answer begins here. the louisiana purchase. president jefferson made this purchase, and very soon a question arose, what about slavery in this new region? it wasn't until 1820 that got resolved in what is called the missouri compromise. offered by henry clay and establishes a line. the key word is line. the missouri compromise is a line 36 degrees 30 minutes, an extension give or take for surveying of the boundary from the leveraging and and kentucky. it said that no new state or territory north of 36 degrees and 30 minutes can have slavery with the exception of missouri. after that was established, four years later -- and this is the earliest i can find. it may have been years before that. i found a reference by john randolph, a congressman, virginia. the earliest reference i confined to the mason-dixon line as a line dividing free states from slave states. he said on the floor of the congress, we who belong to that unfortunate portion of this confederacy, which is south mason-dixon line and these to the allegheny mountains have to make up our minds to perish or resort to the measu

jefferson airplane in 1965, our guest has produced an extraordinary body of music, sometimes popular, sometimes provocative, sometimes both. we're delighted to welcome rock and roll hall of fame member paul kantner. [applause] not long ago, paul, the washington post called you "the political conscience and space cadet of the jefferson airplane." do you plead guilty as charged? oh, and more. were you really the political force behind a very political band? no, no, we're a very apolitical band, if you really analyze it. and--we have the luxury of coming from san francisco, which is very nutritious for off-the-beam, off-the-normal-beam kind of people and nurtures them, really, in its own way. and we, in contrast to, say, berkeley, for example, in the '60s or the s.d.s. or the weathermen, chose and got away with creating our own alternate quantum, if you will, universe: this type of place where we-- rather than going up against city hall and fighting city hall, like i'm sure all of you are probably engaged in doing, we had--and i must admit it's a luxury-- the ability to get away with no

was echoing jefferson's arguments against marbury vs madison eighteen zero three. adams when he left the white house and eighteen hundred was basically packing the judiciary and the marshals and what not and and. marbury was supposed to have his commission a liver to him and jefferson told james madison don't deliver it and therefore it will be legal and he won't be able to be a just peace or whatever it was it was he and some are were sued marbury vs madison and jefferson had his own confrontation with the supreme court there in eighteen zero three and that was the case correct me if i'm wrong when the supreme court said we have the right to strike down laws in the constitution something that had never been done before and jefferson went nuts you know he said if the stands than the constitution's of thing with wax in the hands of a missionary how did how did roosevelt feel about that and then my follow up question out in advance of what other presidents of had the same kind of confrontation well this is as you have just explained this is a very old argument because back almost in th

the mockers what i really advocating is thomas jefferson's vision of our democracy after the supreme court's decision in marbury vs madison jefferson who was then president went ballistic and eighteen zero four he wrote the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not not only for themselves in their sphere of action but for the legislative and executive also in their spears would make the judiciary a despotic branch jefferson also seven eighteen nineteen if the judiciary is the last resort in relation to the other departments of the government then indeed is our constitution a complete fill it is so that's latin for a suicide pact the constitution jefferson said this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they may please and today they twisted that ball of wax into a corporate charter for the conquest of america in eight hundred twenty jefferson wrote this about where the true power in our democracy lays he wrote you seem to consider the judges the

the city of oakland a big hug. sharon chin shows us you how this week's jefferson award winner has been doing it for>>> reporter: teray frederick has transformed her hayward home into a headquarters for giving. as her two daughters nerd adulthood she made a new commit men to serve her community. >> it's something i have always wanted to do but i was, you know, raising kids, doing the wife thing and taking care of home. >> reporter: in 2008, teray founded the ascending sisters social club. the nonprofit collects close an food and donates them to hundreds of low income people mostly in oakland. her eight volunteers help her decide which neighborhood to serve next. >> oakland needs uplifting, someone to grasp and just hug the whole city. and, you know, that's what we're trying. >> reporter: besides the clothes and food distribution every other month the club also hosts backpack giveaways, christmas toy drives and hiv prevention awareness events with local biker clubs. teray, a medical assistant, said serving her community just feels right. >> i used to repossess cars, believe it or no

. >> this week's jefferson award winner is a big example for people for those who made bad choices in the past. kate kelly reports. >> what about you? what you rourking on. >> reporter: shirley lamarr's life has come full circle. 22 years ago she would have been wearing an orange jumpsuit at the county jail. >> you want to bring it up so you can resolve it. >> reporter: instead, she comes to work here at the maguire correctional facility in san mateo to help run an in-custody recovery program called "choices." >> every day i walk through that door with the thing on here, i prove to them you don't have to be in orange. so you want to tell me a little bit about what you was worked up about last night. >> reporter: shirley says she did it all, drugs, crime but she left that environment of abuse behind when she entered delancey street and turned her life around. >> the philosophy is don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal. it's on the wall right downstairs. give a damn about somebody else. >> reporter: that's what she is teaching inmates in the choices program a unique joint venture between san m

the support of none other than thomas jefferson. even if he wasn't so much in favor of women's inequality. despite the fact they likely disagreed politically, still, this is a founding father who would have appreciated the kind of candidate warren is. let me explain. for just a moment, i'm taking off my tv guest hat and putting on my professorial hat. despite the tendency on the right toe present the founders as a founding was a political process full of difficult compromises and fierce battles over ideas. one of the most important battles was that over democracy. the american studies program at the university of virginia, thomas jefferson had a particular affection for the so-called farmer of early american politics. "the federalist and agrarian forces in government were divided in opinion by the revolution, the federalists were in favor of a strong central government and look to the commercial and industrial expansion. the raups, red by -- the republicans, led by thomas jefferson, believed in the local government and economy based on small independent farmers. the american ye

: thomas jefferson and the democratic republican opponents discovered thathenson hamilton had a financialiscore arrangement with a man named james reynolds who held it -- hamilton was paying to sleep with his wife. the democratic republicans found out and proceeded to try to ethane hamilton in dram his plan to create the national bank by exposing the sex scandal. jeff, opening that had boomeranged on jefferson because federal drug that the story of sally young men's. jefferson was bothering his arms like children.ing what we see is the town in bothers themselves were not above using each other's sex scandals to score political points. part of a long tradition to gont back to your thought that ifrtas rewards of focus to regard to the important issues pitcheryetd that's correct. >> host: people do like to talk about them. >> guest: the thing is during i prenlate 18th and early 19th century the sex lives of and president, andrew jackson, thomas jefferson was in the press, fair game.th centu the 20th-century when you have the images of the national security states can professionalis

saturday, i'll point out again, thomas jefferson -- thomas jefferson concluded the treaty with the louisiana purchase, and he himself wrote letters -- and i have copies of those letters, i've read them, letters to senator breckenridge. anguishing over whether he had the constitutional right to do this. and in one letter he said i believe congress is going to pass a constitutional amendment and send it to states for ratification before i can do this. but finally jefferson came to the realization that if he didn't take this action, the whole western part of the united states at that time might never become part of the united states. think about it. we might have been facing a part of the united states that belonged to spain or to france if the they ever worked out their problems. so jefferson acted boldly. he acted boldly. in fact, there were critics at that time hoe said he didn't have the authority authority to do that. they had a vote in the house of representatives on that, by the way,. carried by a couple of votes. abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. there's no

somebody like jefferson will be enthusiastic and hopeful and people are naturally, the oppressive authoritarian government that what people just love one another everything will work out. on the other hand the pessimistic and cynical about human nature and he would be very pessimistic about what is happening and say well, we will see. and then the one thing that they would say is that voting is a prerequisite for the democracy. people should vote but it is the least important part of the democracy and that is where the falsie comes in and they tend to think that voting by itself can solve a problem when in fact you need a civic society and all those institutions which make up our success ayittey that make us ungovernable if you will and make our system work. all of those things like the rotary clubs, religious groups, voting anything that ties people together and makes the world war complicate is you as an individual in the state that no democracy can work with that kind of gap, and i think that they wouldn't have put it in these terms this is how the political scientists would ta

enslaved by thomas jefferson. a lot of people know, she was the african-american woman who was a slave and also a mistress of thomas jefferson. her brother was also a cook. he had travelled with jefferson in paris and went to cooking schools in france. he is a very, very talented cook as well. they were both in philadelphia at the same time. he bought his freedom at one point with the stip layings that jefferson said he had to train someone else to cook before he could leave. even though he had saved enough money to buy his freedom. i believe probably was influenced by the fact that not only did he buy his freedom but oney had escaped. there was a way in which there was buildup of freedom and reaching for freedom on the part of people enslaved to washington. the other thing oney talked about later on. she gave interer views and lived to be in her 80's. she learned to read and become active in her community, she talks about not only being influenced by the haitian revolution in the early 1790's. people enslaved around the world knew about this but also influenced by the american revolut

would be exactly the kind of candidate who would win the support of none other than thomas jefferson. even if he wasn't so much in favor of women's political equality and despite the fact that they likely disagreed politically, still this is a founding father who would have appreciated the kind of candidate warren is. let me explain. i'm taking off my tv guest hat and putting on my professor sorial hat. despite the tendnessee den -- te fact that the founding was a political process full of fierce battles over ideas. one of the most important battles was about the very nature of representative democracy. as the american studies program at the university of virginia explains, thomas jefferson had a particular affection for the so-called yeoman farmer of early american politics. "the federalist forces in government were divided in opinion following the revolution. the federalists led by hamilton were in favor of a strong central government. the republicans led by thomas jefferson, believed in the privacy of the local government and a national economy based on small independent farmers.

washington and thomas jefferson had slaves. but most people probably do not know that eight out of the first will presence had slaves. -- first 11 per the -- eight at the first 12 presidents had slaves. this history kind of threw itself at me and then the book started to right itself. instead of being a strip political history of the white house, it has become more of a platform for preventing these fascinating individuals whose stories tell the history of the country. the introduction starts with a long narrative about a particular individual. i thought it really captured the moment, that historic era, in broad strokes in terms of race politics and politics will -- and presidential politics at the moment. i literally had never heard of this woman at all. all of us who grew up in the united states learned the history of the first president. remain not know the history of all the presidents, but we certainly learned about george washington and about him cutting down a cherry tree and about never telling a lie. what we do not have information about are the individuals who were slaves for

like jefferson would be very enthusiastic and hopeful. he had a magnanimous view of human nature and people are naturally goodhearted he felt and just got rid of the oppressive authoritarian governments and let people love one another then everything will work out. hamilton on the other hand is very pessimistic, cynical about human nature and he was -- you would be very pessimistic about what is happening. you would think well, we will see. i mean the one thing they would say is that voting is a prerequisite for democracy. people should vote, but it is the least important part of building a democracy and that is where the fallacy comes and i think. americans tend to think that voting by itself can solve a problem when in fact, you need a civic society, you need all of those institutions which make up our civic society that make us governable if you will. and make us, makes her system more. all those little things i rotary clubs, religious groups, bowling leagues, anything that ties people together and makes their world more complicated than simply u.s. and individual and the state. n

of the founders, they didn't have a single vision. someone like jefferson would be very enthusiastic and hopeful. he had a magnanimous view of human nature and people are naturally goodhearted he felt and just got rid of the oppressive authoritarian governments and let people love one another then everything will work out. hamilton on the other hand is very pessimistic, cynical about human nature and he was -- you would be very pessimistic about what is happening. you would think well, we will see. i mean the one thing they would say is that voting is a prerequisite for democracy. people should vote, but it is the least important part of building a democracy and that is where the fallacy comes and i think. americans tend to think that voting by itself can solve a problem when in fact, you need a civic society, you need all of those institutions which make up our civic society that make us governable if you will. and make us, makes her system more. all those little things i rotary clubs, religious groups, bowling leagues, anything that ties people together and makes their world more c

stories here and there. everyone knew that george washington and thomas jefferson had slaves. but most people probably do not know that eight out the first 12 presidents had slaves. there were slaves and side of the white house itself, not only the white house, but the president's house at george washington lived in for his administration's in philadelphia. this history kind of threw itself at me and then the book started to write itself. upstead of being a straight- political history of the white house, it has become more of a platform for preventing these fascinating individuals whose stories tell the history of the country. each chapter opens with a long narrative about a particular individual that i thought really captured the moment, really captured that historical ad kinds of strokes in terms of politics. i had not heard of this woman at all. all of us who grew up in the united states learned the history of the first president. remain not know the history of -- we may not know the history of all the presidents, but we certainly learned about george washington and about him c

behind this popular resource, this week's jefferson award win --winner. >> reporter: got creativity? ann marie theilen has heaps of material. for 35 years, artists and teachers like chris giorni have scrounged around her san francisco nonprofit "scrap" looking to turn someone else's trash into their treasure. >> walking through "scrap" is like walking through the cobwebs of ancient mines and opportunities for imagine nags to run wild. >> reporter: back in 1976, when theilen founded "scrap," people laughed. she was working with the san francisco arts commission and needed an inexpensive way to provide 140 artists with supplies for teaching. so she asked businesses to donate stuff they would otherwise dump. >> i was considered kind of a fool at the time. >> reporter: why? >> because we're into consuming in america. we consume. we don't reuse. >> reporter: from scrap's warehouse nestled in san francisco's industrial neighborhood, ann marie takes in 200 tons of donations a year that would otherwise pile in landfills. she has helped make reuse and recycle household words among dozens of

jefferson once the church out of the government. these people want the government out of the church, but they come together in their views. presbyterians write no law should pass to connect the church and state in the future. a baptist and a very famous preachers is the unlawful cohabitation between church and state, which i so often been looked upon his holy wedlock must now suffer a separation and be forever put asunder. the notion we hear today from the right wing that secularism is invented in the 20th century, separation of church and state is something made out of. these are 18th century evangelicals say we will have separation of church and state if you want us to fight for the government. i'll conclude. i will just read a short comment from the very end of the book. during the american revolution, virginia's religious dissenters demanded religious freedom in return for their full support for mobilization. the resulting negotiations change virginia's quality such that after the war, efforts to reinvigorate the establishment failed and defenders ushered into the jefferson aero

different. thomas jefferson once the church out of the government. these people want the government out of the church, but they come together in their views. presbyterians write no law should pass to connect the church and state in the future. a baptist and a very famous preachers is the unlawful cohabitation between church and state, which i so often been looked upon his holy wedlock must now suffer a separation and be forever put asunder. the notion we hear today from the right wing that secularism is invented in the 20th century, separation of church and state is something made out of. these are 18th century evangelicals say we will have separation of church and state if you want us to fight for the government. i'll conclude. i will just read a short comment from the very end of the book. during the american revolution, virginia's religious dissenters demanded religious freedom in return for their full support for mobilization. the resulting negotiations change virginia's quality such that after the war, efforts to reinvigorate the establishment failed and defenders ushered into the jef

. thomas jefferson once the church out of the government. these people want the government out of the church, but they come together in their views. presbyterians write no law should pass to connect the church and state in the future. a baptist and a very famous preachers is the unlawful cohabitation between church and state, which i so often been looked upon his holy wedlock must now suffer a separation and be forever put asunder. the notion we hear today from the right wing that secularism is invented in the 20th century, separation of church and state is something made out of. these are 18th century evangelicals say we will have separation of church and state if you want us to fight for the government. i'll conclude. i will just read a short comment from the very end of the book. during the american revolution, virginia's religious dissenters demanded religious freedom in return for their full support for mobilization. the resulting negotiations change virginia's quality such that after the war, efforts to reinvigorate the establishment failed and defenders ushered into the jeffers

yours! jcpenney. volunt >>> when this week's jefferson award winner first came to san francisco, he knew he would like to volunteer. it's been 22 years since he began to make a big difference for local teens. kate kelry. >> reporter: phil is comfortable navigating through the streets of the financial district. in 1989, he left wall street and cofounded a private equity firm in san francisco. in the 22 years since, life has grown. he has a family, more employees, but he has never forgotten the first day he volunteered to help homeless teens just 10 blocks from his office. but a world away. >> reporter: it was powerful. you see the kind of circumstances that these young people have to deal with and you know, they are 13, 14, 15 years old. they have come from awful places. they are trying their level best just to hang on and survive. >> reporter: for the last two decades, phil has volunteered with larkin street youth services, from doing outreach on the streets to fundraising in the board room where he currently serves as chairman. >> he brings a huge passion and commitment to young pe

jefferson award winner is a living example that big change is possible for people who have made bad choices in the past. as kate kelly reports, one south bay woman has worked hard to be a role model in a tough environment. >> what about you? what are you working on? >> reporter: shirley lamar's life has come full circle. >> are you good at math? excellent. >> reporter: 22 years ago, she would have been wearing an orange jump suit at the jail, instead she comes to work here to help run an in custody recovery program, called choices. >> every day i walk through that door with this thing on here, i prove to them you don't have to be in orange. >> you want to tell me what you were worked up about last night. >> shirley said she did it all, drugs, crime, she left that environment of abuse behind when she turned her life around. >> don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal. it's on the wall downstairs. give a damn about somebody else. >> reporter: that's what she's teaching inmates in the choices program. based on the street formula, shirley started as a counselor with choices 17 years ago. >>

jefferson wrong he said if a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization. scuse me expects what never was and never will be and then he continued to say whenever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice they may be relied upon to set them right i mean jefferson not only was gung ho for education on his tombstone he didn't even want to that he was prez the united states rather he wanted it but he was the founder of the university of virginia as a free school for pretty much anybody he was totally for public schools. if you and i have every reason to believe that he would be in favor of these particular charter schools particularly when you look at how the public education system has hijacked the teaching of these children you have young men and women leaving high school who don't understand basic math who have learned fictitious and fallacious history who have been in cool kid with various fictions for instance aggrandizing the marginal accomplishments of particular

watching what's happening in jefferson county, alabama. county leader leaders there are deciding whether they need to file what would be the largest government bankruptcy in u.s. history. today, those leaders rejected a settlement to pay off the county's $3 billion debt. the area, home to birmingham, alabama's largest city, has been trying to avoid bankruptcy for three years as it struggles under $3 billion in debt tied to sewer bonds. county commissioner james stephens is optimistic an agreement with creditors can be reached. >> we're going to make every effort to resolve this crisis and do so to the benefit of the citizenses of jefferson county. >> susie: the commission now has until september 16 to negotiate a deal with its creditors, including j.p. morgan chase. it was certainly a historic week here on wall street with one of the most volatile streaks in history of the u.s. stock market. the one question everyone was asking today-- is it over yet? let's take a closer look at the stocks making news in tonight's market focus. stocks were higher from the open, and stayed that way all da

carrier is possible but not likely. leaders in jefferson county, alabama, are working to avoid the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in u.s. history. tomorrow, county politicians would decide to move ahead with that filing or announce a settlement with its creditors, which include j.p. morgan chase. creditors today made a new offer to settle the county's $3 billion debt, but jefferson is still demanding a reduction in the total amount of debt outstanding. tough money times often lead to tough personal conversations among families. tonight's "kids & cash" has some tips on including your kids in those conversations. here's janet bodnar. she's president at kiplinger's personal finance. >> the stock market's falling. you're concerned about keeping your job or paying for the kids college. what if your children pick up on your money worries? and they inevitably will. how do you talk to them about tough money times? first, stay calm. ask your kids what they've been hearing at school or on tv. that's a good way to correct any misconceptions or start a discussion. and don't be glued to ma

sculptor of the new martin luther king jr. memorial in washington. it sits between jefferson and lincoln memorials. hurricane irene has triggered postponement of the dedication. charles, you wrote about it this week. >> it is a deeply moving memorial. there is a flaw in the art itself. it is not the ethnicity of the artist, it is ideology. there is a whiff of the socialist realism or even stalinism in the sculpture. nonetheless, the setting of this on the tidal basin across from the jefferson memorial, adjacent to fdr, monument core of america, to have a statue of a man of his greatness, the only non-president in the company, is a true statement of gratitude by a country that owes him a lot. >> stalinism -- i honestly have not thought of that. >> you have not seen the sculpture. >> it is something to contemplate. other than that, i agree with dr. krauthammer's assessment of the wisdom and the urgency of this memorial. >> i think it does make him look like chairman mao. everybody agrees that he should have no moral, but i think he could have had a better one -- it had a morial, bu

week's jefferson award winner first came to san francisco, he knew he liked to volunteer. as kate kelly shows us, it has now been 22 years since he first began making a big difference for local teens. >> reporter: phil estes is comfortable navigating his way through the streets of the financial district. in 1989 he left wall street and co-founded a private equity firm in san francisco. in the 22 years since, life has grown. highs family, more employees -- he has a family, more employees, you but never forgot the first day he volunteered. >> it's impossible. you see the kind of circumstances that these young people have to deal with, and you know, they are 13 or 14 or 15 years old. they have come from awful places. they are trying their level best just to hang on and survive. >> reporter: for the last two decades, phil has volunteered with larkin street youth services from doing outreach on the streets to fundraising in the board room, where he currently serves as chair. >> he brings a huge passion and commitment to young people. >> reporter: she is the executive director. >> it wa

desire. one more thing, gentlemen, before i quit. thomas jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase which the yankees and the side of the executive branch in washington are fond at hurling at us. there is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, to use this phrase out of context to satisfy all conditions, the most ridiculous example i can think of is when the people who run our public education promote that stupid and idle along with the industryous. because all men are created equal, educators gravely tell us the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inadequacy. we all know that all men are not created equal. in the sense some people would have us believe. some people are smarter than others. some have more opportunity because they're born with it. some men make more money than others. some ladies bake better cakes than others. some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. but there is one way in our society that all men are created equal. there is one human institution that makes the pauper the equal of the rockefeller. the stup

jeffersons." i see your mother all the time. do you ever watch the stuff? what do you see? >> i do watch it. i watch it quite often. when i feel like i want to see my mother, i turn it on your get i get to see her moves. i get to see her seat. i get to see her laugh. it is comforting. it was amazing how revolutionary that shows. that was the first interracial kiss on prime-time television. it was the first interracial couple on prime-time television, and i remember the mail she used to get back then. tavis: pretty ugly? >> really bad. people love her, but i am talking about the people with the racial thing. with all of these shows, you look back and see that there was some real substance there besides the comedy. now they got away with things we could not get away with today. tavis: what you make of that? >> i see how far we've come, but i also see how far we have got. we would be politically incorrect it is not really, but we are different today. tavis: you are making the submerged deeper, because you keep giving me stuff. you remember as a child the kind of mail your mother was g

and doing the wife thing and taking care of home. >> this week's jefferson award winner felt the same way. we are going to show you what she has done to help the less fortunate now in her community. >>> all of the sunshine has been nice for most folks but the fog is gathering again. what that means for the next couple of days coming up. >>> are the giants in search of a new closer? we have reaction. i'm dennis o'donnell. and he was seconds from winning the greatest spectacle in sports when it all went wrong. his life and the aftermath coming up. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, now - to keep a rail car filled wi >>> there is a very delicate operation ongoing near sacramento right now to keep that railcar filled with propane from exploding. these are pictures from our live chopper 5. this tanker caught fire yesterday in lincoln. nearly 5,000 people have been evacuated in the area, the schools are all closed down. the crews are using a process that's called hot tapping. they are trying to drain the propane out of the tanker car. in fact, a special crew has been flown in on a chartered night from

he a sleeping giant that was allowed to slumber too long by jefferson davis? >> well, no, i don't think so because lee's experience in the first year of the war had been a succession of failure. after he had helped immobilize the virginia troops and then had joined the confederacy when virginia finally did join the confederacy, he had been sent out to deal with the problem in the western part of virginia which became west virginia where mcclelland actually had overseen successful union occupation of much of that area. then mcclelland was called to washington in july, and lee was sent out to western virginia to try to recover that area. in august of 1861. and every effort he made turned out to be a failure. he came into, came under all kinds of criticism from the richmond newspapers, he was called granny lee, as you suggest. then in november of 1861 jefferson davis sent him to the south atlantic coast to charleston just in time for lee to witness the capture of port royal by the union navy and the occupation of the south carolina and the georgia sea islands by union forces, another

been there. sharon chin introduces the woman behind this popular resource, this week's jefferson award win her. >> reporter: got creativity? ann marie theilen has heaps of material. for 35 years, artists and teachers like chris giorni have scrounged around her san francisco nonprofit "scrap" looking to turn someone else's trash into their treasure. >> walking through "scrap" is like walking through the cobwebs ancient mines and opportunities for imagination to run wild. >> reporter: back in 1976, when theilen founded "scrap," people laughed. she was working with the san francisco arts commission and needed an inexpensive way to provide 140 artists with supplies for teaching. so she asked businesses to donate stuff they would otherwise dump. >> i was considered kind of a fool at the time. >> reporter: why? >> because we're into consuming in america. we consume. we don't reuse. >> reporter: from scrap's warehouse nestled in san francisco's industrial neighborhood, ann marie takes in 200 tons of donations a year that would otherwise pile in landfills. she has helped make reuse and r

the lincoln and jefferson memorials and will be officially dedicated on sunday. that is the 48th anniversary of the reverend king's "i have a dream" speech. nbc's mara schiavocampo toured the memorial earlier this morning and joins us now. and this is a $100 million tribute to dr. king. mara, what's it like on the inside from your perspective? >> reporter: yeah, a lot of money and 15 years in the planning but now it's done. it's a glorious day. couldn't have better weather for an event like this. and as you mentioned, it just opened to the public a few minutes ago, but we got a chance to go in a few hours ago to get a little tour earlier this morning and bring you this first look. the main part of the memorial consists of three parts. these two represent the mountain of despair. visitors will pass through here and immediately come upon the stone of hope, featuring that large granite statue of dr. king. the concept for this memorial comes from the famous speech made on the march on washington in 1963 where dr. king famously said "out of the mountain of despair comes a stone of hop

jefferson award winner. >> reporter: terae frederic has transformed her home into a headquarters for giving. as her two daughters neared adulthood, she made a new commitment to serve her community. >> it's something i've always wanted to do, but i was raising kids and doing the wife thing and taking care of home. >> reporter: in 2008, tarae founded the ascending sisters social club. the nonprofit collects food and clothes and donates them to hundreds of low income people mostly in oakland. eight volunteers help her decide which neighborhood needs help next. >> oakland needs uplifting, someone to grasp them and hug the whole city. that's what we're trying to do. >> reporter: besides the clothes and food distribution every other month, the ascending sisters social club also hosts backpack drives, christmas toy drives and hiv prevention awareness with local biker clubs. tarae, a medical assistant, says serving her community just feels right. >> my boss used to tell me, we're not going to give this money if you can't make little itty, bitty payment arrangements. i did it for nine years a

we're to happiness as the human right that thomas jefferson wrote into the declaration of independence then we need to start again a conversation in this country to deal with the horrible inequality that is driving so many of our social ills. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question warren buffett says it's time for shared sacrifice from the mega rich will congress loosen your choices are yes every single poll shows the vast majority of americans agree with warren buffett or no the republicans in congress have signed grover norquist anti at x. pledge will still prevail. in dot com to let us know what you think the poll will be open until tomorrow morning. coming up the idea that corporations are people is spreading like a bad virus among republicans. unfortunately five of the nine members of the supreme court agree so how have corporations managed to whittle away the person who are the base that. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to create through thirty people made who can you trust no one

americans is being done thomas jefferson you know i mean great supporters of of democracy out there supporting their dictators for so many decades. well not in the arab oil and certainly not in south america where you have also had a wave of democracy over the last ten to fifteen years which has brought new governments and new social movements and to cali changing the relationship of forces by quite decisively if i can just sort of come back to one point it's not a question of whether we like has a polo whether we like or agree with every dalton carmyle from us or idealism that's not the point the point is permitting the people in that region to decide what's happened when hamas won the elections in palestine sanctions were imposed on it it's money was stopped and the west refused to recognize a democratic election because they were hoping to push the p.l.o. through and we now know why with the publication of the palestinian papers that the p.l.o. leadership it was in the pocket of the united states and now we know also please release to such a disgusting extent that it's horrified

monuments and memorials on the national mall are few and familiar. washington, jefferson, lincoln. today, years in the making, a memorial to dr. martin luther king jr. has now opened to the public, and we asked chip reid to give us a first look. >> reporter: when they opened the gates to the martin luther king memorial today, madeline coleman was one of the first in line. when she looked up at the face of dr. king, 30 feet above, she remembered the first time she saw him, 48 years ago on the national mall. >> i have a dream, that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed. >> reporter: everyone there, she says, knew immediately it was a defining moment in the fight for equal rights. >> i mean, it was just so emotional. first of all, people were just crying, and i think because there was so much anger in a lot of people, that there arose hope that things were going to get better. >> reporter: five years later, she was devastated when king was assassinated at the age of 39. the theme of the memorial is that dr. king is emerging from what's called the st

several of them actually to say that the republicans built this country thomas jefferson founded the democratic party which is still around today and his contemporary george washington was the guy who first put into law legislation that would that would have that paid for in fact the paid for. homes for the poor here in washington d.c. thomas paine pushed for social security and national health care alexander hamilton as thomas jefferson normally enemies agreed on the importance of limiting the power of great wealth we didn't have a millionaire in the united states until the seven hundred ninety s. the really rich people left the after and during the revolutionary war we didn't have a billionaire in the united states until the eight hundred eighty s. and today's dollars and congress then limited them in eight hundred eighty one with the sherman antitrust act teddy roosevelt one further with the inheritance tax and president taft after roosevelt busted up standard oil and twenty six countries companies so we don't really have to say that republicans built america the democrat in just