morale. the second provision requires a report to congress of the impact of the recent government shutdown on d.h.s. human resource and morale. both of these measures would be a step towards fixing the long standing morale problems at d.h.s. with that, mr. speaker, i urge the passage of h.r. 1433 and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. guest: i yield myself such time as i may consume. today i rise in support of h.r. 1433, d.h.s. morale act. it seeks to address an issue that has plagued the department of homeland security, low employee morale. d.h.s. has reported low employee morale on the survey and remains dead last out of large agencies employee satisfaction. these numbers are troubling. d.h.s. must find ways to improve employee morale. the department has two other issues. h.r. 1433 will address the moral e problem at d.h.s. by improving leadership development, work force plann

take you i'm natalie morales. and i'm craig melvin. and this is dateline on mynetworktv. my imagination and i would play out possibilities of what happened that night. i thought about how scared she must have been. it was hard to go to sleep some nights. natalie morales: a young woman living on her own murdered in the middle of the night. she was at her most vulnerable, alone and in bed. natalie morales: a crime that jolted a sleepy seaside community. a killer walking among them. i don't think it really sets in that we're all a little more in danger at that point. natalie morales: young, fun, and pretty, corey had plenty of admirers.

there is an invisible moral fabric. >> there is an invisible moral fabric. >> there is an invisible moralabric. >> this invisible moral fabric. >> there is an invisible moral fabric that holds up all of society. >> the moral fabric -- >> the moral fabric of society is indivisible but essential -- >> stop this anonymous erosion of the moral fabric. it is at the hands of donald trump and the republicans. >> >> tucker: the good news is, the moral fabric softener smells amazing. so, should it joe biden instead of the democratic race? the others can't make up their a mind on it. >> i believe lucyjo florez, and joe biden needs to give give an answer. >> should he not run? >> that's for joe biden to decide. >> you know, i believe lucy florez. he's going to decide whether he is going to run or not. >> he will have to address this, that is what he will have to deal with the voters if he gets into the race. >> tucker: author and columnist mark steyn joins us. one of the many reasons i'm glad you're with us is to help make up my mind on this question. on the one hand, you think he is a warm person.

is an invisible moral fabric. >> there is an invisible moral fabric. >> there is an invisible moralric. >> this invisible moral fabric. >> there is an invisible moral fabric that holds up all societies. >> the invisible moral fabric. >> the moral fabric. >> the moral fabric of society is invisible but essential. >> stop this enormous erosion of the moral fabric that's at the hands of donald trump and the republicans. >> tucker: the moral fabric is fraying. the good news is the moral fabric softener smells amazing. so should biden stay out of the democratic race? well the other candidates can't quite make up their mind on that question, watch. >> i believe lucy flores and joe biden needs to give an answer. >> should he not run as a result? >> that's for joe biden to decide. >> you know, i believe lucy flores. he is going to decide whether is he going to run or not. >> people raise issues. and they have to address them. and that's what he will have to do with the voters if he gets into the race. >> >> tucker: author and columnist mark steyn joins us tonight. so, mark, one of the many

conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. i would agree with saint augustine that an unjust law is no law at all. now, what is the difference between the two? how does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? a just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of god. an unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. to put it in the terms of st. thomas aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. any law that uplifts human personality is just. any law that degrades human personality is unjust. all segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. it gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregateed a false sense of inferiority. segregation, to use the terminology of the jewish philosopher martin buber i-ittutes an relationship for an i-thou relationship, and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. hence, segregation is not only politically, economically, and

one has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. i would agree with st. a senator: juice teen that an -- agree with st. augustine that an unjust law is no law at all. now, what is the difference between the two? how does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? a just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of god. an unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. to put it in the terms of st. thomas aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. any law that uplifts human personality is just. any law that degrades human personality is injust. all segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. it gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregateed a false sense of inferiority. segregation. to use the terminology of the jewish philosopher martin buber substitutes an i-it relationship for an i-thou relationship

private morality.vatives would appreciate about me is i acknowledge, which i think most americans do, it's a moral issue. i believe it is a issue of private rather than public morality. the government should have nothing to do with our private morals and the government should not have anything to do with a decision a woman is making for her body. anything she does or does not do. i think the conservatives would feel my acknowledgement of the moral issue. it's private, not public. in terms of guns, i understand it's a second amendment right. i agree with a conservative position about why the founders put it there. there's no problem with that for me. however, we know we talk about a well organized malitia. we know our gun policies in the united states are not driven by second amendment. it's an illusion. this has nothing to do with the second amendment. we don't adequately fight climate change because of profits for fossil fuel companies. we don't have universal health care because of short term profits

your morality, it's a ben. if you think it's not important you bet year it also a gift and offer it as such. the only way somebody accepts and it try understand and if it maybe godwill being persuaded. >> host: on two more rules. stand up to the man, refuse to be used by the powerful. number wont to the be used by their enemies. use say in this book that regularly the person you need to stand up to is somebody on your own side. that does that mean. >> guest: if we make a list -- ask people tech of somebody who is firing up america and make each other hate each other, a visual will pop in of something you disagree with. they need a different vision. whoton your own side who our patronize because they're scratching your bias. this person is trying to use you. there's not inflaming your 0 expanding your world view. they're not taking you somebody you have never been before. that's somebody who is following your market signals who is using you to get more powerful and rich and famous and if you don't like that, don

when king talked with a moral voice, when susan b.ked with a moral voice, they created unusual coalitions that ultimately produced the unusual results. we, again, need to be a party that states clearly what our values are and our standards are, and then calls the whole country together to support those values. we are in the majority. those people who want an economy that is a moral economy. we are in the majority, those of us who believe in health care and great public education being a right. it's about time we start talking and leading with our values and calling america oh come together around them. those people left out on the margins, we will either leave them behind or they'll eventually join us. >> senator cory booker, 2020 democratic presidential candidate, senator from new jersey, thank you for making time. >> thank you, sir. >>> next, will attorney general bill barr skip his congressional testimony on the mueller report. the showdown between house democrats. >>> beto o'rourke and his first prime time interview. stick around.

lincoln's moral composition." villard boasted that he did lincoln a service by scaring off would be office seekers, who, fearing to see their names published in newspapers, abandoned plans to visit the illinois capital in order to badger the president-elect. in laterd wrote december 1860, "although your correspondent has no desire to claim any undue importance, he flatters himself that he is rendering preeminent services to the president elect. the herald's faithful chronicles of whatever transpires in this region has saved many an hour of annoyance and perplexity to the president-elect. it is solely owing indeed to the untiring vigilance with which he watches and the mercilessness with which he brings to publicity the movement of place seekers that abraham has not suffered any overwhelming attacks from the rapacious expectant from his supporters. no mere sufficient means of keeping the eager host at a safe distance could have been adopted than that which is now exercised to the president benefits in the columns o

and great moral challenge, summon great moral imagination.y did not surrendered to the seduction of hatred. they fought with a defiant love and when they rose, our nation rose with them. i am here today -- we are here today because of those kinds of movements. as many of you know, i was not born here in newark. when i was in -- a baby, my mom and dad try to move into harrington park, new jersey. they moved in there attracted by the public schools in the proximity to new york. real estate agents refused to sell us a home because of the color of our skin. denied housing did not happen because of a group of activists that came together. a young black activist who was the head of the fair housing council and white volunteers, they worked to help black families in the community come together. they stood up against the illegal housing discrimination my parents faced, and they won. they changed the course of my entire life. [cheering and applause] when you grow up with a mom like mine, they made sure that my brother and i never forgot what it took t

as i suggested, no figure better symbolized moral conviction in wartime that abraham lincoln. not to worry. i am not going to convince you abraham lincoln shows up in casablanca. i know that he does not. his spirit is there. nothing illustrates this so clearly as the moment when rick's competitor asks if the cafe american and sam are for sale. respond? ick in the language of abraham lincoln, i don't buy or sell human beings. this line, perhaps more than any other reveals the ethical underpinning that signals rick's transformation, his willingness to take a moral stand. i think it is no accident that he uses the same kind of anti-slavery language being used by the office of war information and robert sherwood. it is very likely that the author of humphrey bogart's anti-slavery pronouncement was koch, a casablanca screenwriter. even though lincoln himself does not flash ritualistically across embodiesn, casablanca the moral urgency that was being used to get americans behind this new effort. this lincoln was once again, or at least in spirit, being .eimagined and reinterpreted i

as i suggested no figure better symbolized deep moral conviction in wartime then abraham lincoln. not to worry i won't try to convince you lincoln shows up in casablanca. i know he doesn't, but his spirit is there. nothing illustrates this quite so clearly as the moment when ricks saloon owning competitor asks if ricks cafi america can and the black piano player sam are for sale. how does rick respond? in the language of abraham lincoln, i don't buy or sell human beings. this line perhaps more than any other reveals the ethical underpinning that signals ricks transformation. his willingness now to take a moral stand and i think it is no accident he uses the same antislavery language being used by the office of war information and by the lincoln playwright sherwood. in fact it is very likely the author of humphrey bogart antislavery pronouncement was howard a casablanca screenwriter and author of that lincoln kentucky college professor play from the lincoln theater project. even though lincoln himself does not as robert warren say flash ritualistically across the screen casablanca

and great moral challenge summoned great moral imagination.did not surrender to the seduction of hatred. they fought with a defiant love, and when they rose, our nation rose with them. i am here today, we are here today because of those kinds of movements. as many of you know, i was not born here in new york. -- newark. my baby, they tried to move into a neighborhood inherited park, new jersey, about 20 miles up the road from here. they moved here, attracted by the public schools in proximity to new york, but real estate agents refused to sell them a home because of the color of our skin. and what would have been that, us denied housing, did not happen because of a group of activists that came together. a young black activist was the head of the fair housing council , and a group of white volunteers and lawyers who had watched been inspired by the courage of civil rights marchers worked to help the black families in their community come together. against thep illegal housing discrimination my parents faced and they want. won and change the cou

the leaders of the fighters in morale we were two brothers omar and abdullah mounted. members of a powerful clan they are revered as heroes by their young followers. but most muslims on mindanao have no sympathy for the ideology of the so-called islamic state other can share reef is a leading figure in the local muslim community he knew them out of brothers because of his long beard he has been dubbed bin laden as in osama bin laden. sharif likes the nickname even though he says he is opposed to violence and said that to the local i asked fighters. visiting me in my house and convincing me to join in there sometimes the told me please join us we will take you as our army. yes we will make you as our leader actually when you have talking with me he said but they have been letting you join us because we cannot trust in them or people have been governments because they are always betraying us yes so that's why i did become. back because. sharif did not join the group led by the mountain brothers he told them he could not fight because he had heart disease. islamic state c

didn't oppose it on moral grounds, on legal, logistical grounds. they didn't have space to hold people. if they were going to hold people in mass scale, they had to get around court decisions that say you have to reunify the family separated. the president would have to undo his own executive action that ended family separation last summer. for all these reasons she laid out, it didn't make sense. she went a number of other routes. she increased the number of border agents at the border to enforce border operations. we know she proposed legislation that would allow cbp to deport children more quickly. we know she was able to send more asylum seekers to mexico to wait. it is not like she was a soft liner on immigration by any stretch of the imagination. however, her predecessor is willing to go further than she was, and that's why we understand he was more ingratiated with the white house than she was, and what led to her ousting yesterday. we understand that he sees a way around this. he thinks family separation should still be on the table as an o

the moral complexity of their lives just as we all are morally complicated. so this is why frederick douglass after the civil war set of lincoln, "he was willing to pursue, recapture and send back the fugitive slave to his master and to suppress a slave rising for liberty. if that is what it took to preserve the union. i think that is actually an overstatement. mr. lincoln certainly took no active role in suppressing a slave rising for liberty but he did give his support to this law. now, ed spoke last night also in a lecture that had many rich themes in it about we need to remember that when we think about the past, no one knew what was going to happen. just as we don't know what is going to happen. so, here we come to the vexing paradox of the story of the fugitive slave law. i have a late collie at columbia a laid colleague about the law of unintended consequences. it was the fugitive slave law of 1850. douglass himself who hated the law and loathed the people who introduced it said of it, it did a great service to the anti-slavery movement. it was a gift

and through the end of the 1820s or so, there was at least some openness to talking about the morality of slavery, the future of slavery in the south. this was particularly true in places like maryland and virginia, where slavery wasn't as deeply entrenched as it had been in earlier decades. and it was particularly true among evangelical christians, all right, which we talked about the sort of second-grade awakening, religious doctrine that at least in theory called for equality of all people before god. many evangelical ministers even in the south, early in the 19th century, were opposed to slavery. now, i want to be clear, most white southerners did defend slavery. but they very rarely argued that slavery was an unambiguously good thing. and they almost never said it was perfect. instead, the kind of defense of slavery that you might see from southerners early in the 19th century was that they had inherited slavery, right? it came down from generations before them. sometimes they might argue that their economy made the continuation of slavery into a necessary evil. but most white peo

there is a moral and ethical erosion. do with the fact giuliani would say what he is saying, it doesn't matter if they lie or talk that russia helps them as long as they make the sale. we have allowed a salesman mentality to get the sale, to erode the soul and ethics and character of this country. that is a political factor. the fact that the republicans were so god smacked by trump to begin with, the fact the democrats were so god smacked by bernie speaks to the fact the political establishment did not recognize the anxiety and the internal factors going on inside people that do drive politics. i'm talking politics that is underneath. it's the movement of the plates, the tectonic plates that end up with political consequences. the worst is nice, entertaining and theater. it's not what's been going on. it doesn't necessarily predict who will be going on in two years. >> you say love is the answer. politics of love is a handbook for a new revolution. all that you outlined. >> i'm for capitalism with a conscience. when you

emotio we steer our kids toward career success rather than moral joy.hen you have bad values, you end up in a bad place. that happened to me five or si years ago, which was the start of this book. the core truth is you can' solve your problems on the level of consciousness in which you created them. they went deeper into themselvei and theyovered a level of care and they lead marvelous lives >> woodruff: how did you know this new kind of living, this second it, is the answer? how did that come to you? i went throw a bad period in 2013. my kids were gone away to college or going. my marriage had ended.lo of my friendships were in the conservative movement, but i was not that kind o conservative anymore, so a lot of my friendships went away. so i 3as liviinng alone an apartment, and i had valued time over people. i hd valued productivity over relationships. so i dn't have a lot of weekend friends. othad work day friends that were professional but eekend stretches, and i had vast stretches of roanliness. if you went to my drawers, where there should have b

you have a better moral system.pt to survey philosophers and say here is a moral system to balance capitalism, not to replace it, just so that we are not morally corrupt did. -- corrupted. brian: people are asking what is on his lapel? david: i talk about this in the book, but not only in the book. i think culture changes when a small group of people find a better way to live and the rest of us copy it. elvis was one of those small people. we have social isolation in this country. i created something that was a social fabric project. isolationism is being soft on a local level by people called weavers. some just behave as neighbors. there is a woman named sarah in baltimore created in organization called red, which takes 450 underperforming students and surrounds them with volunteers and creates a social fabric around them. it's a beautiful program. brian: you mentioned baltimore. we don't need to get into this. andmayor of baltimore, there have been a couple of mayors of baltimore, in both cases they are women. wha

[laughter] >> [inaudible] public morality was plummeting. -- vicksburg, new orleans, atlanta. gary: yep. those were all in the west! >> [inaudible] without those, lincoln was reelected. gary: the importance of the west rim is a while you have a stalemate in the easement when the army of the potomac of the army of northern virginia, the world is going to hell out west, and it is from the very beginning of the war. i mean, vicksburg looms large during the war. i never quite understood why it looms so large, because the key to the mississippi river is holding new orleans, and that is gone in april of 1862. so the mississippi ceases to be a confederate river one year into the war. that is a huge victory for the united states. what retrieve the situation for lincoln in 1864, you got half of it, is atlanta is half of it and because americans than, now have short memories, the shenandoah valley coming closer to the election, also played a key role there. i do not pretend that things in the western not important. the eastnt is that looms larger and that people in various ways made tha

well i don't know if it's lost its moral compass i don't think there was a moral compass to begin with. unfortunately not a cynic but server of of of behavior there's a larger issue than anything that we've been talking about we've been touching upon a little bit and that is independent prior to the arms sales crises that come from the arms sales or from the military decisions based on political decisions for at least fifteen years the u.s. intelligence community and i think all knowledgeable observers have been. astoundingly alarmed in trying to warn about the fact that yemen had a dysfunctional state is an artificial state is a society that was on the brink of. literal collapse there's not enough water for the population to survive on services forget about trash removal or something like this what that one thinks about in the west when one talks about services vital services for survival have been beyond the ability of the dysfunctional state so even prior to saudi arabia and iran and now using the country for a proxy war the country was on the brink of mass starvation and collapse t

so questions of morality and ethics would certainly work consequence against him. they're going to do everything they can to preserve his presidency so he can continue to appoint judges that will look ascans at women's issues and other issues. they want to repeal roe v. wade and get as many judges on the supreme court and court of appeals as they can. this i think is why barr was chosen. i think trump saw the benefit of the federalist group giving gorsuch and kavanaugh. that's what barr is doing -- >> how far -- >> to get these judges through. >> do you see him as a puppet? >> i definitely do. he was hired with an agenda. he took it. that was his job. something i think nobody's thought about. the congress adjourns on april the 10th for 19 days. we don't come back until april 29th. i think mr. barr knows hat and i think that's why mr. barr says he'll give us the report on april 15 so we won't be here and it will be two weeks before we come back. this whole thing has been played out like a stall. when they used to play basketball without a 30-second or 35-second cloc

in terms of political impact, affect on morale behind the lines in the united states and confederacy, perceptions in london and paris, and many other ways that eastern theater predominated, my writing goes against much historical writing of the past 40 years, a good deal of which criticizes the degree to which lee and his army, the battle gettysburg, surrender at appomattox, and other elements of the war in the east have chastened americans' understanding of the war. -- american understanding of the war. and many people in the room know this, i have no patience for people who think that gettysburg was the turning point over the civil war or was that important. it simply was not. that upsets all the gettysburg aficionados who just wait by their mailbox every day just hoping a new 500 page book about the first 15 minutes on the railroad arrives. because the 300 pages we have just is not enough. [laughter] dr. gallagher: thomas l. connelly, whose two volumes on the army of tennessee remain these standard of treatment, complained of what he called the virginia pattern of interpretation. i

jou journalists can help lead the way by talking about morality and ethics. if t if the people in charge aren't. here to break it down, katy roge rogers, vox co-founder. tim, let me start with you. it's easter morning. i think sometimes the media has a hard time talking about morality. talking about ethics. it's not in our language the way that law, basic things like law are. how do we make morality more of the conversation now that we have seen this 448 page report with so much immoral behavior? >> i think you start by saying we're awe all flawed. then you ask what kind of character, what kooinind of stad of character do you want in someone who represents the flag and the country. as someone who ran a presidential library, what struck me most painfully in volume two in the obstruction of justice volume was the number of times president trump either himself or instructed others to create false records. false historical records that would mean in the future people wanting to understand our government would not be able to. to my view, that's one of the most egr

, moral sentiment, the interest of the party meets a moral ideal and this combination makes things move. why i am saying that? the desire for the center-left to regain power may open the withels of a conversation the palestinian israelis. that in itself may create a dynamic, it is not that we continue that you give us your vote and we will win, that may create a new conversation about what is this state? what is the future of the state? why it was born and where it was heading. this could lead to a new technology, which we are lacking, we lack the language in which we can articulate the political agenda. this might happen. only might because i do not see figures in palestinian political leadership who are able to do that. nor in the israeli public at the moment. sometimes historically difficult times bring also historical figures. , at may be something development we will witness. tomorrow merits would be the head of the government, you back to it in be settlement now, -- evacuate the settlement now, we need a disaster. we do not have one in the sense that israel has no partner for peac

perfect human beings because of the way we voted anymore than we think they are morally defective as human beings because of the way they voted. we need to have nullity to recognize that people are capable of good and bad things. every one of us. just asked somebody you love that you've also hurt. also as someone you've done a lot of good for. we can all do good and bad things. not just political leadership but moral leadership is leadership the calls us to do good things more often than we do bad things. sometimes it's a matter of substance sometimes it's tone. that is what i learned is worth as much as i'm a policy guy that is numbers and performance but most the time i earn my paycheck there is a moral strain on our community and i had to figure out is divided as was we need a president to do that it might be the most thing we need a president to do. >> [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [applause] [applause] [inaudible] [applause] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [applause] [inaudible] [laughter] >> thank you very much. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [applause] [in

those words, the president of the united states assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. and in that moment, i knew the threat to this nation was unlike any i'd ever seen in my lifetime. i believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time, but if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. >> president trump is keenly aware of the potential impact biden's candidacy will have on the 2020 race. sources telling cnn that trump has repeatedly asked aides about biden's chances of winning the democratic nomination. one major concern, pennsylvania, which trump won by a slim margin. slim margin in 2016. pennsylvania is biden's native state and held a fund-raiser in philadelphia tonight. his first campaign rally. in pittsburgh on monday. one white house source saying if biden wins the nomination, it's a problem for trump. so let's discuss. congressman cedric richmond, former chairman of the

and without that church going -- it's harder to find that moral foundation.ncouraged religious expression in public. my father again and again pointed out that, you know, presidents from the beginning have delivered prayers, they've thanked god. and things like that. so clearly that sort of religious expression, not pros he tiesing for a specific denomination, but religion has generally been preferred over nonreligion in this country. my father was upset that he saw the court going in a different direction. >> one of his closest friends on the court, justice thomas, on the court and in life. people may not know what -- it's what people called him, nino, he felt an oath to the duties and the obligations it entailed. that's what i saw, the catholic faith helped him to understand that he had no right or license to exceed his judicial authority or abdicate his priorities. you know, there are people who -- we've seen nominees come up before the senate be questioned and whether it will taint or impede their ability to be a fair judge. >> my father often pointed to

. >> what about the moral lesson it sends to young people? >> it's a huge moral lesson. we are not doing a very good job now moral lessons right with young people. we are not doing a very good job. it used to be you could allow your child t watch the 6:00 news and not worry about vulgarity and profanity, and now it has become permissible to allow that to happen in all places when you start talking about the college admissions. the really bad thing it says not only to young people in general bu to the young person specifically, that as i parent i thought you were not good enough to get there on your own.erv wat you get the extraraining to becomed competiti. knowsth. >> andngay areirality over other the the suicide rpant in the d i believe in t based on their you commit suicideth you don't wantome so -- become so cyni wal that youant to kill your future. the possibility of tomorrow, the chance that w thingsll get better, the optimism that another day might bring about another opportunity is something that made this country great. we have to get back to that again. >> a lot

trump grows out of a moral and spiritual crisis and the answer is a moral and spiritual response. >>ntry has been moving toward a profound narcissism which we see in our president but it goes beyond just this president. it's the culture and the political conversation. sdp rig s >> right. we have a crisis of disconnection with people say no one who knows them well is up. the number of people committing suicide is up. the number of teenagers committing suicide is up. distrust is up. i've had it in on own life where i was working so hard on the job i valued time over people and over relationships. i got to the place where i was mistreating my friends and i got to a lonely place. what happened to me is happening to a lot of people. i am lucky because i got a lot of privileges but everybody can find way to live where you reach out to others, where you live for relationship. it's very easy to say i live for relationship. it's very hard to do to see the people you meet on a day-to-day basis and speak to them and be vulnerable with them. that's the bottom up person by person relationship by

it is more morals and religion. when did it make that shift from being about -- from the way it used to be viewed? when did that transfer happen? prof. haugeberg: when did it become such a partisan, controversial issue? there are a few different moments. one is that it became a public issue that was talked about in newspapers in the mid 19th century. doctors really made it front-page news. one thing that is kind of interesting is that when we go back and look at the historical record, when newspapers were getting off the ground, trying to sell a lot of issues, they were very tabloid like. of, like ato exposes famous guy who had an affair, or an explosive divorce. one thing that newspapers started publishing was very well-to-do women trying to get abortions. it would sell a lot of newspapers. it was fascinating. it was morally shaming. aboutf the taboos abortion really took off in the mid-19th century. as far as where he are in politics today and the way that that is one of the first questions asked of politicians, t

and our sense of moral urgency, our inpatience comes from the demanding of all values.from love. [cheers and applause] love of our families, love of our communities, love of our country, and love of each other. you know, the mayor was right. newark, brick city. this community -- [cheers and applause] this community taught me all about that love. it is not that feel good, easy-going love. it is strong, courageous love. it is defiant love. the kind of love that works through heart break and pain and betrayal. it is the kind of love that keeps on going. it is the kind of love that sacrifices. it is the kind of love that is essential to achieving justice. [cheers and applause] i learned right here on the streets that you can't make progress by dividing people. you can't make progress by stoking fear or setting us one against the other. i learned that the only way to overcome the really tough challenges is by extending grace, finding common ground, and working together. and we know this, that today so many of us are hurting. so many of us are understandably angry. so many of

well i don't know if it's lost its moral compass i don't think there was a moral compass to begin with. unfortunately not a cynic but server of of of behavior there's a larger issue than anything that we've been talking about we've been touching upon a little bit and that is independent prior to the arms sales crises that come from the arms sales or from the military decisions based on political decisions for at least fifteen years the u.s. intelligence community and i think all knowledgeable observers have been. astoundingly alarmed in trying to warn about the fact that yemen had a dysfunctional state is an artificial state is a society that was on the brink of. literal collapse there's not enough water for the population to survive on services forget about trash removal or something like this what that one thinks about in the west when one talks about services vital services for survival have been beyond the ability of the dysfunctional state so even prior to saudi arabia and iran and now using the country for a proxy war the country was on the brink of mass starvation and collapse t

me to make a moral judgment about it?if we're going to start making moral judgments about everybody in public office we'll have nobody in public office. >> when the president goes to don mcgahn and says you need to do this, to stop this, and the guy has to threaten to resign or leave for not to happen and you ignore it, i think that matters too. >> but he didn't do it. he didn't fire mueller. that's the bottom line. >> if i ask you to punch mr. meadows and you don't do it, the request was still wrong. >> yeah, the request may have been wrong but it's not a crime unless he assaults me. >> is that our standard? is that why you got into public service was to prove you're not a felon? >> just as point of law, obstruction, complete act. endeavoring to obstruct is what they call in the law an incomplete crime, an attempted crime. so you can have endeavoring to obstruct as well. that's about law. this is about something else. it's about political culture and character and what our expectations are and what seems to be a very sad

we have the morally superior position.iate from our position at all, you have no moral authority and you are a terrible person. that to me, there are lots of people who know in their hearts that that is not right and they want to stand up against that and just want to do honest, independent journalism. the great thing about this is that now with ted koppel coming on and saying what he said, i'm hopeful that more journalists will stand up. the best journalist that heart , were just a bunch of nosy people and we resist all forms of control. that's who i am. i resist all forms of control. just as my husband. >> how has the public responded to you. >> great. in fact it's really interesting because long before i did that podcast i've been talking about this and i honestly traveled the length during the speaking. [inaudible] i talked to 2000 people in tulsa oklahoma. they leapt to their feet when i was done. honestly, i had the same reaction in campbell california and portland oregon and pittsburgh and i believe this is a nonpar

and there is a sense that it is not a moral community.presumably even dating life there would suffer. but if you do your interventions to get greater trust and to improve the moral climate, actually love and relationships of all sorts should flourish too. with that be the outcome or one of the outcomes? too. >> are predicted to be. i don't have data that took place in a particular case. typically in my own work i'm trying to work on social relationships of all kinds. and so dating and mating and so on does not loom larger wanted to just become trying to get people to cooperate in all ways. chris edges but the last two days reading the books and i'm looking through the lens. now i am seeing something that i never saw before. which is that i used to think about dating and sex and relationships between just two people. this lens is allowing me to see it is something between two people but it is very much dependent on the social context, level of trust, sense of a predatory market -- >> absolute peer groups come in all sizes. the smallest gro

i think that moral, you know, having a discontinuity, really on a moral argument is not good government. and i think that it has -- that it's affect on the likelihood of business owner, otherwise complying with rules and regulations -- rules and regulations that, by the way, we have done studies to show have decreased smoking in general and smoking amongst youth. that they are following those rules and if we want to make more rules, fine. but bans, no. and not -- and we can't put people out of business in an instant. we have to have a provision for grandfathering them, pending -- look, there's nothing to say the f.d.a. isn't going to come out and say, hey you know what, it turns out vaping is okay. and nicotine is not great, but it's a lot better way to get your nicotine than smoking cigarettes. we approve it because it's a better alternative to something we know to be harmful. that would be a step in the right direction. this isn't about absolutes. this is about helping people survive whatever addiction they have. and try to educate people going forward that they not get themselves inv