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about 20 people. but 20 minutes from where we are right now, there was a plantation that had 900 enslaved people. and so, it just really varied. i think most whites in the south did not own any slaves. those who did own small numbers usually and then you had the big planters in places like virginia in the case of north carolina, south carolina, huge plantation holdings. thomas chaplin, who i've been talking about on st. helena, given to him than his father when he was 17, when thomas chaplin was 17 years old. and struggle to hold onto them. he didn't know what he was doing. he was engaging in activities that he couldn't afford. so it really varies quite a bit. but i am sure somebody has a number. i just don't know what it is. >> host: stories ever unification are scarce and those that document what happened after the initial moments of joy are more rarer still. >> guest: input in this book together, i divided to three parts. the first part of separation. the search for family and so during slavery and

many people. i just hope you hear that. you know that, you feel that in your heart. [applause] you know, somebody once said to me, when a child is born and the child begins to have the powers of cognition, what they see in the face of the mother, with this in the face of the father, they think they see god. they see the power of the almighty. you stop and think, looking back, the 50 years of the tape, there is billy graham, sargent shriver, and they are visiting with people. as a video showed, you present the children first and the children can't imagine living in poverty that they experience the power of a seargent shriver coming all the way from washington. there are mount -- the renowned billy graham, a man of worldwide fame. they don't know people like that in their worlds. but they look at these men visiting from washington. they look at you and all that you do and they see the face of someone who is helping, the city face of god. that is the face of community action at its best. it is at tha

these were not bad people. mind you, these were very decent, kind people. but the point is, they were so entrenched and they had so much ownership wrapped around the system as it existed that they were unwilling to see a new opportunity. and it got to the point where someone challenged me -- would love in their heart, decent person, make no mistake -- they said, you know what, robert, you mean well, but you are naive to think you can train men and women who are homeless to work in restaurants. restaurants will not hire those men and women. that is the island of misfit toys. i said, you have never worked in a restaurant. [laughter] everybody knows, that is the island of misfit toys acting on those doors. i guarantee you, even today. the people were so resistant to change, they were willing to see fellow humans as unable to rise up. that really stuck with me. now nobody -- nobody wakes up when they are 20, looks in the mirror and says, when i grow up, i want to lead a nonprofit and stifle innovation. you know? nobody wakes up and says, i want to be a boring o

i want to explain to people where we are. a lot of people don't know where it is. we're kitty corner to the cathedral. right across the way, i see it from my window every day. >> right so we're right there. the vicar for administration moderator of the kyrie is a big mouthful. if i have to explain what it is in normal terms is i'm the chief operating officer, so in a corporation i would be the chief operating officer and the archbishop would be the chief executive officer. so my whole focus is on doing what he wants, but then also serving the parishes. that is the main objective of what takes place in the chancery is support operations for the parishes in areas of human resources and finance and making sure everything is done properly and out reach to young adults to a grieving parent. many different areas. to support the each parish and there are approximately 90 parishes. >> 93 parishes. >> which entails marine county, san francisco county and san mateo counties. that is the gio graph call county. we have the some area what rural. but all of them have needs that

give people money, start programs.harities do that too, and i'd say they're better at teaching people how to help themselves. there's the saying goes teach a man to fish. then there's a third way, i think it's the best way. i'll get to that later in the show. but first let's debate the first two. when i was in college, president lyndon johnson declared all-out war on human poverty. he said for the first time in our history, it's possible to conquer poverty. i believe him then but i watched his poverty programs create more poverty. governments spent trillions of dollars and people are still poor. people on the left say the money was still worth it. look at this chart. he chose that the poverty rate fell sharply after the war on poverty began. that's great, but wait, he extends the chart back a few years to when data was kept on the poverty rate. you notice it was already falling. just as fast. but then it stopped falling about seven years after the war on poverty began. history professor david bado says that's because g

are not at risk from other people in the shelter and there's an area that people will want to go to. >> he appreciate it the 3 parts in doing this job for 3 years it's meant that people don't want services shelters were difficult for people if you're a male and female partner you can't stay together and dog that's more important having that dog put in another area of the shelter is not acceptable and shopping cart they were told to put everything under your bed it is not going to work that's what the mayor is working on to move people from the streets there are a shelter monitoring committee people can file a complaint people have had things take place from them and lgbt people don't feel cajole lgbt stay in parks they feel that transgender women have challenged their as i told you by women in shelter environments it's complicated one the things we can look at the hospitality houses shelters in the tenderloin it was significantly renovated and that shelter it full if i see thirty beds i'm precipitated the smaller shelters compared to the south has 3 hundred and thirty people it is a

rich people.if you have two locations a and b at the raise taxes in b and lower them in a a it produces manufactures and people will move from to. it's economics. raising tax rates on the rich kostas revenues. that's the one area everyone agrees to. it does. lowering tax rates on the rich provides a lot more revenues and that is exactly what we need larry. we need a low rate flat tax to bring the system into providing the most revenues we need in the least damaging fashion to the economy. >> jim pethokoukis you have a different view. you want republicans to avoid tax cuts on the top and rich and you want to focus them on the middle class directly and other so-called conservative performers do. it's a legitimate disagreement. how do you respond to art laffer and fleischer program more efficient? >> for folks on the right we have had a tremendous victory on taxes over the past 30 years. we have gone from a 70% top tax rate and tax code that was not indexed for inflation to one that is indexed for in

people are good. it's not like they've really thought this through and have come out racist or saying, we have to kill the criminals. they have not thought very much about it. my hope -- i don't know i can still be doing this if i was getting out there and going into all these places, texas, alabama, everywhere and people were so closed, rigid, and races. they do want to reflect on what we are doing in this library tonight, this community discourse, where we are taking something and reading about it talking about it, digging deeper into it. this kind of communal growth, in terms of understanding who we are, counters, don't you think, the individualism. when people do something wrong we say we have to hold that individual accountable. were not good like europe is or other countries. they asked, what did we do wrong? we blame the individual and publish the individual. >> that is right. that is why contextualizing is key. what is breaking my heart -- and my clients have gotten younger and younger, and we

some people need physical healing, some people need emotional healing.transitions in their lives. >> my soul always seeks to be with other souls on the same journey. there's a lot of deep, deep spirituality here and that's what i'm trying to tune into. >> and for many it is this ç experience of trying to get closer to god and i think that the way that works is there is so much noise in our lives. sometimes in order to hear, you have to sort of step away from that ordinary life and open yourself to the extraordinary. it's difficult to make one of these journeys. you're traveling to another country, multiple time zones away, you're staying in unfamiliar places, eating cn unfamiliar foods and you are putting yourself outside your comfort zone and that's part of it. >> sacred clothing is part of many pilgrimages. ç here its hindu prayer shawls, printed with sacred texts. >> in the hajj people go wearing their own clothes, part of the journey is to take off your clothes, put on the ritual clothing, the men shave their hair, and the women make a symbolic cut

should stop being implicated and infringing on people's rights and let people leave and with dignityecurity. >> wasn't there an incident earlier this year when people from a certain community were leaving under the protection of of the transitional government and they were attacked and people were killed? >> yes, absolutely. that was a group of mostly herders from pk-12 in bongi and two people were unfortunately killed. this is a journey that is not without risks but the fact of the matter is this mostly pull but other muslims are trying to flee the country on their own and taking enormous risks. last week i met a woman whose husband was cut down by antibalaka because they tried to leave a different enclave on their own and want to leave and have the basic rite to do so and should be allowed to do so and the u.n. should help them. >> some people i know human rights watch has spoken to have said that the government doesn't want more muslims to leave because they don't want to be seen as assisting ethnic cleansing, should the government try to keep muslims in the country? >> no one wan

among republican lawy people over 40 are different from people undere 40. rs i think there is a difference between people who remember the reagan years and people who know the stories. on the whole, not in every way i think younger conservatives are more constructive and more inclined to think about policies and the ways we are talking about it here, more inclined to think about the present, less inclined to want to repeat the ends of the sentences that people started in the 1980's. the beginnings of those sentences are great, and we should start our sentences that way. we should have the same principles, the same commitment to the constitution, the same believe in america, the same optimism. but it has to be a response to what is happening now. that is the first order of business for anybody who wants to think about politics. i think that is changing some among younger conservatives, but it will take a while. >> [inaudible] >> nature has a way of dealing with that. >> are you saying they are going to be culled? >> you know, evolution is healthy. i think a

i fear people in america more than people in the middle east.y history, it is repeating and i do not want to myself. america has been killing for the longest. host: what will the fed do with interest rates? the headline from the washington post, time is of the essence. wall street keeping a close eye on what the fed decides to do. inside the opinion page of the the reagan journal, clinton template for success. the piece is available online. caller: good morning. what i fear most is the culture of fear. the truth about why bin laden attacked us in the first place was held back. i do not think you are going to see that on this program. this ominous enemy and , this culture of just where anything goes, saved me whatever you have to do, spy on me, take away my rights, murder other people with .hock and all we talk about how horrible the heading is. imagine yourself, a citizen of and all of these people are sending crews missiles from 15 her miles away and there is no place to hide. in ona lot of you weigh the question. cameron says, no. one day, evi

people are mixed.the best intentions the kind of self-perpetuating world, so it gets muddled uncompromised, but a lot of the original best intentions stare and hopefully people respond to those. >> of obama care for instance where the republicans have no interest in improving the program. do they genuinely not care that maybe the consequences are that people might die? coming off unemployment. >> i cannot generalize generalize about the republicans. i get it. >> i'm not trying to be partisan. >> look, in a situation like this,, the impetus of winning and having your team deal they defeat to the other party is what drives a great deal of politics now. i remember interviewing nancy pelosi. she was saying -- george w. bush was on a reform social security cake. cake. it was going to be his big initiative his second term. to deny barack obama's second term. i am sure democrats are saying similar things. a pretty big structural problem and impediment. on the republican side people are far more worried about

sometimes when times are bad people search for enemies people to blame for their troubles.her or not that is the reason it is worth remembering and it will also shape the way jews respond that these are tough times for ford. we also know and this brings us back to the protocols of the elders of zion that we looked at, that russian royalists meaning people who supported the czar had actually brought to ford to cameron to some of these people surrounding ford, the protocols of the elders of zion and they had persuaded ford that the overthrow of the czar was all the responsibility of who? >> the jews. >> the jews. right. and that this too is part of what shapes henry ford. in any case, whatever the psychological or economic reason ford begins a series called the international jew on may the 2nd 1920. now, step back and think about that. you have got a newspaper that is being distributed somewhere between a quarter and a half a million copies are distributed of every issue, and suddenly, it begins an expose of quote, the international jew. and when the articles are in publicati

eight people are still missing. thousands of volunteers in malaysia are desperately trying to get supplies to flood victims. at least 17 people have died, eight others are missing. more than 100,000 are seeking shelter. aid agencies have been overwhelmed with private donations. some people are returning to their homes to survey the damage. >> this is one of the worst affected areas in the floods. authorities say that 70% of the town was underwater over the last few days in fact, the water reached 35 meters high in some places. that's as tall as an electricity pole. now the floodwaters have receded. this is the first time that families have had a chance to come home and really survey the damage that their properties have incurred. you can see houses have toppled one on top of the other on the streets there are people who have just up unloaded all their household items all on the treats. at least 40,000 people in this area have been affected by the floods. there is no water and electricity supply here, and many of the

into people's hands, in the '90s, video cameras and team people how to safely document things that were happening injustice that was being committed, that all of a sudden, you would take away that idea of denial, that it didn't happen. >> yeah. we will see kind of powerful stuff but when we see a video, it becomes emotionally undeniable and even though we know now you can fake it in films, i think ber pretty good judges of authenticity. >> you went through an experience as a child, the from many years not that you were disinterested in human rights. but you describe it as something that was over there, outside, the way most people actually look at human rights, terrible people. >> yeah. >> nothing to do with me. >> that's right. foreign. over there. out there. and then, you know, i got invited to a couple of things. i wrote this beaker song. and that served -- so my political education happened. >> steve beko? >> yeah, who was a great young leader, not the anc but he would have been a great future statesman and i am not sure they actually intend today kill him but they tortured him so t

what is good to people? i think there are a lot of prejudiced people. they just don't like the color of his skin, no matter what he does or how he does it. it's his fault. he gets all the credit for all the bad things, but it's not something good happens. you have a merry christmas. , i expected tof be worse off when congress. speaker ofn that the the house is invited the president to deliver the state of the union address on january 20. we will have live coverage of that session as the president outlined his agenda. it will include tax reform. jeff says he is worse off. caller: yes. i live in milwaukee, which puts me in wisconsin. under the dictatorship of scott walker, by his not accepting was getting -- i i'm 60 years old. i am disabled and getting social security. i was getting extra help from medicare. that one away january 1. i am in the food share program. am putting out $4000 a month more than i ever had to spend before in this situation. i'm not doing as well as i was last year or before that. i am happy to hear people giving koppelman's to the

people want to hire me in that all the time. or people who saw, "good hair." i am hoping i can combine the two. the critical acclaim of "good hair" and the money of "madagascar 3." >> bill murray is the guy you want to hang out with, and drop his money. >> charlie chaplin? >> he started this thing. the grand master flash of ha ha. >> people say, i love breakfast at tiffany's. you have not read truman capote? >> even jesus did not tell his followers everything. >> eddie murphy? >> i want set eddie murphy and michael jackson within two months, and eddie murphy was better. >> that kind of broke my heart. >> let me talk about heroes. charlie chaplin. chaplin, he blazed his own trail. he did exactly what he wanted to do. >> and he was funny. >> he was hysterical. he pretty much made what comedy was in its time. oody is a hero. >> he is more than a euro. he is who you want to be. >> in some aspects. [laughter] >> he is. >> that is what we all want. we all want a woody allen deal. we can cast anybody we want. re-shoots are in the budget. we have total autonomy. we al

and i think there are a lot of people-- unlike you, i think there are some people who just do benefit. but i think there are a lot of people who might sort of falsely align themselves with the current system, but are not benefiting because it's shutting down our marketplace. >> yeah, but my point is when you talk about it as if it's a fight between the rich and the rest of america, in fact, there's a whole bunch of the rich who don't benefit or don't feel like they benefit, or don't identify with it. and i actually think it would be more effective to frame this not as the fight between the 1% and the 99%, but the fight between, you know, american citizens and those who would corrupt the american democracy. because, you know, i was meeting with the most powerful republican in new hampshire. and he said to me, you know, this is not a democratic issue. this is not a republican issue. this is an american issue. this corruption is an american issue. and we can find a way to not separate us from, you know, people that we recognize, but instead, to unite us against a fight that nobody on the

but we showed that people out there -- there's a sleeping giant out there of people who actually wanta true, responsive democracy. >> but your money didn't wake that giant up. >> well, you know, i mean, the critics have been gloating of course. they call me an egghead, they say it's a complete failure. look, they're right about me being an egghead. there's no doubt about that, but it wasn't a failure in the sense that the data we have shows that people care about this issue. zephyr's campaign i think showed that, but in the races that we were in, we moved people to care about this issue and to vote on the basis of this issue. now of course, not enough to overcome the tsunami of republican victories. obviously, we were not able to overcome that. but that's not what we were pushing against. we were pushing against a view expressed in "politico." the view was, this is a, quote, zero issue. it doesn't move voters at all and that's just not true. we think it moves voters more than issues that i think of as fundamental, like, climate change or unions. this is an issue that really rallies pe

there are probably--the people people--the president has accepted the wartime construct that you can detain people who were involved in the war during the time of war. and whether those people become less dangerous and you release some of them is what is happening now. i think the president can override congress, or congress can change its mind to bring them to the united states and try them in federal court. but i think the third category of what do you do with people who are deemed too dangerous to release is the sticky wicket. as long as there continues to be a war on terror and the authorization of military use of military force in place, that wicket won't be resolved. >> because there has been no declaration of war, and less well defined war on terror could go on forever, does that give you the right to hold on to these guys forever? >> i think the supreme court has indicated that it probably doesn't. that we no longer have boots on the ground in afghanistan. that the authorization of use in military force was directed at al-qaeda and associated forces and people who engage in t

and direct to people and signage and banners to direct people and have flyers and use other outreach such the lab and social media novelist other stakeholders such as the board of supervisors as well. it's small and a but significant change for people who we were frustratingly looking at the platform we don't let them disembark and finally to the director brinkmans earlier request we'll be bringing a competitive report update open vision zero to the board in february but just to i guess wet our appetite a little bit there's been so much work by our staff and folks from across the city agencies just to a reminder that vision zero was a policy and goal to eliminate traffic deaths in san francisco by 2024 so adapting vision zero you were the first city body to do so and before the police commission and board of supervisors and environment commission you were i you were the first to adapt vision zero to have a better and satisfactory street to increase the enforcement of the laws and the elective initiatives to save lives to create a cultural in the city where workers and visitors and ev

from the bicycle commission not people from the taxi commission we want people that are transit literate that knows how to move transportation in the system and city and we have qualified people to make the decisions thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> is mr. stewart here? >> good afternoon. i'm actually speaking on behalf of the john peck from the gladstone institute that's a resident transit rider and a mta board member we're here today. >> state your name. >> i'm wendy with the mission bay t m a to ask you to wave the 2 hundred and 50 days penalty per day for not meeting the shuttle pilot program next the fox required in the format that is used by the transit parties their not business owner be able to convert it to the new format and they can't do so until january our inability to push the data to you in this new format is the only reason we're innovate in compliance with the program the reporting is for one stop the caltrain the fin of $250 per day we're here because your policy meeting isn't instill mid january our third over all expense is charpg

if you tax rich people and give the money to poor people, you we will get lots and lots of poor people and no rich people. if you have two locations producers and manufacturers will move. it is economics. it costs us revenues. that is the one area everyone agrees. agrees. it does. lowering tax rates provides a lot more revenues, and that is exactly what we need , low rate flat tax to bring the system into providing the most revenues we need in the least damaging fashion to the economy, and hopefully we can spend those monies in the best way possible to create growth and prosperity , rather than paying people not to work or produce. >> james pethokoukis, you have a different view. you want republicans to avoid tax cuts and focus on the middle class directly and others. how do you respond? why is your program more efficient? >> for folks on the right, we have had a tremendous victory over the past 30 years where we have gone from a 70 percent top tax rate, a a tax code that was not indexed for inflation to one that is. even now it is at 40 percent , the top personal income tax rate. i am

i grew up with a mexican people and i love mexican people. they are the tightest people in the world. it sure would help if we can do the pipeline and stuff and then maybe everybody could get a job. ever since president obama has been in, -- we did not have any for three years and i'm a disabled veteran. mean, i understand this lady here has got good ideas and stuff, but you know, in the last six years, we have not had anything really good happen here in you know what i'm saying? several issues were brought up there. if you want to start with the jobs issue and the concern about the immigration order taking away jobs? guest: these are immigrants who are long-time members of u.s. economy who are working. by having them come out of the shadows and register, we can ensure they are paying taxes, which supports the economy overall. this executive action is estimated to result in $3 billion per year in increased tax revenue. that is a positive for the country. the people we're talking about, generally, are not competing with u.s. citizens for jobs.

so they are tremendously talented people and really good people. one of the things i like about golf that i like is when i buy these courses, i'm buying tremendous amounts of land. i say, you know, i'm going to close a golf course some place, i'm going to own 600 acres on the potomac river or i'm going to own 800 acres on the pacific ocean. it's a statement i always make. i never lost money on a lake, river, or an ocean. n scotland i just bought turnberry, probably the most important of the majors. it is just a great thing. that is 1,000 acres on the ocean. i don't want to sell it. but it is great real estate. the other minor thing, too. i have made tremendous deals because of my relationship to golf. i played golf with people that love golf. i have become great friends with them. >> you make deals on the golf course? >> i make tremendous deals on the golf course. i have friends like terry linden. he has done a great job with macy's. we play golf together, and others. i could never have the relationship with these people if i said, let's go out to

i applaud brt people in brt people in the building -- our building is situated to where it faces van ness. i can tell you our building -- we have no idea that -- it looks like where the stop is going to be is directly in front of our building. now it's a little bit over between hickory and oak and in june or may of last year i called and spoke with brt to see whether or not the stop is going to be changed and i was told at the time it was going to be on market and van ness. we started a neighborhood watch through the safe program here in san francisco we've had beatings there and pit bull attacks and muggings and all kinds of stuff car break-ins 10 times a day and real concerns about large groups of people in front of our building. when you think about from 6 o'clock in the morning until whatever midnight you will have anywhere from 8 to 16 thousand people moving through the corridor i would ask that you really consider the residents that live on van ness there's a lot of residents on van ness besides just us. so i'm a former nurse just retired and i'm very active for elderly folks a

, and the a people they elected. in terms of how they view the president, and congress, and both political parties. while we have some large challenges, our institutions, just aren't up to the challenges, that we do face. you wrote, we are in the middle after prolonged period of alienation between american people, and those who govern them. we're in the middle of this. what's been the fallout? >>> are both parties to blame? where do you think this is headed? >>> well, i think both parties do have some responsibility for that. that's at least, with the public opinion polls, and, i'm a conservative, and, republican, and, i have my own views, but if you ask the public, it's boathouses. one of the things, that has fed this despair, is the president barak obama when he ran in 2008, ran with such enormous expectations, about what he could produce. very unusual. he promised not only to bring about prosperity, but to overcome the divisions, and if you go back, and read about the campaign, what he was saying, president barak

who help people out. that was another obstacle. >> my grandfather, and honea path they had a championship baseball team. a lot of people loved working for him. he listens to the radio. he had a new car every year. he traveled to florida every year on a vacation. he had dogs. he lived a very good life. but he was the absolute ruler of the town. it was an interesting story. one person had been brought up on a liquor charge for being drunk. my grandfather find him, but this was his supplier. he left him liquor in a tree trunk that he would find all the time. the guyfather is fining was supplying him. it is a strange world. one of the people told me he was good enough to the workers, but you did not mess with him because he was the boss man and everybody knew that. mr. hammett, who was the last-living manager and owner of the mill, died, i think it was about -- it was after the thing in 1995. i tried to get him to do an interview with me. "the granvilled news" that he not only thought this was all ridiculous,

in taiwan 48 out of the 58 people onboard died. a day later, all 116 people onboard air algerie flight were killed when it went down in bad weather. despite these grim statistics, air travel is still extremely safe. that is less than one accident for every four million flights. do you have a theory as to what has happened to this air asia flight? >> absolutely. you rightly said the aviation industry is quite a safe industry. and still there are accidents. of course, this is a very tragic incident for the families, for the airlines, for the stake holders around this industry. so we have to wait and watch and see how the rescue and search team are beginning to react. >> do you think that this is a case of bad weather somehow affecting that flight? >> it would be completely speculation at this moment but considering the communication between the cockpit crew and the air traffic controller, it looks like this is a weather incident and we'll have to wait and watch until they find some evidence. >> is there any concern about air traffic

that's a huge failure rate. >> i'm not quite sure the inspector general was blaming people for people spupd or something. people do make mistakes on taxes. doesn't make them dumb or bad. i've made midtakes on taxes. of course, i'm not the brightest bulb in the box. if you want to find people to make mistakes or are purposely trying to fraud the government you need audits to do it. of course the government's going to pay out this money if they don't audit it, believe the taxpayer. >> the point is, steve, the irs is blaming budget cuts and there are fewer people, there is a little less money, but they've been making these mistakes for ten years. not only that, they somehow find the money to give themselves bonuses during all of this? >> yes. a sick government syndrome. the worse you do, the more money they want. didn't have budget shortages when they went after conservative organizations, from-of-didn't prohibit them from doing that. this is an agency sha should be sharply downsized way flat tax. start over and the irs a nice collection agency cashing the checks people incident because

it is probably people living in very extensive areas, or people with kids in college, people with otherenses. guest: i spoke with one person who live in new york city __ they said their full cost of this premium is out of reach for us. there are not a lot of people in this situation. i think this blog can make it hard for those people who are in insurance. host: it sounds like a lot, what these people have to pay, when we hear from the people. we will go on to brian in michigan. caller: my question is __ i am between jobs now. my girlfriend has medicare she is on disability. i cannot afford it. i am in between jobs. it seems like __ his feet, and everything, this penalty is more trying to get money from the poor people rather than helping anything. just like another tax. i would like to afford health insurance, i have issues too. i cannot afford $300 per month. if i could, i would be making a payment on a new car or something. host: that is our last phone call for you to. i want to ask you, what you looking towards next in 2015? guest: i want to see how this enrollment. winds up. and, w

people. -- very patriotic and competent people.he caller said, this whole program started because vice president cheney, secretary rumsfeld, people who worked for dick cheney, were pushing the cia to do this. were justnow say we following orders, and that of course is not an acceptable defense. a lot of people in the cia did not want to get involved in this. the dod and the fbi. those who were responsible and tried to cover it up and lied to their superiors -- they are culpable. i don't think the entire agency was culpable and that we should eliminate the cia. that in thisncy case got off the rails, got out of control. i think some of your callers and listeners should be very concerned about a government agency that has the ability to go off in that direction and do things without the kind of oversight and accountability that every government agency should have. host: why does that happen? there is oversight, jurisdiction that congress has. congress and the oversight committees could have done a better job. they were not briefed on

the people waiting for food range from young mothers to older people on fixed incomes. inside the pantry, the number of people needing food is only growing. congress cut 5 billion dollars from "s.n.a.p." or the "supplemental nutrition assistance program" in late 2013; because of that, the new york common pantry, one of the largest in new york - serving 3 million meals annually, reports a 26% increase in recipients in the last year. new york ranked 4 in a recent survey of cities around the globe with the highest percentage of millionaires. joel berg, who heads the new york coalition against hunger says, as the city gets wealthier, demand at the 1000 plus food kitchens he represents is only increasing. >> well when neighborhoods gentrify, the demand goes up because rent is the single greatest cost that low income people face and if they can't afford to pay rent, they can't afford to buy food. >> and with less government aid for food, the strain is on charities to fill the void and depend on donations to keep feeding new york's hungry. >>> announcer: this is al jazeera. >>

last week it was 400 people. everybody raised their hands to receive the lord." >> ladmilia: i decided that i'd go have a look, and when i came, i called my friend and i said, "i'm gonna stay here for good. i'm not gonna go anywhere from here." so it was like a salvation for me. >> galina: when i started coming here, i had some pain in my joints, and i could hardly walk, and also had problems with my breathing. but since i started coming here, i got healed. now i can just pretty much run to the last floor to get to the service, and my breathing is much better. i would say all the trials and tribulations that i went through, especially like being a little kid, i think god brought me through that and he rescued me. >> rick: they are wonderful. they are so grateful that they would receive a touch of honor like they used to have. just an arm around their shoulders, a gift in their hand. if you don't give them anything but a piece of candy or a chocolate, it's the attention that you show to these people. and when you

sow take a guess, it's either 10 people in there or 25 people. we don't know. >> you say he threatened to dispose of hostages. i'm making the assumption he threatened to kill them. >> well, that's what he was saying. police negotiators told me the fact that we are now into the ninth hour and no one's been hurt or injured would indicate that this is someone they can deal with, if you know what i mean. >> ray hadley there, a radio host on radio 3gb in sydney. he is one of the most listened to programs in the country. he's a very popular radio announcer. for the number one talk station in sydney. and i believe across australia, really. and he had a number of conversations with a hostage in there which he's detailing to us. but it is now appearing to be a very bizarre situation, that we're learning more details, that many of the hostages in there have been able to use their telephones to call out, to post on social media, to tweet, to post photographs or demands, whatever, on facebook as well. all of this apparently being allowed by the gunman. >> ri

people have crossed borders. they're hiding out. >> yet, even with the wisconsin 14 outside the state, the governor and republicans in the legislature find ways to press on. >> if we do not get these changes and the senate democrats don't come back, we're going to be forced to make up the savings in layoffs and that, to me, is just unacceptable. >> the republicans break the budget bill into different parts, and at 1:00 in the morning on february 25th, despite not having a quorum, they invoke a rarely used parliamentary rule to call a vote. the bill passes. >> in the end, they still did all the things they wanted to do. >> that day, the governor felt like he had prevailed. the following saturday, 180,000 people came to the square in madison. the largest of all the protests. and i think at that point, you saw that there are many different definitions of victory. >> scott walker kept saying, there's this silent majority who's not coming to the capitol every day to speak. and so every time that they said something li

john: by hugging people, people release more of this hormone -- >> oxitocin, which also makes peopleealthier -- oxytocin. promote cooperation without anybody telling us we have to. john: my producer got full frontal hugs from dozens of strangers. i was surprised very few turned her r down. some people ran to her. >> she is running. >> she is running. she is running. we're doing this.m >> so i'm in the middle of my hug experiment and i'm problem 40 hugs in. i have hugged men. i have hugged women. i hugged children. the men i have hugged, they hugged me a little too tightly. my dad is watching. he will not appreciate this. oh, this guy is coming in. going in for the kill. >> oh. >> i feel better. >> i feel fantastic. maybe dr. love is on to something. ♪ john: data show, that this makes people happy, the hug.le to do it scientifically, oxytocin how? >> we infuse it into the nose and gets into the brain about an hour. we show this causal relationship between oxytocin and positive behaviors like trust, sinceritity, generosity, and others.o you want to try? john: sure. this is why you're w

in northern ma lay a shah five people have died. 200,000 people are homeless across the region. well, we have reporters in both malaysia and sri lanka. first here is more from malaysia malaysia. >> we flew in this morning to one of the worst effected areas in malaysia. it is completely underwater. now from the air i had a chance to survey the areas outside of the city, and as far as the eye can see the land was completely sub merged in water. all you could see was the tops of trees very few roads were visible through the air. the roads that were visible were cut off bifold waters. this is making it very give for rescue and reef operations to take placing. they cannot reach the worst effected areas by road. door weather continues are making it very difficult for helicopters to go in and drop supplies and evacuate people. you can see behind mes the main highway that connects to the northwest. inundated by water. vehicles sent in single file. it's very much a way to get past the floodwaters. there have been many cases being constanted by the water that have to be pulled out of thes

a lot of people walk by it.o in there and can spend hours. >> you can get everything from feet to neck. >> that massage chair, i will lie face down in it. i don't care. i don't care until they pull mooy off. >> restraining order. >> exactly. exactly. >> i do things in there that no one should do, andy. >> the issue is i notice with older people and i love older people, but they don't pay attention to the text. they will write something and it will come outcome pleatly different. i said you didn't mean to say that. >> it is going to be pictures of grandkids mixed with racially inappropriate posts that use words that we don't use and haven't used. >> sweeping generalizations. sweeping generalizations. >> you know i am right. i expect that from you. >> i'm sure it is right and good for those who can't get out. it lets them connect with other people. i agree. it will involve accidental postings of things that should never, ever been seen. i have come so close to tweeting stuff because i didn't lock my phone and i pu

hurt people hurt people.so, people coming out of prison, who have experienced even more trauma, are more likely to do harm in the future. in terms of where to get the book, i think probably the easiest thing is just to go online, go on amazon, go on barnes & noble. "locked down, locked out" -- it is right there. host: fort meade, florida, good morning. caller: good morning. great show this morning. all, congratulations on writing this book. i'm a volunteer that goes to the prison and works with people. [indiscernible] is that they are too afraid to [indiscernible] -- ager have this feeling lot of them have this feeling where [indiscernible] salaries and other situations, then against the them, and this is not a good environment. it is not a good way to rehabilitate somebody. i agree with you. this is one thing i talk about all the time. we need to spend less money in the prison system, more money outside, whether it is treatment, training, and then society put trust in to these human beings once and for all.

those people, the people who are volunteering, the people at msf, paul farmer's group, those are the people who are keeping us safe here. they are doing great humanitarian work. they are saving lives. but if nothing else, we should think of them as the people who are keeping us safe here and welcome them home with the kind of welcome they deserve to be given when the come back from that. >> one of the things that i have learned that was tough for me to accept, but after you see it a lot, is a raw emotion that sometimes gets people who otherwise would be considered as good people to do things that are not so good. and i saw it in spain in the hiv-aids epidemic. now, obviously, there are shades of racism and other things that might be going on, but i do not think that is the predominant motivating force. it gets to what i was trying to explain before about the issue of how the public perceives risks. we go through risks every day of our lives, but the risks are chronic and you accept them. for one reason or other, which anthropologists, budding anthropologists like yourself, probably n

i teach young people the rule of "don't be a ref. you never run, you never argue and you never a touch police officer." you have responsibilities and rights. >> and we want to hear about it if off complaint. >> thank you all for being here with us today. lieutenant jack hart with blue courage and with san francisco police. pastor michael mcbride and la doris cordell, the independent police auditor in san jose. thank you all. >> thank you. >> well, this week the city of san jose cleared out hundreds of people from one of the largest homeless encampments in the country. it was known as the jungle just ten miles away from apple headquarters and not far from other symbols of silicon valley wealth. it had become an embarrassment in san jose. city agencies said they spend $4 million on affordable housing for the homeless but critics say it's not enough. scott shaffer paid a visit to the jungle and has this report. >> the encompment known as the jungle has been home for 300 people. jungle residents built tremendous trie houses and arranged

black people laugh better than white people. they are just better laughers. black people laugh with their feet. they are really into it -- it is the mouth, and the feet. white people kind of just laugh from their neck up. >> seinfeld says you can do race better than anybody else. you can put it in a way that people can to the truth of the race in america. >> maybe. i am from that era. i was bused to school in 1973. we tend to think racism is older -- >> you were bused to a white, irish catholic community. >> irish and italian kids. think of it this way. the robert f kennedy has been called that for 20 years. we still call it by its old name. when you pass a law, it takes a while before, even though it is illegal, it takes 20 years or 30 years to people really get acclimated. i got bused to school. i got called nigger. they would protest. my first day of school, just in new york. in 1973. i know it. i have really known it. ♪ >> the moments that have been transformative, one of the martin lawrence thing. the others when you went to broadway. that was transforma

the healthier people would drop their insurance. the sicker people would keep it. suddenly, your market is only full of sick people. premiums would go up dramatically. we would have a spiral where the healthiest people drop out. the sickest people stay in. it becomes a really big mess. host: there are lawsuits about the affordable care act. are they going anywhere? there are not very many left. guest: many say it is illegal because it is a tax law that started in the senate. the way the law was passed is, the senate took a bill and stripped out all of the text and then inserted the health law. that happens pretty much every day. if that were the case, an awful lot of tax-related laws would be illegal. that one seems pretty unlikely to go anywhere. there is also the continuing fallout from the hobby lobby case from last year, the case about religious freedom. last year's case decided for-profit organizations they're so concerned about what will happen to the religious organizations that are not exempt, religious colleges and universities, in particular, and hospital