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>> ive come across celebrities. theyll treat people who they consider of their class appropriately, as a human being. when they spot somebody below the line. somebody without power, theyre predators. is he like that? >> you know, it is very variable. if you think about what did he with the female pastor in detroit. he was object seek weous. he was so out of his element that he was intimidated. so i think it is a question of the power dynamic. >> we ought to learn that about every politician. i w...

Congress to have a say technically. but the congress will find a way through sanctions, appropriations votes, to be a major player here. and thats a big selling job that the president and his team have to do. >> if there is a final deal come june 30th how does that change the power dynamic in the middle east? >> well it certainly would because if iran is playing positively on nuclear issues maybe it will stop messing around in the region. you cant trust iran. so you dont know if that will happen...

Reach out to members of congress, reach out to republicans and say, lets work together. id rather do it with you. >> he laid ute an agenda that the -- laid out an agenda that they the market is watching and consumers, talk about tax reform, infrastructure spending, trade deals, various moves he thinks will boost the economy and he thinks will win significant republican support on capitol hill with the new power dynamic. but when you talk to folks like bob cusack of the hill, they say when the pr...

Three university administrators asking me why i would do that and telling me that bill cosby called and asked about my tenure status. i was an untenured junior faculty member at the time. hes on the board of trustees meaning that bill cosby ultimately votes on my tenure or not. theres a power dynamic. the other thing he does is because hes rich hes not just a philanthropist hes also engaging in what we call philanthocracy. he dangles the check in front of you and makes you do what he wants you t...

Puts his family values front and center in every aspect. in his bio. campaign issues. every aspect of becoming a politician and getting to congress. so you look at that. you say this guy is a hypocrite. and, there is that piece. and then the other piece that i think is a sort of extenuating circumstance here, the fact it is a staffer. this is some one who is -- underneath him in terms of the power structure. so, it is, a typical sort of power dynamic that we dont know what went into this relatio...

And also led to the situation where workers have essentially no power. right? you have this totally unequal power relationship between the worker and between the employer. i see your organization and others as doing a great job to tie to fill the gap. i wanted to ask you, given the nature of the unequal power dynamic, are workers frequently nervous about joining with your group, about speaking out about conditions they arent satisfied with or that may be discriminatory or illegal at the work pla...

Lucrative businesses that are positioned and live inside these usually not for profit institutions and that sets up a huge conflict. its not a conflict that we have resolved with any sense of fairness or dignity for many of these athletes, people remember in penn state we got a glimpse of just how far fetched and extreme the power of some of these academic sports programs can be. that was an extreme example that involves criminality. but generally you have a lot of athletes as toure is mentionin...

There are union contracts that need to be negotiated. the citys debt we need to be concerned about, none of these issues are being discussed in this race. we dont know anything about what the candidates think about those issues. >> we send the message out to the rest of america, that new york wont fall for this kind of thing. we dont need spitzer, we dont need weiner here. these kind of values we dont need here. >> we need more women running for office, because no, there is a power dynamic. it d...

Is behind it. being losers and not being able to settle themselves. thereby just hating everybody with it. >> losers. is it as simple as that, as being a loser or something more in their heads that led them to such a tragic end. psychologist wendy walsh joins me. wendy, what do you think drove these young men to commit such an atrocity, and will we ever know? >> we may never know, but there are certainly lots of possibilities, don. i mean, these are two young men who may have power dynamic of yo...

With it. >> losers. is it as simple as that, as being a loser or something more in their heads that led them to such a tragic end. psychologist wendy walsh joins me. wendy, what do you think drove these young men to commit such an atrocity, and will we ever know? >> we may never know, but there are certainly lots of possibilities, don. i mean, these are two young men who may have power dynamic of younger brother and older brother and may have felt culturally isolated despite they had been in the...