peter cooper, tim wise, lz granderson. lz, are they serious? >> yes, yes, they are. bad place. i don't think the intentions were really, really good. i just think it's -- i hate to keep ripping on ll. i grew up on ll. his music is not known to be that intellectually in-depth. he's not known as an artist to be that really introspective. i think he took a nice, big swing and he missed in trying to communicate the perspective a lot of african-americans have today in regards to the topics that they're talking about. >> tim, why not just say, listen, we kind of just screwed up? >> artists are not known for necessarily cutting on their own work a week or so after a song's come out. that's neither here nor there. what i think the reason issue is that -- those last clips you played are more troubling to me in a way than the song. >> that's what i was going to say. to think from the lyrics of the song, comparing a do-rag to a confederate flag, comparing handcuffs or shackles of slavery -- >> i agree. those clips were more troubling because it seemed like what brad was saying

but peter cooper, you're a songwriter.riter for "the tennessean." you said, paisley walked it into more than a million rooms when he wore a t-shirt with the alabama band logo on a nationally televised show. someone on twitter called him a racist and it made him think a little bit about who he was and what he was doing and why he was doing it. that's what "accidental racist" is about, a fellow thinking about who he was, what he was doing, why he was doing it and what someone else might think about it. are these radical things to ponder in real life? not at all. i take it that the idea of the song, that you can see why some people were offended by this, i'm sure. >> i can. but i'm surprised sometimes by what it is that offends people. with this flag controversy, the last country song i remember mentioning the flag said that if you've got a problem with this confederate flag flying from my pick-up truck, you can kiss my country ass. and that's not offensive. we've had toby keith with the song about, we'll put a boot in your a

think it is a fair question to ask whether risk is really at risk, whether the rally peters out because stocks don't cooperate. >> you know, we did our fed survey, which is out today. and i'm seeing a good conversation happening between markets and the federal reserve. one thing i'd like to see, i'd like to see the feds stop tweaking communications now. i think it's kind of working. what happened over the intermediate period, they pushed ahead their timing for when the fed is going to start to taper, when the fed will stop qe. in a wave that seemed commensurate with the economic data. that's the first thing that happened. the second thing is that the market seems to be correctly counting on fed stimulus. and i don't see a need to really tweak it, even though the fed seems to be in this endless communication tweaking pattern here. >> what happens if the communications somehow is tweaked. then you guys had have to tweak your own investment strategy. >> i think what's meant to the market is japan and europe. nothing the fed has to do. for the fed, it's steady as she goes. you have the fed governors come out and

cooperate. what the president said is self-evident and smart. >> peter king does it and they are racist. >> greg write your own quran. the stuff is there for you to go get. the idea of self-radicalization doesn't hold water for me. the one thing that bugs me, i'm coming seat future of the bomber. he is going to get life. he is going to get anyed married. he will get fans. he will get a ph.d.. he is going to get published and famous. he will get laid -- in short he will have a richer life that didn't bomb americans. that is what happens in america when you get the greatest lawyers on your side. >> eric: are you weighing in on this one? how about the welfare benefits. >> eric: okay. [ laughter ] >> we are batting thousand today >> the family receives and parents were involved, too. >> this is what really offends people. scholarships. >> think what president obama was talking about engaging in communities was trying to assimilated and people feel welcome and become americans like you and me. what has offended people, we were paying for their lifestyle. how many others are there? i was listening to

cooperate? here's the problem. richard strasbourg, you can interpret his hiring a lot of ways. i remember him because he represented peter -- pretty amazing. he figured the martha stewart case. he did not settle or cooperate against martha stewart or anybody. he went to jail. he was convicted. you can look at it that way. both of these theories are bouncing around. and defense attorneys, go in and dump someone like charlie stillman, he is 75, doing this for a long time. basically tell the fed if you want to do deal with me i am willing to fight with you. no jail time. and if they put it away for 25 years in jail to to trading and how much money and guilty on all counts. to agree to no jail time would be an extraordinary step based on the fact and circumstances of this case. a lot of people talking about that, by hiring strasbourg he has uped at the end day. steve cohen says he has done nothing wrong that doesn't trade on inside information and to all the point out i don't have a view on this other than to say the government clearly gunning for the top guy, we had the deal yesterday, it was fun. bo dietl is good for insta

there is obviously very close cooperation between the u.s. and canada, petermes to any of these kinds of alleged terror plots. >> sure. and, wolf, we've seen in the past somebody from canada trying to get in to attack the united states, a very major plot, a man arrested by u.s. authorities on the canadian border was planning to blow up a bomb at lax airport in the middle of the christmas holiday season back in 2000. so, i mean, there's very good reason for the united states to have good cooperation with the canadians. it's one of the vectors that al qaeda and associated groups have tried to use in the past to attack the united states. and of course there's a long alliance between the two countries anyway. >> peter bergen, thanks very much for that. and now let's go up next, we're tracing the steps of the older bombing suspect in a troubled region of southern russia, and we're taking a closer look into his online links to violent islamic militants there. also coming up, growing evidence that the older tsarnaev brother who's now dead held significant influence o

the question is, though, what about the cooperation before the bombing on that wiretap information from 2011? new york congressman peter king of the house intelligence committee says it could have changed everything and that's not all. he joins us tonight. congressman, you said this weekend there were, in your words, certain matters in tamerlan tsarnaev's folder, presumably the one that came from the russians. what more can you say about that, what exactly was in that folder that wasn't followed up on? >> well, actually, it's not information that came from the russians. it was information the fbi came across on its own, which it did not think was significant enough to follow up on,they thought there was not enough substance to it to go further. my belief was, i can't go into what it was, that you have those two instances, plus the russians giving him -- giving the fbi his name. to me, this is more than just a coincidence when you have three different events like that. once, okay, twice, but three times, to me it warranted at least the fbi going further, keeping the file open. i also mentioned the fact that, you know, t

initiative are there peter thanks being with us what might russia be able to do in getting to the bottom of the attacks do you think. well i think first of all russia and america must cooperate in. conducting a thorough investigation into the into the attacks i also think that russia must and i'm sure it will investigate the reported. travels of the older brother tamerlan to russia which is which he is said to have needed about six months ago so. flight logs have to be looked at. it must be investigated where time along went in russia and who he contacted while they're now in the school of thought among a number of security experts that the bombings have bridged the gap between russia and the u.s. a bit they both therefore share the same terror threat are there a lot of key similarities well there are a number of similarities significant similarities the main one being that both countries over the last decade or so have been involved in fighting insurgencies america in afghanistan and iraq russia in. there have been inspired by the extremist intolerant brand of islam largely backed by and inspired by the vision of al qaeda. what does the north caucuses linking these attacks

would be extremely surprised if there wasn't very, very good cooperation on this issue because it is so much in both countries' interest. >> peter bergen, thanks very much. nick payton walsh on the ground in dagestan, thanks to you as well. while investigators dig into tamerlan tsarnaev's visit to dagestan, remember he was there for six months last year, could the bombing suspect have been steered to radical islam by a friend right back here in the boston area including near his home in came bridge? brian todd has been looking into this part of the story for us, a very sensitive part of the story. what are you finding out? >> new information tonight on influences that tamerlan tsarnaev had that may have made him veer toward radical islam. relatives are describing a shadowy figure who they say held sway over him in recent years. family members now describe a mysterious man who they say had a mezmerizing influence on tamerlan tsarnaev. they only know him as misha and say they don't know his full name. here is how the suspect's uncle described the man and his influence on the older brother in an interview with cnn. >> there is a pe

. >> stephanie: even peter king said that the russians obviously didn't tell us everything. jay carney yesterday. >> cooperationblem, not a national one. >> this is on a need to know basis. you don't need to know. >> stephanie: peter king. >> russians did not give us all of the information they have. they still don't trust us. we don't trust them. they felt if they give us more information we would be on to their sources and methods. >> stephanie: kevin writes one thing i have been struggling with once we heard about the dead bomber, are they saying we are now the minions of the russian intelligence agencies? is this what the tee bagging traitors party would think? what if we asked them to report to us. they would say [ censor bleep ] you, you yanky bastards. all right. eric holder, attorney general -- >> we will pursue relentlessly anybody who terrorize our cities or people. >> stephanie: again, to make even vague comparison to 9/11 in terms of when this entire huge plot of which there was ample warning was completely missed by the bush administration -- as the president said the fbi did do their job. they int

cooperatively with the republicans during his first term. didn't get him anything in terms of legislation. got him maybe a second term. but in "the new york times" this week, michael shear and peter baker say, call him, "a president who hesitates to twist arms." can you not be president without twisting arms? >> oh, i think that's a myth. >> do you? >> i just think the press is now overrun with president obama's personal shortcomings. that he doesn't engage, that he doesn't put pressure on members, doesn't tell them what to do. he doesn't give them bourbon and branch water and he -- and he doesn't raise hell with them. and the reality is, is that presidential leadership is contextual. he's operating with a republican party that's part of this broad apparatus. what can he do to any one of those republicans? he can't do anything. he's not in a position to do it. he tried negotiating early, that was his brand, right? the post-partisan president. he realized what he was up against, and then he said, you know, i've got to maneuver, position myself with the democrats in a way that we can get some things done. >> you know, i would say on the gun issue too we're premature here. it's not

peter. >> reporter: good to see you last night, by the way. you have the politician, journalists. illustrate a katy perry sighting, saw brandly cooper, too.y call this the nerd prom, highlighted between the dueling appearances. where nothing really is off-limits, not the politicians, pundits or even the president himself. here's a look back. >> it's like when two different zoos get together, you know, the hollywood zoo and d.c. zoo. >> also some surprise is attached to it. >> i got sniffed by a couple dogs, and i feel secure. >> i didn't have any idea how big this is. >> i think we all need some joy and laughter. >> i'm excited to see the president. that's why i'm here. >> obama, you know, that's my man. >> thank you, everybody. how do you like my new entrance music? rush limbaugh warned you about this, second term, baby. >> tonight i'm excited to announce that turner broadcasting is going to make a major television mini series about the big power players here in washington. vice president joe biden is going to be played by bob barker. paul ryan will be played by mr. bean. senator chuck schumer will be played by grandpa muenster. secretar

cooperate with authorities. but once again, we want to know if there's more plots out there. more bombs out there. are you working with anybody else in the united states? >> peter the course of this five-day investigation last week from the time of the bombings to when -- one suspect was killed and the other apprehended there were a lot of successes but also some things that didn't work. facial recognition software for instance. they had pictures of both of the suspects, both of the suspects were in the system somewhere, whether it's immigration photos, driver's licenses, yet they weren't recognized. is that a failure in the system? >> technology, you can only trust it up to a certain point. it came down to, you know, some terrific analysts, agents, law enforcement in finding these individuals, picking them off videos. so technology is only so good until it doesn't work. your computer is only so good until it doesn't boot. you have to have fallbacks. in this case, this technology didn't work. i'm sure in the future they will start to work on that, see if they can do this. lots of lessons will be learned across the board. why didn't we get these people before th

immediately to my left, a peter beilenson the author of "tapping into the wire" wire", the ceo of the evergreen health cooperative health care model authorized by the affordable care active spent 20 years prior in public health leadership having served as howard county health officer and health commissioner. he has received many national and local awards for his policies including the award from the american public health association, innovator of the year award from a daily record. he received an undergraduate degree from harvard the m.d. from emory school of medicine and the masters of public health from johns hopkins. in his book "tapping into the wire" he is its episodes of the hbo inner-city drama to talk of the misconceptions of drugs and crime and poverty in the public health will to address these issues. know i will ask each author to say a few words about their book and we will start with alan ehrenhalt he will speak about his book "the great inversion and the future of the american city." >> it is good to see you but i thought i would start with the story and i will tell it as quickly as i can. in 1979