cities, new york city has not been run by supply side lift widgers for last 40 years this say very liberal cityneil: michael bloomberg who could not vote yesterday as a independent. >> rudy giuliani, make the case he was a right wing, but he was a libertarian in many ways, the city has been liberal in the way it hands out benefits to people. neil: should wall street be afraid? maybe they got a pass on spitzer. >> that is a great thing. neil: what happened? he had a 20 point lead. >> i started doing some reporting. >> explain. >> i pointed out many of the inconsistencies in his rhetoric, what he did, and how he handled himself in particular that whole prostitution thing, how he a aranged to get in a house committee meeting the same way he brought the prostitute to washington. i just thought that was -- >> what a write-off trip. >> or we paid -- the expenses of her, he got a free ride. neil: interesting he and weiner, different scandals, were impiewimfutiated by voters. >> they were unfit for office, deblasio is unfit for a different reason, he will take this city, which is left to begin with, if

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what happened was the liberal city council had to technically abide by helen decision. what they did was put in place these incredibly complicated registration loss. chicago, new york. they do it to discourage people from getting guns. that is with the arabs in. i did not realize in in this. i knew was a little bit hard to. in developed after walking into the police station and at 22 pages of paperwork. i sat down and tried to figure out when i had to do. seventeen steps. seventeen things you did go through. accounted 17 and found more. some of the ridiculous ones, a five hour class i had to take, just to be read the laws allowed >> out to learn how the shooting and. >> one hour on the range which was not an issue. it was issuing a you could hit the paper from 5 yards. frankly, you would have to be blind and deaf in heated it was not very telling. had to take your written test, fingerprinted, ballistics test. it was one thing after another. so getting the gun transferred, everything. it ended a taking me for months. >> they did challenge, the defendant in the original c

what happened was the liberal city council had to technically abide by the heller decision technically but what they did is they put in place an incredibly complicated registration law and d.c. is one of the places in the country you have to register every gun that you owned mostly chicago and new york in places like that. they do it i believe to discourage people from getting guns. of course criminals are just -- off the streets so that is what they are up to. i didn't realize going into this that i would get a gun. it was a little bit hard. i ended up after i walked into the police station i got all the paperwork 22 pages of paperwork. i sat down to try to figure out what i had to do and it was 17 steps. 17 things you have to go through. i counted 17 and found more as it went along but some of the most ridiculous ones were a five hour class that i had to take, four hours in the classroom just to be read the laws out loud. one hour on the range which wasn't learning to shoot because that's not part of the requirement. it was just showing that you could hit the entire paper from five y

. >> a a lot of people around the country see new york as a great liberal city.since you were elected in 1989. why do you think that is? >> i don't know. i think that we should have prevailed in '93. >> right. you lost to rudy giuliani. quoting you here that he was the kind of man who went for the jugular. and the campaign became exceedingly vicious. his underlying message was clear for all to see. the city is in terrible financial straits. do you really want a black man presiding over it at this time of trouble? and i remember it, as you know i was in that campaign. that was his blatant message. >> that's true. and rudy was a tough customer. he frankly is not a nice guy. >> while you were mayor, rudy giuliani led a protest of police in front of city hall. you talk about it in the book where you stood by at a protest when drunk policemen were using the "n" word and turned over cars. no one talks about that. >> you're right. i'm pleased you observed that. because so many people seem not to notice. as a matter of fact, even today as bill de blasio gears up to run,

it takes an awful lot to sink it if 9/11 didn't sink the city i doubt a liberal mayor will. >> there ls, explain some of the controls on the city debt. there are a lot more checks and balances than most places coming out of the fiscal crisis in the 1970s. it is very difficult to default on new york city debt unlike detroit we'll talk about in a minute. >> most important thing the city has going for them, they have a four year financial plan. they have to forecast four years out what they're going to do. if they do something this year they have time project what the impact will be the next four years. that is probably the biggest single control. it was under a city control board for 30 years. it expired in 2008. i thought that was a shame but it brought the city back. the control board expired but they kept the fiscal discipline that. >> is mandated by state law all the management reports they have to put out. use a al gore term. there is a lockbox, correct, in terms of new york city debt? where the first lien, first payment on tax revenues go right to city bondholders isn't that accur

in the middle ages it was said that city and liberates this meant complete personal liberty and the anonymity of the city in contrast to the nearness of village life but will we lose our open freedom as our movements are increasingly recorded. how can we maintain that delicate balance between our desire for freedom and our need for security. will the new conflict transform cities into digital fortresses. cities of always being principal sites for target saying during wolf going right back to the days of classical civilization through many evil societies to the contemporary period. that fish are saying about this relationship today is that. we are not seeing states mobilize against other states and their cities we're seeing both in terms of the west in cities like london we see military and state and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city who inhabit the city. the balances he center and the seas are always heavily protected but since the nine eleven attacks high security architecture has become dominant and highly visible. symbolic locations of potential targets. the br

people and liberals say city since united allows the coat brothers to make their contributions to the corporate treasury of coke in the steve on the industry's it appears to be the case it is known as the subchapter s. but if this would it means is there is no difference between the three industries and the koch brothers so if they are a problem, if they are it is because they are rich not because they control a company that could make expenditures on behalf of a candidate. >> host: the procedure of that case was what they had an argument they called everybody back for the every argument. how the alleged you think oral arguments even matter? >>. >> sometimes the matter some but basically don't matter all that much with the affordable care act case the amir reaction it was the trade representative of the argument. there was nothing that he could have said as an eloquent in he would lose all of these issues. with citizens united that says what happened was after the first argument chief justice roberts drafted in the opinion that would reflect the opinion on narrow grounds. he circulate

in the middle ages it was said that city and liberates this meant complete personal liberty and the anonymity of the city in contrast to the nearness of village life but will we lose our open freedom as our movements are increasingly recorded. how can we maintain the delicate balance between our desire for freedom and our need for security. will the new conflict transform cities into digital fortresses. cities of always being principal sites for target saying during wolf going right back to the days of classical civilization three medieval societies to the contemporary period. the fishes thing about this relationship today is that. we are not seeing states mobilize against other states and the cities we're seeing both in terms of the west and cities like london we see military and state and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city who inhabit the city. the balances he center and the seas are always heavily protected but since the nine eleven attacks on my security architecture has become dominant and highly visible. symbolic locations of potential targets. the brandenbur

in the middle ages it was said that city and liberates this meant complete to personal liberty and the anonymity of the city in contrast to the nearness of village life but will we lose our open freedom as our movements are increasingly recorded. how can we maintain the delicate balance between our desire for freedom and our need for security. will the new conflict transform cities into digital fortresses. cities of always being principal sites for target saying during wolf going right back to the days of classical civilization three medieval societies to the contemporary period. the fishes thing about this relationship today is that. we are not seeing states mobilize against other states and the cities we're seeing both in terms of the west and cities like london we see military and state and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city who inhabit the city. the balances he center and the seas are always heavily protected but since the nine eleven attacks high security architecture has become dominant and highly visible. symbolic locations of potential targets. the b

in the middle ages it was said that city and liberates this meant complete a personal liberty and the anonymity of the city in contrast to the nearness of village life but will we lose our open freedom as our movements are increasingly recorded. how can we maintain that delicate balance between our desire for freedom and our need for security. will the new conflict transform cities into digital fortresses. cities of always being principal sites for target saying during wolf going right back to the days of classical civilisation through many evil societies to the contemporary period. the crucial thing about this relationship today is that. we are not seeing states mobilize against other states and the cities we're seeing both in terms of the west and cities like london we see military and state and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city who inhabit the city. the balances he center and the seas are always heavily protected but since the nine eleven attacks high security architecture has become dominant and highly visible. symbolic locations of potential targets.

a lot of minorities and liberals live in big city. ces like philadelphia or san francisco. 90% votes. a lot of votes of liberals don't count as much as they should it's the way the geography works. tack on the gerrymandering. my state in pennsylvania where i grew up, 100,000 more votes were cast for democratic candidates for congress statewide than for republicans. how many republican congress people are there, 13. how many democrats, 5. even though the democrats got an overall total much higher than the republicans in terms of total votes as they were distributed cd a cd. the republicans come out ahead. that's gerrymandering. the next question from kenneth hopes. a veteran from she tech, wisconsin. he asks, "what political benefit is there for the gop to shut down the government and deny health care and stop feeding the poor?" i think they're playing to their base. about 20% in the country who are really, really angry at obama. they don't like him, hate him. they hate big government. they hate gun control, hate it all. they're in a re

a lot of minorities and liberals live in big cities. they get 90% votes. nt as much as they should. it's the way the geography works. add to that the gerrymandering that goes on. my state, in pennsylvania where i grew up, 100,000 more votes were cast for democratic candidates for congress, statewide, than for republicans. how many republican congressman? 13. how many democrats? five. even though the democrats got a overall total much higher than republicans total votes, c.d., republicans come out ahead. that's what's gerrymandering. the next is from kenneth hobes a veteran from chetek, wisconsin. he asks what political benefit is there for the gop to shut down the government and deny health care and stop feeding the poor? i think they're playing to their base. i think there are people in this country, about 20%, maybe more, who are angry at obama, hate him, don't like him, maybe hate big government. they hate gun control. they hate it all. they're in an upset, angry mood. they are patriotic people, but they are really angry. and i think this kind of gamesma

i'm a little more pessimistic. >> speaking of pessimism, you talk to people in new york city, liberals york city are worried about de blasio. let's talk about new york city politics. >> look, the guy, what he did was amazing. he got 40% and ran a small campaign. just look at him from a distance, it matters what kind of a campaign you run particularly in the mayor's race. he built the coalition. and who knows what kind of a mayor he'll be, that's another question. by the way, people in manhattan, manhattan thinks it's the center of the world it's not even the center of new york city when you start voting. people don't like that bloomberg centric manhattan mayor. depalaceo came in and that's why he won. >> when you look at rudy giuliani and bloomberg together you have back-to-back 20 years of the most effective governance of any place in the world, two extremely competent leaders, transformed this city from the place it was when i was growing up outside of it, and i do think that people are genuinely worried about this city going back to the place that it has emerged from, which is a dar

. >> on monday, a dissident faction of the liberation front attacked the city, attacking hostages, dozensll held captive. eight have been killed. the group is attempting to derail peace talks between the government and rebels. >> the war crimes trial is underway at the international criminal court, the hague for william hudo, accused of orchestrating the deadly violence after a disputed election. kenyan leaders will stand trial separately for crimes against humanity. >> a michigan state trooper was shot dead during a routine traffic stop. the trooper managed to phone in information about the two suspects before he was shot. his fellow officers tracked them down, wounded one in a shootout and took both into custody. >> an ohio men who confessed in an on line video to killing a man while driving drunk is now officially charged with the crime. >> my name is matthew, on june 22, 2013, i hit and killed vincent canzoni. >> he was he dated and will be arraigned in court fade, the charges, aggravated vehicular homicide and operating a vehicle under the influence. the 22 admits he was drunk when h

. >> between the philippine government forces and national liberation front fighters. the city remains in lock down, the airport ask still in fact closed. over 180 civilians still remain hostage by mnlf fighters here in the city. it is becoming increase beingly a humanitarian concern. as more and more families remain trapped in the area where fighting is concentrated. they are unable to get food and help and it's unknown exactly what the situation is like in there. now it's unsure also whether negotiations are even underway. monday afternoon the mlnf actually made two demands that they be able to go to the center of their town and hoist their flag without getting shot at by government sources. the national liberation front signed the peace agreement with the philippine government, that wasn'tfully implemented. they say these talks are not inclusive and does not represent the needs of the people in southern philippines. this seems to be what the founder of the mlnf is actually trying to say, no matter what the peace agreement the philippine government will have, this does not me

city. fighters from the national liberation front of holding a number of hostages, the troops are trying tovillages near the city where the hostages are being held. here is the latest from the fill philippines. >> reporter: there seems to be no sign that the clashes will be resolved soon. here on the ground, more and more human rights services are questioning whether the philippine military is in fact in control of the situation. seven days since fighting began. the number of hostages up to now still sun determined. and so too are the number of fighters still believed to be held up in several suburban villages. the philippine government now puts the number of evacueeses at 70,000. that's 10% of the cities population. now the mlmf is demanding that's development implement the 1990 peace agreement it signed with its founder, it is opposing ongoing peace talks with another breakaway group the islamic liberation saying those peace talks are not inclusive and does not represent the needs of the people here in the southern philippines. >> as the u.n. tries to raise billions of dollars in aid for

since fighting began five days ago between the philippine government and the national liberation front fighters, the cityws no signs in fact of improving. the liberation front fighters still have at least 80 civilians hostaged with them. earlier today we were filming hunting of soldiers moving closer to an area where they leave the liberation front commander is holed up together with a majority of these civilians. a new meters away from where we were, a mortar fired and we saw several red cross volunteers injured. the president visited the city this morning, and there was no mention of a peaceful solution underway, but he has already given instructions to his military, for as long as the lib nation front continues to cross lines that shouldn't be cross, then he has given them instructions exactly of what to do. here it is becoming increasingly a humanitarian concern. more families remain trapped inside where the fighting is concentrated. they are very much worried, it has been five days -- they are very much worried about the situation of the hostages there. and there are several decomposing bodies. the

new york city liberal shoot that target out there from 244 wind-swept yards. >> oh, wow., am i accounting for windage dropping with distance? >> yeah, you want to aim 13 millimeters to the left, four millimeters high and you'll hit dead-center. [ laughter ] >> left? >> no, hold it right on. i'm just making a joke. >> taking advantage of the city boy. >> that wind's got to be 20 miles an hour. >> holding the rifle in this wind without a brace is tough. >> all eyes are on you, no pressure. >> pretty close, huh? >> may have been a hair left. >> a little high that time, i think. >> a little right. >> shooting real good, though, tony. >> you're not missing it by much. >> exhale. squeeze. >> the biggest thing is just let it surprise you. as you're pulling the trigger, squeeze it slow. every time it goes off, it should surprise you, that way you don't flinch. >> that looked right on. that looked right on to me. >> i'm proud of myself. i was somewhere in the neighborhood. >> he's a natural. >> you think people that don't like the idea of guns, if they had a day out here shooting

government opens up the door it's five thousand and fifty thousand and more and more of our cities like liberals and can finance that we are broke it's not germany's responsibility to solve the problems of the arab world with our taxes and there's also concern that allowing these people access to europe could see the syria crisis being imported here is the goal to get by we are worried that those germans that went there to fight assad will come back here trained in terror and live here amongst us like taken time on it's just a matter of time before during station will be blown up we demand that our security services stop then returning as more people flee their homes the refugee crisis is one that said to continue for a long time. and coming your way right after the break as he makes said they tell human figure paean economy's going through stay with us. i. i. i. i. i. she good leverage or a chill mccurry was able to build the needs most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything to change mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans and end with

three days since fighting out in the philippine government forces and more in national liberation front, the city remains in lock down, curfews are still imposed and the airport is still, in fact, closed. other 180 civilians still remain hostage, by fighters in several villages here. it's become increasingly a humanitarian concern for several human rights observers and red cross volunteers as more and more families remain trapped in the area where fighting is concentrated. they are unable to get food and help, and it's unknown what the situation is like in there. now, i'm sure whether negotiations are even underway, monday afternoon the mlf made two demands, they will be able to do to the center of the town, and hoist their flag, & who with the hostages without getting shot at with government forces. now the liberation front signed a peace agreement in 1996 with the philippine government that was never fully implemented. now say they they are against the on going peace talks with another break away group. the slammic front, they say these talks are not insulinnive and does represent the needs of

city. rebels from the national liberation front want independence from the predominantly catholic country. they've taken hundreds of people hostage after the group was prevented from marching into the city to raise its flag. on monday, they were reportedly holding 20 hostages. but the number has since jumped to 170. the news agency said 1,500 elite troops backed by police have blocked off the area to prevent the arrival of rebel reinforcements. at least 3,000 people have fled the violence and are living in temporary shelters. >> translator: we would like to see another day, thanks to the grace of god. >> the philippines has been negotiating another insurgent group with a similar name. the two sides last year agreed to set up an autonomous government. but the deal was rejected. more than 60,000 people have been killed since the conflict began in the 1970s. >>> safe drinking water can be hard to come by for many of india's 1.2 billion people. one innovative company sees that as a business opportunity and has launched a new service providing clean water at low prices. >> reporter: in an indian

a lot of minorities and liberals live in big cities. they get 90% votes. rals don't count as much as they should. it's the way the geography works. add to that the gerrymandering that goes on. my state, in pennsylvania where i grew up, 100,000 more votes were cast for democratic candidates statewide than republicans. how many republican congressman? 13. how many democrats? five. even though the democrats got a number much higher than the republicans total votes, the rms come out ahead. that's what's gerrymandering. the next is from kenneth hobes from shitek, wisconsin. he asks what political benefit is there for the gop to shut down the government and deny health care and stop feeding the poor? i think they're playing to their base. i think there are people in this about 20% who are really angry at obama, they don't like him, maybe even hate him. and they hate big government. they hate gun control. they hate it all. they're in an upset, angry mood. they are patriotic people, but they are really angry. and i think this kind of gainsmanship and brinkmanship p

shoot out in the heart of a bustling southern philippines city, government soldiers are exchanging fire with fighters from the morrow national liberationthe battle of the city running for cover but some were killed in the cross fire. >> translator: i saw them roaming around and knocking at the door to my master's house and got the people inside and took them away. >> reporter: if broken away from the larger morrow front which is involved with the philippine government and mnlf felt left out. >> our mission to establish our own place, but we want to, at the conclusion of that we want to establish our own government. not the government but we want to independent nation. >> reporter: local reports suggest several hundred fighters are now holding a number of people hostage in the crowded neighborhood. >> the city convened the crisis committee led by the mayor and they tried to stop the event and negotiate and get a resolution of the problem. unfortunately they refused to negotiate. >> reporter: the fighting began when the military stopped nmlf fighters marching marching on the city. al jazeera. >> reporter: we have a representative for the

national liberation front is still holding a number of hostages. >> the latest from zambogoa city. >> there seems to be no sign that the clashes between the philippine government, and the liberation front fighters will be resolved. here on the ground, more and more human rights services are questioning whether the military is in fact in control of the situation. seven days since fighting began. the number of hostages up to now is still undetermed and so too are the number of mls fighters still believed to be holed up in several villages here. the philippine government now puts the number of evacuees at 70,000. that is 10% of the city's population. now they are demanding that the philippine government implement the 1996 agreement it signed with its founder. it is opposing on going peace talks with another break away group the liberation front, saying those people are not inclusive, and does not represent the needs of the people here in southern philippines. >> a series of attacks in iraq, have killed at least 28 people. south of baghdad where two car bombs went off near a market. four

city this week. go. >> you are nothing but a -- [ shouting ] >> you're a murderer. >> petraeus! he's a war criminal. >> the general made the mistake of teaching at a liberalge in new york city. now he can't walk down the street. it's ridiculous. >> that video should be kept forever. when one of those tools applies for a job it has to be shown and say, are you sure you want to hire this jerk? this probably got them into gad school. this is the behavior that's lauded on campus. to persecute somebody who served your country and defended your right to act like a jerk. >> just a bunch of punk ingrates. he's a war hero, served his country. it's a disgrace. pinheads doesn't cover what these jackasses are. >> i would like to talk to petraeus. i don't think he e'll come on. why go to this university? it's not cornell or columbia. it's a little university. you know you will be abused and disrespected. >> more hostile than iraq. >> it is. >> you can't give up the campuses. you have to go in there. >> that campus means nothing. >> you will lose the culture war over time. >> even the ivies. i don't get a lot of college invitations. once in a while, not many. i don't d

city of zamboanga, and separatist rebels appear to be losing ground. the military says it now controls 70% of the areas that had been occupied by the moro liberation front. the industrial city is said to lose a billion dollars a day. zamboanga is the third largest in the philippines in terms of area. a major military offenses took back areas in santa barbara and santa catalina and there's heavy fighting in talon and more fightings in mapong. what does the moro national liberation front? the moro people have been fighting for independence in the southern philippines. the group is one of the three in the region. the moro islamic liberation front split in 1981. they signed a peace treaty with the government in 1996, and the government has been reviewing it. in early august it declared a new state and tried to raise the flag in zamboanga city, which led to the latest fighting. we'll go to the sports stadium being used as an evacuation center. first we go to the city's medical center. margot, what is the latest on the fighting that you're hearing? >> reporter: well, at the moment at least over the last hour or so we haven't heard any exchange of gunfire. now

. >> i traveled to the western part of germany to the city of bonn to meet alexander -- of the fdp. you are a member of the liberal free democrats -- the coalition number. >> boonn is a lovely city. not a big city but are used to be the capital of west germany before it was united. it has taken a very positive development. we were quite afraid what the government moving out -- >> you were quite afraid when the government moved out you would become a backwater. >> by privatizing the postal and telecom ministries and turning them into private companies, we now have t-mobile come a deutsche telekom, and deutsche post which of the world's largest express mail supplier and we have the smaller and medium-sized enterprises and we have a large university. >> if she wins this election, angela merkel made it clear she would like to renew a coalition with your party, the so-called black-yellow coalition. too many europeans this would mean more of the same, more of the same conservative austerity policies vis a vis europe. >> there are many europeans will like exactly that, a combination of solid public finances and structura

people are missing after rebels attacked the town, earlier this week the national liberation launched an assault on the cityto hold up to 200 hostages there, and are demanding to speak with international mediators. rebels want to establish a republic in the fill fines. a former security screener at los angeles international airport faces up to 15 years behind bars charged with making threats. the 29-year-old veteran quit his job hours after he resigned he allegedly made calls to the airport telling official to his evacuate terminals, he was arrested shortly afterward. charged with making a false threat and making threats effecting interstate commerce. letters posted on a website linked to him promised attacks more devastating tha*s than those on 9/11. national security advisor susan rice met with brazil's for earn minister to discuss information leaked by former nsa contractor edward snowden. brazil says documents from snowden show the u.s. intercepted their president's e-mails and also hacked in to the computers of the oil company, the white sox says the reports distort the nsa activities but that it will

he would rather do the admitting of east coast liberals like new york city mayor michael bloomberg. >> again demonizing the nra play in colorado or did the coloradons decide this on their own? >> coloradoans will decide this on their own. i actually have a bachelor's degree from colorado state university. colorado is the most urban state in the nation. there's more in the city than any other nation, you wouldn't think that about colorado but that's true. it's usually about urban versus rural, the culture we have in a place like montana, we have more guns per capita in the state of the union, yet have the lowest crime rate? we don't point our guns to each other. in places that are more urban that's where we get the problems. >> we have a question from aa viewer. let's go to hermella. >> a viewer on twitter wants to know what's the number 1 issue that's most important to you, gun control obamacare or medical marijuana? >> i think health care of those three health care is the most important issue and i don't believe that obamacare got it completely right. it was somewhat of a sellout to