as i said we're going to be joined by my colleague, representative maxine waters. and until she gets here i will just move on and i will start out by introducing reverend tony lee. reverend tony lee is the founder and senior pastor of the community of hope african methodist episcopal church. he formerly served as senior minister to young adults at ebenezer a.m.e. church in fort washington, maryland. he oversaw the development of a wide range of youth ministries that engaged young people in a style of praise and worship thelma braced their unique styles and interest. he received national media attention on b.e.t.'s "cousin jeff's chronicles," on cnn and c-span. reverend lee serves on the leadership team of "saving ourselves," s.o.s., an organization working in the gulf coast on behalf of those victimized and impacted by the social, economic, and physical devastation of hurricane katrina. next i have ajuwa onsong. did i get it right? >> close. >> close? who is the president and ceo of faith links inc. she served as manager of federal affairs for the new england counc

maxine hickman, anna, kathleen carroll, john reynolds, barbara bishop, and next speaker. >> thank you, members of the board of supervisors. my name is -- and i support the rebuild plan. after being out of the work force for a very long time, i am now employed with a contracting company. around this time last year, i was diagnosed with cancer and went through surgery, but this did not discourage me. while undergoing treatment, i went back to school at the college to get my certificate in administration. under the auspices of the hiring. i did this in my desire to help myself find a job and not be a burden to my family and the city. now, i have my health back, and i have a full-time job.

maxine was the first one we read her in school we knew of her. she was not out there like anny tan was when she wrote the joy luck club. so much of it is timing. it meant all the history and the voices before then had been silent. my generation of writers came in and we heard stories of women and men and the family of a different generation. a lot of us had been writing about that because they were silenced for so long. i am involved with the book prize. it's a pacific rim book prize in which books come from asia and all over the pacific rim. in the last 11 years it's been a prize we read so many books that have come from voices of new writers. i'm always amazed and they are writing different storers i wrote when i started. all the people have come through now. if you look at the list of indian and japanese authors and chinese authors it's now we are very much diverse. i think for a long time we weren't. i thank you for that question. if i keep going i will never get another question. [laughter]. >> thank you for samurai's garden. i read it had i

and we're going to begin this panel even though congressman maxine waters is not here yet and she should be here shortly. we're expecting her to join us and you met our doctor and vice president of the cbc earlier donna christianson from the virgin islands. thank you all. it is my great pleasure to serve as moderator for today's final discussion. i am representative marcia fudge from ohio representing the 11th congressional district. thank you. i am honored to be here with you for many reasons. i serve as a cbc's for the people voting rights initiative co-chair with my friend and colleague representative john lewis. let's just take a walk down memory lane. the date was march 7, 1965. the place was selma, alabama. young people led the way. their goal was to achieve the uninhibited right to vote. hundreds of brave men, women and children marched, black and white, hand-in-hand. i can hear it now. many of them were probably singing, singing some of those old freedom songs like oh freedom, we shall not be moved, or we shall overcome. and then all at once the marchers were attacked by police w

california who has now joined us and all of you know congresswoman maxine waters. i also want to recognize terry sewell, representative out of alabama. terry joined us as well. and to draw your attention to the congressional black caucus voter empowerment program which all of you, i don't know if you have, but if you don't, please make sure you take this when you leave. this is all a part of our call to action this afternoon. the next question, just see if you can help me understand and articulate for the audience the message that we are hearing. what is the message we are hearing today with this resurgence of voter suppression and what message is being communicated to our communities and how can we counteract the message being sent by the passage of these laws? anybody? it is open. it is open to any person on the panel. go ahead, congresswoman. >> i just ask if she would give me a little breathing room. i just came in. let me take this opportunity to thank all of our clergy, our ministers, our pastors here in washington, d.c., at this conference and the fact that

this is maxine albroro. it's been destroyed and one of my favorites done by helen bruten. it's to remind us, while i was looking at these projects, they employed 42 percent women. it's very unusual in the art world. and then of course, in san francisco, benny lafono. we had the first and the last of the new deal. coit tower is the first. it is i think, one of the best in the country. it shows san francisco's history and that of human civilization shown through the eyes of labor. these are things that happened in san francisco's history. lynchings. again, coit tower, shows you the stock market dropping. something people weren't used to seeing. and a business many being held up. and in george washington high school, the farther of our country pointing the pioneers west as they walk over a dead indian. most of the art is not controversial. most of the artists celebrates local produce. this is one of the most extraordinary murals i have seen. at a tuberculosis cemetery. they also painted a mural in san francisco. finally, it's on the outside of the berkeley community theater.

. >> does your magazine "maxine" have an astrology section?e" does, but" max i'm" it does not. >> that's the name of your journal. >> i was doing a day old joke which obviously doesn't work on television. bill, does your uncle joe often wear a clown costumes? or is there anything you want to talk about? >> my uncle joe says only in america. that's why he was voting for romney. >> you know, you made -- now that bill has gotten us into the next story about misspellings and apps and all of that stuff, and by the way, you asked a question, how does this happen? >> it is a very good question. i did some research while you were talking. there is no explanation as to how it happened so we are moving on to the next story. and by the way, romney hit the magical number of delegates he needed for getting the republican nomination. anybody care to tell me how many delegates that is? >> 1140? >> it is 1,144. >> that's right. >> what do i win? >> you win another guest appearance on "red eye." >> anthony, i am going to read you a quote and you tell us who sa

all of you know congresswoman maxine waters. [applause] i also want to recognize terri sabol, the representative out of alabama. -- terry sewell, the representative alabama. [applause] i also want to point this out. take a look of this today, this call to action. see if you can articulate for the audience what the message is today of a voter suppression. what message is being conveyed to our committees and how can we counteract the message being fed by the passage of these laws? it is open to any person on the panel. go ahead, congressman. -- congresswoman. >> i just asked if she would give me a little breathing room. i just came in. let me take this opportunity to thank all of our clergy, our ministers, are pastors who are here in washington d.c. at this conference. the fact that you are taking time out from your schedule to talk about how you can use your power and your influence to impact the politics of this nation on behalf of natalee the president of the united states, but for all people who should be -- not only the presi

. >> reporter: dave and maxine knew vinny and tony well.m, the station is filled with joyous memories and haunting reminders. >> we work at this firehouse. we come here. we're constantly reminded of what happened. so, no. it doesn't seem like long ago. >> i think it will always bring you back. >> reporter: captain anita says station 26 is full of emotions. >> they worked with them often. it could have been their day. the layers are very -- it's the ground zero. it's the emotional ground zero for line of duty deaths. >> reporter: a call wednesday or night, the crew drove by the house where they died. there's a fresh coat of paint. but firefighters see something else. >> a lot of us, when you think about the event, reel from it. wow, it wasn't that obvious. or i could have done the same thing. >> reporter: saturday, there will be a moment of silence, solemn speeches and a community barbecue, for two men many miss. two men many honor. >> he was very, very low-key. i think tony probably embraced it more because there were more people and he lov

even maxine doesn't know. when i was chairman of the caucus, the best thing going for us was nixon rejection of us and we used to meet and have no agenda and the press would be outside and we wouldn't tell them what we were meeting. but every day nixon wouldn't meet with us, we had a meeting. and they said here we were ready to blow up the world. but the fact is they think we're together. if we act like we're together. if we leave here together. if we have no bad words for each other. i mean, publicly. we do what we have to do privately. someone mentioned my jewish friends. i sat next to a guy in law school. he felt so proud he wasn't jewish in terms of religion but his ham sandwiches and all the laws he had broken. but when israel got attacked he grew 10 feet tall with solidarity. because she had something left in him that he believed in. and god knows it's not martin luther king. there's a little bit of martin luther king in all of us. if we can take the things we have done, franklin, richardson, the willing

i'm max kaiser this is the kaiser report top ten of those dead horses and big fish stacey however maxine as a read the script before hand these are some of the headlines i have for our three hundredth episode. of the three hundred baby that's right we're going to be batting the same as ted williams well it only took three hundred episodes for this image to erupt out of spain max this is rise up yeah you know the indignados are joining the global and suresh and against banker occupation rise is the phrase of the decade and these people are ready to join the others up the ramparts well max use this phrase rise up for your so go it took four years before the global insurrection against banker activation caught on and you can see why this rise up has happened in this next headline this is the front page of liberace own this is save our ship you know spain is sinking right so we've gone from grex it to what they now call spanish oh my god it's a span apocalypse well here's what spain can look forward to a spanish grips spain athens scrambles as coffers go bare so of course everything is worse

maxine is here along with 17- year-old conner smith. you do reviews for us on our website. york would be a freshman at penn state. you have always loved reviewing movies. >> very much self. >> >> his first film is "magic mike." you are starting with a male stripper move be. >> dive right in a >> what do you think? >> i like it and all of my girlfriends said the same thing, why could this one not being in 3 day -- 3d. women will love it. it is fun dancing ahead -- dancing. there is also a dark side of what people expecting a big party might be surprised. the film is the buzz in the buzz kill. i like the serious, but it is not fun all the time a >> i did not go with all of my girlfriends. i was the only mail waiting in line. i was a bit disappointed. i am a fan of the director, when and if nothing i did not light is the whole time -- and the thing i did not like about the film is there are these excessive and dance numbers, and you are supposed to go into all of these costumes, yet the film wants you to feel sympathetic toward the character trying to escape this realm, when t

how would you define maxine waters? >> powerhouse. she is an amazing organizing. she is an effective advocate, a great communicator. she certainly has the heartbeat of the caucus. i adore her. i respect her greatly. she is one of my role models. she is a strong and effective member. >> this is a forum they put on in detroit. were you there? >> yes. >> she is talking to a primarily black caucus. >> an angry black caucus angry about the economy and the state of jobs in detroit. >> let's watch. [video clip] >> we do not put pressure on the president. you love the president. you are very proud to have a black man. you are going after [unintelligible] let me tell you the reality of what is going on. it is all right. when you tell us if it is all rights and you tell us are ready for us to have this conversation, we are ready to have the conversation. [end video clip] >> the context is very important. it is one of the scariest moments of my life. the reason for that is i've never seen people so angry and so hurts been so frustrated. when you went into detroit, it was lik

overall hearing among the most notable exchanges thus far, certainly a congressman frank, congresswoman maxine waters as well and pressing jamie dimon on various issues and the most notable exchange the way we saw it here, congressman duffy asking jamie dimon are you too big to fail in which jamie dimon the ceo answers no. let's touch the markets now. stocks holding at the highs of the day, all three major averages among the 50 day moving average so technically doing well and you're looking at stock doing well and there is bank of america up nearly 5% and citigroup a winner as well. back to washington in just a moment. apteachers get the training... you have to dig a little. fidelity's etf market tracker shows you the big picture on how different asset classes are performing, and it lets you go in for a closer look at areas within a class or sector that may be bucking a larger trend. i'm stephen hett of fidelity investments. the etf market tracker is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. get 200 free trades today and explore your next investing idea. >>> welcome b

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through the school. >>> the house ethics committee moving ahead with its case against congresswoman maxineidence of that. waters is accused of trying to get bailout money for a bank her husband owned stock in. gretch? >> gretchen: thanks, brian. are your kids headed to camp this summer? if so, you might be having discussions like this one. >> i don't want to be one of those pushy parents. >> it's too late. >> what is that supposed to mean, young man? >> what if i don't want to go to computer camp? >> morris, there are plenty of things i'd rather do with $3,000. >> me, too. >> steve: no kidding. even once you drop them off, it doesn't mean you've heard the last of them. diane is the author of the new book "ps, i still hate it here." she joins us live from chicago. good morning to you. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> steve: so a couple of years ago, you sent your eight-year-old daughter to camp and you figured you'd wind up with gushy letters. mom, i love it here. you didn't get that, did you? >> no. no. we got the absolute anti-thieves of that. she had convinced us with everything

maxine waters. then we need outside. we need folks who are willing to put their hearts and minds and bodies on the line. and the streets and the jails organizing mobilizing keeping love and justice not hatred and revenge at the center. martinmartin luther king jr. died called himself a revolutionary christian. we shouldn't think of celebrating his legacy if we don't come to terms with that love supreme that john plead enacted in the movement of fannie lou heyman and travis and i write the book to keep the tradition alive to ebbs extend that each and every american of every color who recognizes that we're not in a crisis, we're in catastrophic conditions. and with don't fight for love and justice. we're going slide down a slippery slope of hatred revenge, and chaos. [applause] [inaudible conversations] thank you so much. thank you for raising our consciousness. thank you for putting it on the agenda. it is time to hear from you. i have questions from the audience. we have a number of questions, i think it might be best if

. >> maxine was great. that was fun to watch. was -- did you see where he said the moon -- >> if the moon hits the earth, maybe we're too big to fail if the moon hits the earth. >> former fed governor larry meyer of macro economic advisers and cnbc senior economics reporter steve liesman. i'm trying to think of what larry has been saying and what you have been saying. larry, i think you have been more amenable to what we're seeing right now, the notion that maybe things weren't going well enough to rule out no further fed, you know, action and now i think maybe you were kind of right. it looks like all along we should have been keeping an open mind maybe. i don't know if steve was really of that mind. >> well, we hope we're right. we think we're right. >> have i mischaracterized what you said? you're ready for qe3 or another twist, aren't you? >> absolutely not. definitely not qe3. it's a question of threshold. we know the economy has deteriorated. does it pass the threshold? the cost of any balance sheet action is very high, eve

head of the -- or co-head or whatever of the progressive caucus i remember you and lynn wooley and maxinewere going to be the triad at a press conference. >> you traveled around the country expressing sirerious concerns about the war in iraq and afghanistan. are we getting out of afghanistan fast enough. >> not fast enough. i have been working -- i didn't support the initial blank check. >> right. >> when was the authorization to go to war against forever, you know, the american people are war-weary. we are trying to put forth proposals. we have written to the president with over 100 signatures saying look. we think you are moving in the right direction. thank goodness you get it and you understand that this is not going to won in a military context. but we want the time frame accelerated. we need to bring our young men and women home provide for economic security, reinvest in providing johns in security and come up with a smarter security strategy in the region that will in ensure our security in the ream on. >> congresswoman barbara lee. she will be glad to take your calls. we will cont

tonight, congresswoman maxine waters will offer an amendment to add $500 million in tiger funding. i'm very proud to co-sponsor this amendment and i appreciate congresswoman waters bringing this forward because this is a very important amendment for us to support. so i hope all members will support that $500 million increase in tiger funding. in addition to shortchanging our transportation needs, this bill fails to invest in our nation's critical affordable housing stock and i know the chairman and mr. olver remember in committee, i tried to begin the debate on increasing the project based section 8 voucher program because landlords and developers and tenants are going to be shortchanged if we don't fix this, hopefully that amount will be fixed -- increased in the senate. in the middle of a housing emergency, support for affordable housing for our nation's seniors, the disabled, families and children that's just plain wrong. republicans supported bailouts to wall street but even the smallest programs to help families on main street like choice neighborhoods and sustainable communit

and nancy pelosi, and i want to talk about the housing debacle, because i think it was called by maxine waters and friends. i am also not happy with the fact that if obama gets in, the estate tax will be raised to 55%. people have been paying taxes all their lives, and if they die, they're going to give something to their family. obama wants to take 55% of those taxes, and i do not want the health care effort to continue. i hope the supreme court roadstead down. i have a lot of other things to say, especially about the attorney general, and other things he did other than this fast and furious, from the time that the black panthers intimidated people and they did not prosecute them. i will let that go, and you can say what you want to say. guest: your point on the economy is an absolutely right. it is tough. employment number is 8.2% or so. it is really high, but it does not reflect discouraged workers, people that are not counted because they have given up and cannot find a job. the length of time that people are out of work is the longest it has done since, i think, the depression. it

like maxine waters and everybody else they are pulling up on committee. they need an investigation on what the republicans are doing. are they breaking law in any way so we can see the things they're doing to break the law. i don't see them having a hearing on what was done. so leave eric holder alone and stop the bleeding that they do all the time, stop trying to hold something over his head when it comes time to vote. host: fresno, california, sherry on the democratic line. caller: the way i look at it, they should file contempt charges against bush and the republicans because they are the ones who started fast and furious and they knew about it. eric holder is the one who stopped it. issa and the republicans should be ashamed of themselves. they're making a joke of themselves. this is ridiculous. people are getting tired of this crap. it is really a joke what they are doing to this country. it is going to come around because people are not dumb. i cannot believe they are doing this. i am proud of holder that he is holding up. they should leave him alon

. >> host: who is maxine smiley? >> guest: well, mrs. smiley. oh, this is great. if any of you know out there know mrs. smiley, call in and talk about how great she was. she lived next door to our country house in pennsylvania. and be she was the kind of person -- perhaps like our last caller -- about whom people will say she's a real character. she was one of the earliest flight attendants in the history of flight. she used to talk to me about how she was a flight attendant on planes that would go cross country but make five stops along the way. um, she was a nurse which is what you had to be to be a flight attendant at that early stage. um, and then she married walt smiley and settled down on smiley lane next door to us, and, um, she just was a very strong-willed, smart, acerbic woman who happened to forge a firm friendship with my then-4-year-old daughter. who when she was in sixth grade had to write, um, an essay about, um, her very best friend and wrote an essay about mrs. smiley. and she just was a complete joy to know because i think probably she got me sta

maxine waters who has our jurisdiction over the flood insurance portion. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. waters: i'm pleased that we could work in a bipartisan fashion to not only extend our expiring transportation student loan interest program but also to reform the federal flood insurance program. i'd like to thank representative judy biggert for her leadership and commitment to reforming flood insurance. representative biggert and i work together to meet the needs of our respective caucus and the result is a bill that puts the flood insurance program on a solid foolting. the flood insurance program provides insurance for over five million americans. however due to massive losses from hurricane katrina and an inefficient mapping subpoena, the flood insurance program has faced challenges in serving homeowners and taxpayers. the biggert-waters bill will re-authorize the national flood insurance program for five years and make critical improvements to the flood insurance program. the reforms in this bill will make