Needs to rise to the occasion before we get killed back at home. Jon all of us killed well be the dead as the art of how to properly squire a lady at a cotillion laughter always bring an extra pair of gloves her punch can spill laughter so if youre facing an existential threat for the president to act, but i was under the impression congress could do something about it, like declare war. Why not on your own. My time here in congress, thats not how this happened. The president of the United States would request that support and would supply the wording of a resolution to authorize this force. And at this point in time, weve gonot gotten that request or sen that language. Jon we would help stop the greatest threat this country has known but not if it means being rude. Were not going to be rude. But at least congress can agree on one thing just kidding. They cant. laughter he has the authority he needs now to act against i. S. I. S. The president should come to congress and act for authorization. The president has the authority to immediately act. He should come to move to kong. He has the authority to move on it. The president should be seeking congressional approval, period. Jon its so heartening to see congress so grid locked finally reaching across the aisle and coming together to get nothing done. laughter jon or is there Something Else going on here . I think at some point in time, when we come back, after the elections, i think there will be a consideration of a larger authorization for the use of force. Jon after the midterms. Well do it after the midterms we dont want to deal with the countrys existential threat until congress deals with its existential threat. laughter all right. So what weve got here is an incredibly complicated constitutional conundrum in which James Madison in 51 referred to as a pig bleep . Which branch has the power to to take us to war . If its not war, what is it . Nows the time to see how our government functions in crisis. I give you our national media. President obamas socalled latae salute. Holding a cup in his right hand. The coffee ease cay pate. Coffeegate. President obama in hot water. Some people think its disrespectful. Hash teague latae salute. Went viral. The lata is blowing up on line. Jon we are so bleep i dont know what to do. laughter first of all, were currently fighting i. S. I. S. And ebola, two things that are literally blowing up and going viral. If youre not covering it, dont use words that remind us of the stuff youre not covering. Latae gate is not all the stories. The news channels went for the full double venti coverage with one Network Going especially deep. Learn the proper respect of the salute. Innocencetive. Whats the meaning. Looks terrible. Outlandish, and disappointing. Put the coffee in the other hand. The commander displayed complete disrespect for the men and women in uniform jon shut up we dont really care we dont really care about this you have no principle about this. Youre just trying to score points in a game nobody else is playing. Its an arrogance you portray these people youre right. Show respect for people putting their lives on the line for this fight. Jon so the principle is show respect for those putting their lives on the line. The first female pilot piloting for u. A. E. Dropped bombs against i. S. I. S. Monday night. Would that be considered boobs on the ground . audience reacts jon what was the quote someone said earlier in the program . These people are putting their lives on the hei on the line fow respect. So bleep you and all your false pat patriotism. When push took us to war, it was shouted down as treasonous. The president you dont like, no transgression no matter how immaterial or ridiculous is too small to cite as evidence that this president isnt as american as you are. A hot cup of dissidence, look at. This would president bush ever do that . Surprised. We have a basketballtrashtalking leadingfrombehind, igotnostrategy, osama bin ladenisdead, commanderinchief, how disrespectful was that . Jon while palin in a ball cap was feeding us literal epithet, he drinks chives so when hes in the back of a volvo it has codomin zing. Would president bush ever salute with coffee in his hand . No, because his hands were too filled with dog, a scotty, out of respect. applause so two president s both sending the United States to war, citing same legal authorities, both without any seeming exit strategy, and both holding bheep bleep in their hands while saluting troops, but in their disease minds, only one did it because he loved america, the other did it because he hated it. 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You didnt read the book. I read some of the book. s alproper nutrition. Red. Keeping the romance alive. Level 7 and setting a good example. Daddys trying. We are so ready for this. Life can surprise you. So can an allstate agent. From savings on a new car, to discounts on a great car seat. The good hands are doing more than ever before. Jon welcome back cheers and applause so recently we sent our intrepid reporter jason jones to the field to explore the phenomenon of a certain washington, d. C. s football teams controversial name. We learned later some individuals who participated in the piece didnt enjoy the experience. Its something that happens less than you would think. We take the complaint seriously. We generally dont want people who participate in the show to have a bad experience. We work very hard to find real people who have real beliefs and want to express those beliefs on television and we work hard to make sure that the gist of those beliefs are represented accurately. Albeit sometimes comedically on our program. If we find out that someone in a piece was intentionally misled or if their comments were intentionally misrespected, we do not air that piece. We would not air that piece. That being said, i hope you enjoy the following piece. laughter once again the Washington Redskins are getting their ass kicked. This time instead of cowboys and patriots, its fighting activists. A move is underway to change the name. Critics say its offensive to native americans. According to chief Daniel Schneider of redskin nation, the only crime his people have committed is being misunderstood. The name of our team is the name of our team and it represents honor, it represents pride, it represents respect. Well, that doesnt sound that bad. Why was this group of native american activists so upset . A name that impairs, disables, disenfranchises our population. The most popular mascots in the country are indians and animals. Right. Because we all love animals and we all love indians. Were not mascots. The dictionary defined racial slur. Thats according to what . The dictionary. Plenty of words in the dictionary have multiple means. Turns out this one doesnt. Help me out white man. You can take things out of context all over the place but in this particular case, it is what it is, its very obvious. The name really means honor. Honoring what . Your strong, proud, courageous, brave heritage. Redskin is a bounty. It meant proof of indian kill. Well, when you put it like that, sounds terrible. Put it in context on sundays and saturdays, and friday nights. And mondays. Every day. And thursday nights. Do you know what its like to be a native in this town. I dont. To walk down the street every single day, surround bid the imagery and told to get over it . Because, because, because just because im uncomfortable doesnt mean you have to make fun of my uncomfortableness. Dont see me doing that to people. Surely these native american activists make a compelling case, that is until you hear whats at stake for the true victims, the fans. If the redskins name is changed and i have children one day, what will i pass on to them . It would be tough. It would be like losing a family member. And theyve already lost so much 58 starting quarterbacks. 28 head coaches, 12 uniforms, 10 logos. Playing in five stadiums, 2 cities. And changed their names before. So forgive them for clinging to what few traditions remain singing fight song i have an old computer, pulled it on netscape. You didnt say scalp em also says whomp them, too so the song changed it was changed for a reason, obviously and the team sensitivity paid off. Right here on the home page of the web site Daniel Snider paid for, it says that in 2004 a poll found 90 of native americans did not find the name offensive oh, the annenberg report. The funny thing about the annenberg report is it was conducted in pennsylvania by selfidentifying Indigenous People which means it could have been anybody off the streets who says, oh, yeah, my great great great grandmother was a cherokee princess who would do that . My great great great grandfather is full blood cherokee who has cherokee in them . What do you have in you . Cherokee, i dont know how much or little onetwelfth. I am not offended which means only one question for the other eleventwelves. Arent you being a little sensitive . After every single thing American Indian people have been through how can you possibly say ewith are thin skinned and oversensitive . We have to say things like cultural sensitivity because as soon as we say racism or racist no one says racist we get shut down the term is racist stop. I am shutting the conversation down. Okay, so redskins. The Washington Team name was starting to feel a little insensitive. What was i missing . What i would say is come to a football game, meet some fans, come see what our context is about and i think, you know, theres no way you would leave that offended so i went to a game and you know what . It was true. I was immediately welcomed into this rich culture. Im not sure what it was. But the more time i spent with these people, the more i began to feel warm and happy and numb and, theyre right, that logo is cool then i met with tribal elders. This is our culture. This is who we are. Would you call a native american a redskin . Do you know any native americans . Yeah, about eight of them. Am i not a native american . Was i not born in h this country . I dont want to authorize that. Thats right, a culture so proud they didnt even want their faces on tv. Even after they had signed a release form. I went to a game. Let me ask you, if they brought a native american, wouldnt they be a little upset . I think sometimes the conversation happening right now is that we need to be sitting down and talking to the people who actually are offended. A little later we did just that, but turns out these fans werent comfortable having the conversation. Afterward they related to the Washington Post they felt ambushed, endangered and defamed and, yes, the conversation was heated at times, but there was also handshakes and even a ceremonial handkerchief. In the end, they said they still would have gone on the show had they known there would be a debate, but at least one of them wouldnt have worn his redskins jacket, which forces the question if they change the team name, would you still root for them . Absolutely. Yes. I wouldnt hide my redskins memorabilia. It would still be on the wall and the belt on the shoulder. They ill always be redskins to me. Problem solved hey, he who stands on the wrong side of history, change the bleep name cheers and applause jon jason jones. Jon jason jones. 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It looks at it from a macro perspective. We tried to start with the basic objects we take for granted in the modern world, like a glass of clean drinking water. We suppose we can go to spout and get water and it wont kill us with alcohol ray or typhoid 48 hours later, right . Both of us do. Jon right. Behind that ordinary object, theres a 500year of history and innovations and ideas and creativity that made that possible and all the unintended consequences of the innovations. Its all history in terms of great military leaders or president s or social movements, and the history of all these objects is in a way just as interesting. Jon normally, you would see it as a chronology and make the connections as it goes on. Its laid out sort of elementally, cold, light, you know, water. Yes. Jon and you always imagine that a scientist builds exactly on the linear discovery but it doesnt always work that way. A lot of things we dont think of as problems. We have a chapter and episode on time and clocks. Jon yes. Until the late 1870s, every town in america was on its own time. So you would be one town it would be 8. 55, another down 8 57 and another 9 53. No one knew it was a problem because you didnt need to be that coordinated. Then the railroads came. They had no idea what time it was anymore so someone had to invent standardized time zones and coordinate all the clocks all around the country to make this possible. We never think standardized time was even an invention, but actually there was a person named allen that came up with it. What made possible in the next century is this, right . You cant say tune in your tiv0, your d. V. R. You cant say tune in at 11 00 p. M. Eastern time for a program without standardized time. Jon even now as you see the disparity between cultures, there are cultures still that cannot take for granted a glass of cool, clean water. Absolutely. And i think its important in our society that we celebrate the innovators that made this possible. We celebrate innovation all the time in our society but its all focused on the 25yearold billionaire or apple gadget and all these things are great but the people in the developed world that solve these kind of problems are extraordinary. We talk about a guy who in the middle of the 19th century lifted the city of chicago. It was basically chicago was so flat it wouldnt drain properly and all the waste was accumulating so there was an idea to use jack screws jon just used to put it in the river, right . But they couldnt get it to the river. You had pigs scavenging. That was the Waste Removal system. Jon right. So we figured out if we could just lift all the buildings and streets ten feet well actually get a nice slope to allow the waste and everything to flow into the lake which was itself a kind of problem. Jon right. And he lifted up an entire hotel at one point with people staying in the hotel and they would move the buildings around and it was an extraordinary thing. When you walk around chicago to this day youre ten feet above the natural level of the city because of this guy from 160 years ago. Jon lets say im a different brilliant guy there and i say, lets move. laughter yeah. Jon but all the waste went into the lake and that was apparently upstream so they had to reverse the river . That was the next great engineering projects. Jon and they reversed the river . And its extraordinary. I feel like this is the point. We have a whole set of problems we need to solve with comparable ingenuity, but we need to be reminding ourselves of this history and celebrating this. People who first chlorinated the water, there was a guy named john weil who introduced chlorine into the water in new jersey, and everybody thought he was insane. Jon youre welcome. Right. laughter chlorine is poison if you drink it jon its not in new jersey. Its refreshing laughter but he ended up convincing everybody this was the way to kill bacteria in the water and it cut infant and Child Mortality half in 30 years. Jon incredible. When you think things are daunting and you look how far things have come it gives you optimism. Watch the show with your kids. The way that its laid out is really fascinating and a wonderful thing and very entertaining as well. How we got to be now, on the bookshelves. Pbs Series Premieres pbs Series Premieres octob[ male announcer ]m. Automotive innovation starts. Right here. With a control pad that can read your handwriting, a widescreen multimedia center, and a headup display for enhanced driver focus. All inside a newly redesigned cabin of unrivaled style and comfort. The allnew cclass. At the very touch point of performance and innovation. At the very touch point of performance and innovation. 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