[ music ] this is real money. You are the most important part of the show. Join our live conversation for the next half hour on twitter at ali velshi or on facebook. Com slash ali velshi. Im in washington, d. C. Where the world bank has its headquarters. For those of you who dont know, the World Bank Provides technical assistance. Weve brought real people on the show to he willlous straight issues in our lives. But its true that many of the worlds problems get solved by socalled big people. Im going to introduce you to some of the giants dr. Jim yong kim. But before i do that lets go to Something Else that is happening in washington. Executives got grilled on capitol hill over their proposed mega merger. Lawmakers demanded assurances that the mega size comcast would not drive up prices. At stake is what is good for big business good for consumers . In february comcast announced its intention to gobble up time warner cable, which holds the number two spot. The deal is valued at 45 billi
Of networks provided. It was reported that comcast all ofto so al gore got the oil in carbonbased money. Beck off thenn air of comcast. The blazerecently, has been trying to purchase another network that was owe 20 million to comcast. The feeling by some within comcast was so strong about airing glenn beck off the that some, reportedly, were willing to forgo 20 million that they offered to pay of this Networks Debt owed to comcast just to keep him off the air. Now, i have no idea who the network is. They wont say. They have some deal about that. I was given a blurb from an email that indicates, and this is an email from somebody at whatever network it is. I want the ability to argue for comcast, trying to get the deal accepted. That they will not have to put glenn beck on the air prior to the 24 teen election cycle. 2014 election cycle. There are some people who will see it for that. December 1 would get the deal after the november elections. There was too big a risk, in my view, of ge
News coming in. It was the philly fed that looked like things were turning around. Yeah. Higher in western europe, becky, but an entirely different story in russia. Lets get to that. Russian deputy finance minister saying he expects no big Immediate Impact from western sanctions on russias financial sector. And he argued that the countrys creditworthiness has not worsened. U. S. Imposed a second wave of sanctions on moscow yesterday, and the European Union is expected to announce measures over russias moves to the next crimea region of ukraine. Russian officials criticized the downgrade of russias trading outlook. Saying there was no basis for the move. The s p and fitch provides their longterm assets on russias debt from negative to stable. So far, the russian markets are feeling the pinch. The russian rtx down almost another 3 right now. While the broader miex micex i. Their version of the down is down over 21 over three months. It is down 24 over the past 12 months. Nothing short of
Posted by the Progressive Policy Institute looking at the fccs open internet policy. Earlier in they, the fcc voted along party lines to move forward on a proposed rule that would allow content providers like netflix to pay for whats called fast lane service. This discussion in washington set to get underway in a couple of minutes. We will stay here live with one quick note from one programming note about the white house. President obama reportedly today will announce you seeking to keep 9800 troops can use troops in afghanistan after the war formally ends later this year and then will withdraw most of those forces by 2016. According to Senior Administration officials reported by the associated press. Well have the president s statement this afternoon at 2 45 p. M. Live on cspan. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] here on cspan2 we are waiting for the start of the discussion looking at the Ne
I think the question is for you. [laughter] which one was it for . I dont honestly know. Sounds like something he would have said. If you missed not just the fight against White Supremacy but how it is shaped so much the modern world and our economy and nation say, so forth, others have allowed us to see just how deep it cuts. And dubois of course was part of that. He said many times in many context that the problem is the problem of the color line. That is using you dont understand the 20th century. There are things you can understand and i suppose a lot of blues in beethoven. But in general as you try to understand the social world, it just seems to me its sort of a nonstarter, and the sentry i was looking. Now, one should say that, you know, there are moves forward, steps forward and steps backwards but clearly it isnt bending the word justice. I think it is Getting Better over the long haul and they get worse in various ways. Dubois also had this in mind, a question have been wrest