aga again, the nominees today were from robert krick, who is the chief historian of fredericksburg for 30 years, david blight of yale nominated frederick douglas who came in third, nominated by james macpherson came in first and he was dead last in the voting in virginia and we congratulate professor thomas and we'll open up the phone line again for our viewers. professor thomas, you earn a big trophy or a big prize? no, i got a handshake for the director of the museum of the confederacy. you talked a little bit about this in your nomination for robert e. lee. when with general lee was the command of the union army in the spring of 1861, did he have inkling that he would take over command of the southern army? >> i don't think so. i think he turned it down because there was some irony here because he really just did not like conflict. he doesn't respond well to conflict and he does so because he can't handle conflict, what kind of conflict, you ask. he would have had war on his neighbors and relatives and he's going to do that. he would have spent the rest of his life explaining to the

it needs to sprout aga from where it was still alive, neath the browsing.nd that's what you're seeing right here with this browner, redder stem. that is all new growth. narrator: in order to survive, the willow must grow above the browsing height, where herbivores such as elk can no longer reach it. well, here we have a much larger willow. and its growth pattern over the last few years is pretty different from what we were seeing in the rest of the plot. here we see that the last few years have actually not been browsed. so, for vegetated... all covered. 100% overall. narrator: the research team is finding that the willow population is starting to recover in certain areas of the park. dr. crabtree: in particular, where the wolves have created, you might say, fear in the elk where wolves can go in and effectively kill elk, elk might not even be going down into those areas, and willow is allowed to grow up and get high enough to where it escapes browse heighth from the elk. and we're seeing this in several areas of the northern part of the park. narrator: sin

going into this year, aga, the district governor in kandahar province was assassinated by the taliban. mohammed mahma, the tribal leader in kandahar was successfully assassinated by the taliban. the u.n. reports that 462 civilians were assassinated by the taliban in 2012 -- excuse me, 2010 alone. and so you would argue by these numbers that the taliban has not abandoned its practice of political assassination, is a form of intimidation in afghanistan. is that correct? >> certainly. >> and so one of the things that we see in reports coming out of afghanistan is the one thing that the taliban has been telling afghans, is in fact, we're coming back. the united states is leaving. we're coming back. as a matter of fact we've got some great cia analysts walk us through that not all that long ago so that's a disturbing trend, don't you think? >> it is, certainly. >> and so you can see where many, maybe someone who looks at all of this information might scratch our head and wonder, given the fact that after the negotiation started, they were committing acts of political assassination to under

aga, sitting herey have no evidence on which to draw any other conclusion. but i also know that we're going to learn a lot more about the nethve ahead. and we will be very, you know, very vigilant, but at the egyptians understand that peace is in their interests. and they have a lot of work to do to build their economy, to rtainly in their cy up and wanting to abrogate agreements and causen already more than full. >> g advice on that, i counsel them on that. >> i have said that. >> i want to turn t conducted last year by the british government, the name of the study i believe was the multilateralview. in that study the british government undertook an examination of the performance of various against criteria including cost control, delivery of outcome, transparency and other related factors. the review found that performance was severely ci of these u.n. end tatities including the international labor organization, u.n. habitat and the food and organization. they found the performance so poor on those criteria that the british governmentwithdraw at l funding

i think there are early returns on that already because, aga, if you read the financial pages, the various newspapers around the country and around the world where there are continuing policies that allow investments, you see growth, and otherwise there is a pulling back. >> i was also very pleased to hear the president in his state of the union and to see that in action as well the commitment to energy efficiency, which is something that i believe is very important. senator poma bill, s-1000, that addresses energy efficiency in the industrial sector, in government and in buildings. but one of the best ways to encourage energy efficiency is by supporting the expansion of cogeneration or combined heat and power. these are -- the technologies used are generally off the shelf. they exist right here in the united states. the jobs that are created are here in the u.s. so can you talk to what the position of the department is on combined heat and power and how you address that in this upcoming budget? >> we are very bullish in combined heat and power. you know, in today's modern let's say gas tu

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aga again, the red will be very popular and all the fashion weeks around in hollywood. >> okay. fantastic. thank you so much. what a beautiful dress that is. sleeves are certainly are going to stand out at the white house. see that on -- michelle obama perhaps. >> hope flu. here we have clay wearing one of our featured ukraine designers. winter white, sweater for the guy that wants to be casual on the go and fashionable. pleated slacks are coming back. we saw the disappearance of pleats for pants for a number of years. now we are seeing a return of them from designers around the world. >> let's have a look at the next outfit that comes from the ukrainian designers. looks like a tuxedo to me. i guess it is a tuxedo. >> yes. this is -- wearing a bear classic. interpretation of the tuckied owe embellishment on the sleeve. a gentleman that wants to stand out and get away from the classic tuxedo. you know, lot of focus on the women and men want to dress. >> let's see. these are two of the designers. they are from the ukraine and thank you so much. beautiful and very inning and differ

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may well see things go down for a few more months before perhaps they go, continue-- i'm soy, go up aga. the unemployment number go up a few months before it continues down. >> as pleased as i am with today's numbers's far too early to know whether this is an inflection point or some kind of breakout report on the employment side. there are enough economic uncertainties facing us in 2012 that it is simply premature to do hand stands over today's number. as encouraging as it, in fact, was. >> and bring in the fed, joel prakken, the fed saying this week as it said the week before that they're just going to keep the interest rates very, very low through 2014, suggesti continuing real fears about the economy, right? >> that's correct. the federal reserve is interested in promoting a healthy recovery. it has said now that interest rates will be maintained at a low level for the next several year, extraordinarily low levels and that is a stimulus to the economy. whether it is enough of a stimulus in combination with the other risks and uncertainties facing us to promote very strong job growth

pk and toee assure the programs kep the budget is that for the becay country's economic security aga because yet again the president take the primehis opportunity of the budget to nat address the nation's 15 trillion-dollar debt. preside contrarycl to the president's claims on the road, this budget is literally loaded with a deficit reduction genex the would trigger an audit forconomi anybody else and make our current economic situation eveng worse. of now the president isn't going to mention any of those things, bue americans deserve to know the whole truth about this budget. they deserve to know what partya doesn't want to vote on it gonea to the dhaka and why his top advisers are trying to deflect questions of what is really going on here. yesterday the president's chief of staff said that the reasonint this budget won't get anywhereld in the senate is that it would take 60 votes to pass the 60 to pass and the democrats o don't have that many votes onugt their own. unwould suggest that he review s the sunday briefing materials ae little more closely next time. s as someone that ha

government, the book, and also makes it clear how hypocritical mitt romney's being when he suddenly agasn massachusetts already had that on the books. where was he when it was on the books. on top of it, it's not just women specifically catholic women. an institute did a survey that said 98% of catholic women have used contraception. 98%. if they have a huge issue with the catholic church, they have a big problem with the people. >> we've seen a lot of church leadership talking about religious liberty in the contraception issue. isn't there a risk that the leadership feels this but the actual people who follow the leadership, i mean, they may be breaking church rules by using contraception but they consider themselves practicing catholics. >> they appreciate in the mission and point of the church and the standing 57d tand the b of the church. they hold these beliefs. they hold these beliefs to be true. this is a religious liberty issue. it is further than all the states, ron. you know that. >> the congressman has a point though. >> obamacare goes further than the ruling in all the states

aga boucle a low-tech and eclectic and the field but the brother on the armed services committee right call a press conference and denounces as a racist institution. this wonderful back-and-forth. and luke a matter of principle. bill clay, militants. at a certain point the speaker looks around and says, well, i tell you what, we regard to go back and ask them to reconsider. at that point i knew it was over. i think timesaver don't worry about it. our letter get the call. you been appointed to the house on services committee. and later on when i became chair it was quite fascinating because the day that they voted me to become the chair a number of my colleagues came up to me with literally tears in their eyes and said, ron, we don't agree on very much, but i voted for you to sit at chair resources committee because i respect your integrity and respect your work ethic. that is how i, you know, became chair of the house armed services committee. there's one other quick story or want to tell. the other night, and this is true, a few nights ago my wife left the television on, and i awakene

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looking good and feeling good, it's all about that, you've got p hane, aller aga lallergan mak good andgood. >> the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke is expected to speak in just a little bit. let's bring in our economic reporter. it will be interesting to see if there are any sparks between the chairman, steve, and the committee chairman. long-time committee congressm paul ryan. >> we'll be watching the political back and forth to see how big the federal reserve will be in the election. bernanke is going to warn about the possibility of a sudden fiscal crisis coming from the high levels of deficit. he warns that interest rates could soar quickly, and a large government debt represents serious economic consequences. he sees the budget deficit narrowing, but he says the nation faces a sizable -- even after we get done bringing tax receipts back up to a normal place, the deficit will still be at 4% or greater as a percent of gdp and that -- the current debt he says threatens to drive up capital and the growing share of our future income will be devoted to interest payments on federall