. >> and this is ben franklin. >> yes. that is ben franklin. >> and there is a live doppler 7 radar look at tropical storm isaac. it continues to move through parts of louisiana and northwest of new orleans. and continuing to dump heavy flooding rains. looking head to tomorrow, nationally there is another twoorm hot day for the entire country. there are highs into the 90s and 105 in phoenix. state wide here in california warmth as well, highs 93 in chico. and sacramento. into yosemite, 95. 103 down in palm springs and 85 in los angeles. another warm day, but not so warm as today. there are highs into upper 80s inland north bay. upper 80s into the inland east bay. 81 down south in san jose. and around monterey bay low 70s near the bay there. mid to upper 80s inland locations. there is a great looking forecast ahead and i'm looking forward to the weekend. >> and that is probably our relative of ben franklin's there. >> and checking healthy living news, researchers may have found a new life saving benefit of taking aspirin. a

we had ben franklin at yale. obviously, jefferson at uva. hamilton at columbia and that stuff. the yale one is still going on since the 50s going through each paper that franklin wrote on. claude ann was a transcriber who sat in the corner, ignored for 20 years, not listed in the books as being part of the team, but after 20 years, she realized she had different opinions about him than all the fancy historians, and she wrote great books. everyone in the room, i could guess, will tell you ben franklin was a great womanizer, a sexual appetite, and basically wasted half a year in france instead of getting money for the revolution sort of, you know, playing chess with naked women in bathtubs. that's the story you always hear. that was true. [laughter] claude makes a compelling case that that's all over interpretation by a bunch of men. ben was kind of a dopey guy around women so a lot of that is interpreted as kind of his repatienceness. she became a great scholar, a self-invented scholar, one of our great franklin scholars. i come to that at the end because there's a number of ima

she was going to be the transcriber at something called the ben franklin papers. ident truman started these slow scholarship works for all the presidential papers, as we have been franklin and yale and jefferson hamilton is at columbia. it's still going on. they are going through each piece of paper ever wrote on. claude was a trend scriber who basically sat in a corner and listed in the book as being a part of the team. but at some point after reading all of this stuff she realized she had different opinions about them franklin as he started to write books and she wrote these great books. in fact almost everyone in the room i that you will tell you that ben franklin was a great womanizer and had an insatiable appetite and wasted half a year in france instead of getting money for the revolution so playing chess with the naked women in bathtubs sets the story here. that was true. but they make a really compelling case of that interpretation by a bunch of men. he was kind of adobe guy around women so a lot of that has been interpreted as kind of his rapaciousness. bu

let me finish with the wonders of science from ben franklin to thomas edison and the moon shot and why this latest rejection of human knowledge is so, well, un-american. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> let's check the "hardball" scorecard. in virginia where a new poll shows president obama with a five-point lead over romney. it's obama at 50. now to wisconsin, paul ryan's new home state. it's very close. romney 48% and obama 47%. also from wisconsin the new marquette university law school poll is close, but obama is in the lead, 49% to 46%. finally to michigan they have romney up 48% to 44%. we'll be right back. >>> he's a practical conservative. he's got a very conservative voting record, but he's not a knuckle dragger. he understood that t.a.r.p., while none of us wanted to do it, if we were going to save our economy and save the world economy, it had to happen. he understood that. >> welcome back. that's house speaker john boehner's assessment of paul ryan. he said he's not a knuckle dragger. by pointing out he's not one of the knuckle draggers in his congress, he im

so what you're saying is are spitting in ben franklin's face oh gosh no first of all i do think that it is important to be hopeful person but the way to accomplish that is to respond to reality intelligently and we're just not doing that you know there's a long list of things we have a very big to do list of things we have to attend to and we're just not doing any of it you know we have to really rebuild reform remake and reconstitute the major systems that we depend on for everyday life and these can be stated with some precision you know the way we do forming is going to have to change because industrial farming is just not going to. keep going on we're going to have to change the way we do commerce because you know global big box retailer doesn't have a future we're going to have to do dreams partition differently because the happy motoring experience is coming to an end so you know we have a tremendous to do list of things we have to tend to but instead we're just sort of waiting for santa claus to find a way so that we can run all the cars differently well if i read paul krugman

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i had done ben franklin. was finishing albert einstein. i thought, okay, steve. >> i'm sure it was on his mind. >> i admit, i said you're a really, really great subject. but let's wait 30 years until you retire. it wasn't until 2009 when he had the liver strains plant went on the medical leave it spunk in that he was fiecting in cancer. he had transformed with the team a wide variety of str industries. first home computing and by that point by 2009, had transformed the music industry, with itunes and the ipod. the way we listen to music, the phone industry, the publishing industry, tablet computing, i said all right. this is too good to pass up. >> did you have a theory about him going in to this? >> i had a theory because his very first phone call when we started talking about it, he told me something that edwin land said to him which is that you always want to stand at the intersection of liberal arts and the sciences. right there between the humidities and the humanity and technology or engineering and that something we kind of lost in

idea of volunteer firefighters dates all the way back to one of our nation's founding fathers -- ben franklin. we'll have more on becoming a firefighter when "teen kids news" continues. >> checking for heat. >> we're at the bergen county fire academy, following teen trainees learning to be firefighters. >> so, we're gonna force entry. >> sometimes firefighters have to be able to force their way through a locked door. >> okay, you ready? ready? >> yep. >> strike. strike. strike. >> once inside a burning building, a top priority is looking for people who need to be rescued. >> it's completely dark. and what they're gonna do is they're gonna go in and do a full primary search of the room, search for all occupants -- on top of couches, on top of beds, laying on the floor, right behind the door, underneath windows. >> there's a lot of science to firefighting. for example, these trainees are using a simple physics principle to create what's called a fog vent. that's why the water stream is aimed out the window. >> basically, they open it up into a cone shape just enough to fill the window, and it c

ran away and invetted the whole new ben franklin down in philadelphia. the one we know. he dropped out. and some historians brand him and others argue that all americans are sort of recapitulating the franklin story. we feel a need to bolt from something, our state, our past, charleston, what it is and find another version of yourself. all day with a sense that your feet are in that police station. franklin did go back to boston. not really. he was always a philadelphia man after that. so. anybody else. one last question? >> [inaudible] hang on. an anxious nation awaits your question. >> did you find any parallels between amateurs? you know, time idea different regions or something? >> um, i don't know. probably. certainly they what about first riddled with paranoia about somebody else having that idea. actually, you know, most of the ones i tended to be hanging out weren't driven toward making money immediately. if things work out, sure. then like all of us. we like to eventually make money. but the fact is that what defines their amateur im. the day-to-day motivation fo

the earliest book is actually ben franklin's book on electricity and thomas keynes book. many of them identified the we were becoming or aspirations we have had. others told about experiences that we had uniquely as americans. we also thought that it was very important to look at nonfiction and books that either were self- help for kind of broken barriers of certain kinds. there are many books that are innovative, that showed america as an innovative country. that use the books and stories to inspire going to the frontier. that could be literally or in the intellectual sense. >> if you like to participate in an on-line discussion with the associate librarian at the library of congress, one of people than ever on book tv, we would like to hear from you. e-mail us at booktv@cspan.org. >> if this was the scene about 9:00 eastern just after 9:00 eastern this morning in norfolk, virginia, in front of the uss wisconsin after mitt romney announced that paul ryan would be his selection to be a vice president and running mate. they barnstormed the state today after this announceme

ben franklin was here. thomas jefferson. and of course, george washington. or as his friends called him, george w.! >> [applause]

. >> guest: the earliest was ben franklin's on electricity. one was dr. spock's book praising your child in a common-sense way and of course, common-sense that sparked the american course, common-sense that sparked the american revolution. they're not all first editions or very rare but many would be. if not one of the kind. those descriptions by the authors what i a door is part of those not but now there send books to read on the ipod button in the olden days. one is tarzan. i cannot think of the other one. >> host: in the exhibit is a lot of novels. not only but the common people read but some novels but it appeals to all ages. is a children's audience. >> how did they shape america of? >> many defied the aspirations as a nation others told of the experiences like the diary of lewis and clark. and to talk in dialect. also to have some social cultural books mentioning dr. sparc -- dr. spock and the big book. some were self-help or barriers. we did not want to limit ourselves to a particular version on run or a certain rating style. we looked for what wa

a slave will make you a white man if he changes, so he took and commence franklyn ben franklin eventually in 1787 becomes the second president. he has great accomplishments by american medicine. the studies and even grow as many others, many people sent their sons to study europe and even burba the sunlight meant that the study of medicine and came back and became a leading work with benezet, not very much at first. but he wrote his pamphlets, they had written this because they would lose his business. so he brought the agnostic franklyn to presbyterian rush and respect another's almost any religion again. the british wrote something in 1784 called the ways of becoming slaveowners. when he wrote this pamphlet, he said he took almost everything from it and apologize for taking what he wrote. they said no need for apology. i'm very happy to use this. no idea of intellectual property law in the states. of course the great grenville chartres and england who lives in the somerset case. the somerset cave was basically the idea that any time a free man, a slave set in pre-territory without a mag

for example, university of pennsylvania and they're tied in with the ben franklin center.nventors and investors and all that kind of stuff. if i had that idea i would reach out and say, i've got this idea, i would like to work with somebody and get somebody to help me develop this filing patents or whatever requirements there are. that's one of the best steps i would take. >> talk to the lawyers in the patent business. they are the ones that have the eco system around them that know all about these products who to go to, who to talk to so you don't waste your time what may be a mu knowledge rr rr rry of . >> there's just a community of people who do this. >> you can license your identify. if you're not the guy to create the whole business around this, you can go create a presentation, it's hard. you have to knock on a lot of doors and get someone to call you back and listen to you. >> j.j., remember, you're not in the business of doing this. the key thing is to find somebody who is in the business of doing this like a really good attorney that can guide you along. if some

you can see the uss constitution and then the ben franklin statue.more of a tour person they have a new tour called patriots and pirates. you can see the harbor where the tea went into the water. >> you can't be in boston and not enjoy incredible food. >> absolutely. so you can't leave without trying clam chowder. a favorite is ned divine's. don't leave without trying that. >> a little bit of music too? >> absolutely. if you head to the bee hive they have jazz and blues all labor day weekend. so you can get great local flavor. >> your favorite place to stay? >> the fair mont wharf. you are within walking distance and starts at just $219 for labor day. we always like to travel by way of our stomachs. why not go to a big food and wine event. >> this labor day in l.a. is the taste, an amazing event with tons of celebrity chefs. while you are here it is a three-day event and you can try food from 40 area restaurants. and while you are here you should stay in west hollywood. it is a beautiful property with a musical ped i -- pedi gree. >> i think of memph

and ben franklin said for five weeks, virtually, listening to the back-and-forth. and 80 years old, had trouble getting up, overweight, couple years or so from meeting his judge and says, how does it happen we not once thought humbling to the father of light. in the beginning contest with great britain, we had daily prayer in this room. our prayers will be heard and they were answered. that is not a dais and someone who doesn't believe in the acome dution of religious value, he believed in religious freedom. and not only that he believed in the power of prayer because in that same speech, because he wrote it out in his own hand, he says i have lived, sir, a long time. and the longer i live, the more convincing proofs i see of this truth. god governance men. is it possible that an empire could rise without his aid? ben franklin said, we have been assured, sir, in the sacred writing, not that we are accommodating. but we have been assured in the sacred writing that unless the lord build it, they labor in vain to build it. i also believe that without god's concurring

now, the navy in my mind starts right here because of adams and ben franklin and john hancock and all the familiar patriotic leadership that you know. they were thrilled by the turnout of all of these troops and how well they did. and they thought well, we've got nothing on the water just think of what we can do on the water. we can build a substantial fleet that will challenge the british. and if you read their correspondence, you will see they began to think about the continental navy right here. and it was their thinking starting at this point that the idea for the navy develops. what kind of navy did they want. they wanted a british navy in miniature. they wanted to decide the army from the navy just like the british did coming and they wanted to build the ships just like the british had come and they thought that we could certainly do that. they were not at all concerned about the kind of thing that the admiral was concerned with which is those small boats attacking the british and organizing anything of that type of business and they didn't think in terms of having the army coor

. >> the earliest is ben franklin's book on duchess city. we have to books on common sense. one is from dr. spock raising your child and a common-sense way and thomas paine who changed the american revolution. >> host: are they all first edition? >> no. but many would be first edition and very rare if not one-of-a-kind. some have inscriptions to books that i adore are part of the armed service our reach. we have two examples that soldiers were sent. i believe now it is sent to the war front on the ipod but this was in the olden days. one is tarzan. i cannot remember. >> host: in this exhibit a lot of novels. >> yes. their critical not only the common people but highbrow some that appeal to people of all ages. visitor buys and "charlotte's web." >> also "gone with the wind" how does that shape america? >> with the aspirations had that the diaries of lewis and clark but how we speak today. >> mentioning dr. spock also the big book we thought it was important but they looked across of broad spectrum with even a certain kind of what their. that shows america as the innovative co

>> ben franklin. i wanted to be in a one-man band. that's my idea.d bang my knees together. thought it would be good to keep the beat, be patriotic. >> is this a dragon, may i? >> this is a japanese crank. >> i have really short spanx on. i just came from the gym. lots of things. >> they're all over. >> let's talk about your comedy tour. it's called "mother." it's about your mother. >> i always make jokes about her because she can't ever pronounce things. she tried to take us to montgomery ward. i've been making fun of her since i was a child. i thought i would put a whole show together. >> you come by this naturally, which i didn't realize. your father was a jokester. >> he was a joke writer in korea. so now i'm carrying on the family tradition. it's kind of like i bought a liquor store and opened it. similar. >> that's what i should have done. >> "drop dead diva" is a dromedy and it's terrific. how's that going, by the way? >> we love it. we're in our fourth season and we would love to have you on. we have great, great guest stars like kim kardashi

ben franklin rolling in the grave. another $5.6 billion due in september. deeply in debt.d the stamp price to a dollar. why not? >> why not? >> stop the two, three penny increase. >> what is it now? i don't know what it is. 46 cents? >> from a deli 86 cents right now. >> take it -- >> to the gath. the garfield the cat. >> five days from six and we have to move on. moving us on. finally, the higher end real estate market in new york getting higher. $100 million penthouse hits the market. kayla, what is this a sign of? >> talk about the price. it sells for. because bagter for $4.5 million. granted that's in the early '90s so account for inflation. >> $9 million or $10 million in the house? $100 million in this market? >> that's impossible. >> do the math, though. let's say he get what is he's asking for. 8,000 square feet. let me break it down for you. the average american home is about 2,30 square feet. call it 2,000. this means in a 2,000 square foot home, it would sell for $25 million. put another way -- >> my average home. >> a studio, a little tiny box is $6.5 million a

. >> the earliest is from ben franklin on electricity. we have to books about common sense. one is about dr. spock raising your child and the thomas paine book that saved the american revolution. >> host: are they all first editions or rare? >> guest: not all of them but many are if not one-of-a-kind. some have inscriptions by the authors or other famous people. to books are part of the armed services reach four people surveying in the military. books that soldiers were sent bride believe now they are sent on the ipod but in the old days. one is tarzan and i cannot think of the other one. >> host: in this exhibit a lot of novels not only those that the common people bet but also those of highbrow appealing to people of all ages. children's books. charlotte's web. the "wizard of oz." >> host: also "gone with the wind". >> many identified who we were becoming or the aspirations we had as a nation. others told of experiences white the diary of lewis and clark. "huckleberry finn." those that talked in dialect shape idea is and how we speak today. >> host: you also have social an

." >> yes, it does, although the earliest book is actually ben franklin's book on electricity. that's 1751. so we have two books about "common sense" in the show. one is dr. spock's book on raising your child in a common sense way, and, of course, thomas paine's book that really kind of sparked or saved the american revolution. >> now, when we see these weeks, are all these -- these books, are these all first edition decisions or very rare? >> they're not, although we have many books in our library of congress collection that would be very rare if not one of a kind. but we've selected books for a variety of reasons. some of them have inscriptions by other famous people or by the authors themselves. two books in this collection that i just adore are books that are part of the armed service, um, book outreach to people who are serving in the military. and so we have two examples of books that soldiers are sent or were sent, i should say. i believe now they are sent books to read at the war front on ipods and other things. but at least in the olden days -- >> what are the two book

c-span: and the next one's ben franklin as we move over to the right. >> guest: franklin as we move to the right, exactly. c-span: sitting at a table with john hancock. who was he? >> guest: he was the president of congress. c-span: where was he from? >> guest: and he was from massachusetts. c-span: you can see then, i believe, it's mr. thomson there, the secretary, standing. >> guest: yes. ok. c-span: and that painting, again, is in the rotunda of the capitol. >> guest: it is. now it shows a large num--probably a far larger number of the members of the second continental congress than were actually present. john adams later criticized that painting. he called it a 'shin' piece because it showed everybody's knees, i think. and he said it was part of the evolving myth--historical myth that was starting to become apparent in the 1820s; that there were more people there were more people there because we don't know how many people were actually there when the declaration was presented to congress--the draft was presented to congress. we don't really know altogether how many were there on t

. >> as it does although the earliest book is actually ben franklin spoke on electricity. that is from 1751, so we have to books about common sense and the show. one is dr. spock's book on raising your child in a commonsense way and of course thomas paine's book that really kind of sparked or shaped the american revolution. >> now when we see these books are these all first editions, very rare? >> they are not all first editions are very rare although we have many books in our library of congress collection that would be first editions and very rare if not one-of-a-kind but we selected books for a friday of reasons. some of them have inscriptions by other favorite people or by the authors themselves. two books in this collection that i just adore are books that are part of the armed service book outreach to people who are serving in the military so we have two examples of looks that soldiers were sent i should say. i believe they were sent books to read at the war front on ipods and other things but at least in the olden days. see what are the two books that you have? >> i

the earliest book is actually ben franklin's book on electricity. that's a 18 say. we have two books about common sense in the show. one is dr. spoke's book on raising your child in common sense way and thomas paine's book that kind of sparked or saved the american revolution. >> when besee the books, are they all first editions, very rare? >> they're not all first editions or very rare. we have many books in the clerks in the library of congress collection that would be first editions and very rare if not one of kind. we have selected books for a variety of reasons. some have inscriptions by other famous people or authors themselves. two books in the collection that i adore are books that are part of the armed service book outreach to people who are serving in the military. and so we have two examples of books that soldiers are were sent i believe now they are sent books to read at the war front on ipoddings other things. in the old days. >> what are the two books? >> i believe one is "tar disan." i'm trying to think what the other one is. oh gosh, . >> while you t

. >> ben franklin and thomas edison, let alone landing on the moon.s handed. >> he thinks i shook hands with him, but i think i patted him on the shoulder. >> he was an incredibly modest person and there was no romanticism to armstrong. >> mr. chairman and delegates, i accept

this goes back to ben franklin and thomas alva edison and george washington carver, let alone landingl these people believed in science. this morning, everybody's talking about hurricane isaac, and we're watching satellite maps made with spacecraft orbiting the earth, and this all comes from science. if you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. you're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you. >> but you do know -- >> as i say, this is bad for kids. >> but bill nye, you do know not everybody feels this way. the latest statistics show many people believe, 46% believe that god created man, 32% believe that humans evolve with god's guidance and only 15% believe in evolution alone. can you see another side, why people feel the way they do? >> oh, well, as they say, you can believe what you want religiously. religion is one thing, but science, provable science is something else. my concern is you don't want people growing up not believing in radioactivity, not believing in geolog

the earliest book is actually ben franklin's book on electricity.homas paine's book that really sparked or shaped the american revolution. novels are a critical part of american culture. many of them identified who we were becoming or the aspirations we had as a nation. others told about experiences that we had uniquely as americans. we also thought it was very important to look at non-fiction and books that either were self- help or kind of broke barriers. many books were innovative, that kind of showed america as an innovative country that used books as stories to inspire, going to the frontier. that could be literally or intellectually. >> if you would like to participate in on-line discussion with the roberta shafer, assistant librarian, we would like to hear from you. e-mail us. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from the studios in new hampshire is former new hampshire governor and former senator judd gregg, now the co-chair of the campaign to fix the debt. thanks for joining us. guest: susan, thanks for having me. host: i hav

. >> ben franklin, thomas edson. >> let alone, landing on the mo moon, neil armstrong. >> quality basei patted him on the shoulder. >> he was an incredibly modest person and there was no romanticism to armstrong. >> mr. chairman and delegates, i accept your nomination for president of the united states!, happy birthday! thank you, nana send money to anyone's checking account with chase quickpay. all you need is an email address or mobile number. you're welcome. take a step forward >>> in downtown san francisco at 855 years the latest. the dumbarton bridge will be closed beginning at 10:00 tonight. the retrofit will take place all weekend and remain closed until 5:00 on tuesday morning. another traffic closure this week in fremont street in san francisco close to the trans a transit center in michigan hours streets. reopening is set for 5 in the morning on tuesday. lottery officials are looking for this man that could be the winner of last month's mega millions drawing and he is yet to collect $52 million the winning ticket was purchased at the quick shot the moment avenue in fremont. >

the earliest book is actually ben franklin's book on electricity. and, of course, thomas paine's book that really kind of sparked or shaped the american revolution. many of them identified who we were becoming or the as pragues -- aspirations we had as a nation. others told about experiences that we had uniquely as americans. we also thought that it was very important to look at nonfiction and books that either were self-help or kind of broke barriers of certain kinds. we looked for many books that were innovative, that kind of showed america as an innovative country that used books and stories to inspire going to the frontier. and that could be with literally or intellectually. >> if you would like to participate in an online discussion with roberta schaffer, associate librarian of the library of congress, one that we will then air on booktv, we'd like to hear from you. e-mail us at booktv@cspan.org. >> good morning, everyone -- >> and live now as the airline pilots' associations air safety forum takes place again this morning here in washington. i

the earliest book is actually ben franklin's book on electricity, and of course, thomas paine's book -- the american revolution. many of them identified the aspirations we had. others told about experiences that we had uniquely as americans. we also thought that it was very important to look at non-fiction and books that were either self- help or broke down barriers of certain kinds. we look for books that were innovative, that kind of should america as an innovative country. using books and stories to inspire going to the frontier, and that could be literary or intellectual. >> if you would like to participate in the on-line discussion, one that we will then play on booktv, we would like to hear from you. you can email us. >> earlier today, tsa administrator john pistole, comments at the air line pilots association conference held in washington. it is one hour, 15 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming the aviation safety chair, the captain. [applause] >> our theme for this year's form is everything matters. isthis year's forum everything matters. no single el

that's "the new york post," and ben ming franklin, a great publisher, sam adams was a publisher. it's hard to think of founders who didn't write journalism. george washington didn't, but, d you know, that is very rare. even someone like james madison who didn't particularly like it and wasn't great at it, he screwed himself up and wrote 29 federalist papers which were op-ed pieces in newspapers.ap these guys, these men know thatn they have to put themselveses out there for the american public which is their constituency. >> host: know-it-alls? >> guest: well, they were well-educated. look, it's a little country. the colleges we have -- we have a handful of colleges. they are tiny.f you know, harvard or kings, college which becomes columbia or yale or princeton.to they've got a few dozen students unlike the thousands that they haveus today, but, you know, mot of these men were college t graduates. those who weren't made sure ther read all of their lives. they -- they felt that they had to be up on both the news of the day and the political theory ofi the day. they all near their i