they said the americans stole the show. in american media, you did not see it much. you saw more about the guests, but in the french media, they talked about the beautiful black models that turned like dancers and complex soldiers across the stage. the reference to them that for years after the show adopted an all black group. how you would see all black models for 10 straight years. tavis: i am not night even asking of this question, and giving that answer you have just offered, but how could a story like this in the fashion world, they convince us of x, y, and z. how did the story stay buried? >> demon and i discovered the story, i thought it was very important. the impact that these women and on what we wearan impac .oday the story rises to the top in certain parts but it never comes full circle with models playing the big roles. tavis: i don't want to make you overtly political, but what does this story say to us, and guide us? tell me what the message here is for the tragedy today? i noted fashion week is going on as we speak. this is not my area of expertise bu

tripwires of american resolve. on the contrary, american policymakers for decades at this point had long hoped to invalids the gulf and keep its oil flowing with as little direct involvement as possible. so long as the soviets didn't interfere in the region themselves, president carter had declared in 1980. so as long as the iranians didn't stop up the gulf. president reagan declared a few years later, americans were content to ultimate it did not matter to cold war is what happened so long as the oil continued to flow. this was the bush administration's first line. and then cheating in fact a year before saddam's invasion, enunciating in the latter part of 1989 a national security directive 26 which is laid out the full scope and rationale of american involvement in the region. this document, which can get from the archive if you like, does not use the word freedom. it does not use the word democracy. it does not mention particular leaders to it doesn't talk about regime types. it doesn't talk about radical islam

american opposition, american aid, american involvement. and often these things, it is not a constructive relationship or not in the country's interest, but you don't know because you don't, you're just ill informed. and there's very little in america that would afford you opportunities to be well informed. we demonize the u.n. usually. even winston churchill at the u.n.'s beginnings said that it is better to geagea than war war -- jaw jaw than war war. so the u.n. is a wonderful opportunity for the entire world to gather, to disagree sometimes raucously. it is not a neat process, but a necessary process to resolve disputes. of we ought to embrace it. we ought to embrace our differences. we ought to embrace these human rights conventions, but we don't do that. we almost celebrate ignorance. and i'm talking about all of us of all classes, whites and blacks from the top of government to the bomb -- to the bottom of society. we do that. and because we are the most powerful country in the world, we do the world no service when we do that. leade

because if you succeed, you will create american businesses and american jobs. you will help us grow our economy, strengthen our middle- class. so that is what comprehensive immigration reform looks like. smarter enforcement, at a pathway to earn citizenship, improvements in the legal immigration system so that we continue to be a magnet for the best and brightest all around the world. it is pretty straightforward. the question now is simple. do we have the result -- resolve as a people, as a country, as a government, to finally put this behind us? i believe that we do. [applause] i believe that we do. [applause] i believe we are finally at the moment where comprehensive immigration reform is within our grasp. but i promise you this, the closer we get, the more emotional this debate will become. immigration has always been an issue that inflames passions. that is not surprising. there are few things that are more important to us as a society than who gets to come here and call our country home. who gets the privilege of becoming a citizen of the united states of

but african-americans overwhelmingly. now their voted is going to be nullified. >> let me finish this point in response to mary katherine and to rush, i don't think it is the case that americans are uninformed or ill educated about sequestration cuts. i think they were influenced and i think rush --. >> bill: i think there are many millions of americans who are uninformed right now. >> the media makes a point of people not knowing the sequestration is not from this to this. >> bill: i don't want to talk about that. let brit hume do that. >> that is what we're up against and frankly on the libertarian issues, marijuana there are whole new generation that aren't concerned with the issues. so new way to communicate to win them over. >> bill: bob woodward says the obama white house is at fault over the budget chaos. why did michelle obama announce the big best picture >>. >> bill: impact segment, writing in the "washington post" bob woodward said that the white house is at fault for the current impasse that may trigger big sp

the african-american art and culture complex, this is african-american month 360. 3 61 on leap year because every single day we need to remember the struggles. we need to remember the good times and the bad times so that we are pushing forward and not pushing backwards. so that we are moving our community together as a whole, forward, and making sure that the mistakes of the past that this city has made does not continue to impact the african-american community, which includes the rapid decline. with myself and supervisor cohen have been working extremely hard on this board and we are going to be looking to members of the african-american community to help us continue to find creative options so that we can begin to repopulate this city with the african-american community that is so deserved. thank you so much. (applause) >> supervisor breed, you sound like the good reverend dr. breed. we were about to have church in here, folk. i hope you're ready. i want to start with district 1, supervisor 1 districtv, supervisor eric mar. >> thank you. colleagues, black history is so important t

and i think americans are stunned. and they haven't yet kind of gotten their heads and their arms around the reality they face. and so what -- we see people in shock, if you like. i mean, i'm stretching the metaphor, but -- >> that's all right. >> the american dream that they thought they could access, that they were told they could access if they just worked hard or went to school or both of the -- it's not there. a whole generation of young people is learning that in order to get the education, without which the american dream is not possible, you have to borrow so much money that your whole situation is put in a terrible vise. then you discover at the end of your four years and you have your bachelor's degree, that the job you had thought you were then entitled to and the income you thought would go with it, they're not there. and yet you have the debt. the effects of this on our society, not just for the young people confronting it daily, but for the parents who helped them, who led them to expect something, that i

and that to target even americans overseas. killing americans even if they are suspected of being leaders of al-qaeda or associated terror group. former u.s. attorney general alberto gonzalez, a counselor and belmont university, joining me now. hello. >> good afternoon. >> alisyn: before i get to your impression of the drone program, and i do want to hear those, can you take us back to the years 2005, 2007 when you're attorney general in the white house, and what had a day in your life was like as you were underfire for the anti-terror tactics that the bush administration used? >> well, it's part of the attorney general, part of the job of the attorney general is to take on these difficult tasks and president bush took extraordinary measures to protect america, that we believed were lawful. anytime you're doing something controversial, obviously some people are unhappy about it, part of my job as attorney general was to go up on the hill, to give interviews, to talk to various groups and explain why what we're doing is not only

is the second amendment has to give american citizens the firepower to fight back against you against our government that's not so how do you conduct your business in forcing the law and not knowing what is behind that door i find it to be a scary great day. simply it's just not based on logic. logic and the n.r.a. never got along so this is the n.r.a. his latest strategy defeat all gun control measures by scaring the hell out of america as might happen tonio attorney and host of ring of fire radio mike welcome back. i'm great is wayne la pierre a raving lunatic or is this guy crazy like a fox not at all this is been focused to death look fear in america is a powerful moving force tom visions of smaller even massive apocalyptic events help listeners become irrational it makes them stupid to the point that it becomes easy and maybe even justified to even for a reason we educated americans to stand behind the senseless slaughter of our children in schools because that's that's the end of this sentence if you think about it but here is what's happened they didn't just come up with this t

they were all american and the guy goes back to his supervisor. these people are all americans the supervisor says just to transcribe it transcribe everything a lot of these people were having personal phone calls calling their families and everything. after a few days he said he didn't want to do it anymore didn't think it was right so they got somebody else to do it there's a lot of intimidation and people just follow. the national intelligence. everyone is practical and effective but. what a bunch of crap coming through. the inquiry could not identify a single contribution. made to disrupt an active terrorist plot. when they did not forward intelligence and. civil liberties and privacy personnel are prohibited from monitoring u.s. persons for activities protected by the u.s. constitution such as the first amendment freedoms of peaceful assembly and protest it'll be the biggest bunch of crap in history. of facility. will hold information for the next. school supplied. croaks of strangers with access to. how serious will the abuse there are over

and it really remains to be seen how the american reduction and eventual withdrawal of american forces for afghanistan will effect that entire region. because there's a battle for influence within afghanistan clearly between indians and pack stages. >> rose: do we assume if in fact the of gun portions are not strong enough after the united states leaves to with stan the taliban and the taliban is able to gain somewhat approaching the power they had previously when they had power, that they would welcome al-qaeda back. >> well, you know, one of the big questions that has not been answered by the president's advisors is what's the american military presence going to be after 2014. in the state of the union, he said we'll be down basically by half a year from now. there are 66,000 now. at the end of the february next year it will be 32,000. but what happens after 2014 when the so-called war is over and there are a whole number of options on the table, anywhere i'd say from 3,000 troops to 10,000 troops or 9,000 troops. and also the capabilities that could be kept in the country from the u

the suspect is to kill americans. it's not possible to capture him before the attack and it follows law and war principles but some on chile will concerned that it violates the constitutional right of american suspects to a trial by jury and on tuesday the white house press corps pushed obama on the issue. >> this is giving legal justification for killing american citizens without any trial. >> i would point you to the ample judicial precedent for the idea that someone who takes up arms against the united states in a war against the united states is an enemy and therefore could be targeted accordingly. >> so far there is one known case of an american being targeted with a drone strike. >> america cannot and will not win. >> anwar al awlaki was killed at an air base in 2011. anne-marie, there's apparently a growing number of these bases operated by the cia and the military. >> susan mcginnis in washington, thank you. >>> well, coming up on the morning news, division in the ranks as the boy scouts consider lifting a ban

american conspirators or foreign bad american backed groups i think one of the stride is that the iranian government even use i mean i grew up in that country i worked there i studied there and besides us academic quarter i have experience of leaving that country i think the iranian government order to survive they need to any to call the united states as the enemy otherwise if they make that relationship i think that will endangered the survival of the regime so they will use the engagement policies what they what they're been using. talking about engagement policy is more i think a tactical i think strategy in all. just the two. by time i think they are running on me it's very i can't come at all i mean it happened like in six min you know the program buying time garrett go ahead jump in well yeah i also think that we need to take a longer historical perspective on this current situation of talks on the nuclear program and the only difference that i have is that i think you have to begin with the radical. imbalance of power between the united states and iran as the key factor that has s

and for the first time in san francisco history there now an ashi asian-american mayor and five asian-american supervisors. this is the year of the snake, and i hope that the city will be focused and disciplined in order to achieve what we as a city set out to create. in our tradition with our year of snake. i am excited in the work of my colleague in the spirit of collaboration and work with focus and discipline as called by the year of the snake. this saturday i realize there it will be a celebration. and the diversity of our city is so wonderful. that it could be enjoyed by all people. so it's a celebration of the lunar new year. yet there will be hundreds of thousands of people there from all walks of life celebrating with us. and i realize that the parade itself is a big deal. while i was growing up. and i realized, i thought about the parade. we are going down kearney street now. but when i was a little kid, believe it or not, that parade went down grant avenue. and could you imagine that parade going down grant avenue with hundreds of thousands of people watching it? it was crazy. then

for one thing, the american -- folks that fly american now will have access to a lot more destinations internationally. people don't understand that u.s. airways does fly internationally and theyçwill add to the options that american flyers currently have. for u.s. airways customers, it's the same thing. currently on the east coast, for example, american has little feed, as we call it, in the business on the east coast. this merger with u.s. airways will give them that much needed feed and will make the airline that much bigger. >> brown: let me stay with you informationly. what does happen to frequent flier programs that are so important to so many people? >> nothing. i mean, for right now -- of course, we're talking about a time frame that's going to be stretched out. nothing is going toÑiÑi change tomorrow. the deal willÑi probably not cle until the third quarter of this year and until then both airlines will continue to operate separately. as far as frequent flier miles are concerned, nobody is going to lose their frequent flier miles. they're not going to go away. there will b

american catholics and americans in general tend to look at the catholic church through that american lens and look at the fact that the former card nat from los angeles was essentially relieved of any public duties because of the priest sex scandal. that is an ongoing concern for the church. the number of priest says an ongoing concern. so i guess my question is what kind of church is pope benedict leaving, and in particular as it relates to the american catholic. >> i think the pope is leaving behind a church in the united states that is in the strongest shape of any developed world. far stronger than western europe, stronger than latin america or canada. another quarter of a million will enter the catholic church this easter. seminaries in chicago, in maryland, at the north american college in rome are more full than they have been in 40 years, so there are real signs of vitality in the church in the united states. i think what we need to recognize, chris, is that this is a hinge moment in history. benedict xvi will be the last pope who attended the second vatican council, a signif

american conspirators or foreign bad american backed groups i think one of the strategies that the government of the news i mean i grew up in that country i worked there i studied there and besides us academic quarter i have experience of leaving that country i think the iranian government order to survive they need the anyone to call the united states as the enemy otherwise if they make that relationship i think that will endangered the survival of the regime so they will use the engagement policies what they what they have been using. talking about engagement policy is more i think a tactical i think strategy in all. just the two. buy time i think they are going on is very high can come at me and happen like this i think men you know the program buying time gareth go ahead jump in well yeah i also think that we need to take a longer historical perspective on this current situation of talks on the nuclear program and the only difference that i have is that i think you have to begin with the radical. imbalance of power between the united states and iran as the key factor that has shaped the d

to boost american exports, support american jobs, and level the playing field in the growing markets of asia, we intend to complete negotiations on a trans-pacific partnership. and tonight, i am announcing that we will launch talks on a comprehensive transatlantic trade and investment partnership with the european union -- because trade that is free and fair across the atlantic supports millions of good-paying american jobs. we also know that progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all. in many places, people live on little more than a dollar a day. so the united states will join with our allies to eradicate such extreme poverty in the next two decades -- by connecting more people to the global economy and empowering women, by giving our young and brightest minds new opportunities to serve and helping communities to feed, power, and educate themselves, by saving the world's children from preventable deaths, and by realizing the promise of an aids-free generation. [applause] above all, america must remain a beacon to all who seek freedom during this period of

killing americans and saying that it saying that it has the power to kill americans. is it also able to do that in secret and obviously in my opinion the answer should be no a lot of questions do you think that brennan and does he have an obligation to make these questions public and the answers to these questions. yes i do believe so it seems that that is the the starting point for. a larger question but but but to me the larger question is still is still the most pressing one you know the question of weather. the white house or the executive branch can kill american citizens that is on everybody's mind. but the the white house has killed three americans as part of its drone program it has killed two thousand nine hundred ninety seven others it's killed approximately three thousand people all over the world. with the drone program nobody is really asking about those people and what are the what kind of decisions are being made there so i look at i look at the question of whether. the active branches the americans accused of terrorism as a starting point for a much la

americans got killed. i was inquiring, does anybody know was a fifth person, had they died of their wounds at benghazi? what's going on? what is happening to those people who were wounded who can tell us what really happened? what difference does it make? so we can avoid americans being killed like that in the future. if we had an adequate investigation about security at our embassy back when susan rice was involved back in the 1990's, did they ask for extra security, did you deny them that security, did we have enough security, what happened to allow our embassy to be bombed and americans to be killed? what difference does it make? because if we had known in the 1990's what went wrong, maybe we could have avoided chris stevens, our seals, those four americans that we know of being killed. what difference does it make? it makes a difference to their families if they're alive today or they're dead because we were not properly secured. what difference does it make? it makes a difference to future familiar lo

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but so many other americans also know the close embrace of faith. muslims and jews, hindus and sikhs and all americans whether religious or secular have a deep abiding faith in the nation. recently i had occasion to reflect on the power of faith. a few weeks ago in the inauguration i was blessed to place my hand on the bibles of two great americans. two men whose faiths echoes today. one was the bible owned by president abraham lincoln. the other the bible owned by dr. martin luther king,jr. as i prepared to take the sacred oath, i thought about these two men. i thought of how in times of joy and pain and uncertainty, they turned their bibles to seek the wisdom of god's word. and thought of how for as long as we have been a nation, so many of our leaders and our presidents and preachers and legislators and jurists have done the same. each one faced their challenges and fining in scripture their own lessons from the lord. as i was looking out on the crowd i thought of dr. king. we often think of him standing tall in front of the crowd and stirring th

will we do affects americans'. it's not just programs over there. it's what we do it through those programs that make it possible for us to have jobs and travel easily. thank you for asking. this is a government wide challenge. i was giving a speech in hong kong and all these sophisticated investors and officials were lined up to say, "is the united states going to default on its credit?" i said we will never do that. oh, lord, please be -- [laughter] are we going to have mindless sequestration? are we going to handicap ourselves? i hope not. >> diana? >> center for strategic and international studies. i think all of us want to say how honored we are to of had you as our secretary. i'll move on to question. for those who served during the cold war, it was easier to identify american interest. we had more of a moral compass. when you talk about protecting and advancing american interests, it is becoming more difficult in identifying american interest in a transnational world and the various vested interest groups. what advice do you have to give to y

to boost american exports, support american jobs, and level the playing field in the growing markets of asia. we intend to complete negotiations on a transpacific partnership. and tonight i'm announcing that we will launch talks on a compress i have transatlantic straight and partnership with the european union because trade that is fair and free across the atlantic supports millions of good-paying american jobs. we also know that progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all. not only because it creates new markets, more stable order in certain regions of the world but also because it's the right thing to do. in many places people live on little more than a dollar a day. the united states will join with our allies to eradicate such extreme poverty in the next two decades by connecting more people to the global economy. by empowering women, by giving our young and brightest minds new opportunities to serve. and helping communities to feed and power and educate themselves. by saving the world's children from preventible deaths, and by realizing the promise of an

overwhelming majority of americans, americans who believe in the second amendment, have come together around common sense reform, like background checks that will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun. [applause]. senators -- senators, senators of both parties are working together on tough new laws to prevent anyone from buying guns for resale to criminals. police chiefs are asking our help to get weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines off our streets because these police chiefs, they're tired of seeing their guys and gals being outgunned. each of these proposals deserves a vote in congress. [applause]. now -- if you want to vote no, that's your choice, but these proposals deserve a vote. because in the two months since newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun. more than a thousand. one of those we lost was a young girl named hadiya pendleton. she was 15 years old. she loved fig newtons and she was a majorette. she was so good to her friends they all thought they were her bes

american conspirators or foreign bad american for back to groups i think one of the strategies that the iranian government even you is i mean i grew up in that country i worked there i studied there and besides us academic quarter i have experience of living in that country i think the iranian government order to survive they need to any to call the united states as the enemy otherwise if they make that relationship i think that will endangered the survival of the regime so they will use the engagement policies what they what they have been using. talking about engagement policy is more i think tactical i think strategy in all. just the two. by time i think they are running on is very high can come in happen like this i think many of the program buying time gareth go ahead jump in well yeah i also think that we need to take a longer historical perspective on this current situation of talks on the nuclear program and the only difference that i have is that i think you have to begin with the radical. imbalance of power between the united states and iran as the key factor that has shaped t

what about the new american, the new american airlines? the us airways name, by the way goes away. it goes to the barn where brand any of and american and twa live right now. this new american will have $239 billion in revenue in 2012. it would be 2% larger than ual. it will be the world's biggest airline and better positioned to compete with united in markets like this in chicago. it will cost about a billion dollars to do the merger. they say they will save a billion dollars in costs and 6700 daily flights, 336 destinations, 56 countries. is bigger better at this point? we don't know. tracy: jeff flock out at

sure i mean the fact that under the obama administration there have been three americans including a sixteen year old boy bill born in denver who have been killed by u.s. drones overseas with no acknowledge and knowledge meant by the united states never any indictment i don't think a sixteen year old is a high level leader of al qaeda and then the congress people have been asking will controls be used to kill people here in the united states and they have never so far gotten a no so as far as we understand it americans have been killed overseas with these drones without any kind of judicial process and the same kind of thing can happen it appears here in the united states why is it illegal for the government to wiretap somebody in the united states without a court warrant but we don't know can a drone be used against them to kill them well actually we know that it could be done overseas so why couldn't it be done here at home i would say it's indeed a very slippery slope and a very dangerous and scary slope ok chris ship on your back to. the slippery slope . no i mean there certainly

sure i mean the fact that under the obama administration there have been three americans including a sixteen year old boy bill born in denver who have been killed by u.s. drones overseas with no acknowledge and knowledge meant by the united states never any indictment i don't think a sixteen year old is a high level leader of al qaeda and then the congress people have been asking will controls be used to kill people here in the united states and they have never so far gotten a no so as far as we understand it americans have been killed overseas with these drones without any kind of judicial process and the same kind of thing can happen it appears here in the united states why is it illegal for the government to wiretap somebody in the united states without a court warrant but we don't know can a drone be used against them to kill them well actually we know that it could be done overseas so why couldn't it be done here at home i would say it's indeed a very slippery slope and a very dangerous and scary slope ok christopher go back to. the slippery slope. no i mean there certainly is p

he writes: we, he and i, two americans, we meet silently, and we part silently. impregnable and as deadly as the wall behind him is another wall. it's there on the trolley tracks. it crawls across the cobblestones reaching back home into our lives and deep into our hearts, dividing us where we meet. i am white and he is plaque. setting out -- and he is black. setting out from this point, freed aimed to represent and encroach upon america's racial buffers. because after this opening image with its multiple boundaries, freed would vary his own perspective. per spect -- perspective being that measured distance between a photographer and his subject to approach and acknowledge their humanity and their shared existence. he photographs many african-american subjects in this project and also whites, too, embedded within one interconnected system of race. and he does so by capturing and representing his subjects' fields of vision; what they see, how they see each other. to make visible the terms and conditions of a segregated, color-line society. in the summer of '63, fr

many millions of americans used to drink and drive. and it killed a lot of americans. america woke up one day and collectively went enough, they brought in pretty tough laws about drunk driving. as a result, the number of americans killed by alcohol related deaths in cars has absolutely plummeted. the argument's the same, i believe, with guns, you can't keep having 100,000 americans hit by gunfire a year. 18,000 committing suicide with guns and 12,000 getting killed or murdered with guns. you can't just keep going like this, there's got to be a point when you say, enough, what are we going to do? what weapons should stay in civilian hands and what shun the? these ar 15s are killing machines, i used one in texas. the idea that those are being used by deranged young people in sandy hook elementary school, it sickens me. and i just don't think it's enough to say, i want the right to go hog hunting with this. that doesn't supersede the right to stop kids getting killed with them. >> well, i don't disagree with that at all. we need to stop people from getting killed with th

americans. we know that this commander in chief gave the order to take him out, which was done with a drone in yemen on september 30, 2011. president obama's decision reminds me of this story. in 1955, israel's first prime minister in which he complained about innocent palestinians killed during israeli operations. >> that's "hardball" for now. thank you for being with us. "politics nation" with al sharpton starts right now. thanks, michael. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, the president confronting republicans. an energized president obama rallied house democrats for his second term agenda today making clear he's pushing hard for big changes on immigrations and guns. and he sat he wants a big deal on the budget. >> i am prepared, eager and anxious to do a big deal, a big package, that ends this g governance by crisis. >> with the rich paying their fair share. >> they recognize that the sequester is a bad idea. but what they've suggested is that the only way to replace it right n

families that hey you have to send your americans and to war your sons and daughter we were not at war in pakistan we're not it war in yemen we're not at war in lebanon we're not in war in somalia if you want to clear war if you want to follow international law if you want to make your case to play by the rules the fact of the matter is no matter what you call this it's murder it's assassination it's illegal israel is tried it for years and ultimately they stopped to some degree because the international court said you can't do it look you either follow international law or not let's not confuse this with some notion that we're going into afghanistan where we are quote engaged in war that's been declared even though it hasn't we're talking about murdering civilians we're talking about attacks by drones in countries that are our allies if there were persons there that we are want that are wanted american citizens yemenis citizens pakistani citizens somali citizens for crimes here you go to the countries you extradite him you charge them you bring them to trial it's worked for decades in

if this only applies to americans on foreign soil why wouldn't this reasoning apply the americans on u.s. soil at home? >> well, what one of the things that the lawyers -- the drafters of this memo do is try to explain that this is an analysis of a limited set of facts. a set of facts that were probably provided by senior officials to deal with situations that confront them flp the real world. and i think one of the important points that the article makes -- sorry, that the memo makes is that we are engaged in an ongoing war, an ongoing armed conflict with alqaeda and this is conflict to condition battlefields abroad, places like afghanistan. that's a position, by the way, that now two presidents of both parties, congress and the courts have all essentially embraced. >> ifill: let me ask hina shamsi about that. if this this is a brave new day and there ought to be more latitude given to governments to protect themselves, how do you argue against them taking that latitude and running with it? >>well well, first of all, it's an overstatement to say these are standards that are narrow a

my husband is comment by country, a jewish family family, and my cousins and lots of americans. we came here from amsterdam. i have no photo of with self of our seven month stay in america but but we do of family. he needed them for his project nothing but a race he said. i wish to have that picture of myself at the march on washington i only had my eyes. and these eyes looked and looked and looked. i would see all these faces and then all these faces, the day of the march was america for me. then the speech of doctor martin king, i have a dream come of this speech was in the air, it moved over the heads of all the people. the voice was strong, a preacher's voice it reached everyone. i have never heard anything like this and i know i never will. [applause] >> what a powerful testimony to the multiple means by which people contribute to history. there is no picture of brigitte freed and leonard freed because they sacrificed every moment on the film for the betterment of this nation. that is more than an anecdote, that is part and parcel of the very fabric of american conscience t

close to his shoulder in his backyard will be an american hero and a small to food scandal were americans paid to spoil my sil's this full true on this video was pulled. it reveals this public spy system of recording all conversations in places like michigan and soon some from cisco and city streets calls cope's when you make aloud to them ridge noise and uses. like fish will prove every post of boy so the promo was pulled but the program expands moment of harm of security on touchable so they will simply tell us of the cities that deploy these co-ops investigative journalist much as the report please describe to us a world of so called intelligence streets you might be having an intense conversation with a friend you might be having a friendly argument over a sports game or whatever it may be a political situation the cops could be called in then you are treated as a criminal and till you can be proven innocent of some kind of criminal activity and the problem with that is obviously that it is the complete reverse of what the american justice system is supposed to be we are supposed to b

african americans come 8% come away under-represented. what we are doing in that regard as we have minority scholarships and a program where we put minority students with federal judges and state judges. we have a diversity center, which are the only four missions of the aba, one of them is to promote diversity with in -- within and without the profession. i saw recently a good trend that among the ivy schools and other schools that they are giving free admission, no longer loans they're loaning, but they're giving free admission to minority students to help provide more access for minorities. we have a long way to go to make sure that we can provide affordable law students' education. one thing that i did recently was one of my nieces, why do you want to go to this school, which was not in her home town where she could live at home and go to the school and not have to incur all those expenses, you know, you will get as good an education there. you need to make different decisions. we have got to give them a transparent environment to mak

american servicemen. in battles. the idea of attacking -- you know, it's the way the political landscape changed with 9-11. that there's just a lot more tolerance for that kind of thing. but it has put president obama and his administration at odds with his most natural allies, that is the interesting thing to watch on that. >> bill: as we were saying earlier this morning, if george bush and dick cheney had done this, i mean progressives, liberals, would be raising hell about it. >> yeah. do you hear objections about it. and you know, if you travel abroad or read the foreign press, you hear enormous resentment about the use of drones in afghanistan and pakistan and elsewhere. but it does not seem to me to really inflame broad passions here in the united states. >> bill: senator ron wyden and ten other senators and republicans -- democrats and republicans saying we need to know what the rules are. what principles are followed in the decisions to use a drone. decision to use a drone which we don't know. the

now considers you a terrorist suspect with no right to privacy sixty two percent of americans through drone strikes on foreigners can now get a taste of their own medicine but so will those a game strong with a lot of kids or nolte a court ruled obama can drone murder americans without trial even though its courts incompatible with the constitution when obama threw an alice in wonderland christmas but it's unclear if he's mocking the judge who said. the alice in wonderland nature of this is not lost on me a catch twenty two that allows the executive branch of our government to progress as a lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our constitution while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret investigates a jason leopold what's going on it's a khalif state mentality and if i were to say to you or anyone in the public that we are moving closer and closer toward a police state it would i would be dismissed as a conspiracy theorist as someone who is just paranoid but we are already there and as you mentioned we have the drone strikes we have we have the

. >> greta: , tonight, is washington a threat to americans? now, according to a new pugh poll the answer is, yes. a majority of americans saying washington poses a threat to their personal rights and freedoms. karl rove is here to talk about that plus much more ahead. "on the record" starts right now. >> the obama administration announcing big changes for the birth control coverage for employees of some religious organizations. >> we need to provide preventative services, access to preventative services for all women and that includes contraception and we also needed to respect religious beliefs. >> it would appear to be a dramatic post election reversal by the obama administration on an issue that marked a flash point in the early electoral cycle last year which by most accounts helped the campaign galvanize voters. >> january of 2009. 8.5 million americans have left the labor force. this administration is shrinking the private sector. >> when you look at that number it as pretty low number when you consider $4 trillion. >> oh, yeah. >> the e

but the american public is entitled to it. for him to get on national television and speak essentially to youth and say we have been the most transparent and we have given more information on benghazi than anything else is not true. as for this interplay with the people, hagel, jack lew, john brennan, the president has a presumption. the presumption is he is entiteed to have the people run executive departments that he chooses and likely to run it way he wants them to, no matter who they are. but there are subtle changes going on here that the republicans are aware of. chuck hagel is a reluctant warrior. he doesn't want to use the military to shoot at bad guys. brennan wants to use zillian c.i.a. agents to shoot at bad guys. the legislation regulates the military not the c.i.a. this type of a subtle change here cannot go unnoticed. >> bret: when you hear democrats saying benghazi is over, this is done, this is all political, this is just a done deal, this is, this should not be a factor, what do you think? they are thinking wi

eventually american also grow to love the electrical car? >> yes, it will. >> until that happens, we have to pour all these billions into it. do you agree, steve? >> absolutely not. entrepreneurs will do it. what made the car something working people could afford was henry ford, he did not work for the raw government, got no money from the south government. he did it on his own and that's wait it should be done. >> there is no venture capitalist who is going to put in their portfolio all of those battery operated cars because they know the markets don't want it because people get stressed out. they know they'll be stranded if the battery runs out. people want gas. these are going to be expensive toys to drive to the neighborhood grocery store. >> rich, the fact is -- hold on a second. we have another example of this, which is wind power. for 20 years we have been subsidizing wind power. we just agreed to spend another $12 billion on wind power in the last budget deal that was made. and over 20 years, it cost more to get energy from wind than

eventually american also grow to love the electrical car? >> yes, it will. >> until that happens, we have to pour all these billions into it. do you agree, steve? >> absolutely not. entrepreneurs will do it. what made the car something working people could afford was henry ford, he did not work for the raw government, got no money from the south government. he did it on his own and that's wait it should be done. >> there is no venture capitalist who is going to put in their portfolio all of those battery orated cars because they know the markets don't want it because people get stressed out. they know they'll be stranded if the battery runs out. people want gas. these are going to be expensive toys to drive to the neighborho grocery store. >> rich, the fact is -- hold on a second. we have another example of this, which is wind power. for 20 years we have been subsidizing wind power. we just agreed to spend another $12 billion on wind power in the last budget deal that was made. and over 20 years, it cost more to get energy from wind than it

if this only applies to americans on foreign soil why wouldn't this reasoning apply the americans on u.s. soil at home? >> well, what one of the things that the lawyers -- the drafters of this memo do is try to explain that this is an analysis of a limited set of facts. a set of facts that were probably provided by senior officials to deal with situations that confront them flp the real world. and i think one of the important points that the article makes -- sorry, that the memo makes is that we are engaged in an ongoing war, an ongoing armed conflict with al qaeda and this is a conflict to condition battlefields abroad, places like afghanistan. that's a position, by the way, that now two presidents of both parties, congress and the courts have all essentially embraced. >> ifill: let me ask hina shamsi about that. if this this is a brave new day and there ought to be more latitude given to governments to protect themselves, how do you argue against them taking that latitude and running with it? >> well well, first of all, it's an overstatement to say these are standards that are narr

. >>> and a genuine american hero. the incredible story how he saved so many lives, fighting back tears today as he received this nation's highest award for military valor. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. it came out of nowhere. and it stunned the over 1 billion catholics around the world when the pope announced early this morning, our time, he is stepping down, abdicating. this hasn't happened in seven centuries. pope benedict has served during a troubling time for the catholic church. he says he doesn't have the strength to carry on. his departure now opens up the potential for a huge period of change for a church that's been faced with changing times around the world. we have two reports to start with tonight, beginning with our chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. even the pope's closest aides said they were stunned. the pope was expected to a

are americans buying diamonds? >> investing in gold and silver, looking to diversify that portfolio. that tends to be high network individuals buying high quality. tracy: right, the poor saps whose fiance insists they have four karots on her finger. you're not buying the stone; right? stocks of company? >> correct. the fund invests in the industry through companies that mine or produce diamonds or through companies that sell polished diamonds, and the reason we did that was because diamonds tend to be difficult to invest, and they lack fundability, meaning they have different characteristics. tracy: the miners are the way to go; right? >> correct. they have inventory in the ground, rust diamonds that need to be producedded. that said, they have an inventory that's easy to value and put up quantifies in the ground. they will have operating marketing leverage as the price of diamond increases faster. tracy: with a retailer, you are not. there's tiffany's, zales, blue nile. under pressure, aren't they? >> do well when

and more americans, their bodies were still out there. clint romesha lived the soldier's creed, i will never leave a fallen comrade. so he and his team started charging as enemy fire poured down and they kept charging, 50 meters, 80 meters, ultimate ultimately 100 meter run through a hail of bullets and reached their fallen friends and brought them home. throughout history the question has often been asked why. why do those in uniform take such extraordinary risks and held to such courage. you ask clint and many soldiers here today, they'll tell you, the epic fight for their country, they fight for our freedom. and they fight to come home, to their families. most of all they fight for each other, keep each other safe to have each other's backs. i called clint to tell him he would receive this medal. he said he was honored, but he also said, it wasn't just me out there, it was a team effort. so, today we also honor this american team, including those who made the ultimate sacrifice. private first class garrett thompson who would have turne

american citizens don't get lawyers. they don't get due process. they don't even have a chance to surrender, just kill them. so if you find a foreign terrorist, bring them who new york city and give an american jury the chance to hear the evidence and decide the case. but an american citizen on the presidents it kill list dies amazing. this administration uses drones to kill american citizens but not to save them. pat smith, the mother of shawn who was killed in benghazi joins me now from san diego. pat, thanks for being with us. >> hi, judge. >> do you feel you have gotten any straight answers yet? it has been five months since you found out that your son was killed. >> i have had no information. i have been begging and begging for information. and i have been waiting to find out anything that would make me feel better about it. that hasn't happened. they haven't told me anything. >> you know, pat, after you were on the show on this show last time the white house reached out to you and they -- you said they sent you some forms. have you heard from

and so there isn't some long list of americans. i can candidly tell you that. >> but, carrie, the other argument is this is execution without trial and aren't we supposed to be better than that. >> that's at the root of the concern you're hearing from a growing number of democrats, certainly from ron wyden. this is based on the idea, a lot of the criticism is two part. one, there's concern about the legal basis for this and just the act, but at the same time just concern that the president, who's made a big part of his brand and a big part of his campaign promising on being transparent, that he's not living up to that, and that is something that the white house is extraordinarily sensitive to and even reactive to the fact that they're being criticized for not being transparent, and this was a pretty good example of them really holding back on a lot of pretty significant, serious information, and even going back to 2009 when the president decided to release memos dealing with the bush era interrogation techniques, he was pretty fort