my own mentee, left kipp. i sort of pushed back with the folks that i met with, and talk a little bit about that, and about discipline policies at kipp. there are certain things about kipp i do not fully agree with. but there are things in our public schools i do not wholly agree with either. there are things we do in our own public schools that actually work against the students that kipp service, against them getting an equitable education. i also spoke to some parents who, quite frankly, when their kids work at middle school -- it was that excels your middle school. -- excelsior middle school. he lost almost a whole year of construction. i think we will admit it was the very unorganized year. we opened it, i think, with excelsior middle school. the child was really far behind. i spoke to the mom. we wanted to look at kipp. her son repeated a grade, but is on track to graduate. this was a single mom with four kids. she had seen older ones lost to violence and drugs. i have to say this way is my opinion, -- s

and this relationship between the mentor and minty -- mentee, and now i am a mentor, and i think is fascinating for black people to cook, because for so many generations, to get out of the kitchen, now we have to work really, really hard to get back into the kitchen. we are not there. >> there -- tavis: there are two things to me to this very day. i do not know if it would change, but there are two things that tickle me. i have seen joy. as ironic as that sounds. oftentimes, if the pilot knows i am on the plane, he will walk out and introduce himself. "mr. smiley, i am glad to have you on my flight." i get tickled when i find out that it is an african-american. it does not happen that much. i travel, and i am in a restaurant, and i want to go eat, and if the ship comes out and offers to introduce themselves, and they turn out to be black, i just am guilty -- giddy, because i know how hard it is to get there. >> i think integration and segregation is part of it. back in the day, all of the restaurants were black of, all of the hotels were black of, and all of the shops -- all of the hotels were

runs no european clients no one and actually these states he says that these measures never achieve mentee and instead just the most vulnerable. the sort of stated objective of both the united states and the european union in carrying out these sanctions is that they are meant to persuade iran to come to the table and negotiations on their nuclear program but all we really seen both historically when we look at iraq as well as now is the running government itself bears little to no branch or burden of what the sanctions are actually doing it's really about people that feel the biggest burden iran now is faced with extruded lehi some say twenty some go up to sixty percent of an inflation rate in the country so what we're really seeing and terms of the effect of the sanctions is not so much these state players and how they're affected but how ordinary people inside iran are actually getting affected by these policies . and you can find more on that and other stories on our very own website on call and also available for you a military showdown russia which is now in full swing in moscow's su

there is way to mentee representatives and the state of maryland and across the country. the house of representatives? the senate? there is 435 members of the house of representatives. let's cut that down to about 100. all their staff and make them pay for their benefits and how much money with that said across the country? host: democrats line, lake george, new york, good morning. caller: good morning, one suggestion i would have here, in this albany area, we have a couple of investigative reporters on the local news that spotlighted the crazy spending things we are paying for. one of my suggestions his contact your local news. tell them you don't want to hear stories about pet parades. this is a serious time. found out earlier this year that we have paid $200,000 for bottled water for our legislators in a three-month period of time. i really don't think i need to pay for their bottled water. we also had a huge investigation and a recent gigantic auction. we found literally thousands of cars that have been purchased and never even driven that were in parking lots all ove