there's the movement called cynical real ism also very popular with collectors spearheaded by you amy german and fung these you know these creepy smiles read by many as critical of chinese society of course these artists aren't painting tandem and square and if they arrest everything is all everything is politics is it. reads be there or here. thank you very much they relive it. it is the 100th of a stray of the fostering of the so-called constitution which crazy for the 1st time a democratic republic in this country after the colonies it had to cater to $919.00 and it's the 100th anniversary of the founding of the bauhaus design school also invite to serve right the german national theatre of the world famous stuttgart ballet got together and 3 international choreographers have created new woakes inspired by the year of 04 or revolt that was 1919. to move is the starting point and every think revolvers around revolvers in innings. of the weimar constitution. yeah making this yes on the mechanisms of the revolution knobs i choreographed for example i snowball effect it's like the cosmos in c

amy gets clued in by her losing german bidder. >> he said, "amy, it was a rembrandt." for this painting my whole adult professional career." >> rembrandt? the rembrandt? the 17th century dutch master who liked to paint himself? how could that be? it's not every day a real rembrandt just pops up out of nowhere in jersey. >> in jersey? >> in jersey. in bloomfield, new jersey. >> where, this whole time, the landau brothers have been observing yom kippur, the jewish "day of atonement," with their phones turned off. >> maybe one, two days after yom kippur, i returned his call. and i said, "oh, so how'd the auction go?", he said, "well, it actually went quite well." >> and your reaction is? >> i think i actually might've used some profanity. >> when roger called me and told me the amount, and i was -- my jaw just dropped. >> that's the one from the dining room, the one thatd you . >> that was it, yeah. >> it's now your favorite painting. >> right, that's one of rembrandt's best. >> well, in retrospect, john, was it within your scope to know that it's a rembrandt? >> that's a

amy: i wanted to ask you about angela merkel. at germanhancellor was harvard university this past week. she was giving a major graduation address. shshe took an n apparent s swipt president trump and his policies during her keynote commencement address. merkel, who received an honorary degree from harvard, took aim at trump's protectionism,m, trade warsrs, and his efforts to expad the wall alolong the u.s.-mexico border. >> thahat is w why i want toto e this wish with you -- tear down walls of ignorance and narrowmindedness for nothing has to stay at his is -- - at it is. amy: merkel did not mention trump by name, but compared his wall-building effoforts to the berlin wall that restricted her movements as she grew up in east germany. you were at your harvard commencement, your harvard graduation reunion. you were there? >> yes. and she was well received. it was a beautiful speech. she did begin but his personal story of a young woman growing up on the other side of the berlin wall, how every day which into the workforce, she would go to th

amy, it is also the europeans. the europeans are very keen the u.s. not break fully from this iran deal. the germans have been looking for an alternative mechanism for payment. india, which was one of the largest purchasers of iranian oil, had to back off because of thesese is very tight sanctions put in place by the u.s. government. that the indians are also not that interested in the new approach by the trump administration. they would like to continue to buy oil. it is kind of an isolation the united states is facing, isolated alongside the israelis, united araband the emirates. no one else wants war. no one else once this deal to end. frustration is s out of that you see the united states jumped the gun, come in very quicklkly, and say iran is doing this and that and therefore we have to retaliate. inis important to remember 2017, the cia created a special unit called the iran mission center. this is an important outfit because it's entire mandate has been to ratchet up pressure on iran. i don't know what happened to the norwegian oil tanker or the japanese oil tanker, but i would be interested

amy: member of the environmental justice group which coordinated the actions. you can see democracy now!'s reporting on the german coal mine resistance from our cop23 coverage at our website democracynow.org in new york city, police arrested 70 climate activists from the group extinction rebellion saturday, as they called on "the new york times" to up their coverage of the climate crisis and start using terms like "climate emergency" instead of "climate change." activists stopped traffic in the busy midtown neighborhood, with some scaling "the new york times" building and the port authority bus terminal to unfurl banners. the new york chapter of extinction rebellion recently shared a climate media standards guide, which includes changes to language, banning ads from fossil fuel companies and linking weather-related stories to the climate crisis. independent senator and 2020 democratic candidate bernie is introducing legislation today that would cancel all $1.6 trillion of student loan debt in the united states, which affects around 45 million people. the measure would be paid for with a new tax on wall street. th