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To implement the framework. Probably work with our insurers. On the topic, which is very serious topic hour people use technology and information, certainly with analytics and new Business Opportunities we need to continue on our journey on stem outside indication Stem Education and increasing the capabilities in math and science. Your hear everybody say it were not making enough progress. So, we are doing our part. I know bank of america is doing their part. All doing our part but as a collecti...

And return to the country during the eightyear period and provisions for Stricter Border security and background checks for employers. The white house is denying they leaked the proposal. And its just a backup plan saying they prefer a Bipartisan Team come up with something that works of t works. As you expect, republicans quickly pounced. Marco rubio already called it dead on arrival and then took a break for water. And senator rand paul had this to say. This is the president torp o torpedoing ...

President obama. and whitey flipped out on her couldnt believe that she could admire a black han as being the stuff of the white house. and that just really stayed with her when you fast forward a couple years to june 2011 and shes hearing reports about, you know, this americas most wanted, and whitey bulger and his girlfriend. and it kicked right in for her between the cat and his racism. so it really in the end, you know, had a big part of his fall. >> dick, theres this weird phenomenon you ta...

He was bigger, more powerful than the mafia in boston and went through this unbelievable makeover when the unthinkable, you know, tumbled out in the late 80s that he was not only an informant for the fbi, but he had managed to turn the fbi into, you know, basically an extension of his gang. you know, it becomes mind-boggli mind-boggling. and he is responsible for an enormous amount of damage to the nations, you know, top law enforcement agency of the fbi but also to, you know, countless number o...

Thanks for being here, dick. i guess reading this book, one thing that jumps out at me, you have the whole story established in black mass about the aligns with the fbi and whitey and how the fbi basically let whitey become this notorious crime boss. but this is also a story about the failure of the political system over decades. you have whitey in federal prison for bank robbery in the late 50s, early 60s and theres the speaker of the house of the u.s. representatives, john mccormick, a guy fro...

If youre a crime boss and you can count on fbi agents to tip you off to investigations and what not, and to -- that other law enforcement or to the -- someone else in the underworld who is ratting you out, and then he becomes number one on your own hit list. that was the dynamic that whitey set in play that makes him epic and successful as a crime boss. he was -- he was brought into the fbi as part of their so-called top etch long informant program. but he quickly manipulated it so it was in his...

>> jack nicholson playing frank costello in the film "the departed." the character loosely based on one of the most notorious mob bosses, whitey bulger, wanted for 19 murders, drug dealing, money laundering and extortion. bulger fled boston back in 1994, sparking one of the biggest man hunts in u.s. history. he was number two on the fbis most wanted list, behind only osama bin laden, and he remained on the lam for 16 years until he was finally captured in june of 2011, living with his girlfriend...

0 indeed, they did leak this piece, and a lot of people say who else would have leaked it. but also want to talk about how republican lawmakers get their voters to come in line. because for a lot of voters, highly passionate issue. highly contentious. they are not going for the sort of amnesty plan, as they would call it. so how do republican lawmakers get their voters in line before hispanics join the democratic party as blacks did in the 60s and make it very difficult electorally in the future...