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U.s. sent the world into an economic tail spin in 2008. we do have to be cautious about these things. >> it is more to consider as we start this trade war with china. the president wants to end nafta. he has problems with the european union. hes drafted legislation to get rid of the world trade organization. it begs the question, hes trying to dissolve all of these things. what deal has he actually dealt? he has not made the economy better for the people who are going to suffer as a result of th...

Practical work of rebuilding democratic institutions at the neighborhood level. you know? so in pittsburgh besides just kind of running candidates for local office and they have done, you know, kind of in miniature what they did with joe crowley and took on really established incumbents, members of kind of storied political family and defeated them just by like outcampaigning them, knocking on doors, building that political power and also do some of the stuff that maybe in the past like a ward b...

Two inches thick designed to prevent a terrorism attack. paris went on high alert after a series of attacks in 2015 including one that left 130 dead in 2015. griff, over to you. >> thank wu you, pete. comments from president trump about north korean dictator kim jong-un sending the media into a total tail spin. >> hes the head of a country. i mean hes the strong head. dont let anyone think anything different. he speaks and his people sit up at attention. i want my people to do the same. >> the p...

Not done. >> mr. speaker, do you believe that the president has the power to pardon himself? >> i dont know the technical answer to that question but i think obviously the answer is he shouldnt, no one is above the law. >> in his comments today in iz ayell today, rudy giuliani said the special prosecutor is trying to frame the president of the united states. >> they are a group of 13 democrats that make up the mueller team, excludeing him, are trying very, very hard to frame him, to get him in t...

The special prosecutor is trying to frame the president of the united states. >> they are a group of 13 democrats that make up the mueller team, excludeing him, are trying very, very hard to frame him, to get him in trouble when he hasnt done anything wrong. >> joining us now steven bril, the author of the new book "tail spin" also joining us david corn. steven, youre a lawyer, you hear a former united states attorney, former federal prosecutor saying that these people working in the justice dep...

Behind your pen because youre not. >> back in 2015, cohen characterized his words as inarticulate, saying macks questions sent him into a tail spin. we also reached out to michael cohen for comment but havent heard back. wolf? >> thank you. more breaking news tonight, americas top diplomat says real progress has been made in the last 72 hours for reviving the u.s., north korea summit. secretary of state mike pompeo meeting with kim jong-uns former right hand man. kim yong chol is expected to d...

To be a balance between high achievement and me achieving everything i can and me worrying about the common good. and we havent had that kind of leadership. and my theory is that things have gotten so bad in terms of the common good that theres going to be reaction and things will snap back. >> its a very thoughtful book called tail spin. steven brill, congratulations. its tough to read in a negative sense sometimes but you provide some solutions in there, too. congratulations, appreciate it. >>...

Economic opportunity and equality. and it has. but a new book that that one good idea has created unintended consequences. its called tail spin, the people and forces behind americas 50 year fall and those fighting to reverse it by author and journalist steven brill. you write this as somebody who you say participated in this unwittingly. >> i was a beneficiary. >> and a beneficiary. so lets go. explain the meritocracy problem now that its been created. >> well, meritocracy was happening at the ...

Spheres that i write about that are fighting the tail spin. that are doing things. whether its legal analyzes fighting the first amendment definition that has evolved to people who are fighting for caver, people fighting for labor law reform and they are coming up with real solutions. theres a die who has taken a converted zipper factory in queens and turned it a job retraining program that we havent had in this country, for all the billions of dollars we spent on attempting to do that and we ha...

Have welcomed in more people of color, people from varying backgrounds, ethnicities. based on the applicants own merits rather than who their parents were. the idea was to level the playing field and create more opportunity and economic equality. and it has. but a new book argues that good idea, that one good idea, has created some unintended consequence. it is a called tail spin. the people and forces behind americas 50 year fall and those fighting to reverse it by author steven brill. welcome ...