[laughter] what was on bill maher's show with sam harris and he vigorously and vitriolic layout tacked sam accusing him of racism because sam has criticized islam and that's a very easy thing to do but it's a very silly superficial thing to do because of course islam is not a race. it is an enormous way widespread misconception that anybody who criticizes islam is being religious. i would say that if you can convert to it or are possible with ties of it then it's not a race, okay? [laughter] [applause] >> so it's nonsense to criticize people like sam harris and indeed may hugo after the extremes that islam can deliver as racism. i thought it was a rather disgraceful exhibition of bigotry on ben affleck's part and there's a kind of condescension about it actually as well because the horrific things that are done in the islamic world, but the horrific things that are done to people, two women, stoning women to death for the crime of being raped, throwing acid in their face for the crime of refusing to marry a cousin, refusing to let them drive cars, refusing to let them leave the house a

sam harris' recent appearance on bill maher's show got me to offer my thoughts on islam in the past weeks. today sam and i will hash it out directly. >>> also, the fight against isis. should america and the west even be involved? or is it a local sectarian conflict best left alone by the world? we'll have a great debate. >>> and what do the protesters in hong kong and the people of america have in common? a lot says my guest, lawrence lessig. indeed, the americans, he said, should be even more upset than the umbrella protesters. i'll let him explain. >>> then anthony bourdain on his trip to iran. the food, the people, the culture behind the politics in the islamic republic. >>> but first here is my take. can arab countries be real democracies? well, one of them, tunisia, just did well on a big test. more than 20 years ago the scholar samuel huntington established his famous two-turnover test for fledgling democracies. he argued a country can only be said to be a consolidated democracy when there have been two peaceful transitions of power. tunisia passed huntington's test after last weeke

i think he was briefed by someone who said sam harris does a racist and go after him to this is what i suspect. >> probably his publicist. [applause] >> a pleasure to meet you mr mr. dawkins panetta question for you. after having read darwin and i've read almost everything you have ever written that has been published one of the questions that always seems to seep through my mind is when we talk about the big bang theory and we talk about evolution, one of the questions that i always have mulling around in my mind is when you think of the first unicellular organism. how's the scientific community figured out where that first cell originated from? >> no it hasn't and it's one of the big open questions. it's something that happened a very long time ago for probably about 4 billion years ago, not long after the earth came into existence about 4.5 billion years ago. we know the kind of thing it had to be. it had to be the origin of the first cells replicating information, the first gene although it certainly would not have been dna. dna would have almost certainly come in later and usurp

. >> and what you said is many of these critics - marr, new atheist, sam harris, and many in the more mainstream media that you are referring to - criticized islam because they believe the violence we see from i.s.i.l., and from other islamic terrorists is inspired or derived from the koran. your argument is that religion is like an ideology, it's up to the individual to interpret it. >> it's not just my idea, it's basic religion 101. it's what you learn on the first day, that people insert their own values into their text. otherwise we taum every individual -- assume every executived thul that reads -- individual that reads a scripture comes away with the same interpretation. that is lunacy, false. the notion that there is a one to one correlation between belief and behaviour that versions of religious faith, for the fact that it shares a measure of believe with the moderates in that religion is equivalent to the entire religious community. that has become so normal that for the vast majority of americans they believe islam is different. that every other religion in the world is. no

sam harris' recent appearance on bill maher's show got me to offer my thoughts on islam in the past weekstoday sam and i will hash it out directly.

sam harris' recent appearance on bill maher's show got me to offer my thoughts on islam in the past weeksm and i will hash it out directly. >>> also, the fight against isis. should america and the west even be involved? or

. >> sam daley harris talks about how citizens can come together to exert political power next. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> we are delighted to introduce mr. ketan. he also founded the microcredit summer campaign and most recently in 2012 he 2012 he founded the center for citizen empowerment and transformation. he has and a a great deal of recognition and respect for his work. no other organization has been as critical a partner in seeing to it that it is used as a power. and one of the certified great social entrepreneurs of the last decade. we are thrilled to have you here and congratulate you on the 20th anniversary edition of your book "reclaiming our democracy." equally delighted to have former congressman mickey edwards join us here today, vice president of the aspen institute and serves as director of the aspen institute rodale public leadership, a republican member of congress from oklahoma from 1997 until 1992 serving as a member of the appropriations and budget committee. he committee. he taught for 11 years at harvard john f. kennedy school of government

among the finalists, tim cook, laverne cox, michael sam, neil patrick harris, ellen page, robin robertsngly i've been in lgbt media for now. just the diversity of role models emerging are phenomenal. some of these people weren't even on our radar a year ago. people like michael sam, for example, who was really blazed a path for athletes, out athletes in sport. it's incredible we now have a ceo of a company like apple showing the glass ceiling is there to be broken. they haven't had these role models. any of these people could have been our person of the year. but in the end, after all that deliberation, the person of the year for "the advocate" is? >> vladimir putin. >> vladimir putin. this strikes me as one of those "time" magazine-type choices. where this is not about admiration. and there we see -- get that cover back up there, because we see the echo basically of the "times" picking hitler man of the year putting that print right in the moustache spot. >> it's very easy to celebrate people and we do that all the time. it's a really important role for "the advocate" to celebrate, to

here's looking at your kids, harris, play it again sam.all time best line from that movie. >> he never said play it again sam. >> she did. >> he said play it sam. "play it again sam" great movie too. >> i saw rocky 4. >> classic wine from play it again sam. a honeymoon we spent the whole two weeks in bed. >> or go to the opposite end of the spectrum like airplane don't call me shirley. with the classic movies a lot of these quotes they had were not from ones past like 1980 you are wondering if they are making movies differently? i think it is because movies that sell now are the ones who have action scenes or sex. you don't talk to any of those. >> i talk during action season all the time. gentlemen, you can't find it here. this is a war room from dr. strapping's lover. strapping love. >> we will talk about drone porn which is a second subject. >> coobt be more different -- couldn't be more different. >> are on is it? we will find out when we come back. >>> you can see me on lou daabs tonight, thursday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on the fox busin

sam brownback were handily re-elected. joining us for that conversation, seth harris , former deputy secretary of labor. from stanford, california, neil , and paris sinclair, chief economist at, indeed, online job search database and she's also a professor of economics at georgetown university. why don't you run us through the numbers. the high points and low points. what's in there? >> the high points point is that we had another month of job throat where the unemployment rate came down to 5.8%. so a lot of good news on the job side proudly spread out across industries. the problem is people are not feeling it in their lives. that's reflected in the wage numbers that have been stagnant for an extended period of time. decades for a lot of families. for lower wage workers, their wages have been declining, and so they're not feeling improvement in theirs lives. that's the story of the election. the grow domestic product job creation over all, that's not effecting people's lives or making their lives better. >> people respond to what is really going on in their lives, what's really going on in their homes.

harris, 91-89, sixers loose, but sam nicky probably happy in i weigh. that's sports in a minute. i'm howards eskin. >>> 6:27ment woman abducted off the street of philadelphia is found safe. she's back home, just this morning, lauren johnson, live outside of her mother's home, with the story. lauren? >> good morning, to you, kerrey, that's right, the family inside this north philly home this morning. happy, all smiles, and celebrating what could have ended badly. we will let you hear from them >> just to know that she's safe, it is all good. >> oh, it is all good. family members, in fact, rejoicing, that the woman abduct in the philadelphia is back home and she is safe. but the big story this morning, is about the guy accuse of taking her, breaking this down, and his long rap sheet. >> meanwhile, hundreds of students end left scrambling to find a new school, now even more could end up in the same boat as philadelphia's walter palmer he elementary school deat another possible blow, when we could find out what will happen. >> and take a look at this. we are tracking some nasty weath

harris was once rumored as a nominee. she praised loretta as the pick. >>> sam liccardo is still ahead. dave cortese is not far behind. as more as 75,000 ballots still need to be counted. >>> two senators have had no trouble winning elections over the last few years but a majority of california voters say it is time for somebody new. a new los angeles times poll found while diane feinstiny andrea boxer are still popular, 29% say they should run again. boxer is up for reelection in 2016. feinstein's turn runs to 2018. >>> kaiser permmente says all of their hospital facilities will be open though the nurses are planning to strike. they are demanding better safety recautions against ebola. the strike is expected to start at 7:00 a.m. tuesday and last until thursday evening. kaiser says the impact on patients will be minimal, but some appointments may need to be rescheduled. >>> water is becoming such a precious commodity in the drought, people have started dealing it. mark kelly says it has become such a problem in contra costa, they are taking drastic measures to stop it. >> reporter: clayton has stayed true to the west

this is harry reid's loss as much or more than barack obama's. samstarting to hear from democratic senators who said, you know what, he should have let us vote on a few bills instead of he and barack obama killing absolutely everything except for what they wanted us to vote on, so i had to go back to my state and say, i had a 97% voting record with barack obama. it was stifled. and democrats didn't like it anymore than republicans. >> yeah, i mean, there's two threads of thought i'm picking up from democrats after the drubbing if you want to call it that. the first is, we didn't stand for anything. if you were going to distance yourself from barack obama, run away from the health care law, if you were going to punt on immigration, executive action, then you weren't really presenting your voters with much to go out for. the second thread of thought, more from the hill, is they couldn't associate themselves with the president because his approval ratings were abysmal. they couldn't associate themselves with the health care law because the rollout had b

in today's reality check, sam brock looks into the claim 300 bills were bottled up in the senate. >> republicans claim that ousted majority leader harryhas stacks of bills on his desk that would help our economy today if he would just bring them up for a vote. is there any truth to that allegation? >> first of all, you have to take a look at the history over the last couple years. the house was extremely productive in passing legislation and as we all know, bills just started to stack up in the senate. >> these remarks made by former house majority leader eric cantor on "meet the press" mirror a national campaign run by republicans. it's called " #stuck in the senate" and blames democrats for holding up some 300 bills passed by the gop-led house. >> what i have in this stack are bills that could make a difference to a struggling economy today. >> that number might actually be low balling it. on house majority leader kevin mccarthy's website you'll find 387 bills. so what's in there? we pored through the documents to find out what future laws are getting trapped in legislative limbo. let's see, there's this measure to stop the smugglin

in tonight's reality check sam brock looks into the claim that 300 bills were bottled up in the senate. >> reporter: republicans claim that ousted majority leader harry reid has stacks of bills on his desk that would help our economy today if he would just bring them up for a vote. is there any truth to that allegation? >> first of all, you've got to take a look at history over the last couple of years. the house was extremely productive in passing legislation. as we all know, bills just started to stack up in the senate. >> reporter: these remarks made by former house majority leader eric cantor on "meet the press" mirror a national campaign run by republicans. it's called #stuck in the senate, and it blames democrats for holding up some 300 bills passed by the gop-led house. >> what i have in this stack are bills that could make a difference to a struggling economy today. >> reporter: that number might actually be low balling it. house majority leader kevin mccarthy's website you'll find 387 bills. so what's in there? we poured through the documents to find out what future laws are getting trapped in legislative limbo. there's this measure to stop