space in the sky, so we could make it transparent, so the guys could look out and that it wasn't bombastic. it wasn't overpowering. it wasn't beating your chest eisenhower. it was just bringing the midwest scene. abilene is 400 miles from the geographic center of the united states. i don't think there's a midwest representation of the midwest. there's a lot of people out there. so we pull these in, made it more modest, kept the cartway, and these trees, i think you can see it in the -- the cartway for maryland avenue that had to be protected for the view to the capitol. it's just a clearing in the trees, and then in the summer you have trees with leaves. unfortunately, we can't put leaves on the tapestry for summer. so it becomes a big park, a garden where people can come and relax. they're not being pummelled with information. it's very subtle. and the tapestry turned out to be a lot more transparent than we thought. there's the cartway. there's one like it at princeton. i think it is a called einstein walk. it's from the president's house to the hall at the institute for advanced studies

i was not being bombastic or exaggerating. if you look at the 8000 people whose lives are being demolished, it seems as this the effort was intended to protect every possible class that could be listed. when, check. people of color, check. the disabled, check. and the list goes on. when a few of the people dared to challenge the board of supervisors by taking them before the task force and won the case is, what did the board chose it should -- what the board choose to do? they mounted a stealth attack in a truly cowardly fashion on the sunshine ordinance itself. this was a truly cowardly act. i will encourage the citizens and san francisco every time they attend a public meeting, pay attention to whether or not the members of the board or commission you are appearing before even show the common courtesy of sitting and paying attention or do they focus on their laptops or do they get up and walked out of the chamber? most of the public comments, if you did not see the person speaking, you would see there were members of the boa

russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe cold war bombast the sweets america's republican senators and demand no concessions for russia which while it's guarantees us the silence won't be a it's way. thanks for joining our team at six o'clock here in moscow on charon taraji syrian rebels are under pressure to accept the un backed peace plan after damascus rubberstamp the deal and includes appeals for a ceasefire but no calls for president assad to step down something the opposition and washington have been calling for the u.s. is pushing for the rebels to unite with some factions rallying behind the syrian national council at a conference and turkey r.t. sarah firth reports. both come out of the meeting is a picture of an opposition that's really struggling to get its act together they've been meeting here in istanbul hundreds of the syrian opposition members to discuss and to try and hammer out some common objectives and really lay to rest the concerns over the very fractious nature of that it seems that that was elusive to then they were unable to unify and in

one cold war bombast is sweeping america's republican senators who are demanding no concessions for russia which wants guarantees u.s. missiles and won't be aimed its way it's after obama was overheard assuring to meet the needs of more flexibility on arms control issues. coming up next crosstalk with peter lavelle looking out what's ahead for the occupy wall street protest movement just six months before it was boring. please. liz. liz. you can. start. listening to the words. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle with the arrival of spring occupy wall street protesters are coming out of their winter hibernation with plans for we knew demonstrations six months after the movement was born what has been accomplished if anything and what lies ahead for this undefined in the loose knit community of programs. the slim pickings are slim. to cross-talk a six month anniversary of the occupy wall street demonstrations i'm joined by bernard zennie in washington she's a spokesperson for now d.c. in new york we have danny schechter he is a journalist author and independent filmmaker l. als

rush is bombastic. rush doesn't help right now. candidates, no matter what's going on, need to be saying, the president's policies are wrong for the country. bigger government is wrong for the country. more regulation, wrong for the country. we're bad at elections if we're not talking about what's wrong for the country. we need to win the race. if we let this sleep, we're doing something wrong. it's such a big ball, a big softball. why are we not winning? >> it was five straight days, and the very disciplined, normally disciplined senate leadership, mitch mcconnell, five straight days, don stewart e-mailing, here's what we're saying about energy today, here's what we're saying about energy today, energy, energy, energy. white house sensitive to us. there you go up to nashua, new hampshire, having an energy event. but yesterday, the president's talking about energy, and as kim said, the republicans were not. i heard there was a lot of hand-wringing over, why did you go forward with this amendment? there was no need to, you sort of m

about the american populous and we say, they don't like nuance, they don't want npr voice, they want bombasticare tuning in to long conversations, to issues that breathe and to multiple, complex ways of imagining the world. >> right. people are sick of infotainment. people get turned off and alienated as citizens. there is a real hunger for all of the things you just articulated and npr is hopefully one of the things that provides it. and all public radio. >> thank you so much to my radio hosts for being here and staying with me a little longer. >>> coming up, say stunning development in the death of a 17-year-old, trevon martin, the phone call that tells a key part of the story. named a 2012 iihs top safety pick. not...that... we'd ever brag about it... turn right. come on, nine. turn left. hit the brakes. huh? how did that get there? [ male announcer ] we can't hide how proud we are to have nine 2012 iihs top safety picks. so we're celebrating with our "safety in numbers" event. that's the power of german engineering. right now lease the 2012 passat for $219 a month. martin, does it mean any

you contrast that against the bombast we've been hearing at both the convention and a lot of the debatesout there, republicans as well as especially independents who are longing for a more tempered debate about these big issues and let us work our way through them. they're living in communities where kids are coming back with either broken bodies or in body bags or emotionally disturbed. and there's a kind of war exhaustion in this country. >> there is an exhaustion, chris, and you can look at the new nbc news "wall street journal" poll. a lot of americans don't want to go to a third war. let me ask you, though, how do you sort through this as an analyst? because we talked yesterday on "hardball" about the missile gaffe that kennedy made in 1960. we were at the height of the cold war. this was a dangerous thing to do, but this is what candidates who want to be president do all the time. how do we sort through when it's something like that and it's something like mitt romney said, we're in the middle of a -- when is it just politics and when is it just irresponsible? >> politicians can ma

. >> we're all used to him making bombastic comments.hael, or do you look at this and say, listen, that's unfair? >> we take michael seriously. i certainly disagree with the way he's characterize the max. it sells me that michael might be a little away from the rest of the people we're talking to. >> jim, you have 3400 at least planes on the backlog stretching out for several years. questioning are starting to arise in terms of whether or not that backlog holds up. you have a number of airlines, and people are saying, do we expect these orders to come through? do you have some holds that potentially means it's not 3,400 when it's all said and done, but substantially less? >> actually, phil, the backlog is over 4,000 airplanes right now, and over $300 billion. yeah, we don't know what's going to happen to the economy. when you have the economy soften, you have people that defer orders, push them to the right. we build our skyline, assuming some of that will happen, but a backlog of seven years is too long. i would like to burn the backlog