started the statement by talking about her poll numbers that are doing quite well but go talk to rudy giuliani and asked him or president gary hart. they don't mean so much. she is the strongest candidate but she has weaknesses but if she can recognize those and somehow try to fix them or if she tries to ignore them then that will help to determine if she becomes the next president of the united states. >> host: author of the new book thank you for joining us. >> guest: thank you. >> host: the book is called "the contested murder of latasha harlins" justice, gender, and the origins of the la riots" published by oxford university press. the author is ucla history professor brenda stevenson. professor stevenson who was latasha harlins? >> guest: 14 year-old african-american girl who lived in south central los angeles at the time of her death living with her grandmother and her cousins and her aunt a freshman in high school and was killed on march 16, 1981, in south-central at a store by the shop keeper. >> host: why was she killed? >> guest: there was a struggle over a bottle of orange shoes tha

he went to the same catholic school that rudy giuliani did. the officer in question said, he went for my gun. thought he was going for my gun, i heard somebody say, get his gun. the person who was with patrick doris does man said, no, no, no. and then you get this he said he said. most juries say why would he lie? he must have done something. >> that is why the revulsion, the character assassination of michael brown postmortem, it will ultimately be germane because, is this the kind of person that could pose a threat? is this the kind of person who would have gone for the gun? the moment they say, you're going for my gun. we heard from people that michael brown reached for the officer's gun. unarmed black man killed by lapd the official count is, he went for the gun. >> in all cases, it may be the case in all of those cases, he was reaching for the gun. we have video evidence here that it wasn't the case, it is also significant in the sense of what kind of self-defense latitude it gives a police officer. >> either there's a tremendous epidemic

former new york city mayor rudy giuliani here to react to this. calls it a legitimate political actor. >> very hard to understand what has become of jimmy carter. i certainly never agreed much with jimmy carter but i admired him, particularly his humanitarian work. but he has gone off "the deep end." maybe he is feeling guilt over having to some extent empowered this whole movement in the first place. look, no one person caused all of this out of control islamic terrorism. a lot of it has to do with the organizations themselves but if there is one american contributed more than anyone else is jimmy carter and inability to keep the shah, overthrowing the shah shah. what that did. shah overthrown. hostage crisis, ayatollah. trace 90% what is going on in the middle east right now to the mullahs, ayatollahs. they're creating problem. they're supporting hamas. now how he could be asking us to support a terrorist group is totally mind-boggling. bill: when he was president too, he met at camp david. that was a big deal when it came between israelis and p

then youed had rudy giuliani and bill bratton changing the policing ways. >> well, it is not the only thing to spend the money on. >> and it is absurd left concept that does not work. >> and here is the thing. one thing that we have seen, dagan, over the years, over the last 25 years is that the crime has come down pretip to usually, -- precipitously, and part of the reason is aggressive polici policing. to adam's point, you combine it with technology and know-how, but it effective and made it a much better country. >> yes, butt at some point, it crosses the line, and we all agree when you look aggressive and mill tar is iistic you can to actual ly incite violence looking that way, and where you draw the line is impossible to quanti quantify, but there were instances in ferguson that made the hair stand up on your back. >> and now to the right of center is rudy giuliano, and now it is bill de blaso agbad. i'm paraphrasing, but what you need issing assertive, and here is the problem with places like ferguson, they are aggressive after the fact. they are not assertive. i don't believe t

i covered rudy giuliani in new york city hall and infamously, when there was one of these police shootings, he said about the victim of a shooting that this person was not choir boy and it turned out the boy was in fact a choir boy and it turned out he was a choir boy. the best rule of thumb on all of this, wait until the fact pattern is established and understand what the details are and then make your comment. >> i think he's handled this well. >> you remind me of the rudy giulia giuliani, new yorkers knew before the national media got to know him. when the president travels somewhere, a lot of people go with him, secret service and local police force has to be involved with that. it is a large operation in moving the white house wherever he goes. there are logistical problems in moving the president into a difficult area like a ferguson. >> listen, i totally agree with you on that. the one criticism that has resonated more and former officials discussed this with me as well as civil rights leaders, his relative sluggishness in addressing the disorder component of this, that it would not

you look at rudy giuliani. he's not going to do that in iowa, he may be too moderate. he'll start in florida. by the time the race got to florida, it was too late. it was over. >> ions don't always -- iowans don't always pick the nominee. hubbingle by was pick the in 2008 and santorum in 2012. months were spent following the candidates during the last presidential race. it's good for the candidates, they are learning how to run for president. when they arrive, they are not particularly good at running for president. they may be good at running for governor or congress. running for president is a different thing. >> in 2012, governor rick perry played the texas card hard, boot, buckles and all. the 2013 is more urban hipster, square glass, polo shirt and dress shoes, test driving a new image. iowans meet the candidates and here the politics. they look the candidate in the eye, judging the quality of the handshake. it's key. >> it's hard to imagine a better place if you want to be heart of the dialogue and want to interact with the figures. you will get to meet them all.

perspective that sounded like something that could have been produced by dick cheney or john mccain or rudy giuliani a few years ago. this is who he is. he'll go so far as to say, hey, i don't have a plan. i have no strategy as a way the to buy time, rather than shoot first and ask questions later. >> ron reagan, i have been looking at this for weeks nowment i saw it coming. rand paul is an isolationist, a dove. in many ways he conforms to what i think, probably for different reasons. i think the united states has gone way overboard in involvement in the world. too many fights, too many enemies looking for trouble. an itchy trigger finger. hillary clinton seems to want to be at least two notches to the right if not one notch to the right of the president. much tougher on russia, ukraine, the middle east, china, everywhere. she's much more ornery and wanting to fight. what's your thinking? what's going on with american foreign policy in the debate? >> the rand paul brand looks better on a bumper sticker than when you flesh it out. howard fineman is a fine editor. if rand paul were one of his columnis

rudy giuliani would wait a few days to put out the video. you make a good point, eric, it has been all over the place. why would they release a video and hours later this huge revelation that the officer had no idea. >> which is opposite of what he had said earlier. this morning he said, i've been listening to this stuff for days. at one point words came out of that police chief, he said they were responding because there was a robbery at a convenience store. they were on another call. if you make that leap and hear those words, you are saying those officer left the sick call to respond to the convenience store and on the way there's a suspect that matches the description, he had said the description was put out over the radio of the convenience store hold up or whatever it is, theft. so he kind of implied and he may have even said it, but he implied that was the suspect they were looking for. now all of a sudden he back tracked this afternoon and said it was all about blocking traffic. >> al sharpton has been on the scene. he's been making

." >> i have my mace and my shield and -- (laughter) you look at rudy giuliani and part of what theynt the big things later on, and i do think that has been republican police policy. >> brown: was that an effective policy? >> they were getting rid of the squeegee guns and money. it was turnstile operators and taking care of the small stuff as a way of preventing big crimes. the approach as we've seen is completely contradictory to sort of calm, civil law and order. >> sreenivasan: we know that certain authorities might have overstepped their bounds and been heavy-handed, but what about the state and federal government? what was their role? how would you grade them? >> the state government in the form of governor nixon very poorly. he has been talked about a little bit as a potential national political figure. i think not. i think if you want to nominate a national political figure as of this week, it would be captain johnson from the state police who really came in and did exactly what you want a politician/public figure to do which is to be a voice of calm and reason. governor nixon

rudy giuliani just ruined times square.ndian with the tear in his eye like the commercial longing for the old age with the peep shows. the place is pointless. it's stupid. it's culturally deficient. it's full of pig-faced overweight european tourists with too tight shorts and sandals. get them out. they want to see where the ball drops. you want to see balls drop, go to a mets game. you'll see plenty of balls dropping. >> i'm glad you said that. >> no more. that's it. second topic. rob ford, mayor of toronto. go. >> all right. here he is in a canadian park, mcguirk, with his brother on a seesaw. >> hey, listen, i love this guy. >> you love him? >> i love him. he makes people smile. he looks like he's enjoying life. he's been clean and sober for what, about three weeks now? god bless him. he's in a statistical tie for his race for mayor. he has a cameo in "sharknado 2." the fact he's a junkie and baa foon, who cares. >> would you give him five dollars if he came up and posed in a picture with you? no. what do you think? >> s

. >> i voted for rudy giuliani, governor pataki and many other republicans in the course of my life.terafter joint chief of centerafter -- i know you are very close to robin williams. very difficult the night of the premier because the news just broke. he had parkinson's disease as part of the mix there. >> that's the shocker. you know, robert deniro, billie crystal, people extremely close to him, you know, in one has let out the secret. when we heard about the park sans, because nobody could figure out. robin has been depressed and dealt with substance abuse but never taking it that far. i think the park sans is probably the key to taking the action that he did. he brought so much joy to so many people all the time. that's the thing about comeefdian like that. but so witty, so funny, playing practical jokes. i knew him 20 years when he won the oscar he said i would like to thank -- the family wean stein like a mafia family. >> you are wearing black, it's perfect. one word to describe lauren bacall. >> magnificent. incredible contributes written to lauren bacall. >> classic. >> that

clips from the 2005 documentary "giuliani time," which documented the rise, fall, and rerise of rudy giulianidential process peck, albeit a failed one, after being given the honor america's mayor after 9/11. the way many black americans remember the era was not one of crime reduction or the curtailing of quality of life nuisance crimes. for many black new yorkers, the era starting in the mid-1990s was one when black and brown men felt harassed and even terrorized by undercover cops, including giuliani's street crime unit, whose bravado and aggressiveness seemed is to be backed up by the mayor. mayor giuliani released the man's sealed juvenile record. relations between the police department and black and brown citizens didn't improve that much. even after the street crimes unit was disbanded in 2002, part of the fallout from the 1992 killing of diallo, shot and killed in his bronx apartment, at its peak the street crime unit boasted more than 18,000 stop and frisk encounter for new york, confiscating more than 1100 guns. stop and frisk survived the unit until a judge struck the practice down l

go talk to president rudy giuliani and ask him about the numbers early on and talk to president garyhart. .. >>

have educated children in new york city for, gosh, as long as i worked in new york city under rudy giulianiefended it. this is not something that has destroyed new york city. there are problems in the schools, but it's not caused by -- >> for this conversation, i think one of the points i also hear kimberly making isn't whether or not you should provide all this, but how long? and does this maybe present a slippery slope? because the longer you educate -- >> what's -- [inaudible] they've been here the last 15 years. >> why can't we follow the law? >> we ever going to get to the point where they ever get to that deportation hearing? >> this is following the law. following the law is educating them. >> they're breaking the law by crossing the border. >> no, they're not, it's asylum. >> oh, my gosh, i'm so over this blanket thing of asylum. they congresswoman from the a country -- come from a country with a bad economy -- [inaudible conversations] >> they cite violence, but it's not the children's fault -- >> have due process. >> i agree. >> follow the law. great respect for the law, and i thi

go talk to president rudy giuliani and asked him about poll numbers this early on.go talk to president gary hart and ask them about poll numbers. whole numbers don't mean so much to i think she's the strongest candidate, but she has weaknesses. whether she can recognize these weaknesses and semi-try to fix them, or whether she decides to ignore these weaknesses, i think that will help determine whether not should it comes the next president of the united states aspect daniel halper is the author of a new book, "clinton, inc.: the audacious rebuilding of a political machine." daniel, thank you so much for joining us on "after words." >> guest: thank you. >> booktv will be live today from the national book festival in washington, d.c. this year's group of featured authors include jonathan allen, doris kearns goodwin, congressman james clyburn. live coverage start attending eastern here on c-span2. over on c-span will have more from the event with authors of books about science and space, live all day starting at 10 a.m. eastern. >> c-span to provide live coverage of t

go talk to president rudy giuliani and asking about poll numbers this are going to go talk to presidentgary hart and talking about poll numbers. poll numbers don't mean that much. i think, i think she's obviously the strongest candidate but she has weaknesses. whether she can recognize these weaknesses, and some i tried to fix them, or whether she decides to ignore, these weaknesses, i think that will help determine whether not she becomes the next president of the united states posed by daniel halper is author of a new book, "clinton, inc.: the audacious rebuilding of a political machine." daniel, thank you so much for joining us on "after words." >> guest: thank you. .. on the upper right side of the page. >> up next ucla georgia leap talked to us book tv about her book jumped in, a study of los angeles gangs and gang violence biggest of demented interview was recorded at ucla in this part of book tv college series.. nameost: jumped inwae >> host: jumped in is the name of the book. professor george a leap of ucla is the author. the subtitle, what can stop me about violence, drugs, lov

i think i might be rudy giuliani's family. i don't know why that's having trouble.ompletely off. >> but i think this part was really interesting for us to report because of all the tension. you know you had obama sides fighting clinton site and so what we try to do i think is to reporters, to political reporters reporters we talked to as many people as possible. you would think we would talk to one side to get their take but in reality we talk to white house aides and we talked a lot of clinton people and they all sort of agreed that this is what happened. but you know they all have their own takes. like well this is why we would want our person but they all agreed that this was a tense moment for both sides. >> you know i think one of the things and we will read another short bed in a minute but one of the things that you find in this story is this intense loyalty that hillary clinton feels toward people who are in her inner circle and that is for better or worse. we all think of loyalty as a positive. you want to be loyal to your friends and the people who work th

if you want to understand what's happened in new york city over the past 40 years, yes, rudy giulianiwas starting in the '70s. as you say, you call them the gays. i don't know. gay men going to places like chelsea. you can go neighborhood by neighborhood by neighborhood. there needs to be several books written about this. made a big impact. don't tell me to move on. we're making t.j. uncomfortable. >> well, shehe's slow. he just turned 40. >> i think he's repressed. i think you need to come out. >> what? >> what? >> let's move on. >> the straights can keep him. >> you don't want him on your team? >> i like him as a straight. >> here from new york magazine, robert draper is here. we're sorry you had to listen to that. in sunday's issue, robert writes about how rand paul libertarians will win if the party doesn't shut them down. during the father's two runs for president as a republican in 2008 and 2012, libertarian activists gave him momentum far beyond his popular appeal. packing caucus halls and organizing rallies. but it's all an open question on whether these same activists will ge

dissidents who we promised to protect 10 years ago in maliki and iran has continue to break into what rudy giulianipromised to protect them. they are called the mek. protected persons under the geneva convention. iraqi army with support of iran went in and absolutely murdered 52 of them a year ago and it's a series of broken promises and assurances from the united nations and this administration. and unfortunately i'm going to be attending a memorial service for the 52, many of whom hands were tied behind their back and murdered, massacred and we, the united states of america, we had promised to protect them 10 years ago. shame on us. >> shame on us. all right. thank you so much. hope to see you soon. >> thank you, michael. >> coming up, a vietnam vet still not done protecting his country. now he is stepping up to help the youngest ones of his community. meet this retired marine turned crossing guard. and are you hitting the road crossing guard. >>> are you hitting the road this labor day? a whole bunch of us are. don't change the channel. all the things you need to check before you go. >>> there i