who is honus...wagner? no idea. let me see that. that's a honus wagner autograph... hall of famer? look at this ball! yeah, found that at a yard sale. i thought pickles would like it. [ dog barks ] that a new car jerry? yeah... sweet, man. [ male announcer ] the audi a8. named best large luxury sedan. ♪ ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody, my guest tonight is a legendary magician who i hope can put back together the intern i saw in half. please welcome david copperfield! ( cheers and applause ) hey, good to see you. welcome to show, sir. >> thank you so much. >> stephen: now you're not just any magician. are you an illusionist of over 30 years. you walked through the great wall of china. you flew over grand canyon. you went over niagara in a raft. >> i did. >> stephen: you were declared a living legend by the library of congress. you have been knighted by the french. over 20 emmys. a star on the hollywood walk of fame. >> thank you. >> stephen: and you have just been named the first-ever king of magic and magician of the century by american s

who is honus...wagner? no idea. let me see that. that's a honus wagner autograph... the hall of famer? look at this ball! yeah, found that at a yard sale. i thought pickles would like it. [ dog barks ] that a new car jerry? yeah... sweet, man. [ male announcer ] the audi a8. named best large luxury sedan. ♪ >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thanks very much. nation, all week wall street has been under siege by a protest called "occupy wall street," a self-described leaderless resistance movement which intends to occupy wall street for months. because if there's one thing new yorkers never ignore, it's people sleeping in a park. the protest started on the web site ad busters, which declares "once there we shall incessantly repeat our one simple demand until barack obama capitulates." and what is their one simple demand? well, in a blog post entitled "hey, president obama, get ready for our one demand," they state, "we will beat our drums, chant our slogans and then we'll get down to business and hold several people's assemblies to decide what our one demand will be

who is honus...wagner? no idea. let me see that. that's a honus wagner autograph... the hall of famer? look at this ball! yeah, found that at a yard sale. i thought pickles would like it. [ dog barks ] that a new car jerry? yeah... sweet, man. [ male announcer ] the audi a8. named best large luxury sedan. ♪ >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight believes 50 years from now we'll all be using solar power. polar bears, how long can you tread water? please welcome daniel yergin. [cheering and applause] hey, mr. yergin. thanks so much for coming on. all right, sir, you're one of the most influential voices in the world of energy, and your new book is "the quest: energy security and the remaking of the modern world." okay. will we remake the modern world with new fuels or new forms because there's plenty of oil out there, isn't there? >> well, there is oil. we're not running out of oil. people talk about peak oil and say it's going to run out, but in fact we've run out of oil at least five times. the first time is the 1880s. now here we are in the 21st centu

it was ready for the next step -- hiring a conductor. [ richard wagner's "pilgrim's chorus" plays ] among the candidates were two renowned europeans and one american, henry hadley, the music director of the fledgling seattle symphony. >> so that was most significant, that the symphony would choose as its first conductor an american and also a composer, someone associated with what was then contemporary music. all these things were very forward in their thinking. >> he wasn't a big-name conductor, but he was very, very good. i think he was a perfect choice to get this orchestra off the ground. >> ♪ baba-dooba-daba ♪ swing big ♪ ee-ba-daba-dooba-daba ♪ swiig >> narrator: when he arrived in october, henry hadley went to work immediately, charming the city's downtown association and making a whirlwind tour of theaters and cafés to find the best musicians san francisco had to offer. >> people made music live, which means that a city like san francisco had bands and musicians everywhere. >> they worked in hotels. they worked in restaurants. they worked in theaters. they worked in bars. all thos

, don't do that, this man is serving our country and we are to thank him for his service. >> alex wagnerr he heard them or not. i was in presidential debates in '04. i heard everything in the audience, but notwithstanding that, the fact that none of them responded, all of them can't say they didn't hear it. they certainly heard it in the last debate the whole booing and reaction about an unshe had 30-year-old dying -- >> right. >> and we heard it in the first debate when they cheered -- when brian williams was just raising the question about 234 people executed under governor rick perry. perry hadn't even got to the answer, just the question, they started cheering. >> right. >> has this party gone so far to the right that they -- i mean, off the cliff to the right, that they are not concerned about the moral tone you're sending to whether voters support you or not? there's a level of civility that people should have at this level of political engagement? >> i do think that it's pretty shocking the reactions we have seen from the crowd in the last few debates. you know, it's almost like t

wagner injected the dog's paws with stem cells. the cells are like blank slates here and can grow into any kind of tissue. once treated, bernie's scorched paws started to regrow their skin and at record speed. now more surprising, the paws show no signs of scar tissue. the vet cannot determine, though, how much of a role the stem cells played in bernie's recovery, but they will conducts more research. >>> we hope you had a great holiday weekend. the workweek is starting tomorrow. let's see how our forecast is shaping up with jeff ranieri. >> yeah, it looks pretty nice. we'll see a decent spike in companies as we head especially throughout tuesday and wednesday. right now in san francisco, 63. a little fog, but it's getting compressed down as we see winds coming more out of a drier direction, out of the northwest at 25 miles per hour. if but want more heat back like we had throughout friday and saturday of last week, you are in luck. as we look at oakland, mainly clear skies. now, a temperature of 65 degrees. otherwise, dropping her

. >> joining us now, msnbc political analyst and "huffington post" reporter alex wagner. alex, the democratic spin is out there. just like when scott brown won that senate seat, teddy kennedy's seat in massachusetts, the democratic spin including from wasserman-schultz, oh, the democratic candidate was weak and it wasn't scott brown is a message that we are in serious trouble in the upcoming election which it turned out to be. >> right. on some level you could understand they don't want to say, hey, we really messed up, this is a big defeat and it's a big problem. >> oh, why not? come on. no, that's a good point. they have to spin. that's their job. >> what i've heard from certain congressional aides is, look, behind the scenes they know it's a big deal and wake-up call. the alarm bell is ringing. on a certain level, thank god it's 14 months before the election. i think you have two things going on here. one are the democratic voters who are using this as a message delivery system. president obama, we are not happy with the economy -- >> can anyone understand this as a me

and strauss, wagner, things like that. had the pleasure and privilege of studying in the learning something that is -- you are 5 years old and hearing your grandmother in the kitchen, singing herself through the day. she would sing as my mother and her sisters would sing themselves through whatever occupation they're taking their time. it was clear to me, hundreds of songs were created by people that had to have some sort of relief. there had to be something that takes them from where they were to where they would prefer to be. and to ignore this part of my heritage would be heresy. and of course i sang dozens of songs of schubert and the operas and all of these things. i love them and i will do them at the drop of a hat. but i was not born austrian or german. my roots are from africa. and i do not have any reason for not wanting to celebrate that. and every time that i can, how like to mention it. just to keep people knowing exactly what is going on. my french is pretty good, but i am still african. >> what is the value,

>> well, i think we've got to go, but thank you both, alex wagner and david corn. thank you very much. >> sure thing is there we'll be right back. >> thanks, rev. on a beach? on a mountain? or wherever you happen to be... the first step on that road may well be... a bowl of soup. delicious campbell's soups fill you with vegetable nutrition, farm-grown ingredients, energy, and can help you keep a healthy weight. putting you on the road to happiness. bon voyage. campbell's -- it's amazing what soup can do. >>> rick perry's in nrew york city for some fund-raising, but he wasn't hanging with donald trump last night. he was with congressman charles rangel. what's that all about? he'll tell us next. somewhere in america, a city comes to life. it moves effortlessly, breathes easily. it flows with clean water. it makes its skyline greener and its population healthier. all to become the kind of city people want to live and work in. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest questions. and the over sixty thousand people of siemens are ready to

who is honus...wagner? no idea. let me see that. that's a honus wagner autograph... the hall of famer? look at this ball! yeah, found that at a yard sale. i thought pickles would like it. [ dog barks ] that a new car jerry? yeah... sweet, man. [ male announcer ] the audi a8. named best large luxury sedan. ♪ >>> pilots deployed the evacuation chute after reports. a possible engine fire. the passenger included supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. they slid down the chutes. firefighters found no problem with that plane. but still a very scary situation if you're a passenger and you're having to get out in an emergency. >>> and it used to be used for everything from cereal to soft drinks. even in lunch meat. now high fructose corn syrup has become subject of a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit. it is big corn versus big sugar, you might say with the sugar industry suing corn makers over a name change, after studies suggested corn syrup is a leading cause of obesity. the corn refiners association asked permission from the fda to actually change the name to corn su

joining me now is alex wagner, reporter for "the huffington post" and msnbc analyst. how you doing, alex. >> how you doing, reverend? pretty good. >> let's look at this wbur boston poll, if the election were held today according to them, scott brown would be at 44%, elizabeth warren 35% and don't know 18%. that's pretty formidable coming in. >> considering she hasn't actually announced yet and considering as recently as a few months ago scott brown's popularity was something like 74%. >> right. >> i think that, you know, elizabeth warren, as you said, has no shortage of detracto but there are a lot of people i think and as the bostonians and massachusetts residents come to get to better know her who understand what she's doing, and i think she is not -- she has not minced words. she is someone that absolutely sees herself as an advocate for the working and the middle class. she's very much trying to give them a seat at table, and her work at the consumer financial protection bureau is evidence of that. >> now, she's going to have to have a primary first, even to be th

paul wagner with more on the story. paul. >> brian, in late july, john hinckley asked to go to virginia for two visits of 17 days and six visits of 24 days. the request included six unaccompanied outings in which the secret service would not be notified in advance. a request prosecutors say would be denied. >> in its 13 page argument filed with the court this afternoon, prosecutors scold st. elizabeth's hospital for not keeping up with its recordkeeping, writing, the hospital appears to have stopped documenting the interviews that conducts with hinkley, and his siblings after every visit. moreover, the hospital was unable to produce notes from any staff member who may have attended those interviews. john hinkley was found not guilty by reason of insanity by the assassination of ronald reagan. he stopped reagan before opening fire with a .22 caliber handgun. reagan was wounded along with three others. he has been confined to st. elizabeth ever since with court approved visits to see his mother in williamsburg. prosecutor

thank you, alex wagner, thank you, david. it's no vice, and now frank rich is calling for president obama to get tough, move to the left, or risk defeat, because the other side is definitely getting ideological. this is "hardball," only on msnbc. in america, we believe in a future that is better than today. since 1894, ameriprise financial has been working hard for their clients' futures. never taking a bailout. helping generations achieve dreams. buy homes. put their kids through college. retire how they want to. ameriprise. the strength of america's largest financial planning company. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you, one-to-one. together, for your future. ♪ >>> here's a shocking number. 81%, that's the number of americans who say they're dissatisfied with the way the country's being kbomgoverned. 81%. more than eight in ten, that's an all-time record high. that tells you what the mood of the country is and is reflected in that number. a whopping 92% of republicans and two-thirds of democrats are in that number

thank you, alex wagner, thank you, david. next up, barry goldwater said it's no vice, and now frank rich is calling for president obama to get tough, move to the left, or risk defeat, because the other side is definitely getting ideological. this is "hardball," only on msnbc. >>> here's a shocking number. 81%, that's the number of americans who say they're dissatisfied with the way the country's being governed. 81%. more than eight in ten, that's an all-time record high. that tells you what the mood of the country is and is reflected in that number. a whopping 92% of republicans and two-thirds of democrats are in that number. everybody hates somebody anyway, we'll be right back. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you're already on or eligible for medicare, cal

who is honus...wagner? no idea. let me see that. that's a honus wagner autograph...he hall of famer? look at this ball! yeah, found that at yard sale. i thought pickles would like it. [ dog barks ] that a new car jerry? yeah... sweet, man. [ male announcer ] the audi a8. named best large luxury sedan. ♪ >> good evening i'm florida governor rick scott. because of florida's diversity our state represents the pulls of our nation. not only will florida be a must win for a republican to be our party's nominee it is a must-win on the road to the white house. it is my belief the next president will be the candidate to articulate a plan for getting the economy back on the right track and inspire confidence in the hearts and minds of all americans. good luck to all the candidates. this debate is the partnership of fox news and google. i thank the men and women of fox news and google for choosing florida. and thank all of you for being part ever this exciting event. >> thank you governor scott. welcome back to orlando, florida and the republican presidential debate. my colleag

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was the big attraction at the event in fifth general secretary john wagner also paid a working visit to surround which is pleading to become one of the cities to host the twenty eighteen world cup newly crowned world athletics champions were also on hand with looking great and it's going to speaking in glowing terms about the idea . that most good estates in the bylaws of the i think events like this are really helpful because those people produce a precinct and share their knowledge and experience and outlets also come to meetings like this so you can see them in person rather than on the t.v. or magazine covers and people can take photos. autographs and also learn a language two three hundred. five years and finally to qualify for next summer's european football championships there won't be a single russian referee at the tournament studio lack of trained officials to resolve this one of the game's most respected referees or that us at sea has been brought in to raise standards before russia hosts the world cup in twenty eighteen and he spoke exclusively to r.t. . the target is to

. >> hi, i am elliott wagner. i have a store on west portal.ave been there about 30 years, and i am really strongly opposed to this current version of the west portal dbd. i can think about my opposition. one, i believe it was developed with insufficient community outreach. to the local merchants, property owners, and residents. basically, west portal had one landlord meeting and one merchant meeting, and it was presented to us almost like a fennel -- final document, not really with input to either of those cribs at that time. the othercbd's had five, six, or seven meetings. the others did multiple surveys of both merchants, people on the street, and lambeau boards. i believe the yearly costs are really disproportional compared to the size of others. the number of blocks and number of parcels, the valley is twice the size of west portal, and yet its budget is only 17% or 18% greater. i have asked numerous times, i came up with a magical figure of to wonder thousand dollars, but we have not been able to do it. i am in favor of this. i think it c

team in that opening call stage match and as richard wagner had reports now the russians are going to have their work cut out if they want to become the first world cup debut turns to win again. tuesday's much of it really remains russia's best hope of winning a game is tournament opening day defeat to the united states however this is going to be a tall order as the italians one of world rugby is more established nations but there's opponents of a wholesale changes of match at russia's coach he. still expects a very tough encounter. it's everything whether tournaments have thirty players at their disposal and i don't think outearning some of them will change anything significantly in fact if we use a few players from the bench it might well be beneficial for us as replacements want to prove that they deserve a place in the starting line up. because of the italian strength is definitely a pack i'm a scrum is one area where russia particularly weak and a lot of them burns will be getting his first ball cap for the bears and he says this is an area where russia will have to watch out. p

german and london she is a national conveyor of stop the war coalition in denver we cross to daniel wagner he is c.e.o. of country wrists aleutians and in toronto we go to eric margolis he is an award winning journalist and author of war at the top of the world the struggle for afghanistan and asia all right folks this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first let's look at some of the challenges facing the new libya. following six months of a rocky battle the grip the world's attention the arab spring has produced another significant outcome the toppling of libya's comes out in may have come as a surprise to almost everyone now the least of which were the rebels who fought the forty two year regime. but as the victory fanfare settles libyans are facing a far more trying challenge that of proving they can create an alternative to conduct his rule when the stonewall poor working locals to. the local civil society is. so starting from zero point. four. in this situation the country's transitional council has been lobbying foreign governme

many cases took that money in other cases gave people free passes >> tollway inspector general jim wagner says in one case to a worker doing this for years stealing more than $7,000. >> very disturbing to anybody not going to where they should be going >> illinois tollway executive director says there are about 500 toll collectors and the chicago area and the scantily and bought a few bad apples management wants to be sure customers are aware of what happened. >> show that they do have comfort and knowledge that there are people looking out for their best interest to make sure that the money is collected turned in the way it is supposed to be >> management became suspicious after unusually high number of poughkeepsie vehicles reported to have passed through the toll. going on for quite some time at the working with management and inspector general office been able to identify cases where people were stealing from the tollway and our customers and we will not tolerate that >>-story for the illinois tollway but in all fairness came to the media first with the information not the other way r

who is honus...wagner? no idea. let me see that. th's a honus wagner autograph...amer? look at this ball! yeah, found that at a yard sale. i thought pickles would like it. [ dog barks ] that a new car jerry? yeah... sweet, man. [ male announcer ] thaudi a8. named best large luxury sedan. ♪ the healthcare law gives us powerful tools to fight it... to investigate it... ...prosecute it... and stop criminals. our senior medicare patrol volunteers... are teaching seniors across the country... ...to stop, spot, and report fraud. you can help. guard your medicare card. don't give out your card number over the phone. call to report any suspected fraud. we're cracking down on medicare fraud. let's make medicare stronger for all of us. jenna: welcome back, everyone. we have a fox news alert out of germany today where we're hearing reports on this horrific train collision. rick, what do we know about this? >> reporter: sort of a chain reaction in germany, a car hits a van and pushes it right onto railroad tracks where a commuter train barreling right through slams into the va

and he loves to tell the story-- that while i was playing the introduction he turned to wolfgang wagner, the then boss and he said "i don't know about the singer" he says "but the kid i want." and so i became his assistant and i became his assistant for six years. >> rose: and what did you carry away from that experience? >> well, as a musician and as a conductor and like i... still at that poi this was in 1992 i had no idea... 1986, excuse me. i had no idea that i wanted to conduct or anything. but i knew i wanted to learn and he caught me how to learn. i think in every field you have to learn how to learn. how to absorb the material. how the look at a piece of music and see what's really there. what it's potential is. how do you bring it to life. because music is just a piece of paper until you play it. >> rose: tell me whathe taught you about how to learn? >> well, there were different things that you take into consideration when you look at a piece of music. obviously wtern music we're all attracted to the melody line. but the melody line is supported by so many other thing, the mov

mike 2 run bomb off wagner. rangers explode late and win it 13-4.by 54 points heavy favorite this we can. at duke. stanford takes on blue devil team coming off a loss to tiny richmond. cardinal has 3 touch down favorites. huge mismatch on paper but luck says the cardinal can't overlook anybody. >> that's how every team has to view it. then we try to worry maybe a little more about how we are going to approach a game mentally as opposed to how our opponent approaches the game. i watch the defense. good defense an maybe the game wasn't indicative of how strong unit they have back there. >> mane while new pack 12 member colorado. bears coming off victory over fresno state. day but for zack would was really jitter early on. head coach says he will be tested in the first road start. >> i'm sure it's louder. and bolder. louder there so that's just get used to the hlingts and xun indication and all the things. growing pains young guys go through when they get in a different environment. >> how goodies rafael? he played roddick in the u.s. open did and rodd

thank you, alex wagner. people don't go in the voting booth to be strategic. you may both be wrong.hen we return, let me finish with what's missing in america today. our national soul. >>> let me finish tonight with a phrase you don't hear these days, war effort. it's when a country gets together in common purpose to support a war. not everyone is at the front. some are in the support of the fighting forces, some are back home doing work that speeds the victory, some are stars out there selling war bonds, millions more are buying the bonds are accepting rationing or higher taxes, all in it together, hoping for our forces to carry the day, doing our bit. this spirit captured that phrase is as sparring to us now as the old newsreels at the movie theater. i wonder if this is the feeling that's missing in this country today, the sense of common cause of being in this thing together and being willing to accept the burden as well as the freedoms and familiar joys of what is a uniquely american life. i wonder on these days of this thing missing in america today is america itself, that amer

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say with someone like wagner, all his early works like men doll son, they're all mixed together and then suddenly when he's 40 years old he does something which has never been done before, in particular a dominant music always resolves but he opens with a dominant seventh which is the resolution, this sounds tiny but it was unprecedented. this would open the door to muse chick i wait. >> you make a point and that is, in addition to have having ideas selecting a problem, you have to have competence. and one of the ways that developing competence and s learning the task. >> chuck has this great comment about how you made more decon anythings than dedecon ng, right? >> i said it's very nice to meet somebody who's made a few more de kooning's than i. >> but it's also greatness because unless the newness contains it's not going to achieve the stature. >> when was free to do anything i wanted to, do i did the same things over and over d over. once i constructed a situation in which i couldn't do certain things, i found that those limitations rather than con strinting me and rather than limitin

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. >> when we look back at the works of beethoven and mozart and verdi and wagner so many themes in their works were about heroism and bravery and valor and courage. that what was at the core of this story. i was inspired by that. >> reporter: the story and the opera end with attack on the world trade center. where the hero was in charge of security for morgan stanley. when the first tower was attacked he calmed 2700 employees, kept them orderly and let them down more than 50 flights of stairs to safety. singing as he went. but he wanted to be sure no one was left behind. so he went back into the building just before the second plane hit the south tower. he was never heard from again. james stewart wrote about those events first for the new yorker and then in a book heart of a soldier which inspired the opera. stewart sees the hero's decision to reenter the building as almost inevitable. >> it's amazing to me that in that moment you see like the culmination of everything that he had lived for, experienced and believed in. he could have emerged a hero. he would have been hailed from one en