what i find is the money matters in this very subtle way again by shaping how they do the district. i think that kind of helps to bridge the lack of a smoking gun so to speak of kind of evidence of money buying politics. with that get feeling that money and politics is doing something what i think here it's doing is it shaping have a your district. so if your constituents compensation to group is getting more money, you're more likely to be seen and have your voice heard by your member of congress. >> professor miler, lets you represent detroit, representing car companies, auto workers et cetera. you're doing what you think is right for the auto workers and for the car companies, in turn they're giving you donations because they support your work. isn't that how it is supposed to work, representing your constituents? >> it is supposed to work that way. in some sense. i think the concern is that one of the bars that democratic there is have talked about setting for representation is a very low bar i would argue and so that an elected representative is aware of the distribution of the

i find these patterns of intense partisan conflict and issues that the president champions, on what i call good government issues. these are scandals and investigations produce this kind of partisan response. procedural vote produce these partisan response. ??d that's been true since the?? '80s, which is when my time????? start.?????????????? ?? frances lee, is there a?????? reason that the mavericks in the senate get so much attention, joe lieberman, john mccain is sometime their way from party ideology? >> they are behaving in ways that make them stand out from the general patterns, the kind of general patterns the book focuses on. so that makes them interesting. >> do we pay too much attention to those? >> to the extent it obscures what's really going on in the senate, then yes, we do. one thing that you find in the book is that would probably pay too much attention to social issues, abortion and gay-rights and affirmative action, as a window into understanding partisan conflict in congress. partisan conflict is much more about economic issues. and, in fact, the social issues produ

i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it said with irish american it's not genealogy it's archaeology. i found out about that later. it's exciting to hear the nuts and bolts experience of discovery. and at the same time i know i heard from both of you that a very spiritual and unmeasurable experience happens of people come alive in the histories of your family's lives. i was wondering if you could bring alive for the audience the individuals or characters of your family's history and also if you can both reflect on this point that daniel's making of the importance in going to the lands and seeing what is there. what that experience was like for you personally. >> i thought i would read a bit at this point. i think this is a good point for that for me. and so you will hear a little bit of what my writings been like in this experience when i went to ireland for the first time in january of 2007. i was actually lucky enough to find a man in his late 80's who lived in the same area that my family had lived in the 1800

i find it affordable. when i go out there, i mean lots of people. african-americans, jeff again -- japanese americans, chinese americans. people of all ages. young people. senior citizens. this is a wonderful place for us to take off. for someone to come out here and try to take this away for all of us, i think that that is abominable. i used to work in silicon valley. i made some good money. the economy there is bad. i have not worked in 10 years. i find myself playing golf. i like playing golf. i am not too bad added. i would hope that you would save the park for those of us that like to play. we are a very diverse community. we like to play golf. one thing that i find ironic. city of san francisco supervisors tend to talk to the u.s. government about getting out of here and there. i find it ironic that we are advising the federal government about the golden gate national park -- supervisor avalos: for everyone else's sake, we need to move on. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am here on behalf of the san francisco public gol

i search for james lacy's name and find it gone along with the other tenant and it is town lands as well. [applause] >> i think on that note i will read a poem, which is my book among other things my quest to discover the family's connection or my connection to that history. and what happens there is the pursuit and the logical seeking after those signs. those material signs baptismal records and there is happenstance. that's what happened to me once when i went to ireland i staid at a b and b. there are a zillion every other house is a b and b. i hit on the one b and beshgs where the owner said, your last name is to bein i know where all the to beins came to ireland. i said, i'm all ears. this poem goes into that and the last part is a translation from an irish song, the ring. >> i followed the winding coast road back from cove airny moore and her brother cast in branz at the center entrance head of a line at elis island looking as though they a choired dreksz in their own country. dim passage through american wait and coffinship the figures of a prior generation real to swells and soun

i do not find that on wall street or beverly hills. in places where opportunity resides unbridled. i think the real creative energy is where people are caught in an economic abyss. tavis: how much of who you are has to meet growing up with a jamaican immigrant? >> everything comes from that fact. it was my formative years, when i left harlem with my mother who was an immigrant woman coming to america to find that generosity of the american dream and discovering that was not available to her. it was her taking us back to the island of jamaica until i was 12. i was shaped by that culture, the economy, and my people who are plantation workers and harvested those crops and took them to the boats run by the company to load a those ships at night. hansel of the songs that i sing. what i admired about it, as posit -- poverty-stricken as we were, it was the cunning that we emerged from this social scenario. i admired the way people survived. how brilliant the were able to move the chess pieces of life against the onslaught of depravity and denial they were constantly facing. through them my

but whatever i find i'm keeping. i heard a noise. dug a hole. got excited. what is it?piece of junk. next time, maybe next time. nick watt, abc news, england. >> thanks to nick tonight. and that is "world news." we are going to leave you this evening with this image. a child in ft. hood, texas, in the wee hours of the morning today. a huge smile and a huge wish. daddy, now that you're home, let's play football. welcome home to all the troops. good night. >>> home, just in time for the holidays. dozens of troops returning to the bay area tonight. good evening. >> i'm alan wang. more than 160 soldiers from the california national guard are coming home. >> today they are flying in san jose and oakland international where we find lilian kim tonight. >> we caught up with one group of soldiers who live in the east bay. they are returning from afghanistan where they spent the last ten months. >> eight soldiers with the military police company arrived at oakland at international airport this afternoon. had he this are based in

matters and congressional politics there's mixed evidence in the academic scholarship side and what i find is that the money matters by shaping how they view the district. i think that helps bridge the lack of a smoking gun so to speak as the evidence of money buying and politics. with that feeling money and politics is doing something and what i think it is doing here is shaping the district and so if you are a constituency group getting more money you are likely to be seen and have your voice heard by a member of congress. >> professor miller let's say you are representing detroit, car companies, all the workers, etc. you are doing what you think is right for the auto workers and the car companies and in turn they are giving you donations because they support your work. isn't that how it is supposed to work representing your constituents? >> it is supposed to work that way. i think the concern is one of the bars democratic furious have talked about setting for representation is a low bar i would argue and it's that an elected representative is aware of the distribution of the different c

>> well, i find that the fish at russ and daughters? good. russ and daughters are sort of like the bastogne. i guess they are now on their fourth generation. you guys are one generation behind, i think. they were, i think joel ross was the founder, and now they have his great grandchildren running it. >> did you watch it all any of the republican debates these days? and if so, i would love to hear your comments, especially mitt romney. >> the question is whether i've watched any republican debates. i tend to watch people talk about the debates rather than the debate. i find the debates with eight people so slow and boring. and they usually show the best stuff. i've written a little bit about rick perry. one of the things i wonder is why he wears cowboy boots and so talk about what an authentic texan he is. he was a cotton farmer. and you don't need horses to plant cotton. if you are really authentic i think he would wear bib overalls. have kind of a hayseed coming out of his mouth. he spin a little disappointing, and when michele bachmann said

i find fascinating. is there enough profiles in courage. when the skin -- diluted to asylum. e to new york. so i thought these of the kind of characters that my wife loves to write about. but i am a little more drawn to action figures. i don't know why. this tender drew me back. and i guess all toe to toe also while lot has been written, the rate itself does not countenance full. this is a thrilling, sweaty tillotson's events, and i wanted to see if i could tell that in all its drama and also these characters i have been talking about. >> talk about frederick douglass and heavy is changed. >> the questions about frederick douglass and how we changes tox support. he is threaded through the buck. it's almost a problem. he is such a great orator. when you go to a "him you want to use the whole speech. first he is one of our greatest orators. he is one of the first that brown discloses is planned to back in the 1840's. he really wants douglases support. release struck by this man and his conviction, but then he does that they kissed and is viable. they keep up the relationship.

>> nothing. >> reporter: whatever i find, i'm keeping. i heard a noise, dug a hole, got excited. is it? just a piece of junk iron. you might 50 or 60 pieces of junk before you find a keeper. maybe next time. just maybe. i'm nick watt for "nightline," still searching, in norfolk, england. >> keep looking, nick. and we do invite you to tune into a very special edition of "nightline" tomorrow night. major network exclusive. abc's barbara walters traveling to damascus to interview bashar al assad. the first time he's spoken to american media since the bloody uprising that began against him nine months ago. that's a special

i don't know where i find these things. 't know if you're the same way, seth, but i like anything that's the exact opposite of what i do for a living. doint like to read comedy at night. i don't like to watch comedy at night. my wife says let's watch the funny sitcom, the funny movie. i want to watch the documentary where they invade poland again. i always like to go to a different place. that's what puts my mind at rest at night. >> my work keeps me up at night. i think about my business. you know, i tend to have insomnia sometimes. actually, i didn't sleep much last night. but, like, work. business. or minor things like hr. you know, maybe a staffer is -- you know, just -- it's just dumb. then i wake up in the morning and i'm like, wait, i lost sleep over that? when the sun comes and the world is awake, i don't feel alone and i feel like my problems are ridiculous and dumb and what the hell, why did i not sleep? it happens off zbln can we just so we have it for editing can you say you think about me at night. just for edit

i tried to find someone to help me, and i cannot find anybody. i would have no way of knowing where i am at. >> [inaudible] i asked why he did not stop when i asked. we did not panic. we do not know where we are. we do not know what is going on. i get over there, and right away, i almost got killed. >> #3, it's the person in question is trying to get somewhere, it is going to make them late for whatever they are doing. >> i had to find my way to a corner and ask someone where i was going to and how to get there. i eventually made it to my appointment, which was with social security, but i was very late, and they almost did not see me. >> i was very late former doctor's appointment, and there was concern about whether or not i could be fit in. >> when i get off i stock that is unfamiliar to me, because i have no sight, i cannot just automatically orient myself off to a new environment. it takes a lot of training, a lot of work. there are a lot of skill sets involved when i am first introduced to a new area. to get off at an unfamiliar bus stop for

amendment maybe these guys need to read it a little more closely ok and my answer is rick santorum i find i know reading it what's with all the lube in your bag should i google this that's why it's you that. said they were all hanging over their sorry no pun intended. there brian thank you all for being with us great to have you with us. coming up in tonight's daily take i'll take a stab at developing the latest popular myth about our founding fathers. and what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through that sort of to be made who can you trust no one who is human view and with a global missionary see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. there's a myth floating around right now about our founding fathers and the men who wrote the constitution the framers and that myth is that america was created by rich white men who wrote the constitution to protect their own interests and the interests of other wealthy rich white men like themselves it's a myth that's convenient

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i mean, we'll find out if i did itity. -- did it justice. if i have, you'll agree with me it's so beautiful and so astounding, just in the way it unfolded, hat to have fictionalized this would have been to diminish it. i also found that in some great ways, you know, there were several dozen of these political assassinations that had taken place, and i only write about one, and that's because this one happened quite in a magical way in a way, at the end of the five years. >> did you receive significant cooperation from the survivors' families and from the families of those that did not survive the incident? >> a friend of mine, who is also a writer and journalist herself, read the earlier version of the manuscript and said that she was really touched and deeply moved by the quality of the interviews and information i had gathered. and of course i could have told her, yes, i'm a fantastic interviewer, and if they would only open up to me. but in truth, precisely because the story had not been covered, or -- i shouldn't say had not been covered

but most of the stuff that i find, i really don't know what's going to go viral and what isn't. >> sois -- the fairly intense reaction to this, surprised you to some sdmoig. >> yeah. you know, i put the clip out. i just woke up right before i was going to take a showering to to see school. i'm like, i figured, i'm going to put up one video before i go out today. i uploaded it, and i remembered after i was ready about to leave, i checked, and it had 400 views. i knew i find something pretty big. >> it's not like you were sending emails to lots of tv networks trying to attract attention to your work. >> sometimes they'll send emails to people saying, hey, you know, check out this clip that i just put on line. but most of the time, after one person posts it, it really goes out to a larger audience and people kind of take from there. >> give it all the attention you've gotten for from this and the earlier videos that you have unearthed, has this led to any employment prospects for you? >> yeah. mine, -- i mean, i actually got a job opportunity at buzzfeed. it's really great. kind of the v

i turn on fox sometimes to find the edge, where there's an argument going. i want to sense where the right is coming from and what they find appetizing in the news, so i can figure out where the biting story is from their perspective. cnn's obviously more objective so i turn on cnn to sort of get--it's like a news monitor. it'll tell me what the stories are on the news budget, so i get the budget from one, and i get the attitude--or as we say in philly, atteetude--from the other, and i think people say they watch certain things and don't. they know the politically correct or the politically sort of sophisticated answer to things. "i don't like arguments on television." oh, yes, people do. they do. they like to be discernible and understandable and intelligent. they don't want people just yelling. but they do find an interesting argument valid because they find that that is what they argue about in their own family. these arguments are reflective of what's going on, and the opinion in this country is not uniform. we're almost like an argumentative country. the

i'm looking for these same kinds of stories that i find in the desert. i came to hear straight from grace cathedral today where i walked into the cathedral and i took off my shoes and walked on the maze that's right in the front, in the center. and i don't know if you've ever been to this place. you have to stop in and walk this maze because it is very much like what it's like to be out in the desert. where you start walking along and you see where you are going eventually. you see the center spot and you know where you are going to be, except you are going away from it and then toward it and then away from it and all the way around it and then away from it again and back toward it. that's what it's like walking out in the desert in the deep cliffs, in the dunes where you want to go there but there's not a route from here to there. if you had a gps it wouldn't really work because it would point a straight line from here to there because there's a cliff face and to get down you have to go down a series of ledges and to get up you have to go down a narrow c

>> nothing. >> reporter: whatever i find, i'm keeping. i heard a noise, dug a hole, got excited. is it? just a piece of junk iron. you might 50 or 60 pieces of junk before you find a keeper. maybe next time. just maybe. i'm nick watt for "nightline," still searching, in norfolk, england. >> keep looking, nick. and we do invite you to tune into a very special edition of "nightline" tomorrow night. major network exclusive. abc's barbara walters traveling to damascus to interview bashar al assad. the first time he's spoken to american media since the bloody uprising that began against him nine months ago. that's a special "nightline" tomorrow night. we do thank you for watching abc news on this night. hope you check in with "good morning america." we're always online at abcnews.com. jimmy kimmel is next. i'll meet you back here tomorrow. >> dicky: up next on an all-new "jimmy kimmel live" -- about m armie hammer. >> mad at you, dude. >> jimmy: some of them are. >> no, all of them. >> dicky: jeri ryan. >> jimmy: craigslist holiday gift ideas. >> this is david hasselhoff statue. >> ji

i find that crazy. the bigger point about defunding is this which i say to you as a fellow journalist. in january of this year or january or february there was a letter from the head of the democratic congressional campaign committee saying we have to stop these republicans in their efforts to defund npr because npr is our answer to rush limbaugh. i thought to myself so if i may journalist at npr i have to make sure i am pleasing my patrons on the left for fear they would abandon me and leave me to be defunded by the right. i think journalists should not put themselves in such an untenable position. they shouldn't be pleasing one side or the other. do the job. do the journalism. the new york times and washington post and fox news get advertising and npr has an affluent and well-educated audience. the advertisers would love access to that audience. >> you are aware of the problem. you just raised the local station and they got 10% of their budget from the federal money. npr in washington legates 1% or 2%.

and i find i read the plays more than i ever did. i in find myself as bedtime reading the other night king john. i play i do not know well. and it is extremely pertinent. if you read king john right now and you're going to public up the debt crises. >> tell he how someone named william shakespeare to could that and no one has been able to do at well as that. what you're asking about are the simple but profound questions and they are pro fund. it seems such a delicious disprik irony so that shakespeare offers illumination on every part of the human condition resists analysis of himself as a character. we might have, i think, 23 single pieces of evidence about him in the public record office. they do not constitute a biography. as a result, the flash between scholars, the outrage that someone who we don't even know had a grammar school education, don't even know where the eridition and scholarship records in the plays could have come from. where did he get the books? the mystery about around shakespeare is one of the most important thi

i find it very affecting. if you look at his work, what he has done is that he has put male virility on the screen in a very interesting way. "raging bull," "goodfellas," "shutter island," he shows the male ideal that is not exactly fit. >tavis: i have seen most everything he has done. identity is what i think about when i think about his work. i never thought about it in terms of male vulnerability. you ran through the list. you're absolutely right about that. >> to be asked to join that battalion of hon. males is very thrilling for me -- vulnerable males is very thrilling for me. a lot of our male heroes are completely in a vulnerable -- invulnerable, in some cases completely fit. we are more complex than that. tavis: let's talk about your character more broadly in the project "hugo." >> my character was completely empowered by his craft and he was one of the first narrative film makers in the world right about 1906-1913. because of world war ii 1, having achieved the peak of magic, he was amazing. -- becaus

i don't know what that means. a new poll from ppp or ppp finds the doctor taking the lead. romney up to second place and gingrich hem ridging supporters which i believe there is a pill for. the top vote geter is nobody because another poll shows that by wide margins they show the election process isn't working and they are not coming up with good ideas to solve the nation's problems. fewer than half of the americans say there is any candidate running, democrat -- democratic or republican. you know who else doesn't like what he sees? >> that was very apartment. -- apt. >> it stands for apartment. >> let's talk about iowa first. the other polls have ginich falling as low as fourth behind paul, perry. i think what -- seriously they ran all of these negative ads. they ran the negative ads about newt gingrich. the people of iowa found out this is the same news gingrich they hated in the late 90s. they just realized that this is not a different guy. you it is the same, arrogant name. >> 52% of the people who responded to the poll think the president may not have been born in the u

i find it a logical that my high school does not have a class that provides this information. i want to think the national aids memorial grove for helping me become the first time my family to attend the university and providing new it greater awareness about how i am affected by hiv and aids. this scholarship will help me pay tuition, because i am not eligible for financial aid as an immigrant from guatemala. thank you. [applause] >> i would now like to introduce nancy rodriguez, our third winner, from long beach, california. [applause] >> hello, good morning, everyone. is it a senior in high school in long beach, california. in my essay, i wrote that i connect with the memorial grove because my mother's friend was contracted with hiv. when she found out she was hiv- positive, she was shocked. she never expected to have hiv, because she was married and did nothing she was at risk. it is inspiring how she is using her experience. she educates women in mexico about hiv and aids. and how to prevent the transmission of the virus. the way she helps others is similar to the national

i want to find... you have to change gear. you have to change gear. >> hinojosa: what did you go to study in the university? >> drama. and then i taught at tufts. >> hinojosa: oh, i understand. >> and they are very... they are very unusual, because i didn't have a b.a. i said "i can't do a b.a." i said, "i'm too old." who wants to do... oh, i don't know. you're supposed to do four subjects. >> hinojosa: when you are teaching young actors, as such a powerful woman as yourself, what is the message you want to give to actors? >> strength. >> hinojosa: but it's so hard. so many of these young people feel like "i'm not sure." >> that's when... i tell you, it was the most rewarding time of my life teaching these kids. i love to see these kids, you know, pimple and everything, and not sure of themselves... >> hinojosa: and this is right here at tufts? >> yes. >> hinojosa: tufts university. >> after one year. i said, "i know you're not going to be actors, but i want you to at the end speak one speech perfect." and i said to them very..

i didn't expect to find much in the story but i was pleasantly surprised.here are also women in the summer of 1859 brown posing as a farmer and entrepreneur named cizik smith ranks the secluded farm house in the hills of maryland 5 miles from harpers ferry where he began discovery whose with weapons. he's also joined by his teenage daughter and he and his daughter-in-law martha brown who were there to act as camouflage lookouts if a passerby were neighbor approaches where there is a lot of mysterious coming and going and he treats them in the yard or on the porch and plays the part of innocent ordinary farm one man while the guerrilla fighters couple out of sight in the attic and then he writes a wonderful letter about the fireflies sleeping on a straw mat in this hideout and the thrill and tear her of being what she calls and out all girl concealing from dashing young fighter one of whom becomes her first lover. i don't mean to suggest the fun and games as the summer camp in maryland. it's not. proud of, it's tense. brown as usual has run through all his m

i find that i don't consciously sit down and do that but it happens. in this particular book something that has fascinated me is sumo and sumo wrestlers and how they get so big and what it's like in their culture. one of the brothers becomes an sumo and that's why it's a big book! [laughter]. >> do you think that -- being a woman who is in women have been oppressed -- i don't know if they are now or not, dou think that has stimulated you in your writing coming out of that? you specifically and in general, do you feel like a lot of women have been stimulated by being part of an oppressed class? >> good question. >> very much so. i will try to answer a, b, c. for me, i know that the first thing i began to think about when i thought i wanted to write a novel was that i wanted to write about my culture. and because i had grownup in the chinese culture i wanted to write about china. i wanted to find out more about myself because of i was raised in the bay area and because i didn't know culturally a lot of things i wanted to know. i knew i wasn't going to wr