how important was class to margaret thatcher? >> guest: it was very important because she came from the outside so she had to overcome the double barrier of being from the wrong class in the wrong sex as far as establishment went but it would be a mistake to think that she was hostile to traditional social order in britain. she was a huge believer in opportunity but she wasn't a believer in imposing equality and she had a sense of british history which meant she quite respected very much respected the monarchy the constitutional order and even the aristocracy. what you often find with her in class is that she likes a lot of these sort of distinguished old peers and whatnot. so long as she is not being patch and i send the thing she would always note about a person who was above her older than her or more powerful than her is, is he patronizing me or not? she didn't like prime minister milan because because she felt patch and eyes by him but she did like the more aristocratic prime minister because he treated her like a gentleman.

three of your latest books include churches, margaret thatcher and a history of england. that is a mix of topics. >> different sides. a political columnist with the guardian actually and i've written about politics all my life. i've been involved in the political controversy. it is architecture. there were two books on london buildings. i'm fascinated by architecture generally. i write books about english churches and houses. so have my time is worrying about the environment and landscaping and that sort of thing and the other half. i tend to keep them apart. >> which one brings you more pleasure to write about? >> probably architecture. i just get inside buildings and a curious way. the book i'm working on now is about english landscape, and it is an attempt to look at what constitutes the beautiful view of the landscape and that has now moved on from buildings that i find i can fall in love with a subject like that very easily and it becomes an obsession. so now i'm very concerned with beautiful places and buildings and coastlines and these two things merge into one and

this week better in a newspaper editor charles more and his latest book margaret thatcher the longtime reporter and editor and columnist from the london daily telegraph presents the authorized biography of britain's only female prime minister. the program is about an hour. >> welcome to "after words." i am tobey with the sunday times of london and with me today is charles moore, the journalist and author, former editor of the spectator in britain, the times and the sunday telegraph and the daily telegraph. charles is also the man responsible for sending me to washington in 1999 and also belfast and jerusalem as well. charles has written a biography of margaret thatcher, the first of two volumes, and it takes up from her birth to her finest moments in 1992. the books received great reviews and the sunday times held its elegant pos, research and careful judgment and the telegraph described its combination of biographies and intellectual history is as the count among the many. they died only last month and like 859 pages substantial as it should be. currently it what wasn't written overni

it is hard to believe margaret thatcher died only last month. the book is 859 pages, is substantial, as it should be. clearly it was my written overnight. tell me about the genesis of the book, which came up and where. >> guest: margaret thatcher was advised she ought to do something about her papers. and she is an oxford graduate. an honorary degree. she had to give them to cambridge. when she did that she was also advised that somebody is going to write your life was the way people put it to her. what you pick someone who you get on with and let them get going, given the access and that chance to look at the papers. she very kindly to those me. this was 1997. obviously it is an intimidating prospect and a great honor and a fascinating and opportunity. i said yes. in essence have been working ever since. the great bulk of birds search took place from 2004. the key point is that it is the complete access which has not happened to anybody else. says she turned the key in the lock for me. but although it is authorized, call her mrs. thatcher throu

i'm margaret held in you're watching r t the obama administration is on the defense after a guardian reporter glenn greenwald published a bombshell story that the national security agency had a court order to collect the phone records of millions of horizon customers over a three month period this shouldn't come as a surprise to our t.v. or us because we've been covering the growth of government surveillance of citizens just in case you missed it here's a refresher it seems that secrecy is actually strengthening the national security state. in order to hide from accountability and oversight. it's more of more than just invasion of privacy it's about destroying the concept of privacy online i say has operated continually under the shroud of non-transparency in secrecy despite a commitment on president obama's first day in office that this is going to be the most transparent administration ever the n.s.a. just doesn't think that applies to them in the quest to hunt down terrorists the obama administration has announced plans to give spy agency as full access to people's finances is goi

margaret warner is in beirut and talked to ray suarez a short time ago. >> suarez: margaret, welcome.t's the reaction in lebanon to the victory of assad's forces in qusair over the free syrian army? >> warner: ray, the reaction's been large here because of the role that hezbollah fighters from lebanon played in the retaking of qusair, assisting the assad forces. there also has been an immediate security reaction here in lebanon-- that is, 11 rockets were fired overnight at the hezbollah stronghold in the valley. and today, syrian military plane, looks like a helicopter, fired rockets at a town in northern lebanon in the valley that's been a haven for free syrian army fighters, rebels, and refugees. that was of particular concern to western diplomatic officials here, what the syrian military did, because as one said to me, it shows that the syrian government doesn't feel any sense of restraint exwl exw more about crossing this border line to pursue its enemies inside lebanon. and finally, it has stirred up fears among people here who have their ear to the ground in terms of security si

it is relevant today because margaret thatcher's in view of capitalism has a very contemporary bearing on the debate about the fix the relationship between the financial system with the economy is to support at the center of "masters of nothing" because throat her life lady thatcher passionate lee believed capitalism not only the most effective form of economic organization ever invented, but also the most moral and today the first of those is almost undisputed in regional be grateful to the market liberals of west and east those to free the people through thought and deed of china in the at and indonesia and beyond and it is the greatest source of prosperity as known to man. but that the free market is a moral force for good is less well understood in this moral authority hinges on two crucial factors. first at the free market is bad because reward is proportionate to ever win the markets work those prosper in those who work hard and risk their capital succeed to make other people's lives, their customers lives better. and for most people fairness is a form of reciprocity you get out

thanks a lot, margaret. we turn now to another nation struggling to cope with the chaos in next door syria, the kingdom of jordan. the country is now home to roughly a third of syria's estimated million and a half refugees. the newshour's foreign editor justin kenny traveled to the kingdom last week and produced this report. >> reporter: this is zatari, it's now second-largest refugee camp on earth. just over a year ago, the site didn't exist. jordan's king abdullah now calls it his country's fifth-largest city. more than 120,000 syrian refugees-- including 60,000 children-- are packed into the camp living in tents and trailers on five square miles of dry and dusty ground. just 15 miles from their homeland's border, they often can hear the fighting between the forces of syrian president bashar al-assad and the rebel free syrian army. the refugees are out of the war zone, but they face plenty of new challenges. >> (translated): my children have all been sick for 20 days now. >> reporter: 25-year-old nadia raj

>> i think so, margaret.if i recall in october when the term began i said this would be a term about equality because of the potential for major decisions involving affirmative action, voting rights and same-sex marriage. i think this term will be known for the court's dramatic invalidation of a key section of the voting rights act and for its very significant but incremental step toward same-sex marriage. >> warner: and in both those cases the court either in one case invalidated the defense of marriage act entirely passed by congress and in another pretty much gutted the voting rights act, also passed by congress a couple of times. would you call that an activist court? >> (laughs) "activist" is such a loaded term. i'm very careful about using it. generally a court is considered activist when it strikes down a low that congress enacted and it's considered negatively activist by the people who supported the law. chief justice roberts in the voting rights decision quoted from an old opinion in which he -- the

three of your latest books include churches, margaret thatcher and a history of

. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, we examine what did and didn't make it into the final senate bill and the challenge ahead as the fight over immigration shifts to the house. >> brown: then, president obama kicks off a six-day swing through africa. we discuss the past, present and future of the u.s. presence on the continent. >> warner: they're young, they're talented, but the new generation of classical performers are struggling to find work. paul solman reports on how hard economic times haven't deterred some starving artists. >> we don't go into music for the money. we go into music because it's part of our soul. it's part of who we are. it's what we have to do. >> brown: we move ahead to the new battlegrounds in the fight over same-sex marriage on the heels of yesterday's landmark rulings from the supreme court. >> warner: and ray suarez looks at the new federal rules, aimed at making meals and snacks offered in schools healthier. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour."

i'm sure margaret has an opinion about that. and not a very good one, i would think.

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margaret chung, who is otherwise known as mom chung and the role in our city's history. our country's first female chinese american doctor in the heart of china town, someone who adopted over 1,000 suns, mostly service men during world war ii. i can tell you as the son of a tiger mom, i have a good sense that mom chung was a tiger mom. and that is what we have needed to build this project. per the history of fighting is helping to build our city's future, we all know that over the past few decades, thousands of san franciscos have been fighting to implement the central subway and for someone who served on the advisory committee before i was elected to office there are thousands of community members from the bay view and the vis valley to mission bay and union square and to china town who have fought to get us to where we are here today. there have been dozens of political leaders and i want to thank our good senators and nancy pelosi and generations of mayor, mayor lee and i want to thank my colleagues, including kim and breeder who are here today, after hundreds of comm

margaret brennan is our state department correspondent and, margaret, is that a deal that the united states could accept? >> reporter: well, scott, no formal proposal has been made yet but the u.s. negotiators do expect one. sergeant bowe bergdhal has been held for nearly four years. he's the only known american prisoner of war in afghanistan. of the five taliban commanders at guantanamo bay, two of them are senior level, allegedly, with ties to al qaeda and taliban leader mullah omar. so the taliban says this prisoner swap needs to happen before talks can begin. but the secretary of defense would have to sign off on any release and he has not done that. >> pelley: peace talks are never smooth, but do you think these talks are going to happen? >> u.s. negotiators tell us they still plan to meet with the taliban in the coming days, but the envoy leading those talks is still here in washington. this has gotten off to a very rocky start. the taliban opened an office in qatar earlier this week and they tried to present themselves in an alternative government. they even flew the old talib

as is our good friend margaret cho.ng isn't it? it is so cool. i have never seen that happen before. >> stephanie: i know. it was such a huge fan outcry, right? >> yeah, i think what is great about it is social media is giving a lot of power back into the fans' hands, you know. and that's a great thing, and great for the show, for sure, and very exciting. >> stephanie: i was just reading a separate news piece about it and they were saying, it literally was canceled and now it returns this sunday right? >> yes it returns this sunday on lifetime and that is so great. it's our fifth season, and we love it so much. it's a lot of fun to do. and it's interesting to go back and play a character five years in a row. something i have never done, so it is awesome. >> stephanie: exactually. tell us about the series for those who haven't tuned in. because i love the premises of it. >> the whole thing is about whether -- women are kind -- we are sort of put into -- we decide whether we're going to be beautiful or smart in our lives,

i'm margaret held you're watching our t.v. we begin with an update on the national security agency whistleblower edward snowden and the disclosures he leads following the revelations that the n.s.a. was collecting the correspondence of american citizens the clinton an organization released a faction attempting to explain the legal justification for obtaining that data the only problem the fact she isn't factual according to senators mark udall and ron wyden in an open letter to n.s.a. director keith alexander the senators who wrote we are disappointed to see that this fact sheet contains an inaccurate statement about how the section seven zero two authority under the feis act has been interpreted by the u.s. government in our judgment this inaccuracy is significant as a portrait of protections for americans privacy as being significantly stronger than they actually are. explaining the word compromise classified information according to the spokesperson for senator wyden speaking to the guardian in response to the letter of the

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>> well, my name is margaret wilson and i have four kids, all attending the san francisco unified school district and i have one graduating from sc carmichael middle school going to (inaudible) high school next year and i have one that is graduating fifth great and going from bessy elementary to the middle school campus as a fourth going into fifth and i have a preschooler that goes to (inaudible) and she is transferring to sammy (inaudible) next year. >> hi, (inaudible) and good evening everyone my name is angela and (inaudible) i have two kids. (inaudible) one is in 8th grade in san francisco middle school. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> and a second one in garfield elementary school. >> and first grade, thank you. >> warren wo ng. [ speaking in a foreign language ] . >> i have a kid who are attending... spring valley elementary school second grade. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> okay. and everybody in. >> i have no public speakers on this item, are there any comments from the board? nets vote and we can welcome them. >> seeing no other requests for comments or questions from the boa

is a great honor to be here speaking at the appropriately named margaret thatcher center for freedome heritage foundation and the sad passing of baroness thatcher reminded conservatives on both sides of the atlantic of the values we hold in common and delighted to be contributing in my own small way to the great dialogue of ideas which has always existed between our two big countries and it is relevant today because margaret thatcher's view of capitalism has a very contemporary bearing i feel on the debate about how we fix the relationship between the financial system and the economy that it exists to support and this is at the center of "masters of nothing: human nature, big finance, and the fight for the soul of capitalism" and the book we're launching this week. throughout her life lady thatcher passionately believed that capitalism was not only the most effective form of economic organization that had ever been invented but also the most moral and today the first of those points is almost undisputed and we should all be grateful to the market liberals of west and of east who in f

. >> host: what was your relationship with margaret thatcher? >> guest: i had a really good relationship with margaret. often we argued about things. she is a pretty fierce are your, but she doesn't like lap dogs, people just say yes margaret, and so, we wouldn't go added, but our underlining way of thinking about things was very similar. so a lot was constructed by the bald reagan and thatcher relationship and i was glad to be part of it and i was glad to go to her funeral because i had been close to her both before i was in office and after we left office. we still had times when we were together. so i was glad to have a chance to go and pay my respects because i think it is a fair statement that between margaret thatcher and ronald reagan and their leadership, they changed the world, the art of history was changed. >> host: page 245 of "issues on my mind" coming you write that in my view the most striking trend now is something else. it's the growing dynamism, cohesion and cooperation of like-minded nations that share an important set of posi

thank you so much. >>> and thank you to our panel, ron, glen, margaret and michael. all for now. i will see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern. until then, you can find us on facebook.com/nowwithalex. andrea mitchell reports is next. ♪ now you can give yourself a kick in the rear! v8 v-fusion plus energy. natural energy from green tea plus fruits and veggies. need a little kick? ooh! could've had a v8. in the juice aisle. to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hello. mother. mother! traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly any airline anytime. two words. double miles! this guy can act. wanna play dodge rock? oh, you guys! and with double miles you can actually use, you never miss the fun. beard growing contest and go! ♪ i win! what's in your wallet? >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports" -- decision today. the supreme court rules raising the bar for affirmative action in public college admissions. we'll have the latest from pete williams. >>> catch me if you can. edward snoweden is on the run with the help of wi

you heard the president today, margaret. he said as long as nuclear weapons exist we are not truly safe. he's echoing the vision of ronald reagan who wanted to abolish nuclear weapons from the face of the earth and john f. kennedy who said we must abolish the weapons of war before they abolish us. what the president has done is restart his nuclear policy that actually has been pretty dead in the water for the last couple of years. he's saying that we have to get rid of these nuclear nightmares that still haunt us. one nuclear weapon can destroy a city. 100 nuclear weapons can destroy human civilization. the united states has 7,000 nuclear weapons. russia has 8,000 nuclear weapons. we spend $50 to $60 billion a year maintaining these arsenals. it's time to reduce these costs, to reduce these risks. the president took an important step to prevent new nations from getting these weapons, to prevent terrorists from getting these weapons and to prevent the use of these nuclear weapons anywhere by design or miscalculation. i applau

and then the secretary thing was that it is on a campus as margaret says. we were trying to fit the building into the campus scene, the southern methodist university, smu is a beautiful georgian style campus that was all built in the 20th centuries, 20th century campus. and they were very much involved in the process. so we had to work with that, president gerald turn are and the other thing is the institute, the policy institute that the bush established is physically attached to the library which is a little different from clintons or anybody else before. so for example hoover who actually was the first one to save his papers. but he didn't build a buildingment but hoover's papers are at standford and hoover's library is in iowa where he grew up. >> but the hoover institution -- >> standford. but with bush they're all together so what margaret was saying about the interactivity of people that was what we were really looking for, to make this thing work. >> so you go talk to the president. what does he say? >> it's sophomoric. >> not quite but it was laura

i"m margaret richard.ve with me my body electric friends, and i hope that you'll put everything aside this half hour and join us. let's have a special time together, because i think it's going to be worth your while. so let's start with the body electric shuffle. and you kind of do your own, and step and touch, move the arms a little. kind of move and groove. and you kind of get it going, get happy. here we go. reach, reach, to the side. now push it back. other side. here we go. and push it back. and up. push it back. and again. up, and down. and step and reach. bend the knees, push it out. now reach it out, and swine

>> this is really exciting news, margaret.have a vaccine that can prevent cancer, and we already have great results of the impact it's having in teenaged girls so far. >> warner: and did you expect to see this significant a reduction in such a short period of time, especially when all teenaged girls in america are not vaccinated? >> you know, i was surprised. we're vaccinating today in order to prevent cancers that will happen decades from now. we've also had very low uptake of the vaccine. so this was an early look at the infection rate in teens, as well as other age groups, and we were really excited to see that we're already seeing this impact. we think the impact is greater than we were expecting with the low coverage that we have, and that's really good news, because, unfortunately, we don't have good coverage. we haven't had good uptake of this vaccine so far. so from my perspective, this is a real wake-up that we need to do better and get this vaccine out to all the teens in the country. >> warner: so tell bus how many