i got our good friend ron brown the commerce secretary who decide -- died suddenly, he had a saying, "leave the door open and the ladder down," and i want to you remember that because far too often we don't help each other. if i have an event and al calls me or he has an event and he calls me up, i might say with, i'll help up a little bit. so next time i need help, i call and he helps a little bit and the effort is a little bit successful. you know what happens particularly in the black community, in others too, because we don't help each other, we're not doing as well as we can do. that is a problem we all have to take responsibility for. all right. i don't know what i'm doing. i got to get back to it. the greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without purpose and vision. the greatest treasures in the world are not the companies that make up the new york stock exchange or the oil wells of the middle east but the semteries all ofe the world because of the lost potential did you hear what i just said? in the semteries -- semeteries because of lost potential. in other words

i was around when ron brown became the first african-american to lead a major political party back after the 1988 season. and, of course, the election of our first black president. i think if we look at all of these things in totality, we would say, oh, made enormous progress. but in my political opinion, we have come a long way since 1965 when this country enacted the voting rights act. we've seen african-americans more engaged in the political electorate. and clearly after the 2008 historical season, we saw african-americans use their political leverage to help elect our nation's first black president. are we there yet? have we reached that moment where race is not part of our conversation? absolutely not. have we reached a moment where the intersection of race and politics no lger collide? absolutely not. we still have enormous steps to take as a country to move beyond the old racial problems. and the issu itsel of how race plays a role in our politics. yes, president obama was able to put together a multi-ethnic, multi-diverse lture. >> you don't want any of these republicans to say

nancy keplinger, daniel ba are ron, doug brown and daniel plans field, good morning. >> good morning.ncy, you were the last one on that rig. you had to jump off. take us back to that moment if you can and walk us through what happened just before and then after you ended up in the water. >> well, i'll take you back to just before i left the bridge. the captain gave the order to abandon and when he did that my junior dpo grabbed two life jackets, one for her and one for me, and i started making the last mayday call on vhf channel 16, letting everyone know around that we are abandoning the rig. when we got down to the lifeboat deck, i noticed the lifeboats were gone and there was eight to ten people that were still on the deck. one was in a stretcher, chief medic was getting the life raft ready, the captain and a few other guys were manning the life raft davit. i started helping the chief medic with the life raft, we got that one done, hooked up and i started on the second one just in case we needed it. we got the people, two or three people got in the life raft first, then we were able

i was around when ron brown became the first african-american to lead a major political party back after the 1988 season. and, of course, the election of our first black president. i think if we look at all of these things in totality, we would say, oh, we made enormous progress. but in my political opinion, we have come a long way since 1965 when this country enacted the voting rights act. we've seen african-americans more engaged in the political electorate. and clearly after the 2008 historical season, we saw african-americans use their political leverage to help elect our nation's first black president. are we there yet? have we reached that moment where race is not part of our conversation? absolutely not. have we reached a moment where the intersection of race and politics no longer collide? absolutely not. we still have enormous steps to take as a country to move beyond the old racial problems. and the issue itself of how race plays a role in our politics. yes, president obama was able to put together a multi-ethnic, multi-diverse culture. >> you don't want any of these republican

voters we asked whether ron paul's third time could be the charm but the answer i'm joined by an unlikely. gentleman from miami florida just this morning he's a brown paul supporter behind the scenes from two thousand and eight and you're with us now from miami florida thank you. let's let's start by talking about sort of your personal experience with ron paul you've never voted you know you've never contributed to political candidates before a certain political events namely the war in iraq led you to ron paul and eventually you went on to collect millions for his campaign through the internet. but what is it about ron paul who by the way is a seventy five year old congressman twelve term congressman that resonates with folks like yourself and other younger voters well i think it's a stance on the principles of what makes america great you basically experience the constitution. and you know with those principles you have a rule book that rule book was written by the founders of this nation off of the experience of tyranny in other nations and really i see it as a kind of anti tyranny and book and we're seeing the government get larger and larger b

countries where there's an interest in intervening to brown has been a longstanding alliance with syria in this strategically important region right next to ron's arch nemesis israel syria syria isn't the same as libya geopolitically we've always realized that syria is iran springboard in its fight against israel this is why it will eventually make a powerful sunni jesica impact on iran's positions but this brings us back to the question what country will follow syria if it vents in syria progress according to the libyan scenario we will probably see a similar developments in iran unfortunately patti's iran will repeat the syrian scenario iranian ships have dropped anchor. in courts in numerous books and to tel aviv damascus crippled by crisis iran neal lose its footing in the region this is again a continuation of the idea that you use the international machinery to achieve your national objectives under the pretext that you are actually trying to protect human rights should the u.s. and its allies decide to go through with a habit of meddling in aiding revolutionary forces in the region the result may be catastrophic that if there is foreign

ben nelson, bob menendez, debbie stabenow, jay rockefeller, kay hagan, jeff merkley, ron wyden, mark warner, sherrod brown, tom harkin, chris coons, john tester, sheldon whitehouse, and senator mikulski and senator begich, myself and senator casey are the first two names because it happens to be our bill. it's the boxer-casey bill. so in closing, i want to just spread the word from here over to the house side that we are really serious, those of us who signed this letter. we are keeping this issue in front of the american people. because i assure you, if you walked out and asked anyone that happened to be walking down the street who was not involved here, didn't work for the federal government, and you said this -- in case of a shutdown, because the two sides failed to negotiate an agreement, the only people who are assured of their pay -- assured of their pay -- would be members of congress and the president, what do you think? i think the average person would say, that's wrong. they should pay a price. this is a basic function of theirs. to keep this government running, to keep this country going. i --

brown." host: in new jersey, deborah, independent, your thoughts? caller: i would not be interested in any of the current republican slate. they are all pro-establishment. i would like to see congressman ronaul. i think that he speaks truth to power. he hears his proposals to the founding fathers concept of government i would like to see -- government. i would like to see chuck cale from nebraska. i think that he is a stand-up person with truth and honesty. host: have you ever voted for a democrat? caller: i voted for a democrat in my first year. host: stony brook, maine, democratic line. you are on the air. caller: myself, i would like to see someone run on either side that is the ordinary working man. someone who has not been a career politician. someone who knows what it is like to lose your job and live paycheck to paycheck. there are a lot of unemployed, hard-working people out there that would love to have the job and take it for half the money. host: anyone out there that represents those characteristics? caller: i do not know of anyone yet, but i am sure that there must be someone. host: did you vote for president obama in 2008? caller: yes, i did. host: are you not going to vote

brown." host: in new jersey, deborah, independent, your thoughts? caller: i would not be interested in any of the current republican slate. they are all pro-establishment. i would like to see congressman ronaul. i think that he speaks truth to power. he hears his proposals to the founding fathers concept of government i would like to see -- government. i would like to see chuck cale from nebraska. i think that he is a stand-up person with truth and honesty. host: have you ever voted for a democrat? caller: i voted for a democrat in my first year. host: stony brook, maine, democratic line. you are on the air. caller: myself, i would like to see someone run on either side that is the ordinary working man. someone who has not been a career politician. someone who knows what it is like to lose your job and live paycheck to paycheck. there are a lot of unemployed, hard-working people out there that would love to have the job and take it for half the money. host: anyone out there that represents those characteristics? caller: i do not know of anyone yet, but i am sure that there must be someone. host: did you vote for president obama in 2008? caller: yes, i did. host: are you not going to vote