to human rights reform? that was the big story with china and it hasn t happened. if our goal is a democratic cuba we have to look at pressuring the regime and empowering dissidents which is what mr. gross was doing and replacing by non-violent means the castro regime. nothing happening in washington with its mix of policy is working to bring that about. martha: in the bowe bergdahl exchange the white house received a lot of blowback. do you think they will get the same neat this decision? i don t think it will be as intense. martha: they are very different situations. there have been situations with north korea even though there weren t a number of specific concessions made, just appearance of engagement and the
place. i ve not seen anything with this amount of intensity since then. certainly there were some protests after rodney king and other high profile events but this has been going on for a period of time which really highlights a problem that we have in our society. do you think if you weren t a cop today, weren t a police commissioner in the great city of philadelphia and you were in your 20s, would you join those who are marching? do you understand why some of them are coming from? i understand where they re coming from. i think we have to really reach out. the only issue i have during this entire period of time is the way in which it s kind of being generalized that all police officers are using excessive force, all police officers are engaging in bias practices. that s not the case. but, i do think that there is an issue here. there s no question in my mind there s an issue. it s a long standing issue. i want to read you part of a piece written by a 25-year-old
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probation for the 2009 assault with his then-girlfriend, rihanna. it ends august 25th, 2014, according to e! news that reported that family and friends hoped he would enter rehab. any arrest could be considered a violation of the probation, and it could result in jail time. serious stuff. this is an anecdote and pretty good one. mike tyson gave brown some advice. he told a new york radio station. he said, chris should know if you are not humble in this world, the world will address humbleness on you. words of wisdom from mike. from mike tyson of all people. mike tyson is a changed man, according to him. these days all these celebrities and artists go in to rehab for everything. so now there is a rehab for angry? i don t know if this is rehab for anger management or if it is maybe he is drinking or whatever and that is making him a loose cannon. i m not sure about that. back in the day you weren t a macho man, tough guy and you controlled yourself in public. and if you do some
well, if you go back, if you go back to even this weekend, it was reported bob woodward in his book, of course, that was, he wrote an op-ed this weekend where he basically said the president s moved the goal post and tax increases weren t a part of the budget control act. there was a spending reductions and the super committee didn t reach a solution and these across the board spending cuts. it was all spending. and what he s essentially doing is saying, now, i want taxes out of this. and he did get taxes, he got 620 billion dollars in new taxes on january the 1st. so, right now, greta for republicans in congress the tax issue has been settled and this is now about what are we going to do to rein in out of control government spending and 85 billion dollars, again, we re talking about the equivalent of the amount that the federal government borrows every single month. senator, nice to see you, sir. thank you, greta. while speaker boehner is hammering, jim demint a hammering over