patrick's day, tequila is for cinco de mayo and absinthe is for martin luther king day. (laughter) trust me, you drink enough and you will have a dream. (laughter) and vodka... vodka is a russian drink. their big holiday isn't christmas it's easter. and it makes sense because if you down enough of this swill it is going to rise again. (laughter) we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) ross ameri, i've learned that when you ask someone in texas if they want "big" savings on car insurance, it's a bit like asking if they want a big hat... ...'scuse me... ...or a big steak... ...or big hair... i think we have our answer. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. (cheers and applause). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody! thank you very much! (cheers and applause) oh, such fun. folks, my guests tonight are a north african refugee band so their living conditions are slightly better than most american bands. please welcome tinariwen! (cheers and applause) gentlemen, ma'am, thank you so much for joining us. now, i've got to make some intr

. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at time nationwide is on your side >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: marsha coleman-adebayo was an analyst at the e. p. weight -- epa when she discovered a case to the attention of her superiors. she was told to shut up and denied a promotion. she did not back down. her efforts led to the passage of the notes here act which protect whistle-blowers. the new book is called "no fear: a whistleblower's triumph over corruption and retaliation at the epa." she joins us tonight from washington. good to have you on this program. >> it is a

martin luther king. somebody sees what i'm trying to achieve. >> that gives me goose bumps. >> here you are. >> here i am. a >> all these years later? >> how many? >> 45. new fans are born every day for this movement. kids that grow up and they get exposed into it and amazing the generations and that vision. so, look forward to seeing the documentary. >> this documentary is amazing because this young man who didn't know who his father was set out to do it and, now, what's so amazing about him, is he's becoming his father. he wrote and produced it and, suddenly, he knows through the search not only who his father is, but who he is. >> wow. >> and it's a magnificent -- >> we can't wait to watch it. >> thank you so much for coming in. it's always wonderful to see you. >> it's my pleasure, thank you for having me. >> trek nation premieres tonight on the science channel at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. >>> "american morning" will be back with headlines. >>> morning headlines. markets open in 45 minutes and r

patrick's day, tequila is for cinco de mayo and absinthe is for martin luther king day. (laughter) trust me, you drink enough and you will have a dream. (laughter) and vodka... vodka is a russian drink. their big holiday isn't christmas it's easter. and it makes sense because if you down enough of this swill it is going to rise again. (laughter) we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody! thank you very much! (cheers and applause) oh, such fun. folks, my guests tonight are a north african refugee band so their living conditions are slightly better than most american bands. please welcome tinariwen! (cheers and applause) gentlemen, ma'am, thank you so much for joining us. now, i've got to make some introductions here first. starting off we've got our old friends from t.v. on the radio tip and tonday, good to see you guys. (applause) i'm glad to see you're still winning the beard battle. (laughter) this is lola. lola you will be translating for us snowed. >> yes. >> stephen: all right, you'll be translated for tuam

. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: marsha coleman-adebayo was an analyst at the e. p. weight -- epa when she discovered a case to the attention of her superiors. she was told to shut up and denied a promotion. she did not back down. her efforts led to the passage of the notes here act which protect whistle-blowers. the new book is called "no fear: a whistleblower's triumph over corruption and retaliation at the epa." she joins us tonight from washington. good to have you on this program. >> it i

the niece of martin luther king is our guest tonight. she's known herman cain for the past 11 years, she spoke with him today what he's thinking and she's has a specific reason believing him. an amazing story of forgiveness and redemption. the oklahoma city bombing, which claimed hundreds of lives, a woman tonight who lost both-of her grandchildren, she's been corresponding for the past seven years with terry nichols who is in jail and she talks about why she chose to forgive him. that's coming up at top of the hour. >>> coming up, a guy in vermont makes t-shirts in his garage and threatened by a major fast food corporation. >>> time now for the ridiculist. congratulations. congratulations. congratulations. today, the city of charlotte can use verizon technology to inspire businesses to conserve energy and monitor costs. making communities greener... congratulations. ... and buildings as valuable to the bottom line... whoa ! ... as the people inside them. congratulations. because when you add verizon to your company, you don't just add,

. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles toio me n ti. t ate corsveion at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: marsha coleman-adebayo was an analyst at the e. p. weight -- epa when she discovered a case to the attention of her superiors. she was told to shut up and denied a promotion. she did not back down. her efforts led to the passage of the notes here act which protect whistle-blowers. the new book is called "no fear: a whistleblower's triumph over corruption and retaliation at the epa." she joins us tonight from washington. good to have you on this program. >> it is a pleasur

the niece of martin luther king is our guest tonight. she's known herman cain for the past 11 years, she spoke with him today what he's thinking and she's has a specific reason believing him. an amazing story of forgiveness and redemption. the oklahoma city bombing, which claimed hundreds of lives, a woman tonight who lost both-of her grandchildren, she's been corresponding for the past seven years with terry nichols who is in jail and she talks about why she chose to forgive him. that's coming up at top of the hour. >>> coming up, a guy in vermont makes t-shirts in his garage and threatened by a major fast food corporation. congratulations. congratulations. congratulations. today, the city of charlotte can use verizon technology to inspire businesses to conserve energy and monitor costs. making communities greener... congratulations. ... and buildings as valuable to the bottom line... whoa ! ... as the people inside them. congratulations. because when you add verizon to your company, you don't just add, you multiply. ♪ discover someth

we will see you then. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerm a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you.

martin luther king was talking about. that was what the poor people's campaign was all about. they were trying to do another march on washington to bring people to washington, to show the impact and breadth and depth of the movement. i think you're on to something, dylan, and that i think could be very powerful. >> can you imagine, all these occupations, and forget the occupations, all the very different interested groups, strange bedfellows, though they may be, not disrupting, like i said, the coffee shop owner and the construction worker, just trying to do their job, but literally disrupting the congress and lobbyist people who are doing the job on us, so to speak. >>> a new jersey governor, speaking of doing a job on people, he did a job on the president of the united states. his latest target, barack obama, sitting president for this country, who he called, quote, a bystander in the white house, but christie did not stop there. take a look. >> i was angry this weekend. listening to the spin coming out of the administration, about the failure of the super committee. and tha

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we will see you then. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. 

martin luther king had this dream and this dream has finally come true. it's a hard job. there's a lot of people in the world, you can't please everybody. but i think he's doing a fabulous job. the world is in a little bit of turmoil right now. the economy's down. but he's going to pick it back up. he is going to pick it back up. and he's going to win this election. i believe. >> do you? >> i do. >> you're a great entrepreneur, you've made hundreds of millions of dollars. what's gone wrong with the american business model. you work yard way up from nothing to be what you are. what has happened to stop that kind of thing happening? >> i'm not sure. you know, for me there's really two type of business models. people like steve jobs and guys who build their company up from scratch. to me, they are the real businessmen. i came into the business. and your next guy that's coming out here, magic johnson, was the one who taught me how to be a businessman. he was the one -- >> how to expand beyond the sport? >> yes, yes. he told me it's okay to be famous and okay to be the man and

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. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where wal-mart stands together with mur better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley, with every question and every answer, nationwide is proud to join fivis in working to improve ncnal literacync and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one at a time. >> and to contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: michael lewis is a perennial best-selling author whose previous books include ""moneyball," "blind side" and "the big short." the satellite called boomerang. let me start with the news of days ago, miracle and sarkozy of germany and france respectively have said by the end of the month they're going to put forth a plan on do something vis-a-vis the debt crisis in europe. your thoughts about that? >> i'm a little skeptical because the governments have been trying to put out this fire for a long time and what they do is make these announcements to calm down the financial markets so there aren't

tell them the story of martin luther king, in new york, malcolm x. some day, some time -- and a lot of black people go to church. those ministers in church, i tell them, do not preach about the hereafter, preach about none now. we are losing too many young minds. do not tell me that there are no good african-american doctors. my grandson became a doctor. there is nothing there to stop him -- he is supposed to graduate in april. [laughter] what i am saying is, the american school of public system -- the american public school system, the lower income population is not playing the role they shouldp

obama being from hawaii, the politics of chill, let's just, can we all -- it's not martin luther king, it's rodney king. can't we all get along? herman cain reinforces certain stereotypes of what that might mean. and i can't figure cain out. he says there's no longer any concern in this country about racism and racial intolerance and three weeks later because of the charges against him he's talking about being the victim of a high-tech lynching. which one is it? does race make a difference? does it not make a difference? i don't think he's been able to make up his mind. >> i think we've got a whole other program for that discussion. thank you all very much. enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend here in our waning hours. a programming note to wrap up the holiday weekend, check out our special thanksgiving press pass conversation with assistant white house chef and senior policy adviser for healthy food initiatives, the serious conversation, not just about stuffing, although we do address that. we went down to the white house kitchen last week, we talked about nutrition, healthy eating,

obama being from hawaii, the politics of chill, let's just, can we all -- it's not martin luther king, it's rodney king. can't we all get along? i think herman cain reinforces certain stereotypes of what that might mean. and i can't figure cain out. he says there's no longer any concern in this country about racism and racial intolerance and three weeks later because of the charges against him he's talking about being the victim of a high-tech lynching. which one is it? does race make a difference? does it not make a difference? i don't think he's been able to make up his mind. >> i think we've got a whole other program for that discussion. thank you all very much. enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend here in our waning hours. before we go, a programming note to wrap up the holiday weekend. check out our special thanksgiving press pass conversation with assistant white house chef and senior policy adviser for healthy food initiatives, the serious conversation, not just about stuffing, although we do address that. we went down to the white house kitchen last week, we talked about nutr

martin luther king addresses the crowd at the starting point. twice before the marchers had been turned back by state troopers, now they march under a federal court order and with protection of national guard units and federal troops -- 3000 men. there are 2300 marchers in line. half of highway 80 is closed to traffic. the marchers have been ordered to reduce their numbers to 300, a measure designed for their safety. ♪ there are a few isolated flare ups between whites and negroes, but otherwise the demonstration is peaceful. the first day the marchers tramp a little over 7 miles. they wanted to present a petition to governor george wallace. >> you are now looking at a picture of the conclusion of the third selma to montgomery march. it finished up on dexter avenue right in front of the state capital. the dexter avenue baptist church where dr. martin luther king pastored in the 1950's is located a block from the state capital. recently, c-span took some video of the same site. this picture was taken about a month or so ago. it is about two mile

king jr.'s letter from a birmingham jail set the tone for the civil rights movement. also a tour of the blast furnace factory that produced iron for nearly 100 years, and tune in as the curator continues with the discussion on birmingham during the great depression. this weekend on c-span2. >>> now on booktv, ellen schultz argues that many large companies have plundered employee pension plans. she also talks about the crisis this has created. this is just under an hour. >> some years back i went out to iowa, sioux falls, to meet with a group of retired meatpackers. and i don't know what your image of retired meatpackers is, but i suspect most people think they're a pretty tough lot. so i went out to this family diner on the edge of town near a bowling alley where the guys and their wives would get together every month or so over the meatloaf special. they'd say a prayer, they'd read off a list of the people who'd died that month, if any, and they'd get to chitchatting. it's mostly social. but o

on c-span3, professor jonathan bass on how martin luther king, jr.'s, "letters from a birmingham jail" set the tone for the movement. tune in at 6:00 p.m. eastern as the discussionth of birmingham during the great discretion -- birmingham during the great depression. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we would like you to meet daniel seddiqui, a native californian, author of "50 jobs in 50 states." tell us the idea of where this came from. guest: the book came from my struggle in finding a job. i felt like i was the unluckiest job seeker in the world when i graduated from college. i was rejected in every interview. i thought i tried everything. i addressed to impress. building my resume. taking interviewing courses. having a nice personality, getting along with the interviewer. i ended up with nothing. it got to the point where my mom was like, you need to go see a therapist and see if something is wrong with you. she thought i might be self sabotaging. host: part of the subtitle -- how i turned rejection into opportunity and dreams into reality

martin luther king that said "i have a dream that one day we will be judged on the contents of our character and not the color of our skin." and when i think about the leadership of fwn, marily, president, elena, our chair, these of the two women that stand tall in my eyes. and i can also say that for a lot -- for all of the members here from fwn, that these of the two leaders that make it happen. and i want to thank these two individuals, because whenever i would talk or interview, serving as your co-chair in the selection committee for the nationwide 100 most influential filipinas, everyone of you, when i asked the question -- how did you get to become so influential? everyone said, everyone said -- i was just doing my job. and there are outstanding leaders in every field. science, technology, mathematics, medicine, politics, social work, teachers, authors, the list goes on and on. and you are all amazing. we would not all be here today if it here todayfor marily and elena. but give them a big round of applause. [applause] i just want to make a few announcements for tonight. for all the fw

and american history tv, a stanford university history professor on how martin luther king junior's letter from a birmingham jail set the tone for the civil rights movement. also, opened in 1881. produced by and for nearly 100 years. tune in sunday at 6:00 eastern as the curator continues with a discussion on birmingham during the great depression. this weekend on c-span2 and three. >> policy not to the steps the o film's that i am making well ani making them for all the obviousy reasons. w >> are you curreorntly working n one? >> maybe.just don >> i don't talk about it. it disappears when they appear.r ami, it is not in the best in te of trest of the film to give the heads of. yoth "sicko," before i made "sicko" u i made the mistake of saying how was making a film the about the health care industry. the health care industry just wed on high alert. and in fact, the pharmaceutical real companies when on real tyler. ad and even though the film wasn'tt going to really be about themthm healthe insurance industry, the pharmaceutical companies spend hund ofs of thousands of dollars preparing for

he was to the democratic party what martin luther king became to the movement. it was change, it was different, it was fresh, it was young. it was also experienced. he had been governor ran long time. it was renaissance time in the democratic party, and a lot of the older democrats had to be brought around, they had to be converted, they had to be convinced. and here we are. [applause] >> frank, by the time you get to the announcement speech in 1991, the synthesis of new and old, you read that speech today, there are a lot of familiar notes, expanded opportunities and economic fairness, but also some new notes about fiscal responsibility, marry an opportunity and responsibility. he talked about the process, that speech, that landmark moment in the campaign, and to what extent there was a tug at about how far you went in a traditional direction vs. how far you went in challenging the party direction? >> i think one of the things in that time that you need to remember is that bill clinton had been on the front lines 10 years in education reform, welfare reform. he

king, and the party was splintering over vietnam and a number of issues. and he came in and really held the party together first as treasurer of the democratic national committee and then as chairman of the democratic national committee. and the democratic party then looked a little bit like the republican party today in that it's very fractured, and there were sort of, you know, an extreme wing, the mcgovernite wing starting in '72 of the democrats and now the republicans have the tea party. but what the republicans don't have is a bob strauss figure. they are still figureless. they're still fractured. um, so bob really came in at a key time. so i started researching his time at the dnc first. that was the first chapter that i where. i started in the middle and his election to the chairmanship. and the national archives has all of the transcripts from the dnc meetings, the executive committee meetings, and these are, these can be some pretty dull reading material. [laughter] but not when bob was chairman. bob was really known around town and around the co

martin luther king jr. and those kinds of things and they were peaceful and this is not. this is something that is hurting themselves. they are doing something . for example, the port of the los angeles had 330 billion worth of goods that passed through that port. shutting down a port hurts them and the common man. john is right. it hurts the people they are trying to help. and as a point of trying to make a disparity between rich and poor. they should be in the washington mall and doing it to congress. that's where the problem is. if they took the same amount of energy and all of these people and this energy. went after jobs and did something constructive and going lie down in front of the congress. and do something to those who make the laws and not the people who create the economy that helps people. >> you know they are going to lay down in front of roys rus and target. >> a little pain is going to create a -- it is going to create a lot of gain in the long term. >> that is on the wrong people. >> boycotts and protest work. if you put pain in the pocket book of more o

it will start at noon at civic center park on martin luther king way in center street. participants are asked to bring their own yarn and needles. >>> the 2012 race for the white house continues to heat up this morning. we're learning new details about the strategy the administration plans on using to win re-election. president obama's team is stead to be crafting a campaign strategy volcanoing vice president biden. the plan is to have biden campaign heavily in three battleground states, ohio, pennsylvania, and florida. analysts believe he might be more of every an assess to voters in those states rather than mr. obama. >>> right out in mars rover is rocketing towards the red planet. >> main engine start, zero and liftoff of the atlas 5 with curiosity! seeking -- >> more than an hour ago, an unplanned rocket blasted off from cape canaveral, florida. it's carrying the world's biggest extra-terrestrial explorer called curiosity. it will take 8 1/2 months and 354 million miles for it to reach mars. it has a nuclear power lab and holds 10 science instruments that will sampl

king jr.'s letter from a birmingham jail set the tone for the civil-rights movement. also a tour of the premises opened in 1881. the black for ernest for over 100 years and tune in at 6:00 as curator karen hunts continue to discussion on birmingham did during the great depression this weekend on c-span2 and 3. we would like to hear from you. tweet as your feedback at twitter.com/booktv. up next booktv interviews rich bragg in birmingham, alabama. looking at the literary landscape of eight southeastern cities. he reports on the millworkers of the appellation should -- foothills of northern alabama. >> those people on the cover our workers from the dark age of the cotton mill in my home town. those are folks who survived the 20s 30s and 40s into the 50s in the breakup of summertime when the air was thick with flying cotton that filled their lungs with cotton fiber. they would hang out windows trying to get a breath of air. kids would ride by in cars and wagons and it would scare them to death. th

king's i have a dream speech. why? frankly in so far as i am concerned -- some people say it is illuminating. i don't see it as very illuminating. it says things that it seems to me any well-educated americans should know about race relations. it did not make any truly controversial, bold, risky position with respect to raise. i am not condemning him for that. he is an electoral politician who face difficult electoral policy. you don't want to make people angry. potential voters, you don't want to make an angry. i understand that. let's just tell it the way it is. this is a speech for instance that takes pains to the non accusatory. the president knows his way around the english-language very well. there's a reason talking about black people, he goes into the passive voice. black people suffered enslavement. there is no talk about who was doing the enslaving. that would require pointing and accusatory finger at white america. black people suffered under gen crow segregation until frankly relatively recently in ame

on c-span 3, stanford university history professor on how martin luther king jr.'s letter from a birmingham jail set the tone for the civil-rights movement. also a tour of the furnaces opened in 1881, the blast furnace that per produce iron for 100 years britain on sunday a 6:00 eastern as the curator continues with a discussion on birmingham during the great depression. this weekend on c-span 2 and 3. >> the newly designed c- span.org web site has choices to make it easy to predict for you to watch today's events. it is easier for you to get our schedule with new features. you can quickly scroll for all our program scheduled on the networks. you can receive an e-mail alerts when your program is scheduled there's a section to access our most popular series and programs. there is a handle -- and the channel finder is you can find out how to quickly watch our network on cable and satellite systems around the country at the all new c-span.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are here to talk about congress. we will also take a look at campaign 2012. as far