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about 10% which is -- >> mixed race. >> -- indian subcontinent, people like that, mixed race. and the ethnic population which is the majority there, the blacks of south africa. they have this enormous unemployment rate, as many as 20 million out of 55 million people that are unemployed or living on basic subsistence in south africa. so, really, it's -- crime in south africa is almost exclusively the domain of the poor and unemployed in that country. >> let's go over some of the responses on twitter to the president's tweet. laura lumer says, before we get involved in south africa, i hope the president realizes we have our own battle in america. jihadis are running for office. south africa serves as a warning of european heritage all over the world. if we lose control of our country, things will go poorly for us.
hoping that president trump's election would spell an end to u.s. sanctions, that's now not going to happen. both houses of congress passed a bill that effectively tied the president's hands. tonight, the white house says the president will sign it into law, doubling down on sanctions. i interviewed a russian senator, andre klemov. he was angry, but not surprised. >> so i cannot say that i am in surprise because unfortunately we are victims of this battle in america. >> now it will be up to president trump to approve these sanctions or veto them. >> he is alone. he is alone, and it seems to me he afraid. he try to think about his own political future and that is why he is under all these threats. it is very difficult for him. >> will russia respond to these new sanctions?
state is the way to go. if you want a society where five-years ago we didn't have the ipad we didn't know what it is. why? because the government program? no because an entrepreneur envisioned we might want an ipad and it would make it better as a result. >> they are giving out all sorts of people to the people. until the house of cards came crashing down. we know where big government takes us. there is this battle in america between that outcome and the free market. >> maybe you know. a lot of people don't. the pope of all people has come out criticizing markets. he's upset some rich people are so much richer than pour people. this inequality upsets americans, too. >> i share the pope's concerns for our brothers and sisters in this country and around the world. the secret is in the last 40 years the number of people living ohhen a dollar a day or
was paid to do. he was paid to kill these babies and why would he be found guty of this. gosnell looked befuddled and surprised that this is considered murder. so, i think that, you know, certainly an important thing for us to at least all be able to agree on the fact that sning a baby's neck after it comes after a mother's body is a heinous crime. >> since 1973 when the supreme court decided roe v. wade, abortion choice has been a pitched political battle in america. one side fighting with the other. by and large political battle happens at conventions and so forth. what we saw here in this verdict was this subject becoming really think for most people and whatever -- wherever one stands on either side of roe v. wade, i think a lot of americans are stepping back and saying i would like to take a second, large look at what's going on with the issue of abortion. what's going on in these
been charged. the prosecutors face a lot of challenges. criminal defense attorney arthur aidala weighs in next. >> the fight to home school their children heads to court today. this is about more than an education. it's a battle in america. stay tuned. [ tires screech ] [ beeping ] ♪ [ male announcer ] we don't just certify our pre-owned vehicles. we inspect, analyze and recondition each one, until it's nothing short of a genuine certified pre-owned... mercedes-benz for the next new owner. ♪ hurry in to your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for 1.99% financing during our certified pre-owned sales event through april 30th. pre-owned sales event try running four.ning a restaurant is hard,
could become secretary of state. but at that point, that was not realistic. and we just should appreciate and remember the -- we should remember our history. it happened. >> i think that's right. but let me talk politics. sam, you cover politics. who will win a battle in america if there's a battle between those who have seen nostalgia as a political mandate? it's better way back then. before pat buchanan, early '50s, way back. against people who say this country's getting better. for women, black people, immigrants, documented or other. it's getting better for gay people because it's becoming a better, bigger society. who wins that argument? >> it's a complex question because each side can use nostalgia in their own way. for instance, civil rights, you could have one person say well, much of the achievements were part of the individual communities coming together and another one saying listen, if the courts hadn't have helped out, none of this would be
creation in america. >> like a banking system extracting your entire country or trade agreements extracting your entire country or a tax code that is for sale to special interests. so hang on a second, boehner and the republicans are in favor of those things. then again, so, too, is our president. our question, is job training another band-aid myth to make it appear these washington fools are actually doing something, while in fact they continue to simply avoid the problems. think about it. the training programs are historically corrupt, full of pork and favors, ineffective. and ultimately have failed to produce even a fraction of the millions in long-term jobs needed and promised from infrastructure to energy to health care. now, do not misunderstood me. it is obvious there is a need and a clear value in training people for jobs. but if you do it all wrong, you simply are blowing more taxpayer
a troubled asset purchase program. all of this goes back to many, many banks. now it's especially in europe, but two, three years ago, it was in the u.s., borrowed too much, lent too much, had too much leverage, too little capital, and the causes of that problem essentially are still in place. we added some additional regulations, but we didn't undo the things that led to the collapse. >> which is no capital requirements, basically capitalism in the banking system without capital. so you can do whatever -- it's a gambling parlor? >> well, you know, we used to have on the investment bank side, we had something called the net capitalization rule in place, since 1975, that limited it to 12 to 1 on the traditional depository banks. there's been a series of decreases in the amount of capital required. this has been a long, slow grind
only for the retirees and the employees. solely for the participants, not for the companies or shareholders or top executives. >> it's a benefit if you work there and provide labor, in principle. >> it's deferred compensation. >> you're being paid for your work later. >> yes. and that should be protected, but it isn't. so -- >> like i said, sounds like social security. >> but, jimmy, social security, i think people can -- >> but there's no one else seeing -- >> i guess when it comes to whether it's state governors using state pensions to be free spending to get re-elected or corporations that are doing what is being described to us here today, who is the gatekeeper in the current model in the government that theoretically would intervene? would this be the attorney general in a given state? eric holder? who's the cop here? >> from the federal level, it certainly would be the ag. certainly, state ags could go after companies that are headquarters in their states or
money. and both parties are good at that. if all there is at the end of the job training is not a long-term paycheck or a job that helps solve a problem, it's simply a better trained unemployment pool with a country deeper in debt. today, we're debunking the job training myth and starting to try to solve the problem of how to fix it with jim bovard, author of "attention definite democracy." also with us, dena cooper, for years she worked on jobs issues as philadelphia's deputy mayor of policy, trying to improve well-intended but frequently either dysfunctional or absolutely wasteful programs to try to actually get the intended result. james, i'm going to begin with you. why is it that these programs don't actually deliver what they promise? >> well, the labor department has no competence in training