people like van jones. i can't think of anything more cynical in the world than what van jones has done with his education. the guy graduated from yale and what did he do? he went to the inner city in oakland, california. did he teach these people to fish? no. he organized around the cynical proposition that jamal is on death row in pennsylvania because he killed a white cop or he didn't kill a white cop. fomenting the rage community organizing around the rage over a cop killer is as cynical as you can get and he has used this hixterism and to become the next al sharpton. al sharpton has a history of bloodshed in the name of his own opportunism and most people are scared of death of being called a racist because they know they're going to be called a racist. i only have one life to live. i have four children. i want to leave a better country for them. i have -- i looked up into the sky and i said i want something to do that isn't shallow. that hollywood sitcom crap and the clarence thomas thing has been my

. >> i'm sure van jones hasn't seen a free market he doesn't want to control. >> reporter: jones is partat wants rights for mother nature to be a global reality by 2014. >> people listen to van jones, and he's one of i hope many leaders that will come to the same understanding of what it means to be changing our relationship with nature in law, and in culture. >> reporter: a few u.s. towns and even a couple of small countries have bought into the concept. but with trillion dollar deficits and a 9% jobless rate, it remains unclear whether manners are in the mood -- americans are in the mood to giver plants and animals the same legal status as themselves. >>> speaking of mother nature, we had a gorgeous day for the mothers to celebrate. >> not bad for the outdoor brunches a lot of you celebrated. then what, about 6:00, popup rain storms changed things. >> it was actually a passing shower. didn't have storms. that's good news, will. >> well -- >> scaring everybody out there. what storms? yes, and hopefully all those mothers still celebrating as we do continue to wish you a happy mother's da

van jones wants to make sure mother nature has the same rights as you and me. is the idea farfetched or cutting edge? in three minutes we'll reports. you can decide. the drama is building. the jet man cleared to fly over the grand canyon. but suddenly his plans are shall we say up in the air. the latest on this stunt. we'll be right back. martha: there is a new push by some environmentalists to make sure mother nature has the same rights as you a and i do. critics argue this is a power grab. what is the idea of giving human rights to mother nature? report report concept isn't new, but it's gang momentum among environmentalists who want to broaden their ability to file lawsuits by giving mother nature legal standing. newly formed across i strift groups are preparing a declaration for the rights of nature. they argue just like people, trees, rivers and a -- and anims have a right to exist. some say this a ploy for activists to exploit their political power. >> lawyers and bureaucrats can extend more control over other people. in other words, if you extend rights

the democrats treated at idea like total pariah -- >> except van jones, who was in the white house. >> they got rid of him. >> can i finish? anybody who did that publicly was run out of the party. republicans did not walk away from this right away. eventually, the leadership came to see this as incredibly damaging and did start to walk away from it. >> but i saw people on television analyzing a long-form -- >> look, that is going to happen. there are a finite number of people in this country from barack obama can do nothing but die. maybe they will be happy then. how do you figure it maureen davenport, a member of the orange county republican committee, who sends out earlier this month that picture showing three figures -- a super imposed their faces on the heads of pansies. "ah, now we know why there is no birth certificate. she is a chi -- he is a child of chimps." she is still there, a prominent republican their. this is not only to dehumanize them, it but to degrade him, whether we see them challenging his academic credentials, lying about his religion -- >> name me a serious -- >

that is why van jones and a ger have said you know things that your parents just don't.hat's why they are forgetting our children. because they know their empty vessels. because of regulation you know it's now damn near impossible for the bill gates of the next generation to create another microsoft in their basement? you can't do it. courageous? what does courage even mean anymore. courage to stand and go to a tea party. that was pretty courageous for a lot of people. courage to stand if you are in a union. and to say i disagree. how about courage to stand alone? tell me how full of courage is a country when they are all folding to political correctness. as individuals we need intestnal fortitude of israel. you want to be alone? be them. they are surrounded. they're going down swinging. maybe we're charitable. no. no. no. charity is under attack now as well. charity, that's the i.r.s. how about fair-minded? are we fair-minded? no, no. not anymore. americans aren't fair-minded they're racists. that's why we have to have this constitution over -- institution for social ju

. >> people listen to van jones and he is one of many, many leaders that are going to be coming to they same understanding about what it means to be changing our relationship with nature in law and in culture. >> reporter: a few u.s. towns and even a couple of small countries have bought into the concept. but with trillion dollar deficits and a 9% jobless rate it remains unclear whether americans are in the mood to give plants and animals the same legal status as themselves. in san francisco, claudia cowan, fox news. >>> a disabled couple from berkeley is spending this saturday night in this freshly painted house. elbow grease and teamwork was in large supply. safeway employees joined with the organization we build together. that group tackled more than a dozen home improvement projects of that berkeley couple, including repainting the house, replacing a broken window and cleaning the rain gutters. >>> the first annual battle of the taco trucks is underway right now in oakland. the food vendors normally seen on the streets have been brought inside the oakland convention center. the tas

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this is a group that consists and was greeted by van jones. much of my reporting of him saying outrageous things and his communist past and his support of mumia abdul jamal and man in the various parts of his background were reported from my side. former acorn people started color of change, two entities that my journalism vanquished those two entities. they are now going to auriana huffington and abc and wherever i go in the media, they say why would they allow that man to be there. they called a race baker and liar. i go to these meeting places and have to answer the same questions over and over where i answer truthfully. if people can show where i am not telling the truth, i would like to see it. i'm willing to take a lie- detector test. they don't like me because i tell the troops that they'd like to be told. they don't like the acorn thing because i was able to get that so that people were able to see even though the mainstream media did not want to see it. every office except for one, when a pension prostitute go in pretending they want

jones, 25 big points off the bench. final score in game one, the heat, 99, and the celtics, 90. for mark jackson, jeff vans burke, producer tim corrigan and our crew, this is mike breen saying so long from miami. thanks for watching abc, home of the nba finals. after these messages, we'll join stuart scott back in our studio. ♪ >> welcome to nba sunday. the miami heat take game one in their conference semiagainst the boston celtics. stuart scott,. >> mike: michael wilbon, jon barry. hello, my name is dwyane wade. what happened to d-wade, how did he get going so effectively, guys? >> when he comes out three-plus hours early to shoot and work up a sweat. not just shoot to be out there. but he clearly decided that the 12.4 points, five turnover guy was not going to be the wade that was going to start this series. and everybody on that team knew they needed to win game one more than boston did. they had to win game one. wade started to set the tone for it. >> check this out. here's the graphic comparing game one d-wade against the celtics regular season. check out the field goal percentage. 66% to 28%. now, y

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laura van straaten from wnet in new york. jacquie jones from the black programming consortium. i messed it up. i need to say it right. jessica clark from a center for social media. mark stencel from npr. linda fantin from american public media and minnesota public radio. and kay summers and and elahe izadi from wamu. with that we'll get started started and linda, you are going kashmir we talked a bit in earlier session about how traditional pbs and npr and local stations are going into the digital platforms. and we learned that you change the name of the news hour at the beginning of 2010 or so tell us what's behind that and what the thinking is. >> perfect. levy just make sure this is on. is it working? okay. i think in sort of alluded to the purpose of changing the name without coming out and saying so. but the pbs "newshour" was part of his vision when he articulated this morning that if we're going to survive, we in public media, the translation a decision basically is go forth and collaborate. in a world of striking resources we're going to have to learn how to share them

and i don't know too much about van jones. i think he was the person who was recently thrown out of government. isn't that correct? >> he was the green czar. >> he was thrown out of government and now criticizing me. that's sort of interesting. but i really don't care too much about a van jones. i don't know anything about him. we've been great and i will say, star did a good job and lil john has done an absolutely fantastic job on the show. >> gretchen: the reason this is different, donald, i think, is because at the white house correspondent's dinner, those are jokes and you went with the levity of it. but this accusation is racism and i know that you face that before, but it seems to me to be quite more serious than just a few jokes at the correspondent's dinner. >> you know, if it comes to racism and racists, i am the least racist person there is. and i think most people that know me would tell you that. i am the least racist. i've had great relationships. in fact, randle pinkett won on, as you know, the apprentice a littl