it may be their best hope. phil la very well, al jazeera, gaza. >>> still ahead, have arsenal been able to break further away as the top of the english premier league? they'll let us know in sports.

national bestseller the world without us and his latest critically acclaimed countdown our last best hope for a future on earth alan joins me now in the studio alan welcome thanks for thanks for being with us to be here the essential story of countdown is the story of overpopulation it is it's something that i came to unexpectedly at the end of doing my last book the world without us which was really kind of a red herring because it was about how could we have a world with us theoretically wiped everybody off the planet so we could see how beautifully the planet would restore itself. hoping that readers would ask wow how do we add ourselves back to that picture of a healthy world only kind of in balance with nature not in combat with it but i discovered that every four and a half days we were adding a million people to the planet and we still are and that didn't seem like a sustainable figure at all so i just raised it at the end of the book and sort of left a day laying there and it became a really important talking point everybody wanted to talk about that's what friendly decided i shou

safety and security are likely to make the journey, and despite gaza's problems, it may be their best hope. >> iran's president swapped his traditional clothing for a baseball cap and track suit. in photograph on his website he is hiking with friends. they are trying to prevent a friendlier image of the islamic republic and engage with western countries. there's the front page of the aljazeera.com if you want to take a look in more

the best hope now lies with the more powerful australian ship expected to arrive on sunday. for now the passengers are not in immediate danger. their ship is stuck with weeks of supplies. it's just frozen in place. >> amazing flicks. state of emergency declared in three areas of mexico's state after days of torrential rain causing landslides and flooding and forcing many people to stay inside. they can't leave their home. the heavy rain began monday which means some of the worst hit areas could not celebrate christmas. >>> and the heatwave that has hihits many. >>> and frustrations continue to mount a week after an ice storm shut down power in almost half a million homes. tens of thousands of people may remain in the dark until after the weekend. it is getting intense. fights are breaking out over generators and death threats are directed. at the power crews. and in michigan 50,000 customers are still without power a, and warm temperatures could cause more hammer than good as tree limbs snap and fall onto the power lines. >> you know, richelle touched on a lot from the heatw

collapse industrial civilization true friends whatever we care runaway greenhouse i think that's the best hope for other species i think that we already have begun to get and in our case that leads to human extinction in the relatively near term i don't think that means we should give up on the species however and habitat for those of the species i think we have a moral imperative to ensure habitat for as many species as we possibly can instead of driving some two hundred species that day to extinction. i know that's not what most people want to hear they want to hear that we can maintain this way of life for her least maintained habitat for humans for an extended period of time but. as a conservation biologist i recognize a long time ago that humans like other organisms will go extinct at a time i just didn't realize that it would be. so rapidly and that i would live to see much of myself well thank you for the enlightening i'll be at the press saying . thank you so much everyone check it out major bad last guy next years and professor emeritus that was guy macpherson professor emeritus at th

coover as the first time since nineteen sixty they failed to get a top of the podium finish russia's best hopes of winning gold again lined with tatiana. among seem drunk call in the pairs discipline the jew of the reigning world champions and were the first russians to win gold since two thousand and five when tatiana top man in the maxime arena and took top honors before going on to clinch olympic glory ensuring a year laid. out on trying to describe the national competition with casino style boredom fueled a chemo. claiming first place america since the misuse of their songs and all the russian jumping ships are always such a hard start to the new figure skating says they have such an impact in defining our fate for the forthcoming complain there are a lot of important people watching and there's a lot of pressure on us to perform there not just competing against your opponents but also against yourself. russia also has some outstanding talent in the women's individual events however the sochi games might come too soon for the lying sophist in your old you leap needs guy who finished second

the best hope for getting this guy back, if he is still alive would have been quiet dip plow massy. a quiet swap. now you made it a macho thing with iran. >> for me, all you want, the best diplomacy would have been negotiating this nuclear deal over last month or so. that would have been a great time to talk about that. >> you're correct. we should have said to iranians that hey, you're hurting for sanctions knox deals noshg talks until you give levinson back. obama, if he cares about the deal but not about individual americans and their fate. it's a tragic situation. >> up next, vice president biden. what divides the most powerful man in christmas moments away. >> president obama won't be getting christmas presents from his second in command this year. >> did you go christmas presents for the president yet? >> he is shopping for me. we exchange birthday gifts, don't exchange christmas gifts he gave me a great birthday gift. >> how hard to pick out sghifts >> it's hard we love golf and something eve other something to do with golf. last time he gave me a, this cool deal where you pr

now that it's funded past the first of the year our best hope would be to adopt a law that winds it down and transitions into a different system. this won't work. >> still ahead tonight, kimberly guilfoyle stops by. up next, karl rove in studio baking down the numbers as to why the white house is in the red. here is the second choice for video of the day. danica patrick stole the show at last night's american country awards in las vegas. is this tonight's pick? stick around and find out ahead. >>> welcome back. if there was uncertainty about how bad things are looking for president obama we have two policy polls confirming the worst. look at the nbc wall street journal survey. 43% of americans approve of the way he's handling his job as president. yet a whopping 54% disapprove. meanwhile the numbers are worse in this poll. only 38% of voters approve of his job performance. 57% say they are not happy. what's behind the terrible numbers? here to explain it all, with his white board, the architect, karl rove. how are you? >> fabulous. >> thanks for coming. >> thanks for having me on the set

safety and security are likely to make this journey despite all of gaza's problems it may be their best hope have sports coming up australia continues their march toward regaining their ashes. we have that in just a couple of minutes. ♪ the president is swapping his clothing for a baseball cap and tracksuit. >> photos published on his website he is seen out hiking something he does every week. >> since he was elected in june he has made an effort to distance himself from his hard line predecessor. he is engaged in campains of negotiation. this photo was put on his twitter phage afte page after he call with president barack obama. the first time contact was made with an american leader in decades. he uses soak social media to congratulate sports teams. we are hoping to ensure equal opportunity. we have a public relations trainer and consultant who has been to iran for a pr conference. joining us now live, do you think it's what you said and others said at this conference that got the message through to the president that the times are a changing. >> i think it's something that the president w

now the best hope for the poor is free market. >> sometimes i hear myself and i just can't believe itricans don't know it. it's time they learned. bono is right. entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of capitalism than aid ever will. that's our show. see you next week. >>> tonight on huckabee. a failed obama carroll out and a broken promise that you can keep your daughter cost the president the public's trust and candid in his lowest approval ratings of his presidency. does bad news tr the president mean good news for republicans? >>> last minute changes are making insurance companies scramble to accommodate the president an his health care law. what surprises still lie ahead. >>> plus, the catholic church wins a big court vic

their best hope lies with the powerful australian resupply shape "aurora australis" spected to arrive sunday. the ship has weeks of food and supplies, but is just frozen in place. >> moscow's streets have been lit up as part of an attempt by the kremlin to shine light into people's lives. after scrapping daylight saving hours many in russia complained they lived their lives in the total darkness. peter sharp investigates. >> waky, waky, it's nearly 10 o'clock in the morning, and it could well be midnight. since the kremlin scrapped daylight saving time the people here have to face 18 hours of darkness a day through the winter. sometimes going without seeing a trace of blue sky or sunlight more months. >> for the people of moscow the walk to work can be a depressing and dangerous experience. carried out in almost total darkness, crossing treacherous icy streets, and it has to be repeated again eight hours later on the way home. again in total darkness. >> it really influences people. they can get depression. statistics say 10% of people suffer from this disease. every person can feel l

now he says the best hope for the four is free markets. >> preaching capital. >> sometimes i hear myself. commerce is real. just a stopgap. >> commerce and on to panera capitalism takes more people out of poverty. we know that. john: politicians don't know that. many americans don't know it. it is time that they learned. entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty and a never well. that is our show. see you next week. ♪ >>>>>>>>>> happy birthday! >>> it's been a ockin' year for stocks and signs the economy is starting to pick up, but are they both about to get socked when the ball drops and the new obamacare taxes and fees kick in? hi, everyone. this is "bulls and bears." get les get right to it. we have gary b. smith, tracy burns, jonas ferras and david mercer. welcome to everybody. tracy, new taxes and fees from the health care law hitting in the new year. will they hit the market and the economy? >> they most certainly will. what a culture sck this is going to be. first, when you sit down to do your 2013 tax return come april, you

now he says the best hope for the four is free markets. >> preaching capital. >> sometimes i hear myselfe it. commerce is real. just a stopgap. >> commerce and on to panera capitalism takes more people out of poverty. we know that. john: politicians don't know that. many americans don't know it. it is time that they learned. entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty and a never well. that is our show. see you next week. ♪ >>> hello, i'm kimberly guilfoyle, along with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino, and andrea tantaros. and this is "the five." is religion making a comeback in america? people are hungry beyond what is offered in the sexually charged culture of what dominates our lives. pope francis was named time magazine 2013 of the year. bill o'reilly's killing jesus is a best seller and duck dynasty has captured the hearts of tens of millions of americans. and the history

. >> senator max baucus was widely seen as the best hope for a large-scale deal to overhaul the tax code. what does your decision to nominate him as ambassador for china say to your hopes for a major tax overhaul? >> it says max baucus will be an outstanding ambassador to china, and i would like a swift confirmation. the expectation and hope is that if both senate democrats, or if democrats and republicans in the house and the senate, are serious about tax reform, it is not going to depend on one guy. it is going to depend on all of us working together. and my office is ready, willing, and eager to engage both parties in a conversation about how we can simplify the tax code, make it fairer, make it work to create more jobs and do right by middle-class americans. jackie combs? >> thank you, mr. president. how do you say it in hawaii? >> mele kalikimaka. >> i would like to ask you what your reaction was to the nonpartisan truth telling group politifact when it said the lie of the year was your statement that if you like your health care plan you can keep it? related to the health care prob

now he says the best hope for the four is free markets. >> preaching capit. >> sometimesear myself, andcapitalism takes more people out of poverty. we know that. john: politicians don't know that. many americans don't know it. it is time that they learned. entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty and a never well. that is our show. see you next week. ♪ hello! i'm dave gentry! welcome to small stocks and big money! intro music intro music intro music intro music welcome to redchip nation! i hope your holidays a happy, peaceful and pritable. and i want to thank you for joining us today. you know, we're the only show on any major network, that focuses exclusively on smaller cap companies.

despite of what some reviewers have said, i'm not a romantic completely -- that machinery was the best hope for most of the people who lived in the world. before the 18th century, most people were peasants, and life was hard, nasty, brutish, short, as the saying goes. so there's no doubt that machinery, especially in the age that i call a technocracy, made life better according to values that i think most of us would accept. people lived longer. they lived cleaner. they had more time for recreation and so on. c-span: can i ask you about technocracy? you had the tool-using, and then we're a technopoly. what's a technocracy? >> guest: technocracy is a culture in which you have serious technology competing with a more traditional social and symbolic world. c-span: japan? >> guest: well, yes. america was a good example of this in the 19th century. the two world views -- the technological and what you might call the humanistic, although that loads the case, but the traditional view of religion and education and politics and so on. those two worlds rub against each other, but technology is not ye

and more spending years calling for government to spend more in now he says the best hope >> preachingwmerce ana that. many americans don't know it. it is time that they learnedw. see you next week. ♪ little plastic shakenight "willis report." lou: new report that the obama t ahead of the 2012 election. dobbs. pass obamace.th presidee ♪ lou: good evening, everyone. "the washington post" reporting controversial regulations on health care and the environment and worker safety, all trying to help the president win reelection lt that is

getting to know chris christie who had been until now best hope of a non-tea party republican runningn 2016. has become a troubling matter. once the great moderate, questions now abound. did he shut down traffic leading to the george washington bridge? did he tell them to exact punishment to a mayor on the new jersey side to let him know the governor's feelings were hurt when he didn't pony up for the re-election? did he? or did the two guys he put in charge of the bridge take the initiative to cut off traffic causing the big backup? how does christie get past this traffic jam in his own career plans? how does he get past this democrat version of benghazi. they're already tuning up for use against secretary hillary clinton. and now senator jay rockefeller says he's investigating this matter in addition to seeking a federal probe by the department of transportation. the pattern of scandal is taking shape. now the traffic mess. then the stories in the newspapers. then the hearings. then the revelations. then the verdict. if this continues on course, the man many of us considered the bes

and we adults do not see the way to do it, our best hope is that the surviving kids are smarter and braver and more clever and more committed than we are. that does it for us tonight we'll seat you again monday. have a great weekend. >>> bracing for the storm. in some parts it's already arrived. another blast of wintery weather. where will it hit and how hard. >>> political storm. the one inside the gop. how will it end? >>> set to soar. well airline companies are making big profits, you may end up paying more to fly. well explain. >> i can't comment further on what he may or may not have been doing. >>> and the mystery deepens. an ex fbi agent who vanished in iran 124 days ago, what was he doing there and where is he now? msnbc has new information. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to "weekends with alex witt". a powerful winter snowstorm is already making a mess in the midwest is now barreling down on the northeast. this was the scene in indianapolis last night. it snarled commutes. and upstate new york, the snow fell all day friday. residents worked to dig themselves out under a thick

it may be their best hope. phil lovell, al jazeera, gaza. >> sudan's president has named a new government. the shuffle has followed the resignation of the prime minister, 1989 coup brought the president to power. the president has denied any rifts with his deputy. >>> 59 heads of state or governments have now quirmtd they will be attending memorial events for nelson mandela. south africans have been gathering to remember their first black president. ♪ >> the nationwide day of prayer marks the formal start of a week of commemorations which will end with a state funeral. president jacob zuma joined some of the worshipers on sunday. >> when i say we pray for the nation is that we should pray for us not to forget some of the values that madiba stood for. that he fought for. that he sacrificed his life for. we should include those in our reflections. >> sara matasso reports. >> to resh nelson mandela and celebrate his life. people have come onto the streets and here in suweto, people have been doing what they were t

our best hope is prevention. >> the issue of prevention goes to your perception becoming reality.t plenty of parents are going you know what, i won't let me kid play football. middle school football and high school. we know the issue is these players by the time they -- the first time they get to the nfl, they had ten years of play iing tackle football and might have cte. >> that is the question. it's a serious one. can people play football safely? that's the question that they are tackling now. the science changes. i will tell you, full disclosure. i am a big fan. i watch every sunday and covering the story has changed the way i watch football. i would imagine for parents of young kids who are deciding to play or who are already playing, it has changed their perception of the sport as well and run the risk of the league. that funnel of players and talent as the parents decide is not a safe game to play. >> are we going to get to the point where the nfl basically in all of major sports make every player sign a liability statement waving that you know there is a certain amount of v

now he says the best hope for the four is free markets. >> preaching capital. >> sometimes i hear mysf. commerce is real. just a spgap. >> commerce and on to panera capitalism takes more people out of poverty. we know that. john: politicians don't know that. many americanson't know it. it is time that they learned. entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out ofoverty and a never well. that is our show. see you next week. ♪ t. ♪ ♪ gerri: hello, everybody. i'm gerri willis, and welco to a special edition of "the willis report." if you bought something this holiday season that you are rethinking or already know that somebody will want to return it to me how you do that? personal finance expert very gibbons joins me now.i here is what typically happens. a lot of markdowns. i am worried their return al policies will be tougher thaneto ever.ugher th >> this is when you have the ee extended policy.h, but they give you a longer t

breakers have tried and failed to make it through to the ship so international rescue team says the best hope now is a helicopter. but the scientists and tourists found out they still have to wait until the weather is better. >> we just learned that they can't reach us. sew they are preparing the helipad by stomping down on this ice. >> that could happen later today. experts say its hard to predict weather in the an arctic region. >>> 6:27 is the time. crews on the scene of a three story building fire in san francisco. ktvu katie utehs has just arrived on the scene. she will have more coming up in a live report. >>> also the 125th annual rose parade will make history with what happens on one of its floats tomorrow. tournament of roses arguers say that is supposed to look like a wedding cake and the special event really shows that dreams come true. >>> welcome back. there is the opening bell. live in new york this morning. the last day of the year. the time square alliance. i think they have a lot to do with the planning of the celebrations there in the time square in new york. so they are alr

the best hope for getting this guy back, if he's still alive, would have been quiet diplomacy, a quiet swap. now you have made it a macho thing with iran. >> can i push back a little bit? >> sure. push back at me all you want. >> for me the best diplomacy would have been negotiating the nuclear deal they negotiated in the last month or so. >> you're right. >> it would have been a great time to talk about it. >> you're absolutely correct. we should have said to the iranians before this broke that, hey, you are hurting from sanctions. no deals, no talk until you give levinson back. obama cares about the deal, not about individual americans and their fates. >> unfortunately. >> it's tragic. >> it is. thank you very much. >>> up next, vice president joe biden on what to buy the most powerful man in the world for christmas, moments away. >>> finally tonight president obama won't be getting presents from his second in command this year. >> have you gone christmas shopping for the president yet? >> are you kidding me? he's shopping for me. >> how hard is it to shop for the president? >> we ex

the best hope now is a helicopter.ut the scientists and tourists found out this morning they will wait until the weather gets better. [ inaudible ] >> that could happen later today. but experts say its hard to predict the weather. research ship has been stranded for a week. at least there is enough food on board to last ten days or more. >>> people who live in the lake tahoe area are becoming very concerned about the lack of rain after snow this winter. some locals that have lived in the truckee area for several decades say it has been years since they have been truly worried about water. many say they have noticed really low levels this year. >> it will start to get pretty ugly. basalt reservoirs are getting -- because all the reservoirs are getting pretty low. >> businesses are also concerned since ski resorts need snow to bring people up to the mountain. people are crossing their fingers for more rain and snow in the next two mons. the first winter snow survey is set to take place friday in the sierra and the number

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now he says the best hope for the four is free markets. >> preaching capital. >> sometimes i hear myselfreal. just a stopgap. >> commerce and on to panera capitalism takes more people out of poverty. we know that. john: politicians don't know that. many americans don't know it. it is time that they learned. entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty and a never well. that is our show. see you next week. ♪ see you next week. jeff: jeff flock here. >> this week on across america, we go kayaking and fishing with one of the wealthiest and most successful women in america. >> we take an inside look at america's most storied office furnituremaker. what happens when a 300 pound person sits on a miller chair for three years? this machine is finding out. we unveiled the newest and fanciest outlet mall in america and get the wisdom of the visionary who started building it in the worst recession in

it may be their best hope. phil la very well, al jazeera, gaza. >>> still ahead, have arsenal been able to break further away as the top of the english premier league? they'll let us know in sports. >>> it's been a month since the philippines were hit by the biggest tropical storm on record. it's going to take years for the region to get back on its feet. the philippine government says more than 5,700 people have been found dead and another 1,800 are missing. more than 12 million people were affected, stretching governments to the breaking point. also, only about 100,000 are in evacuation centers. even there the victims are suffering, this time at the hands of criminals. >> reporter: here in the ruin city of tacloban, her story of survival isn't a happy one. she takes me to this abandoned building to explain what happened and why she's so ashamed. like so many others here, she lost her home. she now has had to figure outs how to feed her 11 younger siblings. desperate to earn a living, she's now a sex worker an

and itch we adults do not see the way to do it, our best hope is that the surviving kids are smartern we are. that does it for us tonight we'll seat you again monday. have a great weekend. >> announcer: msnbc takes you behind the walls of the most notorious prisons into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you have never seen.

and we adults do not see the way to do it, our best hope is that the surviving kids are smarter and bravermmitted than we are. that does it for us tonight we'll seat you again monday. have a great weekend. >>> bracing for the storm. in some parts it's already arrived. another blast of wintery weather. where will it hit and how hard. >>> political storm. the one inside the gop. how will it end? >>> set to soar. well airline companies are making big profits, you may end up paying more to fly. well explain. >> i can't comment further on what he may or may not have been doing. >>> and the mystery deepens. an ex fbi agent who vanished in iran 124 days ago, what was he doing there and where is he now? msnbc has new information.

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people don't really know what he's doing but for the republican party he is their one best hope in newot of other candidates that could take on jooeb shaheen who had very strong poll numbers in the summer and is positions herself on obamacare. >> does carpet bagger work when it's just new hampshimassachuse york? romney had ahouse in new hampshire. >> this looks we're doing this opportunityistically. hillary clinton, what was her connection to new york in advance? maybe there's a certain stature you achieve at which carpet bagger can no longer be raised against you. not like england where the party picks a safe seat for you and sends you out there so i think it resonates when people say it. >> thank you all so much. congratulations on your first appearance on "the lead." you got through it okay. great job. >> coming up on "lead," will farrell extended us an invitation to the pants party. i sat down with the "anchor man 2" star and we promise you won't regret sticking around, not immediately. ♪ hmm. mm-hmm. [ engine revs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] oh what fun it is to ride. get the mercedes-

getting to know chris christie who had been until now best hope of a non-tea party republican runningg matter. once the great moderate, questions now abound. did he shut down traffic leading to the george washington bridge? did he tell them to exact punishment to a mayor on the new jersey side to let him know the governor's feelings were hurt when he didn't pony up for the re-election? did he?

jefferson was certain that he had played the pivotal role in establishing what he called the world's best hope, a new world in which there was no place for the tyrannies of monarchy and aristocracy. thank you. [applause] >> please use the microphone. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you very much for your talk. i'm a john adams person myself, so these two guys are interesting to me. i had a professor in graduate school who told us once that the more he studied jefferson and hamilton, the more he liked hamilton over jefferson. i'm just curious, after spending so much time with these two men, where you fall in terms of who had the better vision for the country and just in terms of your particular affection for these two. >> i think i really started as a jeffersonian, but as i went along, i came to admire much about hamilton. i certainly admired his military service during the revolution. he was an extraordinarily brave individual, came under fire many times, obviously bright, obviously had, without a doubt, the right economic program, i think, in most respects, at least for dealing with the cr

here the pressure is really on to look her best. i hope nobody looks at my feet, i have a stain. but there is no time for that now. looking good is part of the job. she can never be sure who will number the audience, maybe someone to give her her big break. >> thank you. >> you are already a star. >> a few encouraging words and then she gives it her all, even if the audience could be igger. ♪ i found a dream that i can speak to dream that i can call my own i found a thrill ♪ >> we will check back in with annika in a couple of weeks. in the meantime we are off to brooklyn right next to manhattan a big city within the big city. popular with many that can't afford the astronomical flent manhattan. one of them has agreed to show us his company. the brain child of him and his former university buddies from unit turning normal cell phones into digital house keys and the keys can be sent by phone. he tells us their product lets them use cell phones to open doors. they can send their key electronically to everyone that comes to visit. he hopes his idea will help him take over the america

senator max bachus was widely seen as the best hope for a change to the tax code. what was your decision to nominate him to be ambassador to china -- >> it says that max bachus will be an outstanding ambassador to china, and i'd like a swift confirmation, and my expectation and hope is that if both senate democrats -- or if democrats and republicans in the house and senate are serious about tax reform, it's not going depends on one guy. it's going to depend on all of us working together, and my office is ready, willing, and eager to engage both parties in having a conversation about how to simply identify the tax code, make it fair, to make it work, create more jobs and do right by middle-class americans. jackie combs. >> thank you, mr. pratt. how do you say it in hawai'i -- >> -- looking back at the year, i'd like to ask you what your reaction was to the nonpartisan group that said the lie of the year was your statement that if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep and it related to the healthcare problems, the fallout seems to be making democrats a little r

and itch we adults do not see the way to do it, our best hope is that the surviving kids are smarter and braver and more clever and more committed than we are. that does it for us tonight we'll seat you again monday. have a great weekend. >> announcer: msnbc takes you behind the walls of the most notorious prisons into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you have never seen. behind every murder is a motive. >> they're crying on the phone. screaming. telling me their daughter cannot spend another day around this guy. they're afraid of what he is going to do. >> i felt that -- that the personal was more like a man than a woman. this was after we got married. >> behind every murder is a story. >> i went to trial, columbine had happened five months before that. quite a few similarities between my case and that. i was wearing a trench coat. >> behind some murders a person you naught ythought you could t. >> i remember when i wok up. the first thing i said was today is the day. when we go behind the walls of maximum security prisons we see a greater cross section of inmates than e

the best hope was that the items would not sell.t would at least leave them some other opportunity some day to try to get them back. the bidder on the phone kept buying up item after item after item always being the highest bidder. cultural director for the hopi told "the new york times" when he turned out his lights at 2:00 a.m., he felt he was saying good-bye to the spirits embodied in the headdresses. when he turned on his lights the next day, the news was very different. because the it turns out the anonymous bidder who was gobbling up the pieces at the auction who had successfully bid on 21 of 24 artifacts on the block turns out to be a u.s. based philanthropic group, the annenberg organization, working with the hopi and u.s. embassy. a secret spy operation. they secretly purchased almost every single one of the sacred items as many as they could win at auction for the sole purpose of returning the objects to the hopi people. never had any intention of keeping them. but they thought it had to be secret. if any body got wind the

. >> senator max baucus was widely seen as the best hope for a large-scale deal to overhaul the tax code. what does your decision to nominate him as ambassador for china say to your hopes for a major tax overhaul? >> it says max baucus will be an outstanding ambassador to china, and i would like a swift confirmation. the expectation and hope is that if both senate democrats, or if democrats and republicans in the house and the senate, are serious about tax reform, it is not going to depend on one guy. it is going to depend on all of us working together. and my office is ready, willing, and eager to engage both parties in a conversation about how we can simplify the tax code, make it fairer, make it work to create more jobs and do right by middle-class americans. jackie combs? >> thank you, mr. president. how do you say it in hawaii? >> mele kalikimaka. >> i would like to ask you what your reaction was to the nonpartisan truth telling group politifact when it said the lie of the year was your statement that if you like your health care plan you can keep it? related to the health care prob

what we can best hope for is a gesture on the part of these people is to release him with some message>> we have heard comparisons between woeinstein's situation and that of robert levinson, who was kidnapped in iran. what do you see as the similarities and differences between the cases? >> i think it's big. levinson was undoubtedly taken by the iranians, the government and he was most likely, this is speculation, turned over to a militant group. if anybody is able to follow this trail it's the iranian government. i hope there is some sort of back channel to tehran looking for this man. so i think the possibility of his being released or his fate determined is a lot better than weinstein. >> bob baer, thanks for that. >>> when we come back, some people just have to wait until the last minute but those procrastinators surely left the president smiling today. >>> plus, they flaunted their life on reality tv even though what they were doing was illegal until now. i'll talk to the sister wives' lawyer, next. >>> welcome back to "the lead." last minute shoppers weren't only wrecking the mal

dennis wrote a book still the best hope about america going forward in which he talks about secular absolutism and it's war on faith and traditionalism. it's a beautiful book. he talks to interesting people. if they turn on my show they would hear peter baker from the "new york times" talking about his book or they would hear jonathan alter talking about his books. they would hear a lot of liberal voices. a lot of smart lefties. great terrific radio guests. they will hear voices they wouldn't otherwise here at length. we have commercial interruptions. i have 30 broadcast minutes in an hour you have 60. but talk radio is the last place in america you will hear an extended conversation other than c-span that will go longer than 10 minutes. >> if you had to listen to a liberal talk show host in america who would you pick? >> do i get to invent they have a show because they don't have any. if i could i would get peter from the new republic who used to be on my show a lot but now he's hard to book. peter would make a terrific talk show host. he's very engaging. jonathan alter would make a terrific

here, the pressure is really on to look her best. i hope no one looks at my feet, she says. i've got a stain but there's no time for that now. looking good is part of the job and she will never be sure who will be on the audience. there might be someone who can ive her her big break. >> thank you. >> you are really a star. >> a few encouraging star from the pianist and then she gives it her all, even if the audience could be bigger. ♪ >> ♪ i dream that i can call my own i've found a dream ♪ >> we will check back with annika in a couple of weeks. in the meantime, we're off to brooklyning right, next to manhattan, it's a sort of big city within a big city. popular with many who can't afford the astronomical rents in manhattan. one of them is entrepreneur ben. he's agreed to show us his company. it's the brainchild and his former university buddies from munich. their product turns normal cell phones into digital house keys. the keys can also be sent by phone. he tells me that their product lets people use cell phones to open doors and they can send their keys electronically to