and lord cooke was one of those who stood up for the medieval view that the king is under god and under the law. and this is one of the things i treat of in the book. the medieval -- think of magna charta or think of st. thomas -- the medieval view of government... c-span: what's the medieval period? >> guest: well, for these purposes, one would say from the year 1000 up until the mid-1400s -- or maybe the four centuries 1000 to 1400. that's what most people think of as the high middle ages, the flower of medieval christendom in europe. and in that period -- and we're taught that this was a bad period, a period of repression of evil priests and feudal barons and so forth denying freedom. if you look at what was going on -- and i talk about this in the book -- you see representative government; you see limits on the power of kings; you see the church speaking out against tyrannical rule; you see the right of resistance being expounded, as was by a spokesman for the pope in the year 1070 in the battle over investiture of bishops, which is something most people don't learn about, in which

lord we're the same person. this is so weird. okay so what does this space genius cook up there in the heavens, anyway. >> some 250 miles above earth the u.s. astronauts outside the international space station are rigging the parking spots for two commercial space taxies. >> oh great, there are going to be space taxies? well that sucks for black astronauts. (cheers and applause) >> larry: taxi. okay. you can't hear anything in space right? (laughter) that's my "gravity" impression. all right. look my astronaut brother being awesome isn't the only exciting space story. >> we're going mars or at least that's the plan from private space exploration company mars one. >> their mission is set to lift off in the year 2024. and it will bring two dozen lucky people to the red planet. >> larry: going to mars yes. that's what i'm talking about. s. try to get us up there isis if you are's so bad. mars. (applause) and the best part of this it's a private company. see, this is how private enterprise works. cosmonazis, right. this is as operational. you can go private enterprise. >> t

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