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

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joining me now congress many woman maxine waters. fiscal cliff was coined in the hearing last winter. congresswoman, great to have you here. white house press secretary jay carney said that president obama plans to open negotiations by calling for 1$1.6 trillion in additional tax revenue, far more than republicans are open to, willing to accept and double the amount that speaker boehner offered the president during the debt negotiations last year. also during these closed door meetings yesterday with labor leaders, the president reportedly vowed that he would, quote, not budge when it comes to letting the bush tax cuts expire for the country's highest earners. do you think, though, with all that being said that there will be a compromise to be made? i mean the president is taking a hard line here. >> well, yes, the president certainly is taking a very hard line and that's because in this campaign, one of the things that we all discovered was the american people want everybody to pay their fair share of taxes, that message came throug

politico says maxine waters has been recommended for the financial services committee who was recently cleared of ethics charges. >> bob dole recovering this morning after routine surgery. a spokesperson says the former republican presidential candidate is doing well and plans to leave the hospital today. dole was mentioned on the senate floor yesterday as lawmakers debated a u.n. treaty promoting equal rights for on the disabled. as a world war ii vet seriously wounded in italy, dole e-mailed are senators from the hospital to ask for their support on that legislation. >> so new cigarette ads will be coming out soon in which the tobacco companies admit they lied about the dangers of smoking. a federal judge ordered the big cigarette companies to pay for a public campaign to accept blame for, quote, deliberately deceiving the american public. the ads will also point out smoking is responsible for 1200 deaths a day. that's more than murder, car crashes and alcohol combined. the judge's decision caps a long running lawsuit filed by the go. . the ads are expected to run across a variety of

back with representative maxine waters. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: hello, current tv land.good to see you i'm outpipisoebeb show and doing an episode of the point which you were a guest on with the "young turks." >> i was a while back. >> still stopping you. >> stephanie: all that current tv name dropping again, al gore says blah blah blah. >> it was great to watch stephanie on the preelection specials. >> we had so much fun those were great. >> stephanie: at the current ping pong table. >> not that i want another whole season of debates. >> stephanie: no! no! >> that was fun. >> stephanie: election fatigue. here it is, jackie schechner. >> as the president gets set to meet with congressional leaders on friday, politico is laying out five possible scenarios. first, they would go over the clip there's a week left before the thanksgiving break and four weeks left before congress session is up. house speaker john boehner wants a temporary deal that extends all the bush tax cuts and buys more time. democrats don't want to extend attach cuts at all even temporarily. we know goin

we could he says one fournl of the staff is made up of graduates from the recovery program z like maxineat they bring is invaluable. >> if you'd like to help you can call. we also have a link to the web site fchl you're group would like to host an event go to abc 7 news.com and click on where it says community. >> spencer back with what promises to be a fantastic weekend. >> this is a view looking eastward. going back nornl ward. fun out there on the bay today, sunset at 4:53 owe so days are getting shorter. high temperatures state wide tomorrow mild from top to bottom down south. 79 in los angeles. 61 sachblgt miltd weather here in the bay area. low 70s around the bay and inland. here is the accu-weather forecast. a cooler sunday but still mild ples wrant day.uaahy highs into upper 60s inland and around the bay. and cooler with clouds thickening and rains beginning to pour. going to be a wet second half of the week. >> sounds good. thank you. >> spencer has video of an event. >> is tree lighting right? right? >> yes. >> it's gorgeous. 25,000 people packed union square to see the lighti

[applause] you had maxine waters defend the the man who attacked reginald denny what about those who saved his life? that is a heroic story. but what you say is everybody gets a trophy matter how bad the behavior in the year times would say now we will never know who killed him. they would defend the average's behavior until the final bill step was the o.j. verdict with the majority black predict can say no it is okay for a celebrity to nearly 10 of his ex-wife's head and ron goldman. the newspapers did make those excuses there's only one felony conviction of mark furman for allegedly perjuring himself for not using the n word for 10 years but it was nine 1/2. while he was discussing a screenplay and the response he pled two felony perjury and the response was indignation he did not get present time. but it did not matter at the o.j. verdict change the world and it fell on deaf ears. the white guilt bank put your card through. it was not working anymore. the best period for irked race relations because demagoguery was useless. >> welcome to beverly hills. i am a governing board membe

you had maxine waters defending the man who killed denny, but what about the black men who saved denny's life. that's the story. no, we don't get their stories. exactly what you say about children. it's like this. everybody getting an a, a trophy, no matter how bad the behavior was, the "new york times" defended it in an editorial, saying, now we'll never know who killed rosenbaum. they were defending the most outrageous behavior until it led the final step was the oj verdict, when a majority black jury says, no, it's okay for a black celebrity to nearly cut his ex-wife's head off and kill ron goldman. by the way, the newspapers did make those excuses. i ran through a slew of editorials because there was yes one felony conviction from the trial, the conviction for purging himself, saying he had not used the n word for ten years, but nine and a half years earlier, used it in a screen play, and the response when he pled to felony perjury and the response of newspapers around the nation was indignation he did not get prison time, but it didn't matter anymore. that was it. the oj verdict cha

and maxine and his daughter's dog tubby. >> he tries to get out of the car, but he can't open the doorso he calls out of the window and tries unsuccessfully to walk on the bridge. >> he didn't get very far before he realized that the situation was so dangerous he might not get back, and he better go back. >> but the bridge twists and rides so violently he can't safely go back for the dog. >> he was continually being thrown to the pavement and staggering to one side or the other. >> another person trying to escape from the bridge that day is professor bert farqeston. he was an authority on bridge structures. so when eldridge and lacey murrow game concerned about how much this bridge might move, they hired bert to conduct some studies. >> as part of his study, f he sets up film cameras a few weeks after the bridge opens to kpture its movements. several weeks later the same cameras capture the drama of the movements as they unfold. >> the phenomenal thing is we're watching steel and concrete twisting 20 times a minute. as the twisting increased, light polls began to dance back and forth b

. >> he said one-fourth of the staff is made up of graduates from the recovery program, and like maxine they bring to the table is invaluable. >> so if you would like to help the bay area rescue mission, you can call 510-215-4555. we also have a link to their website on abc7 news.com. also if your group would like to host a abc7 listen event, go to abcnews.com and click where it says "community." >> new this morning, birds posing a danger to travelers at the minetta airport will be shot at with guns. city leaders have approved an ordinance change allowing airport staffers to shoot at birds to clear them from the airfield. birds pose a danger to jets bus they often get struck by planes. they can also get suck into the engines resulting it in planes losing power. if scaring the birds doesn't clear them out, the airport now has permission to load buckshot and shoot them. san francisco and oakland airports already allow that practice. >>> n.a.s.a. will announce historic news about a discovery on mars in a little more than a week in san francisco. n.a.s.a. scientists say the curiosity rover

. >> are you saying maxine waters is the plantation boss at this point? >> well, absolutely. >> it looks like florida voters had enough-his rhetoric and sent him packing. he will still be around. i'm sure fox will book him allot. but i've asked him to come on this program, and he won't go face to face with me. joining me is patrick murphy of florida, who beat allen west for his house seat. congratulations, mr. murphy. good to have you on "the ed show" tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> you are exactly what republicans love to put up in front of a crowd. you understand small business. i have done some research on your background. what was the difference? did the rhetoric of allen west really put you in this seat? >> it was a few things. it started off with his rhetoric. that offended a lot of republicans. we were getting phone calls from republicans saying, we're tired of the tea party. we want someone with your background as a small. business owner representing us. it was part of my campaign about showing the difference between us. but also talking abou

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. >> he said one-fourth of the staff is made up of graduates from the recovery program, and like maxine, what they bring to the table is invaluable. >> so if you would like to help the bay area rescue mission, you can call 510-215-4555. we also have a link to their website on abc7 news.com. also if your group would like to host a abc7 listen event, go to abcnews.com and click where it says "community." >> other news this morning, a 77-year-old woman reported miss big her family on thanksgiving day has been found safe thanks to a tweet by redwood city police. as darkness took hold thursday night police sent out a text alert to their facebook and twitter accounts. less than 15 minutes a woman called to say she had seen that missing woman on her street. that woman, who just arrived from japan and spoke no english was located and return to her family in good shape. >> birds posing a danger to holiday travelers at san jose minetta airport will be shot at with guns. the san jose mercury news reports city leaders last week approved an ordinance change to allow airport staffers to shoot at bird

. >> he said one-fourth of the staff is made up of graduates from the recovery program, and like maxinehe table is invaluable. >> so if you would like to help the bay area rescue mission, you can call 510-215-4555. we also have a link to their website on abc7 news.com. also if your group would like to host a abc7 listen event, go to abcnews.com and click where it says "community." >>> a 77-year-old woman reported miss big her family on thanksgiving day has been found safe thanks to a tweet by redwood city police. as darkness took hold thursday night police sent out a text alert to their facebook and twitter accounts. less than 15 minutes a woman called to say she had seen that missing woman on her street. victim, who just arrived from japan and spoke no english was located and return to her family in good shape. >>> turkeys are not the only birds dreading the holidays. birds posing a danger to holiday travelers at san jose minetta airport will be shot at with guns. the san jose mercury news reports city leaders last week approved an ordinance change to allow airport staffers to shoot at

i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge the continuing presence of ishmael reed, maxine pinkston, still among us and i must say to you that it is a pleasure and i have talked to the number of places where that term pleasure does not apply. [laughter] it is a pleasure to teach here with bob has and jeffrey, vikram chandra, tom farber but it's my students that have brought me great joy over these last several -- last five years in my teaching here. they read the assignments. [laughter] and then they show up in the office aching for commerce nation, which is just incredibly gratifying and it makes me work harder but that's okay. they graduate and they go out and they start galleries and began reading series. they take place in the world and they keep things going, so welcome here to this room this afternoon. thank you. [applause] >> i want to introduce a dynamic young man. this organization has gotten new blood but it's a good idea to keep some of the old blood around. [laughter] our chairperson is -- and aarp president is on the way from the airport. justin is, this young man is rel

been expressive in the senate coming in now, who was it that couldn't get him, she had dreadlocks, maxine waters. they kept asking her for idea and arrested her because they didn't recognize here. she was mocked endlessly for her assertiveness basically. the same thing that elizabeth warren faced in scott brown, which was to sneer at her as an elite professor, which really got to me. it means we started teaching about the same time. for women of color and the entire united states teaching the, two blacks, one nation, one latina. and that is not so long ago. a few years afterwards i went into the classroom and having mostly men in a classroom, most of whom on election night before the election was decided i had to turn us in a classroom and was filled with that romney's. i woke up to a brand-new world. this is the way law schools looked when i was coming out. when you first started teaching to the woman, when he lived in massachusetts he didn't just say professor, he said blake though you could really profess anything. i really rocketed me back. so i think in addition to the mockery genera

and maxine waters. ranking member of the subcommittee on financial- services. i have a statement from the progressive caucus i would like to share with you. while voting to increase the debt ceiling is a necessary step, the deficit reduction measures included in this deal will further harm our economy and herbert american spirit with unemployment above 9% and stagnate economic growth, taking out of the economy money that will only place a heavier burden on working families. this is the wrong approach for our economy at the wrong time. it goes against our basic values. for that reason, we and many of our members of the progressive caucus will be voting no. progressives are committed to prosperity for the working class and the belief reasonable deficit reduction can be achieved while advancing our values. today's step that -- deficit reduction deal falls short. it spends more to support billionaires' and corporations. tea party republicans have held our economy hostage to those demands. there is a reduction should be enacted -- should not be enacted in a house st

been expressive in the senate coming in now, who was it that couldn't get him, she had dreadlocks, maxine waters. they kept asking her for idea and arrested her because they didn't recognize here. she was mocked endlessly for her assertiveness basically. the same thing that elizabeth warren faced in scott brown, which was to sneer at her as an elite professor, which really got to me. it means we started teaching about the same time. for women of color and the entire united states teaching the, two blacks, one nation, one latina. and that is not so long ago. a few years afterwards i went into the classroom and having mostly men in a classroom, most of whom on election night before the election was decided i had to turn us in a classroom and was filled with that romney's. i woke up to a brand-new world. this is the way law schools looked when i was coming out. when you first started teaching to the woman, when he lived in massachusetts he didn't just say professor, he said blake though you could really profess anything. i really rocketed me back. so i think in addition to the mockery genera

you're not going to be in your job next year or the person who deals with wall street in many ways is maxine waters. it's going to be a bad joke. it's going nowhere fast. let's not go there. what i was going to rescue his face and really have less than a minute left. when you think about washington after you leave, do you have more hope about some type of bipartisan compromise of the world is going to get better here? to have less hope? >> personally, reality is going to get better in reality shakes fist. people talk about dysfunctionality. but a functional 2009 in 2010. and in 2007 and 2008, bipartisanship -- when we took over in 2007, had paulson writes in his book he and i have been talking for a couple months. we put fannie and freddie and conservatorship stopped that together with him. we began working on the crisis. in 2008 in september, go beyond not. in late 2007, george bush goes to nancy pelosi and harry reid and says i need a stimulus because the economy is in trouble. unlike mitch mcconnell the center right, let's work one out you can live with. so they did a stimulus with him ra

been expressive in the senate coming in now, who was it that couldn't get him, she had dreadlocks, maxine waters. they kept asking her for idea and arrested her because they didn't recognize here. she was mocked endlessly for her assertiveness basically. the same thing that elizabeth warren faced in scott brown, which was to sneer at her as an elite professor, which really got to me. it means we started teaching about the same time. for women of color and the entire united states teaching the, two blacks, one nation, one latina. and that is not so long ago. a few years afterwards i went into the classroom and having mostly men in a classroom, most of whom on election night before the election was decided i had to turn us in a classroom and was filled with that romney's. i woke up to a brand-new world. this is the way law schools looked when i was coming out. when you first started teaching to the woman, when he lived in massachusetts he didn't just say professor, he said blake though you could really profess anything. i really rocketed me back. so i think in addition to the mockery genera