truth, geoffrey peterson, is it true that you enjoy the work of kathie lee gifford? geoff: it's true! craig: so do i! merry christmas, kathie lee gifford. and good night, everybody! captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> get ready. more know is headed our way. believe it or not, schools are already canceling classes. good evening. a handful of school districts are already telling kids, stay home tomorrow. others are starting late. >> we're looking at bad timing for this store. that's the main headline. not a big storm but the timing is horrible during the rush hour. let's start with satellite/radar combined. clear skies overhead. some high clouds moving in overnight. clouds here by dawn. we stay dry tonight and dry for the morning commute. so the morning commute not in jeopardy. it's the evening commute that we're worried about. i have often made fun of folks going to the store and buying bread, so we're going to make this the impact meter. remember carmageddon? that's a 10. a 5, two to four hours. a 3, one to two hours. i think this st

version to fill in the holes and tell us why there are so many lessons to heed from this today is geoffrey tucker executive editor of the love a fair books thank you for being here it's so nice to see you could to read into the movie and weren't you ired to write a very thoughtful piece about how it's relevant today so what do you think is a modern economic message to take away from lame is well it's a story about liberty versus power and how many ways represents the modern state i mean pursuing this for example asleep no reason i mean just just a posthumous grudge that really makes no sense whatsoever and so many of the modern stuff this way and regulatory apparatus and drugs i mean all the things that it's doing it's almost like an inertia an unquestioning status to religion we have to do this because it's the rule because in the movie he's after john bell john for breaking his parole for stealing a loaf of bread and that's his you know run one main goal in life regardless of the fact that anybody watching can say ok this is absurd i don't. and it's preposterous and you have to be sympat

will keep watching movies and assessing the reality of our economic situation thank you so much geoffrey terry's executive editor of la is a fair book. let's wrap up with loose change dimitri what do you say let's talk about inflationary dragon all right. we have long known that pimco is bill gross is not the biggest fan of easy fed policy is given the fed in the midst of interest groups would be fifty two hundred basis points higher which means prices would be perhaps forty six percent more were so yes so the significantly influencing the bubble you know both bones in stocks well a newsletter this month he warned of inflationary dragons telling investors ultimately government financing schemes such as today's q. ways are england's early seven hundred south sea bubble and badly dmitri we were just talking about inflation yesterday and inflation calls that didn't play out do you think that ultimately it's at the implications further down the road when the fed on why its balance sheets and i think it's on it's going to go down the road of these guys say i was surprised but. i think they pu

geoffrey sax talked about three- regulating the market -- regulating the market. it is all there. why is it not been articulated by the media? >> i think it is. it is not up to -- different occupy's have different demands. it is up to people like "the nation" and other groups like rebuild the dream, national people's action, the progressive caucus. occupy wall street is a spirit. they're committed at the moment to not having concrete demands. we have six ideas. one would be the robin hood tax. the other would be to change the way our tax structure is organized, how to get money out of politics, hold corporations responsible, support attorney general's fighting for for closure relief. there are six of 10. >> have you ever been wrong? [laughter] >> occupy wall street is a moral compass. they are articulating what they think it should be. the lead essay is a shift. i am wrong all the time. >> give me one example. [laughter] >> i said on national television the night -- election night of 2000 as florida was coming in that the election would be decided that night. people may remember t

geoffrey, thank you. thank you. expert: this is-- this is unbelievable. this is so beautiful! first off, all this decoration, and this very style, has to be 17th century but early 17th century. it could... it could be 1590. but i think that to be safe let's say 1600 to 1610. right. this is the most beautiful quality. and look here in the center-- there's hearts and handshakes. i mean, it's obviously a betrothal box, isn't it? mm-hmm. have you any idea where it could have come from? do you have any family history at all? it's been in the family for as long as anyone can remember. as children we used to hide things in it because it's got so many secret compartments. but other than that, we know very little about it. so, no sort of continental family background? quite possibly in portugal. well, there's a thought. i was going to say northern european. right. his costume could be dutch could be scandinavian-- now, it could be portuguese-- why not? let's have a look at it anyway. the whole th

like to mention that the question answer portion of the program will be moderated by a professor geoffrey hazard, a distinguished professor of law at uc hastings. the professor is a leading expert in the field of civil procedure of legal ethics and is good at asking questions. it is my pleasure to introduce our very special guest, stephen zack, president of the american bar association. with nearly 400,000 members, it is the largest volunteer professional membership organization in the world. mr. zack is the first hispanic american to serve as the president and the second to be born abroad. he was only 14 when his family emigrated from cuba under harrowing circumstances, including last minute detention by the secret police. he made it here. in two lines -- and two lines come to mind when i think of him. "this is my country, land of my choice. this is my country, here i found voice." what a voice it is. he earned his aba at the university of florida and he is now in their hall of fame. he is a partner in the miami office of the national law firm. his clients range from former vice presiden

next is geoffrey kloske. jeff is vice president publisher of riverhead books, a dynamic maverick armed of penguin books. he has been an executive editor of simon & schuster and an editor of little brown. at riverhead, he has managed to infuse the imprint of his own very distinctive personality. in the course of his career he has published such authors as david the karis, david edgar, bob dylan, ceravolo, and juno diaz. geoffrey kloske. [applause] >> thank you mari and thank you to the library. for holding this summit. of future that is we have discussed it a read in the papers is very much always in doubt. i teach a course at columbia about publishing and one thing that i always do is read them headlines about publishing, but "the new york times" and i quizzed them as to when they think those were written. there are things like you know editors don't edit and good books on published anymore and the decaying of our book culture and their intellectual culture and so forth. you can't find them in different forms

geoffrey sax, cornell west, newt gingrich and others. how we make poverty a priority.n we go to colleges and universities for the next week were to try to get young people engaged in this issue of making poverty a priority in the nation. >> tavis smiley, thank you for being with us, tonight at george washington university, a summit on poverty. on monday we will be broadcasting live from the capital on martin luther king day in the inauguration, broadcasting from and a clock eastern -- 8:00-1:00. we will be bringing in different voices from all over the country. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> we are asking you to go to the fund to support link tv. with a great second hour, a continuation with tavis smiley, also joined by the preacher, a professor, activist cornell west. a conversation we had the week of the reelection of president obama, just a mon

i mentioned geoffrey sax in marion wright edelman and cornell west, coming together. go online and sign the letter to the president that he is serious about calling the white house -- >> how to end poverty in america? prexy have to have an awakening. you have to have people were willing to put their bodies on the line. i think what is happening now, moving into the second term, the black prophetic tradition has quite enough. what was the open letter to president obama? strong. there is an awakening -- and when the black prophetic tradition might set, you got something because then you got jamal and leticia on the block beginning to say, "i need to talk politically, not be addicted to this cultural, superficial spectacle." and that is what we are about >> and yet have the whole discussion about the bipartisan consensus. republican house speaker john boehner told newly reelected president obama he wants to see obama succeed. >> mr. president, this is your moment. we are ready to be led -- not as democrats or republicans, but as americans. we want you to lead. not as a l