it is a barbarian city. is this our future? first we hear from a conservative, a historian,nd a libertarian. we have some libertarians leading. this historian, carl richard, and matt kibbe fights the government. matt, are we becoming rome? >> i think that we are. i think that the parallels are quite ominous. the expansionf foreign policy, the arrogance of executive power taking over our country. but i do think we have a chance to stop it. >> i believe that their similarities with the fall of rome and the republic they are in engagement of political leaders and so on. i see somef that. john: corruption, etc.? >> it is sort of under the table corruption. but it dsn't bother me as ch as the over things. for instance, the roman constitution had a to permit limited to one year and people just kept voting for tis unconstitutional leader. john: now we have congress passing laws that haven't read. >> that's right, we had presidents of both parties saying that i am not for certain about these aws. taking property, selling it to someone

it is a barbarian city. is this our future? first we hear from a conservative, a historian, and a libertarian. we have some libertarians leading. this historian, carl richard, and matt kibbe fights the government. matt, are we becoming rome? >> i think that we are. i think that the parallels are quite ominous. the expansion of foreign policy, the arrogance of executive power taking over our country. but i do think we have a chance to stop it. >> i believe that their similaritiesith the fall of rome and the republic they are in engagement of political leaders and so on. i sesome of that. john: corruption, etc.? >> it is sort of under the table corruption. but it doesn't bother me as much as the over things. for instance, theoman constitution had a to perit limited to one year and people just kept voting for this unconstitutional leader. john: now we have congress passing laws that haven't read. >> that's right, we had presidents of both parties saying that i am not for certain about these laws. taking property, selling it to som

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he said that they are worried about the way of life when the barbarians are at the door. the kids don't have fathers, the barbarians are there and you are worrying about taking your sunday night drive. if i have left out a few words, you get the idea again and again and this is a place where you see this mix of excitement. so this is the first thing that i try to do is give a sense of what is happening around the country and where it's been, where it's heading, whether the fight is over and gas developments are challenges facing clean energy entrepreneurs or decisions about what cars to produce and detroit. the second thing that i have tried to do is understand and explain the changes we are seeing in energy and what it means for the big things that people care about. the economy and national security and the environment and climate change. ask questions like will the united states become energy independent and what will change with russia and china in the middle east and what can natural gas you what can't it do when it comes to combating climate change. how much jobs we

>> the straw in rome's case the barbarians came and burned rome.ians, rome was already collapsing because of its own weight. subsidized grain and olive oil. vast shows in the coliseum. >> eric: that is where we are. trillions of dollars a debt. >> nobody knows what that is and when it goes bad it happens suddenly. one difference, one good e have the tea party movement. one thing is we have a free press and talking back and more awareness of this problem. so we can fight this. >> eric: how? >> by shrinking government or at least slowing its growth. >> eric: how about this, electing officials that are for smaller government? >> that is easy, but for smaller government they tend not to be. >> eric: that is $64,000. once they are elected. >> they breathe that washington air and you get re-electing re-elected by promising people stuff. >> eric: any good news? >> no. >> eric: john, thank you very much. did the targeting come from the top. ahead of the hearing, republican who says he has the proof today. tomorrow explosive new testimony out today, house r

> stephen: finally, as a proud son of south carolina, folks, i rarely have kind words for those barbarians to the north. i mean, who makes barbecue sauce with vinegar? that's what you use to clean a toilet. when i say toilet, i mean charlotte. but on the plus side, their republican-controlled state legislature is turning north carolina into a conservative shangri-la proposing for passing bills that would make couples wait two years to divorce, declare an official state religion and remove the requirement that charter school teachers have a college degree. great move. i mean, who better to teach fifth grade than a 6th grader. it's still fresh in his mind. not to mention an indecency bill that would make it a felony to expose a nipple for the purposes of arousal. so, north carolina strippers, be sure to add a sign on your chest that reads "for educational purposes only." well, folks, all those bills were just foreplay, which i believe is also illegal in north carolina. because i'm giving a tip of my hat to the north carolina legislature for my favorite resolution yet. >> house bill 937 appro

here's the depiction of barbarians sacking the city. is this our future? first we hear from a conservative, historian and a libertarian. the conservative, steve forbes of forbes media. you have some libertarian leadings, but conservative, i would call you. the historian, carl richard, an expert on rome. the libertarian, matt kib i, a group that fights against big government. first, are we becoming rome? >> i think we are. the parallels are ominous. the debt, the expansion is foreign policy, the arrogance of executive power taking over our country. i do think we have a chance to stop it. >> carl? >> i think there are similarities not only with the fall of the empire, which is what most people talk about when they talk about the fall of rome. most of the fall of the republic which was 500 years earlier and there i see romans engaging in unconstitutional acts, political leaders and so on and i see some of that. >> unconstitutional acts like stuffing ballot boxes, corruption, what -- >> that did happen. the sort of under the table corruption. and that's bad ob

. >> when the spanish priests saw these sacrifices, they thought that the aztecs were barbarians and began making some radical changes. when the spanish came, they forced everyone to worship their own god. to make this happen, they set about destroying the aztecs' cities and temples, and then they built their own imposing cathedrals on site to get the message home. after the aztec king montezuma was killed, cortes drained the lake to build new palaces and churches, but over the centuries, the weight of the new religion has taken its toll. if you look over there, you can see that the building is curving, and that's because the city is sinking. for the last hundred years, parts of the city have sunk over 9 meters. it seems montezuma is finally getting his revenge. although mexico's population is 90% catholic, it's often fused with the old indigenous religious beliefs and superstitions, and the sonora, or witches market, is where you can come to find potions and spells for anything. if mexicans fall ill, many will come here first before going to the traditional doctor. i'm on the hunt f

but before i finish, the chief of the barbarians stood up and sent him away come you haven't not told us about the greatest ruler of the mall. we want to hear about batman spoke with a voice of thunder and laughed with the sunrise and came from america. tell us of abraham lincoln. he was stunned to know that lincoln had reached this remote corner and he said he told them as much as they could. perhaps not as great as napoleon or frederick the great, but the greatness to suit of the integrity of his character and moral fire of fiber of his being. the dream that carried him through his dismal childhood. his string of political failures and his story would be told. for most of us today, we may not have our faces carved in marble and washington. but the stories of our lives will be told for the memories of our children are our friends and our politics. which is why it is so important to retain the art of story telling in our fast-moving world. as many of you know, i always come back in the end to my own love of storytelling to enter my own love of history to the days when my father taught

neil: before the barbarian showed up at gate, roman association of retired persons have been pushinge going out of still at the time. it is true, roman empire was so big, benefits were so big, they decided that food stamps would be the coup de grace for an empire that is falling apart, that was then, is it happening now? government handing out goodies like they will always have a government. and no less than aarp having seniors signing up for food stamps, senior passage that older folks have i right to right now first, norman rockwell type ads,i extolling virtues of food stamps, and now aarp. >> sending the wrong signal. our program. we started 3 years okay those on food stamps feed themselves take care of themselves. there was a home with 5 elderly people, all retired. all inside watching tv all day. some of the volunteers. got them said, let's plant a garden to have food, 4 said yes, went out, kidding helped them plant, they 10ed it ever 10 teny day, these 4 went out, and stayed healthy, the fifth stayed inside and melted away, when you let people do something for themselves, it gi

run the clock back and you can see the power that loses and rome was strong for so long with the barbarians at the gate by centuries of stagnation with the economic imbalance was a political and balance. so with our plan how to fix the budget but there are too many blue ribbon panels already. , because democrat or republican there are some great smart economist it is just as they cannot work together with people can make rational reasons where they get to prisoners separating but not even in that case when they're by themselves they have a better outcome the matter what the other person does. if they admit what had happened even if it looks irrational over a longer period of time. we only have to extremely divided parties which is what our politics are but a political prisoners' dilemma to be locked into the equilibrium where one party is fighting and the other is fighting for higher spending and they are okay. neither one sticks their neck out to say the republicans really or spending and democrats want to raise taxes even though they have complete control we don't see the balance brought

by the time the barbarians at the gates were bursting through, their fate had only been sealed by centuries of stagnation. so that is why the plan about how to fix the budget -- there were too many blue ribbon panels already in receipt of not succeeding. not because this is bad, not because they aren't smart. they're a lot with good ideas about how to bring bounce back to the budget. that the politicians just can't work together. one of the lessons replied as microeconomics where people can make rational choices with what look like rational outcomes. if you did to prisoners separated and it doesn't make sense for either of them to confess unless they have been told that the other might confess. but not even that case. when they are by themselves, they have a better outcome, no matter what the other person does if they admit what had happened even though it appears that they might go to jail for longer periods of time. because we have two very divided parties without any entrepreneurial center and its political prisoners dilemma where we have one party that fights and we are uncompromising f

the barbarians didn't do it.y spent and spent and tried to appease the masses by bribing them with free grain, a welfare system. first welfare state. melissa: tell me about the similaritieses because when you go through them point by point there are a lot. bread sir l circus is one. >> bred circus as a roman poet wrote. wars and high taxes and slavery, if you couldn't pay your taxes become a slave. to try to mollify people they had welfare state. they gave them free stuff. they devalued the currency. a bushel of wheat that once cost eight roman dollars, a century later cost 120,000 roman dollars. melissa: they printed money and tried to lubricate the system and make things easier and eventually someone had to pay the bill for that. >> there wasn't money to pay the bill so it collapsed as much as detroit is collapsing. >> gave away bread, that is like our welfare state? >> they gave away grain and olive oil and also subsidized it. we aren't as bad. we don't have slaves. we don't have shows in the coliseum where th

i want to play comfortable, scratch myself, curse and play like the barbarian i am. as pointed out, women won the last co-ed tournament. they hate me over here because i'm sticking with the ladies. given the trajectory, i'm pretty sure the glass ceiling will crack and robby will have to scratch himself in private. god bless feminism. find the links to tonight's #click3 on my website, allinwithchris.com. >>> the battle over abortion rights rages on in the states today. in texas, republicans, in texas, republicans continue to move forward with a bill designed to shut down most of the abortion clinics in the state. which in turn continues to draw demonstrators from both sides of the fight to the state capitol grounds. including state senator wendy davis, star of last month's successful filibuster of the antiabortion bill who helped kick off a statewide bus tour sponsored by plan the parenthood today. former arkansas governor mike huckabee showed up to rally the antiabortion crowd during an event last night. and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum who you might rem

not designed to keep out barbarians but who wood's biggest movies. -- v8.king out knows a lot about blood sweat and tears. there may be a silver lining to all that effort with people in countries with water shortages. how so? we'll explain when we come back. ♪ liz: all right, let's talk about the chinese film market. "world war z" has been desperately trying to crack that market. they need people to buy tickets there and recently when i had to chance to speak with viacom's ceo phillipe due monday at cta, he seemed optimistic this would happen. >> look forward to people in china as they should enjoy one of the best movies of the year. brad pitt is tremendous in it. liz: that didn't happen. david: dennis kneale has been looking into all this. he has the very latest. dennis, will that happen? >> i hear from a knowledgeable source that "world war z" has gotten a final thumbs down from china's censors. it will not open in china ever. the film is approaching half a billion dollars worldwide at the box office. china would have been worth tens of millions of dollar

>> stephanie: yeah, another barbarian -- >> you have to understand barbarians need to be educated.> i don't know, she is retiring and now has to go back to marcus full-time, so i have no idea what is going to happen there. i think ball gag sales will go through the roof? >> stephanie: you can't -- >> go fix your air conditioning. >> stephanie: bye, honey there he goes. charlie pierce. [ applause ] >> stephanie: you get so numb to this stuff that you go is it just disrespectful to the office -- >> yes. >> stephanie: is it racial -- >> all of the above. >> stephanie: right. you go really with the histories of flogging black people that wasn't inappropriate at best for her to say we need to spank the president. >> and take away his magic wand sounds an awful lot like castrating. >> stephanie: right. michele bachmann said republicans are in danger of losing control of the house in 2014 if they allow obama to wave his magic wand and allow [ inaudible ] to vote. >> there it is. >> stephanie: she said the only way to prevent this from happening is to give the president a spanking on immig

>> you don't have to be disciplined like a barbarian?>> we have to understand barbarians need to be educated. they need to be disciplineed. >> mm-hmm. so i was on the cnn last night talking about the spitzer comeback. spitzer and weiner. i said i want to move to new york and run both of their campaigns and say i'm calling from weiner spitzer. or spitzer weiner. >> i bet she does. >> i bet she does. jim, don't make me go there. >> jim don't. [ buzzer ] >> it does sound like a choice spits or weiner. i don't know which is depends on my mood. okay see i'm bias. i love eliot. we know him. he's our colleague here at current. >> great man. >> i ran into him at msnbc i found him incredibly smart and just funny. >> just because he did that one dalliance does not make him unsmart. >> well, there is a new bar for sex scandals, let me just say between schwarzenegger and sandford, pick one edwards you know. anyway, and he's funny about it. he has a sense of humor about it he has humility, and as jim said he's really smart and he's right on all this

need to learn now to deal with each other basically, because at this point america is looking like barbarians. i go to belgium and romania and i hear -- i go to these places and i hear how these people look at americans. not just black americans but americans. they see the gun poacher is out of control. they look at us like afghanistan. and some people in europe, i was just there, are even scared to come to america. not because of blacks, but because of guns. >> anderson, there's a point that he brings up that's very important here. he said you'll judge it based on a negative experience. you also have the option intellectually to judge it based on a positive or a neutral experience. so making an assumption is not always the way to go. >> but assumptions aren't about intellect, it's about emotion. >> but you have to balance that, and that's something you do as you evolve as a person and as you grow and learn. >> aren't we talking about gut level instant inherent reactions? >> which we often have. >> you can intellectually think i know we're all equal and the same, but in your gut, without even

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so by the time the barbarians at the gates were bursting through, the fate had been sealed by centuries of stagnation, and before the economic imbalance was political imbalance. that's why tim and glenn's plan about how to fix the budget, there were too many blue ribbon panels already, and we see them not succeeding. not because they're democrat or republican. a lot of smart great democratic economists with good ideas how to bring balance back to the budget. at it just that the politics can't work together. and one of the lessons we applied was microeconomic game theory, where people can make rational choices with what look like irrational outcomes and the story of the prisoners dilemma. you have two prisoners separated and it doesn't make sense for either of them to confess unless they're told the other one might confess. but when they're by themes hey head -- by themselves hey have a better outcome if they admit what happen, even though it ends up being what looks like a rational, they both go to jail for a longer period of time. when we have two extremely parties without any entrepre

he says they're worried about the athens way of life when the barbarians are at the door. the rural men aren't working, the kids don't have fathers, there's heroin. the par barrens are at the f-ing gate and you're worried about having to seeing oil rigs when you're taking a sunday night drive? again and again as you visit the places newly transformed by changes in american energy, you see this mix of excitement and fear. so this is the first thing i tried to do with the book is give a sense of what's happening around the country whether it's fights over oil and gas development or challenges facing clean energy entrepreneurs or decisions made about what cars to produce in detroit. the second thing i tried to do was understand and explain what the changes we're seeing in energy mean for the big things people care about, the economy, jobs, national security, the environment, climate change. will the united states become energy independent? what will changes in american energy mean for our relationships with russia, china and the middle east? what can natural gas do and not do

out beforehand and talk about the possibility of violence and not rioting, it strikes me as those barbarians can't contain themselves. it strikes me people as that as well. i don't -- i don't remember any talk about this surrounding the jodi arias verdict. or the casey anthony verdict. now, the police department was involved in this particular thing and there is race involved. to say beforehand, many people think that that is sort of inciting violence by telling people not to be riotous and not to come out. i think it's incumbent upon police departments to protect and serve all the time, including in these particular situations. the family has said according to our reporters, according to the people who've been in the courtroom and who have spoken to her, that whatever the verdict is, they will accept that. and it's incumbent upon the public to accept the same verdict. but to say, we're going to expect riots and mark nejame who's sitting here next to me, same conversation. it appears to be a bit odd. it seems like the sanford police department is now coming out and having a conversation with

. >> you have to understand barbarians need to be educated.ything is super when -- don't you think i look good in this hat ♪ >> stephanie: that's why tina brown is writing people are taking another look at christine quinn, because people are like we won't see pictures of her who ha over the internet. >> we didn't be guaranteed of anything. >> but generally speaking i think women are doing this a lot. and another reason why we are not running is we feel we need to be prepared. and men don't care. they are like, i'm going to win. and we feel like, i need to work harder, and be more prepared. i'm not ready. >> stephanie: that is what is coming out of this whole story is weiner's amazing ego. you talked about this what happened to ashley judd? kentucky about the slut shaving before she even run. you were concerned about that, although if you were a slut jim would certainly know about it by now. >> shut! she's a slut! look at her. slut! >> stephanie: and that's interesting, because women are the ones -- >> i just hope mitch mcconnell is not doing t

. >> barbarians need to be disciplined. >> stephanie: apparently there are still many who need to bend kagan are on the down low meaning gay but you know secretly -- >> on the dl. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ♪ ] >> stephanie: what the kids are saying on the dl. >> roberts has those pictures from fire island. >> stephanie: and that white sweater, oh, my god. >> presenting the pie. >> who wants some pie. >> stephanie: how do we know? because ex-gay activist greg quinlan says so. the president of parents and friends of ex-gays and gays. he told his personal story of having once been a supporter of gay rights groups like human rights campaign. he said the devil made him do it but now he's reformed and a proud leader of the ex-gay movement. is he the only one left? we should applaud him then. >> which need to focus group their acronyms better. >> stephanie: two founders of the first one ran off together in a really gay way. in a john roberts gay island way. during his tenure volunteering for hr, quinlan said he learned kennedy and kagan are secretly -- calling them black robed nazis with is a

rome wasn't ended by the barbarians.n growing promises, big welfare state to keep the masses happy. they started raising taxes, giving out free grain and free olive oil to people to keep them happy. they had great spectacles. we don't quite kill animals and people in a coliseum. but currency was devalued. they got involved in foreign wars. government grew. leaders got arrogant. rome collapsed. we're a lot like that. >> steve: it does sound familiar. but there are a few differences. >> fortunately big differences. >> steve: our taxes are actually higher than rome's. >> our taxes are actually higher. rome couldn't raise taxes that much, so it devalued the currency to spend. near row issued a silver coin 95% silver. the next emperor said we'll make it 85%. then it was down a few years later and vast inflation from that. we may soon see that. >> steve: you say that if we continue on our current socialistic course, we could become like rome. we have become socialistic in many ways. >> we are making promises to people as the e

concept, i think, is very deeply embedded in lots of people that not the foreigners are necessarily barbarians, but that we chinese are the normal, and the aren't really -- they aren't really normal. i mean, they're okay. they're okay. but we're what's normal. and, therefore, the idea of letting the not quite normal people get too deep into chinese affairs and interlock too much and be involved too closely is a quite foreign idea to lots of people. and i hope they're not going to -- i hope we're going to see fewer and fewer dick cheneys in china. [laughter] i mean, if i were god for a day, i would abolish the prop began that -- sorry, public security ministry and all that stuff. but hopefully, it'll get better with time, fewer and fewer friends will get shot in the eye and things like that. >> and to bring this to a specific case that as you know i've been harping on for a long time, it does seem to me that censorship of the internet is both an illustration of this phenomenon and a deceptively much more important phenomenon than it seems because if china is aspiring to have really first rate w

culture concept i think is very deeply imbedded in lots of people not that foreigners are necessarily barbarian but that we are normal and they aren't really normal. i mean, they are okay. but they are what is normal and therefore the idea of letting the not quite normal people get deep into the chinese affairs and interlock to much and be involved too closely is a foreign idea to lots of people. i hope we will see fewer of cheney in china. if i were gone for the day i would abolish the propaganda, i'm sorry, the public security and all that. hopefully it will get better with time and fewer and fewer will get shot in the eye. >> to bring this to a specific case as you know i've been holding on for a long time it does seem to me that censorship of the internet is both an illustration of the phenomenon and a much more important phenomenon than she used because if china is aspiring to have the first great universities. the people that can build those things aren't going to go where they can't use the internet. how would this be resolved? >> that's the problem. there are people, we have to realize

is deeply l concept embedded in lots of people that not the foreigners that are barbarian, but that we chinese are the normal and really normal. okay.n, they're they're okay. we're what's normal. therefore the idea of letting the not quite normal people get the chinese affairs and to interlock too much and be closely is a quite people. idea to lots of i hope we'll see fewer and fewer cheneys in china. the day, i d for would abolish the publicity security nd also the ministry and all that stuff. will get lly, it better and better in time. shot in ends would get the eye and stuff like that. >> to bring it to a specific harping on for a long time, it seems to me of the internet is an illustration and deceptively more important phenomenon than we seem, because if china as first rate world universities and first rate innovative corporations, the people who can build those to go whereot going they can't use the internet. here must be people in the government sophisticated to realize that, right? how will it be resolve? >> that's the problem. are people sophisticated enough to realize. there