we have a little bit of time left i want your final thoughts mr. rosshters. >> thank you so much for having me again. prop a which invests in the critical structure for firefighters and paramedics and they have the tools for a worst-case scenario that hits to our our city that's an essential measure when that disaster it's not not george or star child who responses to safety lives our frirz and first responder we need to make sure our water system is functioning and heed the call as a city that's why little mayor the entire board of supervisors the councilmember ferraro that's why the republican party isn't opposing this one we have to pull together as a community and when they identify the issue hey, we've got to get this done we live in a place that's vulnerable and prepare for the worst-case scenario so we're ready to respond quickly and give our firefighters the tools and star child any final thoughts >> yes. this is so important why hadn't the money been budgeted year by year but wyatt wait until 2014 we're going to raise our tax to keep our 6 figu

mr. ross diplomatic much of what is happening to african-americans across the 20th century, and i emphasize 20th century. mr. ross was born in the delta region of mississippi. his family was not -- they were quite prominent farmers. they had their land and possessions taken from them through a scheme around allegedly back taxes and were reduced to sharecropping. in the sharecropping system, there was no assurances over what they might get versus what they actually picked. when i first met mr. ross, the first thing he said to me was he left mississippi for chicago because he was seeking the protection of the law. i did not quite understand what he meant. he said, listen, there were no black judges or prosecutors, no black police -- basically, we had no law. we were outlaws and people could take what they wanted. that was very much his early life. he went to chicago thinking things would be a little different. on the surface, they were. you managed to get a job, got married, had a decent life. h

asks me about mr. ross and i'm so happy to talk about mrs. weatherspoon.anted to include her story because when we talk about african-americans who live in neighborhoods like north lawndale, there's a kind of traditional narrative out there that these folks have fallen into cultural pathologies, if they would just get married and act right, everything would be ok. mrs. weatherspoon was married for many, many years, had kids and her kids are doing well. she is a homeowner. very responsible citizen of chicago, and yet she lives in north lawndale, neighborhood in terms of any socioeconomic indicators, on the wrong and in terms of chicago. one of the most provocative things about her story and how she came up and how much work she put in it, and the factual is able to hold on to her home in that situation, puts a lie to the myth that african-americans to act right, who are respectable, you know, are somehow therefore immune to the plunder that is symptomatic of white supremacy in this country. it does not matter. there is no bettering yourself that will get yo

mr. david ross, phd, is a senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies. mr. frederick is a senior associate for middle east program at the carnegie endowment for international peace. your title is impressive but they're all doctorates. pursuant to the rules, if all witnesses could please rise and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you and please be seated. all witnesses answered in the affirmative. in order to allow sufficient time for questions, i would ask each witness summarize their opening statements, which will be placed in the record in their entirety, as well as other extraneous material. please died -- try to stay close to the five minutes. as my predecessor often said, green means go everywhere and yellow means hurry up through the intercession and read means stop. please observe that on the countdown clocks. with that, general, you are recognized. general -- >> thank you -- >> for all the witnesses, pull your mike's clos

david ross, phd, is a senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies. mr. frederick is a senior associate for middle east program at the carnegie endowment for international peace. your title is impressive but they're all doctorates. pursuant to the rules, if all witnesses could please rise and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you and please be seated. all witnesses answered in the affirmative. in order to allow sufficient time for questions, i would ask each witness summarize their opening statements, which will be placed in the record in their entirety, as well as other extraneous material. please died -- try to stay close to the five minutes. said,predecessor often green means go everywhere and yellow means hurry up through the intercession and read means stop. please observe that on the countdown clocks. with that, general, you are recognized. general -- --thank you >> for all the witnesses, pull your mike's close to you be

mr. clyde ross was, you know, you probably could get a job. there were plenty of jobs available in chicago at the time, but one of the big problems was housing. black people lived in tenements, as you know. chicago as a matter of policy, following the policy of the federal government, had decided to build housing and restrict housing on a matter of race. so black people lived in segregated areas. folks would have money but wouldn't be able to get housing. this was happening at a time when the united states government was effectively subsidizing housing for everybody else, through the fha and holc. this happened for everybody except black people. what happened was people who were in the contractor buyers league ended up in a situation where they were taking loans with people who were not the most legitimate of loan providers. these are people who might be masquerading as the broker for the house or real estate agent but in fact were the owner and the lender at the same time, would have the lawyer in on the take. when the contract buyers league

mr. pickety comes to mind, ross. >> yes, he's getting a lot of press, mr. pickety. i'm not sure i agree with it. >> i'm still reading michael lewis. >> there's a lot of holes to pick with mr. pickety. steve, thank you. plenty of great history lessons coming out from steve. right now here we are, just an hour and 11 minutes into the trading day in europe. and you see red across the board. just worth pointing out, gray here for the u.k. with the markets closed today. they'll have their beginning of may daybreak today. the dax, we saw stocks dip down toward the end of the session on friday. down 13 points. the cac is down .20 as well. the micex is just up .10%. a number of individual stocks worth looking at, credit suisse is currently down 2.5%. press reports that u.s. authorities are going to put pressure on the suisse bank to plead guilty in the ongoing tax dispute according to the newspaper. washington is asking for a guilty plea to claims that the bank helped tax money. bmps is down 6% today. finally shares in the bank are up a percent offering rights to a 500 mill

exited the vehicle, entered the delhi cat essence and shot and killed 23-year-old christopher ross michael-martinez. mr michael-martinez was a u.c.s. b student. foot patrol deputies heard the shooting and responded to vet the incident. as they arrived at the scene, they witnessed the suspect, who at that time was unknown, fleeing east bound in his suspect vehicle, a black bmw. the suspect conditioned towards location number four at the top of the loop, where he fired multiple round at two people on the side walk. now, the suspect drove his vehicle on the wrong side of the road and it was parallel to the sidewalk when he shot from the driver's wound. the suspect continued forward and he turned south bound on to elembarko dero, eastbound to delplyar to location number five, where he brandished a handgun at a female victim. the suspect fired additional rounds, turned his vehicle around and started to travel westbound on delplyar. a lone sheriff's deputy responding to the area on foot was then taken under fire by the suspect. the sheriff's deputy returned fire and the suspect drove off westbound on delplye

. >> this question's for you, mr. ross. with respect to getting at the marrow, how did you decide that you had something new to say that other biographers didn't? >> well, that is always the, you know, challenge of the biography , the biographer. i think that, also, the challenge of the historian is to -- this is not the last word on ricken backer, certainly. he's a very compelling character, as i think you've got an idea about. i hope that i actually am on the line that somebody else will pick up this book in 10 or 15 years and write another book on it. these are enduring characters who need to be continually re-examined. in answer to your question why did i, you know, i felt that i had a real ability to get, there was some really worked on, fine work done by an academic biographer who had really got into some new ground. but i felt that he really hadn't taken the next step which was, okay, what do we do with all this day by day, moment by moment? he was a wonderful, very, very fin nick key -- finicky, accurate, detailed l

. >>> andrew ross sorkin will sit down with mr.thner this monday morning on "squawk box", author of requests stress test" kehl a.m., eastern time. >>> and maher relievi -- mar reese levi, love on the rocks. let's take a listen. >> one of the principles was that there would be equality in the management team. this has not been the case in the proposal to cup. i was going back and forth to try to convince them we should have equality. >> -- it works for france. >> it works for france, doesn't work for corporations. i mean, this is just not the way companies work. i know he wanted the european commission of bullup, france -- if he was in charge, he should have had his picks. >> i remember when there were a day of mergers of equals, these days someone has to be in control and it led to a botched deal. >> gentlemen, have a good weekend. >>> coming up, fame joe bastianich is in the house part of a new primetime reality series that will air this summer. his take on the economy, plus advice on entrepreneurs who want to get into the restaur

mr. petro poroshenko. i'll be bringing you that interview tomorrow. for now, ross hand it back to you. >> thanks very much indeed for that, julia. plenty, of course, online as well regarding the ukraine. don't miss that on cnbc.com. >>> joining us for the rest of the program today, stephen king, chief global economist at hsbc. good to see you. >> good morning. >> how are you putting in events in eastern europe into the mix in terms of the impact? >> this morning we had a dip down, slightly weaker than expected for german manufacturing pmi. chris williamson from market who helps to compile that along with you guys. >> yes. >> i couldn't see anything where firms were talking about russia. he says i still think there must be some kind of impact. but hard to quantify it. >> it's one of the great unknowns where you have the political upheavals. it's tricky to work up precisely what the impact will be economically. we did work years ago at the time of 9/11, to find out what these kind of shocks meant for the economy. there's no real pattern. sometimes you have a shock th

ross, in london for now. i'll be doing a big panel with mr. putin in just a few hours time. >> i heard that.eard you were doing that. good stuff. unmissable. >> you heard? you heard? >> i heard that was happening. >> good. the marketing is working? >> yes, it is, it's permeating globally. good stuff, jeff. thank you for that. >>> we turn our attention to thailand. bangkok is under lockdown. the military has taken control of the country. troops are patrolling the streets an restrictions have been imposed on public gatherings. sri jegarajah is in thailand's capital and joins us for more. sri, just two days ago, you were saying how little sign there was of the military. what has changed and what happens now? >> well, what's clear is that the military seemed to be tightening their grip now and what we heard earlier on today was that they issued this list of more than 150 political leaders on either side of the political divide, including the ousted former prime minister li yingluck shinawatra. there have been an opening door for political leaders from all persuasions, including prime minister yi

ross, bbc news, abuja. >>> let me take you to delhi now. historic talks between the newly elected prime minister far wren da modi and mr. sharif. india and pakistan have been taking a nosedive, especially since the terror attack in mumbai in 2008 in which 166 people were killed. no details have been given about what the two men have been talking about. with me to talk about more of this is dr. rude rick chowdhury from kings college in london. there has got to be great symbolism in this. these are not exactly friendly nations, hostile nations. >> i think it's a hugely welcome initiative on the part of the new prime minister, not only because it's unprecedented. i think for two points. one is -- and i think as har as f far wren da modi is concern, this prime minister whose approach is personality driven. i believe he will not be placing his foreign policy imperatives on institutions, but rather will take control of what he thinks is one of the most important relations in the neighborhood. >> they didn't really go for that brand of personality politics as well. modi is saying i'm the man, i'm in charge. >> very much so. i think si

ross pero. but it was a letter only an american could have written. it said we just completed our corporate head quarters down here in dallas and our interior designer thinks mr. lenon would take a fine addition to the lobby. so anyway, there was that story in the book. so i could tell that story if i could get a word in edge wise. and they said no, we are dead and dictator, and it isn't really selling. and this, i don't know, maybe this knows to the whole pointlessness of attempting satire in america because you are in a loosing contest with tomorrow's front page. i was introduced once where i spoke in ohio at a civic occasion at is 11 a.m. in the morning where you are looking out at at sea of a thousand and 50 shades of blue hair with old women and husbands that have been dragged along. elmer, you are going to get some culture today. and the host introduces to me, the chairman of the election committee, introduced me as a satyrist and she kept repeating it and going back to it. he first became a satist and she kept going back to it. i see we need a title and i ran around and said let's call it bass holes. and the story behind that is as follows. i used to r

mr. poroshenko this morning and is rejoining us from kiev. steve? >> reporter: let's look at the time line here as well, ross.t for a second polling, a playoff between the two top candidates which would have been timeshenko and poroshenko. that would have been destabilizing for the country, but he does not get inaugurated until after the 8th of june. so although he wants to start the dialogue with his opposite number in the kremlin, mr. putin, that's not going to be possible until after the 10th of june at the earliest. and, of course, then we have to keep the timeline on track that he's talking about in the first half of june as well, but it is very interesting the interpretation. lavrov says do not carry on this operation with separatists, but he's saying not to carry this on with terrorists as well. a meeting of the minds is still to come. and the question is people believe more sanctions against the russians are warranted at this stage or whether the two parties can come to the table. the sanctions are a thorny issue for both sides, especially for europe. and i spoke to mr. poroshenko about needing more s

mr. castro. >> thank you to all my colleagues who worked on these three resolutions. with respect to the venezuela resolution, thank you congresswoman ross for your work. our job is as to stand up for democracy and human rights without regard to what kind of political leaders are perpetrating human rights abuses. too often we've not attended enough to issues in latin america. there are things that happen in latin america that if they had happened in another part of the world, we would jump on them more quickly. so i think this is quite frankly long overdue. and i do think that there is merit to the concern that mr. meeks raised that there is a process, in other words, this is a more aggressive step that usually we've done -- in other parts of the world, we would have done other things first. but now this has gone on for months so we must act swiftly at this point. and i want to say particularly with respect to latin america, first, we'll l rk, we realize e is unique and different. but we can't overlook the history of the region and the fact that in the '70s and '80s, you had leaders who disappeared thousands of people throughout latin am

ross sorkin along with joe kernen. david winter, wintergreen advisers has been part of the big spat over coca-cola with mr. buffett.0 minutes from now. in the headlines, here's what's going on. the futures ahead of the april jobs report. we get that number at 8:30 a.m. eastern. these numbers will probably change. things looking green. dow up three points. can't get too chiropracticed just yet. major averages all higher for the week. let's check some of the companies that reported quarterly profits. newell rubbermaid, 3 cents above estimates. sales declining in most of newell's segments cvs $1.02 a share. 2 cents below average. it was due to unforeseen weather related issues. did they take the cigarettes out? >> even if you practice safe driving and refrain from using your cell phone behind the wheel. the fcc is proposing a $48,000 fine for a florida man who used his cell phone jammer for nearly two years on his daily commute. that's according to the tampa tribune. he took it into his own hands. cell phone metro pcs was tipped off to the jammer when they noticed that transmission at a tower along an interstate suffe

mr. martinez, i am very sorry to have to cut you off here. >> yes. >> thank you for joining us. you, as the father of a 20-year-old shooting victim, visit fer rosseel for you. we are so sorry for your loss. i wish you the best in your efforts to salvage something good from something so very, very bad. thank you for your time. >>> coming up tomorrow, what could be a breakthrough in dentistry. lasers have been successfully used to regrow teeth in lab rats. how long before they are put to use on humans? we will talk to a lead author tomorrow. these are not his hairs these are not his hairs >> unreliable forensics >> unreliable forensics >> the problem the bureaus got >> the problem the bureaus got is they fail, it's a is they fail, it's a big, big deal... big, big deal... >> convicted of unspeakable >> convicted of unspeakable crimes crimes did flawed lab work take away did flawed lab work take away their freedom? their freedom? >> i was 18 when i went in... >> i was 18 when i went in... when i came out i was 50... when i came out i was 50... you don't get it back... you don't get it back... >> shocking truths revealed >> shocking truths revealed >