a. mark twain called the body of the nation. and fraser said in the buck to mississippi is us and vice versa. it's where lewis and clark took their famous journey and where many of the significant battles were fought and lost and where most of the natural wealth still resides in the mountains and the oil supplies and copper and other minerals supplies from the great plains and from the estuaries into the gulf of mexico so it remains to the food supply in the last it's critical to the politics of and maps perfectly so figuring out who we are as a country have intimate territory. on the population is essay isn't high yearly. i have had two of them in my third chapter and they are either try a more succeeding. there are five long chapter is basically that i began with the furthest northernmost reach of the mississippi. he's the rodeo champion that has been instrumental in serving hundreds of thousands of acres of private ranches and public wildlands. i then write about a large-scale farmer from kansas and i go to the company that n

i thought on mark twain's books. i read a lot of biographies. senator fienstein gave me a book and i think it is called the death of caesar. it is about the senators who killed julia caesar. it is remarkably detailed. if you are a united states senator you read it with a certain amount of interest. caesar appointed -- the roman senate was about 500 senators and caesar appointed them all and about 30 of them persuaded him to come on the senate floor and stabbed him to death. >> do you share books are your colleagues? >> you yeah, we do. the senator from wyoming i mentioned him and he writes himself a book report on the books and tells me about books he likes. senator durbin reads a lot and he is in the gym sometimes when i am so we will talk about book. >> let's go back to maryville, tennessee. >> well, my parents -- "the new york times" interviewed my mother and wrote i grew up in a lower middle class family in the middle of the mountains and when i called him, my mother said you had a library card from the day you were three and a music lesson

i like almost anything hemingway wrote.l i thought of mark twain's books. i read a lot of biographies. dianne feinsteindiane feinsteinr feinstein gave me a book. i think it was the death of caesar by barry strauss. it's about senators who killed julius caesar, and it's remarkably detailed. and if you are a united statesut senator, you read it with a certain amount of interest. the senate has about 500 senators. cesar appointed them all com, ad about 30 of them persuaded him to come on the senate floor and stabbed him to death.e >> otherwise the book that he reads and he writes a book report on this and he will tell me about books he likes. my parents. when i called home that weekend my mother was reading how to and deal with this and said you've had a library card for the day that you were three or four. we don't have library cards for three-year-olds and she said yoi should. >> where do you get them? >> i buy them. i bought john meacham's book. david rubenstein has some things in the library of congress where he interviews authors and is interviewing him about the

please give a warm welcome to mr. mark twain. [applause] mr. mark twain: thank you. must admit i'm somewhat embarrassed. they told us we had about one hour and 50 minutes. i've only prepared for 45. [laughter] as a member of the lincoln farm association, which was newly formed, i was a member of that organization. as a member and as a writer i was encouraged and did an article for "the new york times ," january 13, 1907. the purpose of the article was to help find a group of people who would unite together to save the lincoln farm. i wrote the article and i will read it to you or tell it to you to the best of my remembrance. as a natural human instinct that is gratified by the side of anything hallowed by association of a great man or great work, so many people make pilgrimage to the town whose shakespeare, the streets were trotted by shakespeare. hartford guarded the charter oak for centuries because it was thatd and had a hole in it house in article that preserved the liberties of a colony. it was no accident that planted lincoln and a kentucky farm in rural america

i thought i would like marks bo twain's books, i read a lot of biographies. diane feinstein gave me a book, i think it's called the death of caesar. it's about the senators who killed julius caesar. and it's remarkably detailed. if your senator you read it with a certain amount of interest. caesar appointed the romanto senate was about 500 senators, caesar appointed them all at about 30 of them persuaded him to come on the senate floor and then stabbed him to death. >> host: do share books with your colleagues or do they share books with you? >> yes, yes, i think i mentioned a senator from wyoming, and's he underlines the book he reads and he writes himself a book report on the books and he will tell me about books he likes. senator durbin read a lot of books and he is in the gym when i am sometimes a we'll talk about a book. >> let's go back to maryville tennessee, what sparked sparked your interest in reading and education? >> guest: my parents, when the new york times interviewed my mother once and route that i grew up in a lower middle-class family in the

i think they can be acquired in a couple hours.e >> brown: before i let you, i, want to go back to the mark twainte. i read it. i started the segment. and you tell us at the end of your book-- and i'm going to tell our audience. that was not said by mark twain. t >> right. the quote ain't so. and it's a wonderful example of how we believe things thathi aren't so. i agree with the sentiment that it's probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren't so, than to not believev something-- you know, to believb in a lie. and in the fact checking for the book, i went to find-- as you do-- i went to find the original source. but testify nowhere to be foundn in any of twain's writings. w >> brown: so mark twain didn't say it.ay daniel levitin lied. the the newshour lied.ie but butt we've now set the record straight. >> which is how things move forward. >> brown: the book is "a fieldl guide to lies." daniel levitin, thank you very much.toit. >> thanks for having me. >> ifill: finally tonight, the jewel of the smithsonian museum opens on the nation's mall thisu weekend. president obama will dedicat

a pristine wonder. >> lake tahoe is the jewel of the sierra, which mark twain called the fairest picture. the whole earth affords. >> i'm proud to say $1.9 billion has been spent on the renewal of this lake. >> future generation who's deserve clear water and clean air that will sustain the bodies and sustain their souls. >> reporter: many listening moved to tahoe from the bay area. >> i think it's important to have some symbolic acts and money for climate change and i think keeping tahoe blue. >>> a bill would commit $450 million to future projects over the next 10 years. in south lake tahoe, laura anthony, abc7 news. >>> president obama spoke this afternoon, we notified people who down loaded our news app so they can watch it live on the app. you can get alerts by down loading the app. it is free for apple and android devices. >>> stay with us, the kaepernick controversy just won't go away. coming up, an event that shut down a police office. >> coming up, a look back at the farthest here in the bay area. tonight, why saving california forests means cutting >>> collin kaepernick controver

a pristine wonder. >> lake tahoe, it is the july of the sierra. which mark twainalled the fairest picture, the whole earth of fords. >> experiencing one of average surface water temperatures ever. >> lake tahoe's average temperature is rising at its fastest rate ever and its temperature is the warmest on record. our conservation effort is more critical, more urgent than ever. >> reporter: so far $1.9 billion has been spent on the renewal of lake tahoe. and a bill is pending in the senate to commit another $450 million over the next ten years. laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> state water officials are working with farmers to save the dwindling delta smelt. scientist say the land's natural resources could provide food for the endangered fish. they are collectors to help fight a plankton grow. farm erers use the water that ps down the delta giving nutrients to provide living food for the smelt. >> there will be less stressers on populations, whatever the species is and those populations right now are what is causing limitations for water supply. >> some farmers have exp

a pristine wonder. >> lake tahoe is the jewel of the sierra, which mark twain called the fairest picture. the whole earth affords. >> i'm proud to say $1.9 billion has been spent on the renewal of this lake. >> future generation who's deserve clear water and clean air that will sustain the bodies and sustain their souls. >> reporter: many listening moved to tahoe from the bay area. >> i think it's important to have some symbolic acts and money for climate change and i think keeping tahoe blue. >>> a bill would commit $450 million to future projects over the next 10 years. in south lake tahoe, laura anthony, abc7 news. >>> president obama spoke this afternoon, we notified people who down loaded our news app so they can watch it live on the app. you can get alerts by down loading the app. it is free for apple and android devices. >>> stay with us, the kaepernick controversy just won't go away. coming up, an event that shut down a police office. >> coming up, a look back at the farthest here in the bay area. tonight, why saving california forests means cutting down trees. i am sir-can-a-lot,

last year you were given the mark twain prize at center, which is a great honor. great comedians. >> yeah. >> jimmy: george carlin, lily tomlin. i think steve martin got that award. and you did a little bit of stand-up. and it was so great to see. i know everybody busts your balls, when are you going to do stand-up. >> i wasn't really doing stand-up. it was like a long acceptance speech. >> jimmy: you did -- part of it -- yes. it was an acceptance speech. but you did your great bill cosby impersonation. and it's a crazy bill cosby impersonation. bill cosby in the playboy mansion, what was really going on. but did you hear from bill at all after that? >> oh, no. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, no, no. is that why you don't have a computer? [ laughter ] you might get an e-mail from bill cosby. >> i'm not frightened of bill. >> jimmy: nor should you be. >> no. i didn't get any calls. >> jimmy: you did not hear from him. and this is something like -- doing stand-up is something that people t up on stage and do it. but you really -- it's a whole leadup to doing stand-up. >>

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a pristine wonder. >> lake tahoe is the jewel of the sierra which mark twain called the fairest picture the whole earth affords. >> i'm proud to say that $1.9 billion has been spent on the renewal of this lake. >> the future generations who deserve clear water. and clean air. it will sustain their bodies and sustain their souls. >> reporter: many listening to the president's message moved to tahoe from the bay area. >> i think it's important to have symbolic acts and hopefully some money coming along with it for climate change and keeping tahoe blue. >> reporter: senate committed $450 million to future tahoe projects over the next ten years. in south lake tahoe, abc7 news. >>> as president obama spoke this afternoon, we notified people who have downloaded our news app so they could watch it live on the app. you can dowoad the abc7 news app and enabling push alerts. the app is free for apple and android devices. >>> the target area includes parts of san jose and the 95035 and 95132 zip codes. they expect to frog 11:00 p.m. until 2:00 a.m. so far two people have died from west nile virus in california th

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a couple of minutes from now i will be able to solve. it's good to be here. we are instructed to hold remarks to eight minutes which made me think or reminded me of mark twain that if he had more time she would have written a shorter letter. in any case i would try to meet the requirement and i know that we are running late here. i believe that professor scott's book is a very good book and important book. as you all know well a number of books have been written from various perspectives about the financial crisis and several i would argue are really essential to appreciating the scope, nature and significance of the event. i think it was ben bernanke's memoir, secretary paulson's book, they all, i think, help us understand what it was like for policy makers who actually confronted the crisis on the front lines and i would add to that list, alan blinders, a book which is the one that has -- i think a phrase like musical chairs somewhere in the title. i struck me as elusive review of the broader causes of the crisis and dealt with as it played itself out. for me house book is a very valuable and highly useful addition to this literature and provides intense and p

a couple minutes from now. it's good to be here, we are instructed pretty firmly in advance to try to hold our remarks to eight minutes which made me think, it reminded me of mark twain that if he had more time he would've written a shorter letter. in any case i will try to meet the requirement knowing that we are maybe going a little bit late here. i believe professor scott's book is a very good book and a very important book. as you all know well, a number of books have been written from various perspectives about the financial crisis in several i would argue i really essential to appreciating the scope, nature and significance of the event. i think of ben bernanke's recent memoir, secretary paulson's book, they all help us understand what it was like for policymakers actually confronted the crisis on the frontline and i would answer that list with alan blinder's book which i think is the one that is a bit like musical chairs. it seems when i read instruct me as a review of the causes of the crisis and how effectively it was dealt with as it played out. >> house book is a very valuable and useful addition to this literature. it provides an intense and penetrating a

mark twain describes that in one of his books. he spent some time out there. >> does he? >> yeah, a put planks down. you could walk over here, bubbling around, ocean wasn't involved much in the tourism back then. >> people were tougher back then. >> people took risks. >> heartier folks. >> disappeared into the lava. >> have you seen our guide? here's your day, clouds on the march out there, looking northward from the top of south mountain you can see clouds not much happening in the valley but again you don't have to go too far north to find the action. we'll show you in a minute. 91 at sky harbor, not much of a breeze, a couple of more degrees before the day is out, just under normal this time in september, wrapping up the month. tomorrow we jump into october and it's going to be a whole lot clearer, although we'll have to wait for the real cooldown, until about monday. a look at how things are going, just about the last two hours, we started to see pop just north of phoenix, and as you get up here into the mountains, about between lake pleasant and prescott, that's where things are getting very, v

received many awards including the kennedy center honors, the mark twain prize and the presidential medal of freedom. show: the losttt episodes is a dvd box set. classica look at some moments. i am leaving this house and i am not coming back until the end of the football season! [laughter] in case you missed it, here is the instant replay. house and i'mhis not coming back until the end of the football season! [applause] i wonder how grandfather is doing. gramps, how are you feeling? just as i thought. clinical falls, general hospital. yes i'll hold. this is marion, can you come right over? grandfather is very sick. thank you. would you pick up my black dress at the cleaners? bye-bye. at last. [laughter] thank you. [laughter] charlie: so there we are, these lost episodes. why were they lost? years wee first five were going to go into syndication and we could not use the first five years. there was some legal stuff going on. years.ased the last six 6-11. it has now all been cleared up. here they are. charlie: we have them in a dvd box. carol: they have not been seen since they first aired. people love them so much? carol: funny is f

a fan of someone's podcast? >> steve: i don't think they had podcasts in the 1700s. >> jimmy: this next quote is from one of my favorite writers, mark twain. he said, "go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company." [ light laughter ] that's a good one. he also said, "go to red lobster for the cheddar bay biscuits, because damn, they good." [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: well, they are good. >> jimmy: well, they're just delicious. >> steve: delicious. >> jimmy: i just don't know if mark twain -- talk about red lobster. >> steve: i don't think he said confucius. >> steve: oh, love confucius. >> jimmy: he said, "life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." i hear that. >> steve: preach. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: here's another one from confucius. he said, "whenever i make a a pb&j, i spread peanut butter on both slices, then i put the jelly on. that way the jelly doesn't soak through the bread." [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: that's really what he said? >> jimmy: he said, confucius said -- i saw it on facebook, yeah. >> steve: he just said -- >> jimmy: he says it creates like, a seal. >> steve: oh. [ lig