much as i am a fan of this game that if we lived in a sane world this sport would not exist. this is brain damage for profit that's what it is. science is not this sport's friend. the more we learn about

more funds from the us government, the state of maryland the transition team responding from the ford foundation, the open society institute. if the senate gang of eight bill had passed he would have received money to help immigrant -- to help integrate immigrants. he is right at the table. the new americas program. i agree with mark and george. let's look at some survey data. over 20 survey questions issues a patriotic attachment that reveal a large gap between nativeborn and naturalized citizens. i'll give you a few examples. the question was asked by do you consider yourself primarily an american citizen or a citizen of the world? he was at 30-point on on this question. 84 percent of nativeborn said american citizen. 54 percent of naturalized taking the oath of allegiance and 54% said american citizens as opposed to global citizens. a 30-point gap. if there's a conflict between the us constitution and international law what should be the highest legal authority for americans? is a 30-point gap. the constitution should take priority over international law. among newly naturalized citizen 37% s

second group, the ford foundation.of them together and you've got just under $200 million provided by these two groups to other groups which are pushing for government control of the internet. it's not exactly a plot but it's certainly influence by big-money liberals. again, i keep getting back to this. it's government control of the internet. that's what's going on here. >> people come back and say it's not right you can pay more money and get higher speeds. >> what's wrong with that? >> they're paying more to get more. >> why should a government bureaucrat decide what you've got to pay and how you can innovate? why should we go to the government? these new rules suggest that. broadband providers will be barred from unjust and unreasonable practices. who says what's unjust? who says what is unreasonable? >> maybe those with the money behind it say. >> why does twitter want this thing passed? i'm shocked by that. >> i think they're going to get bitten in the future because they don't quite know where this thing is goin