Thanks for joining us. Got one or two problems with our Technical Department there, but lets focus on our main story. Russian president Vladimir Putin has used his annual state of the nation address to attack the west for what he described as its hypocritical attitude over the conflict in ukraine. The president said he was certain that if ukraine hadnt experienced a political crisis, the west would have come up with another excuse to contain russian power. Russias economy has been hurt by western sanctions over the countrys role in the confrontation in ukraine. Also by the fall in oil prices. Mr. Putin said that events in ukraine were simply an excuse to impose sanctions on russia. Well, our correspondent in moscow Sarah Rainsford has been following this speech. She gave me her reaction to what he had to say. As feared, we cant bring you that at the moment, so we will come back to that if we can a little bit later in the program. The situation facing mr. Putin, a challenging effort in
And they provide miami dade colleges to the community. Host you have a full day ahead of the. We appreciate you stopping by. Guest thank you for being here. Abyss the day for you host we have moved inside the bus where were joined by john dean whose most recent book is called the nixon defense what he knew and when he knew it. Mr. Dean, how and when kid you become richard did you become Richard Nixons counsel . Guest peter, john please. [laughter] anyway, july of 1970 when i was 31 years of age, i became white house counsel. I wasnt a part of the nixon entourage, i hadnt been in the campaign. I had been in washington quite a while, id worked as the chief minority counsel of the house judiciary committee, id gone on from there, id been an associate Deputy Attorney general. Thats where i joined the nixon administration. While at justice i had a lot of dealings with the white house staff, and so when John Ehrlichman became assistant to the president for domestic affairs, that chair sat em
Obtained his a and b hd in philosophy at princeton. He has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. He appeared frequently on the colbert report, cnn and cspan and he also made his film debut in the matrix and was a commentator on the official trilogy released in 2004, his latest book, black prophetic fire with a distinguished scholar chris the bushindorr prevents a perspective on six africanamerican leaders including frederick a. Bliss, w. E. B. Du bois, Martin Luther king jr. Ellen baker, malcolm x and otto while barnett. Examine the impact of these men and women in their ear ats and across the decades and rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates and all so therefore wines by providing new insights that humanize these wellknown figures cornel west takes an important step in rekindling the black prophetic fire so essential
Noticeably, seriously higher that was a great subject for john and his character on good times. Attention to life in america for 1972, 3, 4 american family. Host next call for norman lear is bob in oklahoma. Caller i enjoyed your work. In my 50s. I grew up watching all in the family, my parents were quakers and they were active in the civil rights movement. It was good entertainment. I have been politically active all my life. I am wondering, a candid question, do you think that some of the older folks, when i say old driving 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, do you think we could be more instrumental in bringing at end to cannabis prohibition during our lifetime so we can help rejuvenate the economy and environment all over the world . Do you think we older people host we got the point. Lets get an answer from norman lear. Marijuana legalization. Guest solving the problem in our economy, i am not the economic maestro. Host should marijuana be legalized . Guest to the extent liquor is analyzed by th
Disagreements with the view ultimately to thinking for ourselves about what are the or the most reasonable ans to the fundamental questions and it seems to me that strauss does explicitly actually indicate that this is exactly what he is doing. That its a new kind of philosophical dialogue he is constructing, and i just want to read you a passage from his liberalism and ancient and modern, what is liberal education. He says the greatest minds utter monologues. We must transform their monologues into a dialogue. Theyre sid by side into it together. The greatest minds utter monologues even when they write dialogues. When we look at the platonic dialogues we observe that there is never a dialogue among minds of the highest order. All platonic dialogues are dialogues between a superior man and men inferior to him. Plato apparently felt one could not write a dialogue between two men of the highest order. We must then do something which the greatest minds were unable to do. Since the greates