barbara walters. >> i see you on "the today show" and i say, there's a woman.olding that space. wow. she did that. maybe i can do that. >> reporter: but in fact, oprah wasn't like anyone else. consider what she told barbara in their first interview back in 1988. >> somewhere i have always known that i was born for greatness in my life. somewhere i've always felt it. >> i mean, that's quite a statement. i was born to do great things. but she really feels that. >> reporter: but -- >> and she has, cynthia. >> reporter: it was in that first interview with walters that oprah made it crystal clear. as hard as it might be, she was not going to hide from her own tragedies. she would bear them all. like the rape she endured at the age of 9. >> and i had been left with a 19-year-old cousin. and he raped me. i went into the fifth grade that fall and i remember maria gonzalez on the playground telling me how babies came into the world and how you made babies. so, i went through the entire fifth grade every day thinking, i'm going to have a baby. and at the time, though, i

mosley walter walker. try how you doing just great great to have you with us you open the book in fact in the introduction you talk about your own personal addiction alcohol and cigarettes when you were young how is that a metaphor for the american body politic we know. when you're human you're a social creature and if you're a social creature it means that necessarily you form dependencies on why some of these dependencies make sense you know you're dependent on food on water on love on . social communications you dependent on oxygen there are things that you need that are fine there are other things that you depend upon which aren't necessarily so good. there could be could be drugs to be alcohol would be cigarettes it could be fast food but also i think the government itself if you're dependent upon it for one thing and you're not getting that thing but which makes you need it all the more then you need to be questioning what your dependency on your body politic is and what form it does that dependency

and obama who was the representative of kind of diplomatic -- very walter? go ahead. >> i do think that their's another sort of troubling thing here which is that -- you can sometimes see a pattern in some of the foreign policy decisions this white house has taken of getting at the sour spot. that is, that is they make enough concessions or gestures in the direction of the palestinian, is that they anger the israelis but they don't really do enough to earn points with the palestinian s. so, at this point both the palestinian authority and israeli government are very upset with the white house and with this president. and since his goal is to get a peace process of some kind going, and he needs the cooperation of both right now, doesn't really have the cooperation and trust of either one. that reaction in congress i hope will dispel once and for all the idea that american support for israel is the product of some tiny, mostly jewish lobby. that is manipulating the political process. very little money from apec or pro israel because that's what the voters back

you are on with walter mosley. go ahead. >> caller: hello, yes, i am old, i am a nam vet and i just wanted to mention or comment on the contrast between the serious issues we have going right now today that are mortal and bad and people are daunting but the basic issue that we are hotly debating when we have somebody debating an issue is pretty much exactly what i encountered in 1967 when i got out of vietnam i had been wounded and i went right in to the college scene on the west coast, and i mean it was hot on the west coast and -- >> host: and what is the issue were debating back then that you're still debating now? >> caller: the basic -- the foundation of what really is c'mon, like the speaker just commented on, capitalism is for all the things good coming essentially separated workers from the surplus value that they have created often with physical damage of their health and that's what we were talking about 40 years ago, 50 years ago. the same thing. and we have to stay on that. >> host: thank you. thanks fo

and here's what's coming up tonight the big picture award winning author walter mosley joins me for our first half hour for this week's conversations with great minds discuss the latest book which starts the discussion about how to get out of america's growing poverty rate and destructive way of life. for the reason democratic victory in new york's twenty six congressional district could the republicans just varies fully now before things get any uglier and the nation's largest states are not represented on capitol hill so what's the answer to this problem state division of talent i'll break it down on topics for the fourth shopping brock's internet stealing take. it's friday which means it's time for conversations with great minds joining me tonight is an award winning american novelist who's written thirty four critically acclaimed books perhaps his best known work is it best selling series of historical mystery novels he treated as active named easy rawlins as want to know henry a war a grammy and an american a lifetime achievement award his most recent work is untitled twelve steps

back to adam vs the man joining us tonight is congressman walter freedom fries formerly known as walter freedom fries jones representative of north carolina's third congressional district which includes several military bases including green corps base camp le june congressman thank you so much for being with us have fake i'm delighted to be here thank you so just to set the stage and go back for a minute how did you get the nickname congressman rother freedom fries phones well the story is the. cherry point marine air station is also in the district and a young man that owned a restaurant called kirby's which is near a church point and so when america went into iraq. he started thinking about how can i know the marines that are being deployed over into iraq and he was really not but if i could say it this way after embarrassing the french what he thought of the marines that freedom fries would be the proper thing to do well he made several letters and i got thinking well i'm not sure it's such a good idea but then my chief of staff when dale and i went to. what can i do i want to be re

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johns -- i think that jimmy mcgovern and walter jones the congress members pushing this, it deserves could have done all this without the nation-building. you could have a military presce, but you don't have to be doing and as counterinsurgency and spending all this money -- endless counterinsurgency and spending all this money -- >> but you take this point about that basis and so forth? >> biden said we can do the military staff and targeted killing with a smaller base. we don't need to be trying to build afghanistan -- >> i think we will have a fairly active summer. i don't know if we can make progress because the summer is one of the real war happens. after that, obama is on a pretty short leash about actually getting troops out. popular support will erode. it is fire at the moment, but it will not last long. >> petraeus, mr. counterinsurgency, is now at the cia. >> does this mean -- i had a sense last week -- that the joe biden scenario is the one that is going to be -- >> with the personalities, i think it is possible, because at the cia they hunt down and killed terrorists. >>

i said i would mention my one criticism, and walter has actually touched upon it although i don't -- i think that his original idea for the title may be wasn't the this either. ten - ideas from all schools. i'm not thrilled with the title that he chose so i am going to ask a very well pragmatic question. it's not a screed so it doesn't deserve a screed title. one title that might sell but to be misleading is how the law schools are destroying america so i don't think that would have worked either but do you mind telling us what the process is to focus group a book titled how you settle on this one may be whether i have any talent with with your title? >> first you're absolutely right i didn't want to signal discreet because i didn't want to write a screed, and it's not easy to come up with titles, but the last week i would try to do is focus group because it would wear off all the images. i was thinking i'm afraid of in part to the school for scandal as a phrase from what was the restoration company in part of the lord of misrule at the public festivals to make fun of the high and mi

i said i would mention my one criticism and walter touched upon it. the title wasn't the best tea there, ten bad ideas for law schools. i am not thrilled with the title he shows so i will ask a very pragmatic question. it doesn't deserve the street title. one title that might sell but be misleading is how law schools are destroying america. that wouldn't have worked. >> i did not want to write a screech. it is not easy to come up with titles but i would focus group because it would wear off all of the edges. i was thinking i am afraid in part of school for scandal as a phrase from restoration in part of -- public festivals to make fun of the high and mighty. i wanted to make fun of the high and mighty. partly i was looking for words that had not been overused and how something is destroying america have lost all shock value. it word people have not been using is this tool. that is as unfocused that i could think of. >> i haven't read the book so i may have missed something. you make a very good case that the in the electoral self-addressed will be pur

it's a joint project of the walters, the cleveland museum of art, and the british museum in london. we got a guided tour from the walters' curator, martina bagnoli. >> a relic is usually a remains of the body of a holy person, could also be something that this holy person had touched. the saints were not touched by sin, and, therefore, their remains were imbued with the grace and the power of god. therefore, if you prayed to a relic, that is a kind of way of channeling your prayer to heaven. you don't worship the relics or the saint. you venerate them, and that distinction is precisely in order to avoid falling into idolatry. from the beginning of christianity, artists were enlisted to create precious containers that would speak of the spiritual power of the nten according to doctrine, christ and mary ascended bodily to heaven, so we do not have bodily relics of these two very important figures of christianity. however, we have reliquaries of the hair of mary or the milk of mary. mostly for christ you would have relics of the true cross or other instrument of his passions. mary magd

walter, solicitor general, wonderful constitutional scholar. eliot, you've been a heavyweight in the law as well. i'm not going to argue that. but a president would normally do that, yes. but the president would also ask -- a moral question, is it right, in effect. i think the answer comes to the same place. this is the man who declared war on the united states. he was a combatant. he said that he would never be taken alive. he gave indications he would have explosions on him. in the middle of the night, it seems to be morally justified, rooted in some sense of natural law, that you could take him out. i think it would be a pretty open and shut case. just as we did with admiral moto during the second world war after he was the mastermind on the attack of pearl harbor. >> move to libya. i don't want to move across the geographic world too quickly but move to libya where we bombed libya and gadhafi in 1986 i believe it was. then thereafter we moved to diplomatic recognition. we tried to bring him into the orbit of the world, of the league of nati

what's i am walter -- >> i am walter. we have an antique bottle from 1911. they cut down on the alcohol. welcome to the city. we've got races funs and games. we want better change. welcome to the city. welcome to the city. we've got president chiu. happy anniversay from your parents. welcome to the city. welcome to the jungle. we got weather good. you'd like to take it with you if you could. welcome to the jungle. you're going to take the business lead. welcome to the city. we've got mayor lee. and if you're really good. he'll give you the city key. welcome to the jungle. make it the best you can be. welcome to the city. businesstime takes a business lead. welcome to the city. i know you'll get all you need. welcome to the city today. >> hi. i am sumer shields. i am here as a congressional candidate but also a representative of the political action committee. i wanted to give you something to take with you. there are a couple of different things here. i hear the demands and the board of supervisors. a resolution calling on the federal government to put in pl

. >> that is congressman jim mcgovern of massachusetts, a democrat, who along with republican walter jones of north carolina has sponsored the afghanistan exit and accountability act, which would set a firm time line for withdrawing troops. a couple of months ago, a poll said that 73% of the american people want us out this year. >> i think they will stick with the timeline that the president set. you have to remember why we went in and the first place, because of 9/11 and back at the taliban -- the fact that taliban held to that country and al qaeda had to struggle there. >> charles krauthammer this week -- "we could never have pulled off the bin laden raid without a major presence in afghanistan. the joplin was jalalabad." does he have a point, mark? >> charles always has a point. i think the point is missing here. you can make the case that osama bin laden and scored a major victory it with what happened in this country as a result on 9/11. not just the coarsening of our life here, the lack of trust, the over-security in our nation. the money out of our pocket, two wars that only

in that sense, jimmy mcgovern and walter jones, the two congress members pushing this, deserve support. i think the popular support for the war in afghanistan -- >> you could have done all this without nation building. you could have had a military presence in afghanistan. you don't have to do endless counterinsurgency -- >> but take his part about the bases and so forth. >> remember when we were debating what to do, biden said we could do the military stop and targeted killing with a smaller base. we don't need to be trying to build afghanistan -- >> i suspect we will have a summer, a fairly active summer. i don't know if we can actually make progress. summer is one of the real war happens. after that, obama is on a pretty short leash about actually getting troops out because of popular support will erode enormously. it is higher at the moment but it will last for long -- will not last long. >> petraeus, mr. counterinsurgency, is now at the cia. >> does this mean -- i had the sense last week -- that the joe biden a scenario you suggest is the one -- >> look at the personalities, i thi

thought he was not experienced enough, didn't have enough backbone to handle the soviets, and waltertrusted crus chef and that's about overcoaxing and leveraging weakness into forcing kruschev to build the wall. it's a great cast of characters that hollywood couldn't give me. >> host: there's interesting minor characters in the book. they didn't play a major role, but prevoktive in the attention -- prevoktive of the drama in the war through the end. you have fascinating people there. can you tell us more about the my characters? >> guest: yes, my favorite minor character who ended up being a major character and it's recorded in my book, and that's the spy, a military intelligence agent and he is boisterous, hard drinking, hard living, and then the -- he becomes the conduit between kennedy and kruschev. it's interesting and they approve it and that's the most interesting of the minor characters. the vignettes i added because i wanted berlin to be a rich of a character as the four protagonists and you do that through the people of berlin. i had everyone from the universe of that year w

secondly, as you said, the east german leader, walter.nd curiously, his leverage grew with the amount of refugees that were flowing out of his country. because the greater the danger of east germany imploding, the greater the domestic pressure on kruschev to do something about it. it wasn't just a danger to the soviet bloc, it was a danger to his own political standing. and then the chinese. the chinese were rising, they were trying to oppose khrushchev at that time. they thought he wasn't the worthy representative of world communism. so these three things were all against kruschev, and then he was looking at a party congress. that's not democratic, what does he have to worry about? he had seen other soviet leaders lose their jobs at such conferences, so everything for him was pointed at that october party congress and getting through and holding on to the power. >> and i think you point out, i mean, after stalin no soviet leader was really secure in his position. they always had to worry about the people around them, and there was a lot

i will also call eddie ahn and walter paulson. >> my name is francisco dacosta. i have been involved in treasure island since 1991, when my former boss became part of the cdo event from treasure island. i have empirical data regarding all the buildings and the land over there. i know there is some fanatical support here about people saying this and the other. but the bottom line is we saw this in new orleans. we saw this in japan. we see this wherever there are similar issues about compression. we also saw this in the marina. what we need to do, first of all, is not to rush into this like we did during the holidays. we had a meeting that concluded at about 11:20 in the night. the other thing i have requested is to provide nonprofits -- and i have participated in this deliberation for the longest time -- so that our university students can evaluate every element of this project. the navy should do the cleanup. i would suggest we build the necessary fortifications to save the lives of the people who are there right now. i participated in other cda's and they never

walter was also a great citizen. he cared deeply about his country, and it was his lifelong custom to look over the horizon and seek solutions. he was especially attuned to its financial affairs and had strong views about how to safeguard the nation economically. were you with us today, the crisis of would have been at the top of this list of his concerns. the family joined with us inviting secretary of the treasury to address those concerns today. please join me in recognizing him and the members of the families who are present. [applause] i would be remiss if i did not publicly thank the staff of the center. the superb work in putting this together on very short notice. [applause] for two years, three months, and 22 days, tim geithner has been at the center of a fiscal maelstrom. if he did not have a thick skin when he started, and he now resembles a crocodile by now. before becoming secretary of the treasury, he was chief executive officer of the federal reserve bank of new york. as a journalist, he believed in co

walter's book became very well known, and walter became famous, and i remain an obscure professor. [laughter] but walter's 1992 book is a real gem. i assigned that book and have assigned it since it came out every year to my graduate foreign policy course. it is one of those books that has a timeless quality to it. i'm speaking, of course, of "special providence: american foreign policy and how it changed the world." the book not only popularized the schools of thought idea that has inspired our project in terms of it application to foreign countries, but it also made the somewhat novel argument that over the centuries few countries have had a more successful foreign policy than the united states. you can imagine that argument stunned some of our colleagues around the world, especially in europe. and in part because in the book walter, essentially, expunges from the american experience the primary european school of thought in dealing with foreign affairs, that is realism or what walter called continental realism. and as we know, that's been the lode star of at least many european

walter maddox is the mayor of tuscaloosa. he joins us on the phone. mr. mayor, welcome to "nightly business report". a month ago since your tornado, describe your community tonight. >> well, we're in recovery mode. we started debris removal. but from a physical, from a spiritual sense we started that road towards recovery, and we feel like we're beginning to turn the page. >> tom: what does tuscaloosa need as it works to rebuild a month after that disaster? >> we need to expedite the debris removal as soon as possible. we also have several hundred that are homeless, living in a shelter or living in hotels as they try to move towards a more permanent housing. >> tom: to those two ideas of cleaning up and now rebuilding, what can you tell us tonight and what can you tell your constituencys a month after the storm in kerms of federal aid and state aid that's been pledged as well as aid that's been put to work in tuscaloosa? >> well, the operation clean sweep is a joint collaboration between f.e.m.a. and the core of engineers that's been very successful. we c

. >> from afghanistan to germany and from germany to walter reed.doing better. >> we have this big sign, we will never forget. >> they said the u.s. should leave. >> and no-win situation maybe. it is time we pool our young men from afghanistan. >> we taught to a number of teenagers and some said they thought it was unfair to bin laden, that he did not get a chance. among older people, we found no such reaction. >>> updating tonight's top stories. the white house could release a picture of osama bin laden's body. it could be inflammatory if it is released, they said. the white house wants to put an end to speculation without informing radical muslims. >>> someone spotted the bodies of brian daniels and a woman and another man. police believe they are connected to a home invasion. there are tight-lipped about evidence found in the car. >>> the cleanup continues in the midwest following the devastating flooding. they demolished part of a levee and the could punch holes in more levees. water levels are meeting a record set in the 1930's. >>> montgomery

with walter to basically see the high drug-testing as one put it completely full of water, eliminate the air altogether. increasing pressure by introducing small amount of water into the pipe. the water is not to impressible but the small amount will increase the pressure to want to test it. the water is not-pressure able. these pipelines have similar characteristics of age during the san bruno explosion. we do not expect issues. if there were any leaks? it would be similar to a minor flooding. we have similar working crews and the field ready to respond if there are any leaks. >>reporter: mountain view, rob fladeboe, kron 4 news. >>pam: a san francisco shooting last halloween has killed himself after several shoot outs with police in texas. this was the scene in san francisco after last fall. police say three different people that night were shot including a toddler and a grandfather. authorities say that this 40 somebody spotted a man, 21 year-old jesse brown with a gone at a bus stop. two different officers were then treated. jesse brown was spotted with a gun at a bus stop in tex

if you could please come up,walter, norman, chung, johannes, chen, chen, if you could please start lining up. please come forward. if you could please come up and you could begin to speak. lopez. juan, claud, brown, kate, any member of the public who would like to speak, please come up. the mic is yours. >> [speaking foreign language] >> good afternoon supervisors over your lunch time. i am from the progress of workers of lyons. i am an activist in the tiny speaking community. -- chinese speaking community. >> [speaking foreign langueage] >> i work with low-income parents and i help them do referrals. i work with a lot of wage theft. >> speaking[speaking foreign la] >> they worked very hard to make a living for their families. they think if bay put 100%, they will get 100% back. unfortunately, they usually only get 40% back. >> [speaking foreign language] >> they work really long hours. not only do they get support for approval from the employers, they get yelled at by the employers. they bring frustration to their families. they take it out on the kids and their wives and their spouses.

news. 3 a late-night stabbing in norrheast baltimore leaves two & people injured.. 3 it happened on walters aveeue... just after 10 o'clock last nnght.tto male victims were found stabbed in theeccest... and taaen to an area hospital for treatment.no word yyt on tteir condition. policeeare now on the lookout for three male suspeccs. 33 -3 3 killing osama binnladee is a big victory for the u-ss... - but exactty how the raid wwnt down still isn't exactty clear. clear. the white house is offering ontradiitory versions of evvnts, inncuding misidenttfying which of bii -3 laden's sons as killed and wronnly sayyig bin laaen's & intelligence experts say a fast-paaed, unpredictable militaay raii. a whiie house spokesmannsays they are trryng po sort through the "fog of commat" and produce an accurate account of events ass quickly as possible. 3 the head of tte c-i-a thiiks a phooograph of bii laden's -3body áwillá be released... and soon.the navy seals handed the imagee over to the obama administration and it's now up to the president.but the white house ii ornnbetwwen desire po prove bin llden is dea

the unidentified victims were stabbed multiple times during a robbery on the 1300 block of walter's ave. no word on their conditions this morning. the search continues for whoever robbed three people in a laundromat. this is a surveillance picture of the account. the sheriff's office said a woman was knocked to the ground as two men rushed into the building and robbed her. anyone with information on the case should called metro crime stoppers. >> a not guilty verdict in the case of a baltimore police officer accused of kidnapping two teenagers and stranding them from their home. a judge exonerated gregory hellen of all charges against him in the incident. on monday, two of his fellow officers were convicted of charges of misconduct. gregg bernstein was disappointed with the decision. >> in essence, what he said was that police officers are never able or not capable of ever kidnapping anyone or false imprisoning someone, which just makes no sense. >> attorneys for the other officers said they will appeal the client's misconduct conviction. the retrial of two teenagers accused of setting

. >> walter, i have graphics, please. ♪ through the city park years, you never let us down i love thearts you have made in town through the years, we love the parks you have made, and i am so glad that we stayed, right here with you, through the city park years ♪ supervisor cohen: 80. mr. williams? -- thank you. >> good afternoon, i am mr. williams, president of the african american historical and cultural society, and i attended this. i want to thank supervisor: for the leadership on this and helping to bring this to a point where we try to bring this forward. as a number of people have said, this process has been going on for far too long, a lot of years, and we have a tremendously underutilized assets at executive park. by moving this board and allowing these good developers to put this asset to a better use, it will bring some tremendously need amenities to this sector of the city, to the southeast sector. just mincing that the jobs would be there -- just mentioning those. he mentioned that his hair could turn gray. he might lose it, too. koran i think this project will also help

supervisor campos: i also saw walter. next speaker. >> ♪ if you want the health care come and get it made your mind up fast if you want good things in health, come and get it you better hurry because it may not last ♪ ♪ did i hear you say that there would be a high price and i don't like that's not very nice if you want a good medical fang, come and get it it may not last and the price is going up awfully fast. ♪ supervisor cs:

every time i visit walter reid and bath easy dau, i'm reminded of the wages of war. i know it hasn't been easy for you or your families. since 9/11, no base has deployed more often and few have sacrificed more than you. we see it fighting everyday to recover. we see it in the absolute best kier in the world. we are here for you to keep you strong. most of all, we see the price of war of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. every ceremony is a reminder of the heavy burdens of war, loyalty and duty and honor. here is what each of you must know. because of your service, because of sacrifices, we are making progress. we are taking leaders off the battlefield we've broken the taliban's momentum. we are building fast in after dpan stan. most of all, we are making progress in our major goal. that is disrupting and defeating al qaeda [applause] >> even before this week's operation, we put your leadership under more pressure at this time than 9/11. our strategy is working. there is no greater evidence of that than justice being delivered to osama bin laden. i don't wan

>> walter paulson. >> ♪ they really want to meet you mr. ford want to meet you mr. ford and it takes

>> walter paulson. >> ♪ they really want to meet you mr. ford want to meet you mr.ord and it takes along mr. ford they really want to see you really want to be with you really want to meet you ford and it takes a long in the bus oh, it comes so long oh come along they really want to see you ford want to be with you ford but it takes so long ♪ and there's a fancy beer bottle. ♪ see, i was born revelling man trying to make the m.a.c. the best i can. and i saw some drinking in the back of a bus doing lots of graffiti and lots of stuff and they don't want to see them end up on the wrong side of the law and you'll text it over what you saw city i was born a rambling man trying to make the city the best i can and they're always having a good time on the back of the bus jam bling and doing lots of stuff make it better soon you can ♪ ♪ thanks. >> directors this is completion of public comment. moving on to your consent calendars. items on the consent calendars. a member of the board which is to have an item considered separately. no members of public has indicated to have a