it comes from a story i heard on npr., i know, but i was driving a rental and the knob was torn off. ( laughter ) ( applause ) it was a report on the national longitudinal survey of youth, which tracked young people over 19 years to see how their lives had changed, and one of the researchers, stanford sociologist aliya saperstein, found something truly shocking. >> saperstein found that the racial classification of people in the survey seemed to change over time. >> what our research challenges is this idea that the race of an individual is fixed. 20% of the respondents experienced at least one change in how the interviewer perceived them by race over the course of different observations. >> stephen: yes, your race can change over time. much like in the winter, john boehner fades from pumpkin to butternut. ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) while this is amazing, it's extraordinary story. so what would cause someone's race to change i say you ask? well, if someone in the study went to jail, the interviewer was more like

paska of npr. and author of "alone in the trenches: my life as a gay man."t question goes to you. how common are those we heard from jonathan vilma we heard tonight? what environment do you think michael sam is going to be walking into? >> we're definitely living in different times. you know, back when i came out, back in, you know, 1991, it was definitely a digit story. in the last decade we've come a long way. we still have baby steps to go forward. i really do believe that michael will be accepted and will be welcomed into the nfl. all because of -- let's face it here. i mean, this is what we've been waiting for, right? this is what -- we wanted a superstar collegiate athlete or nfl star to come out. we got the superstar collegiate athlete coming out. let me tell you, i'm very excited and the way he did it and i'm very excited to see what the future has in store for him. >> yeah, i mean, mike, it strikes me as pretty amazing thing to do this on the eve of the draft. i mean, to basically be like, hey, guys, this is what it is. and, like, it's on you if you

. >> no, by the time - i worked at npr on the news when i was 19. i worked for the network news, on the afternoon news show "all things considered", when i was 19 and 20 and 21 and going to sledge studying semiotics, which is a pretentious body of french theory but is useful in my daily job, because it's about how narrative works, how to structure a story so it will be compelling and get its oaks into you. semiotics is interested in the questions like what keeps you watching. what keeps you listening to a story on the radio. what is - what keeps you turning the pages in a book. what is the pleasure of it that is moving you forward, that is pulling you in and pulling you forward. you know the feeling at the end of a great story. if a story is working, you know, a great episode of tv, movie, book, like the feeling you get. it's about what is producing that, what is the machinery that produces that. when it doesn't happen, what fails. studying that gave me tools that i used every day this my job. job. >> there's a skill in broadcasting that has to be d

. >> [inaudible conversations] the political commentator for npr and abc news recounts the lives of numerous american revolutionary women from martha washington to dolly madison. this is about an hour. [applause] so is this cool or what you get out of school and come here to this bookstore which has been on saturday night live, and the president came to this bookstore so this is a very special place and it's very special for me to get here so i am very pleased. but i am also pleased to be able to talk to you about this because when i was a kid growing up even well into my time as an adult i would look at all of these stories from history and all these pictures and paintings and all that statute i started to think maybe there were not any then. do you think there are any around the time of the declaration of independence or the constitution and all that, do you think they were actual women? probably. i did start to think about it and thought adam and e., they were winning then although my favorite bumpers wicker is she was framed. [laughter] so of course living here and growing up here i did

with reporters alistair barr of usa today and npr's laura seidel, this week on "press here." >> good morning, everyone, i'm scott mcgrew, if you look at what's been going on in tech lately, you may be under the impression it's mostly privileged people making apps for other privileged people's problems. but there are a few entrepreneurs, inventor who are trying to save lives. and one of the most ambitious is the pursuit of a safer gun. a prize, of sorts, $1 million to anyone who can invent a way to reduce gun deaths using technology. >> injured person in number 9. >> reporter: an idea borne of the sandy hook tragedy and backed by some of tech's most rich and powerful. dr. pitco leads the effort to create a safer gun, the head of smart tech challenge foundation which put up money for the prize. if anyone can do it perhaps he can. he is a former researcher at xerox park, has a ph.d. in computer science from georgia tech, joined by laura seidel of national public radio and alistair barr of usa today. brings up to date. this is not a brand new effort, how far have you gotten? have you bee

detainees have been transferred out of the camp to come they can to countries like sudan and saudi over npr meanwhile during last tuesday's it stated the union address president obama reiterated his commitment to close the camp from the solids and clear the southern command will see any of that money at all either way the chances are that we won't move. the brand of justice is asking defense lawyers across the country to help them track down inmates course open for nonviolent drug charges and who might have been prosecuted to firstly an unexpected move on thursday deputy attorney general james cole asked lawyers to help these men and women apply for the sea nonviolent drug offenders one in prisons across the country and are a major contributing factor to overpopulation. the justice department also pointed to the wind is starting to embrace as when it comes to convictions why america is far more likely to abuse cocaine. the black community was more likely to use. which brings on more harsh minimum sentencing can see is what next. disparity between crack and cocaine sentencing is one hundred

. >> cokie roberts political commentator for npr and abc news recounts the lives of numerous american revolutionary women from martha washington and mercy otis warren to dolley madison. this is about one hour. >> thank you very much. so is this cool or what? you get to get out of school and come here to this bookstore which has been on "saturday night live," this bookstore has, and in doonesbury cartoons, and the president came to this bookstore. so this is a v

. >> cokie roberts political commentator for npr and abc news recounts the lives of numerous american revolutionary women from martha washington and mercy otis warren to dolley madison. this is about one hour. >> thank you very much. so is this cool or what? you get to get out of school and come here to this bookstore which has been on "saturday night live," this bookstore has, and in doonesbury cartoons, and the president came to this bookstore. so this is a very special place to get to come and a very special for me to be here, too. so i'm very pleased. but i'm also a special place to be able to talk to you about these great women, because when i was a kid growing up, and even well into my time as an adult, i would look at all these stories from history and all these pictures and paintings and all the statues, and there were no women. and i start to think maybe there weren't any women there. there. what do you think? [laughter] do you think of any women around the time of the aggression mac and the constitution and all that? you do? you think there were actual women? probably. i did

syria was mentioned and npr reports on the ongoing talks between the syrian government and opposition leaders, which has stalled. saysrab league mediator the syrian government refuses to deal with any other points of contention until the issue of combating terrorism has been settled. used to describe the rebellion. fighting in syria has killed 130,000 people. the talks were aimed to avoid a solution that to work to a and try to bring an end to the fighting. according to npr the only thing to come out of this most recent meeting was an agenda for another round of talks. the date has not been set. records,sue of phone the associated press reports that edward snowden got some of his classified information from tricking a coworker so he could get an encrypted password. that employee has not been named but has reportedly said he did password,st noted his which enabled access to a number of classified data banks. the employee is a civilian employee. he resigned after the agency learned about his involvement. edward snowden denies stealing any passwords. members of the nsa testified before a

joining us now from phoenix, arizona, former npr arts editor bill wyman.ll this merger do for their customers, will they end up paying more? >> probably undoubtedly. but they are not in direct competition anywhere. it's not going to be worse for customers per se, it's going to continue to be paid, if i can make that distinction. >> if the deal goes through, having been a customer of both i know where you're coming from, they will own ms nbc, a ton of local news stations including new york 1, the entire nbc network and all their owned and operated stations around the country. and former sec chairman reedstein would say tilt the negotiating table in media and industries. that is a pretty broad statement. he is basically saying that comcast is going to be able to block competition. >> it's entirely possible and may not pass federal regulation. you have to admit this is a testament to the roberts family's vision of growing the company in a lot of ways, they didn't figure out ten years ago. to be devil's advocate here, they're worried about netscape and the pre

joining us is global post's europe editor, a former npr bureau chief in mow -- moscow.n friday there was a deal made, then on saturday all of a sudden he is deposed on sunday nobody knows where he is, on on monday he is facing charges, wanted for mass murder. how did this happen so quickly? >> he lost control of the situation. what happened is -- whether it was yanukovych who ordered the use of force, the riot police were essentially shooting civilians, some of them armed but most of them unarmed, and this created so much outrage that it essentially was the end of yanukovych. >> where do you think he is, and does he have anywhere to run? >> i think he could go to russia. i suspect that he is in the russian-leased port, the home of the black sea fleet. he disappeared in a town on the black sea that is very close. i suspect he has been risked away by russian special forces of some kind. >> now that the opposition is in charge and elections have been set for may, will they be able to work together because with saw that the opposition was pretty divided, in fact some of the

very much like a souped-up npr, bbc radio. they are very well-resourced still. lot of serious public affairs programming. which i very much enjoyed. >> over the 25 years that you have been our producer in london, you have provided us with all kinds of opportunities to interview people in london. i look up on the screen a couple of months ago and saw this interview, did not remember doing it, cannot believe we had these two people in our studio at a time when they were not even involved in the leadership of the country. we will show you the clip and you can comment on it. >> why did john major win and george bush lose? >> you have got to be careful, obviously. and you got to be careful with things than might be glib and not really stand up, and i think in the end john major benefited from the fact he took over from margaret thatcher and people thought there was a change in government before the british election. >> what tony is saying is john major wasn't and tony was. people knew over the years from which he was vice president to ronald reagan, and there is a ti

a doctor told npr, i think there is no way to know what the safe levels of the chemicals are at thisealed that freedom industries, the orwellian sounding company behind the leak, failed to disclose a second chemical that spilled on january 9th. a chemical called pph, which is also used in the coal cleaning process. the company has revealed the leak contained 10,000 gallons. it is the second time freedom industries has revised its estimate up. it doesn't end there. just yesterday, this tape was released where you can hear freedom industries reporting the incident and then denying that the spill was toxic at the same moment that toxic chemicals were releasing into the water supply. >> are they toxic? >> no. >> no? >> no. >> joining me now is the great erin brockovich. you've been to west virginia. if you can tell us about what you've seen down there, the national media attention on this has been dramatically thin and the suffering has been quite great. what are you seen? >> a lot of frustration from every person we have talked to. we're in and out of restaurants. they're still using bo

they take you into a culture where people cite studies they heard on npr and relationships are not just finances. >> okay, so claire, it looks like you have about $18,000 in savings plus your homeowner which is great. doug, you have about $10,000 in debt and it looks like $600 in unpaid parking tickets? >> portland ya has become one of those that influences reality. see how the city itself is marketing itself to tourists. >> bikes, bangs, tattoos. the musical director for the new late night with seth myers it's awesome to have you here. >> what i love about portlandia. it has the comedic structure of a great onion piece. set up in the headlines and then hit hit hit hit hit throughout the article and it keeps being funny. how do you keep that going? >> that's kind of a trick in a way, we don't shoot that way, it's the editors who really take everything we have. and make it funny. the way they judge it is, we're not in the editing room at all. they judge it on what they laugh at. >> are you improvising or scripted? >> it's both. we have a list of things that are supposed to happen, and th

these stories and others have been coming to us from the npr and the associated press, from the network news cast and small papers around the country, not to mention those we brought to you directly. and senator reid suggesting all of these folks are lying to you. they're liars. earlier i spoke with republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. sir, good to see you tonight. this is rather extraordinary for him to come out and level that story, legions of stories just like the ones we just outlined. your thoughts on that. >> yeah, i was actually on the floor when he said that. he basically called my constituent, angela from owensboro, he basically called her a liar, what knononsense. these people across america, who are losing their insurance, whose jobs are being lost, are not making this up. and no amount of harry reid calling everybody a liar changes the facts. why in the world would people call us with these stories if they're not true? >> is there some greater level of decorum expected of the senate majority leader? this is the most powerful man in the u.s. senate. and he is ba

mike paska from the npr and daily pod cast on "slate" covering the olympics and former nfl player esera tuaolo. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> thank you at home for joining us this hour. when you take amtrak on the northeast corridor, heading north, the way you know you have reached new jersey is when you see this sign. trenton makes, the world takes. it used to say the world takes, trenton makes. this version is fairly better. it's an old chamber of commerce slogan designed to market trenton, new jersey, as a manufacturing hub with international aspirations. but now when you see that sign, it mostly just means that you have successfully crossed the delaware river from pennsylvania, to trenton, new jersey's state capital. the historic state capitol building in trenton is a hop, skip and a jump from that trenton makes bridge. it's also right there on the banks of the delaware river bordering pennsylvania. new jersey's state capitol is on the delaware river. not on the hudson river. it's on the other side of the state from new york city. and so you have to think about your optio

npr's global health and development correspondent. and i'd also like to recognize many wilson supporters in the audience, but particularly the ambassador from the philippines who is, where is he? there he is. sitting in the second row. jose kuicea. i mentioned earl, and i think that's it. dr. shah will now speak, and right after his remarks the panel begins. so welcome all of you and, again, happy valentine's day. [applause] >> thank you, jane, and thank you for your leadership here at the wilson center and certainly in congress. the topic of today's conversation which jane was describing as we walked in is really about defining america's role in the world, and you've been typing that for quite some time -- doing that for quite some time very effectively. earl blumenauer, thank you for being here, and i also want to thank jason and rosmger mark, the ambassador and so many friends and colleagues. if you're walking through our offices which are right next door and in the building, i think most of our folks are tele-working or got stuck

. >> pelley: julie rovner, npr. thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: it's been a rough couple of weeks for some overseas financial markets. that was true again overnight in europe and asia where stocks finished lower. the volatility of late has brought fresh concerns about what's happening in the global economy and the connections with the u.s. jeffrey brown explores what's behind the jitters and its ripple effects. >> brown: much of the concern surrounds emerging markets in countries that are now nicknamed the fragile five: turkey, india, brazil, south africa and indonesia. for its part, the dow jones industrial average is nearing a so-called correction, a drop of 10%. we look at what's happening with: eswar prasad is an economics professor at cornell university, a senior fellow at the brookings institution, and author of the new book, "the dollar trap: how the u.s. dollar tightened its grip on global finance." and andliz ann sonders, chief investment strategist for charles schwab & company. for the record, charle

joining us is former npr arts editor bill why ma wyman, good e you with us. >> neither are known foron. what will this do for their customers will they pay more? >> probably undoubtedly. but they are direct any competition anywhere, so it won't are worse for customers per se, however it will continue to be bad. if i can make that distinct. >> but if the deal goes through, and having been a customer of both, i know where you are coming from, they will own msnbc. a ton of local news stations including new york 1, the entire nba network and all of their owned and operated stations around the country. and former sec chairman reid hunt said only comcast could have paid this price and the combined company, if approved, would tilt the balance of the power at every negotiating table in media and content and broad band and equipment industries. that is a pretty broad state. he's basically saying comcast can block competition. >> it's entire possible and may not pass regulation, this is a testament to the robers' family vision in growing in company in ways that a lot of us could never imagine

. >> from npr, one of the biggest glitches that i see popping up these days are people who are sort of incorrectly being sort of adjudicated into medicaid, and then being -- who clearly don't qualify for medicaid, then they can't seem to get out and buy an exchange plan until they get a denial from medicaid and i guess medicaid in many states is just so backed up that it can take weeks and weeks and weeks to get that denial from medicaid, and in the meantime they can't go ahead and buy an exchange plan. is that something that you have ways of dealing with? i don't know if this is happening in any of our states, or if you know of this problem, but i'm getting now, tens, if not dozens of letters of this same thing happening in multiple states, where people are wrongly being told, you qualify for medicaid when they clearly don't. >> there are actually two components to this question that are interesting one is that there are people who may qualify for medicaid who don't want to enroll in medicaid and would rather buy a private plan. or their kids are getting put into medicaid, and there's

he worked there as npr and other news organizations and is working with people along the way and eventually covered in the new book, russians, the people behind the power. welcome. >> thank you. >> brown: the starting point is that even while the world's spotlight is in russia during the olympics, we americans really don't know it or understand it. is that your feeling. >> absolutely. the idea behind the book was to try to get behind after two decades after soviets slaps do americans find russian behavior mystifying in some way. we tend to explain what we don't know about russia by saying that perhaps russians have a mystical russian soul that we've heard about and it's different so we can't understand it. i don't believe that's true. my approach has been to look at russian's daily behavior, the family life, work patterns. in my many travels across russia, it seems to me that russian behavior is understandable and there are patterns behind it. >> brown: so let's look at that through the guise of the olympics, right, because we're seeing the olympics from the opening ceremonies to the whole

. >> from npr, one of the biggest glitches that i see popping up these days are people who are sort of incorrectly being sort of adjudicated into medicaid, and then being -- who clearly don't qualify for medicaid, then they can't seem to get out and buy an exchange plan until they get a denial from medicaid and i guess medicaid in many states is just so backed up that it can take weeks and weeks and weeks to get that denial from medicaid, and in the meantime they can't go ahead and buy an exchange plan. is that something that you have ways of dealing with? i don't know if this is happening in any of our states, or if you know of this problem, but i'm getting now, tens, if not dozens of letters of this same thing happening in multiple states, where people are wrongly being told, you qualify for medicaid when they clearly don't. >> there are actually two components to this question that are interesting one is that there are people who may qualify for medicaid who don't want to enroll in medicaid and would rather buy a private plan. or their kids are getting put into medicaid, and there's

champion, a former nfl offensive tackle, now part of the new york giants broadcast team and mike pesca for nprax exempt part. i somehow missed this and today was digging through different parts of the tax code which are inserted and carved out specifically to keep the nfl a tax exempt organization. >> yeah, i actually don't think it's that huge a deal. i think roger goodell will make $29 million or however much they value him. he increases the worth of the franchise. the individual teams aren't tax exempt. this organization called the nfl. the real thing to look into is if the stadiums are tax exempt, if they get tax breaks for building a stadium, that's a horrible thing. >> which happens all over the place. we should -- >> that is correct. >> we should note. >> it's not a hypothetical. >> the moment today with vernon davis was pretty incredible. i mean, you don't get to see that very often. it did occur to me, yeah, why isn't it the case there's just health care for life given the fact the league is making as much money as it is? >> ironically, i was on some of the early stages of the board t

i think and hope that has changed quite a bit, especially in the bbc, and npr. islam remains a big challenge for us because it remains, to a certain extent, in much of the media, foreign. people do try to fit it into categories, discourse that does not fit it. it was interesting after 9/11 to see western governments, such as the british government, and , the london bombings, the british government went out looking for the moderate voices of islam. they try to co-opt certain groups. that did not go down very well in many muslim communities. and they looked at sufis. they said they are great. and then they thought, they actually have a very traditional view of the koran and women's rights. interesting process: on that continues. process goinging on that continues. i would like to see fuller coverage that gives all angles of the story. certainly, islam became the news because of negative news events. it is much harder to get into initiatives happening within islam and between religions that are positive developments. such as the common word initiative that is happe

with reporters alistair barr of usa today and npr's laura seidel, this week on "press here." >> goodu look at what's been going on in tech lately, you may be under the impression it's mostly privileged people making apps for other privileged people's problems. but there are a few entrepreneurs, inventor who are trying to

i think and hope that has changed quite a bit, especially in the bbc, and the npr. islam remains a big challenge for us because it remains, to a certain extent, in much of the media foreign. people do try to fit it into categories, discourse that does not fit it. 9/11 tonteresting after see western governments, such as outbritish government go looking for the moderate voices of islam. they try to co-opt certain groups. that did not go down very well in many muslim communities. s.d they looked at sufi they said they are great. and then they thought, they actually have a very traditional view of the koran and women's writes. see fullere to coverage that gives all angles of the islam became the news because of negative news events and it is much harder to get into initiatives that are happening within islam and between religions that are positive developments, such as the common word initiative that is happening. foundationanother encouraging engagement as well is to look at the role of religion in foreign policy. when people look at ideologies and different economic c

possibility we seem to have that adults to him read his stuff done in co that are at in the ukrainian at npr you with the stillness of the title role a little. i couldn't hear you don't worship with delight at our family and we went. there will be with me when discussing the question when did the you one last issue the netting in the situation told him that it is not for the ukrainian parliament the store to get out my question was do you believe that a sufficient number of defections from victor yanukovich and green party are possible and twenty one now recovered sufficiently to allow the sort of constitutional changes that you're hoping for. oh appropriately or so of what is happening right now all we knew that people are driving people to park the region including that of you who participate in it and the cheerleader create meaningful threat though for not going to watch of. did i have pulled that one man show operation would control all over money laundering and other isn't. the total picture we bring it up to look too many of them have another blog or control click the pic portion of th

i have the opportunity to do an npr interview and i knew, my great staff helped me.f you use readiness it's not going to communicate so i talked about having your teenager drive to ohio in a snowstorm. you want to make sure they can drive. you want to make sure they can drive in snow. you want to make sure their car works and it's been service and if it breaks down they have a spare tire. that is what readiness is for all of our ships and airplanes and tanks and so forth. it's a little longer than the word but i think those kinds of points that you are making are so important. we go into the pentagon and i get it so trying out our story on these outside groups is a triptych ideas so thank you. >> to your point and questions i was thinking about her a conversation this morning and yesterday and i was literally, i'm so frustrated with the pentagon's inability to get to congress. it's kind of the first question in the audience and it's not just people focused on the hardware but it's about the national guard and retiring fleets of aircraft and ships and other priorities

this was published by npr, using data given to them. >> you like roasted garlic?ted garlic and pepperoni. >> i like the analytical pizza .- the tangent >> now you are talking to me. >> i like a crispy tangent on my pizza. we all like eating pizza but overall everyday 13% of the population in the u.s. will eat pizza, about a $10 billion increase. bloomberg's olivia sterns is here with what some people call the pizza cartel. >> they're calling it the pizza cartel, the dominoes him a pizza hut, papa john's, they are growing their market share and they now have the majority of the market share in the pizza industry and they are growing it at the expense of their smaller rivals. the big trend you are seeing in the food industry is the big push into local and natural agreements. -- the phrase farm to table. people went independent coffee shop and grocers but they don't --t independent >> independent stores here in new york when it comes to pizza. manhattan, 60 bucks, it's got to be $80 in tribeca. look of the marketshare numbers. a few years ago, the big guys did not ha

i had the opportunity to do an npr interview. yourked about having teenager drive to ohio in a snowstorm. you want to make sure they can drive. you want to make sure they can drive in snow and that their car works and it has been serviced. that is what readiness is for all of our ships and airplanes. it worked. word,le longer than the but those kinds of points you are making, so important. we forget it and we go into pentagon speak. trying out our story on these particular parts with outside groups is a terrific idea. more questions, i was thinking about our conversation this morning and yesterday. i was literally, i am so frustrated with the pentagon's inability [inaudible] people focus on the hardware, but it is about the national guard, retiring fleets of aircraft's and other priorities. i was thinking in terms of, what would that be like? son, what if ild taken to the hairdresser and i say, you need to cut an inch off his hair, but you cannot take any of the back the front or the sides. i sympathize and i understand the messa

. >> cokie roberts, political commentator for npr and abc news recounts the lives of numerous american revolution era women, from our the washington and mercy otis warren to dolley madison. this is about one hour. >> thank you very much. so, is this cool or what could she get to get out of school and come here to this bookstore, which has been on "saturday night live," this bookstore has, and in doonesbury cartoons, and the president came to this bookstore. so this is a very special place, very special for me to be here, too. so i'm very pleased. but i'm also especially pleased to be able to talk to you about these great women, because when i was a kid growing up, and even well into my time as an adult, i would look at all

npr's correspondent. i would like to recognize many supporters in the audience. but particularly the ambassador philippines who is -- there he is, sitting in the row, jose cuisia. earl and i think that's it. shaw will now speak and right after his remarks, the panel begins. of you, and, again, happy valentine's day. [ applause ] >> thank you, jane. thank you for your leadership and in the wilson center certainly in congress. the conversation was about in the america's role world and you've been doing that or quite some time very effectively. earl blumenhaur, thank you for being here. roger to thank jason and mark and the ambassador and so many friends and colleagues. glad folks are here. if you're walking through our offices which are right next building, most of our folks are teleworking or got stuck in the snow. people is great to see out today. that the discussion should be about what america in the world and what it stands for. always be what our mail tear is doing. it's got to be more in a manner that aptures concernly our diplomatic and development efforts

our moderator is jason beaubien, wonderful name, npr's global health and development correspondent. want to recognize many wilson supporters in the audience but particularly the ambassador from the philippines. there he is sitting in the second row. i have mentioned earl and i think that is it. dr. shah will now speak and right after his remarks, the panel will begin. welcome all of you. [applause] >> thank you, jane. thank you for your leadership here at the wilson center. the topic of today's conversation was really about defining america's role in the world. you have been doing that for quite some time very effectively. earl, it is great to be here with you. thank you for being here. i want to thank jason and roger-mark. the ambassador and friends and colleagues. i am glad folks are here. if you are walking through our offices which are right next door and in the building, i think most of our folks are teleworking or got stuck in the snow. the answer to that question cannot only and just always be what our military is doing. it has got to be more comprehensive in a manner that ca