our guest is nicholas kristof.was written the rig -- a week ago, but timely given with what we are dealing with wisteria. he says this. we started with a fairly narrow objective against the islamic state in syria expanding those airstrikes. now we have expanded it to a motive front war. about course on and how it links to al qaeda and isis. >> it is linked to the founders russ front -- the al nusra front. attacks inlanned europe or in the u.s., perhaps by concealing bombs in laptops or cell phones. i think it ministration thought it would use the occasion of bombing isis by also bombing them. we don't have great intelligence in syria. but that's what it comes down to. but the last 3.5 years, we've basically -- >> that's what it comes down to. >> the last 3.5 years, we've basically blown it. the president has reversed briefing ofn a senior it ministration officials it.s in, they talked about >> is this like charades? really as they anticipated between the islamic world and others, but between the sunni and shia worl

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kristofer petersen-overton is an adjunct lecturer of political science at lehman college. brooklyn college initially decided not to hire kristofer petersen-overton is an adjunct professor for seminar on middle east politics. but the school reversed its decision after criticism that the decision was politically motivated. joins us,ine franke professor of law at columbia university and the director of the center for gender and sexuality law. she recently canceled a lecture series at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign in protest of steven salaita's un-hiring. talk about the facts of this case and now you got involved. >> professor steven salaita was previously professor at virginia tech university. he had a well-known dossier of books and articles thinking critically about the relationship between native people in the political environment in which they lived. hard questions about his possession, belonging, state violence and identity and because of that important scholarly record, the university of illinois when after him. .n a frilly way unlike what they're doin

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that's nicholas kristof.e were hoping last week that the mother's plea might save his life. >> it's heartbreaking for anybody who has reported out in the field like that, that it sends a shiver down your spine. and i hope we remember steven sotloff not for that beheading video, not him in those orange cover-alls, but for the extraordinary work he did from yemen, from syria, from libya, from egypt. >> isis was very specific in their video message today to president obama. they say they were doing this in response to the air strikes that allowed the locals to be able to take control of their town from isis. does that mean that the air strikes are working? that they are upsetting isis? >> i mean, the irony, the great irony here is that isis are the only people who seem to think that obama has been particularly aggressive or effective in striking them. and, i mean, clearly those air strikes have had some impact. i think it's also clear that they've been kind of marginal overall. >> but today is the second beheadi

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kristof speaks very good polish, and i can speak relatively good german. so we can communicate, and we understand each other. >> german and polish police have been patrolling together since 2007. without the cross-border agreement, the police would each have to stay on their own side of the bridge while criminals got away. >> criminals do not care about borders, and they do not stop at them, so our police work needs to extend across the border as well. that's why it is so important that we have joint patrols and echange information especially in border regions. >> crime in the region has increased steadily ever since border patrols largely ceased in 2007. last year, the eastern german state of brandenburg saw a 10% increase. car thieves often take advantage of the open border to head east in the stolen vehicles. german and polish customs officers and police work side-by-side at the joint command center. if a suspect crosses the border, the polish colleagues are informed, and they continue the pursuit. this past year, the pilot project recovered more than 5

i saw nicolas kristof in the new york times, white guy, write a piece about this, other white columnistsnd pundits that try to raise this issue, this notion of white skinned fr ened privil what is there to be done in america, anything? >> there's plenty to be done. the real question is, how do we generate the will to do it, but more to your question about implicit bias. there's been interesting research how implicit bias shapes large interactions, for example, the article you refer speaks to doctors giving african-americans less pain medicine, even when their symptoms are as or more acute, so clearly, these aren't individuals harboring, necessarily, racial attitudes that are explicitly, intentionally negative, but that a set of perceptions, deep-seeded perceptions about black people, about their bodies, about their minds, about their value, about whether or not they are safe for society, but i think what we really want to ask are bigger questions about the workings of structural racism. how does that whole system and process work to produce significant racial inequality, and then we're n

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join me next time for a conversation with pulitzer prize winning author nicholas kristof. you then. >>> penned by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.?)xg >> welcome to the program. the united nations general assembly begins its annual meeting this week in new york city. and we talk to a series of heads of state and government leaders. we begin this evening with recep tayyip erdogan, the president of turkey. >> whatever is required in this effort, needs to be done. and turkey will do whatever it needs to do based on its own experience. and we have been sending out warnings for a long time. in syria we had sounded that alarm a long time ago. but whereas the u.s. and syria, as i said at the nato summit, the issue is not only iraq, it's iraq an syria. and so it's important to take the two together. >> the president of turkey for the hour next.

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. >> i'm sure you saw this article by nicholas kristof in the "new york times"? just don't get it i think he is talking but because he mentions you. >> of course he is talking about me. >> he demonstrates when it talks to net worth, income, employment,. >> yes. >> life expectancy, incarceration rate. that whites are doing much better than african-americans. >> andations are doing much better than whites. >> isn't that right privilege? >> is it asian priferlg thattation does better than whites? >> here we are talking about there is a white privilege in america there isn't, that's a myth. >> what is it? >> you have to look at the successful people and what makes them successful. therefore, i took thation american community and i said, here's why they make more money than whites and blacks because they keep the family together because there is emphasis on education parental supervision of children. those things in the asian american communities are in stone while it's eroding in the whites and almost nonexistent in the black areas. the government cannot solve those

joining me is columnist nick kristof.d in a lot of dangerous places over your career and you wrote a powerful piece in the times just how much is at stake. you said my heart broke for seempb sotloff, the second american journalist beheaded in syria and you say one of the biggest changes i've seen in my career is an that journalists and aid workers have become targets. groups now see journalists as captives and subject captives to abuse and torture. why the change? >> i think part of it is is that radical groups used to depend to some degree as a channel out. these days they've got youtube and twitter and there tends to be more an anti-western ideology that motivates them. we're part of their business model. they can monetize us, particularly since european countries have been paying ran some that creates incentive for any bandit to the kidnap a journalist and sell him to a jihadi group. >> it's a big policy challenge that's very much out in the open in the international debate on this. the u.s. has a policy not to pay ran

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you mentioned the republicans, someone that would support the president is nicholas kristof and the newcomment, his >> if isis were top priority for president obama, if he believed it was a critical national security threat and intended to destroy them, then the united states would be sending a fighting force on the ground to iraq and syria. that is clearly not what we are doing. this is not that kind of threat to the u.s.. tone.lance is the right americans are reluctant but we also want other people to support us and write the check. that's why the americans are here, not leading from behind but not jumping in. >> how will damascus interpret this speech? >> they have to like that the destruction of isis will include people fighting on their territory. obama is saying we will be providing training for syrian rebels on the ground in saudi arabia and we will be providing military support. that is something obama said he was not going to do years ago, months ago, even weeks ago. the reason obama calls isis, isil, when everyone else calls -- misys -- isys, >> syria. he doesn't want to bring