And it is going to disrupt industries and create unemployment on a scale that we havent imagined before. Ifill plus, scaling back on the nuts and bolts that hold us together, when federal funds grow scarce. Stopgap solutions to maintain safe sidewalks, roads and bridges. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. 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 individuals. 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 the u. S. Senate sent legislation to the president today authorizing a threemonth pat
And it is going to disrupt industries and create unemployment on a scale that we havent imagined before. Ifill plus, scaling back on the nuts and bolts that hold us together, when federal funds grow scarce. Stopgap solutions to maintain safe sidewalks, roads and bridges. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. 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 individuals. 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 the u. S. Senate sent legislation to the president today authorizing a threemonth patc
Caller good afternoon. A caller talked about the right wing conspiracy but the up political machine so talk about Rupert Murdoch and of the Koch Brothers and with that propaganda medium machine media machine with of pledged to stick to the constitution but the Koch Brothers control the political structure structure. Host lets talk to somebody who is bent in theal political system for many years to get his perspective and if individual or group can control another group of people like that. Has answered the earlier question byword conspiracy sounds as if they have come together to conspire to isin overthetop but a thinked for t those that you list before their political orientationo a c have to, to a conclusion that is similar but whether they colluded idol cd evidence of that. I believe the way in ourli democracy that you respond to a point of view is not to try to shut them down but provide alternatives and in america the Owners Manual is the example has done that and hear and florida
Counterparts Transit Police never seem to be around when you wish there were and when they were too could not notice the slump of the shoulders sanders to shell filled appearance in showy the disillusionment with their job. When i arrived in los angeles and was astounded how different they were. First was clear they had not given up. The tailored motorcycle officers looked like the prototype model that they were for the film robo cop and acted the part. Like the rest of the lapd trained to seek out crime and confront and command a suspect in the aloof and intimidating and every commander. Even if the suspect only committed a minor infraction or done nothing at all wrong, that attitude alone seemed to start more trouble than it stopped and if you were black it was worse and more frequent. Every politician in in town seemed to kowtow to do the lapd to get into a public spat with a succession of chiefs number not afraid of anyone for cry wanted to understand the source of their extraordin
Youve commuted communicated something to them and them to us maybe two. So thats 11 part of this changing world. Its not just the docket. Its the world world that has changed. Youre not there because, our opportunities are not a function of individuals and their not a function of one philosophy or another philosophy. They are a function of a world thats changing and has changed and thats the point i want to get across because those are the challenges that i think, in part, we have to deal with. That is an inspiring note on which to end. What you have told us is that all citizens, not only america or around the world have an obligation to educate themselves about the constitution by listening to each other and divergent points of view. By bringing bringing people together and respecting the arguments on both sides you are suggesting they can learn from each other. That is what you were trying to do in this book and thats what were trying to do at the National Constitution center. I thin