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I dont mind sharing one of the most important sort of transitional activities that ive conducted was actually sitting in on a credible fear interview. Its important to note that the credible fear standard is a threshold standard. In other words, it is not the final determination of whether somebody gets asylum. Its simply a threshold determination to determine whether that individual who otherwise is in an expedited removal proceeding can fully assert those claims. I observed the credible fear i...

Evidence today. Host lets look at video that your group has put out. [video clip] here, we are going to show you video tape of the collapse itself. The collapse of this building. Its amazing. Amazing, incredible, pick your word. Reminiscent of those pictures we have seen too much and television before. Building seven. Guest it sure was. Most americans are completely unfamiliar with this. Architects and engineers around the world mostly all unfamiliar with the third worst structural failure in mo...

Or incredibly minute. Because the idea of a conspiracy theorist is if i can prove this point, im proving the vast conspiracy. The reality is ive seen the government in operation, ive been in the media, most of these organizations could not conspire to have lunch. Theyre just not well organized. Host its the cover of a recent newsweek cover story. One of the quotes from that story, conspiracy theories have been woven into Society Since the constitution. It has now crossed a threshold experts say ...

Everything has a danger. The question is, is the danger significant or not . The antivacciners are, again, living in a world of these vast conspiracies that are hiding these vast problems that dont exist, that have been disproven over and over again. The problem is we now have a recurrence measles was almost completely defeated in this country until the antivacciners came along. Now measles is on the up swing because of the antivacciners believing that this vaccine caused autism and other condit...

Lawyers, judges, have a terrible time knowing what the law is. We cant be absolutist on oh, if they didnt follow the law, they must be criminals. My next door neighbor grills with a gas grill on his balcony. Thats illegal in the district of columbia. Hes not evil. That is what we need to look at. That is where we need to show some compassion and some understanding. Host marks withbeen waiting the line from missouri. Good morning. I just want to make a comment. I believe that our country, the Uni...

The holy cross. Not just because of the event at its beginning. It was on this day 169 years ago the college at its formal opening it was to seek the blessing after which the faculty toasted the health of the founder of boston with a good glass of wine. The following class is opened with six students. This evening our numbers are considerably larger and among them in the audience are our congressman jim mcgovern, also marybeth mcmahon, Senior Vice President of the Special Olympics massachusetts,...

Creating their own image and so i think its valuable sometimes to go behind that. So usually i am the one who is trying to get behind that and tell you whats going on. Next on booktv encore booknotes. The informant is the count of the fbi and Justice Department collaboration with the highlevel informant to collect information implicatiimplicati ng a large corporation. In this booknotes interview from 2000 author Kurt Eichenwald reveals how the scandal in the mid1990s was complicated when the gov...

Blockade. In italy the works were moved on multiple occasions to villas and to castles in the countryside, works that couldnt be moved such as the iconic david by michelangelo were entombed in brick, creating this scene of a silo with the adjacent slaves by mix el anglo also entombed. The Italian Museum officials concern that a bomb might land on top of the academia destroying the ceiling, and they could only hope this brick entombment would save the sculpture. Of course, leonardo da vincis most...

Into 2003, mount misery was bought by Donald Rumsfeld. The secretary of defense applauded. He lived there his close friend, dick cheney. I was really stunned when i read that, that Donald Rumsfeld Vacation Home was not misery. Especially for young people, i read this online. I double checked it. I triple checked it. Of the internet can be a global rumor mill and you really have to check your sources. So Denis Moynihan and i headed down to Saint Michael to investigate. I should say i have this fa...

Candidate on the ballot in all 50 states. And that must be very exciting for them. One problem is we do not think it is necessarily true. They have made that announcement tonight. There is one specific reason to be skeptical about that announcement. Weve got that story coming up for you tonight. In terms of other things were keeping an eye on tonight, theres a lot of anticipation this evening about a cover story that Newsweek Magazine is expected to be running as of tomorrow. Its a cover story o...