"femme" is at home. brown: "it's everything we hoped." today, suspended 42 feet above the museum floor, "femme" is fulfilling her intended role. she stands tall, as the 76-foot mobile by miro's close friend alexander calder owly circles by. she is in the company of the works of other modern masters such as henry moore and jean arp, of david smith, noguchi, caro, rosati and motherwell. but she stands alone at the head of the south wall as a unifying force and vital core of color in the east building of the national gallery of art. ( music ) ( music ) narrator: thomas moran embarked on his first trip to the west in 1871. the united states at the time was still recovering from the ravages of the civil war. americans turned with hope to the western frontier. by painting the pristine grandeur of these remote places, moran enabled 19th-century americans to visualize a magnificent landscape most would never see. his paintings transformed their perceptions of the west. from 1867 to 1879, the united states government sponsored four western expedit

." >> you are not a femme fatale. tavis: they wanted me to remind you that movie was made for just a few million dollars and grossed almost 50. i did not get a call for before midnight, but i think my track record is pretty good. >> you are the piece of good luck. tavis: enough of that nonsense. >> can i ask you a question? if we were meeting for the first time on a train, which you find me attractive? >> of course. >> really, as i am? >> you are asking a theoretical question. technically, wouldn't i be cheating on you? >> why can't you just say yes? i wanted you to say something romantic. you would lock eyes with and i would say, baby, you're making me as horny asa billy goat. tavis: is that all this? >> as a billy goats in of pepper patch. i think anything worked for elvis. everywhere i look, time magazine, opened it up. there you are. >> i look like a latin lover. that i open up new york magazine. there you are in new york. and i am leading entertainment weekly. there you are. this thing is everywhere. there is alr

their kisses fuel headlines portraying her as a sex-obsessed femme fatale. amanda and raphael cuddling, making faces at each other. knox doing a split in between interrogations. knox was spotted at a boutique and purchasing underwear the press dubbed saucey. her image as foxy knoxy is now solidified. knox would later say the statement was coerced. knox was found guilty of defaming him. another piece to the puzzle of knox's behavior. >> every piece of a puzzle looks strange until you put them all together. it doesn't really register as unusual in. >> it did register as unusual. and i never said that it didn't. >> i felt strange. i almost felt like someone over your shoulder feeling. so i got out of there in a hurry. >> and then something that haunts me. you panicked. you want to go. you're in too much of a rush. maybe meredith is here, maybe she's not, but i don't want to deem with that right now. so you're going to get out. you're worried. you grab a mop. what's up with the mop? why would you grab a mop if you're in a panic to get out of the house? who does

this notion of femme fatale that is completely unrealistic. >> so if that is not true, what is true?t kind of person are you? who are you? >> i mean, i really don't feel different from other people. i think that -- i mean, i wrote my book to show what kind of person i am. and i painstakingly sought out to be honest. to not hide. even my parents were telling me, are you sure you really want to talk about this? i'm putting myself out there because i'm tired of being judged on wrong information. i am being judged and there's nothing i can do about that. but i am so tired of having to confront wrong information. this trying to prove what i'm not. and trying to prove what i didn't do. it's absurd. and i'm -- i'm having to continue doing this to this day. and these are fantasies. these are notions. honestly, like i was discussing this with my boyfriend yesterday. just trying to imagine. where is this idea of me coming from. and i mean -- that's the right question. >> there have been police officerings police officers who said i wreaked of sex all of the time. i would just come into the pol

i know how to use my femme namety to my advantage. >> flirting in jail comes with risks.e has been sexually assaulted in another facility. >> before i go to bed, i put like a trap, you know, like a booby trap so if somebody comes near my area, i hear it. i'm crafty. so if somebody comes near my area, i used to break and enter, i know the dos and don'ts. they have to by pass my shoes, and they are out in the open like that. this right here is a lotion bottle. that one i have my spoon and cup. this -- if this falls because it's quiet at night, got to be quiet, that's my traps. >> while culverson attempts to ward off unwanted attention, john schmidt, currently awaiting trial of inducing panic, seems to welcome it. >> what's going on today? >> since he's been here, he's flooded his toilet. he stuck his sheets in there. went bathroom on top of that. flushed the sheets down the toilet. disrespectful to officers, calling them the "n" word. >> we need to up the ante on this guy. let's move him over and place him in ad seg and shut his water off. we need to take some action with t

knox was dubbed a femme fatal. this is how she responds to diane swauier. >> devil with an angle face. >> i've heard the jest of them and they're wrong. >> in "people," the 25-year-old speaks candidly about life in prison. >> one of the things, she has a family photo album and she's so lonely, she's caressing the pictures. >> so lonely, she thinks about suicide. >> she talked about would she do it in the shower, there's a little window in the shower and it would be all fogged up and no one would see here. she woul bleed to death and it would be a peaceful death. >> then a dramatic turn of evidence involving bad evidence, knox was set free and returned home to seattle. >> thank you to everyone who's believed in me, who has defended me. >> on why she's talking now, she says i'm not a murderer, but not latest twist, italy's highest court has ordered a retrial. >> what was your reaction when you heard the decision? >> it was incredibly painful. i felt like after crawling through a field of barbed wire and finally reach

. >> reporter: abc's "20/20" shot this interview with the notoriously vain femme fatal, arrested in 2008, just after she flashed this smile in her mug shot. jodi arias as smug and confident as ever. >> all of the evidence to me is very compelling. but none of it proves that i committed a murder. >> reporter: we now know her confidence was sadly misplaced. >> first-degree murder, guilty. >> reporter: last week an arizona jury found her guilty of premeditated murder of her ex-boyfriend, travis alexander, whom back then she spoke of in glowing terms. >> travis was well loved and known. by a lot of people. >> reporter: she insists alexander abused her and she was forced to shoot and repeatedly stab him in self-defense. but back in 2008 she was still insisting she knew nothing about what happened to her ex. >> one day i will have to answer for all of the things i've done. knowing this isn't one of them is a very comforting thing to know. >> reporter: little did she know then her legal drama would become a media sensation. even "saturday night live" spoofed her this weekend. >> that story you

faced with this and want to walk through this with a brave face, but know that it challenges their femmen some way. >> i think it's really empowering. anytime a celebrity is courageous enough to go forward and admit what they're going through on a personal level is empoweri empowering, but with angelina being so brave to come and share it is that more information will kind of bubble up to the surface, so those women who want the details, it's scary, but now, hopefully more information will be readily available. >> one thing that is empowering is how she describes the conversation she has with her kids saying i can tell my children they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer. they can see my small scars and that's it. everything else is just mommy. the same as she always was. what is your advice to moms out there. >> i totally relate. not much i relate to with angelina jolie, but that's what i told my own kids. i told them i want to be around for you as long as humanly possible. i don't want to have what happened to grandma, to your mom, it's for you. i want to do this for

a 32-year-old femme fatale with made-for-tv looks, accused of slashing, stabbing and shooting to deathriend, travis alexander, a young, up-and-coming businessman active in the mormon church. five years after the crime, the secrets of that bathroom have finally bubbled to the surface. some written in blood. some captured by photograph. others from the mouth of an admitted killer. >> did you kill travis alexander on june 4th, 2008? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: a story breathlessly told by correspondents. >> it's all anybody in this town is talking about. >> reporter: local minstrels with jodi-inspired ballads. ♪ now jodi is a narcissist in the nth degree ♪ >> reporter: and even internet parodies. >> miss areas, do you have a problem with your memory? >> i don't remember. >> reporter: but just two days ago, the verdict. >> we the jury do find the defendant, as to count one first degree murder, guilty. >> reporter: eight men and four women who listened patiently through months of raunch and religion found arias guilty of first degree murder. the crowds that gathered physically and virtually

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knox was dubbed a femme fatal. her then boyfriend who would eventually be convicted along with the murder that would have people question her innocence. >> people kept saying where's the anguish, where's what we think we would do if this happened to our friend. >> i have seen the same picture, like the kissing just can't stop. that's not what that was. i want the truth to come out. i would like to be reconsidered as a person. >> reporter: which is why she agreed to the interview. she hopes it will help clear her name. >> did you kill meredith kercher? >> no. >> were you there that night? >> no. >> do you think anything that you have not told police or said in this book. >> no, i don't. i wasn't there. >> reporter: amanda knox's freedom is again on the line. an italian court has ordered a retrial. >> she seems to be on this pr campaign to clear her name. will this help though with the italian authorities? >> that's what she's hoping it will help. she's on this major pr offensive hoping to clear her name. she made an

you know, stay tuned for the second, femme fatale is coming back.we need to see more of travis, we need to see the life of travis, and really put him more in the light, because to be honest, you know, everyone is so tired of jodi and seeing her, and -- and, you know, and her lies. she keeps on going. >> what do you make of her behavior? some would say her performance over the past few weeks? interviews, courtroom behavior, what do you make of it? >> you know, this is someone i sat and had lunch with. realize, it's unbelievable. what i make of is she -- there is something in her that -- there are demons in her. >> you met her before all of this. you sat and ha lunch with her. jodi arias you see in court in these interviews, that the jodi arias you knew? >> absolutely. cold and calculated and she -- she is going to give you what you want to see. and either she's a good actress -- i don't believe she is sick in her mind. i believe this is someone who absolutely knows what she's doing and she continues playing that role. she would -- she would shift to

one man died in arkansas when a tree femme on his car.f severe weather in the midwest. >>> an arizona mother of seven is free after spending a week in a mexican jail. we reported yesterday on yanira maldonado. she was accused of smuggling 12 pounds of marijuana. she was arrested on a bus, returning from a funeral in mexico. last night, the charges were dropped and the family celebrated. >> i'm free. i'm free. i'm free. i'm free. i was innocent, so i was very -- very happy to get out. >> maldonado was released after security video showed her boarding the bus with only blankets, water, and her purse. >>> it's three years away, but the new poll looks at the 2016 race. the front-runners are hillary clinton and jeb bush. the former secretary of state has an eight-point lead over the former governor. yes, it is early. i think the margin largely reflects name recognition. >> but you and i both love it. >> it's always fun to talk about politics. >> it never gets old. >> it never gets old. has a higher favorability rating than joe biden, rand paul

. >> reporter: abc's "20/20" shot this video with the notoriously vain femme fatale just after this mugshotrias as smug and confident as ever. >> all of the evidence to me is very compelling. but, none of it proves i committed a murder. >> reporter: we know her confidence was sadly misplaced. >> first-degree murder, guilty. >> reporter: last week, an arizona jury found her guilty of the premeditated murder of her ex-boyfriend, travis alexander who back then she spoke of him in glowing terms back then. >> he's missed by everyone, including myself. >> reporter: she now insists he abused her and she was forced to shoot and repeatedly stab him in self-defense. in 2008, she was still insisting she knew nothing about what happened to her ex. >> one day i have to answer for all of the things i have done. knowing that this isn't one of them is a very comforting thing to know. >> reporter: little did she know then that her legal drama would become a media sensation. even saturday night live spoofed her this weekend. >> that story you told about your boyfriend attacking you, that was bs, right? >> oh

we can associate what is femme minty with leadership. >> another sort of one of these interesting andquestions, what is your opinion about a woman's physical appearance in the workplace and how it can help or hurt her career? >> you know, the physical appearance one is a real issue. it's much more of an issue for women than for men. you know, i used to tell women at google to dress appropriately. again, it wasn't -- >> not with, you know, shorts and tank tops. >> dress for success. i used to give, my boss at the time called it my dress for success talk. you know, we would hire these amazingly smart women from great places with great skills, and, you know, sometimes they looked like they were going to a nightclub. and that wasn't going to help them at work. and it was the same kind of advice as the negotiating advice. i didn't like telling them maybe you should dress a little more -- i mean, it's silicon valley. i was suggesting jeans, not shore shorts, right? but i actually thought as presenting themselves as professionals was pretty important. i don't overly focus on it, i'm not some

a woman's femme financial anyin part of you that are you about to lose.at's a daunting process also, right? >> i don't know if i want to use the word daunting. i watched -- i watched a woman go through reconstruction, and it's not easy. i wouldn't use the word easy, but think many women do it and are very happy with it once it's done and over and that societies important. zoraida, i think some women think when they talk about double mastectomy, they think they will have nothing. so many different ways to do reconstructive surgery. come so far since the early days. the fact that you went public today is so important, because it shows here you are this wonderful, smart woman, making empowered choices and thinking through what you want to do. you don't have to have a double mastectomy with a breast cancer diagnosis in all cases, but a choice many women make and go on to have reconstruction. and their lives move forward. >> i have chosen the reconstruction and working with a wonderful plastic surgeon, and the reason i use daunting, a major decision are you ma

knox was dubbed the femme fatale, and the media ate it up.t the crime scene in the immediate aftermath of her roommate's death, it was actions like this, kissing her ex-boyfriend, who would eventually be convicted along with knox in kircher's death, that made critics question her innocence. >> people kept saying, where is the anguish? where is what we think we would do if this happened to our friend? >> i've seen the same picture, liking kissing just can't stop. and that's not what that was. i want the truth to come out. i'd like to be reconsidered as a person. >> which is why she agreed to the interview and released a memoir. she hopes it will help clear her name. >> did you kill meredith kircher? >> no. >> were you there that night? >> no. >> do you know anything you have not told police, that you have not said in this book? do you know anything? >> no. i don't. i wasn't there. >> amanda knox's freedom is now back on the line. an italian court has ordered a retrial of her appealed conviction, and knox may once again finding herself pleading

femme teem the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in morning business until 5:30 today. at 5:30 p.m., the is that the will resume consideration of the marketplace fairness act. there will be two roll call votes noer to complete action on that bill. the filing deadline for all second-degree amendments is 4:00 p.m. today. and we have been -- i've been told, and staff has indicated to me that we believe there will be an agreement that we won't have to have that vote this evening on the water resources bill, that we can just move to it sometime tomorrow. otherwise, if we can't work that out, there will be a third roll cal vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the water development resourcesage osources act. mr. president, for 38 straight months, private-sector jobs have added new jobs and put americans back to work. 7 million americans in all. they've done it in spite of economic policies that hampered growth, harsh austerity policies republicans have forced on

the furloughs were a femme prayer solution to budget cuts but the park service says it's able to offsetse cuts. park service officials say despite staffing shortages through memorial day, security will not be compromised. >>> with thousands of visitors expected through memorial day yosemite mite has reopened access to half dome. memorial day weekend is often the busiest time of year for yosemite national park. with water surging from the melting snow, they say it makes summer feel closer. workers installed the last of heavy cable hand rails on thursday night. >> it's iconic. it's one of the highest peaks out here, and not many people know. just about anybody ask come out and climb it. >> rangers say they are anxious to replace bad memories from last summer's hantavirus scare. the virus caused by infected deermice killed several people who stayed at curry village and made seven others ill. the signature cabins have since gun replaced but rangers say at this point, the biggest worry is the holiday crowd. >> and cal fire is warning people to be careful this weekend with increased danger fo