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

where this is going to need to that's where it's going now not in a million muslims in america ok maxine stress nonstate actors why why is that so important to you. well just because i'm speaking from from north america and so for us when we talk about terrorism that's what we're typically talking about i understand that that's not the case for example if you go to the middle east and you're you want to research terrorism they may well think that you're talking about government attacks against civilians academics though tend to separate. we use a different definition when non-state actors attack civilians versus when stayed out later very you think it's very. very it isn't it it's very convenient well it's certainly it's certainly convenient for our research because when it's convenient for a guy the intersection it's convenient for you know me i think like units can feel convenient for governments for him what do you think about that exactly and i think if you look around you can find over one hundred different definitions of the word terrorism and there is a reason why we can never agr

where this is going to need to that's where it's going now not in a million muslims in america ok maxine stress nonstate actors why why is that so important to you. well just because i'm speaking from from north america and so for us when we talk about terrorism that's what we're typically talking about i understand that that's not the case for example if you go to the middle east and you're you want to research terrorism they may well think that you're talking about government attacks against civilians academics though tend to separate. we use a different definition when non-state actors attack civilians versus when stayed out later very you think it's very. very it isn't it it's very convenient well it's certainly it's certainly convenient for our research because when it's convenient for a guy who intersection it's convenient for you know me i think like units can feel convenient for governments for him what do you think about that exactly and i think if you look around you can find over one hundred different definitions of the word terrorism and there is a reason why we can never agr

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is concerned but we have a lot of people on the hill like representative maxine waters representative elijah cummings who would like to push the o.c.c. harder and say is this the right number because one of the things i talked about in my report is the o.c.c. told the media that the error rate per bank was about four point two percent meaning and only about four point two percent of cases where there are errors and that was a law they made that up this was something that they just pulled out of state air that was something senator elizabeth warren push really hard on in the hearing today and they will continue to push hard on and so i don't know if the case is closed or not but i certainly think that the o.c.c. is trying to sweep this under the rug and it's up to us to make a bunch of noise about it absolutely alexis goldstein former v.p. of merrill lynch and deutsche bank she's also a contributor to the nation thank you so much for giving us your insight thanks for . having me well ever since the american public began to understand the scope of u.s. drone operations abroad we've begu

that's where this is the need to that's where it's going now not in a million muslims in america ok maxine stress non-state actor is why why is that so important to you. well just because i'm speaking from from north america and so for us when we talk about terrorism that's what we're typically talking about i understand that that's not the case for example if you go to the middle east and you're you want to research terrorism they may well think that you're talking about government attacks against civilians academics though tend to separate. we use a different definition when non-state actors attack civilians versus when stayed out later very you think it's very. very it isn't it it's very convenient well it's certainly if you search because you know it's convenient for a guy who intersection it's convenient for you know me i think like units can feel convenient for governments for him what do you think about that exactly and i think if you look around you can find over one hundred different definitions of the word terrorism and there is a reason why we can never agree on any one definiti

. >> host: maxine from oklahoma, final call. >> caller: i am 86 years old. i live alone. i have medicare but i also carried myself a good medical policy. i am happy with that. i think people everywhere i go that have never worked a few i sitting at home trying on medicaid, medicare that the government is giving to them. that is where i think we should begin. call out those that are undeserving, make some function with less or something but not a full benefit for having done no working. i have seen quite a few dollars at the doctor's recently and always question my doctors about the cost and talk to them about the cost before i have but test. i have a good medical plan but i question the doctors because i am 86 like i say. you have to watch things that are happening in the world around you. >> host: do you know where that is? >> guest: i am trying to think. i am not sure i do. that goes back to the book the tragedy of american compassion. one of the things he raises in that book is how do you get people to motivate to enhance and better themselves rather than become depend

a lady by the name of maxine smith. maxine smith was the executive secretary of the ncaap from 1962 up to somewhere around 2000. and she served on the memphis city school board from 1971 to 1975. she helped take memphis beyond jim crow and beyond segregation into a great city in america and in america's mainstream and she helped take america there. because the scourge of discrimination and desegregation stained this country and she was not allowed to enroll at memphis state university, so she went to spellman and then she went up east to middleberry and got a masters and she went to work to help others and she spent her life fighting against discrimination. in all ways and all manners. she served on the state board of education in tennessee and made sure people got a good education. whether they were white or black. and she overcame all of the hate and discrimination that she faced and was a beautiful woman who lived dr. king's dream. seeing people and judging them by the content of their character and not the color of

i was called that from an aide of maxine waters' office, if you are black, conservative and dare notyou accused of being a sellout, an uncle tom. i like robert zimmerman a lot, he's my friend and a white elitist. the underlying sentiment where we have re-elected the first african-american president, we have so many areas of progress in this country and areas of race and it seems to me the liberal establishment can't stomach having african-american conservatives. >> i've heard that from more than one person, robert. liberals are among the most racist, it's not politically correct to say it. >> it's also -- it's a dumpstb stereotype. m ron is not just a man who i have personal respect for, but he gives conservatism a good name this is not really productive. this is important. we have a responsibility to attack racism, not in the partisan context, but when we see it in the own party. i have seen dr. carson stand up to the racism that donald trump is engaged in, or the bigoted behavior in the republican party, their attitude toward women or the gay community. that's the standard by which

panchal, aaron peterson, michael poly, julia pride, mary karen reid, rema semaha, lesley sherman, maxinewhite. i read those names, mr. president, to honor those who were killed and had their lives snuffed out on april 16, 2007. i acknowledge also that many students and faculty members were injured and we have with us in the gallery today both family members of those who were deceased and even some students who were injured. i also honored all in the virginia tech community that is very close and still suffers the wounds from this terrible shooting. mr. president, in the aftermath of the shooting at virginia tech six years ago today, we learned a lot. we learned that we have to make fixes to the mental health system, that school security and safety is incredibly important, that alert systems that can moatify people when bad things happen are incredibly important. but, mr. president, we also learned a tragic but important lesson, and that is that background record checks make us safer. the young, troubled individual with no criminal record had a long history of mental illness. he had been

. >> host: the final call, hi, maxine. >> caller: hi, i live in oklahoma, i'm 86 years old, live alone i also carry my self a good medical policy, and i'm happy with that. i see people everywhere i go that have never worked but a year, and they sit at home drawing in on their medicaid and medicare that the government is giving to them. that's where i think we should begin is call out those that are undeserving and give them less or something, but not a full benefit. i spent quite a few dollars at the doctor recently, and i always question on the cost and talk to them about the cost before i have a test, even though i have -- >> guest: good for you. >> caller: i have a good plan, but i question the doctors because i'm 86, like i say, and you have to watch what things happen in the world around you. >> host: thank. do you know where colbert is? >> guest: trying to think. sounds like -- i'm not sure i do. ii think it goes back to the bok "the tragedy of american compassion," and what is raised in the book is how do you get people to motivate, enhance, and better themselves rather than bec

pleased to anchor this progressive caucus on iraq with my colleague from california, congresswoman maxine waters. let me thank congresswoman waters, who's the founder of the out-of-iraq caucus. congresswoman waters had the vision and the determination to pull together members of the house who really needed some space, who needed to be able to provide legislative strategies and to beat the drum to end this war in iraq. the country owes congresswoman waters a debt of gratitude, and we thank you very much for that. i also want to acknowledge congresswoman lynn woolsey who retired from congress at the end of last year but who looms so large during the special order, giving her incredible leadership in working to end the war in iraq and to bring our troops home. she is and remains our sister in arms when it comes to working for global peace and security for our children, all of our collective work. it was no wonder that many observers called congresswoman waters, woolsey and myself the tried a, but it was congresswoman -- triad, but it was congresswoman woolsey who coined this term. we reflect