we like being the underdog and support them when occasionally when it's not much more satisfying let's get back to the straight deal because i mean obviously it looks also lord david cameron's recent appointee we've got about a minute left is what it sounds like every country has before the commissioner. a last one has been a sashing of the time she's been pretty ineffectual the new one is lord hill who has been a little beast for quite a long time you had to google him when he was announcing that he was whereas everybody else had to google younger only a few months ago so cabot probably says this being now he's appointed a lobbyist and this is what he said lobbying is the next big scandal waiting to happen we all know how it works the lunches the hospitality the quiet word in your ear the x. ministers x. of bosses helping big business find the right way to get its way and that is our new commission to process so this is this is pointing to the idea that cameron is what i don't get it he's appointing so. he's appointing somebody knows how brussels works i suppose but at the same time h

. >>> the underdog from the jacking robinson game, they have a chance to become world champs, coming up on "g.m.a." >> we're taney dragons fans. >> a philadelphia school will have a fresh lk opening day, thanks t volunteer>> ausperselli e cur for chris sowers, eva pilgrim and the entire "action news" team, i'm nydia herrific sunday, we'll see you at 9:00 a.m.! ngam overn trackd u.s. and british intelligence closing in on the identity of ho gainst us and gone far out of your way to find reasons to interfere in our affairs. >> how high-tech is helping in the search and how his voice could be the key giveaway. >>> also breaking, chaos at a hot l.a. nightclub. shots reportedly fired. the crowd ducking for cover. hip hop artist chris brown seen in videos hosting a pre-vma party at the club. was he the target? >>> out of control. a racing boat heads for the finish line when something goes horribly wrong. >> oh, god! >> oh! >> the rush to pull the crew

the american dream comes back to the same principle of hard work to tell the underdog the united states who came with nothing bell with the opportunities given and me taking those i could show the world believe still have the american dream and america is the most beautiful country in the world. c-span: four reid that some of your colleagues will thank you are showboating? >> guest: of course. [laughter] i always worry. you always do. it happens in an end to of wanted to move up the ladder they but not give me promotionsá?1 at hopkins based on of book you have to peter review and scientific papers. lolgkbq> article featuring on "nature" magazine in grants from the government. in to multimillion-dollar grants that is how you get promoted and i would do that before i release the story. c-span: i think john's hopkins has 1.$6 billion grants that they get every year the number one hospital according to u.s. news and world report's. >> guest: over 20 years. c-span: what do they do with all that money? >> guest: i always welcome people to come see. in all goes back to research. that is what m

system looks out for the underdog.our system looks out for the right of the individuals, the little man. it is a protection of the rights of the individual citizens. a look at every decision of our supreme court and whether we like it or not. they are interpreting the constitution of the united to protectits laws that individual from the power of his government. it is really synonymous with the phrase the rule of law. there was one man in this government that i have to mention. johnnie walters practiced law upstairs when he and i practiced law back in the middle 60's. he wasn't far behind me. as he came to washington to serve in the department of justice. mike walters respected the rule of law. they know that by his oath he is supposed to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. enforce the bill of rights, which is their heritage. whether you are democrat or republican, rich or poor. he will say that the laws are faithfully executed. this committee has spent 10 weeks reviewing the evidence. it is not fair to you

open and american men will be underdogs. i mean real underdogs. no american male has won the u.s. open since 2003. andy rotdick. joining us to discuss the state of american tennis and the upcoming u.s. open is patrick ruby who is a sports columnist. men. what is going on. in 1994, there were 24 in the top 50, today there is one, and two of them barely, where did the american men go? >> surface and style. american players they grow up playing on hard courts. the ball moves faster. what does that mean? that means that they learn to have a big serve, maybe a big forehand. they play aggressively and try omove in. but the thing is, you know, the way the game has evolved in the last ten, 20 years, whether it's the racquet technology or other surfaces, you actually have a bigger advantage if you grow up playing on clay courts, like we see in europe and other countries. slower and more tactical. one of the key things that american players have to get better at. i think the usta is taking steps to teach younger players to play on clay, trying to build more clay courts but that's going to b

for a long time, israel was the powerful underdog, if you will. it went up against all of the arab armies in 1967 and defeated them in six days, and it seemed like the most remarkable thing in the world. and now you see israel using enormous force against a quasi militia in a non-state, a strip of land with a couple of kilometers wide with 1.8 people crammed in there and those people are still fighting back and they're the underdogs in popular opinion. so what israel does has changed inner world opinion over the years, and that's hard for israel to simulate. >> christopher dickey, maybe you'll get up to new york sometime. thank you very much. >>> let's head to washington d.c., and joie chen is it standing by to tell us what's coming up at the top of the hour. >> reporter: good evening, john, tonight on the program, linking mind to muscle in what may be a modern mel merkel. he was paralyzed after an accident at the beach. but this young man volunteered for an experimental effort that has him now reaching for the opportunity to help himself, and oth

no one has more respect for the underdog or the law than i do. there's nothing that brings the fear into the heart of the average american that the is brought into their heart by an irs audit. that must be clear to everyone. but the cold hard facts are that the irs was not misused by the president. it's true that four days before he talked to the president, mr. dean went and asked -- took a list of enemies to the irs and asked for something to be done about it but the evidence that was brought to us by our staff was the president's connection with mr. dean was very, very slight during those particular days and picked up only in the months of 1973. now, it's true that dean and nixon had a meeting on the 15th of september but there isn't one shred of evident that anything was done as a result of that meeting on the 15th of september. no real evidence that anyone took the comments seriously certainly on mr. dean's request, the irs consideration of certain people, there was nothing done. the names were put away and were never presented to another sou

chicago's jackie robinson west little leaguers, the scrappy underdogs, so many have been pulling for,dds with an 8-7 victory over rhode island and with that they stay alive in the little league world series. today they face pearland, texas. i feel like all of america was rooting for that team. i hope we helped them. >> tough to see those tears, though. >> somebody has to lose but everyone loves the underdog story. >> that is you truth. >> thanks, amy. >>> we turn to that viral video revealing the hidden dangers of sun damage. an artist using a special uv camera exposes what's happening below the surface of your skin and may have you think twice about sunscreen and dr. jen ashton has the story. >> reporter: it's the shocking video burning up the internet with more than 9 million views and counting. uv light showing what skin looks like from the inside out.phhomao on the importasunscreen.speople sunscreen to their faces. app as sol he says this shows that sunscreen can block uv rays. >> i think what's interesting lifetime and amera is i while this vid only shows a small sample of diffen

microsoft at its best when fighting as the underdog. tremendously competitive. >> saying the l.a.lippers could go to the playoffs next year? >> if they don't, nobody's going to blame steve ballmer, right? he's got some time. not taken owner like the l.a. lactsers or chicago bulls post-jordan. >> a good comparison. we'll see. >>> guys, leave that discussion there for now. >>> meantime, just a couple hours into trading, we want to check on markets, which are mixed right now. you see the dow up about 25 points. the s&p up 2. nasdaq the only major average that is in the red now. just by about a fraction. a fraction of one point. shares of hertz down big. company saying its 2014 results would be "well below its prior forecasts." the company said car recalls and higher operating expenses are pressuring its car rental business. meantime, shares of jetblue rallying after upgrading that stock to outperform. the firm says it expects a number of moves to increase profit act, including a change in management. could be an interesting move there. jetblue on that report up nearly 4%. >>> when we

rocky may have been the scrappy underdog in the movie, but in this play for the democratic national convention, some believe philadelphia is a favorite. the head of the democratic national committee may it clear, cheese steaks with or without isn't the most important thing on the menu. >> we are focused on the financial and security and using that to weigh on our decision. >> reporter: how can a city so strapped not sure how it will pay for schools find the money? head fund-raiser ed run dell layed it out. >> we will present tomorrow our presentation. $41 million in cash, $19 million in contributions for $60 million. that's our minimum goal. we think we can go 80, 81, $82 million. that ought to be sufficient. >> reporter: money from pry have a donors. in 2000, the city pumped millions into bringing the convention to town. enticing the delegates to come here instead of brooklyn or columbus, ohio, birmingham or phoenix, it would mean a lot of cheese steak. >> in 2000 it was our business probably increased 25%. >> reporter: how about $345 million for the economy? that's why new york's mayor is of

going to hurt democrats if you get your more impassioned people turning out, it usually helps the underdog. >>> here's the data. in off year elections voters turnout eg, likely to have an axe to grind against the incumbent party in power. the results are very different from registered voters. >> that is part of the reason why republicans could take over the senate. say you get impassioned conservative voters turning out, that could help them. however democrats could gain from hispanic voters turning out, especially if the president decides to take key executive actions this summer that would help hispanics who are perhaps living here illegally. >> i agree you will have red state democrats denouncing the president. >> i think they are willing to lose those democrats for it. >> it would be a tremendous fire storm. >> executive amnesty is the word the people on the right are putting out. but that is not what the president is going to do. he is going act within his own constitutional boundaries. >>> is there deep pessimism about the country and the leadership of the country? >> yes i think the

>> reporter: but the legendary comedian and movie star was also known for championing the underdogs.look. it's showtime. >> reporter: using his star power to bring attention to issues like homelessness, in movies like "the fisher king." >> one more thing, never take your eye off the ball. >> reporter: even testifying on capitol hill about the issue. >> i've seen firsthand how homelessness affects children. >> reporter: and his lasting work with the uso, lifting the spirits of 90,000 servicemen and women stationed overseas. >> when i come here, for you. >> reporter: and across the country, landmarks that williams made famous over the course of his storied career, are now memorials. that bench in boston, from "good will hunting." now surrounded by tributes in chalk. that movie launched the careers of two unknowns, ben affleck and matt damon. and earned all three oscars. he made matt and my dreams come true. what do you owe a guy that does that? judging from the tributes of fans from all over the world, almost everyone felt they owed a lot to robin williams. >> you don't know about real

but on the other hand, the world loves an underdog. hamas seems to know that and is playing up the weak people of gaza, the people being oppressed by hamas and also are being struck by israeli airstrikes in gaza because hamas is shooting at civilian populations. >> last bit is israel's message. >> the middle east is rich in religious history. it's contemporary story riven by mythology. modern day myth did are propagated through the news media. the myth makers have been hard at work over gaza and the journalists they tell their fables to can be unwitting acomplaces to the twisting of the truth. >> my favorite is the tunnels myth. we never heard about these tunnels from gaza into israel before this conflict and now, we are hearing that it's absolutely necessary to destroy these tunnels. these tunnels are aimed at kinder gartens, kibutzes. >> close to the kibutz. >> it may be that thers aimed at kibutzses and kinder gardens but hamas has used these tunnels to attack israeli soldiers in is reel. it's a red herring. it's just a red herring

i am the underdog but fortunately he was to review was ready to the admitted or not. with any luck at all he would help me to explain this part of history to the executive board room from a handsaw too smart bombs and the logs the sales from the porch of virginia to asia then returned months later. so that is the set up. then i go back to virginia when his grandfather started the business and his birth in 1937 born during the epic flight he had not even told me about it i said to do know you were born during the epic fled? he said no. [laughter] there was things that i heard about them i know that were stories be he did not necessarily realize like this epic flood that was of a precursor to the dramatic exit from the town and even with his company did not realize it was a story. so what to that like? it was the key moment i knew i would build that book around and then come back and then his son and i was talking on the phone. and doug is a president he is the sweet one and why it says if you don't like dogs there is no one in my family that you like. i really like dou

. >> reporter: by some measures, city kids are philly could be seen as underdogs, but through this gamee kids know better. elaine quijano, cbs news, south williamsport, pennsylvania. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night.

the dragons are considered underdogs tomorrow night hen they take on las vegas at 7:30. tournament officials say prepare for the rain that is in the forecast, sheena parveen is going to be out here with me in williamsport to give you the latest forecast. tournament officials are going to meet with the tournament committee to make sure that they either delay the game remember, schedule it, if necessary. if that happens, it might be on friday. one thing they also said, for the first time, they'll be issuing tickets to the game at 7:30. for those taney dragons as our kids from the delaware valley strive to be world champs. we will hear from mo'ne davis coming up at 11:00, as well as the rest of the team. we're live for now at lamade stadium, keith jones, nbc 10 news. >> you're our ticket to all the excitement right there. so we thank you for is that. >> taney dragons fever no doubt catching on. we spotted one of our placards in the window of a home along where else, taney street in philadelphia. you can spread the philly priechlpride. go to our website. they say i'm on the

cal an underdog goes on the road to equal its win total from all of last season. sunday nights in cal had never beaten northwestern. great start for the bears late first quarter, quarterback golf found a leaping kenny lawler and just like that it's 14-0. tech point lead in the -- ten point lead in the second. goff 281 yards and three touchdowns up top and it's trevor davis his first touchdown as a bear. 76-yard play. bears led as much as 31-7. but northwestern rallies. with a trickery here. into the hands of quarterback trevor seaman who barreled into the end zone. cut cal's lead to 31-21 and later 31-24. are couple of minutes to play and -- of minutes to play and somebody mad to make a play. how about jefferson? tipped ball into his arms and that sealed it for cal. they win 31-24 to snap the ten game losing streak. >>> all right, stanford, this one, well when it's scripped season opener not great host to uc davis. little spotlight ty montgomery. now one thing you have to know all strong teams have pretty good special teams. so here's the cardinal punt return. ty

double digit underdogs ten game losing streak. cal football came out today and said one word.he bears on the road in north western. illinois. never beaten the wildcats, but were up 17-7 in the second quarter. there is trevor davis on his way to his first touchdown as a bear. 76-yard play. they led as much as 31-7. it got interesting in the second half. any way, trevor semeon hauling it into the end zone. cut cal's lead to ten and less than two minutes later, north western within a touchdown. somebody had to make a defensive play and it was jalen jefferson off the tip ball. the pick sealed it for cal. they hang onto win 31-24 and they snap their ten-game losing streak. stanford, montgomery hosting uc davis. stanford did what they were supposed to do as the 11th ranked team. here's the cardinal punt return team. montgomery. a weave, and he goes. untouched. 60 yards. 7-0 lead in the first quarter and it got ugly. for uc davis. second quarter, 28-8 cardinal. montgomery. and there goes that man. stanford pounded davis, 45-0. kevin hogan, three touchdown passes in the game. segway t

right now taney is the underdog. one line i found is vegas is favored by 2 1/2 points. so what about this team from vegas? i got a chance to talk with one of their coaches who is also the father of their star player, finding out how they are preparing to take on this team. again, there are only two u.s. teams left inç this series, th are undefeated. philly and las vegas. this will be a game to watch for sure and we'll hear from their coach, coming up in the next hour. for now we're live in williamsport. i'm matt delucia, nbc 10 news. >>> matt, thanks. for those of you here at home, nbc 10 is hosting a big party to celebrate the game tonight. join us at xfinity live. the fun starts at 6:30 with comcast little pregame live. parking it free after 2:00. there's even a "little dragon" menu for the kids. xfinity live will donate a portion of tonight's proceeds directly to the taney baseball association. and there's still plenty of time to jump on the dragon wagon. go to nbc10.com where you can print out placards like these to show off your taney spirit. >>> one person was ta

i've always -- i've always championed the underdog.on tour. we finished about a week ago. and although everybody wants to hear "teach your children," "sweet judy blue eyes," we know all that. but our audience lovers, for the fact that they could hear a song that was written that morning and on this tuesday, that's exactly what happened. i finished a beautiful love song to my wife at 4:00 in the morning and did it that night. i [ expletive ] it up a little bit because it was brand new. nothing is perfect as you could hear over there on the piano, but it stretches from that to when david and steven and neil and i were helping to protest the vietnam war, there was one image that we really, truly loved and that was of the burning monk. the monk that had burned himself to death to protest the war. and it was on the front page of every single newspaper that you could possibly imagine throughout the world. because it was horrendous. a man emulated himself because of what he believed in. what you don't know, in the last year, 128 tibetan monks

however, that's going to hurt democrats if you get just impassioned people turn out, it helps the underdogs. >> in off-year elections, voters will turn out, generally older, more politically engaged, more likely to have an axe to grind against the incumbent party in power. the results are very different for registered -- from registered voters, registered voter polls. >> well-- >> are you calculating that into this? >> that's part of the reason why people think republicans could take over the senate because they are not the incumbents in the senate. older voters tend to vote republican and say you get impassioned conservative voters turning out, that could help them. however, democrats could gain from hispanic voters turning out, especially if the president decides to take a key executive actions in this summer that would help hispanics here in the country perhaps living here illegally. that could boost popularity for the party. >> executive amnesty will set the country completely on fire. i do agree, it might get out the hispanic vote, but you all have red state democrats denouncing the pr

. >> reporter: by some measures, city kids are philly could be seen as underdogs, but through this gamee kids know better. elaine quijano, cbs news, south will pennsylvania. >> pelley: and that's the cbs >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. clashes in missouri. but tonight-- oakland officers y the push to >>> police brutality in the spotlight after these wild clashes in missouri. but tonight, oakland officers say the push to protect protestors is putting police at risk. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. the unrest in ferguson has police around the country changing their tactics. phil matier is live for us where protestors are on the move tonight. police say the city may have gone too far at the expense of officer safety. >> reporter: that's right. that's what we're hearing. now, just a couple of minutes ago, the protestors left frank ogawa plaza and heade

we're the underdog. we have to take more territory. i tell you one thing that really works is the canines, the dogs, ain't no joke. they're like cops. >> i've seen them in action and usually the guy on the other end ends up on the gurney on the way to the us. >> your role with firehouse interventions. >> i work on the street and street outreach. i reach out to young adults and try to benefit them in always and get them about back into schools, help them out with more education on more job offers, give them an opportunity to where they don't have to be out there in the streets where they can build themselves as a person and for the community and also be a better asset. >> a lot of critics blame the home, you know, where are their parents, who's guiding them and what not. how much of a role is that parental involvement and how much is the influence by other teenagers or what not, what role do parents play in stopping what's going on? >> the parents play a big role. without the love and support for young adults, they get the opportunity t

. >> reporter: by some measures, city kids are philly could be seen as underdogs, but through this gamekids know better. elaine quijano, cbs news, south williamsport, pennsylvania. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. theof adventure awaits.ndhat the days are longer, and the breeze feels a little sweeter. and, thanks to volvo, i'll pay nothing for repairs or maintenance for 5 years, nothing. they even cover my first month's payment. so, i'll be happy wherever the summer takes me. the wonder of summer event. the 2015 volvo s60 sedan with complimentary first month's payment. starting at $319 a month. >>> a lot of people are now saying nick and mariah are living apart. >> they are always talking about their fairytale marriage, so could it really be over? >> nick, do you remember your wedding night with mariah? >> our sources tell us the two have been living separately, with nick cannon living in hotels. >> i got say the new claims are surprising because they are so public about their married life. in fact, renew

we love stories like this, young american upset, underdog. >> yeah. she is amazing. 15 years old.lly, we'll watch her for a long time to come and continue to see her succeed at the u.s. major open. >>> major leagues, rockies and giants. madison baumgartner entering the eighth inning with a perfect game going. >> this ball lined down the right field line and it is fair. >> nice. >> justin morneau breaks up the perfect game with a lead-off double in the eighth. >> baumgartner ends one a one-hitter, matching a career-high 13 strikeouts after a 3-0 giants victory. >>> taking you to kansas city. last licks for the royals trailing twins 1-0 with a man on first. >> jordan to right field. backing up the right fielder, and it's gone! >> oh! a walk-off two-run homer for alex gordon. royals take it 2-1 and remain 1 1/2 games atop the a.l. central. >>> to houston, astros trailing in the third. jonny gomes lays out for that diving grab to save a couple runs. nice catch, but the astros would then go on to win this. look at that. astros win it, though, 4-2. the loss drops the a's to one game bac

. >> axelrod: the underdogs beat the odds against las vegas today at the little league world series. the jackie robinson west team from the south side of chicago defiewted nevada 7-5 to become national champions. tomorrow, the kids from chicago try to become world champs when they face south korea. flight are being kept away from a part of iceland tonight because of a volcano eruption no one can actually see. it's happening under the country's largest glackier 200 miles from the capital of reykjavik. steam is rising, but if smoke and ash escape from up to 1300 feet of thick ice, it could bring a repeat of the 2010 eruption that paralyzed air travel. in northern mexico, a crack has opened up in the surface of the earth, and scientists don't know why. the crack is more than half a mile long and up to 16 feet wide. it's nearly 30 feet deep. some are blaming a recent earthquake. others believe water from an underground stream eroded the land until it simply collapsed. they held a party today at the national zoo. the panda bear cup bao-bao turned a year old, and celebrated with a cake mad

and i go in, and i know i am the underdog when i'm fighting that fight for my patient. my patients trust me with my lives, so when i am in there, i'm like the special forces of brain surgery. i go in there with all the passion, the knowledge, the energy that i have gathered from the families, and that's what i do and go in there and take as hutch as i can safely. the odds are against me making an incredible difference on that patient's life at the end of the day, because the bottom line is that the disease is devastating. the disease keeps growing, but i never lose hope. every patient i treat, every surgery i do is specifically that kind of cancer. i always hope that this is going to be the patient that is going to defeat this disease, and from that patient we will learn and make history for many other patients. and i have that feeling in my heart every single time i enter that arena in the operating room. i have to. otherwise i wouldn't be able to do what i do every day. hope is the last thing i hope i will ever lose, and i don't want my patients to lose it either. c-s

. >> vice president humphrey remains by any basis of measurement available a complete underdog. >> my himself off from the president, be his own man, that he has a chance of winning this election and would make it very easy for all of us to support him. >> humphrey desperately needed to separate himself from the administration, and he did. >> i think the greatest task of statesmanship is to find a way to conclude and bring that war in southeast asia to an end. >> the public was so happy that there was some movement towards peace in vietnam. humphrey was back in the game, and it was neck and neck. >> from nbc news election central, nixon is the one. that's the natural banner for any spritely front page tonight. 94% of the popular vote is counted. there are the numbers. >> it was one of the closest elections in american history. closer even than when nixon lost to kennedy eight years ago. >> i have done my best. i have lost. mr. nixon has won. the democratic process has worked its will. >> george wallace carried five states -- alabama, arkansas, georgia, louisiana, and mississippi. >> i

his sincerity and love for the underdog and poor people and passionate belief in social and politicaltice is what stands out for me. and the fact he really, really walked the dtalk. he didn't just say he was advocating for black equality. he lived a life of black equality even if that meant not getting the benefits that would have come if he had moderated his stance. so the important part to remember about stokely carmichael is his willingness and courage to speak truth to power and his willingness to live and work and die among poor black people and out standing and provides a legacy hopefully we can all learn from. thank you. [applause] >> this is booktv's coverage. and was peniel joseph talking about his book on stokely carmichael. he is making his way back to the set here. he was walking with the producer of booktv and they are wawing walking here. he is going to join us to do a call-in on civil rights. we are pleased to have another author long-term senator joining us, james clyburn. congressman, clyburn we wanted to start off with a call-in question and how many times were you a

today to make it into the little league world series final, the underdogs from jackie robinson west willave to take down the powerhouse mountain ridge team from las vegas. for these players from one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city of chicago, the little league world series trophy is more than just a prize. it's a beacon of hope. >> it's a good thing to know that kids can do anything. >> reporter: for the first chicago team to make it this far in decades, getting to this pivotal game was no easy task. on august 21st they had to get through another fan favorite team, philadelphia's taney dragons. >> chicago to the united states championship game. >> reporter: their opponents, this las vegas squad of home run hitters so dominant in their run that they've outscored teams 33-5 in just three games. >> we are going to do some defense, some offense and practice and we're going to get ready for the west. >> reporter: regardless of the outcome jackie robinson west have already won the hearts of an entire city. >> what they've had to overcome is substantial, the lure of the streets,

>> the underdogs from the city's rough south side are the new national little league champs. and today, they compete for the title of the best little league team on earth. >>> and good morning, everybody. breaking news here.t with some people in california jolted awake by a large earthquake and it's a significant one a magnitude 6.0. napa, california, around 3:30 a.m. that epicenter about five miles north of american canyon. 15,000 people reported to be without power. abc news reporter kevin wing joining us on the phone. he lives about half hour away in danville. describe what it was like. paul morning. it was a very long rolling sensation that lasted probably 25 seconds. and, um, almost like you're out on the water on a sailboat. it was a very rolling motion. to watch the -- the walls of my house kind of sway a little bit, a little bit unnerving, of course. >> oh, i can only imagine the way you describe it. to be woken up tn middl o the night th rol feeling yo out on t o what are you hearing about the n i het far ov h a half since the q was at there a e magen the naey in the

i've always -- i've always championed the underdog.t they could hear a song that was written that morning and on this tuesday, that's exactly what happened. i finished a beautiful love song to my wife at 4:00 in the morning and did it that night. i [ expletive ] it up a little bit because it was brand new. nothing is perfect as you could hear over there on the piano, but it stretches from that to when david and steven and neil and i were helping to protest the vietnam war, there was one image that we really, truly loved and that was of the burning monk. the monk that had burned himself to death to protest the war. and it was on the front page of every single newspaper that you could possibly imagine throughout the world. because it was horrendous. a man emulated himself because of what he believed in. what you don't know, in the last year, 128 tibetan monks have burned themselves to death because of what's going on between the tibetan people and the chinese government who are trying to obliterate them, right? you try writing a song abo

>> i've always rooted for the underdog. i've always had a sense of what was fair.u didn't know whether your friends were going to be alive. and i think that when you're brought up in that kind of environment, you have a very different attitude towards, well, what we're doing in america now with all these preemptive wars. god forbid, had new york or los angeles or chicago or austin been bombed like england and europe was bombed and almost bombed out of existence, i think you have a different attitude towards war. war is insane, as we all know. [applause] >> there has to be a better way of dealing with our fellow human beings than immediately going for your gun. i do realize that in many ways this is the wild west, you know. but to me, people like the nra and the pharmaceutical industry and the tobacco industry, they're all going to be seen as major criminals within 50 to 100 years. i really believe so. how can you in all honesty make a product like cigarettes that kills about 300,000 people a year and still do it, knowing full well that what you're making kills 300,