lott, thank you very much. what i can't understand is all of this talk about protect the children in schools. israel had this problem back in the 70s and they solved it. there has not been a problem with children in israel being hurt like i was here at sandy hook. why on earth don't we use -- but we just don't utilize the experience that they have. another thing that i wish to ask about is these people, to talk about banishing the busch race. if somebody sold -- stole a surely a paula and drove it up on the sidewalk killing 15 or 20 people, they would not say nobody gets two on a chevrolet impala. >> you bring up two important issues. issues i talk about in my book, "at the brink." look, israel not just in the 70s, but even for the country heidi vadas terrorist problems. if you look at the cherries during the 60s, early 70s, virtually all of them involve bombs. there's no technological change that occurred they are. what happened was israel eventually learn that couldn't stop terrorist attacks by simply putting

come back lucie county sheriff lott vi has set its sights on joining the euro zone in two thousand and fourteen that is despite the currency blocks shaky outlook austerity cuts and gaping holes in the country's budgets are certainly an issue and the decision also clashes with public opinion in lafayette where two thirds of citizens are against the euro membership we spoke to one member of the european parliament who believes the timing couldn't be worse for a lot. lead of you want to be a member of nato or of the e.u. of the eurozone so want to be a member of a big block of nato i can imagine the e.u. it can imagine the eurozone at the moment is not the right club to join because lead view came out of the crisis in two thousand and ten and the economic recovery started shortly after actually that he is doing quite well so one could wonder why does that view want to end the eurozone if you have an economic crisis would come back to latvia and that is the year in the euro zone cannot leave have you and will have to stay in tonight because greece is doing now and greece is go towards a lo

reparations we ought to be drawing back support and stop supporting and propping up a dictatorship douglas lott said there i'm always interested when people think that we should be pushing out you know elected officials in other countries i really thought we were out of that business look they're having elections now we're going to have this trial election in iraq let's see how that works out difference if maliki's party starts to lose power loses power and he's going to have to stand parliament and i was not in support of the i was our full parliamentary elections and i reckon twenty fourteen let's see what happens john go ahead jump in. yes let's see what happens and stop supporting whatever side happens to win stop arming the iraqi government with tens of billions of dollars worth of lockheed martin's and raytheon. production equipment and stop sending them taxpayer dollars on the order of one to two billion dollars a year they don't deserve our money they are oppressing their people and it is a terrible add on to the greatest war crime of the twenty first century to continue intervening in

two thousand and fourteen john epping who is a member of the european parliament himself says that lott you know wants to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. and lead if you want to be a member of nato or of the e.u. or of the eurozone so want to be a member of a bigger bloc no need to i can imagine the e.u. i can imagine with the eurozone at the moment is not the right club to join because lead view came out of the crisis in two thousand and ten and the economic recovery started shortly after it actually legacy is doing quite well so one could wonder why does latvia want to end the eurozone you'd have an economic crisis would come back to latvia lead of the year in the euro zone cannot leave have you and will have to stay in the like agrees is doing now in greece is go towards a lot of suffering and that is the economic downside to perhaps the political advantage to the number of a bigger club berliners fear that they might soon be forced out of the german capital because their income can't keep pace with housing costs real estate is becoming unaffordable for locals and people fro

as the form of government would have any connections with the religious extremists or better john lott and actually wanted to invade iraq from saudi arabia that was one that was with the saudi government finally put the foot down on him took away his passport in order. and i don't think americans have any sense of what do you think the long term legacy of this is going to be in iraq in that region it's i think it's a legacy of death and destruction i don't think iraqis would look back and think you know what. something was good for the country we're talking about a million people who were killed in the last ten years five million people who were displaced in the last decade alone the country has been deeded destroyed the infrastructure infrastructure has been destroyed iraq's national identity has been destroyed people don't really think of themselves as iraqis first they think of themselves as sunni's or shiites or. the damage is the hard part to stand in the world to know that it basically is it time for america to apologize to iraq and and perhaps even take the next step and prosecu

i used to tell trent lott, the difference between governors and senators is senators talk about doing things and governors do things. there's a lot of truth to democrat governors as well. their party is so committed to washington that you do not see many of these governors who are willing to talk the way republican governors are about how we do a better job at the state level. there's much more bipartisanship. i like to think i had a relative success will governorship, but eight of my eight years of governor, i have a democrat house majority, and seven of my years, i had a democrat senate majority. we did not let that stop us from getting things done, and i think that is the way washington needs to work, and i think that is why you hear republicans talk the way they do. >> the most frustrated senators you hear about are republicans. >> about whether or not there is a war going on, there is a war going on. we just had a war in the democratic party, and it was fun. some people said, what kind of democrat are you? i can be a democrat, a foreign democrat, or passionate democrat. the truth

i'm on a car loot lott with a tool that they use to seattle deal. but can it be trusted?'ll see what happens here. what is being called best open ever. the daughter wrote this for >>> more couples choosing to delay marriage until later in life but finds 48% of first time births happening outside of marriage. researchers at the university of virginia found many middle class young people in their 20s are choosing to have kids before tying the knot. that study found couples in mid-20s might otherwise get married are being discouraged by parents, friends or possibly culture. >> this afternoon, breast cancer patients could face higher risk of heart disease after being treated with radiation. how great the connection has been unclear. researchers determined there is a modest risk. the death rate from heart disease increases from less than 2% to somewhere between 2 plt 5% to 3.5%. and the radiation treatments outweigh the risks. >> michael finney is here now to answer questions and first comes to us from linda m to ask. i have one major credit card with a bank she says. they've

lott. [applause] >> thank you very much.appreciate it. >> said the reports on how food scientist created an expensive product that according to the author are devoid of nutritional value addictive and a potential harm to one's health. mrs. warner examines the proclivity of processed foods and the commonly used ingredients which makes up approximately 70% of calories consumed in the united states. it's about five minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much and thank you for being here to talk about a subject of processed food. i do hope that everyone has had their dinner already. you may find it easier to talk about this once people have r.d. in. i don't want to be responsible for spoiling anyone's meal. so this book, i think the origins of this book go way back for me to plan i was a kid growing up with my mom, long before it was fashionable. my mom was someone who paid attention to ingredieningredien t labels. she would go to the grocery store and my brother and i often came with her, and she would cart down the aisle and she

when i started the project in sam's class, i interviewed a lott of people -- a lot of people. i knew that i wanted it to be between the classes of, say, '61 and '65 so that they would arrive in college, you know, at the height of the college revolt. so i had a tremendous selection of people to choose from. and these were the people that i settled on. i mean, i wanted -- i know that i wanted someone who represented the old left, which was tom. i wanted somebody who was in opposition to the school, because i didn't want it to be just sort of an uncritical love letter. i mean, the school con contains a hot of contradictions, and -- a lot of contradictions, and i wanted to bring those out. and angela, of course, i wanted to represent a woman, and her life is just so fascinating, and an african-american, that, you know, i couldn't resist. >> [inaudible] >> and is brilliant. and all three are still, they're still doing what they're doing, you know? they never sort of, um, in the mid '70s or '80s, they never sort of slowed down. i mean, tom sort of switched his focus, but he's still

that job and get off of welfare, they have got their kid in head start, and now they're head starts lott is gone, and there are trying to figure out, how am i going to keep my job, because i cannot afford child care anymore. some of the shipbuilder is down in virginia, you have got some small businesses, and this is all they do, and they may shut them down, and those employees will be laid off. the accumulation of all of those stories of impact is going to make our economy weaker. it is going to mean less growth. it is going to mean hundreds of thousands of job losses. that is it. we are not making that up. that is not a scare tactic, that is a fact. starting tomorrow, everybody here, all of the folks who are cleaning the floors at the capitol -- now that congress has left, somebody is going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. they are going to have less pay. the janitors, the security guards. they just got a pay cut. and they have to figure out how to manage that. that is real. so i want to be very clear here. it is absolutely true that this is not go

by comparison, in five years, bill frisk filled it five times and trent lott filled the free ten times bob dole seven years did it once a year and he is harry reid 58 times and allowed some to go forward and limited those like morans and others filling the tree with amendments of friends ever his want today make certain got considered and not taking amendments like this that would have lessened the impact of the sequester. >> sean: one last question. there's a lot of reaction to your comments that in 2016 the republican candidate, obviously, with the issue of gay marriage before the supreme court, could support that. a lot of pushback on that. i wanted to get your reaction. >> wait a minute, wait a minute, let me correct you. i was not asked by the republican candidate i was stopped by george stephanopoulos a republican candidate. >> sean: a. >> in 2008 we had a republican candidate, john huntsman. >> sean: you didn't mean the nominee, i think people-- >> no, no, i talked to george afterwards when this controversy-- george was not asking me if it was the nominee, he was asking me if a

and i think a lot of the communication, senator lott is exactly right. we lost the ability to communicate. some of the means by which we used to communicate have no longer become ones that are being employed by the leadership, by the membership. it's become much more piper bollic. i think a big part of it, susan, is members no longer spend much time in washington. now it's almost a badge of honor to sleep on your sofa in your office and not move your family to town. i'm told in the last congress, not one member -- new member of congress move thared families to washington. because everybody wants to be anti-washington. and i think -- so you start with this mindset, there was a freshman member of congress who said, we don't want to know how washington works. that's not why we're here. and i think therein lies the challenge. is that we've got to make washington part of the process again and make it a valid venue for accomplishing the work that needs to be done. and it starts with better communication. >> senator snow, you said that this gridlock situation w

remember trent lott saying you have to make a decision? decide whether you're gay or straight. >> it used to be called a disease. >> yeah. >> we've come a long way toward understanding what, you know, who people are and what they are. and as we -- >> okay. tough, you guys are both political in this regard. you're always political. >> wait a second. >> no, you are. i'm not knocking it. it's your profession. if you get a narrow ruling that says, prop 8 has to go, it's unconstitutional because of the children, because it's already been -- those people have already been ruled eligible to marry, you can't take back that right. okay? you don't get the eight, nine states. don't get the 50 states. where does this take this case in the future? where does it go after this year? >> that means by late june people can legally get married in the state of california which is significant. >> an eighth of the country. >> so that in and of itself is a big thing. this guy deserves -- >> gay people move to california for sure. >> potentially. also it creates

have been in washington for a long time, and you know, we had jordan mitchell on the program, trent lott on the program, who pointed back to days when they were in office. there was a lot of partisanship, a lot of finger pointing, but when push came to shove, people could get things done. it doesn't seem like that's the case anymore. >> in a lot of ways you're correct. there are a few exceptions. last year, we did pass a few bills, although it was the least productive congress since 1947. that's just a fact. >> the least productive since 1947? >> since 1947, the least productive congress. this year, we have worked on an agreement we made. it was hard-fought, but to avoid a 51-vote senate, i can assure you we're making progress on immigration reform. republicans and democrats, eight of us are working together. there are some areas that i think we are working together, but this one, obviously, is not the transcendent issue. >> rand paul was on cnn the other day saying it's nibbling around the edges. it's a pittance. can you come up with a solution if there's people in your own party who ar

the senate and ever bill that was passed was that bill or bigger including when i worked for trent lott. >> i disagree with you 1,000%. every bill is big. every bill is big. >> let me be as simple minded as i can. we could have done this differently. we meaning the government. all you had to do was give the individual or the family the tax credit. >> right. >> let them -- not the employer. let them have it and if they're low-income people then they get a refundable tax credit, okay? give them the tax credit. let them shop around all over the country. make the insurance companies go interstate competition. >> let the tax cut go to the individual, gi to georgia or mississippi or wherever i want and i buy the insurance package. if there's ten options and i take the cheapest option that's my business and none of this would have had to happen and obama would have gotten credit just like bill clinton got credit for welfare reform. >> they're taking away your choices and i've heard the president say go shop in an exchange and you'll have all these dhoises. go into a health insurance exchange w

have been in washington for a long time, and you know, we had jordan mitchell on the program, trent lott, who pointed back to days when they were in office. there was a lot of partisanship, a lot of finger pointing, but when push came to shove, people could get things done. it doesn't seem like that's the case anymore. >> in a lot of ways you're correct. there are a few exceptions. last year, we did pass a few bills, although it was the least productive congress since 1947. that's just a fact. >> the least productive since 1947? >> since 1947, the least productive congress. this year, we have worked on an agreement we made. it was hard-fought, but to avoid a 51-vote senate, i can assure you we're making progress on immigration reform. republicans and democrats, eight of us are working together. there are some areas that i think we are working together, but this one, obviously, is not the transcendent issue. >> rand paul was on cnn the other day saying it's nibbling around the edges. it's a pittance. can you come up with a solution if there's people in your own party who are saying this i

.. >> then, john lott argues that thanks to president obama, we're on the verge of economic and social collapse. at 9:15 eastern, we'll hear from melanie warner, author of "pandora's lunchbox: how processed food took over the american meal," followed but our weekly "after words" program. a point/counterpoint discussion of gay marriage. and we conclude tonight at 11 p.m. eastern with eric deggins who argues that the media plays upon the fears and prejudices of their viewers to garner larger audiences. visit booktv.org to learn more on this weekend's television schedule. >> next on booktv, kay goss recounts the life and career of the late wilbur mills, democratic representative from arkansas and the longest continuously-serving chairman of the house ways and means committee. it's about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. i hardly recognize myself. [laughter] i think i must be a hyperactive person. [laughter] thank you so much for that warm welcome, and thanks to everyone who's here. when i look out in the audience and i see so many of my favorite people here in one room, it feels like a

. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ chiba lott >> gary: we have breaking news.g the elevators fixed please stop criticizing and do not parked your car so close! [laughter] and with some of these 49ers.. if you are going to stay at some place for 10 or 15 years but if your career is five years. give me the money. give me the money. and many of these lineman are grunts ... if you are a football player with the life span of only four years to take the money. >> take the money and run. >> i took my family to warriors came as the what is ongoing is that when you take your children to a game and that they have a terrible mouth behind you. if the language is still there is no excuse. and i would go ask and write a letter to the warriors and ask for a refund it sounds like you root for the lakers but you are supposed to hate l adrian s that i've seen you for what do you physically to to keep pulling this off? >> what is your secret? >> it is mental. use a round yourself with guys you like because if you do not like the people that you work with. but i like everybody i w

then john lott argues that thanks to president obama we're on the verge of economic and social collapse. at 9:15 even we'll hear from melanie warner, author of "pandora's lunchbox: how processed food took over the american meal," followed by our weekly "after words" program. this week gay rights advocate john corvino and maggie gallagher engage in a point/counterpoint discussion of gay marriage. we conclude at 1 is p.m. eastern -- 11 p.m. eastern with eric deggins, whose book, "race baiter," will be the topic. visit booktv.org more more on this weekend's television schedule. >> next on booktv, viktor mayer-schonberger and kenneth cookier tube a new field of research that uses information to predict human behavior and events. this is a little over an hour. >> good evening and welcome to today's program at the commonwealth club of california, the place where you're in the know. i'm dr. missouri rah gunn, host of tech nation which airs on npr.org and also on the npr channels on xm sirius radio. i'm your moderator for the program this evening. tonight's program is being held in associate --

>> you know, i tell the story of senator trent lott who experienced a terrible personal issue when head to step down as majority leader. that crisis was about healing. it -- couldn't restore his political position. that's the way people ought to look at it. if it's a personal matter, it starts with your spouse, your friend, your companion. it starts with healing. then the crisis can be over. >> might get calls from guys saying, "i'm in touch with the wife." thank you very much. >> thanks. >>> still to come on "today," it's almost time to spring forward for daylight saving time. coming up, a look at why we do it. first, this is "today" on nbc. here you go little man. [ humming ] [ babbling ] the cheerios bandit got you again? [ both laugh ] ♪ the one and only, cheerios ♪ the one and only, cheerios >>> still to come on "today," big shakeups coming to "the view." who may be on the way out. >>> plus, victoria's secret. is the lingerie chain pushing the envelope by marketing to young teenagers, even tweens? first, these messages. >>> good morning, looking live at the bay bridge toll plaza

this all started with san jose residents who got the measure on the bal lott last year.are excited and they will be able to go off food stamps. some say this will mean cutting back on workers' hours and limiting payroll. >> everything affects from bread going up, flour going up, minimum wage going up. it affects our bottom line and the number of employees we can hire. >> the city of san jose will have to pay an extra $30,000 more a year because of this change. san jose joined other cities -- >>> now, the san jose business association which opposed the increase has since joined and is encouraging workers to spend that extra money in san jose. both organizations have an event planned about two hours from now. live in the newsroom, maureen naylor, back to you. >>> today, facebook's chief operating officer releases her new book, encouraging the voice of women in the workplace. despite criticism, she's too successful to lead a movement, she's hoping her book will spur action and push women to be leaders. proceeds go to her nonprofit organization, leanin.org. >>> three former

[laughter] in any case from that point they took me downtown to be introduced to john lott and they locked me up. i remember when they let me out and they gave me a court date to go back. i had never been in trouble with the law. i told my mother, i'm going to court and my mother was so embarrassed. my mother was a very proud woman and she was embarrassed. boy i don't know why you did that, and not going to down there and i'm not going to let them send my baby to jail. i'm not going. she said earl you take that boy to court. we get down we go to to the courthouse and i remember my dad saying son, you have crossed the line this time and i don't think you are coming home with me. i am looking at him like, you don't think i'm coming home? no sun i think the judge is going to send you away. i got a little quiet and we get to court and the judge looks at me and he says to my father, mr. mr. carlos does your son have any mental deficiencies? my father said none that i know of. he said why would he do what he did? my father said that's a very good question. why don't you ask him? the judge asked

but they told me it is not against lott to have that in her their house. call us if you have any trouble. so they left. when my son came back from walking the dog, i confronted my son. trouble ensued, they were going to let him go, they said there was no reason to keep him. he was in the hospital for seven days. loose knitting still, i brought him five affidavits from myself, from workers that were working for me, i brought him a letter from her psychiatrist friend of mine that said if you let him out, he will kill himself. i brought them pictures of the flares and pipe bombs and six or seven documents that i felt would prove that my son was going to kill himself when he was let out. the last day before discharge, they said your son is fine. they explained to me the role of a psychiatric hospital setting and basically their interpretation in my interpretation is to stabilize in the least efficient. they had checked with the insurance company, they let him go i can't tell you the words that i'd used, but bs with some of it, i was enraged they were going to

set up a conversation, i want to show you a debate from 1996 on the senate floor with senator trent lottwho was in the majority leader endorsing and asking for support of the defense of marriage act. he lays out the argument for it. then, senator ted kennedy argues why doma should not be approved. [video clip] comments ifrom the received when i was home during the august work. , from all across the country, it is clear this bill enjoys tremendous support among the american people. president clinton has promised to sign into law. he has affirmed his position that the bill would be sustained as constitutional if challenged in the court. this is not prejudiced legislation. it is not mean-spirited or exclusionary. it is a preemptive measure to make sure a handful of judges in a single state cannot impose an agenda upon the entire nation. the defense of marriage act is not an attack upon anyone. it is, rather, a response to an attack on the institution of marriage itself. this matter has received so much attention in the press that everyone should know by now with the problem is and why we ne

i used to tell trent lott, the difference between governors and senators is senators talk about doinghings and governors do things. there's a lot of truth to democrat governors as well. their party is so committed to washington that you do not see many of these governors who are willing to talk the way republican governors are about how we do a better job at the state level. there's much more bipartisanship. i like to think i had a relative success will governorship, but eight of my eight years of governor, i have a democrat house majority, and seven of my years, i had a democrat senate majority. we did not let that stop us from getting things done, and i think that is the way washington needs to work, and i think that is why you hear republicans talk the way they do. >> the most frustrated senators you hear about are republicans. >> about whether or not there is a war going on, there is a war going on. we just had a war in the democratic party, and it was fun. some people said, what kind of democrat are you? i can be a bland democrat, a boring democrat, or passionate democrat. the tr

i used to tell trent lott, the difference between governors and senators is senator's talk about doing things and governors do things. there's a lot of truth to democrat governors as well. their party is so committed to washington that you do not see many of these governors who are willing to talk the way republican governors are about how we do a better job at the state level. there's much more bipartisanship. i like to think i had a relative success will governorship, but eight of my eight years of governor, i have a democrat house majority, and seven of my years, i had a democrat senate majority. we did not let that stop us from getting things done, and i think that is the way washington needs to work, and i think that is why you hear republicans talk the way they do. >> the most frustrated senators you hear about are republicans. >> about whether or not there is a war going on, there is a war going on. we just had a war in the democratic party, and it was fun. some people said, what kind of democrat are you? i can be a planned democrat, a foreign democrat, or passionate democrat. t

it's not because they're big fans of the taliban's religious sell lott tri. far from it. most afghans have no love for that. but the taliban privilegeds not just the basic order and security, the taliban in some cases provide basic things the people want and can't get from their government, such as, my neighbor stole my goats go to the government and they'll say, pay me a bribe for me to deal with your case. go to the taliban, mullah, he'll deliver swift justice. your neighbor's arm may get chopped off but it's swift justice and in deeply rural areas that's not a bad thing. then the taliban say to the people, we're not going to demand bribes prom you, whereas the local policemen and the local leadership are all about shaking down the population, and so part of the grand u.s. effort has been to try to reform afghanistan's government. but karzai has been an incredibly unwilling partner. why? he was supposed to have a press conference with chuck hagel today. that's been cancelled. karzai in a speech earlier today accused the united states of conspiring with the taliban to co