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Well, you would think so. But in fact, it's a relatively recent innovation. Because up until the Second World War there were no such things as home freezers or even much in the way of refrigerators in Japan. It was only after the war when refrigerators and freezers were introduced that the Japanese could freeze fish. Prior to that they smoke fish or they pickled it, or they dried it. But the introduction of the refrigerators in the 1960s enabled them to freeze it and therefore store it for time and then introduce sushi. So sushi - this whole thing that you tend to believe the Japanese have been eating forever only began around the 1960s. And just think of this for a moment. Now we can say that we're sushi and sashimi on the air here and everybody says, oh, yeah, I'd love that, my favorite Japanese restaurant is. But 40 years ago, even 30 years ago, most Americans - for most Americans the idea of eating a piece of raw fish was nigh on to disgusting, nobody wanted to eat raw fish. The Japanese started it, they exported the technology, they exported the menus. And all of a sudden it's become this enormously popular, enormously expensive thing.

Let me go back to the future here and quote Joe Biden, who's a Democratic senator from Delaware, who's running for president. He said, and I quote, of Obama, "he's clean, he's different, he's not like the other guys that are running for president, meaning Jessie Jackson, who tried to run and win the nomination back in '84 and '88," end quote. Senator Obama is different. He is arguably the most credible African-American politician to ever seek the presidency. And what I mean by that is that he comes across as very likeable, he is very likeable. He's a little light on the issues. However, people love this gentleman. And this is evidence based on the fact that he has raised more money than any other person running for president on the Democratic side in history. That's a fact. Also, two, he comes across as very charming and also, two, keep in mind. Oprah has endorsed him as well. Conservatives feel comfortable with him. Now, I'm not sure all conservatives are comfortable with him and, frankly, I don't know if they're going to vote for him or not, but they actually do like him.

You know, I was talking about the folks carrying little cups around the city, and you were looking at that as institutional. I was looking at that as a personal way to donate, you find someone who you really want to just send money to them, you just have to find out how to text it to them, and they have to have some way of receiving it. And you may see them on the news, you know, a family that's lost its house in a fire, other kinds of tragedies. Now, maybe that's becoming a little more personal. Mr.�OGDEN: Yeah, and you know, personal giving, the person-to-person connections in philanthropy I think is, in fact, a major trend of people being able to expect to connect a lot more directly. But it is also a double-edged sword.

I think when we talked about the way we were going to carry out this campaign, we envisioned something that was going to be sustainable for the Iraqis and sustainable for the United States. It would not be a huge commitment for the United States to have a few hundred soldiers or even a thousand soldiers in Iraq after the defeat of the Islamic State if it was for the purposes of training back up the Iraqi military, getting them back on their feet and really refocusing them towards what we all know the Islamic State is going to morph into, which is going to be a terrorist threat as opposed to a quasi state. That is seen as sustainable for the U.S.

I see this--there's a real--the issue that I see is that we as Africans in America have had a real hard difficult time because of racism--Oh, I said the word--because of racism--in identifying with people who look like us, who come from Africa. Some of us still have a problem in 2005--Can I get an `Amen'?--saying we're Africans in America, or African-America. So I think that this is just deeper than AIDS and HIV and the problem of forgiving the debt. I think this is the real issue of how we identify ourselves. And on college campuses, if you talk to African students from Sacramento to the state of Washington, Seattle, where there's a large contingency, to Denver, Colorado, where I met Nigerians--if you talk to them, they say, `Black people don't come and talk to us. They view us as the enemy.' If you talk to those from the Caribbean who are in New York--Robert, you know this.

Yes, Jerry Reese, and that's the third in history and the third right now in the NFL. And as I said, as recently as 2002, the number of African-American general managers was one. And we haven't even talked about the ownership ranks here, which remains as, you know, as lily-white as a 1950's country club at this point. And I think the NFL just needs to do a lot more. Given the fact that the face of so many franchises is African-American, that needs to be matched not only in the coaching ranks, not only in the general managing ranks, but in the ownership ranks, as well. Other sports have begun to take these steps, and there's no reason for the NFL to lag so far behind. They should be trendsetters. They should be pacesetters for sports throughout the United States. Instead, they are lagging.

You know, I do see a great degree of disaffection, of maybe - you know, it's not even opposition among the people, but maybe a lack of a sense that it's relevant to their lives. But among many young people in particular, I see a sort of a rediscovery of the great tradition of the church. And I think what we're seeing is the preparation of a creative minority within the church so that the church will be smaller, radically different, perhaps, on an administrative level, but hopefully much more a force for prophetic good in our country and much more an agent of the tradition that we've been entrusted.

Please do not take that type of opinion. Get ready. Get evacuated. Get out because once this storm is upon us, we're not going to be able to get emergency operation folks to you until after the storm passes. This is a very serious storm, one of the biggest storms we've seen in quite some time. I know that this community and this area has seen quite a few storms over the years, but please heed the advice of the emergency operation folks, and leave when necessary. Make preparations. Get ready. You've got a couple of days to get ready to ride this thing out, and we want everybody to be safe. And you know, this is going to be a big one. And if it comes this way, we're going to be in for one - a big storm.

Yes, absolutely. In fact, we did a mailing out to close to a thousand different groups within and it didn't matter if we thought they were supportive or not supportive. In terms of the individuals who were specifically plaintiffs in the case, all but one of the plaintiffs were dismissed. And in fact, with - League of Women Voters of Georgia will be meeting with their executive director. I believe, it's later this week to see how we can partner with them and we will get out reach out to the other organizations as well. And with the one organization that remains certainly, if they're willing to work with us despite remaining as a plaintiff - because remember, they do have the option to appeal. We're more than happy to help them with outreach. In fact, I think that these organizations really have as much as responsibility as we do and we have materials that we're happy to provide as well.

Oh, well, hi. I'm not a patient. I just wanted to make - this great discussion, I wanted to make the comment that I've been in the health care industry for about 40 years, watching development and changes. And we're - you know, we've gone from a system that was very paternalistic, where the patient really had no, not many rights and not much responsibility, to a system where we are trying to become more consumer - more of a consumer. And so we have not only rights but responsibilities as patients to educate ourselves, to follow our instincts, and there's just really in this day and age, with online resources, there is just no excuse for not being able to access journals and educating yourself as intensely and deeply as you can about any diagnosis you get, not just getting a second opinion, which is, you know, essential sometimes, but also having - being armed with knowledge so that you...

Well you know, Robert, the issue here, one of the issues, is class and style, and Etta James herself has said that, you know, she called Beyonce bougie, and I don't think she meant it in a derogatory way, but she was saying it in contrast to herself, that she was a hard-driving, you know, former heroin addict and not a bougie person at all. In fact, Etta said she was the kind of woman who went in the bathroom to smoke. So how would you distinguish the two, and do you think that Beyonce's acting would be good enough to overcome that cultural divide?

I believe that, you know, like the gentleman is saying, you know, some of those soldiers are the best, but you have to look at the other soldiers that are extremely uncomfortable, you know, taking showers, sleeping next to homosexual individuals. On the battlefield, all that changes. There's no color, there's no segregation. You're all there for a common bond. But when the mission's over, and you go back home, and you have this homosexual who is blatant and open with his views and his ideas and his sexuality, that's going to cause an extreme amount of tension, an extreme amount of stress. And I think inevitably it would be a bad idea.

Oh, no. I could tell they were similar but I could not tell, you know, I mean, I couldn't tell any vast difference but I have Meniere's Disease which is an inner ear disease and so I'm totally deaf in my right ear. But my hearing comes and goes. And right now it's really, really good. But a year ago, it wasn't so good, and if you were to play that it would have been absolutely - I couldn't have told any, any type of difference. And what's frustrating for me, is like, during that time when my hearing is so bad, I will be in church and I can't tell anything - any tones. And I could relate to that guy about that six-month-old, for me it's my 16 year old when I'm in church they absolutely will not let me sing because I'm so out of tune.

Rittgers says the troubling part is that no one knows when the war on terrorism is going to end. That's just one of the variables that President Obama's task force on Guatanamo is going to have to consider. Rittgers says he'd like to see Guatanamo closed and some of the detainees tried in federal court, but he says it's likely the members of the Guatanamo task force may very well agree that there are some men the U.S. cannot try in any courtroom. If so, Rittgers says President Obama will need to explain it fully and carefully to the American public.

Well, Liane, the reports that the Georgians are withdrawing from South Ossetia are true. I came across a number of soldiers, perhaps 40 or 50, who had been in the capital of that breakaway region, and they fled this morning after sustaining what they said was heavy Russian aerial bombardment against which they said they had no protection. So they went into that area Thursday night, that offensive helped triggered this larger conflict, and now they are already retreating from that area. And as well as the military retreat by the Georgian military, we're also seeing the ethnic Georgian minority in that breakaway region fleeing as well, thousands of people. Some of them slept on the streets of the Georgian capital last night, and on this highway I'm seeing cars packed with belongings and people fleeing South Ossetia and areas near the border for fear that the Russians will move in.

After last year's massacre of 20 elementary schoolchildren, Obama vowed to use all the power of his presidency to push for new gun-safety legislation, including universal background checks. Despite widespread public support, though, that measure stalled in the Senate. And earlier in this month, two state lawmakers in Colorado who backed similar legislation were recalled by voters, after a campaign fueled by the National Rifle Association. The NRA's Wayne LaPierre argued on "Meet the Press" yesterday there's no reason to subject more gun buyers to background checks, noting that checks failed to stoop the shooters believed responsible for three of the mass shootings cited by the president.

My worry is I think that Chrysler has become big and bureaucratic and the unions are broken but - and it probably needs to fail but this is quite possibly the worst possible timing. You know, I'm concerned about our state. I've a lot of friends and families who are - we're all connected to the autos and we can't sell our houses even if we wanted to move because the economy here really went - even further south than it is. We can't sell our houses to move. So, how do we - how does this happen? How does this get unwound in a way that does not cause the state of Michigan to just implode, which is what we all kind of talk about now.

You know, at the casino level, it's been very cautious, and they've been really paying attention to the kind of acts and the kind of, you know, the kind of bookings they're making at their hotels. We had, specifically, this has happened already, and it was at the Rio. Coors was in town with the Nightclub and Bar convention, and they had leased the Club Rio from Harrah's, and they had booked Snoop Dog. And this happened before, you know, the latest turbulence. And when all this happened, officials at Harrah's, who have the right to review anybody appearing on their property, told Coors to find somebody else to perform. And that act, that night, that artist became Blues Traveler. And that was just last week.

You know, I think it depends on the group. I think some would say they don't want to see any change to the Endangered Species Act. By many measures, it has been a hugely successful legislative tool to stop extinction. But there's a bigger issue here that I think is also why we're - a lot of this is coming up in discussion, and it's that the ESA can only do so much. The challenges to wildlife in this country are growing - climate change, human development. Collin O'Mara, the head of the National Wildlife Federation, talked about this with me earlier today. COLLIN O'MARA: One out of every 3 wildlife species in this country is either at risk or vulnerable to extinction in the coming century. We have a crisis that we need - that needs solutions. Like, the status quo is basically just managing decline of specie populations that we all care about.

Well, I would say that there's not really a conflict between innovation and safety, that you can actually have innovation. You can have safety, and you can innovate in the safety arena if you take the right approach. We did not have the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration back when the Model T was put on the assembly line. And if we had, we probably would have saved untold numbers of lives by having that kind of vigilance at the beginning. We have that opportunity today. This is a once-in-a-hundred-year moment to capture a technology while it's in its early stages and build a culture of safety within it, and that's what we intend to do.

Right. Right. This was--the Academy Award was really a bittersweet victory. I mean, she saw herself as a pioneer and she saw herself as a trailblazer, and the first Academy Award for an African-American--she saw it as an individual accomplishment, as something that would portend better things in Hollywood and for the African-American people. But despite the fact that it was that kind of triumph, Hollywood still, you know, continued to reinforce these stereotypical roles. She had hoped for a breakthrough role and she told the press that she anticipated one coming, but it wasn't forthcoming at all. And then on top of it, it traps her kind of in between white Hollywood and then the African-American community. She's constantly kind of battling that, looking for a balance, to continue to serve the community but at the same time to serve her ambitions, which is to succeed in white Hollywood, and the cost is tremendous. It's a tremendous personal price she has to pay.

Oh, I just wanted to make a comment that, basically, as a taxpayer, we are being bled dry. The solution here is not taxing us anymore. The solution here is not throwing anymore money at this situation. The guy from Grand Rapids is right although I disagree with him in terms of his being in favor of taxes. He is correct. Our legislatures have totally, totally lost touch with their constituency. They have this wanton attitude towards money like it's just this endless supply and it's not. They are not good fiduciaries in the handling of our tax dollars. Our tax dollars are in trust and in trust by the citizens of this nation and of the state of California and of the state of Indiana.

Yeah, we do. I mean, I think to provide some context to it, you have a source of energy here which generates 20 percent of our electricity, as you mentioned, 70 percent in France. If you actually look at deaths per energy source, nuclear comes out as one of the best. I think only wind out-performs nuclear, and that even counts the expected deaths from Fukushima because of course there haven't been any deaths yet from it. The estimates are of some - I think between one and 3,000 eventual cancer deaths from Fukushima, which is obviously serious and of concern, but, you know, in the context of catastrophic climate change risk, you know, in the context of the, you know, thousands of coal miners who die every year, you know, the Deepwater Horizon, fossil energy, all energy production is quite dangerous, including solar panel production.

Well, I think we'll see it. I mean, first of all, you can see it in the amount of - number of times that the president talks about this, that candidate Mitt Romney talks about this, as well as across the board. I mean, remember, it's not just the presidential election. There are some Senate races and congressional races all over this country. And what we're seeing is that a lot of people are beginning to ask the question about climate change. And let me add this because the same study also found that many Americans are beginning to talk about or think about in their own mind or more importantly connect the dots between climate change and this incredible spate of extreme weather that we've experienced over the past year and a half. I mean, last year, 2011, we had over $14 billion disasters, OK? It was an all-time record in the United States.

One way to reconcile things is never to outlaw or abandon. But it is (unintelligible) in a very educated and very large majority way regulate things. You used the word respect a lot, and I think it's very valid because people talk both left and right about the slide downhill for respect for life. On people in the right, they say, oh, fight a war, and they're killing people. People on the left say, well, abortion's okay because it's a choice, not a child. This is what you get in a society that doesn't sit as a group and really think through what they're faced with, modern technology because of the absence of leadership.

We have an email here from John(ph). He writes: Just spent three days in St. Petersburg and saw nothing but regular people trying to make a living. This is not to say the heads of government aren't still working the Cold War, we never felt in any danger at all. And I guess that's one thing that I do want to talk to both of you about. Sort of there seems to be this separation. You have Putin's Russia and sort of the Russia that he presents, and a lot of Western leaders aren't huge fans of him, but then this is a country that is getting, you know, more open, and you know, a lot of Americans and others are visiting and enjoying themselves.

Backfired on Rush Limbaugh, where he saw Michael J. Fox campaigning openly for stem cells, and therefore, liberal candidates. And Rush Limbaugh really had the audacity to suggest that Michael J. Fox was exaggerating his symptoms to get sympathy. And that, you know, I had researched a whole book on this for years and years, and I took a gasp when I heard that. I couldn't believe that somebody would say that. I mean, obviously, Limbaugh is passionate about his politics. But Michael J. Fox was just a sick guy desperately looking, I think, for new and interesting and innovative treatments. And was looking wherever he could on the political spectrum.

You going blow the whole coalition to pieces, because are you going to be the party of universal state, free-at-the-point-of-consumption healthcare? I mean, that's what people who are making less than $30,000 a year, which is where most Latinos in America are, that's what they want. Or are you going to say, look, we're a center-right party? Every industrial country has a center-left party and a center-right party; America shouldn't be any different. The Democrats are the center-left party. We're going to be the party of markets, of freedom, of business, and that means we have to confront our losses among the much larger group of college graduates. And when I talk about rebuilding a new majority, the Republicans begin with tremendous strength in the area national security. They begin as the party of freedom and business and limited government. And that's the route back to majority status.

Well, I'll tell you, we will definitely--if we stay in the area, we will definitely never, never stay again. It was quite scary. You know, we rode through the storm just fine. We had a big generator, and so we were actually quite comfortable and watching the chaos outside, but then that ended and the water came up so fast. It was so scary and we were, you know, banking on plan number two, which was to get up into an attic and, of course, you know, bring an ax with us so we could, you know, chop our way through the top in case we had to be on the rooftop. But luckily, it subsided and started to go down pretty fast, and we were sort of stuck in the back of a big subdivision. And my daughter's fiance was Paul Bunyan, and for two miles he cut trees and went through power lines to get us out of that subdivision. And it also created a pathway for other people that had stayed behind, so they could get out as well. So, you know, at that point, when we could exit and when, you know, he chopped through all the trees, then, you know, we were able to get out.

Some areas, right from colonial times, obviously, had some industries, for instance, you know, so there's uneven economic, you know, development in Kenya, in Uganda, in Nigeria. And there's also uneven socio-development, meaning that no policies have been put in place to take care of the social needs of the ordinary person, but does that mean that poor Kikuyu is in the same identical position as a poor Luo, a millionaire Luo is exactly in the same position as a millionaire Kikuyu? Tribalism or tribal wars are often intra-middle class wars. In other words, it's the elite - the one group whipping up emotions of ordinary people. So they see that they are the community is the only which have all the haves and we, community as a whole, do not have any haves, although, in fact, there are millionaires on - among all the communities.

Well, before we let you go, I did want to ask you about - your opinion about something else that's a bit sticky, which is this whole controversy around the gospel minister Kim Burrell, who sings a song on the soundtrack. And it emerges that she gave a sermon that's since gone viral where she expresses her distaste for the LGBT community or with same-sex marriage and so forth. And a number of people - I mean, this has become a big thing on social media. Now, you criticized Burrell's remarks, tweeting that we're all God's children, equal in his eyes, and hatred isn't the answer. But I'm just wondering, as an artist, how do you think these issues should be navigated going forward?

Well, we did some polling, and we determined that a very large percentage of the people in his district were willing to and ready to vote for someone else. That's what we - that's the criteria, one of the criteria we use. He's one of those members who's been elected a long time ago in one of these one-party-dominated districts. The November election, in the Sixth District of Alabama, is a foregone conclusion. Whoever has the Republican nomination will win the election in November. Therefore the important election is the primary election, and that's where we need more people participating, and that's where we need more competition in order to have competitive elections.

You know, one interesting thing about this, you're talking about President Bush, is it's interesting that he finds himself somewhat to the left of some of his Republican colleagues on this particular issue because President Bush is the one that's promoting a guest worker program that many fear will result in amnesty for people who are here without proper documents. And of course, the president, as we said earlier insists that it will not. But you have this interesting split within the Republican Party, and in the Senate, you have the, the Republican leader, Senator Frist, trying to advance legislation by going around the Senate Judiciary Committee, which of course is headed by Republican Arlen Specter. And Senator Frist's legislation would not include a guest worker program, but you have John McCain who has legislation which supports the president's program, and both of these might face each other in the Republican Presidential Primary. So you do have an interesting divide within the Republican Party that curiously enough puts the president to the left of an issue. That's probably a place that he is not really familiar with in many cases.

Israel is such a small country that basically everywhere you go there is a border. I think that's one of the things that distinguishes it. And, at least for me, you know, the Lebanese border has been a huge part of my life because I live so close to it. There's this surreal experience in the normal world where you can take your car and drive for 30 minutes and be in Lebanon. But, of course, you know, that's not how it goes. Plenty of people pass through borders but they don't spend much time thinking about the people who are constantly at a border, such as soldiers, particularly Israeli soldiers. So I wanted to give people who have passed through these borders the chance to imagine what the life for someone who is stuck at this border might be like.

Yeah, and I love that episode in Las Vegas' history because they didn't treat the detonation of thermonuclear devices 65 miles away from their city as a problem. They simply said, `Let's become Atomic City, USA. Let's have bomb parties on the rooftop lounge of the Desert Inn all night so you can stay up drinking and gambling and have a cocktail in your hand when you watch the blast go off at dawn.' At least in the '50s, they were struggling to become part of the mainstream. Being able to be part of what they felt was a patriotic effort to help win the Cold War was a thing that they latched onto and said--as the publisher of the local paper said, `Here's the reason--we found a reason for our existence as a community,' which, I think, is kind of revealing both about Las Vegas' past and about their vision of what they wanted to be in terms of their relationship with the rest of the country.

Well, no, let me - I just said, look, as the sort of the social conservative and the group or at least the one that's been most up front, I would say that the Republican Party is going to stand for what it stands for. That doesn't mean that we have to poke those who agree with us on 80 percent of the other issues. In the (unintelligible) you are not welcome and I've never done that. I mean, you know, I agree to disagree with, you know, I served with Allan Specter. I mean, we were about as far apart on those issues as any two in the Congress but, you know, when we worked together, we went out of our way to make sure that we, try to accomplish things for the party that were we agreed and we just agreed to disagree but Allen knows that the Republican party is a pro-life party. Now, he's going to work within that party to try to make - to try change some things and he has every right to do so but, you know, I don't think the party is going anywhere on those issues at the same time we have to be accommodated to those who may not feel that way.

Well, U.S. forces went in sizeable numbers into Malad(ph) on the east side of Ramadi. Now that's an area which has been under the control of insurgents for some time now. It's considered one of the worst areas in the city by the U.S. military, and their soldiers there have been repeatedly attacked and have suffered some casualties there, particularly by IEDs -roadside bombs. And the sound that you just heard, actually, was the sound of an AC-130 aircraft hovering in the night above the city of Ramadi last night, firing artillery down on a road traffic circle to try to clear that road traffic circle of IEDs. They were trying to hit the wires which they believe detonate these roadside bombs to make it safe for their infantrymen to get into the town and to start searching houses.

Well, certainly, you can get very broad subpoenas like this. Prosecutors are often criticized for not tailoring subpoenas. But when you're in an area of sensitivity like journalism or the clergy, there are policies that you're supposed to balance those needs, look at alternative sources. And what fascinating, I was in a case where I ask for motivational evidence of a prosecutor in a criminal case. And I was met with sheer horror from the prosecutors who immediately said, his motivation's not relevant in the facts in this case. And here, you've got prosecutors saying the opposite. It is very relevant. And I think they would have been better off with a degree of adult supervision here in reducing this subpoena. I could see them, for example, asking if money was exchanged. For example, you know, was there any compensation given to these witnesses in any form. That seems a relevant a question. But those types of questions are usually handled on a telephone call where the professor says, you know, that's a fair question and I'll go ahead and I'll answer it in a letter to you.

That prompted Jake Michael(ph), of Westchester, Pennsylvania, about why he honors Juneteenth. (Reading) "As Frederick Douglas noted so long ago, the institution of slavery was responsible for creating a huge underclass of poor, landless whites disparagingly called crackers. These hardworking, ruled people dared not ask for decent wages, because if they did, the wealthy landowners would simply order their slaves to do the job for free. My father's family was poor farmers who came back to this nation back when it was a British colony, and, yes, he was the first to attend college. The way I see it, Juneteenth has indeed benefited me and all the rest of my 32 blonde-haired, blue-eyed cousins." We heard from more of you about the "n-word". Attorneys defending a New York City man convicted of a hate crime had argued his client's use of the word while beating a black man wasn't racial. They called it a hip-hop use of the term, learned growing up in a mixed-race neighborhood.

Informed consent, where you would -- prior to an abortion, the woman would be given information about alternatives, about risks, about the developing unborn child. That's the type of legislation that was upheld by the Supreme Court in the Casey decision, and that's --many states still do not have that type of protective legislation on the books. And that's what we will continue to push in the states. Will it make a difference if we have a change in the makeup of the Supreme Court? Not immediately, but hopefully in the long term as we see what kinds of decisions the new justices will be making. Right now, we don't - we know what you know.

I understand the situation in Sri Lanka has not been smooth politically. I think in contrast, though, Aceh has gone well. As you know, there has been a peace process ongoing; an agreement was reached in August this year in Helsinki between the government of Indonesia and GAM, the Free Aceh Movement. And I think now you're seeing a lot of progress in a 30-year civil war that saw 15,000 people dead. The army here is withdrawing troops. the GAM movement is disarming. You see the reintegration of former combatants, prisoner release and amnesty. And I think what's happening here in Aceh is that people are trading bullets for voting ballots.