are going to have a place if you defect and also i think the business community in syria that, hey, this you know, you are going to be opened up to a world, this going to be a positive for you, getting them behind this. i want to ask you about yemen since we are in the region anyway. you just got back from there. there s some similarity insofar as, again, it is a nonviolent revolt against the regime. brutally repressed and shot down in the streets. they began to arm and became then a violent essentially the presidential palace was shelled. right? and how has it played out after that? i think at the point the presidential palace was shelled and the president came to the u.s. if i m not mistaken for medical treatment, the story dropped off the map. some some ways it bears analogies to what s happening in syria. i m curious to what s happening there now. none of these done trees are identical in the way that this sort of uprising in the arab world has taken place. yemen just had
different registers, and particularly through different racial prisms. and i think it is someone that sometimes tries my hand at fiction that there s there is an uncomfortability we have with that. saying speaking as a white man which is like i m going to write dialogue in the voice of this black woman. is this going to be overly mannered or is it going to be stereotypical? i wonder your thinking is about that. having to write, obviously, writing characters across different racial divides like channeling those voices and how well he s able to do it specifically. he is able to do it, i think, incredibly well because of it and his sort of point in history and kind of who he is right now, i i have a lot of friends that are biracial. we have gotten to this very interesting place in our history where people are coming of age, who are very much drawing on two completely different kinds of experiences. we are also so far post-civil rights. and we have gotten to this moment whe
medicare this way. we are talking in terms of medicare, talking about a program that even a majority of tea partiers do not want touched. that is if a are more notion than the idea that somehow we are going to go back to traditional that we had in this country for the vast majority. let me interject. not just traditional tax base. there is a bunch of new taxes. carbon tax and financial transaction tax. we are never going to get close to the marginal tax rates we had 30 years ago. the question as to whether or not these budgets are fantastical is also, i think, look, we have the sequester now. there s really no weir we have de facto budget. beer seeing competing measures for what the government should do at this point. and the ryan budget basically says that the government should just go away. [ male announcer ] ok, here s the way the system works.
critics who haven t even seen the movie. i couldn t tell you a lot about russian politics. how election works, federalized the system is, basics of the constitutional structure. i knew putin is a repressive thug. in other words, i know relatively very little about russia except i do know whether i approve much its leader. when you stop and think about it, that s a bit odd. remember, a few years back, when i was spent a week in turkey and talked to a wide range of folks i met about the russian president. he led the democratic nation for 11 years and is a populist of sorts who many your bane liberal turks i met compare to bush to his highly religious and conservative base. it seemed to me both unprecedented and transformative for a nation witnessed three military coups. as a trip wrapped up i remember thinking at some point i was somehow failing because i was
did remains favorite to this day. we discovered the different news outlets transcribed the speech differently. unlike other news outreceipts the official associated press dropped the letter g from the word complaining and grumbling. mark smith the ap reporter, said the president did make a point of dropping the gs. we asked the pan fell they agreed and if this interpretation would have used for a president that isn t black. all right. joining karen hunter and ezra klein at our table, george mcquarter, lecturer at columbia university. oregon state representative jefferson smith, also recently declared a candidate through the mayoral race. jefferson, here is the thing. we agreed to have you on the show before your declaration. you can stay here you about don t get boring. okay? i will try really hard.