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To his colleagues, maybe we should reconsider how were fighting this struggle because it was mostly peaceful in the beginning and this idea should it become more combative, more violent? when we came out of prison, quoted and said to the people now throw away your guns and knives and gather them up and throw them into the sea. so he did go through this amazing transformation. >> at many times in his life, many transformations, donna brazil is squining us. donna, you met him and spent time with h...

White girl in this book doesnt specifically mean gender and race, it has something to do with identification with power and marginalization. when we speak about michael jackson, at a certain point in his career when he performed with diana rosa lot of black homosexuals would refer to him as a white girl because he slowly eradicated any reference physically to his blackness. so i think that the term is complicated and the subjects are complicated by race and gender. >> speaking about michael jack...

Jenna: aaron david miller is a former adviser to six secretaries of state and he jon:s us with more. what do you think about that time line? after 30 years of now contact, really official contact between our two countries, what do you think about a deal with iran in three to six months? >> look. forget transformation. i dont believe in the tooth fairy on this issue or any other in the middle east these days. think about -- forget transformations. think about transactions. business deals. if, in ...

Mythology, globalization and technology have not reduced the number of jobs available. these transformations have reduced their pay. >> when you take into considerations rising costs. rising costs of rents or homes, dramatically increasing costs of health care, the rising cost of child care and the higher cost of education rising much faster than inflation. take all of these into consideration and you find that its much worse than just stagnating wages. its basically middle class families often ...

Clear. she has turned her bunk into a salon, of sorts. >> i love makeup. ive been into makeup since i was a little bitty girl. and im like dolly. the redder the better. the more the merrier. >> at the limon correctional facility in colorado, we met inmates who have had more permanent transformations. aaron cooper, serving 10 years for assault and escape, didnt stretch his ear lobes until he got to prison. >> did it about four years ago when i was in ad seg. no reason, really. i just like the way...

Permanent transformations. aaron cooper, serving 10 years for assault and escape, didnt stretch his ear lobes until he got to prison. >> did it about four years ago when i was in ad seg. no reason, really. i just like the way it looked. it started with the tooth of a comb and started wrapping saran wrap about it and got it fatter and fatter. this was bigger than i wanted to go, but these were the only things that were round enough that when the officers could take them, i could put more back in,...

Them, which he has, and embarrassed the citys name. im telling you, more coming from the republicans the next couple of years on this, especially if he does well in the primary. but he said no, im not the guy thats embarrassed new york. im new york. im the guy watching this thing. its one of these old political transformations where you reposition yourself not as the guy causing the trouble but somehow youre the trouble, the media, and hes just a new yorker trying to get his apartment fixed. >> ...

>> how successful will he be? can you measure this? hes tried to personify himself as the people of new york. its not that hes embarrassed them which he has and embarrassed the citys name. more coming from the republicans the next couple of years on this, especially if he does well in the primary. he said no, im not the guy thats embarrassed new york. im new york. im the guy watching this thing. its one of these old political transformations where you reposition yourself not as the guy causing t...

One might have thought that he was going to be a big transformational president. why? >> well, he certainly talked big transformations in the campaign and his first speeches, cairo, prague, so forth, hes been found to be a transactional president. on the one side you have people like woodrow wilson or ronald reagan who make great announcements, want to change the world. transactional presidents like eisenhower or george h.w. bush, are more prudent, keep the train from derailing. those are the tw...

Withdrawal simply moves forward the time taliban retakes control. i think it a disaster for american interests. gregg: reportedly the relationship between karzai and president obama has deteriorated. there. this is a president who wants to undertake huge diplomatic transformations all over the world but does this reflect poorly on his diplomatic skills? >> i dont have a lot of good things to say about hamid karzai. thats utterly irrelevant to what americas interests are. we are not there for ham...