And by contributions to your pbs stations from viewers like you. Thank you. According to almost every poll out there faith in our political institution, the gallup poll conducted less than a month ago has congresss Approval Rating at 16 , on pace to be the lowest ever for a Midterm Election year, no doubt the dissatisfaction is driven in part, i expect, special interests and big money are calling the shots. Joining me to talk about ethics, jack abramoff, before his fall from grace was considered perhaps the most powerful lobbyist in all of washington. Jack abramoff, good to have you back on the program. Thank you, tavis. Most of us know the back story of what happened some years ago when the sentencing to prison and serving time and coming out. As you look back on the that period now, without calling into question too much, what do you make of your life then . I think my life then was basically enmeshed in the washington sort of power structure and what goes on in washington. And i hav
Until the Supreme Court decided in the Supreme Court case in 2008 that the handgun ban is unconstitutional because the Second Amendment according to scalias majority opinion surely a ballot elevates above all other interests so you think it would have been straightforward but it wasnt. Tell us what happened when you check for steps to get a gun. Guest wrote the book that of the reaction of what happened as the fierce bet one dash spread through the country with the horrific tragedy with obama with mayor bloomberg with the laws repeal the country i had gotten it done myself and i saw hall guncontrol affected lawabiding people. But i cannot legally take out of my home so you have crime rising in d. C. And in 20 to solve the crimes are going up and yet people are having trouble getting it done so it will not do anything to make america safer. Host described how it came out in practice you go into great links but jealous of the absurdities that you faced. Guest i was overwhelmed and i went
[applause] we can reelect our congressmen and women and add congressional seats. And reelect are tremendous she is here. And also, whose district we are now. And then, of course, the reason we are all here today, we need to reelect a great president and a great Vice President. [applause] you did not come here to hear about them from me. You came here i did not even come here to hear a me. I came here to hear dr. Biden. One reason i am supporting president obama is that i have a feeling he is grounded in the real world. As i started researching dr. B iden, i found that she is, too. I also found that we had a lot in common. We had both got married in the 1970s and had children in the 1980s. I started at the teaching in the minneapolis and 1970, and taught until 2004 when i retire. She began as a highschool english teacher, and for a time taught at a college for adolescents. She later moved on to Community Colleges. I saw a blog entry from 2008. She sat in on a conference call, one of the
Reporter crews on the scene of a crash in San Francisco trying to get power back on in this neighborhood. Well tell you what led up to the crash and the big step pg e just took to get the lights on. A Marijuana Club damaged by an overnight fire. Why investigators are suspicious about how it started. Reporter were live in petaluma where the community is coming together to help try to find a missing teen. Well also tell you the latest clues in the investigation. New unemployment numbers just came out this morning. Did the threat of falling off the fiscal cliff put employers have employers not to start hiring . Good morning. Im dave clark. Im tori campbell. Its friday, january 4th. Right now, pg e is still working to restore power to dozens of customers in San Francisco. They lost power after a driver fleeing from police crashed into a power pole in a caltrain parking lot. Ktvus Claudine Wong has been at the scene since 4 30 this morning and has more. They are making some progress . Repor
Inside the navy seals with Lieutenant Commander rorke denver. His book is called dam few making the modern seal warrior. I think people want to be part of something bigger than themselves. I think they want to come neat a program that has a historic attrition rate of 80 . Those types of odds, that sounds like the right odds to me. Rose so like two out every ten make it or two out of three. Right. So its just one of those elite brotherhoods and you feel like you get to participate and spend time with a very, very special group of folks and then focus on doing the nations work at an intense level. Rose David Remnick and rorke denver when we continue. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose we know that the Intelligence Services of other countries including some who feigned surprise over the snowden disclosures are constantly probing our government and private sect ornett works an