Do you think that those means can be yoked to what would be the more natural in the system, the Democratic Party or do you think thats not sufficient the existing structure is insufficient to address what you see as sort of the deep structural racist inequalities . I think the twoparty system isnt working for us, and it hasnt worked for us for generations. Lets be very, very honest about th that. I think what were seeing is a crisis of our democracy and the reality is that these types of actions that were seeing, the disruptions, the really courageous acts of nonviolent civil disobedience just taking this country by storm really is an effort to call attention to the very real crisis thats happening in our communities. Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that theyre having from Law Enforcement to our Education System and so on. And so these actions are actually in order to make very visible whats taking
Now, you know, that changes the game. If youre an attacker, thats a lot less attractive place for to you spend your time and maybe youll go bother somebody else and we can start creating a safer environment where its really critical. Did any of you see the movie transcendence with johnny depp . Im a big fan. Any of you see it . Sitting out in the audience like you were was a cameo of elon musk. Elon musk, of course, of spacex and tesla. And elon has been out there worried, as the movie worries about, the advances in artificial intelligence, the advances in robotics, a kind of turbocharged internet of things where people become less and less part of the equation. Bill joyce some years ago wrote about the advances in computing and unanimous onano technology g new risks. Are there things we should be worried about that elon musk is not crazy, that there are things that we should be thinking about as we propel ourselves into this new world after very different association between nonhuman
Deliberately mysterious life. He had been a spy, a kgb agent. But when nosenko died, he died in the United States. Were not even told what state he had been living in. The cia, it turns out, had basically put urie nosenko an income and settled him somewhere secretly in the american south, 40 years ago. A month before he died, several cia officials dropped in on him for an inperson visit. This guy is living under and assumed name. Nobody knows anything to tie him to the cia. Nobody knows his real name, right . But a month before he dies, several senior cia officials show up on his doorstep in person somewhere in the american south, and they brought with him to give to him an American Flag. And they also gave him a personal, oneonone director from the cia. They thanked him for his service. By implication, the officers offered a final apology for the way he was treated after he defected to the United States in the winter of 1964. When he first expressed interest in crossing over, or at le
Teethchattering, facenumbing bonechilling cold. Its no joke. Its winter and its supposed to be cold and snow is not uncommon in the northeast this time of year. But this . This relentless stretch of Winter Weather is something else. The air mass responsible for much of it arrived from siberia. Were talking really cold. We can try to embrace it like these red pandas at the zoo, but lets face it were not equipped like they are. The bushy tails are used as wrap around blankets. These are natives of the himalayas. We humans are left to deal with the brutal cold in other ways like in kentucky where the Harland City Police Department tried to arrest elsa from frozen. And this character from freezing cold misery. Both cases were attempts to make the situation a little more bearable. Its our human nature. Were trying to find the Silver Lining because the reality is this series of winter storms has been merciless. Meteorologists say this week ranks among the most intense Arctic Arctic outbreaks
Threatening to stage another one of them after their unprecedented 25hour demonstration overnight ended just this afternoon. Democrats say they want action on gun control. The question, are they any closer to getting it after this sitin. Rounding out the agenda, it really is personal. New polling shows an astonishing number of americans now look at those who disagree with them politically not just as opponents, but as threats to the country. Just how deeply divided we have become. Our most important number of the day is a sobering one. You have to see it to believe it. Thats coming up. We begin with our top story. The Supreme Court delivering a 44 split decision today on president obamaS Immigration actions. That leaves the president unable to enforce his plan that would shield up to five million undocumented immigrants from deportation. The president today aiming his frustration squarely at republicans. Today, the Supreme Court was unable to reach a decision. This is part of the conse