Putting people on the terror watch list. They can put people under suspicion who have no actual connection to terrorism. Deeply flawed. You can imagine what its like for the living. New theory suggests that dinosaurs died off because of bad timing. Due to rising sea level and volcanic activity. But had they survived humans would not exist. Mid east tensions are still very high as israel and hamas go back and forth on a long term peace deal but while an overwhelming number of israelis back the situation in gaza, lets go to tel aviv and yehuda shaol. The cofounder and director of breaking the silence an israeli Veterans Group that works to expose injustices and abuse of palestinians by the Israeli Military. Good to have you with us. Your groups executive director wrote about her time in the service in the guardian on monday saying i believed with all my heart that we were doing what needed to be done. Things have changed and now, i can no longer have that certainty. How have things chang
Watch list. They can put people under suspicion who have no actual connection to terrorism. Deeply flawed. You can imagine what its like for the living. New theory suggests that dinosaurs died off because of bad timing. Due to rising sea level and volcanic activity. But had they survived humans would not exist. Mid east tensions are still very high as israel and hamas go back and forth on a long term peace deal but while an overwhelming number of israelis back the situation in gaza, lets go to tel aviv and yehuda shaol. The cofounder and director of breaking the silence an israeli Veterans Group that works to expose injustices and abuse of palestinians by the Israeli Military. Good to have you with us. Your groups executive director wrote about her time in the service in the guardian on monday saying i believed with all my heart that we were doing what needed to be done. Things have changed and now, i can no longer have that certainty. How have things changed . I think when uli, my com
[applause] betty ford spoke her mind profment choice and a supporter of the equal rights aamendment. She and gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer. For much of her familys public life she struggled with alcohol and drug dependency and confronting it defined her post white house years. Welcome to first ladies influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of president gerald ford. Here to tell her story is richard nort on the smith. You know him, hes one of our academic advisors for the whole project. Hes helped launch a number of president ial libraries among them the jarled r. Ford library in michigan. You developed a relationship with the fords so you bring that to the table. Sure. I try to be as objective as possible. But i was very fournt to become a good friends of both of the fords. We want to start tonight where we left off which is in august of 1974 when the fords learned they were going to be in the white house. How mu
Because they are earned in the view of these people, rightly or wrongly. To a significant degree, wrongly. And significantly antielitist, that theres a wisdom in the collective that the elites often are combating. He wrote, and i thought this was quite a remarkable statement, the tea party is jacksonian american aroused, angry, and above all fearful backed by the new american demography that threatens its interests and scorns its values. They view obama as a sort of, having a conscious strategy of Building Political support by increasing americas dependence on government, and they i in polls of the tea party conducted by Pew Research Center and others suggest that these people consider obama as pushing america towards socialism. Well, thats not entirely wrong in the sense that obama seems to be ad slow candidate of advocate of europeanstyle social democracy. So this is a powerful strain in american politics. It has significant antecedents in our political tradition. It may not be a big
Americans dont like that fight. Regardless of whether they agree or not. You got that. You got a government thats earned distrust of the American People, and thats what the pop pewist uprising is about. People are fearful of the government. The most damaging thing taken place in the last year is not the fight over the budget, but the nsa controversy, the irs controversy, all that, which is not only been dismissed by the government, but defended by the president saying that, well, thats just them. I didnt do that. Nebraskas been punished for these things, and people are beginning to become afraid of the very government, and thats the danger to the democratic system. Anyone else with a quick comment . I think also the kind of spending that happened with the stimulus and how its very apparent that a lot of federal funding goes towards politically connected groups of people just as well as certain law changes like delaying the employer mandate, but keeping the individual mandate on the boo