we will start with mr. moses. you have seven minutes. >> thank you. good evening. i'm here to ask for your help because they're planning on cutting down all the big trees, a block. i would like to think of myself as a reasonable resident of san francisco. i am outraged. that this city has given permission to the school across the street for the trees to be removed in what i considered to be the absence of any legitimacy. i am not an arborist. i do base my decision to appeal the permit order on the work of the city's arborist. he says this matter can be addressed by simply pressing or trimming away some of the branches that are -- pose a danger to the school. and the students. not to mention the residents of san francisco. it seems to me that the matter has not been clearly established as a necessity. and i need your help. i do not think mr. buck is here. the director or somebody, one of the city's barbarous does here, is that right? i am hoping to get to the bottom of how it came to be that decision -- the decision was drastic and i am hanging my hat on the finding

. >> host: in his 2005 book, "losing moses on the freeway" the 10 commands in america, mr. hedges writes we watch him passively as the wealthy and elite, the huge corporations rob us, really a bummer, defraud consumers, taxpayers and create an exclusive american oligarchy that uses wealth and political power. we watch passively because we believe we can enter the club. it is greed that keeps us on. susie in l.a., good afternoon. >> caller: chris, i want to thank you order of thoughts and your books, they're very deep and they really open many of our minds. very important concepts. and you've really tried, at least from my observation, to present a lot of deep thought and objective reality. i was troubled, however, in the area when you talk about the middle east because you talk about your history in terms of knowing arabic and the people there, but i was wondering also if you had an equal knowledge of hebrew and the people on that side? >> guest: well, i lived in jerusalem for two years. i don't speak hebrew. that was a conscious decision because when i worked in the middle