i ve been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. the ones getting involved, staying engaged. they are not afraid to question the path they re on. because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here? i started schwab with those people. people who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ifill: secretary of state john kerry returned to afghanistan today, in an urgent bid to end the deadlock over the presidential election. in kabul, he pressed the two candidates, abdullah abdullah and ashraf ghani, t
fellowship former president of the prison fellowship when he was there he liked to talk about the fact that today we lock people up because we are mad at them when we should be reserving prison and jail space for people who we are afraid of. there are obviously people who have committed crimes and who are dangerous enough that they need to be kept away from rest of society. they built the prisons and the prosecutors build them up. i have to say one thing in trying to get real prison reform through and we have done most of our work at the state level as i m sure doug knows, we have had great success working with democrats, republicans conservatives and liberals than with governors who are concerned about two things. one, the way their systems are working or not working in the cost of the systems in many states across the prison system is greater than the cost of a public education system and they both work just about as well but maybe a reallocation of resources might be in or
that conversation got hijacked and turned into diversity. as a result of that as many challenges as other immigrant communities of color face indians are doing okay in blacks fall further behind because it s promised that diversity would help everyone including the adjudicated victims of slavery hasn t come true. diversity is more helpless you know these diversity priorities. they skimmed the top of the asian and indian and other communities and low income blacks fall further and further behind and we say look at all this diversity. blacks who suffer from jim crow fall further and further behind. so while yes you do need to have this multipolar conversation there is a black-white conversation that needs to be had. we need to have both of them. [applause] all the conversations about the conversation about race. we have to wrap this guys because you are getting tired. i can tell because i m getting tired and i m people like you are. we are going to move to where the book sign
absolutely. yes senator. general wasser wants to ask you about comments that have come to my attention that were reported to have been made by major general james post the vice commander of air combat command and he is reported to make these comments when addressing a group of airmen this month. what he is said to have made in comments to the airman was anyone who was passing information to congress about a 10 capabilities is committing treason and is part of those comments he also said if anyone accuses me of saying this i will deny it. let me ask you this general welsh. do you find those comments to be acceptable in any way to accuse our men and women in uniform to say you are committing treason if you communicate with congress about the capabilities of the a-10 are the capabilities of any other of our weapons systems yes or no? no maam, not at all and there is an investigation currently ongoing with the incident. when i read the newspaper article i contacted the ge
there are group van jones are involved with are somewhere else and then there in the middle is the constitution project which tries to bring these groups together and this panel today really represents a cross spectrum view of this problem and, i will introduce the panel members as we go on but i have to say from the beginning, our representative from koch, represents a group that has been in interested in criminal justice reform from the beginning, families against mandatory minimums was really started with the assistance and support of the koch foundation and we appreciate that. we appreciate all else that i have done. i can say the same if we had some of our very liberal benefactors here because this is something that has attracted support way different parts of the spectrum. we ve got a number about of folks dropping in. so we ll handle this sort of casually. and congressman danny davis is here. i would like him to say a couple word. congressman davis is from illinois. he