that city is a small city in massachusetts about 150,000. in 1939, just as world war ii was starting, the later said that city and school superintendents pioneer plan they said would abolish prejudice and abolish racism. from the school system and from the city of large. so they adopted the curriculum and these principles with the high-minded goal of eradicating from young people's minds racism. >> he came upon it on their own or did something push them to a? >> well, they drew upon curriculum being developed by a bunch of professors at columbia teachers college, which went along with the broader movements towards teaching pluralism basically in the world war i to world war ii. >> why did they care? >> part of why they cared or in world war ii bus because the threat of racism from blair is not many seemed so real and tangible on one hand. this is the northeasterners in massachusetts and new york. so they saw overseas this terrible threat of fascism and nazism below the mason-dixon line or southern segregation and northeasterners pictured the

and that city, a small city in massachusetts of 150,000. in 1939 just as world war ii was starting, the leaders of that city and the school superintendent tire data plan if they -- they say what apologists credit shows and racism. from a school system and from the city at large. so they adopted the curriculum in these principles with this high-minded goal of eradicating from young people's minds racism. >> host: they came upon it on their own or something pushed them to that? >> guest: well they drew upon curricula that was being developed by a bunch of professors at columbia teachers college which went along with these broader movements toward teaching pluralism basically in the world war i to world war ii period. >> host: why did they care? >> guest: why do they care? probably the threat of racism from hitler's nazi germany seem so real it's a tangible on one hand. this is the northeasterners in massachusetts and new york so they sought overseas this terrible threat of fascism and nazism. they also saw below the mason-dixon line the threa

in this heavily catholic state of massachusetts.hen in 1974 as one school busing began in massachusetts. brooke had to deal with being a liberal on bob -- both of those issues and being an african-american in the senate. >> host: he had to be confirmed to the electorate. and let's go to the title of your book, "all eyes are upon us." i kept saying to myself what is this title about? i finally found the evidence to support your title. tell us about "all eyes are upon us" in terms of ed brooke and the massachusetts law that provided for racial equality in the schools. >> guest: right. "all eyes are upon us" is that quote from the puritans. let me rephrase that. "all eyes are upon us" is that quote from the puritan leader john woodruff who said all eyes are upon you know we shall be a city on the hill and all eyes are upon us. >> host: the governor of massachusetts. >> guest: wrightsville later on during the civil rights struggle leaders of massachusetts would look to that lofty heritage and try to live up to that lofty heritage so mas

how is the senior senator from massachusetts going to say no to that? senator hoar writes a letter saying, i think there are a lot of solid oak timber in the massachusetts bar. and i wonder whether carving a judge out of ornamental ivory would be better. there's a sense -- then there's the famous colloquy between addison, the philanthropist -- capitalist turned philanthropist after the soldiers faith. and holmes runs into addison and addison says, i read your speech. i don't like it. it's bad morals and bad politics. there is this sense captured in a letter holmes writes to frederick pollock after he's captured the court, there is this sense that citizens of boston don't think he's reliable, too intellectual, too ornamental. he resents this. and he doesn't -- with the exception of john chipman gray, he doesn't have intimate friends drawn from the braman group. but his intimate friends fall into two categories. one group is women where he just enjoys and maybe there's been some flirtations earlier in their lives, but now they're just friends and he has l

how is the senior senator from massachusetts going to say no to that? massachusetts bar. and i wonder whether carving a judge out of ornamental ivory would be better. there's a sense -- then there's the famous colloquy between addison, the philanthropist -- capitalist turned philanthropist after the soldiers faith. and holmes runs into addison and addison says, i read your speech. i don't like it. it's bad morals and bad politics. there is this sense captured in a letter holmes writes to frederick pollock after he's captured the court, there is this sense that citizens of boston don't think he's reliable, too intellectual, too ornamental. he resents this. and he doesn't -- with the exception of john chipman gray, he doesn't have intimate friends drawn from the braman group. but his intimate friends fall into two categories. one group is women where he just enjoys and maybe there's been some flirtations earlier in their lives, but now they're just friends and he has long correspondences with women. john chipman grays wife and several others. the others a

in massachusetts, it's pretty to our penalty in massachusetts and in massachusetts almost everyone complies with the mandate. is americans are actually a pretty law abiding peep. cheat on ourunder taxes. relative to the amount of people taxes, we're pretty law abiding peep. if you have a mandate in place with a penalty that's real, by and largees, people will comply. but many won't. this bill will cover 60% of the uninsured in america, there's out, groups that are left undocumented immigrants are completely left out of this a decision at the start, nothing to be done with that that. beond is people who will exempt from the mandate, because peoplee want to bring want to --t the point is as long as you get whogh people in the system are helping to keep costs down, then that will work. we're going, this is going to be costly. the biggest change ever made to the medicare program was the prescription drug act added 40 years after the program was introduced much these programs change a lot over a long perfect of time. we are far from done with health care reform. but this is our best estimate to

when he goes on the court t e court of massachusetts, they're not regarded from the solid.re a little too intellectual. there's a quote from the senator who opposes nomination. the strategy is to bypass the senior senator for the massachusetts when henry cabot lied and theodore roosevelt decided to appoint holmes to the court. how is the senior senator going to say no to that? but he writes a letter and says i think there are a lot of solid oak timber in the massachusetts bar and i wonder if carving a judge out of ornamental ivory would be better. so there's a sense. and then there's the famous colloquy between addison the -- the flannel tlo 3is, turned-philanthropist after the soldier's faith. holmes runs into addison and addison says i read your speech. i don't like it. it's bad morals and bad politics. there is a sense holmes writes after he's nominated to the federal court. there is a sense that holmes believes the sort of solid citizens of boston think he's just not reliable. that he's too intellectual. that he's too ornamental. he resents this. he doesn't have intimat

in massachusetts, it is comparable to our penalty in massachusetts.and in massachusetts, almost everybody works with the mandate. we're pretty law-abiding people. we massively under cheat on our taxes. [laughter] if you have a mandate in place with a penalty that is real, which this does, by and large, people will comply. this bill will cover 60% of the uninsured in america. there are three groups that are left out. unfortunately, undocumented immigrants are left out. that was a political decision and there's nothing to be done about it. second, there will be people exempt from the mandate. if you have to pay more than 8% of your income, you are exempt. and there will be those who do not comply. if you get enough people in the system where we are healthy and can keep costs down, then that will work. this will be a constantly evolving scenario. the biggest change ever made to the medicare program was the prescription drugs act added 40 years after the program was introduced. we are far from done with health care reform. but this is our best estimate th

and massachusetts was getting money from the federal government. we can put this together without raising taxes. as a republican, he thought this was pretty neat. we will have personal responsibility for the mandate and we will cover it without raising taxes. he was excited to put the puzzle together. we could not have gotten the affordable care act with the -- without mitt romney. it really is true. i am as disappointed as anyone that he has walked away from it the way he has. >> thank you very much for your clear presentation. your answers are terrific. my question is about the public option, which died a sad death. and whether genuine cost control is even possible without a public option to drive it. you discussed these various experiments that we will be doing, but meanwhile my understanding is that in massachusetts, the costs, particularly for employers, are skyrocketing at an unsustainable rate. it has to be sustainable for it to work. can you have cost control without a public option? >> a great question. at first, in massachusetts, it has r

he was a key architect -- i heard of him alive when he was working in massachusetts helping the massachusetts people put together their reform. he has also worked with the administration and congress when they developed the health care reform legislation that was passed about two years ago. he is also the co editor of the journal of public economics, associate editor of the journal of health economics. he has published more than 125 articles, has edited six research volumes, is author of public finance and public policy, which is a leading undergraduate text. which is why he probably speaks with great authority about the law. he has written a book called "health care reform: what it is, why it is necessary, and how it works." i think it is a very fast and very informative read. please give a warm town hall will come to jonathan gruber. [applause] >> thank you very much, and thanks, bob, for the kind introduction. i have about 10 minutes to start and there's a lot to talk about with healthcare reform. i will start with a little story. my sister lives here in seattle and this story involves her

did that happen in massachusetts? >> no, it did not. employer-sponsored insurance actually rose by 10% in massachusetts after we passed romneycare. >> hum. can you explain the interpretation of your statement, and i'm going to read your statement, in the law it says that the states don't provide them, the federal backstop will. the federal government has been sort of slow at putting out its backstop i think partly because they want to sort of squeeze the states to do it. i think what's important to remember politically is if you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits. opponents of the affordable care act are using these remarks to further the argument that the law does not authorize tax credits for states that did not step up their own exchanges. is that a correct interpretation of the law and of your statement? >> i don't believe it's a correct interpretation of either the law or of my statement. as i said in my opening remarks, my statement, while poorly worded and much too gl

warming because at some point massachusetts feared the tides might rise and harm its citizens. the harm that has been alleged in texas h ' suit is much more immediate. >> we heard nicky haley talking about added costs. certainly any governor of south carolina would be worried about that, but it wasn't clear what added costs you were talking about. if the law --the rule making pronounced last no spoke of people who were already here for five years. >> here is the main cost. the president's action not only defer deportation but gave a lawful presence in the united states and also work authorization to nearly 4 million people. that's going to swamp the employment markets, have a direct effect on employment rates in several states. that's a harm that the states can bring and address on behalf of their citizens. >> professor, does a soon to be governor abbott or nicky haley herself have to demonstrate that harm, or do they have to allege it. >> no, they definitely have to demonstrate it, and the principle argument that they make is that this is likely to superior a crisis in illegal

. >> you went on to boarding school in massachusetts. how did that happen? one bedroom apartment, boarding school in massachusetts. >> by the time i was thinking of my education, the higher education, my family is already in a middle income family. my father studied english at night, and accumulated some wealth. he invested in the silk business. he said, have you thought about what your are going to study? i said, probably engineering. he said, hong kong really isn't great in engineering. have you ever though about going overseas? that's when it piqued my interest. i wanted to go to the ivy league. if you go to one of those, it enhances your chances of getting into the ivy league quite a bit. i went to prep school. >> that must've been quite a transition, hong kong to massachusetts prep school. >> i went from no snow to a lot of snow. it was quite a transition. it was the best thing that ever happened to me. >> when did you learn how to code? >> i learned it in high school. this is one of those things that a lot of americans do not understand, the resources

did that happen in massachusetts? >> employer response rose by 10% in massachusetts after we passed romney care. >> can you explain the interpretation of your statement? i'm going to read your statement. in the law it says if the states don't provide them the federal back stop will. the federal government has been sort of slow in putting out its back stop i think because they want to sort of squeeze the stakes to do it. i think it is important to remember if you are a state that means your citizens don't get their tax credits. opponents are using these remarks to further the argument that the law does not authorize tax credits for states that don't step up. is that a correct interpretation of the law and your statement? >> i don't think it is a correct interpretation of the law or my statement. my statement while poorly worded and much too glib. i believe the point i was making was at the time i gave the statement which was 2012 it was not clear how effective the federal exchange would be or who would be in the white

emerson in massachusetts some money related to the litigation. most likely it was the wages that dred and harriet earned those 11 years which had been impounded by the sheriff. it came as an embarrassment to congressman clifford c. chaffeyy of massachusetts to learn that by kofrture he was the owner of the nation's most famous slave. he owned the scotts because he married john emerson's widow. they were transported by quick claim deed to someone in massachusetts because only a missouri resident could free a missouri slave. thus the scotts finally granted the freedom not by operation of law but by the 'em barragement of a congressman of massachusetts. though dred lived two years after the case and the family remained together, harriet and her daurls survived the civil war. lizzy married and had children of her own. eliza never did but she stayed with her mother and did laundry. it was not simply chief justice taney's writing for the court that baerls responsibility for the outcome although his written decision cornually worsened the result. the un

and 200 miles to the north in massachusetts tonight, that lighthouse, slammed by giant waves. and that's where we find abc's linzie jan his for us tonight. >> reporter: david, wind gusts here have reached 61 miles an hour. we're in the middle of a storm that's pummelling the northeast. tonight, a deadly mix of rain, ice and snow pounding millions. from deleware to the coast of massachusetts, where nor'easter winds battered homes, ripping off shingles. high winds along the jersey shore, too. >> i couldn't get out my front door. >> reporter: massive waves breaching sea walls. houses surrounded by water. up to four inches of rain, stranding drivers. area schools cancelling classes. away from the coast, freezing raincoating everything in a sheet of ice. from roofs to roads. hundreds of accidents. in upstate new york, the icy storm turning deadly. five tractor trailers and two passenger vehicles in this crash. at least one of those passengers killed. the messy conditions snarling air travel, too. over 2,000 flights delayed and nearly 1,000 flight s cancelled. back here on the massa

western massachusetts, the unlikely new frontier of america's war on drugs where heroin has become an exploding problem that's begun to touch nearly every family. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, la ♪ >>> there's nothing like the north atlantic. it's majestic. i love the beach. pretty much had my first everything on a beach. you name it, first time i did it, beach. i was miserable in love, happy in love, alternately, as only a 17-year-old could be. this is where i lived. very happy summer in the early '70s, and that was my room on the left. it's an amazing spot if you think about it, a bunch of knuckle heads working as dish washers, pizza servers. we could work on a beach like this. happier, stupider times. you know, i can still hear the play list, the brothers johnson. if you put on marvin gaye right now, i'd burst into tears. what do you do? you're young, yo

emerson in massachusetts some money related to the litigation.st likely it was the wages that dred and harriet earned those 11 years which had been impounded by the sheriff. it came as an embarrassment to congressman clifford c. chaffey of massachusetts to learn that by coverature he was the owner of the nation's most famous slave. he owned the scotts because he married john emerson's widow. they were transported by quick claim deed to someone in massachusetts because only a missouri resident could free a missouri slave. thus the scotts finally granted the freedom not by operation of law but by the 'em barragement of a congressman of massachusetts. though dred lived two years after the case and the family remained together, harriet and her daughters survived the civil war. lizzy married and had children of her own. eliza never did but she stayed with her mother and did laundry. it was not simply chief justice taney's writing for the court that bears responsibility for the outcome although his written decision cornually worsened the result. the un

a chick apea man in massachusetts put on his facebook account i want to put wings on pigs. brought in before the police, apparently, with a potential charge of threat to commit a crime in respect is informing on people maybe just because he don't like them. this is a dangerous road to travel on. >> to your point, rich karlgaard, charges and countercharges. a brandeis student a junior, a woman ho who put up after the marred murder, i don't vi sympathy for the cops. i hate this racist f-ing country, took down the website. somebody else at brandeis put it back up and she's upset about that. about the fact -- so it just -- when you begin to blame people and threaten lawsuits and such, it just leads to a whole mess. >> yeah. not to mention the fact david it would be hideously expensive for instagram or facebook or any of these companies to come up with the software or to have live people monitors. i mean we -- china employs millions of people who monitor websites. i don't think we want to go in that direction. and it's a very, very slippery slope. imagine, you know, a referee ma

did that happen in massachusetts?t did not and it rose by 10% in massachusetts after we passed romney care. >> can you explain the interpretation of your statement and i will read your statement. in the law it said that states don't provide them and the back stop will. they have been slowing out the back stop partly because they want to squeeze the states to do it. it's important to remember politically if you are a state and don't set up a stage your citizens don't get the tax credits. opponents are using these remarks to further the argument not au tax credits that did not step up to their own exchanges. is that a correct interpretation of the law and your statement? >> i don't believe it's correct. the law or my statement. as i said in my opening remarks, my statement while poorly worded and much too glib, the point i was making is at the time i made that statement, 2012, it was not clear how effective it would be and who would be in the white house that implements that federal exchange. as a result states might be

that was a problem these massachusetts petitioners, their families and their friends -- they knew all too well. it may be a struggle to see bodies before ballots, to see bodies before budgets, to see bodies before beliefs. what these forgotten founders of the 1770's -- they called their struggle a glorious struggle. it was one that valued and needed every body. thank you for the time. thank you for your time listening to this body and my connections to lots of bodies here and elsewhere. thank you. [applause] >> good morning. until very recently i lived in houston, texas. this is my first trip back in over a year. it's good to be back home. there are approximately 3 million muslims in the united states, a somewhat controversial and unofficial estimate, since the u.s. census does not count the population by religious affiliation. american muslims, like every other religious group in the country, are a diverse group. they follow a variety of traditions. they are sunni, shia, or they follow homegrown american islams such as a nation of islam. american muslims are racially and ethnically d

officer: the senator from massachusetts. ms. warren: mr. president, yesterday came to the floor to call on house democrats to withhold their support from the omnibus spending bill until one provision is removed. the provision was slipped in at the last minute to benefit wall street. in fact, it was written by lobbyists for citicorp. that provision means big money for a few big banks. it would let derivatives traders on wall street gamble with taxpayer money and when it all blows up require the government to bail them out. just to be clear, i want to read the title of the part of the law that will be repealed if this provision is not stripped out of the omnibus. the title: "prohibition against

western massachusetts, unlikely new frontier of america's war on drugs where heroin has become an exploding problem that's begun to touch nearly every family. ♪ ♪ >> there's nothing like the north atlantic. it's majestic. i love the beach. pretty much had my first everything on a beach. you name it. first time i did it, beach. i was miserable in love, happy in love as only a 17-year-old could be. this is where i lived, very happy summer in the early 70s. that was my room on the left. amazing spot if you think about it. a bunch of knuckle heads working as dishwashers, pizza servers. to live on a beach like this happier, stupider times. i can still hear the play list. if you put on marvin gaye now i'd burst to tears. you're young. you get high, get laid. >> it's where the pilgrims first landed and where i landed. 1972 washed in a town of orange sunshine and a few friends. a wonder land of tolerance, long time tradition of accepting authors, writers, badly behaved, gay, different. it was paradise. >> the joy that only comes with absolutely certainty you're invincible, that none of the choices

says that make you the architect of romney care in massachusetts? >> i was economic adviser just like it was to president obama. >> you have documents from those years that we could subpoena? >> withdraw the last part. >> to have documents from the romney period? >> i would think if we have a broad subpoena suggested by my friends that we encompass all of the romney documents that mr. gruber was involved because i want to see if this is a pattern that is not limited just to the president not just as the antecedent but romney care was the model. is that not true? >> i believe that is true. >> the tax consequences you can be fined if you don't comply and that is through massachusetts. >> by the way of what happened to the uninsured percentage? did it go up? >> the rates of the uninsured fell by two-thirds or 3%. >> 3%? how many other states have that great? >> by far that is the lowest in the nation. >> lowest in the nation. also the fines were so relatively modest and that employers were tripping over each other to divest themselves of the employee p

represented by magna carta, it massachusetts, engraved by paul revere shows that that's what they were fighting for, a sword in one hand, magna carta in the other. transfer of magna carta for safekeeping. again, that was an extraordinarily powerful symbol, ovr lightly, and i think they did so in a very calculated way. they wanted to remind us, that this is what they were fighting for. and conveyed a strong message that you should be too. so it is very useful as a symbol that represents the rule of law, liberties, it's been reinvented over the years, the american colonists when they looked at it, looked at it to be interpreted by black stone, which gave it much more substance as a charter of

let me just tell you a little bit about massachusetts. maybe you can actually concretely look, tell your gubernatorial people, look what's happening in massachusetts. so in massachusetts, there has been a very concerted effort to put in place an agenda for a green economy, green and blue economy. the governor has done it. the state legislature has done it. there are resources that have been put into investments that have been done. we are beginning to see results already in terms of economic development. this is where you have to -- you have to talk about it in terms of financial terms. you have to talk about it in terms of human terms. you don't talk about it in terms of science terms. there are things happening here in colorado that shows the climate is changing. regardless of what you, if you believe in it or not the climate is changing. we have to get away from this business of basically just talking at the scientific level and instead casting it in terms of economic development, human stories, and basically what's happened to the env

the massachusetts institute of technology. pursuant to committee rules all witnesses will be sworn in before they testify. please raise your right hand >> mr. chairman. >> just a moment. i am going to go through where i am. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? please be seated. let the record the record reflect the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. >> thank you, mr. chairman. at this time in the absence of the ranking member may i ask that we have a minority witness for whom we thank your indulgence, and we would ask for convenience sake since we have a small panel that mr. goldman be added to the panel and sworn in and testify at the same time. >> i appreciate your suggestion. he is not a government witness and not an expert. we will leave him on the second panel. i thank you for your suggestion. ms. marilyn tavenner, you are recognized for five minutes for your opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman, members of the

. >> in massachusetts. having our marriage recognized. >> okay. >> and we do plan on celebrating that occasion along with many people who are going to get married for the first time. we're very excited. >> that's the important thing about the case. the case that is winning marriage equality in florida is a case of plaintiffs that have all been married in other states and now as of january 6th their marriages will be recognized. >> how do we plan to recognize the ceremony down there? >> the aclu of florida who litigated the case and saved my organization were planning for a mass renewal of vows celebration at the miami beach botanical garden. not only inviting our mr.plaintiffs to renew their vows or any couple in south florida or florida to renew their vows and celebrate the fact that now everyone is being treated with equality. >> yeah. sandra sandra, that was my question to you and denise. are you participating in the ceremony or planning something else? >> we'll be participating in that ceremony. as well

massachusetts senator elizabeth warren came out early against the package because it would weaken dodd-frank banking regulation. warren urged her allies in the house and senate to stand up and fight. >> a vote for this bill is a developed for future taxpayer bailouts of wall street. when the next bailout comes, a lot of people will look back to this vote to see who was responsible for putting the government pack on the hook -- back on the hook to bail out wall street. >> reporter: to be clear, you will also expect to hear some opposition on the right. oklahoma senator tom coburn who is retiring, is probably going through that 1600 page bill looking for what he would consider goodies and wasteful spending, martha. martha: no doubt. dissatisfaction on the right with this whole thing as well. it took a very complicated alliance to get this through the house side, an interesting one, truly. >> reporter: march that mo question about. that we were essentially stuck here on capitol hill. you had the president and vice president working phones to work on house democrats. chief of staff on the hill t

and then there's guillermo vasco, the young husband who married a pretty doctor from massachusetts. and what you're watching is the surveillance video of him about to hire a hitman to kill his wife. >> my wife betrayed me. >> i'm going to make it look like she disappeared. >> exactly. >> he wants her killed and buried ten feet under. >> how soon did he want her dead? >> as soon as possible. do you want it to be painful, or do you want it done quick? for her? it's your money. >> yeah, yeah. quickly. >> ken is the hitman hired by guillermo. and tonight, he's not the only one coming forward. a group of his comrades, all men hired to kill, boarding planes, getting into their cars and on their way to sit down exclusively with "20/20." but these men all have a secret. they're undercover federal agents with the atf posing as hitmen. they meet us at atf headquarters in washington, d.c., where we have makeup artists waiting. >> just this morning. >> that's okay. we're going to fix it. >> they sit down to have their appearances completely changed. >> i'm feeling my feminine side coming out. >

gerri: short memory. >> look, i'm a prosecutor, but here, here the standard in massachusetts, if yout youth organizations, and what he's saying is i can't be part of these youth organizations, i can't work with law enforcement to help troubled youth unless i get this expunged. gerri: go right ahead. >> there's two things. the executive clemency guidelines in the state of massachusetts take into account two elements, one is compelling need, and the second is extraordinary contributions -- gerri: the movies alone, my friend. [laughter] >>'s the compelling need? -- where's the compelling need? you'll see he's looking for a license for one of his restaurants. >> right. he needs this pardon in order to get that. >> but he also needs it in order to be able to work with troubled youth in the area. gerri: he made a comment to abc news, he said i've not engaged in fillen droppic efforts in order to make people forget about my past, to the contrary, i want to serve as an example of how lives can be turned around and how many people can be redeemed. >> and you need a pardon to do that? there ar

romney in massachusetts in 2006. day earlier mitt romney wrote and op-ed in the "wall street journal" entitled "healthcare for every one, what he found a way." this is what he wrote and i quote. jonathan gruber of m.ist t. built an economic metric model of the population with input from insurers, may in-house team crunched the numbers. end of quote. governor romney said this, too. quote because health insurance will now be affordable and subjects died, we insist that everyone person receive health insurance from one of our private understand company so all massachusetts citizens will have health insurance. it's a goal democrats and republicans share and it has been achieved by a bipartisan evident through market reforms. this is what the aca was modeled on and was supposed to be. but governor romney was wrong with one thing. that goal was not shared by republican in washington. for the last four years house republicans have been trying to repeal the aca but they never he can explained what they would replace it with.