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Located 30 miles outside the modern bustling city of tel aviv, rimonim prison houses inmates from a variety of backgrounds and ethnicities. still there are plenty of reminders that it is located in the worlds only jewish nation, a place where religion is paramount. one such reminder, the mazouzas, attached to every doorway. >> translator: it is a piece of parchment. we believe it protects the door and the place you enter. people here have fought for them to be on their door posts, so we do our b...

The beneficiaries could be the whole background and make the travel dreams come true with the idea travel isnt a luxury, its a rite of passage and a transformative thing for many people from adverse backgrounds. weve laufrnled it. its great. >> congratulations on that. elizabeth gallagher the second. how well do you know her and how shes going to be a good traveling partner? are you sure about it, even? >> wing we both appreciate that this is very much just a social experiment and you know how i...

Heres what i do. heres whats going on. >> and how did you choose the woman with whom youll be traveling? who i understand, its not a romantic relationship. shes involved with someone and might be a good travel partner. >> take the ticket go. the whole point was its an around the world ticket and it was going to go to waste. why do that to go to somebody who hasnt had an opportunity to see much of the world? >> this has inspired to do something incredibly cool. talk about what youll do next. >> s...

There, asian people out there. >> you need to define who is leading the presence. >> they understand this affects everyone in society. the older generations are holding on to racism. young people of all different backgrounds. >> you generalizing a lot of good people. >> theyre shutting down toys r you us and this conversation will change as you feel the economic and other effects political and economic. >> next on the rundown, tension here in new york city between the police and the mayor over h...

Do stupid things. it just happens. if youre a black male, all it takes to escalate is being a black male and doing the stupid thing that your friends, for example, in college could do, go to a toga party, go get drunk, go have a beer and back lip a cop. your son wont get killed. mine might. >> so you actually see it through your eyes. you can see it happening? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> i think what ive earned, when i say say things are getting better, im feeling better. but then i watch the ...

When i say say things are getting better, im feeling better. but then i watch the black community react, especially in ferguson, which isnt going away. that degree of passion and anger is not going away. and how come i didnt know about that? when im asked how things are going, i answer as a white person. i think theyre getting better because i dont feel anything bad. i feel day-to-day relations with people you bump into all seem on one to one look good. >> we have a black president. >> i was ecs...

Backgrounds and we have seen it in this country. some people want to leave their homes, the comfort of their homes, middle class people, who want to just get -- >> not just aimed at young men either too. aimed at young women. >> the notion also that it tries to feed off of poor individuals, thats not the case. we have seen people, again, with very moderate middle class backgrounds going to join the fight. and, again, we dont know who this individual is. but as you were saying right there in the ...

Miss pascal after attacking this statement. we agreed to meet. im really not sure about this apology, given the climate in hollywood, in terms of the lack of diversity. will there be change? >> rev, i think that we have to take a step back and examine the facts before us. youre here in d.c. right now, for a march because there needs to be a para dime shift in the way in which people of all racial backgrounds are treated. its time to address equity and equality in all of these spaces. and hollywo...

You had psychologists who had no training whatsoever in this, had no language skills, no real intelligence backgrounds. being paid tens of millions of dollars to design programs -- >> $81 million. >> $81 million for contractors fulfilling that didnt have experience. >> let me step in for a second to say this. first off, theres the insinuation that it was inappropriate because youre seeing contractors. >> im saying inexperienced people. >> just hold on. the other thing, they should have had a psy...

Intelligence backgrounds. being paid tens of millions of dollars to design programs -- >> $81 million. >> $81 million for contractors fulfilling that didnt have experience. >> let me step in for a second to say this. first off, theres the insinuation that it was inappropriate because youre seeing contractors. >> im saying inexperienced people. >> just hold on. the other thing, they should have had a psychologist there. actually, the people they had were sere instructors. if i had to choose a pro...