in 2011 but if rahm would have ran against him in 2011 i think rahm would have b-game. >> can you evenmagine rahm running against richard m. daley? >> i could. [laughter] then finally i would say he surpassed his father to become the longest serving mayor in history of chicago. i think that was important to him personally. and by staying for another four years, you can't get that notch in your belt. >> i would like to ask the walter what is his perspective of the state of media right now? especially the "chicago sun-times" laying off all of its photographers and probably the question whether or not are we hanging to a one newspaper town, what's your perspective? what you like about the current state of me and what you don't like, especially with social media, seems like taking things over. >> i'm sorry, maybe i'm not hearing it. i don't get skittish the current state of the media. sometimes, laos giving all manner of things but i'm going to give you an answer. spanky would be a good one to talk about that. it's just desperate, print media is on the way out. it won't be long before i, i

i did not know whether to sit here and have grover and rahm right next to each other. rahm, former white house chief of staff, three term member of congress, and now mayor of chicago. we do not do advocacy, but if you look at cities and their mayors and what kind of aims the chief executive -- kinds of things the chief executive of the city does -- what rahm emanuel has been doing, synthesizing the equation of what you're city will look like, it is an impressive arena. groverse, we have norquist, president of the americans for tax, encouraged by ronald reagan. i do not know whose idea the old was, but it worked -- both was, but it worked. i was with amy klobuchar recently. wasnterviewed her and she telling us how grover was now getting hate mail by some of his own base because of committee testimony he provided on the joint economic committee that was very positive. i thought today "crossfire" is coming back on cnn. you have people with differences that bash each other without thinking. i thought today we would have a conversation. >> i am out of here. [laughter] >> ra

because he lives in chicago, and even though rahm -- i mean, mayor rahm emanuel is one of his friendshe should have told him to stop the school closings, because he doesn't know -- because rahm emanuel might not know how bad it is in chicago. we are like one of the number one martyr killed in chicago. we are one of the most gang violence. it's just really segregated between us, like, south side, west side, it's a division between that. so he really should have had said to stop those school closings, tell mayor rahm emanuel to stop, because he might not know how bad it is. you might have lived in chicago, but you might not have lived long enough to know. >> so you want the president to get a little bit more involved there, understand it, make sure that resources go to every school district, so every kid gets a chance? >> yes. >> that's your mission? >> well, what do you play in football? >> i play running back -- well, basically i'm all over, because i play kickoff return, kickoff, running back, safety. i was corner back, and i was quarterback for a little while. >> well, you're runnin

i didn't know whether to have grover and rahm right next to each other but, of course, rahm emanuel,three-term member of congress now the mayor of chicago. frankly, if you go and look around the city or the nation at cities and their mayors and what kinds of things the chief executive of a city does, what rahm emanuel has been putting in place particularly with his building a new chicago, looking at infrastructure, immigration, how you basically synthesize what the equation of your city's going to look like, it's a very impressive arena. ron brownstein has done a big profile on this and, of course, we have grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform, encouraged by ronald reagan to, basically -- i don't know whose idea the oath was, but it worked, and it continues to be a formidable issue in american politics today. and lo and behold, i was with amy klobuchar recently, we interviewed her at the atlantic, and she was telling us how grover was now getting hate mail from some of his own base because of committee testimony that he had provided in the joint economic committee th

rahm emanuel announced layoffs in the public school. already, we see the potential for a snowball effect. doug bernstein is a bankruptcy lawyer. do you see your focus shifting from the private to the public sector? >> it is certainly possible. my practice is representing banks with troubled credit. i have been busy for several years and the united states. >> you will be busy for a long time. hopefully. >> yes and no. my business thrives on people's misery. >> banks are not people. >> well, but there are business owners wh do suffer. when the banks come calling to collect their money, it is a problem. >> that is where the state [inaudible] what you are saying about contagion, there is a terror going on. the banks are saying, implement austerity policies. if not, we will come after you. when you say that rahm emanuel is laying off tens of thousands of people == >> 2100 from the public schools. >> it is very bad policy because the only way you can create jobs is by putting money into people. >> the problem in the u.s. system is that you ca

>> no, that is not fair what rahm -- well, what mayor emanuel is doing.orhoods. >> what would you say to the mayor right now? you've spoken out in the past -- you've said that rahm emanuel is more interested in building prisons than schools. is this kind of what you're talking about? >> it's exactly what i'm talking about. because if he closes more schools, he's going to build more prisons. and honestly, the amount of kids that they are going to be like -- they might drop out of school because it's devastating that they had to lose their old schools where they first met, where they first met their friends. and it's devastating to the children. and it's devastating to, like, maybe if they had a generation, like, for my school, marcus godfrey, we had generations and generations. and to see that school fall, it's like wiping out a whole generation of kids who went there and they're passing that on to their grandchildren and their children. >> if we think that 9-year-old kids can't consume what's going on, we are wrong. what message are we sending to young pe

i did not know whether to sit here and have grover and rahm right next to each other.r white house chief of staff, three term member of congress, and now mayor of chicago. we do not do advocacy, but if you look at cities and their mayors and what kind of aims the chief executive -- kinds of things the chief executive of the city does -- what rahm emanuel has been doing, synthesizing the equation of what you're city will look like, it is an impressive arena. of course, we have grover norquist, president of the americans for tax, encouraged by ronald reagan. i do not know whose idea the old was, but it worked -- both was, but it worked. i was with amy klobuchar recently. we interviewed her and she was telling us how grover was now getting hate mail by some of his own base because of committee testimony he provided on the joint economic committee that was very positive. i thought today "crossfire" is coming back on cnn. you have people with differences that bash each other without thinking. i thought today we would have a conversation. >> i am out of here. [laughter] >> r

i didn't know whether to sit here and have grover and rahm right next to each other. of course rahm emanuel, former white house chief of staff, member of congress, now the mayor of chicago. we don't do advocacy forums here, frankly if you look around the city, around the nation at cities and their mayors and what kinds of things the chief executive of a city does, what rahm emanuel has been putting is particularly with his building in chicago, looking at infrastructure, immigration, how you basically synthesize what the equation of your city will look like. it's a very impressive arena. prounstein at national journal has done a piece. and president grover norquist, president for american tax reform. i don't know whose idea the oath was, but it worked. and it continues to be a formidable issue in american politics today. and lo and behold i was with amy klobuchar recently. we interviewed her at the atlantic. she was telling us how grover was now getting hate mail from some his own base because of committee testimony he provided in joint economic committee that was posi

rahm's choice!reporter: the year began with a bitter dispute between the chicago teachers union and mayor rahm emanuel over wages, teacher evaluations and class size. it was the district's first strike in 25 years. and then the city's controversial decision to close more than 50 elementary schools sparked renewed opposition from teachers. the closings this fall will be the nation's largest ever. amidst all the very public disruptions, about 100 chicago public schools suffer from chronically high rates of teacher turnover, losing a quarter or more of their teaching staff every year. as a result there are thousands of new teachers, like abby miller who are trying to take charge of a classroom for the first time. >> how come every time we come back from math lab half the class has lost their pencil? to say it's a challenge is an understatement. >> i kind of had a false sense of what i was getting myself into. you can study it in a classroom, you can say "oh well, if this student does this, then you sho

but obviously this structural problem has to be dealt with and i know rahm emanuel, the mayor, is working on that problem and may have to take some draconian steps to try to deal with them if the legislature isn't willing to do what needs to be done. >> when rom eman aahm emanuel i working on civic problems, he's going to events like the taste of chicago. last weekend he was seen as sort of getting into the mood. this is a mayor for all seasons. we do know that he was a dancer before he was in politics -- a real dancer. >> yes, he was. that's where he learned the leg kick and it generally is in someone's midsection but he was a dancer. >> just very quickly wanted to ask you about joe biden and hillary clinton. i interviewed nancy pelosi and we showed yesterday that nancy pelosi was all in basically with hillary clinton. we need a woman, she's the best qualified. joe biden in his comments to "gq," one of the other things he said was, if you come in to the office i have two portraits hanging. one of jefferson, one of adams, both vice presidents who became presidents. he likes to look at the

it really goes back to the date when rahm emanuel was still in the house and we could not even find a republican sponsored. i have consistently said the from 1986 wetion clean up these tax rates and use the money to hold down rate but the productivity and help middle class. the consumer drive 70% of the economy. we have a paid for tax cuts. it is very much in line with waseconomic thinking that part of his speeches. were there many that wanted their proposals to be kept secret for that long? >> i think what we want to do is find a way to encourage deliberations. there are lots of new senators joined this. it is quite clear that in the senate they want to make sure that everyone of the hundred senators has a chance to be heard. you joked about some of the ofelligence style shrouding this whole debate. no one is going to be very surprised by what i said because it tracked the bipartisan proposals. we are here. any sense from the white house about when a consensus is coming? >> i have been talking to senators about that. i have had reservations about the concept. i think the evidence is

. >> and also in chicago, mayor rahm emanuel was caught getting loose at the annual taste of chicago. the mayor was spotted dancing along and loosening his tie to robin thick's blurred lines. having fun there. that's your morning's dish of scrambled politics. >>> the heat wave an we've been covering all week turned fatal with the death of a 1-year-old left in the an suv in alabama. heat indexes of 100 degrees or more are still being felt from the midwest to the northeast. chris clackham has that story. >> reporter: another day of scorching temperatures and another run on air-conditioners. >> i need a little help top help me cool off the living room a little bit. that's where we spend our time. >> reporter: time better spent there than outdoors like in washington where it was dangerously hot again thursday. >> those who can't protect themselves from the heat like the very young or old are the people the most common victims of heat. >> it's been a week's worth of 90 plus heat in the new york city area. heat indices approach 100 this afternoon. but many residents are taking it in stride.

program good to be here you recently wrote an article on this topic richard you called liberals like rahm emanuel's social issue corporatists what you mean by that right well i think we're seeing an increasing pattern where as economic policies of the so-called centrist democrats who are really right leaning they are to the right of popular opinion on a number of issues like social security and bank reform and so on and as those economic positions getting creasing lee unpopular with the liberal base they are turning the focus of their comments more and more to social issues like gay marriage like women's reproductive rights and women's health rights which are in and of themselves important and worthy issues but in essence what i was saying is that they're doing very much what the republicans were doing a few years ago with the so-called values voters and that is getting people to ignore or even sometimes vote against their own economic interests by emphasizing social issues and not economic ones richard haven't we seen this movie before bill clinton in one thousand nine hundred. four move

and she hoped that next time it would be mayor rahm emanuel throwing some moves. >> why would you wantcome in the background and dancing. >> she has an invitation to come here and dance for us. >> i'm going to dance behind you. >>> for some of you, local news is next. >> for everyone else, we're coming right back with news, we promise. stick around. we won't be doing this anymore. in-dash navigation system in america powered by your smart phone. the chevrolet spark with available bringgo navigation. it doesn't just get you from point "a" to point "b." ♪ it also comes with you... to point "c." from one intelligent mobile device to another. that's american ingenuity to find new roads. from one intelligent mobile device to another. backflips and cartwheels.mile? love, warmth. here, try this. mmmm, ok! ching! i like the fact that there's lots of different tastes going on. mmmm! breakfast i'm very impressed. this is a great cereal! honey bunches of oats. i hear you crunching. . feels like listerine® because no mouthwash works like listerine®. its unique formula penetrates the layers of bact

know possibly will the chicago unions and the chicago city government bailed out i'm afraid you know rahm emanuel and sort of say is probably going to get in the way and the you know again the fiesta the fed is just going to create the money out of thin air. so when this all comes to an end i wish i knew i'd be rich right if if i knew that but i don't think there was any question that is coming to an end the fed and all its subsidiaries central banks have set up the world in a situation that's never existed in the history of humankind the amount of money creation that they've undertaken so when when the n.b.a. you know becomes and knives are going to happen in china something else going to happen in europe is going to be rising interest rates in the u.s. side by i don't know my guess is it's going to be something nobody xox. just like it's going to come out of you know of nowhere as far as the president's pledge protection team and the rest of these people in washington are concerned and it's going to knock them off their feet and there's going to be a huge financial crisis and i don't kn

hope that that means it went with him well i think it's a you know once again there's the glenn beck rahm pauls and then you've got the dick cheney's i call it kind of fall somewhere in between those two and you know larry an independent think it's an independent thinker if you're going to inspire and educate audiences you've got to be a remake of dick cheney's daughter. liz is going to go into the run for senate in wyoming i think it's i think it's great i think it's our original incumbent conservative senator who's popular. look i'm a big fan of the cheney family and they have like the lowest approval ratings like lower than like darth vader but i like the guy and i support a reverse family but on the women issue because you know as he said his daughters are running the conservative party to me if they just they've got to stop with the abortion stuff but if you look around the world who's protecting women's rights i mean conservatives are very strong against radical islam and there's nothing more damaging to women around the globe i'm talking about the radicalism if you look at which a

earn a bachelor's degree also as a result of city budget constraints and ineffective teaching mayor rahm emanuel and the chicago board of education decided to close forty nine elementary schools causing this the first teacher strike in chicago in twenty five years as a result of these closures eight hundred fifty teachers and staffers will be laid off now on the other hand the school system announced in may that its graduation rate is growing to the highest it has been since one nine hundred ninety nine also school attendance was just under ninety three percent this year nevertheless graduates and their parents who attended the ceremony said that they appreciated loop if you ask those words of advice just goes to show that you never stop learning even after you graduate and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america and for the latest and greatest information coming out from around your world to check out our website r.t. dot com slash usa and don't forget to follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez stay tuned breaking

hispanics in the workplace might actually be bad for the economy overall drew a bipartisan reduke from rahm emanuel and grover norquist best known for the no new taxes pledge. >> immigration is what makes us the future, not europe, not japan, not china. and we do it better, smarter and get back on track to where we've historically been. >> in the city of chicago, about 50% of all new business applications are by immigrants. and that's why i've always said you cannot be pro small business and be anti-immigrant. >> the clock is ticking and the odds are getting longer that the house will have a real difficult time passing immigration bill. first they have to work out the differences if they get it passed in the house, they have to work out the differences with the senate and then get something to the flad can actually be signed. the crunch is because get an agreement will be even tougher next wreer when lawmakers will be facing re-election. it's kind of a now or never situation and time running out. >> okay, thank you. >>> still ahead, putting voter i.d. on trial. first, trying to stop the fis

when we have an elected official or you have mayor bloomberg or rahm emanuel, mayor antonio villaraigosa, it is wonderful to have an elected official that uses they are informal power. we believe that it convenes constituencies, networks, jurisdictions, parties and others. frankly there are many parts to this country that do not have that in their elected officials and their other readers. it could be the head of a university or a business association for philanthropy. it could be people who are in middle management or community associations. my sense is that leadership is the united states is rich and leadership. particularly in our to put this over party. we have to really think about this as networks, as jennifer said. many of them are about the absence of elected leadership with others. >> one of it is called the post hero economy. we were going to place after place and they would say that we are doing all of this so we can get the next steve jobs or michael dell, and it's like, all right, we'll come back when he's here. we wanted to get people to understand that you just cannot wait

he says that group is not religious, not fasting for rahm done or reading religious books.most requested is 50 shades of grey. i guess there's not much going on, these guys are going nowhere, so what the hell. they report they have thousands of books, magazines, dvds to choose from at the gitmo library including the harry potter series. >>> planned parenthood is under assault again, this time not just about abortion. correspondent molly henneberg tells us about former workers in delaware that say patients are in grave danger. >> reporter: these three former employees at the planned parenthood abortion clinic in wilmington, delaware are not convinced conditions there have gotten any better since the state inspected in april. one compared it to the philadelphia abortion clinic run by dr. kermit gosnell, now in prison for killing babies who survived abortions. >> the similarity between the case of dr. gosnell and planned parenthood of delaware is that they both operated extremely hazardous abortion clinics and that their respective states refused to close, despite repeated war

rahm emmanuel was a former congressman but not a well-liked congressman. then when you start your term in unison with the speaker of the house or majority leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell saying we'll become the boys of no for you. taking nothing away from what they were trying to do right now. what they're trying to do is very difficult even in the best of circumstances, taking money that is owed to taxpayers and diverting it elsewhere. even when it sounds good on paper it's very difficult for any senator or representative to swallow. >> you see them being obstructionists in a line item away. they cannot shut obama down. they can shut the government down but the funds will still be there. >> let's hope so, i i don't think anyone has seen in our life sometime such an obstructionist political system. i firmly believe there is not one thing that the president can do to change that. what he's proposing in terms of infrastructure investment and getting the middle class back to work. that's why i voted for him. that's why i campaigned for him, that's what

rahm emanuel said it is a shame to waste a perfectly good crisis.ere is his chance to be the president for everybody, to say i'm going to fix this, i find it outrageous, we're going to do whatever it takes to solve this problem. >> he promised that when this first came, fraser, to that point, promised a commission will look into it, someone will look into this. then low and behold you find the fbi director didn't know who was investigating this, groups that were supposedly targeted by the irs were never questioned by the investigator. it was all for show, all for theater. >> right. there's nobody inthe irs has ta party and who knows who else. he has to say that's wrong. that should stop. the irs has spent $229 million on motivational seminars. he has to say that's got to stop. the last thing anybody wants is a motivated irs agent. has he to say this will stop. in other words, he has the bully pulpit but he shrinks from it. that's why for five years, this guy was a great speaker, but for five years, you haven't really heard it. >> bruce, any clarific

about going to cabrini green and calling for true attention to a failure of city leadership under rahmmanuel, under the police chief, and a community that is in, well, mortal turmoil? bill: that would draw headlines. when you've got the bully pulpit you can do that. kirsten, i give you the last word. >> he went to chicago in february and gave a speech. i don't know why we're pretending he hags not tried to draw attention to this he was, he is responding to a major national outcry is why he is spoke about trayvon martin. i want to go back to this idea that stand your ground was not part of this case. that is absolutely false. in the jury instructions they actually used terminology, from the "stand your ground" law. they used the phrase, stand your ground. one. jury members who did an interview used phrase stand your ground how they reached their verdict. this was a mentality that went into it. i think it is really disingenuous to pretend stand your ground had nothing to do with it. >> i appreciate both of you. there is much to talk about this. i appreciate the input. kirsten. thanks to

mayor rahm emanuel was jamming at the taste of chicago last week. he is apparently is being unaware he is captured on cell phone video. he is rolling up his tie and shirt sleeves and the mayor is no stranger to cutting a rug. remember, he took ballet lessons as a child. to see more of that video, head to thomas roberts facebook and twitter pages. a-a-a. f-f-f-f-f-f-f. lac-lac-lac. he's an actor who's known for his voice. but his accident took that away. thankfully, he's got aflac. they're gonna give him cash to help pay his bills so he can just focus on getting better. we're taking it one day at a time. one day at a time. [ male announcer ] see how the duck's lessons are going at aflac.com >>> we asked you answered -- should the massachusetts state police sergeant be punished for releasing photos of dzhokhar tsarnaev's arrest. tony said yes. he took an oath to serve and protect. alexander weighed in -- he should not be punished. he's a murder, not a rock star. from rob din, two wrongs do not make a right. releasing any evidence, et cetera has to be

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rahm immanuel and well known conservative activist grover norquist of the no new taxes fame both backedsive reform. >> immigration is what makes us the future, europe. not china, and -- do it better, smarter and get back on track to where we have historically been in the city of chicago, true 50% business by immigrants. that's why i have always said you cannot be pro-small business and be an it at this immigrant. >> well, if the house can pass an immigration bill, it's even start until after lash day. then it will have to be matched up with the senate bill and compromise that the president. if that doesn't happen this year. prots speculation in worse shape in 2014. with the election next year lawmakers are not likely to bring up something as controversial as this especially after a year trying and getting perhaps nowhere. >> let's see how it goes. carl cameron in d.c. high official met with egypt's government today for the first time since the military tossed out its former president mohammed morsi about two weeks ago. that american official deputy secretary of state william burns said

you are rahm versus howard dean and it was the two but they are having a fight at the time and it too national security. it was obama on one side and hillary on the other and we know what went out. it's interesting national security is right now the thing that is splitting the party. >> i think the question in my mind is this tactical or strategic? christie has gotten himself into a position people say he can't win the republican nomination because he is not conservative enough so he comes at rand paul in a way that appeals to some of the base of the conservative part of the party. rand paul is still, i think, trying to figure out and present a more coherent sense of what libertarianism really is and might also get him the nomination. his father was a libertarian and always had a ceiling and the we for rand paul is can he get a bigger share of the republican vote than his father did? >> what is interesting when you hear rand paul talk about 2016 he relishes the idea if he gets the -- we heard ralph nader refer to hillary clinton as a general. she is too hawkish on foreign policy and r

. >> valery jarrett, the royal battle with robert gibbs and rahm emmanuel and resentment with david axle rod and anita dunn and val real jarrett and david axle rod have crossed and bill district attorneyy and valery jarrett. a lot of dirty laundry has been aired. >> charlie: and think of all the things you just talked about. most people know about that. >> most people inside do. i think it's very inside. >> charlie: inside washington, inside journalists' corps. >> in political class. i think most people don't care about it. >> charlie: most people don't care. i don't care whether it's valery jarrett likes bill daily or not. you're saying. >> i think most people don't. i made very conscious decisions not to include a lot of the white house intrigue and a lot of the intrigue snares because. >> i did not want this book given over to another book about the white house or the inside of the campaign. >> charlie: or another book that was simply gossip. >> yes. a lot of this stuff is real. i mean... snairls it's real but up don't want it to be considered gossip because everybody wants to know so

we have a chicago may, rahm emanuel, who's been very tough on the teachers and finally negotiated a compromisee teachers. i think that he's a tough man and he will tough bargain. if you don't like the way he bargains, don't blame the public employees, who by the way the pension you're talking about in detroit $18,000 a year is not a lot of money. and i don't think you should blame -- >> for heaven's sake. >> with how much money -- >> with all due respect that is an incorrect statistic. let me go to mark simone -- >> is that incorrect? tell me. >> yes, that is completely incorrect. but i want to go to mark simone on this. you know what they're doing in detroit? they've got 15,000 workers left. that's what they have. because the city's shrunk so much. and those 15,000 workers are paying for the retirement-length health benefits. as long as 22,000 workers who have retired. as long as they're alive their health benefits are paid by the last 15,000. and of course whatever tax increases the government puts in. now, that is a lousy system. >> you may not know this. i grew up right next to detroit. an

is absolutely critical and frankly when you have an elected official or you have mayor bloomberg or rahm emanuel or villaraigosa it's wonderful to have an elected official who frankly uses their informal ability to convene constituencies and networks across sectors and disciplines and across jurisdictions and across ideology. if you don't have that and frankly there many parts of this country that don't have that leadership in their elected officials, their other leaders. look around the metro. it could be the head of the university. it could be the head of the business association. it could be philanthropy. it could be people who are in middle management or community associations. my sense is leadership, the united states is rich in leadership and particularly in our cities and metropolitan areas which tend to put place of her party but we have got to basic we stop stopped thinking about the celebrity leader or the one later. we have to really think about these networks. our stories very much are really about networks and many of them are about the absence of elected leadership. >> we a

early this year mayor rahm emanuel held a press conference where he announced some money from privatebusinesses hoping to funnel some of that money back into the community. those numbers are already stark. when you look at black youth who are disproportionately victims of gun violence and perpetrators of gun violence, that's upwards of 90%. not only do they have a place in this community, but they're able to provide for themselves and just try to make it through even the toughest of times. we're talking about neighborhoods that have economically unstable. the access to education is, you know, soft and unsteady. so it's a high mountain to climb. again, after decades of this issue, we still haven't found something that works. >> yeah, and celebrities are trying to get involved as well. yesterday you had chicago bulls star derek -- derrick rose. he sat down with cnn. he had this to say. >> it all starts from poverty. i think people just surviving. people just really just trying to get out. if you look at the world we live in today, everything is just getting faster. you want success fast

. >> joe, some of the problems that you're seeing in other cities, chicago is one, you hear mayor rahmnds of tradeoffs that are going to be necessary if you want to have quality education system or continue to be able to pay some of the pensions which seem to be unsustainable across the board, some of the difficult choices that have to be made. how does a city like detroit starting from so far behind get into the place where they're making tough choices. >> yeah. >> steve, there are a lot of reasons detroit got to this day. you've been pointing them out all morning. one is the liabilities. something like $18 billion. is it too far a reach to say this could be a preview of coming attractions for the federal government, which is to say, down the road with social security and medicare, we're going to have more people taking from the system than we have putting in? >> let me say a couple things about what was said before quickly and then get to that. first, there are cities that have successfully reinvented themselves. pittsburgh is one that comes to mind as a city that had a one company t

rating citing the pension costs, and we know that illinois has $1 billion unfunded pension problem and rahmd that this is evidence that the pension crisis is nearing chicago's doorstep and earlier allstate in the same part of the country cutting the retiree benefits and this is the largest publicly traded insurer in the country, and they are cutting to save costs and incredibly sensitive to the low rate environment and other examples of this happening as well. so from the investor point of view what does it mean? well, it means that you want to avoid unless you are again in the camp just to mention alaska airways we will have a fully funded pension if on one of the assumptions that the rate goes to 4.85%, and if that does not happen, you want to look and be weary of the names with major pensions attached to them or the major pension funding costs, but guys a broader problem in here as well. it is basically this. the extent to which the social safety net that workers can anticipate is being eroded whether it is because companies are no longer able to contribute as much as they did to the pen

. >>> it was rahm emanuel who's now the mayor of chicago who once famously said never let a good crisis taking that to heart in the aftermath of the zimmerman case. various politicians have used that passion to put their own agendas. the president first among them linking this case to stand your ground laws. there is of course no connection between the zimmerman case and stand your ground laws but you'd never know that listening to president obama. watch. >> and for those who resist that idea that we should think about something like the stand your ground laws, i just ask people to consider if trayvon martin was of age and armed could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk. and do we actually think that he would have been justified in shooting mr. zimmerman who had followed him in a car because he felt threatened. and if the answer to that question is at least ambiguous, then it seems to me that we might want to examine those kinds of laws. >> that's a different debate. right? having a discussion about stand your ground separate from this case which was not actually part of the proce

20 injured, black people shot and killed, regardless of who killed them, failure of leadership by rahmice leadership. the media, frankly complicit in some quarters. you talked about deceptiid he e of the 911 calls. those who make the news. as americans we need to reject this kind of behavior and reject it openly. not what's going on in oakland, that's not a rejection, that's anti-justice and due process. >> david webb, thanks so much for being here with your perspective. george zimmerman not guilty, cleared of all charges. "fox & friends" will be right back. [ brent ] this guy's a pro, herbie. [ herbie ] there's no doubt about it brent, a real gate keeper. here's kevin, the new boyfriend. lamb to the slaughter. that's right brent. mom's baked cookies but he'll be lucky to make it inside. and here's the play. oh dad did not see this coming. [ crowd cheering ] now if kevin can just seize the opportunity. it's looking good, herbie. he's seen it. it's all over. nothing but daylight. yes i'd love a cookie. [ male announcer ] make a powerful first impression. the all-new nissan sentra. ♪ the

the federal agency folks who may be -- if i crounse this rahm i apologize. is it serona? >> serino. >> one of the issues we've had on grants is the account of the grant. let's take for example the incident in boston today and are you going to do anything that reveals how the federal dollars that went to purchase grants how those were utilized and improvements on that or positives that could be shared with us? is that something you will do in the future? >> i've done a lot of that already working with the state and the city's looked at specifically what equipment and also training and exercises pity that it was actually utilized during the marathon in the week following in a ceremony. and i think one thing that we also strive to do is look at it is not just a city capability that a regional capability to begin again, boston and massachusetts outside of the state have done that really well. there was a mother to become number of police departments and agencies that brought some of their homeland security but the funded equipment to the scene to help out with that as well. >