and in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal stations up on top of buttes. every fire signal station is in view of two other signal stations. each of those, four, on and on and on so that a fire would be lit at one spot and everybody would know, you could send messages for hundreds of miles. you could send messages over mountain ranges. there are fire signals all over the four corners, rows and fire signals. i talked to the guy who first discovered these signals and he was just out there mapping archeological sites with a crew in the 70's and he kept coming across these hills that had some kind of -- a little bit of architecture but they couldn't tell what they were. and they decided they are just not going to put them in the reports because they didn't have a name for these until he decided to go up to one and he dug into it and there he found a carved stone bowl with a carved stone lid set into it. and he opened it up and it was full of pieces of turquoise and that's when he looked around and thought, wait a minute, there's something going on around here.

top of the news. and you think that was ridiculous? get off your butt. no, you get off your butt. that's the high minded back and forth among our leaders in washington's latest self-inflicted budget crisis. the one the white house and congress created in the first place. we have moved the bill in the house twice. we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. >> i think he should understand who is sitting on their posterior. i ask the republican speaker where is your bill. >> shepard: speaker boehner says there was a bill passed last year. the trouble is the analysts say those bills expired when the new congress took over in washington. it is a ridiculous government created mess. one striking example. the pentagon wants to cut programs that sequestration will not allow and is forced to make cuts that have leaders worried about security and job losses. the wrong moves at the wrong time and those people in d.c. unable or unwilling to make it right. the president is on the road making his case to others, right? that's right he

butt of very cruel jokes. rather than subject yourself to that, -- rather than subject herself to that, my guess is she will submit her resignation and the chancellor will accept it. >> back to our top story now, the turmoil in tunisia. we go back now to tunis, where the prime minister is speaking. the president has just been speaking -- the prime minister, rather. what did he have to say? >> yes, the prime minister was relatively vague and said that he had made the decision on his own, did not say weather -- whether coalition partners were involved. the opposition parties are about to give a press conference on what will be their reaction to the killing. >> we are still waiting for reaction. can you give us some background? how much has tunisian been destabilized by this assassination? >> i would not say that tunisia has been destabilized. most citizens are just carrying on their lives as usual, but in political circles, it certainly seems quite a big event today. >> thanks so very much. moving on to some other news, society has been struggling to keep up for decades, and sometimes developments outpaced our ability to apprehend all the consequences. >> take artificial insemination,

top cnn trends, head to cnn.com/trends. >>> david letterman face to face with the butt of many of his jokes.stie. >> i've made jokes about you, not just one or two or ongoing here and there, intermittent but -- [ laughter ] >> i didn't know this was going to be this long. [ laughter ] >> wow. [ applause ] >> now wait a minute. maybe you can do that sort of thing in your state, buddy. [ laughter ] >> you can litter like that in jersey. >>> "early start" continues right now. >>> a dramatic rescue, fbi agents storm an armed kidnaper's bunker, his 5-year-old hostage safe and sound this morning. >>> all of those smears are absolutely false. >> fighting back. new jersey senator bob menendez answers to allegations of partying with prostitutes. it is a cnn exclusive. >>> and solving the super bowl blackout. this morning at least we know who's not to blame. it wasn't beyonce. we can assure you. >>> good morning, welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. john berman is going to join us a little later on on "starting point". >> nice to have you with us, i'm zoraida sambolin. it's tuesday, memberf

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top of a best western ballroom. his arms crossed. >> he did not stand up in tights with a tiny little tox tail attached to his butt and go wang dang rock n' roll kind of bad boy. what is it? he married his cousin he was sleeping with because incest is a -- less of a charge than statutory rape. >> something like that. >> stephanie: i think he adopted a teenage girl in order to -- >> never mind. >> just so he could marry her. >> stephanie: robert in tennessee. >> we'll look it up. >> stephanie: google it. >> caller: how are you doing this morning? >> stephanie: good. go ahead. >> caller: i just wanted to talk a little bit about gun control. if we're going to take guns away from the civilians, we should take guns away from the police. that said, the root of gun violence is rooted in a failed drug war. >> stephanie: wait a minute, dew point the police to have guns is what you're saying? >> not if the civilians don't have weapons. >> so you think you're going to have to kill a cop at some point in your life. >> no, not at all. >> if you have to open on fire on someone it will be an officer. >> negative. i believe in gun control. i thin