outrunning the maps, the third army crossed the seine. in his words he was touring france with an army. he was everywhere at once. covering the great distances within his command. his use of light aircraft exemplified his eagerness to adopt any new means of increasing efficiency. throughout the 19th tactical air command of the 8th army air force gave him incredibly close support. the astounding advances went on and on. patton saw nothing in the way. he was ready to push on, into the heart of germany. struggling to keep up with his fast-moving front was a miraculous supply effort known as the red ball express. but now patton's supply lines were strained to the utmost. winter was approaching. other allied armies were feeling the pinch. the third was ordered to hold up, to take the defensive. nothing but defeat itself could have made the general more depressed. this was a difficult time for an army built to roll. he was assured by his old friend that the third would receive adequate supplies to resume what they had begun. patton urged his le

so to cash in last night i sat down with legendary author of "where the wild things are" maurice seineak and now the dramatic more of it. >> why write for children? >> i don't write for children. >> stephen: you don't? >> no, i write. and somebody says "that's for children." i didn't set out to make children happy. >> stephen: and now the story bookending of "grim colberty tales" with maurice sendak. what do you think of the current state of children's literature? >> abysmal. >> stephen: there's so much of it, though. >> that's what makes it abysmal. >> stephen: let's talk about some of your competition. give me your reviews. "green eggs and ham." >> good. >> stephen: green eggs and ham" good. >> everything by seuss is good. >> stephen: really. >> yes. >> stephen: give a mouth a cookie." >> mmeh. >> stephen: you shouldn't give a mouse a cookie. >> you should open the door saying "get the hell out of my house." >> stephen: curious george? >> great. >> stephen: i don't believe in monkeys in the house either. >> you don't like it? >> stephen: no, they throw their feces. the monkey will bi

on wednesday president thein sein called for national reconciliation in his independence day statement not mention the release of political prisoners. >>> the german president is refusing to resign felt a german newspaper accused him of trying to cover up a story about a loan scandal. the paper reported last month that in 2008 he received a low-interest loan before 500,000 euros or about $650,000 from the wife of a businessman. the loan at 4% interest rate was not illegal, but it was about 1% below market rate. he said on monday that the president called its editor and tried to stop publication of a report on the loan. "the daily" says that wulff later apologized. wulff became president with the strong endorsement of chancellor angela merkel. the scandal could be a major blow to merkel. she's trying to deal with the european debt crisis and gain cooperation from opposition parties. >>> most professional athletes retire by the time they reach 30, so it's unusual to find one who's still at it at age 40. we picked such an ageless wonder to start a three-day series on people and events we

he will meet president thein sein and prodemocracy leader aung san suu kyi during the two-day visit. britain is considering easing economic sanctions on myanmar if the country makes progress on democratization. the u.s. and japan is also trying to improve relations. u.s. secretary of state, hillary clinton, visited the country last november. the first u.s. secretary to do so in over 50 years. japanese foreign minister, koichiro gemba went there last month. >>> the european union is set to impose a ban on crude oil imports from iron. the eu has been considering the sanction since last year as a way to increase pressure on the country over its nuclear program. french foreign minister, allen jupay, told reporters on wednesday that eu foreign ministers will discuss a ban when they hold talks at the end of january. >> translator: i hope we will be able to adopt the measure on the embargo of oil and petrol from japan. >> the eu imports 450,000 barrels of screwed oil per day from iran, the second-largest market for the country's oil after china. greece and spain are against the proposed ban

on wednesday president thein sein called for national reconciliation in his independence day statement. he did not mention the release of political prisoners. >>> german media have accused president christian wulff of trying to suppress a story about a scandal involving a controversial loan that he made. the "bild" newspaper reported in december that wulff received a low-interest loan of about 500,000 euros, or about $650,000, from the wife of a businessman in 2008. although the loan at 4% interest was not illegal, it was about 1% below market rate. on monday "the bild" said the president called its editor and tried to stop publication of an article on the loan. the newspaper says wulff later apologized. wulff became the president with the strong endorsement of chancellor angela merkel. the scandal could be a major blow to merkel, who is trying to deal with the euro zone credit crisis and gain cooperation from opposition parties. >>> time to check on some of the stories we've gathered from broadcasters around asia. we begin with this item sent by mkot thailand. the thai government has

president obama named jeffrey seins as the acting budget chief.replaces jack lew who is becoming the new chief of staff. the federal deposit insurance corporation will require big banks to come up with plans to break up their asset in case they become in danger of failing. the so-called living wills are due in july. stocks were up today. the dow gained 60. s&p 500 finished ahead five. the nasdaq was up 17. some people are not happy about where the president will accept the party renomination this summer. up next, congress comes back to work. but will any work get done? i find the omega choices overwhelming. then i found new pronutrients omega-3. it's from centrum. it's a smaller minigel. with two of the best omegas to support my heart, brain and eyes. new pronutrients from centrum. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. r science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three y we've put nearly 100 millio

president obama named jeffrey seins as the acting budget chief.replaces jack lew who is becoming the new chief of staff. the federal deposit insurance corporation will require big banks to come up with plans to break up their asset in case they become in danger of failing. the so-called living wills are due in july. stocks were up today. the dow gained 60. s&p 500 finished ahead five. the nasdaq was up 17. some people are not happy about where the president will accept the party renomination this summer. up next, congress comes back to work. but will any work get >> bret: congress is about to go back to work but coming off what is said to be one of the least productive years in history. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us there is not an abundance of optimism about get things done. >> as congress starts the 2012 session, one of the first fight will be the one that ended 2011, extenting the payroll tax holiday, unemployment benefit and medicare doc fix for the rest of the year. senator row blount now member of the republican lea

iran's got something like 3,000 seine riff fines up and running. this uranium here because they need to create these radio isotopes used in treatment of cancer patients. they say that 800,000 patients need them so that's why they are doing it. the u.s. and other western countries thinks that that's not true, iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. they have slapped major sanctions on iran and iran has retaliate by threatening the u.s. and the rest of the world to close the strait of hormuz, which is a really big deal because something like 40% of the world's oil supply goes through these very narrow straits. kyra? >> zain verjee out of london us for. thanks. >>> missing military equipment, soldiers on one military base on lockdown until investigators get some answers. >>> and the red arrow diner is a required stop on the new hampshire campaign trail. we will talk with the own better most memorable candidates who have come by so far. ♪ you want to save money on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you wa

>> 2008 thein sein tore hillary clinton beat thein sein tore obama.won 14 of the delegates, she won 13. at the end of the day this is about delegates. we can talk about santorum winning iowa by 34 votes, 8 votes, whatever the number is. it doesn't matter. it comes down to delegates. most of the iowa delegates wasn't a woorded on that night. it's not that big of a deal. that's old news because now it's about south carolina. that will not be an issue when it comes to the debate. of course santorum will talk about it because he'll say i won the voters there in iowa but mitt romney's not going to worry about that. the key tonight is simply going to be how quickly will you see them go after romney and how does he handle the attacks? he is going to have to have much better answers than he had beforehand. now that rick perry's out, there's more time and you can't lean on rick perry screwing up. >> will? >> time. yeah, first of all on the santorum news, it's just north of inconsequential. doesn't impact the debate hardly at all. roland mentioned the key word,

can the government was not a bit over, large year, larger every year since but it gave people the seineem thought they were, a health care plan voted down by congress and democrats lost the house and senate in 1994. looking at the other end, george bush the elder, 1992, fought the gulf war, enormously high popularity ratings but there was a recession. people on his staff said use the state of the union to have understand how important this is perhaps declare an operation domestic storm, sort of like operation desert storm, to show people that you're going to make a huge effort to tackle these problems. accident do it and in retrospect, he felt he should have. >> you have one president, bill clinton, who spoke that night about what was a lot of concerns of a lot of americans, as he was facing re-election, the size of government and even though it didn't follow through exactly that way, he was able to corner that and connect and you have president bush number one who really ignored the economic hard times and talked about other thingses. >> i never felt that he could speak with that kind

. >>> thein sein tore jim demint has a new book out. for us. >>> look at the headlines with christine romans. >> good morning, soledad. the state department this morning warning american citizens in thailand about the possibility of terrorists targeting popular tourist areas in bangkok. comes after authorities arrested a terror suspect. the u.s. embassy says foreign terror suspects may be planning attacks in the future. >>> 1.5 hours from now joran van der sloot will learn how long he'll spend in prison. his sentencing comes one day after natalee holloway was officially declared dead. van der sloot, of course, has been the prime suspect in her disappearance in aruba in 2005. he's never been charged for that murder. >>> now rick perry getting his day in federal court. the texas governor is suing to get on the ballot for virginia's march 6th primary. he failed to get the 10,000 voter signatures required. newt gingrich, rick santorum, jon huntsman also failed to qualify. they have joined perry's lawsuit. >>> comedy central steven colbert i

republican, seine. good morning. caller: yes, good morning. i'm getting sick and tired of how someone just mentions ron paul's name and you show a video of someone talking down about ron paul when he's the only one for decades that's making sense. the media is ignoring him. reading newspaper articles. they're talking about other people, except for ron paul. the thing about walking on ice. but nothing really about what he's saying. he's so greatly ignored. it's ridiculous. it's disgusting. it's beyond disgusting. it's ridiculous. thanks. >> from south carolina, the stop after new hampshire. glen's a democrat. caller: how are you doing? >> doing fine. caller: thanks for c-span. the only thing i have to say is every president running on the republican side, nobody wants to consider the fact that he was in office, his name never gets mentioned in none of this stuff because you think of the eight years in which he was in office, every one of those candidates supported him and his policies. they supported the war that went on in iraq, which was ille

at a time when our nation seine gaged in soul-searching about the demise of the middle class, the consumer bureau and labor board have become particularly essential. these agencies are tasked with the vital responsibility of standing up for consumers and workers against wall street and powerful corporations. indeed, the true significance of the debate over the president's recess appointments is not about legislative or executive power or the meaning of a pro forma session, but the true significance is about whether we will let the powerful and well-connected use the political process to rig the system or if, instead, we will enact and enforce laws that give workers a fighting chance at a decent middle-class life. as a centerpiece of the dodd-frank bill to rein in the recklessness on wall street, the idea behind the consumer bureau is simple: we need a cop on the beat looking out for the best interests of dishiewrms use financial products -- interests of consumers that use financial products you just as we have regulators looking out for the banks, the f.d.a. looking out for the safety of d

also this hour viggo morten seine will be here to talk about his new role playing sigmund freud. >> iyone. please excuse my voice. sounds worse than it is. we have active weather. if you're going to be doing any air travel the worst of it is around laguardia, new york city. gusty winds, heavy rain moving out in the next hour. then we'll watch boston possibly with the heavy rain as we go throughout the mid morning. the green on the map is the radar. all of the heavy rain now. folks from new york city northward, extreme northern new england reports as much as 4 to 5 inches of snow just north of albany, new york. many areas of new hampshire, maine, and vermont will pick up 3 to 6 inches later on tonight. so the forecast today, actually mild. the cold air doesn't arrive until the weekend. we'll also watch snow exiting st. louis heading for areas like peoria and chicago. chicago by later on tonight and tomorrow morning you'll end up with 3 to 6 inches of snow yourself. the first snowstorms of the season for you. we have winter weather finally and this upcoming weekend does look a little ch

but i think the recent famous collaboration between susan collins and kingston jalabert and in the seine-- senate watching the grid lock you said is they give it to us and they are coming out of the monthly senate dinner they give it to us we can get it done and go home. so i think there's an expectation. it's almost a challenge to the women and i think they say we know how to do this. we know how to set the other stuff aside. some of it comes from motivation but a lot of it comes in our state legislatures because in the 2012 project that we are focused on state legislators in congress and the women in the state legislature's they will tell you they go out in the hall, they grab somebody from the other party and say let's fix this. they are purposeful and in a different way, and it has to do with substance and just getting the job done. and it's funny because it comes in part from women's multitasking. it's not the only thing they have to do. they've got to get it done and get on with the