detroit some part of its essential detroitness." three or four people who i gave the book to read, came back and asked me about that specific last line, and they are curious whether what you're saying is that our dysfunction is such a part of us that we can't afford to let it go -- [laughter] that we can't afford to lose it. [laughter] a couple people were mad. >> yeah. >> when they asked me about that, and i said, well, you know, i don't know. i'm asking you. >> yeah, i don't mean dysfunction, but i do think there's -- i don't know. i don't want to say i worry about this because i think any, you know, positive development, detroit people welcome that, period, but i think about, you know, what new positive developments -- especially in, you know, you see stuff coming up in downtown, like, what will that mean exactly? is bulldozing a bunch of those old buildings and putting up new mall-like structures, like, some people cheer that. >> right. >> a lot of people cheer that, and in way, you know, why not? you drive past the same rotted

just a detroit but it is a detroit city it is detroit city. you had to explain that to people. >> i don't know how to explain it. people always remark, detroit. >> how did you come up with that? >> from a tech agent. to spell motor city madhouse was appropriate for this moment, we talked during the talk, detroit's weird trendiness, opposed recession seems to have become the place to be for all sorts of reasons, people wanting to fix it, people wanting to come up with her and realignment plans, people wanting to take pictures of the ruins. for whatever reason it seems like a special moment. it felt right. >> thanks a lot. >> thank you. [applause] >> for more information visit the author's website mark binelli.com. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. here is our prime time lineup for tonight. starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern -- visit booktv.org for more on this weekend's television schedule. >> he creates debate is an american bar association book that looks at dick of legal arguments on national security law. a co-editor of the book and four co

so it was like, it's them. >> detroit police begin the search for clues. what they find at the crime scene is somewhat unusual. >> at first blush, there were no obvious signs of trauma to either body. the entire vehicle and bodies were removed and taken to the wayne county medical examiner's office. and upon further review confirmed what we were able to see visually, that there was absolutely no trauma to either of the young ladies' bodies. >> with no indications of gunshot or stab wounds nor evidence of strangulation or suffocation, police suspect the women may have been killed by a lethal dose of a tranquilizing drug, perhaps laced into their drinks. then just one week later and only two blocks away police are called to an almost identical crime scene. this time the victims are 28-year-old ber naechlt ethia mccrary and 29-year-old natasha curtis. two more young women apparently killed in the same manner but this time left in the trunk of a car set ablaze. >> when you take a look at that situation, very quickly we decided that this was very potentially a

in screwed news the city of detroit is asking president obama for some help this week detroit city councilwoman joanne watson called for a financial lifeline from the white house to assist her cash strapped city odds are good that seventy five percent of wayne county voters supported the president in his re-election bid and that in return the president should help detroit take a look. people you know overwhelmingly support events of this president of the us to be clear who you want to exercise leadership on that it was not just that but why now. testament of the detroit may run out of money by the end of the year so far the white house has put forward no plans to bail it out many cities across america have been devastated by three decades of reaganomics and so-called free trade deals that have wiped out local manufacturing cities receive the final death blow in two thousand and seven when wall street crashed our economy and there's a long history of the federal government bailing out broke cities republican president jerry ford for example loaned to new york city two billion dollars one hundred

why do we have to save detroit? pick your city. i don't think it's right you have somebody out there, man made, blew through their budget, going bankrupt, don't have a strategyor recovery right now except to go hat in hand back to washiton. when you look the at all of that, why is it that i have to, as a taxpayer, continue to bail out the other cities? it's just t fair and it's not right. >> brenda: got to be the last word there, thanks, guys. well, we all remember this. it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> brenda: do you believe that it'been 40 years since we last stepped on the moon? now, our very own neil cavuto is hosting a fox news special, fridaye fly me to the moon, never before firsthand accounts. and live tomorrow at 9 astern, it's goingo be out of this world. soon there may be no place to hide. whuncle sam may soon be eyeing every mile you drive. and why someone here says everyone should be sounding the horn. >> forget about black boxes in airplanes. what about black bes in your cars? and the govern

>> i think we need detroit to accept responsibility. we need a healthy detroit. in michigan we want a healthy detroit. we need detroiters to accept responsibility. they are free to ask the president for more money. i can tell you there will not be more money coming from lansing. we need to get detroit fixed and move forward together. >> apparently mayor dave bing, the former basketball great and a good businessman before he was mayor says, and i will quote -- he blames the culture of victimization and entitlement for detroit's woes. i can write that large for the entire usa budget deficit but let's stick to detroit. is the mayor correct? >> i will leave mayor bing to stand for his own comments. i believe we need a healthy detroit and there is great opportunity in detroit just as there is opportunity all over the state. we are turning our state around. we want to help detroit turn around. that's how it needs to happen. we need to help detroit turn around. this is not something we wish to do to detroit. it's something we want to do with detroit. >> thank you, sir.

detroit is greece. if it was only the acropolis. dead city. people left because they couldn't make a living, the unions suffocate pod tenial. >> bob: true about toledo and cleveland and cincinnati? the northern cities that have had bleed of workers? >> eric: i will make a wage with you. now that snyder signs it off and right to work, i bet an auto company goes -- brand new, never done business before in detroit. >> kimberly: you will lose this bet, bob. >> eric: coming up, 2004 south korean singer rapped about killing americans in 2019 and is invited to perform for president obama. ♪ ♪ >> eric: maybe not. we will gangmam bang it out next. and make sure you go to the facebook page. we are updating and posting facebook.com/thefivefnc. click like. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: we're going to hell. the korean pop star performed at christmas in washington last night. joe biden took a picture with him thinking he's obama. he is the guy behind gangnam style is exposed for a song called "stare american" what which had him rap kill

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the mighty american league detroit tigers. you ready? the detroit tigers -- they are? audience: out of here! >> you never disappoint. here is my partner mike. >> well, we have become an organization of expertation. there's expectation when you win a championship in 2010 and there is expectation when you get in that ballpark everyday and it's over flowing with your love and affection and there is purity in the formula that this organization goes about trying to meet those standards of excellence. it starts with the fans of historians that we call investors that kept us here in san francisco and goes to the front office comprised of men and women dedicating their lives to this team and goes to baseball operations and the fierce -- the fierce, the ferocious drive of brian saibian and his staff and the most storied manager in san francisco giants history and his teachers and coaches and on to the training and medical staff, but inevitably it will always draw right on the backs of the men who have numbers on their backs. it's up to them to forge together a chemistry that al

detroit has become a travesty. it's an embarrassment. we have over 50% of the adult populationiteral functionally. it is a blight on america. it is sort of exhibit a in liberal policies that have destroyed this country. you can look at it in terms of social justice. issues like education choice and freedom in the workplace, which are social justice issues that have damaged that city because they've been denied those accountants. the more that detroit is allowed to crumble, the bigger shame it is for all of us. it's not about politics. it's not about blaming others. it's about principle. >> sean: to me it is about failed institutional, unholy relationship, labor and democratic party. labor gives them money, labor goes out and gets them elected, they build up deficits, labor gets big contracts. let me show you, for example, the americans for prosperity, they had a rally. listen to the labor protesters, typical he, we saw it all over wisconsin. watch how they react. >> [bleep]! [bleep]! >> zach, if you're not going to take on these unions a

detroit employment is 18%, almost 19%. does the city council -- does the city management have it under control? have you guys just lost control? >> we certainly have it lost control. we have it under control. but we have our issues. but we are not falling off into the detroit river. the community is doing well. the business community, the corporate community and the city of detroit. we don't have any vacancies for new young people that are trying to move into the downtown area. certainly municipal governance is broken. we have to become a better partner with our business community to fix some of the ills of detroit. but we know what the solutions are. we know what the problems are. we have, as political leaders, the political will to make the tough decisions to write the financial ship and become a better partner to help the corporate business community of detroit. gerri: if you are doing such a good job, why have you lost 25% of your population over the past decade? i will repeat that because i know you have technical iss

what does detroit need? detroit's in a terrible situation. >> absolutely. detroit is in a bad state of affairs. i mean, you're talking about a city that lost 25% of its population since 2000. >> greta: and apparently we've lost darren, so i guess that's the end. we're not going to get him back. let me turn to the panel and ask about that quid pro quo, whether or not it's illegal so our panel tonight is the weekly standard's john mccormick and the washington examiner's susan, first to you. any problem with the request? >> she can ask for it and many cities have received bailouts. in fact, there will be a number of big bailouts because the state run pensions are running out of money. they're all going to turn to the federal government to bail them out. i think that obama administration has set the tone that they will be there to bail people out. they bailed out general motors. they bailed out, you know, folks who couldn't pay their mortgages. they're helping people who can't pay for health insurance. i mean, the idea is that we can provide for people that can

beat two excellent teams to win the national league and go on to detroit and unfortunately with detroit with all due respect they didn't know what they were in for. [cheers and applause] you fans, this city, this organization, this team wants all of us, or tries to make all of us better men, better people, better husbands, better friends. larry alluded to it the life lessons watching these guys perform everyday and we have a phrase for it "feeding the beast". this game is a rugged game and like life you need to put a lot into it and they became teammates and competed like nobody has seen. i am humbled to be part of this. i am so happy for all our family and friends and this is why we do this, and you folks will be etched in time and in history as one of the greatest teams not only in san francisco history but in baseball. [cheers and applause] . you earned it and you couldn't have done it without a hall of fame manager and like you guys great things happen to great people. that's what happened to this team. as good as baseball players they are and as big as their accomplishments are the

>> yeah. >> this is detroit. it is horribly violent. >> not all these people live in detroit, though. >> it doesn't matter. trust me. >> you're very naive. the bottom line is, it's dangerous. it's dangerous. >> you know it is. >> yeah, i have to make money somehow. >> what we're trying to tell you is, there's got to be something better. you're 18. you know, you're out there essentially by yourself. you're a child, in our eyes because we're much older than you, and we're concerned about you. and we're just trying to encourage you to do something else. find something else where you're not going to be in jeopardy. >> keep going down that hallway. we're going to go out the back door here on the left. >> i'm finding more and more the youth this day and age is very much what we just saw with her. they think this is their only option, and a lot of kids these days are looking for the most money, the shortest route, the least effort. >> frustrated, the officers suspect they've made little progress with this headstrong tee

so detroit at one time had a million three people in it now has about seven hundred thousand people in it they've walked down the infrastructure size the municipal infrastructure size over the years but really hasn't been reduced enough to be able for the tax base to support it they're running the city budgets about a billion three and they're running about one hundred million dollars deficit this year they've been in a ballet with the state to get some proceeds of a bond offering that the state doesn't state did on their behalf but the city council's just been sort of playing games and i think the governor there is fed up with the situation snyder and they just passed in legislature a law that would. allow a municipality that's in distress like detroit to either choose an emergency manager go directly into chapter nine bankruptcy or do a couple of steps that would allow them to manage through the you know their fiscal stress so what do you think it's going to be do you think that they're more on the path towards bankruptcy or you think they can pull it together. it's really dire there

he was born poor in detroit and spent his life poor in detroit. in the late '60s, he cut a couple of records, and they got great reviews but went nowhere. what he didn't know, what no one in america knew, was that halfway around the world in south africa, he was more popular than elvis or the beatles. he'd never been there, and no one there knew anything about him. even when word spread that he had died, his records continued to sell. then, four years ago, a young swedish filmmaker heard about rodriguez, and decided to shoot a documentary about him. as bob simon discovered, the film is now captivating audiences across the country, and has been short-listed for an academy award. it's released by sony pictures classics and it's called "searching for sugar man." ♪ ♪ ♪ sugar man won't you help me ♪ because i'm tired of these scenes ♪ >> simon: the film shows rodriguez's old neighborhood in downtown detroit and the smoky bar where, back in the late '60s, he was discovered by dennis coffey, a legendary motown producer. >> dennis coffey: we tho

around you at an emergency in detroit? >> detroit has been in crisis for a long time. i think we should always try to work with the locally elected leaders first. my goal is not to run any particular city, it's to be a supportive partner. we've worked hard to strive to do that. we achieved results but now we aren't seeing the progress and we need to push ahead and get it resolved and better services to detroiters. >> i look at it from afar, because i don't live there, but 18.9% and it's been that way since 2008. it's been above that. like how long are you going to wait before something is going to be done in detroit? i imagine the people there are running out of patience because this is desperate. >> it's a 30-day review cycle. we get outside experts to come in and make evaluation of the stat us and from there we can look to the emergency manager options or other options and move forward. but we need the mayor and the city council to work together and get things done and 23 not we will take actions to take care of our residents of the state. >>> the unthinkable. syrian