united states. it's now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the united states capital.

united states. it's now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the united states capital. >> you could spend days going around the building and finding something new. the embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that san francisco is famous for. >> the wood you see in the board of supervisor's chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. interesting thing about the oak is there isn't anymore in the entire world. the floors in china was cleard and never replanted. if you look up at the seceiling you would believe that's hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. there are no records about how many people worked on this building. the workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. and what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. >> san francisco recreation and parks department offers classes for the whole family. rec and parks has a

introduced by jesse jackson junior and senator john kerry to put a statue of rosa parks and the capital of the united statescapital of the united states. [applause] i got an uproarious reaction to it. what can you say among presidents, past and future, preachers from all over the country? a statue. i promised them that the legislation would pass, and quickly. that funeral was november 2, and on december 1, president george w. bush signed it into law. [applause] 50 years to the day that rosa parks sat down on the bus and -- in montgomery, alabama. 50 years to the day. [applause] rosa parks should feel right at home in the capital, joining sojourner truth, dr. martin luther king and many other american heroes. she will inspire all who walked these halls, especially young people, with her quiet strength, her pride, her dignity, her courage. i told you she was recognized by congress and friends of congress. now i would like to share with you comments from one of my invited to get. the race all great, willie mays -- baseball great, willie mays. these are the same injustices that rosa parks did when he was growin

suppose there's another airplane headed for the united states capital, such as the one that crashed in i can assure you that -- and i'm confident that we have the capability if necessary, the president, to shoot the plane down. there may be innocent americans on that plane. so it's -- to me, here we have the north koreans testing nuclear weapons, threatening to attack the united states of america. iran, the centrifuges continue to spin. 80,000 people killed now at least or 70,000 in syria. the whole middle east in a state of near chaos in many areas. and frankly, my highest priority is not my concern that they may kill an american with a hellfire missile in a cafe in the united states of america. it's not my concern. >> some are saying that all rand paul was doing was trying to solicit that very confirmation from eric holder, the attorney general, and indeed he appears to have done that and that's part of a vigorous democratic process and he was behaving exactly the way a senator should behave. newt gingrich amongst other republicans has come down pretty tough on you personally, and i

because there isn't in turn only in the united states enough political capital in it so you know the rest of the world needs to just very funnily briefly are we going to see people die here will they are that she threaten their own lives just that desperate just briefly oh very. clearly was going to happen and the case of a sustained hunger strike like this with some of these men who are obviously in a very weak state is that that's very much a reality all right thank you very much indeed and whether to investigate journalist joining us live there in london thanks for time. in china she jim ping has been formally confirmed as the new president completing a lengthy transition process he's already announced his first priorities as leader tackling corruption and narrowing the wealth gap at home very boosting the military budget the plans come amid u.s. efforts to gain a stronger foothold in asia a tendency that has put beijing on edge washington has been expanding its military reach in the region so you can see there on the map china expert martin jake suspect him of the live he thinks

[applause] -- in the capital of the united states. o place the statue of rosa parks in the capital of the united states. [applause] i got an uproarious reaction to it. what can you say among presidents, past and future, preachers from all over the country? a statue. i promised them that the legislation would pass, and quickly. that funeral was november 2, and on december 1, president george w. bush signed it into law. [applause] 50 years to the day that rosa parks sat down on the bus and -- in montgomery, alabama. 50 years to the day. [applause] rosa parks should feel right at home in the capital, joining sojourner truth, dr. martin luther king and many other american heroes. she will inspire all who walked these halls, especially young people, with her quiet strength, her pride, her dignity, her courage. i told you she was recognized by congress and friends of congress. now i would like to share with you comments from one of my invited to get. the race all great, willie mays baseball great, willie mays. these are the same injustices t

capital. [applause]we are honored to be joined by the president of the united states and members of his and ministration -- his administration. [applause]this is a homecoming of sorts for mrs. parks, who for more than 20 years was an assistant to representative john conyers of michigan. [applause]i want to thank all of the members of congress who are here and work to make this day possible. also with azar eugene dolled -- tor, andllalb, the sculpu the codesigner of the statue. [applause]it is safe to say this was not just any project. these gentlemen rose to the occasion. gentlemaen, please stand to be recognized. [applause]to unveil the statue, we will be joined by sheila keyes and alain steele, a longtime friend. and cofounder of the rosa and raymond parks institute for self development. thank you both for joining us and thanks to all of the civil rights guests who honor us today with your presence. every now and then, we have got to step back and say to ourselves, "what a country." this is one of those moments. all men and women are created equal, but as we will hear during the ceremony, some grow to

and the gay rights movement, particularly in that state, my god, san francisco is the, you know, pretty much gay capital of the unitedtates, they will will have to go back and lobby been and get prop 8 overturned. does that make sense to you from a legal perspective about how they will rule? >> it's going to be interesting. this may be a win-win in some sense for both sides, and the so-called doma defense of marriage act case, it would be very strange for the supreme court not to take the usual stance of courts when it comes to state issues, deferring to the state. and marriage is a state issue 100%. >> family -- all family law. >> all of family law. now -- so without getting into the technicalities, the way for the layperson to understand this is that the state defines marriage, once it defines marriage, how can the federal government treat two different marriages both lawful unequally? it may not have to reach the question of equal protection it. may go off on state's rights. we win. you win. >> it's kind of interesting, though. it took until 1967 for interracial marriage to be declared the law of the land. land, p

and for our friends from vietnam [speaking vietnam] i want to thank you for the ashian capital of the united statespicious time the beginning of the lunar new year. for the first time our government is headed up by asian-americans. our mayor and our judicial officer, judge lee and our board of supervisors. in fact we have so many asian-americans we are often confused for each other. eric mar and i am confused of each other. and because of their moustache, norman lee and our mayor. this is an amazing week for sports. during the past week we had the asian-american basketball star, jeremy lin come to the bay area. and our giants are starting spring training. i think that is auspicious. but as our mayor said, we have had so many gains we have made. but we know we have a lot of work to do. we just built an amazing chinatown conference and we have to be sure that we remain solvent. we are a city of immigrants. and we know that nationally we are having a debate. we need to be sure that reform happens. i know that every elected official and those who work for the city and county of san francisco, want to b

sixty years ago the united states was less unequal than the capitalisms in europe. we are more unequal. so yes, it is possible to have capitalism with a much more human face than the ones we have here in the united states and in britain particularly where we have allowed things to go in a very different direction. >> but isn't italy in a mess today? we all know about the euro crisis. those governments are in trouble, austerity's being imposed throughout the mediterranean area. we had this explosion with cyprus -- explosion of fear with cyprus being bailed out and the depositors in the banks having to contribute to the cost of bailing out. a tiny island threatens to bring the euro system down again. >> absolutely, and that cyprus story is extremely important. even though it's a very small country and people might not pay attention because it is small. here is the austerity program of raising taxes and cutting government spending, taking a qualitative new step to help bl out a capitalism that hasn't worked in europe and that has crippled this little country of cyprus.

other-- we're already paying, if you don't think we're at the point in the united states where we'll have withholding on capital gains, proposed. it's hittings rightnow. >> brenda: john, what do you think? >> i disagree with kicking the can, but i agree with gary and toby we're fine right now and your money is safe in american banks for now. you can't keep interest rates low for a long time. look what the pain has done, a not of internal savings has something to do with that and we can keep passing the buck on our debt further down the road. eventually we'll have to come to grips with that, but it's going to be a long ways out. >> brenda: really that long, jonas? >> i wouldn't say we're up-- first of all, you probably have some of your money in foreign funds and 401(k)'s, and this is dragging on emerging markets, the russian markets, it's exposed and down a lot relatively thinking. and here we have some of this, but we don't make the depositors to lose money and that causes a real panic, but i will say going forward, and we haven't solved how we're going to unwind a bank properly when a crisis happens, the next

liquidations and it happened before, so, you know, and i think the bank system in the united states is well capitalized but it shook a little bit in europe because of the debate could this be applied in my country and what i hope it doesn't start is capital flight issues going on, where money was moving around country to country, because mario drop gas stopped that in the summer and that settled everybody down so hopefully people will keep distinguishing this as a unique event as opposed to -- >> rose: speaking of this too, i read this about you and not so much banking .. it is the idea, i think this happened in davos, you announced you would bring together a group of sort of brain trust of sorts, but not so much in terms o of finance but n terms of what? what was the idea behind the idea? >> i mean we have an advisory council and that's who w we met with in hon hong kong, as i mentioned earlier, one of the perspectives i and the management team needs what goes on in the world because at the end of the day i live in the united states and travel the world but you don't have the same perspective as advis

howard university which is where i went to school and learned of the washington, d.c., the capital of the united states, was totally segregated. >> and what really hit that home for you? >> it was getting off the train as we got ready -- my father took me, so we were getting off the train and he was asking about how we got up to howard university. and they told him he had to go look for the black taxicab. so being new yorkers at that time, we just thought the cab was the color of black. it turned out, no, that was not the issue. that if you wanted to go up to howard university, no taxi driver who was white was going to take you. >> well, your mother also was a firecracker. you told me an interesting story about how when you lived in new york, your neighbors actually petitioned to get your family out of the neighborhood. >> yes. >> how did your mother respond? >> this is not going to sound like very ladylike. what my mother did was she took me by the hand, she took me down to the person who had come up with this idea of having a petition, and she walked right in, into the kitchen, and she said to him, w

capital expenditures. the top 1,000 companies in the united states account for 60% of all of the capital.puter, planes, trucks, factories, the machines, things that put people to work. we don't see why the corporate tax rate could not be changed. >> bret: you know this town, you talk to the administration and capitol hill. is that realistic? >> i think it is realistic. the president says he is for it. the problem is they are trying to do personal rates which the democrats absolutely oppose being lowered. or any of the exclusions like mortgage interest. charitable deductions to lower them. i think you could carve out the corporate tax system that only provides 10% of the government re-knews. people are always astounded when they find that out. so it is really a very foolish decision to keep the corporate tax rate at uncompetitive level. when we could fix them if we put it over to side and did it. >> do you think as a bids man running a big company, that the nation's debt, deficits are problems? >> of course. >> bret: big problems? >> they will become an enormous problem if the trajectory i

. >> suarez: but all during the conflict there's been worries in the united states and other western capitalsut who exactly opposition is and what kind of hands the material falls into. now you heard instead of lampooning that saying don't worry so much about whose theme people are. shld this be an american war? >> well,hat he als said is look at the levels of violence and brutality visited by the regime the notion that the groups fighting the regime might engage in activities that we would find even more disturbing is very, very low. keep in mind, we are not going to be providing weapons or other kinds of equipment to the armed on sthags will expand our military capacity. we are providing them largely humanitarian assistance, with body armor, with food supplies, with medical supplies and training so the notion this this kind of support could backfire i would find very surprising. i think --. >> suarez: i want to get steven simon in on that same point. should there be worry in washington about who's getting what we're sending and what use they're putting it to? >> i think the risk is really r

most people are so ignorant how much community has made with capitalism the average life span was 30 now today it is 78 in the united states and 82 in japan. 200 years ago 90 percent of the people were illiterate. now it is 14% because of capitalism. if you look at the whole history of human prosperity it is due to capitalism with the humanity out of the dirt john: day que john mackey. when we return drugs and booz i say it should be legal. next. [applause] [applause] john: we are back with "students for liberty" in washington d.c. where i'm impressed 1,000 of you choose to spend your weekend debating things li constitutional psychology and hijacked and i was more interested in alcohol and it was legal as a drinking age was 18 but now it is 21 and most do this are younger than an ad and drug czar illegal. students, i assume none of you ever drink or use drugs? [laughter] i know what you to incrimate yourself for parents may be watching but how many think most break the drug or alcohol laws? just about everybody kennedy was a tv personality at mtv and was 20 and grew up in the music business there was no lawbreaking or drug

most people are so ignorant how much community has made with capitalism the average life span was 30 now today it is 78 in the united statesnd 82 in japan. 200 years ago 90 percent of the people were illiterate. now it is 14% because of capitalism. if you look at the whole history of human prosperity it is due to capitalism with the humanity out of the dirt john: day que john mackey. when we return drugs and booze. i say it should be legal. next. [ male announcer ] how can power conmption in china, impact wool exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical technology in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. twe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. [applause] john: we are back with "students for liberty" in washington d.c. where i'm impressed 1,000 of you choose to spend your weekend debating things like constitutional psyc

goldman sachs saying new capital rules could force deutsche bank to move to the united states, more capitalepleting its nonu.s. capital. and therefore, forcing the bank to do a capital raise. that's looming on deutsche bank. the price action down reflecting this concern. >> this is a very strong bank. it's done a great job. i remember when jpmorgan constantly would have to say, do they have to do a capital -- most banks do. they do the right thing. deutsche bank needs to raise capital, they're going to do it. they're not going to hope and hope and hope. i rel elike these guys. i was surprised to see goldman really slashed it. >> the criticism of the european banks is reluctant to do it. in the spring of '10 or spring of '09, i forget at this point -- >> tim geithner whacked them. >> that was a key moment, actually, for our financial system. >> wells fargo. remember there was that period that every day you would come in, and bb king would do a secondary. >> they all did them. >> everybody did. you just waited and waited. deutsche bank has to do it, i understand. i'm not a big fan of the euro

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capital investment. >>> trade officials from the united states and taiwan have held their first talks in more than 5 1/2 years. the meeting came as taiwan's leaders seek to join negotiations on a proposed free trade pact. deputy u.s. trade representative met with his chinese county part in taipei. talks stalled after officials restricted imports of u.s. beef. officials eased that measure last july. the taiwanese delegates told the u.s. they do want to join talks on the trans-pacific partnership as soon as possible. taiwan president said that he aims to enter the u.s.-led framework by 2020. his joining the talks would ease concerns about taiwan's economy which is increasingly dependent on trade with mainland china. >>> leading japanese trading houses are rushing now to join the u.s. shale gas bonanza. the new source of energy is creating business opportunities and gas producers are not the only ones that are making money from this. the company plans to fish for profits downstream with petrochemical production. it's building a new storage site in houston, texas. it will use shale gas to make ethylene and

nuclear weapons and is tonight threatening to use them against the united states, vowing to attack washington and engulf the nation's capital, quote, in a sea of flames. as you can imagine, this outburst has prompted a strong response from the white house. our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, monitoring developments from our d.c. newsroom. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. tonight the white house says the united states can defend itself against the north korean missile attack, even as pyongyang ratchets up its threats against the u.s. it was north korea's toughest threat yet, announced on state tv. >> translator: since the united states is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to preemptive nuclear attack. >> reporter: a recent government video shows a north korean missile blowing up manhattan. pyongyang defied the world with a nuclear test last month and a missile test in december, but experts say the regime has not proved it can put a nuclear warhead on a missile that could reach the u.s. and all this may be backfiring. today china, north korea's closest

capitalism." we will go from cyprus to the economy in europe and the economy right here in the united states, and at exactly does he mean a cure for capitalism? wstay with us. ♪ [music break] , diedic by bebo valdÉs friday the age of 94, the son of studyr factory worker, classical music at the conservatorio become a favorite collaborator with the great alongsingers of his era with americans such as nat king cole. he was considered a giant in the golden age of cuban music. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. wolff, a is richard professor emeritus at the university of massachusetts and hearst, now new school university, author of many books including, "democracy at work: a cure for capitalism." i want to talk about austerity here at home read this is house speaker john boehner speaking last month that in the $85 billion budget sequester cuts that took effect march 1. >> the american people know the president gets more money, they're just going to spend. he has got his tax hikes. it is time to focus on the real problem in washington, and that is spen