Leaving their school with National Guardsmen armed just across the street. Its obvious who these police and National Guardsmen are protecting. Its upsetting to see it. Reporter and they know it. You come out of your school and youre seeing humvees and youre seeing soldiers with m16s and cops with riot gear and you just dont know whats going to happen. Reporter on monday Mondawmin Mall was looted and burned by teens, some of them students here at douglas high school. Some people from our school that were a part of it makes it worse. Reporter today is the first day they have returned to School Stinks since the riots. Theyre still trying to make sense of what happened and why. A lot of kids having different opinions about what happened like you know we want justice. Its crazy and violent and surreal. You wouldnt expect this to happen and it did. It was uncalled for, unnecessary, because were destroying the things that we love. Reporter today these douglas students are interviewing. We tal
Provinces. They give me a better feel, and actually get a better feel than the embassy gets. Whether our government will be able to continue working with them, i dont know. Its going to be the difficulty of getting out there. Ch and thats a serious problem. Thats why i so much encourage, you know, helping the ngos in afghanistan, whether its on oversight or green issues, health issues. Because theyre the ones with the eyes and ears. Theyre out there. Theyre community based. Thats what were going to have to rely on. And were toying with an idea to yutz the ngos. To be our eyes and ears to monitor programs. Thats more difficult. Tths not the gold standard. We have to, who is watching the watchdogs . Who is going to watch the people, you know. So thats a whole process that we have to do. We have to deal with the ngos. We cant forget them. We cannot forget an independent press. Let me just be clear here. The reason the reason chicago organized crime and the al capons and the mafias did not
Dollars. From the American Enterprise institute, this is just over an hour. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Im arthur brooks, president of the American Enterprise institute. And were delighted to welcome all of you today to this event, entitled poverty to prosperity. So, this is bill gates. Thank you. With his wife, melinda, hes the cochair and cofounder of americas largest private foundation, the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. They work to reduce poverty and expand health care overseas and to improve education here in the United States among other things. Previously, he was the chairman and ceo of microsoft, the Worlds Largest software company, which he cofounded in 1973. Most importantly, like me, hes a native of seattle and somewhat of a seahawks fan, which is good. But thats not what were here to talk about. Were here to talk about his incredibly important work with the foundation, the work that hes doing here and around the world. He shares so many of the priorities of th
So let me ask you about that intransigent set of problems that we have in u. S. Education. And i understand that there are certain problems that you can you can eradicate the guinea worm. You cant necessarily eradicate ignorance. Here at aei were trying to improve the Free Enterprise system. That doesnt mean well be done at some point. I mean, thats just the nature of social enterprise as i understand. Here in washington, d. C. , we talk about Public Education all the time. This is the capital of the free world. We should have the best education system, and it should be an exemplar to the whole world. I think we should we should agree. Were pumping more than 18,000 per kid per year in the system, and 15 of eighth graders read at a nationally acceptable standard. So what do we do . Well, it is phenomenal the variance in how much is spent per student. You know, utahs below 6,000 per student per year. A lot of states are in the 7,500 per student per year range. Youve got some that spend m
We begin with a lightning rod topic debated in statehouses across the country right now. Legalization of marijuana. Washington and colorado broke through first. Now other states are considering green lighting marijuana for recreational use, including here in california. They argued smoking pot is dangerous. Is it more dangerous than alcohol that is widely consumes and legal. The reality may surprise you. The topic is kind of out of the bag. Cannabis supporters. Even the president is weighing in telling the new yorker, i dont think its more dangerous than alcohol. Is this true . Hes closer to telling the truth than what the government has been willing to do about marijuana. Reporter this doctor is an addictions psychiatrist and author of the book marijuana, whats a parent to believe. Consuming alcohol, just like marijuana, using chemicals from the outside to stimulate the reward center in the brain as demonstrated in this human relations media, making somebody want to repeat the actions