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. >> glor: we close this memorial day with a look at theof specialized training some of america's militarying. they are prepping to fight modern day wars on one of thetr oldest forms of transportation.id here's chip reid.h >> reporter: high in the sierra nevada, u.s. forces are beingf trained in the art of mountain warfare. yes, the original all-terrain vehicle is making a comeback. staff sergeant levi stewart has been saddling up since he was a child. >> you guys have three malts try to balance them the best he can. >> reporter: now he is an instructor here at the marine corps mountain warfare training center.ow >> the advantage of using horses and mules, they can move youin across the battle space very very quickly and almost unnoticed and they don't have to rely on roads or technology or a vehicle to go wherever they need to go. >> you guys think are you up to the task? >> reporter: the students are u.s. special forces undergoing a 15-day course. we agreed not to show their faces. >> they can be in some undisclosed areas within 30 days and carrying out rural operations it is a very real

value, theof this seller can actually say i want some of that commission to go to me because it is suchterpiece and it really raises their profile. whether or not they got to keep that 19 million is unlikely. rishad: the painting is going for 179 point $9 million. frederik: somebody had to pay that much. rishad: china has been snapping up masterpieces. not concentrating on chinese art as they have done. frederik: that is true. they are not going for people 27 million who sold dollars last night. they are going for the real masterpieces, the trophy pieces. i do not mean that in a derogatory sense. sold last week, it is a fantastic painting. the point is, the japanese were buying up like crazy in the 1980's. a bit of a deja vu. rishad: i remember sunflowers, one of the pieces. many some flowers, aren't there. the introduction, these are auction prices. they have a degree of transparency. paintings change hands privately, as you said earlier to me. frederik: yes, exactly. turning more and more to these private sales that happened between individuals. it does not ever reach the public domai

the flexibility that we are talking about, i'm very confident that we could reach many, many more of theofids in the. as i mentioned in my testimony, 90% of the kids in the state of kentucky who are eligible for sfsp don't get it because there's either no stipend to go to they can't get there. >> thank you very much. >> ms. jones cindy thank you for your help. in our traversing kansas and enjoying school lunches and school breakfast. if you provided with some that word again, flexibly, what changes would you make? >> i would allow us to go back to the 50% whole grains so we are able to add some of those items back with -- back at the kids enjoy, such as whole-grain biscuits do not have much flavor. i don't know if any of you have tried them. crackers, they taste like sawdust. just some of the simple items just like our children, they love chicken nuggets. all kids love chicken nuggets. now the coding of the chicken nuggets, they no longer like the flavor. just simple things we we could do with that. i would go back to encouraging kids to take fruit and vegetables, which is what we want to

so i am more on theof quiet diplomacy although recognizing there are times when you have to be public about these things. i will give you an example of going public on human rights that seem unusual to those of us in the business a long time. i entered the foreign service in 1960. we didn't have a legal requirement to write human rights reports. that was passed in the early 70s. i found it quite shocking to my sense of what the conduct of diplomacy was about. when are we calling out all these questions for everything we think they are doing wrong. i got used to the fact and after a while they seem to be it wasn't so bad to have the reports but important day be drafted carefully, that they be careful about you on incompleteness touched in that they not be done was to much fanfare. now you can go to the library or the internet and find the state department annual human rights report on every single country in the world. i don't think that has the effect of creating a huge uproar in relations with other countries. part of it is the fact it has become a more recognized part of internation

hey, do we want to be giving money to anything that has theof word clinton in it, but i mean, it certainly years was not viewed as a partisan organization norg those where is contributions viewed really specifically in a political light. >> let's face it, it's not a big surprise that george stephanopoulos would give to that foundation. he launched his career on abc as a result of working with them. okay. and guerin thanks so much. >> thank you. >> a new study finds a decline in christianity in the this country especially among millenials. why is this happening and what are the impligss for religion and society. if you have copd, ask your doctor about once-daily anoro ellipta. it helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. anoro ellipta is the first fda-approved product containing two long-acting bronchodilators in one inhaler. anoro is not for asthma. anoro contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. it is not known if this risk is increased in copd. anoro won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden copd symptoms and should not be used more th

what you think is the payback for investment in scientific research, or to put it contrarily the cost theof not funding scientific research. >> i very much appreciate the opportunity to talk about some of those consequences. putting up another graph that in many ways reveals difficulties that are present in this country to get back in 2003. what i'm showing you there is the opportunity that an investigator who comes to nih with their best ideas has it getting funding, and those researchers in the finest innovation, and this is the main place where the work gets done and for most of the history, that's been in the space of this is one in three, that's one-third sent away. now it's one in six. unhealthy. we look what happens when we fund up to 30 %, and there's a lot of great science that falls in the space between the 16th percentile and 30th percentile. we're not funding that. half of what we should be supporting by historical trends is left on the table and so we don't know what we're missing in that regard. the next great idea about cancer may have been one of those things that did not qu

what did you think ever theof the last episode?aracter in an unchanging really at its core and encapsulated with the slight smirk at the end of the show. cynical to the core. >> exactly. a smirk. >> and he was going to do the coke commercial. >> steven, final thoughts. >> it shows you that how television has really transformed. we had -- people have shows now that you just can't be another show on the air that you'll passively watch. people have to be engaged by tv shows because there are so many ways to experience them and the consumer has so many choices. viewer has so many choices. "mad men" shows that you just can't be good. you have to be important. you have to get people to really care about your tv show now to go forward in this really crowded landscape. >> great yessing of the ingquiing writing allows us to write the rest of the story. we all get to write our own version. >> so joe, write it. >> well i think everybody knows he goes back to new york he does the coke ad. >> every agrees on that. but we don't know whether he g