the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman.nd by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. as you've heard, eric holder has announced that he's resigning as attorney general. he will leave behind a mixed scorecard -- "a" for civil rights, "c" for civil liberties and "f" for failing to prosecute the banking executives who brought about the financial calamity of 2008. holder let the bankers off the hook individually as he negotiated civil settlements with their institutions for issuing mortgage-backed securities tied to faulty where a federal jury acquitted four mortgage holders charged with fraud after hearing testimony that bank executives had pulled out all the stops to seduce them into taking out those toxic loans. one of the key expert witnesses in that case is with me now. bill black's testimony helped blow up the prosecution's contention that the little guy was the culprit, when in fact it was the bank

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. rarely has a novel been so universally acclaimed as marilynne robinson's "lila." "an unflinching book," says "the new yorker." "an exquisite novel of spiritual redemption and love," reports "the washington post." and that's just for starters in this latest of her books examining the lives of a minister, his wife, their son and neighbors in a fictional town in iowa. the first, "gilead," won marilynne robinson the pulitzer prize. "home" followed. and now "lila," nominated just this week for the national book award, filled, as one reviewer wrote, "with quiet epiphanies." exactly what we've come to expect from marilynne robinson. she has been described as a woman "who speaks in sentences that accumulate into polished paragraphs" with a mind that "skips the stones of a question across its ample surface." and of course th

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman.and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. there are roughly 80 million evangelical christians in america, and for years a majority of their ranks have refused to take global warming seriously. many were swayed by the likes of rush limbaugh, who said, "if you believe in god, then yi6 ñ intellectually you cannot believe in manmade global warming. you must be either agnostic or atheistic to believe that man controls something he can't create." then there is the powerful republican james inhofe of the senate committee on the environment and public works, who said, "god's still up there, and the arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what he is doing in the climate is, to me, outrageous." so it is that while more americans believe global warming is real and caused by human beings, some two-thirds of white evangelical christian

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman.nd by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. even if you're in denial, and i hope you're not -- you know about climate change. everyone can see the wildfires and drought in california. the fatal flash floods in arizona. the punch of a hurricane pounding mexico's baja coast, the strongest in nearly 50 years, battering locals and trapping tourists in their hotels. these disasters are made more powerful by global warming, and it's only going to get worse for us and for future generations. unless we act now. that's why more than 120 world leaders are coming to new york city next tuesday for the u.n.'s global summit on climate -- trying yet again to provoke governments to get on with it -- reduce those carbon emissions that are heating up the atmosphere, before it's too late. so here in new york, in the days leading up to the summit, there's a lot happening to keep t

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. here we go again. >> as i -- as i report to you, air attacks are underway against military targets in iraq. president bill clinton on december 16, 1998 -- -- good evening. earlier today, i ordered america's armed forces to strike military and security targets in iraq. -- my fellow citizens, at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. -- to stop the advance on erbil, i've directed our military to take targeted strikes against isil terrorist convoys should they move toward the city. >> over 23 years, four consecutive presidents have ordered the bombing of iraq by u.s. forces. it's what one of my guests calls the nightmare of groundhog day - facing the same problem, over and again. just a year ago

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. i'll wager that in the first seven pages of this book, "losing our way," you will be hooked. and when you close the final chapter, you will have seen our country as you haven't in a long time -- intimately, through the eyes of a great reporter. his stories take us across america, from the best buy headquarters in minnesota to ordinary homes in allentown, pennsylvania. you will meet jessica gallardo at her high school in brooklyn, and rico and frankie blancaflor of montclair, new jersey, survivors of hurricane sandy. you will never forget what happened in an orchard in afghanistan to lieutenant dan berschinski, and to troy orion tom, the navajo indian from shiprock, new mexico. you'll discover how corporate tough guys "neutron jack" welch and "chainsaw al" dunlap modeled the ceo of the future, blazing away during the

the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman.nd by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. it's unbelievable, and frankly outrageous, that in the last four years, close to half the states in this country have passed laws making it harder for people to vote. but it's true. and whereas once upon a time, in the south of my youth, it was democrats who used the poll tax, literacy tests and outright intimidation to keep black people from voting, today it's the republicans working the levers of suppression, as if something in their dna demands it. listen to one of the founding fathers of the conservative movement, paul weyrich, back in 1980. >> i don't want everybody to vote. elections are not won by a majority of people. they never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. as a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down. >> so, the