with so much to do, there is no zimbabwe you can resist. >> stephen: you're welcome, bobby.e right back. going to need today? three...four cups? [dumbfounded] well, we... doesn't last long does it? listen. 5-hour energy lasts a whole lot of hours. so you can get a lot done without refills. it's packed with b-vitamins and nutrients to make it last. so don't just stand there holding your lattes, boys. make your move. we'll take the 5-hour energy. smart move. 5-hour energy. hours and hours of energy. ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you. my guest tonight is an acclaimed actor, best known for playing hawkeye on "mash." i'll ask him why he didn't reprize his role in "the avengers." please with with with wit welco. hey, alan, nice to see you. thanks so much for coming on. i am a huge fan and deeply disturbed by your entire career. >> oh, is that what it it? oh, my gosh. >> stephen: yes. >> i'm sorry. >> stephen: you are a famous liberal. >> i think independently, and-- and thinking it through carefully and weighing everything, i come down on the

with so much to do, there is no zimbabwe you can resist. >> stephen: you're welcome, bobby.e right back. ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you. my guest tonight is an acclaimed actor, best known for playing hawkeye on "mash." i'll ask him why he didn't reprize his role in "the avengers." please with with with wit welco. hey, alan, nice to see you. thanks so much for coming on. i am a huge fan and deeply disturbed by your entire career. >> oh, is that what it it? oh, my gosh. >> stephen: yes. >> i'm sorry. >> stephen: you are a famous liberal. >> i think independently, and-- and thinking it through carefully and weighing everything, i come down on the democratic side. >> stephen: really? why don't you stop thinking and start feeling. >> well, that would be a good way to do it. >> stephen: are you against feeling? you're an actor. actor's feel. >> that's true. many times we do. ( laughter ). >> stephen: people-- people want to feel so badly they go, like, to the theater or they go to the movies and they pay money to see people like you feel so

there have been strikes, many of them violent in zimbabwe and south right now. robert mugabi is trying to take control of the mines. so platinum is very problematic as well. >> it seems to me but i'm somewhat ignorant -- that solar power would be the cleanest power. maybe wind also but the wind mills are a problem. why is that not being developed and used more? >> the problem with solar power is twofold. one, the sun isn't out at night. so we need a way to store the sun power during the day so that it's available at night. and that technology is still imperfect. so we have to develop much more efficient batteries or other storage systems so that during the daytime, you can produce electricity, or heat, and keep it overnight to produce electricity. so a lot of research going on in that. people have found you can heat liquid salt and it retains its heat and you can use that at night to generate electricity, for example. but it's still imperfect. the other problem with solar power is that the strongest sources of it are in the desert. and there are no electric tran

. >>> finally, beauty won't get you so far at one pageant in zimbab zimbabwe. the winner is crowned mr. ugly. the title went to 37-year-old man named ugliest of them all. one him $100 in prize money and two nights stay at a hotel. he said his wife was on his case about needing more money for food so he entered the contest. i would bet that is not exactly what she had in mind. >> now she has the ugliest husband. >> i don't know if she's proud about that, but she has $100. i'm sure she's excited about that part. >>> early look at stories we'll follow throughout the day here on nbc. the scripps national spelling bee begins with a preliminary round. ranging from ages 6 to 15, the contestants hail from all 50 states. the 6-year-old participant is the youngest speller in the history of the competition. >>> on this day 90 years ago in 1992, the lincoln memorial was dedicated in a ceremony attended by president warren g. harding. former president and then chief justice william howard taft and robert todd lincoln, the president's first son. >>> and country singer winona

. >> we've been to haiti, ecuador, fiji, maldova, we've been to nigeria, zimbabwe, uganda.his last trip, we were in kenya, and they weren't using any of the other bee products. they were just using the honey. >> the someburu are cousins to the masterai , they've got a fe goats,camels. their bees happen to be more aggressive than ours. >> kept bees for millennia. thousands and thousands of years. >> a lot of them, they still used the log hives. those hives they usually harvest just once a year, because they were so high in the trees. >> very traditional method of beekeeping is to take a log hive, populate it with bees, pull out all the honey and brood, usually take the honey and eat it. and that's not really beekeeping, to my mind. >> so the gentleman that comes to introduce and visit us and say something about your group. [ speaking foreign language ] >> we gathered everyone here this morning, because we needed to begin at the beginning, just to go back to basics. >> so with we'll start, who is in the boo hive? there are three characters in the beehive. >> and we tried to t

botswana and namibia and south africa initially, and i think zimbabwe is included as well. >> as being allowed to expy we their ivory stocks in a one-off sale. the most recent one was those four countries. and they were allowed to sell to only two countries of which china was one and japan was the other.d china in fact came on b at the last minute. they applied to be given that special buyers status. >> who signed off on that? who granted that permission? >> that was granted by the standing committee of the cites convention, i believe. >> so cites, in effect, cites has the ability to come back and reverse that, doesn't it? >> i don't know that they do. >> i'm asking cites. >> since we have cites here, secretary general, since cites relaxed it, could cites tighten it up again? >> thank you, chair, yes. the ban was put in place in 1989. there were two what were called one-off sales. they have been completed. so the ban on the legal trade in ivory remains in place. there were two what i call one-off sales because they were for existing stockpiles. it was approved by the conference of the

botswana, libya and south africa initially and then i think zimbabwe is included as well. >> as being allowed to export it? >> they were allowed to sell their ivory stocks in one sale. the most recent one was four countries, and they were allowed to sell to only two countries, china was one and thailand the other. they applied to be given that special biostatus. >> who signed off on that? who granted that permission? >> that was granted by the standing committee of the cites convention, i believe. >> so cites, in effect, cites has the ability to come back and reverse that, doesn't it? >> i don't know that they do. i think it's all in the hands of the parties. >> since we have cites here, secretary general, since cites relaxed it, can cites implement it again. >> the ban on the little trade in ivory remains in place. there were two, what i called one of sales because they were for existing stockpiles. it was approved by the conference of the parties and then there was only approved in terms of sales to two states, as stated, japan and china. if trade were to be reopened it would requir

in zimbabwe we want to intervene in korea while along to starting to sound a lot like sarkozy analysts some. doubt that there may be no real teeth to such rhetoric this time around just turning that he would only act. in mandate. it is nothing nothing because we go to. china and russia. we can be sure that they can do anything as far as french people are concerned they don't care about foreign policy they'd rather their new president do something to put out the economic far in their own backyard first and foremost yes or sylvia r.t. brussels. so i have very this hour here on r t a fact or fiction r.t. speaks the author of an article which accuses the u.s. and south korea of deep level surveillance and north korea even parachuting and spies to report battle on underground military facilities. voters in ireland head to the polls today in a referendum to decide whether or not to approve the european union's fiscal treaty driven by germany it kind of urgently plan straight to sandra e.u. control of the national budgets of member states who have signed up but opponents see it as a permanent

in zimbabwe. when you talk about 64%, i don't want to -- i don't sound too harsh, but that's ridiculous. to have results, you need to have an election. it is not just a mechanical process of putting a paper in a box. you need to have candidates to have an election. bokosky not registered, over 20 political parties were unregistered between 2007 and 2011. that's not an election when you can't go and vote for the opposition. when all you see on national tv is putin and a little bit of medvedev, that's not a free election, that's not a campaign. that's not a choice. so let's not talk about elections and results. the last more or less anything comparable to an election in russia was on the federal level in 1990 and towel when putin's official result was 52% and the moscow times investigation showed there were numerous cases of ballot stuffing in the region. even then he will didn't get a majority. because competitors weren't allowed on the ballot. you ask why people think he's not going to last out hi

these groups that rate freedom of the press rate us below guinea and iraq and zimbabwe was the other one. singaporeans aren't killing one another, this is a stable society, as long as the media operate within certain constraints, so be it. singapore is a very small place. but that seems to be -- this seems to be a view out there, certainly in the far east, that you can develop your economy, moving people in larger asian countries like the ones that rebecca covered by the tens to hundreds of millions out of rural poverty, is more important than having an argument about which person should be running which provincial government. we don't need your -- your ideas are culture-bound. what's our answer to that argument? >> well, i think the episode you describe was really i think the highlight of the conference, as you can imagine. in free speech in the united states, free press begins not at the very beginning when the first amendment is put in in the 18th century in the constitution, but in 1919. no supreme court case in the united states until 1919. and at that moment, three cases come t

in zimbabwe we want to intervene in north korea while all along to starting to sound a lot like sarkozy some analysts point out that there may be no real teeth to such rhetoric this time around telling that he will only act with a u.n. mandate. it is. nothing nothing because though the. china and russia. we can be sure that he can he can do anything and as far as french people are concerned they don't care about the point but you see they'd rather their new president do something to put out the economic fire in their own backyard first and foremost tesser cilia r.t. brussels it's a good to have you with us here on r t today and still ahead for you in this program fact or fiction we speak with the author of an article which accuses the u.s. and south korea of deep level surveillance in north korea or even or a shooting in spies to report back on alleged underground military facilities. and president putin makes his first trip abroad since his recent inauguration heading for better or worse after ditching the g eight summit earlier this week. it's ten past here in moscow voters in ireland

so, whatever people are learning in zimbabwe about wildlife protection or in australia, it's borne out of roosevelt's presidency, this sense of global wildlife protection. >> how often in your research for this book did you go away from either a conversation or a place and say, boy, they haven't been doing their job? >> on the ground you mean at the -- >> just about -- i mean, how -- did you ever get irritated by the attitude that somebody had in research or one of these federal agencies that keep all this stuff or libraries, or do you think -- what kind of mark do you give them? >> i give them an "a" across the board about being open because not that many people are writing about the history of wildlife protection or the history of conservation as you might think. and so for me to come in, having written a number of books and say i'm interested in your collection, they like it a little less so at yellowstone or so yosemite because they've been written about a lot. but if you go to crater lake national park, every person should go to crater lake in oregon, spectacular, the most dazzlin

spending more and more money you know france already proves that doesn't work i think we've seen zimbabwe not i for inflation it's but we've also seen japan you know japan has debt to g.d.p. ratio two hundred percent saying and others keep saying well you know nothing's gone has got wrong yet but the point is is yet in a mere one percent rise in interest rates in japan literally consume one hundred percent of government revenues so. soon and all these economists out there manc you they're all like they have an academic background they look at academics for most of their it's wonderland economy so they think that we can spend our way out of the problem when spending is the problem and the fed then reacts to that creates these boom bust cycles of ever increasing amplitude and they say oh well we need to lower interest rates where we are down zero in japan it didn't work and we're now at zero and the united states certainly hasn't created any jobs or and i wasn't sure hadn't and i want to get to that point a little bit later but i do want to stay on this argument about austerity in europe an

he's the president -- former president of zimbabwe, robert mugabe, the same guy who has been called onemost brutal dictators on earth. how is it he has this honor bestowed upon him? >> not very bright, was it? this is the world tourism organization. he was given this -- well, look, let's keep it in context. this is not a very exclusive list of people who have this open letter as it is. basically the leader of countries is given an open letter in which they will support tourism for the good of their people. there's a whole bunch of countries that have this, dozens of them, in places like myanmar, too. but was it a good idea? no. i mean, really. mugabe? this is not a nice guy, not running his country in a way that benefits these people one little bit. so you would think that this was probably a bad idea. >> do you think it's a little -- they're throwing him a bone to try to help him change? >> it could be partly that. again, let's be fair, the head of the human rights commission was there just last week and she was pushing for the lifting of sanctions against zimbabwe or at least some of

and we did it with zimbabwe. i don't think it works. they steal from their people and from a humanitarian perspective it doesn't get to the people. the leaders eal it. but in this case it's insulting to the people to send it to the pakistani regime who is threatening christians in execution, threatening this man with 33 years in prison. my question to president obama's administration is where is the $50 million ransom you promised? we promised under george bush and president obama, i believe it was $50 million for any information leading to the arrest or capture of bin laden. this doctor helped us, and now we are letting him languish in jail and giving money to the government that is holding him in prison. >> you know, a lot of people i assume are helping us around the world in our war on terror and to get these people. obviously bin laden everyone was the one we really wanted to get more than anybody else. but i think a lot of people think we hung this guy out to dry. i'm sort of curious, are there any efforts internally being done so

43, new this morning, 65 miners are trapped underground right now at a platinum mine in southern zimbabwe. the conveyer equipment collapsed at the facility about 250 miles south of the capital. 20 men have been rescued so far. >>> and in india, a deadly train accident killed at least six people. authorities say a passenger train collided with a freight train in the southern part of that country. three cars were derailed and burst into flames. the cause of that crash is unclear. >>> a hearing is set for today in a lawsuit that accuses a judge and two lawyers of looting the estate of the late civil rights pioneer rosa parks. the lawsuit claims the wayne county michigan probate judge conspired with two attorneys to rack up more than $500,000 in mostly unnecessary legal fees. parks left almost all her estate to the institute when she died in 2005. her family contested the will. >>> a controversial plan to tap oil from canada is running on empty. a report by an environmental group says the keystone pipeline will not lower gas prices. the special refining process needed costs actually more than

if you never heard of him he's the 88-year-old president of zimbabwe.t part of this, the u.n.'s tourism membership includes 155 countries and seven territories. and robert mugabe can't visit a lot of them. maybe because time dubbed him the world's worst dictator. he's under a european travel ban. that's right, they're hoping a man who can't travel will promote tourism. >>> i'm donny deutsch sitting in for piers tonight i have to tell you i'm pumped about my guest. must be so cool to be matt lauer. this is matt lauer, today, hello i'm matt lauer on today. wow, this is so cool. look at this. >> man, you look like hell. >> i'll ask mr. lauer which is more cut throat the race for the white house or the morning tv awards. >> the show is not where i want it to be right now i want to make it better. >> you look good up there. >> a house call from america's doctor, dr. oz. he's giving me the results of the 15 minute fitness test i

if you never heard of him he's the 88-year-old president of zimbabwe.

if you never heard of him the 88-year-old president of zimbabwe, also called the worst dictator in theuntry in 1980 he has been accused of promoting policies that have resulted in mass food shortages, high pof veer teerks 95% unemployment rate. if that wasn't enough he's also considered one of the worst living mass murderers linked to the deaths of 20,000 people. just last year he was tied to the murder of the husband of his own vice president in a car crash. but perhaps the strangest part of all this the u.n. tourism membeship includes 155 countries and seven territories and robert mugabe can't visit a lot of them. maybe because time dubbed him world's worst dictator he's under a european travel ban. the organization is hoping a man who can't travel will promote tourism. anderson cooper starts now. thanks, erin. we begin keeping them honest with newly discovered atrosities in syria. the regime's on-going and outright lies about what is happening and the two super powers protecting dictator bashar al-assad hold on power. the backdrop today, another massacre, this time in the eastern pr

if you never heard of him he's the 88-year-old president of zimbabwe.part of this, the u.n.'s tourism membership includes 155 countries and seven territories. and robert mugabe can't visit a lot of them. maybe because time dubbed him the world's worst dictator. he's under a european travel ban. that's right, tourism o organization is hoping a man who can't travel will promote tourism. >> i'm donny deutsch sitting in for piers. i'm really pumped about our guests. first up, a man a really admire. >> this is matt lauer, okay, l hello. i'm matt lauer on "today." so cool. look at this. i'm going to ask him which is more cut throughout, the race for the white house or the morning tv wars. >> the show is not where i want it to be right now. >> you look good up there. >> a house call from ic

if you never heard of him the 88-year-old president of zimbabwe, also called the worst dictator in theuntry in 1980 he has been accused of promoting policies that have resulted in mass food shortages, high pof veer teerks 95% unemployment rate. if that wasn't enough he's also considered one of the worst living mass murderers linked to the deaths of 20,000 people. just last year he was tied to the murder of the husband of his own vice president in a car

if you never heard of him he's the 88-year-old president of zimbabwe.t part of this, the u.n.'s tourism membership includes 155 countries and seven territories. and robert mugabe can't visit a lot of them. maybe because time dubbed him the world's worst dictator. he's under a european travel ban. that's right, they're hoping a

. >>> and an odd story that robert mugabe, the 88-year-old president for life of zimbabwe, was appointedeader for tourism by a u.n. organization. the report surfaced in the british paper "the guardian," and the u.n. has thus far refused to deny it. stay tuned. when larry returns, edging ever closer to the fiscal cliff. the "the kudlow report" will be right back. i'm making my money do more. i'm consolidating my assets. i'm not paying hidden fees or high commissions. i'm making the most of my money. and seven-dollar trades are just the start. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. i'm with scottrade. and i'm loving every minute of it. [ rodger riney ] at scottrade, we give you commission-free etfs, no-fee iras and more. come see why more investors are saying... scottrade. >>> welcome back to "the kudlow report." i'm larry kudlow. in this half hour, king dollar on a roll. europeans practically begging for u.s. greenbacks. so will the fed throw more money at europe, and could they also be throwing qe3 in our direction? and today jpmorgan sells $25 billion of securities to shore up the $2 b

. >> look, people say 4% inflation gosh, next step is zimbabwe. right? we had 4% inflation when ronald reagan was in his second term. i don't recall that as a country on the verge of... >> rose: what inflation rate did they have when ronald reagan assumed the presidency? >> it was 13 when he assumed the presidency and we all agree that 13% is too high. >> rose: and they imposed what? >> a terrible recession to bring the inflation down. >> rose: paul volcker did that as chairman of the fed. so you believe that was the right thing to do at the time or not? >> i think there was no real alternative. >> rose: so imposing pain at the time was appropriate. >> yes. >> rose: when you say imposing pain today, very different circumstances, you say... >> totally different story. i mean, stagflation, which is what we had at the end of the '70s is a genuinely difficult economic problem. there are no easy answers to stagflation and there wasn't an easy answer. we went through a lot of pain to get rid of it. but not all economic crises are the same. each unhappy economy

in the congo, rhodesia and zimbabwe, they stole the money. the people don't get anything. people don't have any run water and electricity but these dictators have some of the most lavish mansions throughout the world. bill: any success in the senate or is it too high a hill to climb. >> we'll see. some of the senators come up to me and thank me for rattling the cage. bill: democrats, too? >> democrats, too, but not many of them have the courage to vote for it. if you ask, 75% of americans say we ought to end the foreign aid. particularly sending foreign aid to our enemies is very insulting. martha: there is some extreme weather hitting the midwest. take a look at that. we'll tell you where folks saw that. bill: he was one of the top football prospects in the nation. that was before he was convicted of rape and lost 10 years of his life. now his accuser admits she lied about all of it. brian banks getting his shot back on the football field. welcome to hotels.com. summer road trip, huh? yep uhuh let's find you a room. at hotels.com, you'll always find the perfect hotel. cau

some people think, they can hear a bit of zimbabwe and south africa. but the net result at this point in my life, i've been in new hampshire for a long time now, and my north country yankee accent is coming along so great that it now takes about, you know, 1.3 seconds before people can figure out i'm not from the white mountains. i mean, to take that point seriously for a bit, i think one of the things it does to come and i think it sometimes helps to look at a society, slightly outside it, so if as in my situation one is condemned by one's crippling vocal in furman v. for ever passing for native, it does also offer the advantage that you can see a society slightly different perspective. and i think that can sometimes be helpful for a writer. >> host: is a little over an hour left with a guest mark steyn this month on "in depth." date in grantsburg wisconsin please go ahead with your question. >> caller: hi, mark. my question is this. what are your views in the future relations between the u.s., russia and china? >> guest: well, i think china as i ment

these groups that great freedom of the press write us below guinea and iraq and zimbabwe.t killing one another. this is a stable society and as long as the media operates within certain constraints, so be it. singapore is a very small place, but that seems to be a view out there that you can develop your economy, moving people in a larger asian countries like the ones that rebecca covered by the tens of hundreds of millions of our rural poverty. we don't need your ideas. your ideas are culture back. what is the answer to that argument? >> the episode you described was really the highlight of the conference, as you can imagine. free speech in the united states begins not at the beginning when the first amendment is put into the constitution, but in 1919. no supreme court case in the united states until 1919. at that moment, three cases come to the supreme court, and one of them involves a candidate for president of the united states, a socialist party candidate. he was thrown in jail, and the supreme court, in the first case ever accepted, oliver wendell holmes writing the

i think zimbabwe's included as well. they were allowed to sell their ivory stocks. they were allowed to sell to only two countries, of which china was one in japan was the other. china came on board at the last moment. they applied to be given that special buyer status. >> who signed off on that? the grant that permission? >> by the standing committee of the convention, i believe. >> cites as the ability to come back and reverse that, does it not? >> i do not know if they do. >> since we have them here. they relaxed the this. can they reinforce it again? >> there were one or two off sales. the ban on legal trade remains in place. they were one-off sales approved by the conference in parties to only two states, japan and china. the trade were to be reopened, it would require another conference of the parties. >> in these two one-off sales were to japan and china. it appears as if that has, indeed, whetted the appetite. >> there are some who strongly believe that it has and there are others with a contrary view who do not see a correlation between it. i would say ther