secretary boomer: [reading names] last speaker, martin smith. >> it is my request -- the pre k medallion, i have posed k. -- post k. please laura lee age to 60 or whatever. thank you. -- please lower the age to 60 or whenever. chairman nolan: thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a member of yellow cab. how we started. we were a small group of new immigrants in this country. mostly minorities. we heard we had the opportunity to have a yellow cab business. we had our $6,000 as a down payment. everything that we had. we were thinking this would be our nest egg in the future. then, for some reason, we alienated politicians. we cannot give it to our kids anymore. this was already established. and then you gave us hope. that was the greatest hope, but our nest egg and our confidence and trust in the city, we are not going to be betrayed anymore again. and then, please, do not taken away from us. you gave us the hope. how many are there? few. give them the dignity, please, to live their lives without being burdened, without being a burden to their family. whenever we have here. medicare, welfare.

. >> tonight on frontline, correspondent martin smith unravels "the madoff affair." >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. ( phones ringing ) >> smith: the news broke on december 11, 2008, and within seconds, phones were ringing around the world. ( phones ringing ) michael bienes was in london when he got a phone call from his business partner, frank avellino. >> "and i said, frank, what's wrong?" because i could hear it in his voice. "michael, bernie madoff..." i said, "he died." in a nanosecond, "he died." "...was arre

." >> now he is speaking out to correspondent martin smith. >> you say it's not just mistakes made, it'ses told, it's cover-ups. >> absolutely. >> a rare interview and a telling history from before 9/11 to today. >> no 9/11? >> the world would be very different. >> "the interrogator." >> explore more about john o'neill and the fbi at our web site, including a rare video interview with o'neill. a look at how the 9/11 commission examined issues that were raised by john o'neill. study a chart of how al qaeda came into focus for o'neill and us intelligence in the '90s. and watch the longer, 90-minute version of this program online. follow frontline on facebook and twitter, or join the discussion at pbs.org. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public i

martin ej and dale smith attorney. it is the agreement they reached are going to be disclosed because of a private matter with families and heightened media attention this case has received. yvonne is happy with the agreement and she will get to see the kids on a regular basis. >> finding michelle's cell phone what this means to the case where it's going whether or not they are going to arrest this punk her husband after this. >> breaks my heart my daughter's cell phone is found that means there's something criminal. there's something criminal. and i had such high hopes that maybe we would find her and she would be alive. i just don't think that's going to happen. >> pull a piece of paper out of the file and said do you know what this is? that's her phone. >> what goes through your mind when you see that phone? >> any emotions possible. i am hoping that maybe there's a finger print that shouldn't be on there not my sister or the twins. >> i hope it's in a condition they can retrieve something from it. >> she fears the

martin ej and dale smith attorney.t they reached are going to be disclosed because of a private matter with families and heightened media attention this case has received. yvonne is happy with the agreement and she will get to see the kids on a regular basis. >> finding michelle's cell phone what this means to the case where it's going whether or not they are going to arrest this punk her husband after this. okay... uhh. the bad news, it's probably totaled. the good news is, you don't have to pay your deducble. with vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance, you got $100 off for every year of safe driving, so now your deductible is zero. the other good news ? i held on to your coffee. wow. ♪ nationwide is on your side ( laughing ) it's actually a pretty good day whenou consider. that's great. did you hear sam... ...got promoted to director? so 12 seconds ago. we should get him a present. thanks for the gift basket. you're welcome. you're welcome. did you see hr just sent out new... ...office rules? cause you're cu

martin, thank you. >>> a blind man from maryland has disappeared between the district and birmingham, alabama. mitchell smith's family left on a train for charlotte december 16th but no one heard from him since. he arrived at the amtrak station in charlotte but never got on the connecting train to birmingham. >>> the search is on in richmond for a man wanted in the murders of two people and the abduction of a toddler. investigators say jamal clemmons shot two people and stole an s.u.v. with a two-year old inside. hours later the s.u.v. was recovered. the boy was in the vehicle and not hurt. police identified the two people shot. they are edward fulmer and robin clap. >>> a connecticut community is still in shock and trying to cope with the death of three children and their grandparents after a christmas day fire. the family was killed after fire swept through the home. mary ann rafferty reports. >> reporter: i have been on this job 38 years. not an easy day. >> reporter: three children and their grand patterns have been killed in a christmas morning house fire in connecticut. >> it was absolutely incredible. y

smith have penned a biography about events and then go. also tonight, marie lu on her book "legend." glad you have joined us. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: steven naifeh and gregory white smith are pulitzer prize- winning authors. their latest is easily one of the most talked-about books of the year. a new biography of a vincent van gogh. it is titled "van gogh: the life." good to have you here. >> thank you very much. tavis: let me start by asking what it is about a vincent van gogh that makes it worth giving 10 years of your life to do. we all make decisio

martin bernard christopher simpson. uria sinoa scabo. >> richard paul many --minetti cynthia smith. in grade anita smith. james alan smith. mary edna smith. john somerville. lindsay somers delfts -- lindsay somerville. roslyn haiti somerville. james ralph scope. geraldine stevenson. connell louise stevenson. john charles stevenson. rachel stevenson. charlotte stinnis. michael barry stinnis. stacey stennis. dahlia stratich. >> roger carson -- anthony swan. flora macdonald margaret dwyer. mark alex paget. andrew alexander john. david william trevor. arvo anthony thomas. jonathan ryan, as. rwanda, mark lawrence cohen. alexia kathryn. barry joseph valentino. thomas hinholden than. thomas this sunni. nicholas renia. peter loco. >> les rogers. raymond wagner. janine wyedu. thomas edwin walker. kisha weeden. jerome weston. jonathan wind. bonnie lee williams. britney lead williams. eric john williams. george williams. stephanie williams. miriam levee wolf. chelsea marie woods. edra woods. joe nathan would. joe nathan woods jr.. mark james zenberg. we remember. [silence] [silence] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [silence

martin bernard christophersen sen. -- christopher simpson. richard manetti. cynthia smith. ingrid smith. james smith. mary smith. john sommerville. lindsay sommerville. james stowe. geraldine anee stevenson. john stevenson. rachel stevenson. michale and charlotte stinnette. ilia stratus. [speaking names] anthony swan. mark pager. [speaking names] jonathan wright and thomas. mark tobin. barry joseph valentino. assad idi. [speaking names] luise anne rogers. raymond wagner. janine wyado. thomas walker. keisha weidon. jerome weston jonathan white. bonnie williams. britney williams. erik williams. george williams. stephanie williams. miriam will fall. -- miriam wolf. debra woods. joe nathan woods. joe nathan woods jr.. mark steinberg. and we remember. ♪ remember, remember, remember. ♪ remember my words, remember my voice, remember my heart. remember my hope, remember my love, remember my dream, and remember my home. ♪ remember my life and always be strong. remember my love and remember my home. ♪ remember, remember, remember ♪ words.ber my remember my voice. remember my heart. remember my love. remember my life and a

martin bernard christopher simpson. kerry has said no estado. >> richard paul one i.d. cynthia john smith. james alvin smith.mary at ms. smith. john somervell. lindsay and somerville. paul somerville. rosalind somerville. james routh stow. geraldine and stephenson. hannah luis stephenson. john charles stephenson. rachel stevenson. charlotte stennett. michael gary stennett. stacey leanne stennett. elliott g stratus. >> anthony swathe. war of the donald margaret swire. mark alex pager. andrew alexander jurong. arafat anthony tomas. jonathan ryan thomas. mark lawrence tobin. .. bonny lee williams. brittany lee williams. eric john williams. george williams. stephanie lee williams. miriam luby wolf. chelsea marie woods. deborah lynn woods. joe nathan woods. joe nathan woods jr.. mark james's einberg, we remember. no go. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we are going to go a little bit out of order. we were going to have bob mueller but instead we are moving up the attorney general partly because he has to leave and he can't stay for the entire -- stay as long as he can. the attorney general, the positi

martin. it's been almost two weeks since 33-year-old michelle parker disappeared in florida. a judge ruled her three-year-old twins must be returned to their father. just two days after police named dale smithestigative leads, we are officially naming dale smith the ex-fiance, as the primary suspect in the disappearance of michelle parker. >> you refer to smith as the ex-fiance. he had been engaged to parker. they had an on/off relationship that began in 2006. now, it ended with a humiliating exchange over a $5,000 engagement room on the tv show, the people's court. the ruling was that they had to split the cost in half. con coincidentally, she disappeared the same day she aired. that changed on monday as you saw. michelle parker's sister, matt morgan a lawyer for the family. they're out front with us tonight. thanks to both of you for coming out tonight. lauren, were you surprised the judge awarded custody of the kids to dale smith just days after we just heard police call him a suspect in this case? >> i was -- it was an emotional experience throughout the entire thing. i mean, i was somewhat surprised just because the twins have for the past year and a half lived at my mother's house whe

martin glenn faced anti-catholic prejudice. it showed up in the 1915 constitutional convention as a little bit of a whispering campaign. smith went into this years in advance of the election knowing this would be an issue. he addressed this issue in 1927 in his reply to the "atlantic monthly," discussing why a catholic man could be a president. it was a very good statement, but it was intellectual. it went over everybody's heads. it did not help his campaign. >> as mentioned earlier, we are in the new york state assembly chamber in albany, new york in the new york state capitol building, finished in 1894. we are also pleased to have join us a studio audience of albany area residents. some college students and historians, some people interested in al smith. they will also have a chance to ask some questions about al smith and the 1928 election, as will you. we will put some phone numbers on the screen so you can start to dial in now. this is the 6th in our 14-week series. "the contenders," the focus the 1928 election and al smith. john evers, what kind of a candidate was al smith in 1928? >> he was a fighter. if you look at h