macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome, but be forewarned -- a few scenes in this hour are disturbing, because we are dealing with violence and don't want to hide what is true about it. as you know, one year ago this weekend, 20 school children and six educators were massacred at the sandy hook elementary school. the killer also murdered his mother, and then killed himself. 28 deaths in all, from guns. and across america, perhaps as many as 30,000 more have been killed since that fatal day. this is why i have asked richard slotkin to join me. he has spent his adult life delving into how violence took deep root in our culture, from colonial days to now. in his magisterial trilogy, "regeneration through violence," "the fatal enviro

macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. last month in sydney, australia, they threw an annual event called the festival of dangerous ideas. one of the main speakers was david simon, the writer and producer who created "the wire" and "treme," two television series that vividly portray the vast gap between rich and poor. nothing drives that great divide home, he said, like our prison system. >> you're seeing the underclass hunted through a war on dangerous drugs allegedly that is in fact merely a war on the poor and has turned us into the most incarcerative state in the history of mankind, at this point. in terms of just the sheer numbers of people we've put in american prisons, no other country on the face of the earth jails peop

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macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. you knew from the start that pope francis was going to be different. the first pope in history to take the name of the patron saint of the poor, he speaks differently, in a voice we're not used to hearing, criticizing the "widening gap between those who have more and those who must be content with the crumbs." in his recent "apostolic exhortation" on "the economy of exclusion and inequality," he said quote, "the worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. the worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy," he said, "lays bare their imbalances and, above

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: tensions in the east china sea hovered over vice president joe biden's visit to beijing today. u.s. officials say he and chinese president xi jinping traded arguments over china's new air defense zone around islands that japan also claims. later, in a subdued session with reporters, neither man mentioned the issue. instead, xi emphasized that diplomacy is needed from both the u.s. and china to maintain regional peace. >> ( translated ): both the international situation and the regional landscape are undergoing profound and complex changes. regional hotspot issues keep popping up, and china and the united states shoulder important responsibilities for upholding world peace and stability and promoting human develop

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macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org." anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. i want to tell you about a book you simply have to read. i promise, you will laugh and cry and by the end, i think you'll be ready for the revolution. the title is "this town," an up-close look at how our nation's capital really works. i can tell you, it's not a pretty picture -- the story of a city's bipartisan lust for power, cash and notoriety, so overpowering that everyone and everything else gets sucked into its undertow. government becomes no longer the servant of the people, but in the thrall of big money, lobbyists and a media happy to live off its fancy leftovers in a feeding frenzy of gossip and shallow speculation. how appropriate that a capital built on a swamp has sunk so low

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the federal reserve is ready to begin winding down its economic stimulus. chairman ben bernanke announced today the central bank will start reducing the bond-buying program next month. he said the economy has strengthened enough to make it possible. we'll hear some of what bernanke said, and dig into what it means, right after the news summary. the fed's finding of economic progress sent wall street soaring. the dow jones industrial average gained 292 points to close near 16,168-- a new record. the nasdaq rose 46 points to close at 4,070. the senate gave final approval today to a two-year budget agreement, 64 to 36. it erases $63 billion in automatic, spending cuts, and replaces them with targeted cuts and additiona

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: this christmas day brought new calls for a better world, but also, new violence. some spent the day just trying to stay warm, while others reveled in the cold. it was all part of christmas 2013. more than 70,000 people crowded st. peter's square on christmas morning, to hear pope francis call for peace that is more than just a lovely facade. he singled out the troubled corners of the earth. >> ( translated ): let us continue to ask the lord to spare the beloved syrian people further suffering and to enable the parties in conflict to put an end to all violence and guarantee access to humanitarian aid. grant peace to the central african republic, often forgotten and overlooked. yet you, lord, forget no one! foster soc

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