your -- john muir. this was hosted by the california historical society, as a part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the wilderness act. >> we want to hear harold would tonight. he will give us an incredible journey through john muir's life. that legacy is stronger than ever. i'm looking forward to hearing you talk. i promise to be relatively brief here and just say a few words of welcome. and thank you all for coming. i want to say that i really am a huge fan of the two organizations that had us here tonight. the california historical society, what a great place for great work that is preserving our cultural and historic heritage here in california. and the partner, the sierra club. for all of the great work it has been doing since 1892 to protect our natural landscapes here and throughout the nation. what a legacy. a couple of quick questions, how many of you have been to yosemite before? that is good. how about sequoia? kings canyon? let's not leave those guys out. sequoia is our second

following him john muir -- following in john yours footsteps. been one of the greatest athletes of the 19th century. saunter and climb glaciers and get into the backcountry of southeast alaska and all of these places he went all over the world, twitterverse interpret them and care about them and help protect them. i lived in alaska for a long time and was still deeply involved. john muir went into alaska in ,he late 1870's, 1880's, 1890's the first anglo european to sort glaciers.o the many of you read his stories of adventure and discovery in that landscape all those years ago. 1899 he was on board the harem expedition. how many of you saw butch cassidy and the sundance kid? the canes -- the trains they kept robbing -- he was a person. the writings of meurer and the played anf muir instrumental role to begin the protection of the national forest. it became the largest forest inside the united states, still at risk and still battles being for -- battles being fought. we have our own personal specific memories. it is extraordinary to think about

john: what world are they looking at, john?n: this is what people believe. >> recently 500 million people escaped extreme poverty in china. escap in pure numbers this is the greatest reduction of poverty in human history. going on all around us. this process of trade and development that is doing it. the problem is -- john: same globalization they hate lifted people out of poverty. >> if i gave awe list of sweatshop countries in 1960, that list would be hong kong, taiwan, singapore, south korea. all countries in a generationtaw did what took us over 100 years in the united states to do, is grow from preindustrial to something at that looks like post-sweatshop first world standards of living. john: another myth, everyone should go to college the cost of college is now absurd. someplaces 50, $60,000 per year0 over the past 30 years, inflation was 160%. we're upset that health care costs grew more, 400%. but college tuition rose 750%. why would that be? because of government handouts. as government increased financial aid, college

john: why? everything happens from the stars? it makes no sense. dozens of studies have debunked astrology. i'll explain how many aastrologers fool people in the show. ask the editor of skeptic magazine, michael shermer, wrote the believing brain, how we construct beliefs and reinforce them. our brains are faulty, michael? it leads us to believe in nonsense? >> i wouldn't say they're faulty. they believe in nonsense because we believe everything we hear or see or read about orrer told by others, and evolutionary reason for that. imagine you are ancient human on the planes of africa and you hear a rustel in the grass, is it a dangerous predator or just the wind? if you assume it's just the wind, no harm done, you are skiddish or whatever. if you believe the rustel in the grass is just the wind and turns out it's a dangerous predator, you're lunch. you have been taken out of the gene pool by a predator. we're the descendants of those most likely to believe everything is real, just in case it is. o

john: thank you, betty.bamacare happen because democrats and some republicans, let's not forget mitt romney, said consumers can't be trusted to arrange their own health care. some people don't buy health insurance am or if they do come in the plans that they choose are not good enough. some people wait until they get sick and they rush to high-cost emergency rooms. and whatever we think and whatever the critics say, it is true that more people have health insurance. >> the final stores speaks for itself, there are 7.5 million people across the country that have the security of health insurance and most of them for the very first time. >> that's your than they had predicted and now they are saying 9.5 million will have signed up by this winter but they originally thought it was these 13 million. still, 7 million new people have health insurance and doctor kathleen london is thrilled about that. but she said to she and the president missed the point. >> the number of people who signed up on the exchange is in

john: really?> for the first time in our lives, social media profiles, facebook, instagram are a direct reflection who we are off-line, when people post something about charity, they think they're donating when sometimes they are participating. john: i like this ad from unicef. "like" us on facebook, that's what you do, "like" it. "like" us on facebook, we'll vaccinate zero children. >> definitely. it was a head-on marketing effort, smart, and it was saying if you want to help, donate money, don't "like" us on facebook, follow us on twitter. "likes" aren't going to save a children, monetary contributions will. john: still this stupid movember mustache campaign did raise 22 million dollars. >> definitely, celebrities have done amazing markets effort and people get behind it because it's fun, and guys can relate to it. use an excuse to grow a mustache. however, it has almost diluted the message, and the message is saturated that people forget what it's all about, and why they're doing it. john: but t

john: thank you, betty.bamacare happen because democrats and some republicans, let's not forget mitt romney, said consumers can't be trusted to arrange their own health care. some people don't buy health insurance am or if they do come in the plans that they choose are not good enough. some people wait until they get sick and they rush to high-cost emergency rooms. and whatever we think and whatever the critics say, it is true that more people have health insurance. >> the final stores speaks for itself, there are 7.5 million people across the country that have the security of health insurance and most of them for the very first time. >> that's your than they had predicted and now they are saying 9.5 million will have signed up by this winter but they originally thought it was these 13 million. still, 7 million new people have health insurance and doctor kathleen london is thrilled about that. but she said to she and the president missed the point. >> the number of people who signed up on the exchange is in

john: why? it makes no sense, dozens of studies have debunked astrology. first, why do so many people believe? let's ask editor of skeptic magazine. michael schumer, he wrote the book, the believing brain, we construct beliefs and reinforce them, our brains are faulty? >> they are not faulty but they believe in nonsense because we believe just about everything we hear or see or read about or told by others, there is a reason for that, imagine you are a human on plains of africa millions of years ago, you hear a. the grass moving, you believe it is the wind, it turns out it is a predator could you are lunch. you have just been taken out of the gene pool. >> and you don't give birth to people who give birth to us. >> we're descendents to those who are most likely to believe everything is real, just in case it is. our brains are like lawyers, marshals the evidence to form your case. whatever it is. you just fine evidence to fit it, you ignore the evidence that does not fit it. john: believe believe

john led. as we were walking towards the bridge, john would point out the different stores -- stories of where they were. he looked to an old woolworth's. you know what he told me? they would not let me eat at the counter. i wente in nashville into woolworth and tried to eat at the counter, and he was arrested. we crossed the bridge in peace that day with thousands behind us. but when john led that march across the same bridge in 1965, he was beaten by a mob of state troopers and deputized citizens. he cannot remember who carried him, but he was wounded and bloody. john was taken away tweet church with a head injury. they did not know if he would live. bridge, ied to the asked him where the park was where it happened. he said i could not remember from this point on. it is easy to see john showed physical courage. but he has also demonstrated the highest moral courage. under this onslaught of brutality and uncertainty, john did not match violence with violence. he stood with dr. martin luther ki

john dingell. john dingell, mr. speaker, will go down in u.s. history as being one of the most powerful house committee chairmen of all time. that's why, mr. speaker, around washington, d.c., throughout the nation, throughout this congress, he was and will continue to be respectfully known as the lion of the house. the lion of the house. that -- may aspire, aspire that honor to his forceful personality, mr. speaker in my experience with john and watching john operate as chairman, he used a scalpel more than a sledgehammer to score his legislative wins and to gather up and earn the respect of all the members, not only of the committee on energy and commerce, but the members of this house on both sides of the aisle. many would say that the secret to john's success has been his rivaled mastery of parliamentary procedure and his institutional memory. i would agree that he has superb parliamentary knowledge -- knowledge of the parliamentary procedure and has essence of his institutional memory. but what

that's next john: you . john: you want 30,000 bucks?ay give its citizens that every year. here's coverage of a promotion for the ballot measure. >> cash by the truck load. the proposed basic income initiative arrived with a splash, and the promise of 2,000 euro a month for every swiss citizen. intended to let them live without basic financial worry. john: live without financial worry. what a great idea says elizabeth nolan brown, editor at reason.com. no, it's a terrible idea says economist ed stringam. so elizabeth. you got to convince me. why is this a good idea? people waste the money and the government will say you have to spend more. >> i don't know they agree exactly with the plan that they have. they are all different versions, milton friedman proposed a version of this. it's not an anti-libertarian position, per se. >> and my hero wrote a plan to replace welfare state gives everyone 10,000 bucks. >> the welfare system is so huge, so inefficient, it has the different rules and application requirement, all the agencies administeri

john: i need to go to their place. to my place. >> we want to put the empowerment into the cook's hands. they determine what the menu is, where it is going to be and the price point around it. john: use certified these people, you do a background check? i am thinking this is like the chinese massaged business. i don't want to go there. >> if you look at the biggest trends that are happening across all of these platforms, turning from pipe 2 platforms, transportation, housing and eating, and you see that air bnb changed the housing came. >> how do you make money? >> multistate shedding process and also a community vetting as well. you have the option to raid it. john: the web site? >> www. feasty.com. we are in san francisco, new york, d.c. and chicago. john: the fbi officially blaming the sony hack on north korea, we have all the angles covered two minutes away. she's still the one for you. and cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat

he said it had been given to him by a man named john thompson. >> john thompson was a low level drug dealer and fence. he grew up in the projects in new orleans, was raised mostly by his grandmother. his father was a career criminal. >> ritchie perkins confronted mr. thompson after the fact and got mr. thompson to confess that he was the one that killed mr. liuzza. >> perkins said thompson had an accomplice named kevin freeman. police arrested freeman and thompson. >> the story that kevin freeman told police was that he and john thompson had been driving home together and the car had run out of gas. ray liuzza drove past them, parked and began to walk across the street to his apartment. at that point he said i'm going to hit that guy and pulled a gun out of his pocket. >> and then mr. freeman got cold feet, if you will and decided he didn't want any part of it. and as he was running away, freeman said he heard the shots. >> the police charged freeman and thompson with murder. the local prosecutor wanted the death penalty for thompson, but knew it would be an uphill battle because tho

i love john mcvay. >> john mcvay did a great job of putting this together.he was able to do upstairs. i think it poured into the players downstairs and i think he is the reason why we were able to win so many championships. >> the best offensive draft pick that we were ever a part of. how about joe montana? believe it or not, we took joe in the third round with dallas' pick. we get to the third round and bill says, i really like montana. call somebody at notre dame. i said, okay. i know the back field coach there. jimmy gruden. and he was john gruden's dad. tell me about montana. i said he is just sitting there. he said just take him. so we got montana and that was a gift from heaven. >>> whether it was the football gods shining down on the bay, great timing, astute decision making or a combination of all three, john mcvay worked behind the scenes to make move after move to better the franchise. but still, he was behind the scenes. the only thing greater than mcvay's understanding is what it would take to achieve greatness was his humbleness within the organ

john boehner sign onto this. again, he keeps the government open. and that was a short-term priority. but medium and long-term the president gets his health care and immigration priorities moving forward. that's not what rank and file conservatives want. there are republican leaders tonight saying, look, what we did was set the stage for big battles ahead next year. we'll see. we've heard that before. we're going to repeal obamacare. we're going to do this and then republican leaders don't follow through. we'll see whether their base is upset tonight or not, sean. >> ed, the speaker would have had more leverage with the majority of congress coming in in january here. as you pointed out health care is funded, obamacare's funded through october now of next year. immigration will come up, what, some time in february. >> february. >> there's no telling what they're going to do there either. the question is if every republican ran on the idea of repealing health care and replacing it, that's off the table now pretty m

ceremonial item in honor of john paul scott. former deputy director for architectural access on disability. >> at this point i would like to ask john paul scott to come to the podium and stand with me. i think i need to clairerify -- that we are here to honor john paul scott. it's not in the context that we are losing john paul scott. john paul scott is a resource and a person very much still with us. what he did recently was he left our office, the mayor's office on disability and accepted a promotion at the department of public works. when he first shared with me his change, his plan, my first thought was panic and incredible loss. the next thought i had was just being so proud of him for choosing to take a new path to take on new challenges to really chart a route where he can continue more of his amazing work that heats done with us. so given that, i gave him my full blessing and my full support and i'm very proud that he's gone now to the department of public works to serve another one of our disability access coordinate or

at this point, i'd like to welcome john bassett iii to st. john's. [applause] >> looking forward to hearing from you tonight, sir. i'd also particularly like to welcome any folks who are here from henry county, bassett, and galax, i think you all share the spotlight in this as well. >>> i could tell you about all of the amazing awards that beth macy has won for her writing, hello, anymoran fellow. but the real mark of her gift as a journalist shines in a simple question: how many of you remember a specific beth macy story? by a show of hands, how many of you remember young selena, who made it to harvard with the whole community of the library patrons cheering her on. [applause] >> or beth's award-winning stories about the somali refugees that were coming to live in our community, where the children were going do bus stops where 12 languages were spoken. or her series.teen mothers. or how families were navigating care giving for elderly loved ones 0, are maybe what comes to mind is one of her food columns that, now covered in grease staines, instruct

john: finally. you know what this is it's called a growler people bring this to a grocery store or a specialty brewer to get it filled with their favorite craft beer not in florida. >> they'll come and bring their bottle and see we say werk fill them. >> it has to go through an outside distributor before it goes to any restaurant or bars. >> he supported a bill to legalize them, but first he wants his friend a political donor to approve his decision. >> now, he says that's not fair. i was consulting with all my stints. but it is the rule. >> you must not be consulting with the consumers of florida who want cheaper better quality beer out of growlers. (?) you can buy a barrel of beer in florida, but you can't buy a 60-ounce growler. >> i assume they're not idiots. there's some reasons for these rules. >> to keep out competition. big beer companies don't want the craft beers to compete. it's very expensive for for them to bottle and can their beverages. >> interior decorators, hair braiders, floor san

john adams he was smart. he knew it and he wanted you to know it in may had then obnoxious about it. the apple did not fall far from the tree. if you do anything from the hbo series you recall young johnny was the very intelligent young man debra. a couple of other things that make him worth remembering. john quincy adams came of age during the american revolution. even before he was the teenager to witness the birth of diplomacy when he returned to the united states. as ambassador to the netherlands with president madison. and under president monroe been credited with extending borders. he follows the success with a single failure that he is elected president of united states of america. from the low point of his life his presidency is regarded as a failure but it is worth noting that his vision the he laid out for the government is the most progressive vision that you see in washington for at least 100 years of not more and though fdr becomes president. he then runs for office afterwards in american politic

well. >> jimmy john's. >> it's not just jimmy john's that's taken up this practice. according to the new york times workers ranging from hairstylists to summer camp counselors to yoga instructors are now required to sign such agreements. that's gotten the attention of congress. linda sanchez along with 36 of her colleagues wrote the department of labor asking them to investigate. >> i thought it was ridiculous. you're talking about workers on probably the lowest end of the pay scale. these are not corporate executives that have inside information and trade secrets. and it's using fear and intimidation to just try ocontrol what you know employee choices are. >> as for kaitlin and emily both would like to go away to college. kaitlin recently got engaged and wants to become a vet. emily's thinking of pursuing a degree in social work. as students, a part time job would help them with expenses. >> i want to try to leave and try something different but i feel like scared to leave. i don't know if i'll be able to find something else. >> when i was thinking of leaving the fi

john dingell. john dingell, mr. speaker, will go down in u.s. history as being one of the most powerful house committee chairmen of all time. that's why, mr. speaker, around washington, d.c., throughout the nation, throughout this congress, he was and will continue to be respectfully known as the lion of the house. the lion of the house. that -- may aspire, aspire that honor to his forceful personality, mr. speaker in my experience with john and watching john operate as chairman, he used a scalpel more than a sledgehammer to score his legislative wins and to gather up and earn the respect of all the members, not only of the committee on energy and commerce, but the members of this house on both sides of the aisle. many would say that the secret to john's success has been his rivaled mastery of parliamentary procedure and his institutional memory. i would agree that he has superb parliamentary knowledge -- knowledge of the parliamentary procedure and has essence of his institutional memory. but what

john wilkes booth.ate and well-admired man on the path to become one of the greatest actors of his time is reduced by history to a two-dimensional skround rel and dismissed as a madman. >> it's all right. for god's sakes, save the fight. >> mr. booth. >> why mr. mccollum. >> mr. booth, i'm so very sorry. >> come, come, old fellow. you look as if you had lost the blood. not another word. now if you had got my eye, that would have been bad. but you didn't. and it was -- well, it was splendid! >> that is john wilkes booth. bosh and raised in maryland, a border state, a slave state that did not secede from the union. john wilkes booth is also a southern zealot whose hatred of abraham lincoln is nothing less than fanatical. in october of 1864, booth makes contact with a confederate secret service and shortly after lincoln's re-election, he determines to kidnap the president. he stops in philadelphia to visit his sister aja and there he writes a letter. >> to whom it may concern, right or wrong, god judge me,

john: thank you.ecurity firm telling the fbi that may have been a disgruntled employee not north korea, that pull off the big sony hack. david kennedy has been saying that all along and he joins us after this. >> the actual evidence is extremely loose. it happens to come down to what the actual language was they made a coating in which happened to the korean. there is not enough evidence to make a judgment one way or the other. they are using what is publicly available on the internet to create these malicious software and it was very specific to sony. they had hard coded passwords infrastructure, this looks just like an inside job. maybe some help from the outside. a checking the date board right now. the dow is down 26. what a year it has been for oil. it has been good news for gas prices. you know it when you go fill up the car. price of regular gas now down more than $1 a gallon since this time last year. aaa tells us that americans are saving. the state average for regular is now below $2 a gallo

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and john mccain stood up and it was game, set, match.'s call it off. >> john walcott i want to go back to this question. what the cia does use in the report. i know they have a dispute over whether any valuable intelligence was gained through these enhanced interrogation techniques. was there anything else in the report that the cia is disputing? >> that is the main dispute. they claim that these techniques yielded valuable intelligence. after reading the report and going through the footnotes, a lot of their own officials dispute that. the report does a thorough job of tearing apart that assertion. >> john one of the key issues seems to be the claims and senator feinstein was very aggressive in making the point about general hayden that there is a web of the notion that there was a lot of deception. there were lies systematically taken to the white house and the american people. how much of that information in the report is also new and puts the cia on the defensive in terms of justifying what it did in that area? >> you are right to si

john? >> this is not highly unlikely. admiral rogers, just last month said it's not a matter if, it's a matter of when. we have been hacked by the chinese for over 15 years now. sanctions do not work. if north korea is to blame, i'm for taking him out. china, we have hacked them, they have hacked us. same the beijing and russia. the problem are the rogue states. iran says they have the second largest cyber army in the world and they spend a lot of money trying to get back at us for what we probably, tongue and cheek said we did with melting down their nuclear reactor. we need to decentralize our grid. we need more hackers. we need 20,000 to 30,0 00. that's where we need to focus. >> with more anti-police protests popping up. police departments seeing their budget blow up. neil and the crew asking if they are doing good. that's at the bottom of the hour. up first, more states buckling the demands and hiking minimum wage on january 1st. is that why more companies are replacing workers with robots thanks. ♪ [ male announcer

i would compare that to instagram here. >> john tamny, you're shaking your head no. go ahead. >> well, i'll all for de blasio defending the police as he should, but i just don't buy the idea that this wouldn't happen without him. i'm sorry. there are certain people out there who are a bit nuts, and they are going to do this and you're not going to change that but the good news ask the vast majority of people are not murderers. so the idea of us actively policing a lot of funny statements on social media is just a dangerous path for country. >> it doesn't take much, steve, to set some of these people off. i wouldn't be surprised if the shooter that killed the new york cops was in some way motivated to go out there and do what he did by some of the rhetoric he'd been hearing. >> yes. those things can push strange, nutty people over the edge to do something they are only fantasizing about. that's true. again, that gets to public officials, media and public officials have a responsibility to tamp things down, not em flame them and call people out doing things they should

. >> hello, i'm john burma. >> that makes me michaela pereira. welcome to thursday. >> it is a crucial day for the director of the central intelligence agency. in just a couple of hours, john brennan will face serious questions about the new scathing report on cia interrogation tactics after september 11th. the report says that the tactics including waterboarding, mock executions and more. the report says they did not work. it also says that much of what the cia was doing was kept from president bush. >> brennan's appearance comes as a key senate democrat, mark udall of colorado is calling for his resignation and as former vice president dick chain nay weighs in to defend cia tactics now under increasing fire. joining us senior white house correspondent jim acosta and our justice reporter evan perez. jim, i'll start with you. you've got to know what the white house is saying this morning about the report. >> reporter: so far their posture has not changed. they are still not answering two very basic questions. one is should federal prosecutors go

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at this point, i'd like to welcome john bassett iii to st. john's. [applause] >> looking forward to hearing from you tonight, sir. i'd also particularly like to welcome any folks who are here from henry county, bassett, and galax, i think you all share the spotlight in this as well. >>> i could tell you about all of the amazing awards that beth macy has won for her writing, hello, anymoran fellow. but the real mark of her gift as a journalist shines in a simple question: how many of you remember a specific beth macy story? by a show of hands, how many of you remember young selena, who made it to harvard with the whole community of the library patrons cheering her on. [applause] >> or beth's award-winning stories about the somali refugees that were coming to live in our community, where the children were going do bus stops where 12 languages were spoken. or her series.teen mothers. or how families were navigating care giving for elderly loved ones 0, are maybe what comes to mind is one of her food columns that, now covered in grease staines, instruct

john? >> mike viqueira, thank you.mer republican congressman pete hoekstra served from 2004 to 2006. he is in washington, d.c. tonight. congressman, welcome. let me just ask you first of what you thought of what the cia directliar had to say -- director had to say today. >> i thought john brennan did a nice job of explaining a very difficult situation and taking very complex actions and putting them in ways that i think maybe the american people and the rest of the world will understand. >> do you believe the techniques like waterboarding are torture? >> no. i mean one of the things that was not covered in this report from the senate was that republicans and democrats in the house and in the senate were briefed on these programs. we were briefed on the legality. we were briefed on exactly what the techniques were, and we all reached the conclusion that this was not torture and they fell within the framework of u.s. law as techniques and paralysis that could be used -- prac at thises that could be used at the time they

john?> what about congress? there is opposition, right? >> plenty of opposition. the republicans in congress in the house and senate have said that a first priority for them in the new year will be to get a bill passed that would put tougher sanctions on iran. the current leadership if iran is more moderate since mahmoud adjads stepped down but reports he is likely to attempt a comeback. in 2005 while in power he said israel a key u.s. ally should be, quote, wiped off the map. israeli prime minister netanyahu hasn't responded to obama's openness into an embassy in iran but he supported more and it tougher sanctions. here's a cosponsor of the bill that would do just that. >> we have the hammer of a sanctions ready to go. we got to make sure that if iran promises not make nuclear weapons it doesn't make them. >> reporter: senator kirk says he has bipartisan support for this bill. it will be coming up early in the session. he is working on getting the 67 senators necessary to overcome what is