itself if they want it it the vast majority of people won't don't to be in medicaid. >> host: john goodman, inindependent institute, the goodman institute. here's the book "a better choice: health care solutions for america." >> next, pulitzer prize-winning journalist micha

amy: that is a clip from "treme" and it was john goodman playing creighton bernette.r thoughts on where new orleans is today and what you're doing with "treme"? from new orleans would probably be better equipped to give you an assessment of the city in detail. wasid "treme" because -- i sort of surprised after "the wire" there were a lot of people who watched it and came to the sort of, i thought, myopic conclusion that we were arguing against the city were against good governance in a city or the idea where the city is the american future. there was a lot of, well, baltimore is moved up, -- messed up, why don't they move? and i live in baltimore. moved to where? this is our future and we either solve this or we don't. i was a little astonished at some of the neoliberal juvenilia that greeted that storytelling. i wanted to make an argument for the city. so here's this place that have been one of america's culturally iconic places, a source of great cultural power in american life. in fact, in terms of the world. 80% destroyed. and now had to come back. spent a lotr, a

(laughter) john goodman is the marlon brando of our age. absolutely brilliant actor.ghter) he is. brilliant actor, right? all right. so what does the ceo have to say about these accusations. >> the founder and ceo of that company, jeff bezos, is issuing a rare response and he is strongly defending his company. bezos is actually encouraging employees to read that article and then email him directly with any allegations of abuse. (laughter) >> larry: you heard right, folks. it's the first time in history someone is encouraging people to send them an email about an article they read. (laughter) come on, bezos! you're supposed to be the cool billionaire, like richard branson, not the evil billionaire, like richard branson. (laughter) right? hey, the guy's complicated. (cheers and applause) but, look, i'll be honest with you. here at "the nightly show," the happiness of our employees is our top priority. in fact, we're so committed to making sure our workplace culture is nothing like amazon's, we've made a lot of changes. for instance, we recently hired platinum hip-hop re

. >> host: john goodman, independent institute, the goodman institute. here is the book, "a better choice: health care solutions for america." >> you're watching booktv, television for serious readers. you can watch any program you see here online at booktv.org. >> host: and now joining us on booktv is wendy pearlman who is a professor of political science at northwestern university. professor, what was your to north western? how'd you get here? >> guest: how'd i get here? well, i did my ph in political science at harvard. i began with middle east politics during a college semester abroad in morocco, got hooked on the arab world and the middle east and have been doing it ever since. eventually, roads led me to the israeli-palestinian conflicts where i did work both as a student and a human rights working before graduate school, and that became the topic of my dissertation and this book. >> host: where'd you grow up? >> guest: lincoln, nebraska. it was a long route to morocco. it was actually my first time outside the united states, and i think i got hook

. >> host: john goodman, inindependent institute, the goodman institute. here's the book "a better choice: health care solutions for america." >> next, pulitzer prize-winning journalist michael hiltzik talks about scientific technological endeavors. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, everyone. we're going to get started. my name is candace. i work with the events here at politics and prose. we have a lot of events coming up. i encourage you grab a calendar on the way out tonight. sign up for the e-mail list as well as look automobile for events in -- online for events in september. tonight, first thing you check again to make sure your cell phones are on silent or off so that doesn't distract our time here. what we'll do is have about an hour-long event, half the time presentation from our speaker and then half the time for questions. we have a microphone over here. if you wouldn't mind directing your question to that mic, we are recording. c-span is here, and it helps us to catch your question on the recording. so, makes for a more full recording.

the all-star cast includes diane keaton, john goodman, ed helms, alan arkin, al roker, willie geist. take a look. >> this is the only time of year when we are together. i want everyone to have the memory of a perfect christmas. >> next stop. >> the one, the only -- santa! yay! and santa's army of helpers. >> really? >> eleanor is looking for the perfect guy. >> every time i go home i'm told it's okay i'm not in a relationship. >> be my boyfriend for one night. >> no way. >> you would make my parents happy. all we have to figure out is how long we have been together -- and what your name is. >> her sister emma is looking for the perfect gift. [ coughs ] >> this is a misunderstanding. >> how did the jewels get in your mouth. >> i thought it was a lozenge. >> that's amazing. >> wow. >> the film comes from the producers of the family stone. it hits theaters november 13. mark your calendar. to the biggest paychecks on television. forbes list of highest paid tv actors. it pays to be in a sit com. here is the first thing. the top five, ten actors. i'm about to explain starting at 5. it's a

john f. kennedy's first senate campaign, and her homemaker mother, edith. but goodmanonly realized the consequences of leaving certain things unsaid about a dozen years ago, when her mother's health started to fail. >> i think we all have this fantasy that we're going to live to 90 and then, kaboom, you know? but, in fact, the reality is that many of us will face a long period of being frail and declining. and i would say that my mother began to decline somewhere in her 80s, really. >> reporter: after her mother moved to a long-term care facility a few miles away, goodman found herself making medical decisions she hadn't dreamed of, especially because edith began to suffer from dementia. >> my mother could really no longer decide what she wanted for lunch, let alone what she wanted for health care decisions. so, i was faced with a kind of cascading number of decisions for which i was unprepared. in fact, blindsided. and i remember particularly one day when i got a call on the phone and i was on deadline. and the doctor said to me, "your mother has another bout of pneum

goodman. we are broadcasting from venice, italy. but secretary of state johnrry is headed to cuba for a ceremony friday to open the u.s. embassy in havana. we turn now to an artist here in vienna who used art to challenge the u.s. embargo of cuba. duke riley spent four years planning and eight months breeding and homing a kit of 50 pigeons in key west, florida. his goal was to prove that pigeons could make the 90-mile flight from havana back to key west carrion -- caring cuban cigars, which is illegal in the united states. riley also installed video cameras on the pigeons. he began with 50 pigeons, 11 returned. duke riley called the project, "trading with the enemy." duke riley joins us here in venice, italy at the venice biennale, the oldest, most prestigious art exhibition in the world. duke, welcome to democracy now! what you did. people are scratching their heads. >> well, pretty much what you described. i'm pretty much impressed use the word "kit." basically, i trained -- spent about four years planning and about eight months training some homing pigeons

policy, and ambassador nicholas burns, roy and barbara goodman family professor of diplomacy and international relations at harvard university, john f. kennedy school of government. we welcome all of you here. to the banking committee and all of use with investment will be made part of the hearing record in its entirety, and when we get seated we will proceed. mr. zarate spoke like a karate but with ac. yes, sir. we will start with you, sir. when you're ready. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ranking member brown, distinguished them as the committee, i'm honored to testify before you to discuss the sanctions applications of the iran nuclear agreement. i approach to be testify with my petal panelists whose work i've admired for years. i take this responsibility seriously, given the gravity and applications of this agreement. i come to this issue we could use a port experience dealing with iran and the treasury department to the national security council. i know all involved including my good friend and former colleague adam zubin the juice testified have been working incredibly hard towards a peaceful solution to the iranian nuclear pro

john hurt. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez.ce 1998, more than 5 million people have died in the democratic republic of congo in what has been described as the deadliest documented conflict in african history. much of the fighting has been over precious minerals, including tin and gold. tantalum has become a precious commodity in the digital age, found in cell phones, dvd players, laptops, and hard drives. human rights groups have long pushed for mandatory labeling of so-called conflict minerals in order to allow consumers and investors to avoid fueling the bloody conflict through the purchase of their products. the mandatory disclosure policy became law as part of the 2010 dodd-frank wall street reform act. amy: but this week, a court has ruled the sec cannot force companies to disclose whether minerals come from the democratic republic of congo because the mandatory labeling would violate the companies freedom of speech. for more we go now to washington, d.c., where we're joined by zorka milin, a senior legal advisor with glob

goodman. on the 70th anniversary of the u.s. bombing of the japanese cities of hiroshima john dear and nagasaki, we continued my interview with thecclaimed japanese novelist, when of the 1994 nobel prize for literature, kenzaburo oe, who is spoken out in defense of japan's pacifist constitution and now 80 years old, one of japan's most respected intellectuals and humanitarians. i met with him in tokyo at his publisher's office and asked him about his book "okinawa notes" or he will about the mass suicide -- where he wrote about the mass suicide. >> following the war was 10 years old is when japan became a democratic country and oddly japan also became a pacifist country. the okinawa islands was separated from japan at this time post of the islands of okinawa became a base for the united states. this became perhaps one of the largest united states bases within asia and this is continuing until today. because of this, in one sense a reality or fact that the presence of the united states bases here in okinawa have meant that innocence japan is been protected from foreign agents in this time and also japan is part within u.s. nuclear

goodman. today the united states and cuba are taking the next step in restoring diplomatic relations with each other. secretary of state john kerry arrived in havana this morning to attend a ceremony marking the re-opening of the u.s. embassy there. joining him are three marines who lowered the flag at the embassy in 1961, after the two countries cut off ties when fidel castro toppled the u.s.-backed government of fulgencio batista. the same marines will raise the flag over the embassy. we will have more after headlines. the greek parliament passed a daybreakon deal around this morning after contentious all-night debate. the draft terms of the agreement include harsh austerity measures. it does not include any debt relief. widerogram passed by margin. the prime minister tsipras faced a growing rebellion within his own left-leaning cerise a party which came to power promising to fight against austerity. nearly a third of syriza lawmakers voted against the bill, including former finance minister yanis varofakis, who blasted the vote as "humiliating" and "non-viable." officials say tsipras is planning to hold a vote of confide

former cia director porter goss and john negroponte served as director of state, director of national intelligence and u.n. ambassador and amy goodman trade views. >>> my name's bernard firestone, i'm the deen of the college of liberal arts and sciences here at hofstra. it's my pleasure to welcome you both to the bush conference and to this forum which is entitled the bush doctrine and combatting terrorism. we have with us two government officials, journalist, academics, who will comment on the presentations. we have no formal academic papers at this particular forum. but our participants will offer some remarks approximately 10 to 12 minutes in length. then they'll be an opportunity for them to ask one another questions. and then there will be the opportunity for you in the audience to ask questions as well. i'm going to introduce everyone on this panel as quickly as i can because we're more interested in what they have to say. i would alert you however this is going until 4:20. at 4:10 director goss and ambassador negroponte have to leaf. i don't think they'll make any particular statement if they leave before this is done. porter

. >> host: john goodman, you write as one of the six problems -- or one of the six solutions, real insurance. what do you mean by real insurance. >> guest: president obama said we're going to end discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions. it's true right now insurance companies can't turn you down or exclude you because of a pre-existing illness, but what we're seeing is this race to the bottom in these exchanges, these very narrow networks. be you're a heart patient, you could find out there's no heart doctor within 50 miles of you. that, i think, is intolerable, and there's a much better way of doing it. i think the premium the individual pays shouldn't be based on his health condition, but there needs to be something in addition to that so that the insurer gets an actuarially fair premium. if that happens, then we'll have insurers competing on a level playing field. >> host: part of the debate that we've had on health care in this nation is whether or not health caring is a right. >> guest: no place in the world has made health care a right. if you live in canada, you don