marlene via hotmail. you would think, marlene, you would think.ally elena, viewers like bosh writing from new york -- really? bill in fresno -- now, now you really overdid it. elaine via gmail -- robert e-mails -- paul in new hampshire -- well, i have addressed this issue and repeatedly paul, and i've argued many many times that bankruptcy is inevitable because you can't keep printing money and assume your bills go away, they don't. they stay fester and climb like cancer and kill. the signs are all there. john in arizona -- peter in boston -- peter, first off, i'm either a melon head or a blockhead i cannot be both. the minecraft reference is witty. secondly, you could tax me and the top 1% even all of the 5% and 100% and you know what? tax all their money and you wouldn't put a dent in the debt, it's true. the problem isn't the money coming in, it's all the money going out. let me put it this way, peter, in ways that i think will cut through the thick skull. this government gets 3 trillion bucks every year, surely we can budget around. that jim i

. >> from riverside california marlene is next. good morning. call caller can you hear me host: sure can t go ahead. caller: ever since this began, what's been crossing my mind is the comparison between what's going on now with when the germans were encroaching at the beginning it of the second world war and the europeans approach to appeasement. it is concerns me amount. they had a russian puppet in there working with russia. host: thanks. we have had a number of an al jeez to world war ii. is it a fair comparison? guest: it is a comparison. i don't think at the present time russia, despite the change in the military strength is truly in a position to do what german did in world war ii. but it is a great concern about their empir imperial positions. it's an effort by nato to respond ukraine is in russia's backyard. our ability to engage directly in that part of the world is extremely limited. there is concern about russia's desires to spread influence in the post soviet space. russia, at least at the present point, is not in an economic positio

>> reporter: this cell phone led to $1.5 million from marlene pinnic who was beaten on the side of then officer. >> thank you for the footage and the video. >> reporter: she survived but eric garner did not. this shows an unarmed man placed in a chokehold. a grand jury decided fot to indict the officer for garner's death, but these videos are powerful tools for citizens who are capturing bad behavior by police. police. >> thank you. >>> and now, back with mark gar geragos, and mark o'mara, and that l.a. video, my goodness. it is unbelievable. let let's talk about the missouri one. mark geragos when there is a female officer warning the other officers that the dash cam is recording, and then it soon turns off, what do you think about that? >> it is not about race but it is the ingrained police belief that they shouldn't be second-guessed or watched. that is what transpires here and for 3 22 years, i have been doing, this and i have heard the clients repeatedly tell me white, black, latino, armenian, whoever, that it happens all of the time and that the police do it and when they march t

. >> marlene williamson is a silicon valley ceo helping to organize leadon.among the keynote topics waning inequality in the tech industry. where just 10% of venture funding goes to companies started by women. >> only been 4.6% of them are ceos of fortune 500 companies and only about 8.1% of them are the top earners. it's a big issue. >> so the conference ames to shake things up. pointing out among other things that companies valuing women actually perform better. >> it's a known fact that the companies that are more gender diverse have a higher return on investing capital, sales, as well as equity. >> reporter: an idea once again heading to the big screen. the leadon conference kicks off here in santa clara tomorrow morning. the keynote speaker is hillary clinton. reporting live in santa clara scott budman nbc bay areas news. >> still ahead at 6:00 is it arson in the series much south bacar fires that have a lot of neighbors worried. also also -- >> there are unannounced gift give xwb aways going on all over the bay area to help promote the super bowl 50. i'

host: >>host: host: marlene from riverside, california. >> caller: can you hear ?me >> host: sure can t go ahead. >> caller: ever since this began, what's been crossing my mind is the comparison between what's going on now with when the germans were encroaching at the beginning of the second world war, and the europeans approached to appeasement, and it concerns me a lot. i think the reason probably, the ukrainians didn't join nato is because they had a russian puppet in there working with russia. >> host: thanks. we have had a number of analogies to world war ii. is it a fair comparison? >> guest: it is a comparison. i don't think at the present time russia despite its change in military strength, is truly in a position to do what germany did at the beginning of world war ii. that being the case, it is a great concern about russia's imperial ambitions and its desire to spread influence in the post-soviet space. what we have seen, is an effort by the europeans and nato to respond. the problem for ukraine, is that it is literally in russia's backyard. our ability to

. >> reporter: spokeswoman marlene tran says she fears seniors will be particularly targeted by criminalsecially now. some of them will have some money on them at lunar new year. >> reporter: activists we spoke to say they have done a lot to reach out to the china town community, but city hall needs to free up more resources. frank and gasia? >> thank you david. >>> tonight, 2 investigates goes undercover to expose mounting problems at a hotel in if east bay used by tourists and bay area residents who have nowhere else to go. it is also the same hotel that a previous owner once tried to burn down to collect insurance. ktvu fox 2 news' eric rasmussen found out the conditions are no better now. and why it has been difficult to hold anyone accountable. >> reporter: we are not getting any straight answers about who owns the imperian towers in downtown oakland. it used to be called in menlow. richard singer was sentenced to prison for paying someone to try to burn down the billing while people were still living there. in an e-mail, singer told me he sold the hotel. but four years later, tenant

america's families across generations we must create systems that adequately honor and compensate joanie marlene, d.c., berlin but in the millions of other workers care. the people whose profession would not have trouble feeding our caring for their own children and the people who provide care for others would receive support for their own retirement and the caring future we must create with honor, respect and value precious labor that these workers provide, the care upholding our society. the independence and productivity we treasure as individuals of all ages require the work of caregivers at their foundation. with appropriate pay, benefits and employee support such as childcare along with training and a career ladders, and these can be respect to both family sustaining jobs. turning caregiving jobs into dignified jobs will have a ripple effect on society on the economy and on the spiritual health. we affirm the dignity of people at every stage of life into old age and in every walk of life including caregiving. [applause] >> ai-jen poo reading from her book, "the age of dignity." this larger

inmate marlene stollsmark used to be a drug dealer. >> outside world, i ran a lot from the law, soldo get by. you know, it was easy money instead of, i didn't really know too much of doing anything except running the streets and this is -- when they came here, they asked me, well, what are you interested in? i said nails, hair. and they put me in this program. it was good. a lot of us that's here really don't know nothing except what we've learned to bring ourselves here. if we had known a trade or something, we might have did that instead of doing what we did to get here. >> at the end of her ten-year sentence, marline hopes to open a nail shop of her own. >> you'll hope -- i'm hoping that it will give me a normal life. where i don't have to look over my shoulder and wonder, am i coming back.where i don't have my shoulder and wonder, am i coming back. i don't think anybody really thinks about coming to prison and having to stay here. but it's the choices in life that we make that bring us here. hopefully i don't make that same mistake and come back. >> i came in in my very early 20s

host: that is marlene calling in from new jersey this morning. one other tweet on this issue of corporations and taxes. "people who live corporations isn't it their responsibly to provide well-paying jobs for all americans? if not them, then who?" good morning, jim. caller: good morning, thanks for taking my call. i am retired military and i can honestly say that conservatively our military wastes about $.50 on the dollar that the taxpayers pay just in redundancies alone. also, our military buildup is way too high. we have 10 aircraft carriers that are active. i think the chinese only have one. the russians don't have any. and the u.s. taxpayer funds 90% of nato. a lot of these contractors for the government, they are basing their companies outside the united states to avoid paying taxes. host: on defense spending, just wanted to jump in on that. $561 billion proposed in the president's fiscal 2016 budget on defense spending, $38 billion over the sequestration under the budget control act, the caps that are supposed to be in place. this would go

now, for the president's state of the union address last month, i invited marlene the daughter of armando alejandre. they were kept in the dark about this trade -- nontrade. her father was murdered by the regime when his brothers to the rescue plane was shot down over international waters. on december 17, the president released and pardoned a cuban spy convicted in our u.s. courts for conspiracy to commit murder for his connection to the shootdown. so the family wanted me to ask you these questions, assistant secretary jacobson. how will i explain to my three little girls of that fair u.s. marine vietnam veteran grandfather was denied the only justice for his murder when hernandez was set free, pardoned and returned to cuba? next question. why was the u.s. so giving to with it -- to give her an and is the opportunity to father a child while he was in prison when some of the victims of the shootdown will never be able to have children of their own? now, as if negotiating in secret is not bad enough, the castro regime continues to defy this administration , as the chairman had pointed out,

how can marlene alejandre explain to her daughters why their grandfather who was killed by the castro regime his life meant nothing and the person who was in jail as a coconspirator of the murder of her father with was pardoned set free returned to cuba and received a hero's welcome. what does she say to her girls? >> let me say i can never bring back her grandfather. i can never do more than express my sadness and my condolences at the start for something that should not have happened. >> when sefs told a trade would not take place this is a swap. was with it not -- >> i just want to say an ex kpaeng change of intelligence agents between two countries is something that this government and previous administrations have done many times. >> but had the state department not met with the family and time and again tell her that hernandez would not be set free by this administration? yes or no? >> to the best of my knowledge -- >> did secretary kerry say right here to us that such a swap would not take place? >> that a swap for alan are gross would not take place we affirmed and we did not