npr says that ran the program is part of an intent to further pressure the assad regime and its allies to reach a political settlement. but some skeptics say they don't believe the usf are one how much given the status of the opposition has no week and a bit fragmented by al qaeda fighters. and now to the very latest in eastern ukraine fifty miles north of donetsk the town of sundance is under the control of arms co brush and gunmen who say they want a referendum on the region's status this morning. ukrainian government forces stormed three roadblocks and intends to dismantle those groups journalist graham phillips has more. ninety minutes toss out a covert recently stated what he refers to the counter operation is convinced that the awful realizing that today the frontier with cookies check for this fortification of the isolated to the success of the items which is being hit on some two weeks of a weasel this morning with the critical be approached in this direction the north and visit with some fifty km away which is the stronghold of the credited with operations this is my end of it

lucky to have steve who is here with us tonight as one of the current host of the morning edition of npr with his co-host rainier took over morning edition in 2004 and has been there ever since. he was the chair's rotation correspondent and host of weekend all things considered. since joining the morning edition he has hosted the program new orleans, orleans, detroit, cairo and toronto establishing himself as a thoughtful commentator on a wide variety of issues investigated iraqi police and the author of the instant city which is published in 2011 by penguin press also britain for many publications including "the new york times", the "washington post" and "wall street journal." steve's work has also garnered praise. 2006 he received the kennedy journalism award over the oil complex in nigeria. ladies and gentleman please to agree to welcome bob and steve for our event tonight. [applause] >> eight you very much and for the invitation that to say because fill a room just by what this man is thinking somebody sent me an e-mail that he has a book would you like to talk? and congratulations o

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that's right get your message is very clear that there is this entity should be different if npr in the middle of negotiations and fifteen they think it's important to get the right to take it as opposed to the decision with an open ended peace actions and interesting a race there yes i do think it was the stench of a discretion to take and he neared the sources say that. did he teach people how to build a dam that the charges. they were sticking points since the kids played and was first taking place at the seventy five percent to seventy percent of two weddings will not be me she liked it but people with aids. the charges didn't have to be hunted down a week in making the point that they would be in a theft charge. on tuesday. they also have concerns. so it appears to be severe. i don't do so their brave robust exchanges that does that mean the cabinet the goal of the week when i'm on the coming elections. see that the operation to have admission that some take it up a tent with foil to the way to the short hair then again in a book in the tea partiers. or to treat acute i was pretty

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fight to legalize marijuana with a resounding yes retired supreme court justice john paul stevens tells npr the federal government should legalize marijuana comparing it to alcohol. >> i really think that that's another instance of public opinion has changed, and recognize that the distinction between marijuana and alcoholic beverages is really not much of a distinction. >> and as peter alexander mentioned a moment ago, president obama talked about the stalled peace talks between israel and palestine this morning. hamas is considered to be a terrorist group. during an interview with andrea mitchell, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says it kills peace. >> they had a choice, peace with israel or pact with hamas and he made a pact with hamas. i hope he changes his mind. >> the decision to call off the peace talks puts an end to a nine month initiative for discussions between israel and the palestinians by secretary of state john kerry. >>> nbc's bill karins is here with the weekend forecast and what is shaping up to be some severe weather out there. >> big tornado outbreak, that's wh

on npr. by the movement but the gutsy and peace in the sun has set according to report released on monday. the christian community is that the district in full force manages to live up to seven hundred im in which he hundred hindu women but also included in the stack and the gays. good thing the huge group of twenty twenty five uninterrupted forcefully converted to islam and maddie to the doctor who bought tea and apple said. what many oddities of the victims were approached the courts would deny it just is. others want us to accept that it could of been pretty conflicted and that ain't that it would add it. the victims would be to subjected to say to biden's deep forests prostitution human trafficking and other domestic abuse. a committee of two million christians in bob's son accounts for forty two percent of the country's minority population and most of the sites in eastern punjab koreans. the community has healed me how despite the strange and bask in the north of practice time if any bit

i host a program on npr. that is not a news program but with my older incarnation was the news reporter and correspondent and that will explain why that was relevant but it is my pleasure to be here with these two incredible journalists, nicole kulish is say award winning correspondent bureau chief from 2007 through 2013 have long divided his work the first time i have met him in person as somebody who once covered germany to cover with intelligence and grace and humor and a sensitivity over six years in the country. lee met to in hamburg shortly after the september september 11th attacks and the investigative reporter

a contributor to fox news since 1997 and has worked for npr, a "washington post" demand contributed to a wide range of media. the 25th anniversary of eyes on the price which she wrote as a companion piece to the cbs special. he has written several other books on civil rights, the african-american experience and american media. he won an emmy award and has won a number of awards for his investigative journalism. an idea whose time has come, two presidents, two parties, and the battle for the civil rights act takes a close look at the political battles involved in passing the civil-rights act of 64. about 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements. spent 23 years of the new york times as white house correspondent, diplomatic correspondent in los angeles bureau chief and is now the national editor for vanity fair and senior writer political. and david should tell waking from the dream, the struggle for civil rights in the shadow of martin luther king tracks the history of the movement since the death of dr. king. professor of modern ameri

i heard it, i think you were given an interview on npr and you said by the end of the century, a lot of our large mammals will have been extinct and that is a very thought. when you think about it, it does really scare me to bits. but i came up here to say if we look around the room, i am sure everyone in here has been to high school or finished high school and been to college and had a good education. and how can we fix the planet if we cannot fix our own species and we have so much of the population in want, and famine and war. how will we help the plant if we have children walking miles to get their face in water and scrape food off the ground to eat. how are we going to move forward and do that? what do you think? >> well, i think, that these are the questions of our century and beyond because all are tremendous issues obviously of global equity. this is one of the issues at the heart of trying to mitigate climate change is those of us in this country and in the developed world who created the problem to a large extent it is going to be borne by people who did little to contribut

organizations like npr that receives funding from the corporation for public broadcasting and propublica which is an investigative news organization. these are nonprofit organizations that are privately funded unfortunately from my point of view cpi and propublica team -- seemed to be left-leaning and that is where most of their funding comes from. we don't really have a viable conservative alternative to those types of organizations. i do think that could be the wave of the future. we will see more nonprofit journalism and journalism that's going to be funded by organizations especially investigative journalism which doesn't always return and provide an economic return right away. it looks like you had a question. any other questions? >> den dean sinclair from alexandria virginia. earlier on in your talk today you talked about the fact that journalists are very much liberal in their political leanings may be 80% or more. is there something in the system that just draws liberal people to that kind of profession? is there something in the hiring mechanism? was going on there that makes is

let me read what npr said about that. he said for both men there is a symbiosis.ll be amplified to the african-american audience of his syndicated radio show for msnbc. for sharpton, it's just another example of how agitated how complete his self-reinvention has been from outside agitator to inside player. >> what cameras do for people and shows like this do for people is they give them profile and access. profile and access equals influence, especially in this town. but it's also the dangerous part of it. because, again, what are you using your podium, your platform, for? is it to inform the audience? is it to persuade the audience? is it to feather your own nest? is it to run for office yourself someday whether you declare that or not? that's what the public has a right to know, and everybody should have to post on their website, these are my intentions. they should be like the pharmaceutical companies. this show may inform but it also may lead to my political future. >> a lot more transparency. that's true here at cnn as well. down the hall in this studio we ha

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the 94-year-old says the federal government should legalize marijuana, telling npr there's really notdistinction between marijuana and alcohol. stevens is pushing a new book with ways to fix the constitution. it proposes banning capital punishment and limiting gun rights. >>> all right, much more news ahead here on "early start." we'll be right back. >>> all right, let's get an early look at the weather with jennifer gray. >> i wanted to do that earlier. let's go straight to it. >> most of the showers will push towards the east coast for today. we'll see showers from the great lakes all the way through the carolinas. high pressure will push back in in the mississippi river valley. we'll see sunshine across the northern plains and even the south. and also a couple of showers pushing into the pacific northwest as we go through this afternoon. temperatures warm. 76 in denver, 79 in kansas city, and that warm air filters all the way to the southeast. temperatures almost hitting 70 degrees at washington, d.c., for today. but as we look into the weekend, we'll want to keep our eye on the po

npr said incredibly vague when he launched the initiative.ou say to that critique or is it too early? >> the president has said we're going to have a 90 day period where folks inside of government and outside of government will assess what are the specific types of programs that we want to invest in. we also know that there's some groups out there that work and they work well. they are going to serve as national models. center for urban families in baltimore has a job readiness program for men and boys and great fatherhood program as well. obviously the harlem children's zone which the president referenced a number of times and becoming a man program in chicago. there are concrete examples but before you make this type of investment, you want to spend time to study what works and that's the period that my brother's keeper is in right now. >> josh, you're the president's spiritual adviser and mentioned best practices and a lot of these programs rely on faith based initiatives. do you think faith should be a part of these kind of guidance in sc

. >> we continue to listen to you on npr, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >>> a terrifying incidentgeria hundreds of school girls abducted a week ago by a terror group. according to reports from a survivor, the attackers tricked the students into thinking they were soldiers carrying out an evacuation. they drove them into the remote forest and the associated press parents believe as many as 234 girls are still missing, that is significantly more than the 85 originally reported by education officials. no group has claimed responsibility for the tack but they are blaming the terrorist network active in that area. a rush hour explosion that ripped through a bus station and 75 killed and 141 were injured then. in yemen, two air strikes over the weekend have reportedly killed about 25 suspected al qaeda militants. yemeni officials claim they was carried out by u.s. drones and cia declined any comment. i go tt to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews on

. >> absolutely fascinating report on the ground from ari shapira who is in eastern ukraine from npr. thank you so much, ari. >> pleasure talking to you. >> joining me now, senator jeff murphy, chairman of the subcommittee on european affairs. senator, we saw during the protests that inaugurated this whole tumultuous period in kiev, we saw groups taking over government property. we saw them essentially refusing orders to disperse. why don't we view what's happening in eastern ukraine as an equally organic uprising of discontent from citizens who don't feel represented by the government in kiev? >> well, ultimately, what we know is that this isn't a truly organic uprising. that there have been russian operatives on the ground in eastern ukraine for a long time, as they were in crimea, being fed not only tactics and weaponry, but also, all sorts of propaganda. and you know, i was in that square in kiev at the end of last year, and we weren't there to dictate the terms of the future of the ukrainian people. senator mccain and i were there just to say that it should be ultimately up to th

telling npr that tears came down his face, dr. king started crying and we all cried. dr.id to me, john, we will make it to montgomery and the voting rights act will be passed. and, indeed, it was passed. martin luther king, jr. and lbj the southern former congressman and senate leader whose voting record in congress included opposing anti-lynching voting rights and desegregation bills became unlikely allies in the push to prose a broad civil rights agenda. part of a phone call between the two men shortly after the assassination of kennedy and johnson's assumption of the office of president. >> you have our support and backing. we know what a difficult period this is. >> it's an impossible period. we got a budget coming up. it's -- we've got nothing to do with it. practically already made. civil rights bill that hasn't passed the house. everybody wants to go home. got a tax bill they haven't touched. we just got the letter -- not letter upon any of them and keep going and i guess they'll say -- i'm going to ask the congress to stay there and pass them all. they won't do it

year-old justice john paul stevens retired from the court, but the new comments in an interview with nprwe may have just made some news. i really think that it is really another instance where the public opinion has changed and recognizing the distinction between marijuana and alcoholic beverages is not really much of a distinction. alcoholic prohibition against the selling and the dispensing of alcoholic beverages with the j general consensus, it is not worth the cost, and i believe that will be the general consensus with respect to this particular drug. >> and joining me is the deputy director of the drug policy alliance, steven. and steve, in respect to the justice's comments on how we see it today, how do you see it? >> just as he is a member of the marijuana majority, and the highest ranking official by far to validate the legalization, validating what poll after poll americans want, which is for marijuana to be controlled and regulated like alcohol. and what apparently even more americans believe which is that the era of waisteful counter productive prohibition is tipping. >> and t

[ cheers and applause ] well, the academy award winning couple who wrote songs for "frozen" told npray that disney doesn't welcome religious themes in their movies. of course, the movie "frozen" still promotes religion because i've been praying for months to get the song "let it go" out of my head. [ laughter and applause ] it's ironic, because the title of that song is the one thing you can't do with that song. [ laughter ] this is interesting. the pentagon has unveiled a 6'2" robot modelled after the terminator that it plans to use for search and rescue missions. that way, instead of slowly dying in the rubble of a collapsed building you can immediately die of a heart attack. [ laughter and applause ] "oh, thank god. someone's coming to save me." [ laughter ] i need a minute. i put my whole body into acting out that short one-act play. i went into very deep character. find seth meyers again. [ laughter ] we love new studies here at "late night." we're huge fans of new studies, and a new study suggests that when women are ovulating, they are more attracted to musicians who can creat

he's also lectured at universities, business forms, appeared on pbs, npr, c-span on fox. 2006 at 2008, bob was visiting professor at the naval academy or he tied a course entitled global security challenges and 2009 robert gates pointed him to the defense policy board which is an advisory committee to the united states department of defense and a search on the body for two years. his thoughtful writings have garnered him enough a lot of praise. to test the newest recipient of the winship award for excellence in international reporting. 2002 he was supportive united states state department distinguished public service award. "new york times" columnist thomas friedman called the monica smiled authors in the post-cold era along with harvard professor samuel p. can any of professor paul kennedy. her company indeed. perhaps this explains why in 2011 foreign policy magazine named captain monica was most tough global 100 thinkers. so i think we could fill a room like this any night by asking if you want to come tell us what you think game. we are specially privileged to hear him talk and giv

like justin sandra day o'connor has civics lessons and we have done that, and lessons of the day with nprt a matter of filling the void, because the teachers are thirsty for the information and that is why 1,000 people are joining everyday and it is for free. >> and you are shy of 500,000. >> yes. >> and we certainly hope you reach that goal, and as they say it takes a village. >> exactly. >> and thank you so much, and appreciate having you on. >> and the unofficial kickoff to the 2016 race. >>> i think that every republican should have two words tattooed on their hands, growth and opportunity. >>> we cannot be the party of fat cats, rich people, and wall street. >> and the big names like ted cruz and rand paul talk about the future of the party, and more of that coming up in the "first read." >>> and -- linebacker aldon smith said that, what he said that landed him in cuffs in l.a.x. is one of the stories we are following around "newsnation." . so i tri ed depend so i last weekend. tri and it made the difference between hearing about my daughter's gym meet, and being there. yeah! nailed

parents and students want to know, hari continued this conversation on-line and you can find links to npr'srage. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day. investigators at fort hood, texas, focused on what drove specialist ivan lopez to kill three people, wound 16, then kill himself yesterday. the base's commanding general said lopez had a strong history of mental instability and may have argued with another soldier. the confirmed death toll in the washington state mudslide reached 30, with 15 still missing. and the senate intelligence committee voted to declassify parts of a report that sharply criticizes c.i.a. interrogation methods after 9/11. >> ifill: on the newshour online right now, after years of taliban rule where non-religious music was forbidden, budding rock stars in afghanistan have a place to call their own. "rock school kabul" is training the afghan guitar heroes of tomorrow. read the latest report in our "social entrepreneurship" series. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >

my hopes and would like to npr and the nomination tomorrow and may face. okay i mean this is quickly after that but c'mon i mean if the comment he has a funny. the reason we love your enemy. that means you could say that the opposition doesn't lie and ten cents may wind up and soon we wanted a piece down one cent at ten percent off now at what happened he got us into similar to the god of the data on the sabbath when the sunni and shiite and he got us and he didn't get the idea that punching the keys. he finished with the hope it's the truth is though not with a wig. we are well intentioned men deny links in one weekend ryan and chris is the island and for presidency not like i'm in prison. not easy because you or you don't remember that the festive food when i sat at the most i have been listed as a tenor nice to go then. i went to was the son aiden didn't have to be tempted to go and be a little bit. and who knows he can and the it connects into defeat so as to when i islands of the semester have been listed on the tattoo artist to organize a sham the ma

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. it was interesting after 9/11 to see western governments, such as he british government go 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 rites. 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. 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

professor hill lectures while -- widely for commentary media like npr and the political's contributor for cnn and he currently holds an affiliated faculty appointment in african-american studies at the institute for research in african-american studies at columbia university. please join me in welcoming professor marc lamont hill. [applause] >> thank you everybody. i want to echo gillani's sentiment that this conference means so much and to share some time with everybody especially dr. greenhut is done so much organizing work to make this conference possible and does so much work every day. [applause] i hated to go second because i had a sense he was going to cover a lot of interesting stuff that i agree with wholeheartedly i'm equally curious about what this political moment means been struggling to make sense of it. in a way that is productive for us because i could spend an hour critiquing the obama administration's policies as such. i'm not sure if we'd would get to other things. this moment is so bizarre to me for so many reasons and i will be rob reef reif but there are few thin

i heard it, i think you were given an interview on npr and you said by the end of the century, a lotit does really scare me to bits. but i came up here to say if we look around the room, i am sure everyone in here has been to high school or finished high school and been to college and had a good education. and how can we fix the planet if we cannot fix our own species and we have so much of the population in want, and famine and war. how will we help the plant if we have children walking miles to get their face in water and scrape food off the ground to eat. how are we going to move forward and do that? what do you think? >> well, i think, that these are the questions of our century and beyond because all are tremendous issues obviously of global equity. this is one of the issues at the heart of trying to mitigate climate change is those of us in this country and in the developed world who created the problem to a large extent it is going to be borne by people who did little to contribute to it. and what is the fair and equitable way to deal with that something i don't know. but the

my name is guy brass and i host a show on npr. i was in his reporter, correspondent and host which i'll explain why that is while the in a moment. it is my absolute pleasure to be here with these two incredible journalists. tran one is an award-winning correspondent from "the new york times." he was berlin bureau chief from 2007-2013. i have long admired his work from afar. this is the first time i've make in in person, but as somebody once covered germany, it's a great pleasure to read somebody covered germany with intelligence and grace and humor and real depth and sensitivity over six years in the country. souad mekhennet is somebody i know very, very well. we met in hamburg shortly after september 11 attack when she was working, she was an investigative reporter working with peter fenn from the "washington post." she was in this room here today and we forged a very close friendship right then and there and have known each other ever since. souad has won every award under the sun. she has been threatened and jailed and shot at

organizations like npr that receives funding from the corporation for public broadcasting and propublica which is an investigative news organization. these are nonprofit organizations that are privately funded unfortunately from my point of view cpi and propublica team -- seemed to be left-leaning and that is where most of their funding comes from. we don't really have a viable conservative alternative to those types of organizations. i do think that could be the wave of the future. we will see more nonprofit journalism and journalism that's going to be funded by organizations especially investigative journalism which doesn't always return and provide an economic return right away. it looks like you had a question. any other questions? >> den dean sinclair from alexandria virginia. earlier on in your talk today you talked about the fact that journalists are very much liberal in their political leanings may be 80% or more. is there something in the system that just draws liberal people to that kind of profession? is there something in the hiring mechanism? was going on there that makes is

but the republican half of the npr polling team points out the number of people who intensity opposert of the law is on the up tick, but lack of independent support by november's midterm elections may prove too heavy to pull off. >> we will see. derek, thank you. not sure i completely agree. >> split down the middle though. if you're a democrat, you got to love three or four months ago they're in the low 30s. obamacare was sitting at 34%, the nbc poll. the fact that you're now in the mid to high 40s in most of these polls, certainly got to make landrieu, hagen, a lot of other democrats in red states feel a little better, right? >> just a tad bit. we'll see what happens. >>> up next, we'll look at how to address the job situation for many americans. marc morial joins us next on set. (dad) just feather it out. that's right. (son) ok. feather it out. (dad) all right. that's ok. (dad) put it in second, put it in second. (dad) slow it down. put the clutch in, break it, break it. (dad) just like i showed you. dad, you didn't show me, you showed him. dad, he's gonna wreck the car! (dad) he'

collection of conversations, he lectures widely and provides your commentary for media outlet like npr, "the washington post" and "the new york times" and is a contributor for cnn newsroom former host of our world with black enterprise. he holds the and african-american studies at the institute for research at columbia university. please join me in welcoming marc lamont hill. [applause] >> thank you, everyone. i would like to echo the sentiment is conferencing so much and i'm grateful to be invited with everyone. and the doctor has done so much work to make this conference possible. so much work everyday. i had a sense that he was going to cover a lot of interesting up but i agree with wholeheartedly and i am equally as curious about what this political moment means and i'm struggling to make sense of it in a way that is productive for us. because i could just spend an hour critiquing the obama administration's policy as such, but i'm not sure if that would get us as far as we would like. this moment is so bizarre to me. for so many reasons. they're just a few things that i find frustr

second question come i was interested yesterday to hear carlotta pole to npr and she was -- idea mike just published a book called the wrong enemy. >> her pointless ranting about pakistan commemorating the obvious point that pakistan is finally interrelated with domestic afghan politics, making the point there were two views she discerned about military -- will of the military in pakistan but paradoxically the u.s. military was stronger and more stringent in saying we should be tougher on particularly protect another radicals on the border of afghanistan. the diplomats, civilians who kept saying we really have to take care. we don't want to rupture this important ally and they were the soft line on it. i am wondering, what is your perception of that is to? >> finally, please go ahead. >> i'm happy with world politics review. your goodness to enough to let me interview you about these people a couple weeks back. thank you for doing that. i want to stack about the issue centralization erased earlier. in particular criticism to which karzai sensualist government and abiding forces to be

i heard it -- i think you were giving a talk on npr and said by the end of the century, a lot of our's strange a bit, but i came here to say if you look around the room, i'm pretty sure everyone in here has been to high school, finished high school, been to college maybe, had a good education, and how are we going to fix our planet if we can't fix our old species, and we have so many of the world's population sitting in poverty and want and need and famine and war and how are we going to help our poor planet if we have children having to walk miles and miles to get space in the water or great food from the ground to eat. what do you think -- my question would be, how are we going to move forward? how are we going to do that? what do you think? >> well, you know, i think that these are the questions of our century, and, you know, beyond because there are tremendous issues, obviously, of global equity, you know, this is one of the real -- at -- one of the issues of the heart of the, you know, trying to mitigate climate change, you know, are those of us in this country and those in the

here is -- this is an article, an npr story at louisville looking at allison grimes' position. does she plan to embrace the affordable care act over the next eight months? the not likely. it's a compliment to governor bashir in the state when asked, the law isn't perfect and does need to be fixed. something democrats and republicans should put together and the affordable care act. there seems to be such a disconnect here. arguably it is working better in kentucky than any other state. this is a democratic president and democratic congress and the candidate for the senate by all indications doesn't want to talk about it. >> well, first, steve, the poll you cite was taken before the -- most of the publicity about the success of connect or kentucky obamacare. we haven't measured since the last surge in enrollments which is now approaching 400,000. so it's a little early to say there's a disconnect. and, of course, alison grimes didn't have to vote on obamacarobam obamacare. mary landrieu did. they have different approaches. the success of the law here will boost democratic chances

he's been a longtime thinker and leader in this arena and, in fact, next week npr is publishing what will probably going to become, i'm going to predict, sort of the definitive take on many of these things that we're going to talk about today, and mark's going to preview a little bit of that paper but not all of it, because he's got to save some of it for his own event tuesday which i encourage everybody to go to. mark's going to lead us off, and then we're going to be followed by ted alsoen, he's been -- alden, whenever we have questions about any of these thing, we call ted to make sure we were getting things right. ted published this little pamphlet last year on illegal migration and the border, and he'll be complementing what mark had covered. and then finally, tamara ya coe by who is a great friend of ours, somebody who comes at this from a slightly different perspective, a leader on the center-right for immigration reform and for that alone i really want to applaud her for her courage and her steadfastness in trying to bring along a part of our politics that is not always anxio

also worked for npr and the "washington post" and contributed to a ride waning of media. the 25th anniversary of "eyes on the the prize. " he has written seven other books on civil rights, the african-american experience and the american media. he was won a number of awards for his investigative journalism. todd purdham "an idea whose time has come" takes a close look at the political battled involved in passing the civil rights act in 1964 and is regarded as one of the great e achievement of the movement. he is now the national editor for "vanity fair" and a senior writer at political. and david chappell's wow making from the dream toy toy --" tracks the dream since the death of dr. king. he has taught in arkansas, russia, and upstate new york. he spent time in wbc in london, doing free-lance writing and policy work in addition to waking from the dream his books included, inside agitators, white southerners, and and stone of hope. the death of jim crow. and has written numerous articles andes says. our format, i'll start by asking a few questions for the panelists to dis

. >> npr has the story since you're running for lieutenant governor.se the minimum wage in that state, the state has one of the lowest minimum wages in the country. guest: from a federal perspective, i have been outspoken because study after study, -- a lot of times a right-leaning group will say this. this is an area where it is pretty wide agreement that you have a trade-off with raising the minimum wage. you may raise the wage for some individuals, but you also may decrease the number of jobs. we have seen a cbo report out on that recently. they basically came out and said, one of the ideas floated by the president yes it will give people more change in their pocket but some people will end up with no change in their pocket because it will reduce jobs. ultimately, the cure for our fiscal problems certainly we need to be more responsible with our spending but the cure to our fiscal problems and the cure to the many folks unemployed and long-term unemployed is growing. in both instances, the same principles apply. host: in the ryan budget, -- because

in my article, i talked about how njoy earlier this year went on their -- their director went on npr and talked about how they had clinical trial data talking about the success behind their products and how safe it was. when i asked for that for the purposes of my article, they gave me a short term smoking cessation study, which was not a clinical trial as people understand it. it did not look at the long-term health questions that you would think they looked at. separating out the rigor in different studies remains something that fda, eu canada, tryinguntries, they are to parse this right now. host: let's go to bob waiting in freberg, pennsylvania. caller: the editorial. host: i am not quite sure what that was, but you mentioned other countries and what they are looking to do. what are some comparable regulations that are out? took: the eu in february -- they would standardize and nicotine levels, which is not something that fda has proposed to do, and they would have child resistant packaging under their proposal. they, too, did not take action on flavoring. they are leaving that u

npr took this photo and said the reaction was immediate with some calling the statue creepy and insulting. the director of the church said his rather wealthy parishioners need to be reminded about the condition of the poor. >> what identifies that as jesus? i don't know. >> not much. >> i guess the thing it probably says jesus. >> i think it's incredibly thought provoking. >> it is. >> at a minimum it would get a conversation started. >> like the joan osborn song "what if god was one of us." >> it's important to remind people of poverty. >>> now to a priceless reaction from actress em ma stone. she's a huge fan of the spice girls. during he press tour, she was surprised with a video message and a phone call from two of the members. the host felt there was one thing left to do. >> you've never met one. >> are you going to do something really big right now? >> have you ever met a spice girl? >> wait. hold on. >> so, they're not here. >> that is so mean! >> even her costars seemed to believe it would happen. but at least this time it was just meant to be. is that a british thing? >> that is