i irish american. i didn't know what a pure american was. none of my friends were pure americans. a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure. mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it

the census measures irish american, italian-american, african-american, et cetera, et cetera. does that dilute the overconsciousness of black versus white? >> it doesn't dilute it. talking to me, as an african- american what i will tell you, the census saying african- american or irish american or scottish american, whatever, it doesn't matter. when i walk down the street and someone sees me the first thing they are going to see is a black woman. if they look automatic or you, they're not going to say, there's a jewish american, there's an irish american. you see race and we identify with it. and quite frankly, the election of barack obama i think was one of the greatest political events i will ever see in my lifetime but the country has become more race conscious in terms of color, and in terms of ethnicity since he was elected. the national debate on race in light of the jury verdict in the trayvon martin case absolutely demonstrated it. our discussions about immigration refinancial and the place of hispanics in american culture absolutely non straight that when it comes to

as an irish-american, i can assure you the worst thing an irish-american can be accused of is being a homicidal killer. so the fact that he seemed to be more worried about the rat title, that he was a rat, and more worried about that than his culpability as a mass murderer was, to me, one of the great ta takeaways from this trial. >> alan, we're talking about this man who was on the most wanted list. he was on the run for more than 16 years. we're also hearing family members of the victims, they do believe that justice has been served. were you surprised at all by the verdict? do you feel like justice has been served? >> i think that the jury was very careful. they spent five days. last week they asked the judge for particular instructions. they asked for instruction of whether they have to be unanimous as to the racketeering acts, the individual acts. now we know from the verdict that, in fact, they were. eight of the murders the jury found not proven. that's not guilty. it means not proven. another 11 they found absolutely proven beyond a reasonable doubt. so you have a jury who ove

so do you see yourself as an irish author or american author because are you an american citizen. >> i'm an american citizen and also an irish citizen. >> stephen: i'm sorry, what are you talking about. pick a side, sir, pick a side. >> i belong to two countries. >> stephen: you do, okay, there an american dream, do you think there is an irish dream. >> the irish dream was to come to america. >> stephen: congratulations. >> yes. and its american dream seems to be to get back there,. >> everybody wants to go back because there is a real-- the irish identity is very strong in america. people are proud. does that drive you crazy people who like show up in green on st. patrick's day with like a green beer and -- >> that's me running down 5th avenue. >> stephen: really, do you have your pants on. >> i do occasionally. i think you can celebrate it, there is a little bit of amateur day about st. patrick's day when they are out and about and running down third avenue and making a bit of fool of themselves. but part of it is okay, just go out and enjoy yourself rz. >> stephen: by amateur you

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>> coming up -- >> i'm an alcoholic, native american and irish. so all the experts say that it's in my blood. >> alcohol causes big problems for one inmate. >> and i flipped into like i don't know if it's like stacie or tracie. or what happens. it's a different person. and she's usually pretty violent. >>> the best day for an inmate at the orange county jail is the day he or she is released. the second best just might be any day they receive their commissary order. the jail stocks a variety of snacks, toiletries, and other basics, which inmates can purchase with their own funds from a debit account. >> we used to do everything hand input. and now we actually have an automated system with scan tron forms that the inmates will fill out three times a week. we scan it through our system and fill the orders through the commissary. the items we have there are top brand items. they're not just your mom and pop items. >> order up some soap. got to have the stamps, you know, stamps more than likely, soaps, you know, because there might be a meal you might

. >> some 34 million americans have irish roots, and low prices have made it attractive for them to return here. this idyllic estate is also up for sale. castle all of your desk castle all of her near limerick -- castle all of her -- castle oliver nearly murdered. it has to look its best as potential buyers are currently spoiled for choice. these sellers have had to lower their expectations. the core macs have spent one million euros renovating the castle. -- the cormacs. they have bought stacks of books to give the place a homey feel. the family moved into castle all of her -- castle oliver eight years ago. >> everybody was here, and everybody buying a property, and everybody just expected their property to go up in value. i think, really, it was just unsustainable. people were paying ridiculous prices for places, and then the economy went bust. >> with luck, they will simply recover their investment. maybe a rich american will fall in love with their castle. for his part, paul michaels can only encourage his countrymen to come to the island. >> i have been around the world many times. i

>> he is probably the preeminent irish-american gangster at this time. he is on trial right now for violent crimes, extortion, drug dealing, night scene murders. but what is most significant, what sets him apart from a john villager or an al capone or anybody else you put in the kb on of crime figures in america is that he corrupted the fbi. an extent thath the fbi were his accomplices. the fbi helped him identify people for murder in the 1980's. he was recruited by the fbi in 1975, because the f b i had a national policy of the time of taking out the mafia. all over the country, the fbi recruited criminals that would know something about the mafia. one problem with the national not take that it does into account regional differences. unlike any other place in boston, theough irish gangsters rivaled the mafia when they can to influence, particularly when it came to lethal ability. the irish guys killed many more people than the violence -- and then the italians in this town. whitey bulger was a killer, but he was recruited by the fbi provide information

why is he on trial if >> guest: he's probably the preimminent irish-american gangster of the time. he's on trial for many acts of violence, crime, extortion, drug dealing, 19 murders. what is most significant about whitey bulger, what sets him apart from, say, john dill gear -- dillen gear or al can own. he corrupted the fbi. he corrupted the fbi to the extent they were his accomplices. they were helping him identify people to murder in the 1980 even in the 1970. he was recruited by the fbi in 1975, because the the fbi had a national policy of taking out the mafia. and all of in the country the fbi recruited criminals that would know something about the mafia. one probably with the national policy that doesn't take in to account regional differences. unlike any other place in america, in boston, the irish gang gangsters rival the mafia when it came to influence and lethal ability. the irish guys killed many more than the italian. bulger was a classic example. he was a killer but recruited by the fbi to provide information about the mafia. and that when -- whitey started using them

am i italian, irish, the decision as a white american? >> people are still trying to figure out what you are. >> i am a hybrid, okay? >> can we update a story here, stop and frisk update in new york city, showed the largest gun bust in new york city history. we have a table with the guns laid out. do we have that picture? >> picture a table full of guns on it. >> exactly. >> brian, there was a 911 call or e-mail. >> there are the guns, bolling. >> there you are. thank goodness. >> 45 guns that were confiscated from someone who said they were concerned about walking around with the guns because they're worried about stop and frisk. >> they get an intercept. it was released yesterday. here is the quote from one of the guys in charge. i can't take them to my house. i'm in brownsville, new york. we got like watch ma call it, stop and frisk. 23-year-old alleged gunman kept his gun down south because of stop and frisk, not bringing it. >> can i say the message of this also was one isolated incident, but these came from north and south carolina,

he was the first italian-american mayor in a city ruled by irish democrats for decades. he had a city council that was submitted to his destruction just like the republican congress was committed to barack obama's town call -- downfall in his first term. he had to work with the guys. he worked with them. he also mack mac mac outlasted them. he outmaneuvered them. there was a famous massacre. they didn't have a quorum because there were three members who were arrested or dielted or convict -- indicted of various crimes such as fixing races at the local track. buddy used that to engineer a coop which he took over the city council and the "l.a. times" did a feature about him. he said that in the jail population stalin is something like 1 in 10,000. it's one in eight. i had tried to one the person. they said he would got opening of an envelope and show up at any event. i remember being a young report aerothe the "providence journal" not covering buddy or the city hall. i was at another reporter's backyard cookout. we were drinking beer and

were upset.ners he dismissed the african- american staff and brought in irish and english house servants. that is the only time that happened. left the hercules, washington compound and was never found again. they think he was in new york. they do not know. not a lot of effort was made to find him. hise is trouble about slaves and hers. he freed his and he did not free hers. i do not know the rest of the stories. often did people give a slave away for a wedding gift? >> all the time. all the time. my great grandmother received a slave as a wedding present. they were together the rest of their lives, even after the civil war. always. hand in glove. they died within a short time of each other. in east texas. but your grandmother or great- grandmother question mark >> -- your grandmother or great- grandmother? >> great-grandmother. >> have you ever studied it? >> as much as i can. i have always been interested in african-american history. it is exciting what you can find. you think it is a blank wall but it is not at all. you just keep digging deeper and deeper. i enjoy that with the white

activity as a means of social advancement with american society. if we look at traditional organized crime, the chicago outfit in earlier known as the component syndicate, if we look at the criminal organization through those classes, we see a different interpretation than the one that argosy was imported from the south of italy. we can get into what the mafia was in the south of italy at the turn-of-the-century. it last century. it was vastly different than what the media tells us it was, was portrayed in the movies. people forget the godfather is fiction. it was in a real story. it was in fact just a story. there is evidence that gangsters indicated the movie. it wasn't art imitating life, but it could've been life imitating art. i can go whine on. >> again, i thought the book was great because it really did build in the known facts and showed a sweeping arc of how things came together. so it goes through prohibition. it goes val capone. the price of history everybody knows in terms of chicago said past in this category, but then it rings in othe

it's americans just like irish and italian holiday. as alex said, the country is not based on the nation-state here is not based on flood. it's based open credo. it's not a nation-state it's a nation of nations. a state based on credo. i think the reality speaks to that. >> i think the cinco de mayo example is great. i can't think a more american holiday than the defeat of the french army. that's what it is. and, you know, to go in to some, you know, more. this is what he writes a chapter here about the phenomena. it's about the immigrants moving toward the main stream society and in the main stream society moves toward them. whey learned in the book everything i like to do on sundays comes from the germans. i mean, i like to go bowling. i like to go to the shooting range nap is something that germans did on sunday that was really un-american in the 1870. people were afraid of that because, you know, the old puritanical version of sunday was you sit at home and, you know, go to church. you sit at home, you read the bible, and basically

we are made of hebrew, chinese, african american, native american, irish. of america that a lot of people have not acknowledged over the years. the rainbow color, you see the fabric of america. , and i know we have a positive future because our young people are inspired. i think god -- thank god, and i have been praying for peace in chicago and around our nation. host: the audience still gathered around the reflecting pool, between the lincoln memorial and washington monument. it is under repair, with scaffolding around it. a caller in oakland, california. i also wanted to thank you for putting the march on. it's amazing. 50 years, people who did not have the right to vote before this. the country has primarily brushed it bright -- by as something not phenomenal. i loved a lot of the speeches. the big point that i hope a lot of the audience gets across is, you have to continuously be youlved in your rights that have earned, and people have fought and died for. think, i go out and i vote one time every four years. you have to vote every year. cityave to vote

for market share, like ireland has to pay irish tax and a u.s. tax on top of that, almost no other countries in the world do that. it is in interest of a company not to be dom i domiciled in a y like america. if you do a cross-border merger, you say, gee, the company in another country is the parent and u.s. company is a subsidiary. this hour thees hurt, sometimess not. but in the long run, ifhe parent company is overseas, where does that mean the high-value executive jobs are? where does that likely mean high-value r&d jobs are not in our interes to have a punitive tax system in very least we'll drive out high-end, top paid jobs out of the u.s. >> the must be something going on, we're just off this irs revelation that a number of indivvduals have actually renounced their citizenship to leave because of the high taxes that is double in the first quarter. and that it is picking up more steam. the aggregate numbers are malty are rapidly in-- small they are rapidly increasing. this is the version of companies ying the same. >> it is, and whether you

he was the first italian-american mayor in a city that had been ruled by irish democrats for decades, and he had a city council that was committed to his destruction just like the republican congress is committed to barack obama's downfall in his first term. he had to work with those guys come and he did work with him and he also machiavellian maneuvers that he had, he outlasted them. he outmaneuvered them. they refused to confirm any of his appointments, and then it was a famous massacre, they called, where the city council had a meeting and they didn't have a quorum because there were three members have been arrested or indicted or convicted of the crimes such as insurance fraud and fixing races at a local track your so buddy used that to engineer a coup when he took over the city council and "l.a. times" came to town and a feature about him, and he said that in the general population, one in 10,000 on the providence city council, it's one in eight. the genius of buddy was he could connect with people. he had charm, charisma and he would want into a room and, if there were 100 peopl

for market share, like ireland has to pay irish tax and a u.s. tax on top of that, almost no other countries in the world do that. it is in interest of a company not to be dom i domiciled in a y like america. if you do a cross-border merger, you say, gee, the company in another country is the parent and u.s. company is a subsidiary. this hour thees hurt, sometimess not. but in the long run, if the parent company is overseas, where does that mean the high-value executive jobs are? where does that likely mean high-value r&d jobs are not in our interest to have a punitive tax system in very least we'll drive out high-end, top paid jobs out of the u.s. >> there must be something going on, we're just off this irs revelation that a number of indivvduals have actually renounced their citizenship to leave because of the high taxes. that is double in the first quarter. and that it is picking up more steam. the aggregate numbers are malthey are rapidly in-- small they are rapidly increasing. this is the version of companies saying the same. >> it is, and w

♪ we are americans, we hope that you are, too ♪ ♪ our soles are here for you ♪ ♪ [ cheers ] ♪ >>> it was irish night at the white house, a solute to the visiting prime minister with dancers from castle shannon, yet the crowd could hardly wait, the president and mrs. nixon ended it in a suspensionble move. >> i understand i'm supposed to make a surprise announcement. [ laughter ] >> the difficulty is that every time i'm supposed to make a surprise announce the, i find someway it's leaked before i get to make it. even though the information may have leaked out, until i say it, it's not official. >> and so tonight, mrs. nixon and i are very honored to announce the engagement of our daughter tricia to mr. edward cox of new york. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ hi, i'm terry and i have diabetic nerve pain. i worked a patrol unit for 17 years in the city of baltimore. when i first started experiencing the pain, it's, it's hard to describe because you have a numbness... but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot. it was progressively getting worse, and at that point i kn

was irish night at the white house, a solute to the visiting prime minister with dancers from castle shannon, yet the crowd could hardly wait, the president and mrs. nixon ended it in a suspensionable move. >> i understand i'm supposed to make a surprise announcement. [ laughter ] >> the difficulty is that every time i'm supposed to make a surprise announce the, i find someway it's leaked before i get to make it. even though the information may have leaked out, until i say it, it's not official. [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> and so tonight, mrs. nixon and i are very honored to announce the engagement of our daughter tricia to mr. edward cox of new york. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ i don'without goingcisions to angie's list first. with angie's list, i know who to call, and i know the results will be fantastic! find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. >>> now to commemorate this event, we have as our special guest the ray conniff singers. most of you have heard them. and if the music is square, it's because i like it square. [

it's americans just like irish and italian holiday. as alex said, the country is not based on the nation-state here is not based on flood. it's based open credo. it's not a nation-state it's a nation of nations. a state based on credo. i think the reality speaks to that. >> i think the cinco de mayo example is great. i can't think a more american holiday than the defeat of the french army. that's what it is. and, you know, to go in to some, you know, more. this is what he writes a chapter here about the phenomena. it's about the immigrants moving toward the main stream society and in the main stream society moves toward them. whey learned in the book everything i like to do on sundays comes from the germans. i mean, i like to go bowling. i like to go to the shooting range nap is something that germans did on sunday that was really un-american in the 1870. people were afraid of that because, you know, the old puritanical version of sunday was you sit at home and, you know, go to church. you sit at home, you read the bible, and basically

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the irish broadcaster rte was barely a year old when the sits american president and an irishman to boot came to visit. >> here comes the ticker tape. this looks like wall street. this is something so typical of a presidential parade in the united states. >> reporter: for president kennedy it must have felt more like a homecoming parade. >> i'm glad i'm here. it took 115 years to make this trip and 6,000 miles. >> reporter: it was from here that kennedy's grandfather left and boarded a ship bound for america. >> if he had. left, i'd be working over at the albatross company. >> reporter: there with official obligations like the wreath ceremony. but there was visiting his cousin mary. waiting impatiently with minds a little confused by mrs. ryan's cousin who visited her and brought a helicopter who's the president of the united states and her cousin. >> reporter: he stunned villagers to gather near. >> he looks at them and he says. they go you sure, almost? they go one by two by three and they swarm in. it's all touchy freely. >> reporter: when you're in mary ryan's house, you stick to mar

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he was the first italian-american mayor in a city that had been ruled by irish democrats for decades, and he had a city council that was committed to his destruction just like the republican congress was committed to barack obama's downfall in his first therm. and he had to work with those guys. and he did work with them. and he also machiavellian maneuvers that he had, he outlasted them. and he outmaneuvered them. there was this -- they refused to confirm any of his appointments, and then there was the famous massacre, they called it, where the city council had a meeting, and they didn't have a quorum because there were three members who had been arrested or dieted or convicted of various -- indicted of various crimes such as insurance fraud and fixing races at a track. and buddy used that to take over the city council. and the l.a. times came to town and did a feature about him. he said in the general population, the instance of felons is 1 in 50,000, on the city council, it's 1 in 8. the genius of buddy was he had charm, he had charisma. he'd walk into a room and if there were 100

i'm jam knees-irish there are no japanese-irish in the cabinet. people want to look beyond that. it mac me uncomfortable to defend the obama administration he has been fortunate that he has been able to tap people for these cabinet-level positions a lot of whom got their start came up through the ranks under the clinton administration. i think democrats have come from where there is much deeper bench that's something that i think republicans need to build on. >> this argument of qualified people drives me to insanity. >> everybody is not qualified. >> the of qualified people i clouds plenty of women that is not -- >> that is just the argument that some people are hearing about janet yellen and as vice chair of the fed as somebody who has been written about at being much more collaborative thinker, summers makes quite frankly stupid decisions, he was drummed out of harvard university, he is a very self important kind of guy. and he may be brilliant but he's abrasive and you don't even want somebody like that in the -- running the fed whose position really controls the u.s. economy

they brought in irish and english servants. the only time that happened. hercules, left washington compound there in was not never d found again. they think he was in new york. they don't know. not a lot of effort was made to find it. little trouble in the washington house about his slaves and hers. he freed his. she didn't free hers. o she may have agitated him to go after this lady. i don't know, i don't know this story. it's the story of the white house. >> how often did someone give a you're reading about for a wedding gift? >> all the time, yeah, all the time. received a ndmother slave who was her age as a ann tobe.esent named and they were together the rest f their lives, even after the civil war. always. they were hand-in-glove. a short died within time of each other. that's not an unusual story. that's in east texas. >> great grandmother. skip a generation. i was a late child. your much of that was in family. >> slave s? >> lots of them. it?ave you ever studied >> as much as i can. as much as i can find out, i have. i've been interested in it. i've

the history of the neighborhood and it is a rich history and this is a picture of potrero point and irish hill that were leveled to fill in these codes. and that layering of this neighborhood, that the success and generations new things will happen showing a historic police station and a american building that have different eras in the dog patch and across the street as well. is the dog patch which is the launch condos. and so showing you the street of the neighborhood and the mix of the building types and scales, the very diverse area. >> your time is up. >> okay. >> the commissioners may have a further questions, did you get primarily through? >> the further questions, i can elaborate at that time. >> thank you. >> opening it up for public comment. i have one speaker card. chyrl, roye? >> high name is chryl and i am a resident and a business owner in dog patch. i own pacino which has been an an core for the neighborhood and i have to say that i am in complete support of this project and i have seen the group that has been mind this and have have integrity and have gotten all of us invo

the history of the neighborhood and it is a rich history and this is a picture of potrero point and irish hill that were leveled to fill in these codes. and that layering of this neighborhood, that the success and generations new things will happen showing a historic police station and a american building that have different eras in the dog patch and across the street as well. is the dog patch which is the launch condos. and so showing you the street of the neighborhood and the mix of the building types and scales, the very diverse area. >> your time is up. >> okay. >> the commissioners may have a further questions, did you get primarily through? >> the further questions, i can elaborate at that time. >> thank you. >> opening it up for public comment. i have one speaker card. chyrl, roye? >> high name is chryl and i am a resident and a business owner in dog patch. i own pacino which has been an an core for the neighborhood and i have to say that i am in complete support of this project and i have seen the group that has been mind this and have have integrity and ha