People didnt think it would work on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years and nobody expected for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edited. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and Public Television work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challenge fellow citizens to reexamine the assumption they hold. We all bring assumptions to the table. There is nothing wrong with that. Assumptions and various prejudices but i hope our work challenges people to reexamine the assumptions they hold. I hope our work helps expand their inventory of ideas. I hope our work allows americans to be introduced to each other. This is the most multicultural, multky racial, multiethnic america ever. America is still so segregated in many ways. I hope the work we
So she was very resentfull and said this is ridiculous and i have to pay them a fortune and it was outf of the money they were being paid. How did abigail handle the sons alcohol problem . She didnt talk about it. Two things you didnt talk about and one was alcoholism. Her brother died from alcoholism and when her son was ill all they said was he was a problem. It was clear he was dying. She dealt better than john. John said i will have nothing to do with him. But i found a wonderful letter from john to their youngest son after charles had died saying my loosing the presidency is nothing. I would never have been president and i would have given my life itself for charles to live. So you know how deep the afffection was but it was a horrible thing. And if anyone coughed, you just ignored it. If they sneezed, it was all right. But if you coughed it might mean you had tb. So you would never mention, particularly in a letter, someone was coughing. You might say they have a fever and down t
Happen. Saudi arabia. Something of a patching over, where do you see things between . I wish i were in that room where they at the Foreign Affairs ministerial meeting where they kissed and made of. They have told us that this thing is no. We have resolved their differences. The feud is over. I will you wish that i could believe that. You objectively examine the roots of the dispute, especially between the parties and the saudis this thing is far from over. The main issues that they disagreed on i still there. Just issuing a statement. Things are okay now. Support for the muslim brotherhood. He knows what they will concede on. The fact of the matter is that they still have a very different strategic path from the saudis and from the uae. Geography and economics, and a very different situation. A range of issues. The dispute. A fierce regional struggle. Negotiations, intriguing for me. What are you negotiating about. Nothing territorial. Government negotiations. Of course the eastern pro
Is that the morton memos [ laughter ] shouldnt have been particularly well, i just wanted to give you some advice because when controversial because they didnt represent a major shift your optimism proves unfounded in how dhs already did you may be looking for some Immigration Enforcement. Outlet. Npi published a report last week fortunately, the legalization of marijuana is on the ballot in showing that 93 of removals florida, which is where i live. Under the Bush Administration its only medical marijuana were consistent with the obama in florida. Enforcement priorities. So this was not a radical change. Overall, 95 of all removals since 2003 have fallen within let me address it this way, doris. I want to add one other thing dhs current formal enforcement reflecting on some of the things priorities, and this includes anna said. 99 of removals in fy2013. When republicans swept into power in 1994, they didnt work with bill clinton for a little more than a year. So one way to interpret t
Lawyer. Later former secretary Janet Napolitano talks about education policy. Next a discussion on the impact of the splooem Supreme Court decision on the can traception mandate in the Health Care Law. From washington journal, this is 40 minutes. Joining us now, pro choice america, their president , welcome. Thank you for having me. We are here to talk in part about the decisions made by the Supreme Court last week. First of all with hobby lobby, what happened . What is your perspective . My perspective is i am disturbed. What we saw were five male judges essentially say that discrimination against women is not discrimination at all. What happened is that the court decided in favor of a private corporation saying that our religious beliefs trump the civic doubt we have to provide comprehensive health care for all of our employees. This was coming on the heels of there are administration and the country acknowledging if you are truly a religious institution, are you exempt from this. Yo