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in the heyday of the new yorker, in the postwar new yorker especially, the idea was to give respite, a moment of calm on the honking blaring tawdry passing parade. so they would be images of cebt scenes or of the city -- connecticut scenes or the city drawing. that was the-cartoon drawing. i seemed to her like a likely terrorist so -- but you know, it was -- i was a likely person to bring into that mix. i didn't know what it meant but she had no special i thought reverenrce. i was more likely to read underground newspapers or comic books or other things than the basis. i was enlisted at the end of '92 and my wife francois was brought in later. when francois and i got back from ground zero -- >> you lived near ground zero? >> about ten blocks from ground zero. we saw the plane going into the building. went running downtown, managed to extricate our daughter and started walking up the west sidesidehe esplanade as the other tower fell. as soon as we were back in any kind of phone contact there is a message for francois saying, get up here we're putting out a special issue. i didn't know

has his relationship with "the new yorker" and it? side curr said if he took three-quarters of the editors and the world and threw them off or bridge we would all be better off so he never got along with editors. it's been an adjusting them fraternal force. whether that relationship has now ruptured i don't know. >> were there any other questions? >> thank you all for being here. if you want to bring your book up front i will get it signed for you. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> women's history for beginners is the booktv book club selection for the month of february. go to booktv.org and you'll you will see right up there at the top that tavis is says bookclub and you can participate in our discussion of booktv.org. we will be posting video and reviews and articles up there tomorrow so the discussion will begin tomorrow and we will be posting on a regular basis discussion questions. i hope you will be able to participate. bonnie morrison's women's history for beginners in our february 201

undocumented immigrants is summed up his feelings by saying to all my fellow new yorkers were undocumented. i say new york city is your home too and we will not force any of our resins to live their lives in the shadows. yep that sounds nice but the reason these illegal immigrants live their lives the shadows is because they immigrated in an eagerly why should new yorkers bend over backwards for illegal criminal immigrants. this is the same logic that if i catch a guy breaking into my house as a gracious host. i should offer him a pizza because it is home to. this is just a slap in the face the rule of law but also to the immigrants who do go for the bureaucracy and headaches to become us citizens the right way the legal way supplies you if you're going to provide these illegal immigrants was some sort of document it should be appointed to pack all with instructions on how to apply for green card legit proper away just like everyone else passed. just lacking. i am the books soon. having it's a bit. in many of these seats

new yorkers do complain. but new yorkers are very generous spirit.ew yorkers appreciate when something special is taking place. >> another problem, mother nature. >> there actually had to be a rule change in terms of us even being able to bid on getting the super bowl. there was a rule it had to be -- if it's an open, exposed stadium, the super bowl has to be in a sitting where the average mean temperature the day of the game is above 50 degrees. that clearly is not the case in february in the new york-new jersey area. >> so they changed that temperature rule? >> so the temperature rule for this particular game, that rule went away. >> the stadium has a team of 1,000 at the ready to clear snow from the stands using a network of chutes. dave dirnberger is the vice president of facilities at metlife stadium and he said we're ready for the snow. >> we put a snow melter on the 300 concourse and one on the field. then they have a 600-pound snow melter we can use out on the parking lot. they have a jet engine inside and the heat that's produced from these

new yorkers are very generous.y appreciate when something special is taking place. >> another problem -- mother nature. >> there had to be a rule change in terms of us being able to bid on getting the super bowl. it had to be an open expose stadium. the average mean temperature the day of the game is above 50 degrees. that is clearly not the case in february and the new york and new jersey area. >> they change that rule for this game. >> it went away. >> they use -- he says they are ready for the snow. >> we have one down here on the field. we have a snowmelter we can use. they have a jet engine inside. the heat that is produced from the jet engines is what melts the snow. >> it is a big operation. >> no matter what the weather, it will be a great game. >> some of the greatest games in the history of the nfl have been played in severe weather. it may snow, rain, but it could also be 45 degrees and gorgeous. super bowl xlviii at metlife stadium will be exciting. we want to make sure that the region knows that the su

so what is your take on what the president said first in the new yorker, and then to our jake tapperut marijuana in this country as we watch states like colorado legalizing it for recreational use? >> well sh, i agree with the president wholeheartedly and i have been critical to the p president with regard to the justice issues, and the incarceration issues, and so this is a turn for me. the president is accurate by pointing to the medical evidence, that marijuana is no more of a problem than alcohol. and one thing we have prohibition against and one we make money off of, and that is a prob lem. and also that we don't overstate the dangers of marijuana, but assess the criminal penalties to something that if it is abused it is a medical problem and not legal problem. and we have jails filled with people who have a medical problem. >> and also, ben, you have federal law that is marijuana classified as schedule i drug ecstasy and that is running parallel. >> and he is to be support iing the law of the land and not make a mockery of the job that the law enforcements are doing -- >> you t

it is about the ability for visitors to come and spend money so we can hire more new yorkers. look in new york, thousands of people are making a living in some aspect of travel and tourism. we want to bring in the international travelers. that is extremely important. they stay longer and spend more money here. >> he is hoping locals will return as well. since 1970, the regency has been home to the power breakfasts. business leaders and politicians convene every morning over coffee to get their day started. >> you look at the history of the power breakfast. it was started by my father. >> your father and your uncle. >> right. these were the times new york city were in very dark financial shape. the leaders of the city at the time came together to talk about how to save new york city. >> and they did it right here? >> everyday they would say, where should we meet? my father said, it is a bit selfish on my part because i only had to take an elevator, but let's meet at the regency. [laughter] and then the term power breakfast started. we will re-established the regency at the home

a decade with "the new yorker." easy to get access to his new yorker stories. so i didn't need a -- no i would need the new york public library. from 1972 to 1979, his editor was abe rosenthal, a towering figure in american journalism. when he died a couple years ago, his wife gave his papers and all of his memoirs and letters and many of the documents he compiled, his editor gave them to the new york public library. so they're boys. i need is an archive of the new york public library crisis trade and i spent a lot of time and they were wonderfully, gc madness inside things i found out about the relationship to "the new york times" right across the street at "the new york times." -- i'm sorry, at the new york public library. so it's a wonderful library. a scoop races sitting at the archive on display and the archivists were always efficient and wonderful and i appreciate the efforts of "the new york times" doing that and actually hope to get back to the archives. lastly, let me think dana sedona for introducing me. a student of mine a bunch of years ago at the

the new yorker's adam gothnick. from dining at midnight to seest ta's at midday, why spain may want to turn back the clock about 70 years. i'll explain. but first, here's my take. 2013 seemed in many ways to be the year of vladimir putin. the russian president had consolidated power in his country, crushed any possible opposition, kept his ally in syria from being toppled and brokered a deal to remove syria's chemical weapons. 2014 was also going pretty well for putin. the sochi olympics was not the disaster many had suggested and above all, putin had maintained russia's historic relationship with ukraine. outmaneuvering the european union which made ukraine a conditional offer that ukraine's president turned down in return for cold russian cash. that's what it had looked like until just a few days ago. but now, on the central issue of ukraine, russia does not look so triumphant. ukraine's president yanukovych, now its former president, overplayed his hand. putin assumed force would solve the problem and disperse th

and just weeks into his administration, some research new yorker said the mayor had it so out for themplowing their streets. >> new york city's brand new mayor has been accused of unfair treatment after thats massive storm got nearly a foot of snow on manhattan. people on the upper east side saying the plowsen did the come fast enough. other areas seem to have been cleared fairly quickly. er that blaming the newly elected mayor for this. >> i assumed we were being targeted nobody cared about this part of town. >> the new mayor took the criticism in stride and said, more could have been done to serve the upper east side. joining me now is none other than new york city's mayor bill de blasio. you have to compound the lightning rod. i want to play the sign of a guy across the river, who has something to say about you and your brand of governance. >> that new york city was in a state of abject crisis where they felt like they needed somebody to take over. new york city is out back to its traditional routes which is as a home of liberal politics. and bill de blass yo represents that. you wa

he worked for the seven years for "the new york times" with a new yorker, easy to get access to and when he worked for "the new york times" for 1972 to 1979 he said there was a man named abe rosenthal was an american figure in american journalism and they died a couple of years ago his wife gave his papers and office memos and letters and many of the documents that he had compiled and gave them to the new york public library and so there is of the new york public library right off the street and they were wonderfully juicy memos and wonderful kinds of insights of things i found out about his relationship to "the new york times" is a right across the street at the new york public library. so it's a wonderful library and we were sitting up there with the archives and we were on this way and they are pavers were efficient and wonderful and i appreciate the efforts of "the new york times" and we actually hope to get back to that archive. lastly dana was a student of mine a bunch of years ago at the college of new law. and she was interested student and a grade a student. and i appreciated ho

you have to consider that new yorker's kind of have -- new yorkers kind of have a superiority complexmichael jordan, they have patrick ewe wing. >> you have folks like supreme court justice scalia and jon stewart, you have to love this kind of attention. >> you know, we were saying earlier, there's no such thing as bad attention but you have to take a step back and you look at some like supreme court justice scalia coming out and saying something like this, i think it's really just him maybe undermining barack obama. president obama's from chicago. this is kind of like a passive sure. ive way -- for >> how did you go from being someone who when you were ing pizza, you also caddied i think more mike ditka, i read, some interesting stuff. delivered pizzas to john hughs. how did you go from that to doing this? >> well, -- >> your own pizza place. >> i love pizza and when i got to school, i went to school here in new york and when i got here they didn't have deep dish pizza which i thought was crazy. you whack around new york, you can eat foods from all these countries that i've never eve

back from break, we're going to switch gears because you also wrote an interesting piece in "the new yorker the port authority and governor chris christie. the latest is that of new jersey. many more subpoenas have been issued as the governor is on the run around the country. let's put it that way. republican of the governors association trying to raise money for the republican party. many is being raised, but not a lot of candidates are interested in having her picture taken with governor christie. quite a change from just a few months ago. our guest is elizabeth kolbert. her new book that was just published today is called, "the sixth extinction: an unnatural history." stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> we are speaking with elizabeth kolbert, as staff ,"iter with "the new yorker where she recently wrote about new jersey governor chris christie. the scandal continued to unfold monday as a panel investigating the scandal issued 18 more subpoenas from including one for the head of the state'

identification cards to undocumented immigrants he summed up his feelings by saying to all my fellow new yorkers who are undocumented i say new york city is your home too and we will not force any of our residents to live their lives in the shadows yeah that sounds nice but the reason these illegal immigrants live their lives in the shadows is because they immigrated illegally why should new yorkers bend over backwards for illegal criminal immigrants this is the same logic that if i catch a guy breaking into my house as a gracious host i should offer him a pizza because it's his home too this is not just a slap in the face to rule of law but also to the immigrants who do go through the bureaucracy and headaches to become u.s. citizens the right way the legal way so the blasio if you're going to provide these illegal immigrants with some sort of document it should be a plane ticket back home with instructions on how to apply for a green card the legit proper way just. everyone else asked the fascist my opinion . the g. twenty and fourteen promises we alternate in the exhilarating winter and on th