the same fall that my class walked in as freshmen, nelson mandela walked into prison.it was not until 30 years later, when my daughter walked through these gates for the first time, that mandela was his country's president. when i was a senior, the debate over the growing war in vietnam was becoming all-consuming, but it took another seven years before combat ended for our country and more than 25,000 lives. it was not until the year 2000 that we finally made peace and normalized relations. now, amazingly, we have four be enemies -- more vietnamese studying in america than from almost any other country in the world. daring journey of progress played over years, decades, and generations. today, the felt needs are growing at a faster pace than ever before, piling up on top of each other while the response in legislatures or foreign capitals seems nonexistent or frozen. it is not that the needs are not felt. it is that people around the world seemed to have grown used to seeing systems or institutions failing to respond. the result is an obvious, , if notg frustration exa

we knew little about the last few years of nelson mandela's life.odern south africa passed away in december. and now for the first time since his death, nelson mandela's widow is speaking out publicly. our own christiane amanpour asked her if mandela was aware of south africa's struggles in his final years. >> i would say that he was aware about all these things maybe until about two years back. but i decided to save him, to protect him, from getting involved and knowing in depth what was going on, because he was such a sensitive person. and he wouldn't be able to act on those issues. and i felt, why to keep him with a heavy heart where he is not able to make a difference to change the situation. >> you can can see more of christian's interview beginning next hour on cnn international and also later on cnn.com. >>> that's it for me here with the wolf show. "newsroom"with brooke baldwin starts now. starts now. all yours, brooke. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> jim, thank you so much. great to be with you on thi

traveling the world, it is the power of hope, the power of one person, a washington, a lincoln, a mandela, who can change the world by giving people hope. if you want to change the world, start singing when you are up to your neck in mud. finally, there was a bell. theass bell that hangs in center of the compound for all the students to see. quit hisave to do to ring the bell. ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at 5:00. you no longer have to be in the freezing cold swims. have to do the runs on the obstacle course. you no longer have to injure the hardships of training. all you have to do is ring the bell to get out. world,want to change the don't ever ring the bell. class of 2014, you are moments away from graduating. moment away from beginning your journey through life. the woods away from starting to change the world for the better. it will not be easy. of 2014,re the class the class that can affect the lives of 800 million years -- people. find someone to help you through life, respect everyone, know that life is not fair and you will fail often. but if you take risks, st

how crazy was this bogus sign language guy at mandela? how crazy was that? >> it was insane. he was embarrassing. the bottom line was that i felt for the people of south africa who were unable to understand. the word so excited to participate in the funeral of this -- they were so excited to participate in the funeral of yet to be duped by this fake interpreter probably is the worst they that could happen to them. they were robbed of all these unitary. a were robbed. that will never happen again. >> great to have been in ofversation with the mother app.-- got her own the show is called switched at birth. congratulations. great to have you on the program. this is jack. >> she is prettier to look at. tavis: i like your shoes. nice to have you on. that's our show for tonight. as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation about what is in environmentalist and earl klugh. that's next time. we will see you then. ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from vi

remember what nelson mandela said when confronted by pessimism and the long march to freedom. it always seems impossible until it is done. -- thing i know for sure these and other felt needs will we,r be addressed if you, fall victim to be slow suffocation of conventional wisdom. on tuesday, i sat in the state department with some young foreign service officers. one of that's something to me that i have been thinking about all week. he was not much older than any of you. said, we have come from an area where our lives and hierarchies to an era where powerless and networks. now we're wrestling with the fact that those hierarchies are unsettled by the new power. every one of you and your parents have mobile devices here today. they represent more than your ability to put a picture on facebook or instagram. they are one of the powerful new makesments of change that hierarchies uncomfortable, because you can't communicate with everybody, anywhere, all the time. that is how you beat conventional wisdom. that is what makes me certain that felt needs are not just problems. they are o

and so -- but moving ahead, a few years ago, i -- i met nelson mandela and we had a brief conversation. and i asked him how he could be such a good person of all of the things that he had encountered. and he said if i had reacted the way they predicted that i would act, then they were right. but i -- he said i am a mandela and that's where i get my philosophy from is that the opposite of love is not hate. the opposite of love is indifference. and so the only way as a -- as humans can evolve is they have to care about each other. >> that was -- that was evident throughout a number of your -- chapters in your book. let me -- let me ask you, ask you this. jim in particular. i was looking at a book entitled the 100 most important people in american sports and quite fittingly billie jean king was on the cover. but there was a statement that you made early on in one of your earliest books. where you stated that you had never been -- never been a time when you were not conscious of the civil rights movement. you stated i was very conscious of the civil rights movement and very active in what

among those she called her friends nelson mandela and president clinton and obama. >> she thought atome of the most prestigious campuses in the country. she was friends with presidents and kings and all kind of people at the highest levels. never in need of language to express because whatever you got from her was honest. >> her start was in the segregated south. from her own pain she would find universal hope. a hope she shared in her writers and teachings. >> love. tolerance, acceptance, she didn't want to change who you were. as long as you were a good person it didn't matter what your sexual orientation was. what your attitudes were, if you cared and loved human beings, that was sufficient. >> courage is the most important of all the virtuing because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. you can be every attribute but to be that thing time after time you have to have courage. >> as a writer, maya angelou understood the rhythm of literacy. >> what can you say in a poem that you can't really say in probes. >> you can catch the reader and the listener bec

and then i turned 15 and we smuggled the t.v., nigerian news and heard talk about nelson mandela and i was sitting in the living room with my parents watching the news and it's like a bomb was dropped on me because suddenly, those words that my father used to say to us make no sense to me anymore. if you are the same human family, how can we do this to one another? i was so anning re. >> you wrote -- i was so angry. >> the first track was, if they don't like us, we kill them. >> you said it was violent and that's violence. my father said, no. not under my roof. i always told you that violence will never have any place in this house. i understand how you feel, but you as an artist, you are the one that builds a bridge among people. you are the one who holds the key when every doors are closed for dialogue to become an option for everyone to sit at the same table and discuss. you will go back and write this song. i want this song. not only to hear your pain but to heal, also, your answerer. think about it. where do you go from here with that anger? what is created? what is going to cre

traveling the world, it is the power of hope, the power of one person, a washington, a lincoln, a mandela, who can change the world by giving people hope. if you want to change the world, start singing when you are up to your neck in mud. finally, there was a bell. theass bell that hangs in center of the compound for all the students to see. quit hisave to do to ring the bell. ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at 5:00. you no longer have to be in the freezing cold swims. have to do the runs on the obstacle course. you no longer have to injure the hardships of training. all you have to do is ring the bell to get out. world,want to change the don't ever ring the bell. class of 2014, you are moments away from graduating. moment away from beginning your journey through life. the woods away from starting to change the world for the better. it will not be easy. of 2014,re the class the class that can affect the lives of 800 million years -- people. find someone to help you through life, respect everyone, know that life is not fair and you will fail often. but if you take risks, st

. >> look, malcolm x, nelson mandela, michael jordan. >> come on, get him out. >> i'm trying to get himdemy of motion pictures arts and sciences threw lee a 25th anniversary party, featuring a video message from none other than president and mrs. obama. the first couple said they watched the movie on their first official date and the president thanked lee for helping him impress michelle. who knew? first date. a good movie. >> spike lee helped out the potus. >> certainly did. next to the passing of a much recognized and beloved television actor. >> yes, meshach taylor, died after a battle with breast cancer. -- or after cancer i should say. he was perhaps best known as the flamboyant designer, anthony bovilla, playing that role in "designing women." recently taylor appeared on cbs "criminal mind." >> meshach taylor was 67 years old. >> and call "the fashion police." osborne is shocking fas this morning with a bizarre new tattoo. the 29-year-old fashion police co-host shaved off both side of her head, sporting a mohawk with a tattoo that reads story. >> osborne couldn't resist her new lo

she worked with malcolm x, martin luther king, jr., and nelson mandela. >> she had the voice of god.cided he wanted it back for a while. >> president clinton requested that she compose a poem to read at his first inauguration in 1993, now considered one of the most famous of all times. >> she called our attention to the fact that the things that really matter, dignity, work, love and kindness are things we can all share and don't cost anything. >> in perhaps her most famous book published in 1970, "i know why the caged bird sings," angelou publically detailed the hardships of her childhood. >> for the first time, reading a story about someone who was like me, i was that girl who loved to read. i was that girl who was raised by my southern grandmother. >> the pioneering work helped give black women writers a litary voice and became required reading in american classrooms. >> she was the original. she was the master. for at a time when there were such stifling constraints on how black women could exist in the world, she certain rene lee disregarded all of the rules. >> angelou served o

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apparently taken around the time of the death of south african, former south african president nelson mandela. in that video mark kirk said bowe bergdahl appeared to have difficulty speaking and administration officials used that as the justification. felt they needed to get good bowe bergdahl out of the custody of the taliban as soon as possible. and get him back into u.s. still questions and criticism about the administration's decision to do that. and trading five taliban prisoners in exchange for bowe bergdahl. stephanie, back to you. >> great. thanks, joe. >>> sergeant bergdahl's release has a number of republicans scrambling to hide their previous sport for his return. when president obama announced the prisoner swap on saturday, nevada congressman mark amodai tweeted best news i've heard in a time. nebraska representative lee terry put out a statement, sergeant bergdahl is a national hero. joni ernst, now republicans' nominee for u.s. senate in iowa tweeted thoughts and prayers go out to sergeant bergdahl and his family. all these comments have vanished from twitter or their websites.

this is the second time that the coffee shop on mandela parkway has been vandalized.moriarty joining us live now to tell us how customers are reacting. tara, why the owner says the vandalism is retaliation for something city officials did earlier this week. >> reporter: that's right. it opened up about a half hour ago and customers saw the damage to the windows when they came for coffee yesterday at 7:00 sharp when it opened. many don't quite understand why anyone would want to hurt this business or its owner. owner ethan ashley spent much of the morning sweeping glass from the windows damaged when two vandals targeted his store yesterday morning. the surveillance video shows one of those marked vandals dressed in black hurling chunks of concrete through the windows. ashley says it's retaliation because the night before the oakland planning commission approved a controversial redeveloping plan. while the plan's purpose is to stimulate new housing and businesses opponents say it will force long-time low income residents out. >> i felt angry, you know. they're trying to

to be someone who is a good reconciler he's certainly not anyone who would be confused with nelson mandela and so i think he does have some problems but putting that aside what we have today is a very serious threat to iraq's territorial integrity indeed to its to its sovereignty and my view from here in the united states is the united states needs to be heavily involved diplomatically and perhaps as well helping the iraqi forces because these i.c.'s people you know they are not interested in just iraq they are interest. did in the rest of us as well and so i think we as a civilization if you will need to be prepared to deal with organizations such as i.c.'s it's an interesting idea i wonder how much support it would have among the american public i gather that the appetite for the american involvement would be extremely limited and probably for good reasons if i could concentrate on almost like a bit longer i heard many western commentators. blame a lot like you for this whole crisis saying that he failed to build a functioning democracy in iraq that he disenfranchised many sunnis but i w

member of the elders, a group of retired statesmen formed in july 2007 at the initiative of nelson mandela, who was originally each -- which was originally chaired by archbishop desmond tutu and now by kofi annan. nermeen shaikh and i interviewed him on tuesday. he is in paris, france. i started by asking him to respond to what is happening in iraq right now. iraq haslamic state of invaded and taken control of the second-largest city in iraq, which is absolutely extraordinary. that is the city of mosul. i understand they went down also and took apart -- may be they are still there, in the city of tikrit. the birthplace of saddam hussein. and are marching on baghdad have been stopped somewhere. i doubt very much that they will enter baghdad in any significant manner. the fragilityates of the state of iraq that has been created by the americans after they invaded the country in 2003. extraordinary that the state as important and rich as iraq cannot protect the second-largest city in the country. indicates what the secretary-general of the united nations and myself have been saying for months

on the political side of things, you wrote that prime minister nouri al-maliki has been no nelson mandela, when it comes to reaching out to the sunnis, he hashand had a de clercq figure. do you think that there's some way of coming up with some sort of government that can hold the country together? >> i'm hopeful that the event of the past week might have cleared minds or focused the mind on the problem at hand. it's easy to blame maliki, there's blame doing around. maliki has made a lot of mistakes. the sunni has not been verified. i'm hopeful that the groups of the last week could bring the events together. it could go the other way. >> i hope the optimistic side of you is the one that is correct. >> me too. >> good to see you. >> thank you. have a good night. >> returning to the crisis in iraq to the crisis in ukraine. a stay after the new president talked to vladimir putin, the situation has gotten worse instead of better. heavy fighting erupted again in eastern ukraine north of the city. n.a.t.o. says the russians are sending troops along with fighter jets and tanks to the ukranian b

30th from morocco in a carbon fiber ocean rowing boat they named the speared of madiba, after nelson mandela. >> we went one step further than christopher columbus. that guy was so lazy he stop in the bohamas. >> reporter: they survived on freeze dried food and fish february from the ocean along with plenty of sun screen and welcome on their stopped in san salvador and miami. >> such, such a great time. no human being has done this. >> reporter: although their trip was not without serious drama like the night they capsized and feared they would not make it. >> we flipped. we lifted our boat up and top of the waves. the boat went over one time. the boat was thrown and i was thrown out of the boat, and she got stuck underneath with her feet inside the stir ups, and, the the boat just went down and we lost everything. >> reporter: the couple lived to roast another daze and this afternoon finally completed their voyage. >> so we just am glad we don't to have row again. we're very, very sore. >> all right. well, you probably noticed that prices are going up, pork, poultry all more expensive these

anderson, the proof of life video was recorded apparently at the time of south african president nelson mandelargdahl was gaunt and had a difficult time speaking. the administration officials used that video to present the fact they thought bergdahl may be in failing health. and democrat senator joe manchin who came from the meeting said they looked at it and said he well might have been drugged at the time the video was recorded, anderson. >> and we just heard john mccain, based on what they just heard they blasted the administration. seems like no democrats came out to defend the administration. is the party on its heels? >> no party member came out to defend the administration on camera. there were some that talked about it. senator richard durbin came out of that meeting more supportive after that meeting. but a lot of democrats didn't speak for the camera. as you might expect, more republicans were critical. as you might expect, senator lindsey graham of south carolina said he was offended that they tried to make the case that releasing the five taliban leaders may be seen in some way as a

martin luther king junior and nelson mandela. >> she had the voice of god.decided he wanted it back. >> president clinton requested she compose a poem to read at his inauguration. now considered one of the most famous. >> she called our attention to the fact that things that matter dignity, works, love and kindness are things that we can share and don't cost anything. rmpingt in her famous book published in 1970 "i know why the caged bird sippings", she detailed her childhood hardships. >> for the first time reading a story about me. i was the girl that loved to read, i was raised by my southern grandmother. >> reporter: the pioneering work helped to give black women a literary voice and became required reading. >> she was the original, she was the master for at a time when there were stif lipping constraints on how a black woman could exist in the world, she serenely disregarded the rules. >> reporter: maya angelou served on two committees, was awarded the medal of arts and the lincoln medal, the presidential medal of freedom as awarded by president obama w

on the contrary, he's certainly no nelson mandela. >> thank you both. this is fascinating.efore we go to break, we want to show you a live picture of the white house press briefing room. jay carney says it's been an extraordinary gratifying job. he's been in that position for three years. we'll be following closely to see what comes next for him. >>> up next, how is all of this international turmoil echoing back home, especially for our leadership? we're going to look at the new poll numbers about the president that have everybody talking. don't go away. like we're about to board. mm-hmm. i'm just comparing car insurance rates at progressive.com. is that where they show the other guys' rates, too? mm-hmm. cool. yeah. hi. final boarding call for flight 294. [ bells ring on sign ] [ vehicle beeping ] who's ready for the garlic festival? this guy! bringing our competitors' rates to you -- now, that's progressive. [meow mix jingle slowly andright on cue.ks.] [cat meows] [laughs] ♪meow, meow, meow, meow... ♪meow, meow, meow, meow... it's more than just a meal, it's meow mix meal

coffee, that's on mandela parkway. about 1:00 a.m. thursday. owner says it's the second time his shop as been vandalized. >>> we had lots of wind in the san francisco for this afternoon. you can see it blowing the trees around here. breezes between 20 and 30 miles per hour. but the sea breeze was late today. didn't come in until later in the afternoon, as a result. temperatures warmed up in the morning and midday. and got up into the 80s in some locations. bayside, and even into the 90s for the inland spots. but we are going to see a fairly significant change in the way for tomorrow. as we'll have a stronger sea breeze and that's going to push in cooler air into the bay. here's a live view. bay bridge toward the oakland hills, clear skies for tonight. a nice evening, we will begin to see some fog push back into the bay after midnight. windy afternoon, the sea breeze will be stronger, come in earlier, and that's going to cool temperatures down, not only for tomorrow, but for monday as well. look for readings tomorrow, low 80s inland for concord,

in south africa, the apartheid regime ended and nelson mandela took power and in brazil and argentina two civilian elected governments, and so it was logical in those cases to accept there had been a fundamental change and the government wasn't interested in nuclear weapons. in the case of iran, the vision of the jpa, there doesn't need to be a fundamental change in government, ahmadinejad can be the leader of iran when the comprehensive solution lapses and ahmadinejad will be treated as if he were japan. his country will be treated as if it was japan. that's what's spelled out. so when we talk about verification, i think yes, absolutely we need to focus on verification of the jpa and the comprehensive solution because for a country with iran's track record we have to be suspicious there will be cheating but we need to get to the bottom of what happened in the past. there are a lot of unanswered questions. the jpa does not compel iran to answer those questions. it sets up a mechanism where there's to be a discussion but no consequences attached if iran fails to cooperate. if the quest

is there a else nelson mandela iraq? >> no, there are three names as potential., ahmed chala chalabi, who initially convinced the united states to get involved in iraq. another one is abdul abel mehdi, one of the most popular. and then the former minister jabar, known for some of the tougher periods against dissidents in iraq and might not be as popular. one of the great challenges is does iraq bring back the supporters of the baath party, who were saddam supporters, now siding with isis? do you bring in tribal leaders? >> sunni tribal leaders. >> who were the key to the awakening in 2006 and 2007 would pushed back al qaeda in an earlier -- >> because they were paid off by the united states government -- >> they were paid off, armed, aided by the united states. >> petraeus was spending millions and millions of dollars every day just paying off these guys. >> and the iraqi government was supposed to incorporate them, either give them jobs -- >> they stopped paying them off. >> -- bring them into the military, stopped paying them off, stopped giving them jobs, and

and nelson mandela. >> she had the voice of god. he decided he wanted it back. >> president clinton requested that she compose a poem to read at his first inauguration in 1993. now considered one of the most famous of all times. >> she called our attention to the fact that things that really matters, dignity, work, love and kindness are things we can all share and don't cost anything. >> in perhaps her most famous book published in 1970, "i know why the caged bird sings" angelou publically detailed the hardships of her childhood. >> for the first time reading a story by someone who was like me. i was that girl who loved to read. i was that girl who was raised by my southern grandmother. >> the pioneering work helped give black women writers a litary voice and became required reading in american classrooms. >> she was the original. she was the master. for at a time when there were such stifling constraints on how black women could exist in the world, she sur rene lee disregarded all of the rules. >> angelou served on two presidential