landrieu called the effort a move toward healing.'s discuss statues, the mayor's priorities, and what is next with the coordinator with the group called "take 'em down nola" and the leader of the robert elite monument association. malcolm, let's start with you. you must be pretty happy that you took down four statues, got jeff davis down, robert e. lee, got that liberty monuments down, and general beauregard, got four statues down, what's next for you? >> well, our name is take 'em down nola, and we want to take them all down. there are 20 more statues that are dedicated to white supremacy in the city of new orleans. we have hundreds of streets named and parks named for confederate and white supremacists, and we want to wipe the slate clean, and we have challenged the mayor, from the very beginning, don't do a half job, let's do the whole job. >> laura: malcolm, i want to jump in here, because jackson square, that is new orleans, jackson square, do you say that jackson square -- jackson square is not new orleans? >> no, it's not new

the conversation will also involve our president, new orleans mayor mitch landrieu, and i'm so glad walter issacson is here guiding that conversation. walter isaacson is known for leadership roles from the aspen institute to media world and books that make him one of our great public intellectuals, and i'm most attuned to probably a more obscure item on the resume. he and i both benefitted from a life changing scholarship to pembrook college overseas, the alma mater of a great mayor who did a great thing in a policymaking body down the street here, richard luke, so, please, join me in welcoming our panel, walter isaacson, mayor landrieu, and adam newman. [ applause ] >> thank you, mayor. how you doing? nice to see you. thanks for being here. >> how are you? >> you sit in the middle. >> thank you. >> when he was 12 years old, came from a small village to the town of florence, and young people like him were flowing into the town because it had become a mecca for creativity. he was a left-handed vegetarian misfit artist who loved engineering, but embraced by the city because the printing pres

and it started with mayor landrieu from new orleans.the mayor from mobile tweeting, hey mayor landrieu, the city of mobile would love to show you how it's done. in response, mayor landrieu tweeted back, mayor simpson, alabama should stick to college football, let the professionals in nola handle the real mardi gras. >> oh, burn. >> and a fairly full nola mardi gras. that was his comparison using inauguration photos. >> exactly. ahh. calm down. we can party both for mardi gras. that's fine. there's another battle in the south. this one is in florida where a couple decided to paint their house with the starry night. >> that's a look. >> vincent van gogh's famous painting. well, the town is not happy about it. >> no? why? >> and actually fined them saying they were in violation of town laws. they're fining them now $100 a day. so far, the couple owes $8,000 in fines. they're not backing down. they are sticking with it. >> you wonder how long it must have taken to put that up.? geez. >> the couple had an outside wall that was painted to res

. >> thank you mayor landrieu and thanks for this leadership of this fine organization. i'm delighted to be here and lend our support to this fantastic event. i've mentioned to you i have especially soft spot in my hearts for mayor's. my father-in-law, tick luger, was the mayor of indianapolis in the late 1960s and '70s. and i'll tell you in the stories he loves to tell our children are not about his 36 years in the united states senate. they are about his days as mayor of indianapolis and revitalizing the downtown and bringing commerce and business to the area. and launching so many programs like so many of you do around workforce training and education to better prepear tare the workn indianapolis for those jobs and commerce. and in the stories that he tells that i was just mentioning, story he tells so compelling 1968 the day martin luther king was shot and bobby kennedy was there lan took to the streets and walked the neighborhoods and met with the african-american rev lands and that day indianapolis was the only major city that didn't burn. so those stories so inspi

the conversation will also involve our president, new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. i am so glad that walter isaacson is going to be here guiding the conversation. he is well-known for his leadership roles from the aspen institute to the media world and books that make in one of our great public intellectuals. please join me in welcoming our panel, walter isaacson, mayor landrieu -- [applause] that for being here. welcome. i just finished doing a book on leonardo da vinci. camehe was 12 years old he from a small village to the town of florence, and all sorts of young people were flowing into that town because it had become a mecca for creativity. leonardo was a bit of a misfit. he was illegitimate, gay, left-handed, vegetarian. but totally embraced by that printing presse had just been invented and publishing houses were there, because all sorts of new forms of banking brought people from the fall of constantinople, bringing out of it. all of these things were mixed together in a cauldron of creativity. now, 500 years later, that is hit -- that is happening in cities

. >> thank you, mayor landrieu for having me here. thank you, mayors, for everything you do. you're the front lines of recovery and disaster. we've been in the trenches together many times. whether it was evacuating people out of new orleans during katrina or literally the mayor loading up when he was lieutenant governor of the state of louisiana, putting people on c-131s as we evacuated them out of harm's way during hurricane rita. i appreciate everything you've done as the mayor of new orleans and i've enjoyed working with you to solve your problems in the city of new orleans after the august 5th floods. this has been an unprecedented year of disasters in our country. including major hurricanes harvey, maria and irma. we are joined by deputy secretary of homeland security elaine duke and other mayors. we are here to talk about recovery after major disasters and their challenges. certainly mayor landrieu has insight and opinions on this issue as disaster recovery and resiliency has been a major focus on his tenure as lieutenant governor of the state of louisiana and mayor of

landrieu from the un's refugee support team in greece as the country's overwhelmed . these remains one of the gate to europe and the find this a we that people but not all put it you need to share the responsibility within the european member states so they are under the pressure of a population that is county not to this theory. of many of the other members of the simply trying to prevent that reproduce seeking as in their own countries we also are there we're in many cases these might bring there are going to be the asian could even trafficking action of these children for sure on the sex environment but even more so then drew situation would be traffic of organs we need to prevent these children being put under that the engine we need to identify their relatives and to speed up the process of reunifying of the children with their families. the doors to one of the holiest sites in jerusalem have been closed in protest against israel's decision to levy taxes on religious properties the church of the holy several career is believed to be on the site where jesus was cr

. >> thank you, mayor landrieu for having me here. thank you, mayors, for everything you do. you're the front lines of recovery and disaster. we've been in the trenches together many times. whether it was evacuating people out of new orleans during katrina or literally the mayor loading up when he was lieutenant governor of the state of louisiana, putting people on c-131s as we evacuated them out of harm's way during hurricane rita. i appreciate everything you've done as the mayor of new orleans and i've enjoyed working with you to solve your problems in the city of new orleans after the august 5th floods. this has been an unprecedented year of disasters in our country. including major hurricanes harvey, maria and irma. we are joined by deputy secretary of homeland security elaine duke and other mayors. we are here to talk about recovery after major disasters and their challenges. certainly mayor landrieu has insight and opinions on this issue as disaster recovery and resiliency has been a major focus on his tenure as lieutenant governor of the state of louisiana and mayor of

she served on a legal team that advised a senate rules committee during the election between mary landrieu and woody jencks and -- woody jenkins. then we have a professor of law from the university of montana. he teaches and writes about federal and state constitution law, election law, and related subjects. he served as a solicitor for the state of montana. his recent scholarship on this issue has focused on the historical and constitutional perspectives on life or in influence is such a concern to our democracy. fromve a professor of law stetson university college of law, a fellow with the brennan center of justice. a professor worked as counsel for the democracy program at the brennan center. she looks at how dark money could be heading illegal foreign money. >> [indiscernible] >> yes, i would love to. to her left is the senior director of trial that ignition in chief of the campaign legal center, where he directs district court litigation and coordinates, implements, and manages the broader trial court strategy. of theed in the office general counsel of the federal election commission,

to folks like mayor landrieu down in new orleans and cory booker in washington, wendy williams, thank you so much for the flowers from you and kevin. they're amazing, and from little kevin as well, thank you very much. gloria borger and david chalian and dana bash and kirsten powers, symone, angela, bakari, alice, fareed, jeff, allison gols, don gnash, thank you so much. anderson, your words mean a lot, because i know you know how this is, having lost a sibling. chris cuomo, you big goof, thank you, i love you. alisyn and john berman, erin, jim sciutto, brooke, all of you, you know how i feel about you. to my entire team here, i want to thank you for taking care of me, especially maria and alisa and flip. and to every single person in the studio who works here, from bob to crazy kevin and mike and all of you, you guys are amazing. you take care of me every night. i got the news here at work last wednesday. and my team here, you packed my bags, you made my travel arrangements, you took care of me, just as you do every single night. and -- i'm going to get through this. you don't know h