john: all right. of the time wre talking about when we talk about illegal drugs. we're talking about the nastier es like meth that really hurt people, lots of people, and well-meaninged authoritarians say we can redce the amount if we make it illegal. >> and that's worked out so well so far. [laughter] john: they argue more of it. [applause] >> like this, you know, cocaine inventing machine is it the american way? i get than an alarming concepp to people, but if you look at th huge damage that the war on drugs has done, the disproportioned damage to black communities, students' lives ruined, the costs are huge, and it's not working. heroin is cheaper now than it was 30 years ago. john: nsa spying. when the nsa spying story irst broke, i upse libertarians by saying i was not that upset. i figured that my enemies already had all the information. i mean, my neighbor was stealing my e-mal of the year, google, facebook had the information, and i posted a list of a hundred things that government does that u

john lennon. i was totally shocked. i threw him up against the wall. i said you did what? >> former beatle john lennon has been shot with .38 caliber bullets at short range. police rush him to roosevelt hospital but it's too late. he was pronounced dead. >> john lennon was gunned down as he entered -- >> john lennon, shot and killed in the dakota apartment building. >> it was really shocking. 40 years old, john lennon of the beatles. how could he be dead? how could this have happened? the city was in shock, not just people, my generation that grew up listening to their music in the '60s. i think just about everybody felt on so many levels it was wrong. >> it was terrible, so many people didn't even know john. it hit me so much more because he befriended me and he didn't have to befriend me. >> laura came up with new facts about john lennon's killer. >> killer was identified as mark david chapman, a 25-year-old fan and drifter from hawaii. >> nothing from his background set off or would have caused

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john: yes.y tragic. >> put the company into a management tailspin. >> the business relied on american customers. the presidential elections were like the super bowl of politics. there just wasn't eugh business to keep the prediction markets going. john: as far a the value of prediction markets, why they are the etter is part of the wisdom of the crowd? and when you g a bunch of people together, the crowd usually knows better than anyone expert. you see this one a contestant is stumpeshe can call an expert. >> i'm going to ask this geographically oriented audience. john: or she can pull the audience. >> to get the answers right about two thirds of the time. but they get the answer right 91% of the time. john: this is what you want to expand? >> yes. there are some alternatives and there is aprize of $5000 and you can bet on things like obama's approval numbers. >> yes, not a contest. >> that is okay somehow. john: in ireland, hiding from the american autocrats, tre's something called prediction.c

john: and that is our show tonight. ♪ ♪ >> now it is time for john stossel.n: some will be more successful than others. maybe they are smarter or they work harder or they are just luckier. whatever the reason in the global economy, that success kids magnified. michael jordan has made much more money because he could do things like sell these t-shirts in china. because of the free market, globalization and new technology, a result is growing inequality. it has been viewed at least 13 million times. >> the poorest americans don't even register in it they are down to pocket change. the top two to 5% are actually off the chart. the income inequality has gotten worse and the reason is a ceo makes 400 times what the average worker makes. and what you are talking about, when it comes to corporations whether it's wal-mart or mcdonald's down the list, the top echelon of the corporate world makes it exceedingly larger amount of money than workers do. and microsoft made it a good wage. and you have been doing all the business with china all the time,. john: it is true t

. >> john lennon had charisma.al. >> john lennon was my favorite beatle. >> the other was a lonely kid from georgia with no particular talents and no real direction in life. >> everyone said he was a nice person. >> he wanted to bring attention to himself. >> they were as different as night and day. two men on intense personal journeys that converged in a single shocking act. >> i took five steps and fired. [ gunshots ] five shots sxwlp. >> i literally held john lennon's heart in my hand. >> it was an unthinkable crime that left millions in mourning. the murder of john lennon. next. ♪ >>> it's a chilly night at around 10:45 p.m. police respond to a report of a shooting at the dakota, an exclusive apartment building on manhattan's upper west side. >> when we drove up to the dakota, there was a man standing in the middle of the street pointing into the archway, saying that's the man doing the shooting. we get out of the car. we approached the archway. on each side of it. looked in. and saw a man with his hands up. >>

john lennon. next. >> it is a chilly night at around 10:45 p.m. [ gunshots ] police respond to a report of a shooting at the dakota. an exclusive apartment building on manhattan's upper west side. >> when we drove up to the dakota there was a man standing in the middle of the street pointing into the arch way saying that's the man doing the shooting. we get out of the car, we approach the arch way on each side of it. looked in. and saw a man with his hand up. >> five shots had been fired. all but one found their target. i grabbed the guy around the neck. the doorman, jose, he said he's the one. he is the only one. he shot john lennon. i was totally in shock. i threw him up against the wall. i said you did what? former beatle john lennon shot with four hollow point 38 caliber bullets at close range. police officers rush lennon to nearby roosevelt hospital. but it's too late. shortly after 11:00 p.m., the emergency room doctor pronounces john lennon dead. >> former beatle john lennon was gunned down

john: some are lower than others.mals that are more he will than others are washington politicians and their cronies. and those who get close to the politicians. that is how in the budget deal hollywood film producers got a special break. nascar got $70 million to build a new race track. multinational corporations of offshore subsidiaries got a 9 billion-dollar tax break. and the active part of this is proud progressive who says it is right but who needs help and many need america's tax reforms and they say that we should shrink government so they can't make some animals are more equal than others. do you really want them picking the winners with all of these trillion dollars? >> if we are going to have government and laws, it is absolutely the case that some old will get some benefits in this. that being said, the impact of government is tiny and trivial compared to the impact that the market has that heredity has that the number of other factors have or if you want to be rich in this society, the best way is to be b

john: the u.s.g and it's wrong to give so much money to the privileged class when it could be worse. art government consumes aboout 40% what we produce. most european governments take even more than they give big bucks to all kinds of special interest groups. and then when our country goes broke and cuts back, this happens. government workers are being asked work late. and joel, this covers you for "theall street journal." all kinds of stuff is going on like that. britain gave $107 million to rolls-royce? >> yes, they already manufactured at time of their products in asia. >> the french government not only subsidizes movies made in france, but they subsidize foreign movies if we mention france? smack that is correct. there is an elaborate system of quotas and and evaluation to look at movies. and a billion dollars, 700 million euros this year's. john: some of the tortured scripthat americans come up with that ualify here as well. here's a clip of one american movie. >> that act debates this and then

john: charles?he came to the chamber as he has before and said the whole chamberwas united with was creepy thing to say because people disagree. and it's bizarre for an executive to stand firm as elected person. john: he he's had i made job creation happened. >> the lowest unemployment in the rebounding housing market in the manufacturing sector that is adding jobs for the first time since 1990s. more oil produced at home and deficits. cut by more than half. john: the deficits cut by half blowing ouof the stimulus which was finally over and he didn't do anything. and he takes credit for everything that is good. blames republicans for everything that is bad. >> this is the slowest recovery of all. the only reason the unemployment rate isn't higher is because people have given up. and later in his speech he acknowledges that too many americans are out of work. and it is a recovery and he mentioned oil. and the oil boom is on private land and he did everything to stop it on private land and he said i'm

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john: okay.at attitude is the reason why charlotte a use wrote when did white trash becomes the new normal. but cut us some slack. he researches millennial for a living. >> 80 million of us transforming the work force and the marketplace. john: now the largest group. it was baby boomers. >> now you just complain about us. john: new york post says you are the worst generation. battle trophy kids. >> at the end of the day of these people gripping. entitlement is a learned behavior. you are not born entitled. john: we taught it to you? >> absolutely. 100 percent. john: charlotte. >> he has a point. we taught it to them. i think -- and i think -- john: to fed self-esteem to you? >> their parents. they're not allowed to fail. and never had to sink or swim. we taught it to the. john: i was surprised that other young people said compared to other generations we are slackers. >> yen people expect everything to be handed to them. i am one of them. and don't know. when you feel like your grandparents. >> m

hebble. >> john was somewhat of a recluse, john kind of stayed to himself. >> it wasn't unusual that we didn't see him for a month. he'd be out doing things with friends. >> at one point in john's life he was a narcotics user and very possibly also a narcotics dealer. >> in february of 1999, john's mother was really worried, she hadn't heard from her son in over two months. >> i'd been trying to reach my son and he wasn't answering and we were afraid something was wrong. >> so she called the local sheriff who found john's van parked in his driveway, but no one answered the door. >> they smelled an odor coming from inside the trailer. they described that odor as being the odor of death. >> the officers forced their way through the trailer door and found helbel dead, slumped in a chair. >> the body appeared to be in a position of someone who had been watching tv and had laid their head down on the arm or pillow and gone to sleep. the body was completely covered. i had a blanket over the head, over all of the body. >> he had been shot twice in the back of the head with a .22-caliber pis

john: and that is our show tonight. ♪ ♪ >> now it is time for john stossel.n: some will be more successful than others. maybe they are smarter or they work harder or they are just luckier. whatever the reason in the global economy, that success kids magnified. michael jordan has made much more money because he could do things like sell these t-shirts in china. because of the free market, globalization and new technology, a result is growing inequality. it has been viewed at least 13 million times. >> the poorest americans don't even register in it they are down to pocket change. the top two to 5% are actually off the chart. the income inequality has gotten worse and the reason is a ceo makes 400 times what the average worker makes. and what you are talking about, when it comes to corporations whether it's wal-mart or mcdonald's down the list, the top echelon of the corporate world makes it exceedingly larger amount of money than workers do. and microsoft made it a good wage. and you have been doing all the business with china all the time,. john: it is true t

john: shiva from 502,000.ughter] >> this is just somehow the computer and the drills through all of this? >> yes. so we are a technology company and we have algorithms that go through these pieces of dataaand w apply the different filters that do not look at the contents of your e-mail. we look at the overall behavior and then compacted and discourse. i want to hire someone i can get their score in 30 seconds and a credit score they change it once a month. and the big needs are trust and safety and to have that trust scored next to this is really going to help us out. john: thank you forhis chat about reputation and twitter. use the hash tag reputation and let people know what you think. coming up look at the luscious brunch. people are having fun. some central planners are upset about this. >> 80 people sharing a meal and a stranger's home and insiders tell us that they ar copletely this is the quicksilver cash back card from capital one. it's not the "juggle a bunch of rotating categories" card. it's not the

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>>supervisor john avalos: okay. any discussion? commissioner breed, you are in accord with the motion? very good. okay. let's go to public comment. eric brooks, representing san francisco green party and local grass roots. just to comment commissioner breed has shown some really outstanding leadership on this issue and it's extremely appropriate for her to move to vice-chair on this lafco. thanks. >> wolf neighborhood council in acclimation. >>supervisor john avalos: is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. this is motioned by campos and second by mr. mar. can we take that without objection. first i would like to say this you for the support and i'm really excited about serving with commissioner breed who will be the vice-chair of lafco and i really appreciate your pushover the past several months on cleanpowersf. next item. >> approval of lafco minutes from december 13, 2013, meeting. >>supervisor john avalos: any comments on our minutes? is there any additional p

>>supervisor john avalos: thank you, commissioner breed. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, miss miller for putting this together so quickly. i do of course want there to be a little bit more time for input and i'm sure you got feedback that there are some other organizations that want to take the time to review it and provide input. i would like to make sure that we have the time to do that before we finalize the rfp and i wanted to get a sense of how my colleagues as well as how members of the public feel about how we move forward with shell. because there have been some challenges and i don't feel that they have been the best community partner in this community effort and there has been a challenge around communication and miscommunication. i'm not completely certain about how i feel about acknowledging that relationship or retaining that relationship. but i would like to hear from, especially from people who have been actively engaged in this process and whether or not we allow this particular project, whether we use it from a contex

john let me give you a good let me clear this up john let me clear this up ok are you more virtuous because you come from one of those countries then a country from the south no that's not the reason why i'm more birchers there are other reason for that but let me give an example i'm doing well the reason. i meet i'm doing twenty years accounting and tax compliance service is the russian. we have a lot of finnish clients of course because i come from finland and it used to be the time not anymore because they know we don't give that kind of advice but everything that makes one hundred percent honest tax the poor ration in a tin and used to come to us and asked how do we have order taxes in russia that's been because they thought that in russia they can get our way with the ok well they certainly can't here why did the commission do this because so there are some estimates there are one hundred twenty million people in the european union itself that are in cyclical probably poverty right now and this is partly one of the major regions because of the financial crisis of two thousand a

>> father john bernard feit. >> father john feit. back then, a catholic priest. >> no evidence in this case right now points us in any other direction. >> so why is he still a free man? by all accounts, irene garza was a remarkable young woman. >> she kind of broke the mold. >> irene's younger cousin, noemi sigler. >> at that time, hispanics stayed on one side of town, anglos lived on another side, and she kind of transcended that. >> she was gentle and sweet and beautiful. >> lynda de la vina is another cousin. >> she was really a role model, and to see how she had gone through college, was a teacher, was a beauty queen and yet was just a very sweet and simple person to us as children. >> but in 1960, the body of this inspiring woman was found face down in this canal. she was 25, the age for thinking about getting married and raising a family. >> she didn't have a life. irene never had that chance. >> irene garza lived in this house in what was a very nice neighborhood near downtown mcallen and remains so today. she lived here with

one of those senators was john kerry. now he's secretary of state, he goes around the world, giving speeches. what is he doing? is he putting my pressure on china or russia to change their policies? >> they are, yes! >> he just came from -- >> to great effect. >> tell me how much influence he really wields. >> there's more and more agreement that this is a real threat to us, that this could fundamentally change geopolitics forever. let me give you one quick example where nuclear weapons and global warming come together. south asia. 135 million people live in coastaly-threatened areas. if the sea change is even close to what experts predict, those people are going to throw that continent into chaos. there's 200 nuclear weapons in india and pakistan. you think it's dangerous now? wait 20 years and 50 years? >> 50 years? can we focus on the fact that iran is getting a nuclear weapon in the next two years. >> we are focusing on that. this is just one speech. >> let me stay on your version of reality. first, do you believe any

>>supervisor john avalos: colleagues, we are adjourned. have a lovely weekend. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> i'd like to introduce our mayor ed lee. >> thank you, thank you all (clapping) wow. what a crowded room as it should be. i want to thank our work supervisors and our treasurer we get to swear in later today and department headings heads and the members of our assessor offices and members of the community past and present members of our board as well. as also, of course, carmen and thank you for the parents of carmen chiu being here and husband and sister thank you for being here as well, and aunt. this is, of course, a month meningitis occasion i've known carmen in my professional life and many of you know her we've worked with her in the mayor's office ages ago and then when she was pickled to be the representative for 4th district it takes encourage to be a supervisor in a district and also to agree to work with each other and try to find grounds of co- less than and agreement and provide lisp for the residents. she's demonstrate

based on all your research john do those journals surprise you. not terribly surprising but i don't think anybody would be terribly surprised by the content of them you know if somebody were following hillary around in the one nine hundred ninety s. wouldn't be shocking to think that she had a low opinion of monica lewinsky you know that you and anybody who's been through you know through a situation like that she was going through you know probably tries to find places to blame probably the other woman probably her husband of course and may even have some self-doubt that's not surprising and in some ways it's humanizing if you feel for somebody that sees a fault in themselves when somebody else you know acts poorly the one thing that i think was was surprising was her reaction to the accusations against bob packwood the former senator who was accused of sexual harassment where she sort of rode off the the women who are making accusations as whiny it's not clear whether those are her words or the interpretation of diane blair or for sentiment but

back to you john. >> kevin thank you. the obama administration gave a green light to banks allowing them to do business with the legal marijuana industry. paul beban has that story. >> good evening. i'm in the lobby of lodo wellness, a retail marijuana shop in downtown denver. you can see the grow shop. a bureau of the treasury department called the financial crimes enforcement project very eagerly received by the industry. they are really hoping that shops like this can start doing business with banks. let's see what an industry rep had to say to me. >> it's a huge development for the industry. up to this point, these businesses had been forced to operate in an almost cash-only environment. paying their taxes, their licensing and utility bills, paying their employees, all of these things had to be done in stacks of cash in the past. >> a very different response from the banks. once the banks had a chance to look at the these guidelines we had a chance to speak to the head of the colorado bankers association and they are

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