then pyramids, cleopatra, blah, blah, blah, cut to last february. president mubarak steps down handing temporary power to the military. then in november, egyptians voted in their first free parliamentary elections, handing a strong majority to the conservative islamic muslim brotherhood. then there was a presidential election with 13 candidates that led to a runoff between the muslim brotherhood. egypt's top court appointed by mubarak dissolved parliament and claimed all legislative power for itself. the brotherhood refused to capitulate. they held presidential elections, both candidates claimed they won and now officials are delaying announcing the winner and no one knows who's in charge. they even checked for babies in the baskets on the the nile. nothing. ( laughter ) ( applause ) folks, looking at the big picture, i think the answer here is obvious-- egypt needs a strong leader with experience. and a bold vision for beating his opponents with truncheons, hosni mubarak. he's a u.s. ally. and it's time to bring him back. there's only one problem.

. >> bill: here is my favorite question cleopatra, loved her one of the country's most powerful rulersher time. known for love of finer things. [shouting] >> the queen has come for the people of rome. >> bill: that's how martha will look tomorrow as you tune in. >> i'm going to wear one of those. >> bill: how old was cleopatra when she became the rural of egypt and very wealthy? i screwed this up? the answer is c. 18. >> bill: the drinking age. she couldn't become -- could thrown down a few. >> rule but not drink. >> bill: drinking age in egypt back then was 6. [ laughter ] >> bill: there weren't a lot of standards. question number three. doocy still leads by one. warren buffet cemented his name as one of the world's most successful and charitable businessmen. made billions in ventures and donated much of it to charity. >> i was looky in that -- lucky that i found out what i loved doing early in life i was 7 years old or so when i started reading about investments and read every book in the public library by the time i was 10 on investments in business. so, finding your passion is terr

>> i do read want to read "cleopatra."dilemma for both politics and political reporters, when it's 10:00 at night, do you want to read anything political? i think most of us look for something that is far away from the daily grind of politics, as much as we can. >> i also feel like when the president releases his summer reading list inevitably it's they erue died historical, a bit of pop culture. >> there's a trendy one in there, right? >> yeah, it's a political -- >> this year it would be "fifthy shades fiftiy schayes shades of gray." >>> thank you, all. i'll see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific. until then, can you log-on to facebook.com/nowwithalex." >>> and today see the debut of our "now" digit at short." >>> andrea mitchell reports is next. >> thanks so much. >>> coming up, secret debt meets under way. why won't anything get down before the election? >>> and senator bob casey is here with what the med chairman had to say to him on the hill. >>> plus donna shalala on our growing obesity proble

take me to a salon and they got the works and if we have a picture of the when you see that i had cleopatra i make upon and it was a lot. >>> you been there for eight years of what went into the decision to return to the knighted states? >>> the work that we do in the fact that we are some of and the leading edge businesses and it turns out for us an emerging economies and not a place to push new ideas and a place for they want to and act with already been successful elsewhere. >>> be spent in total besides the eight year's centerpiece and the like 14 years abroad you consider yourself a global expert for student? >>> in some ways expert in some ways still learning and still shocked. >>> of success listen i'm going to this country and a great time they're a lot to live there what you have to know if the ground up for yourself >>> when your perspective is that your on perspective and be open to other perspectives but also isn't intending to lift their which is different from traveling to sticks in much higher because you have to find a place and that new society but how to find a sense of yo

french polynesia is proud to be part of what france will become to make that is to say imagine you cleopatra. but to me that is disgusting. and that moment was imposed on us don't you not in fact she makes us guilty to begin yeah for we are victims but we are also responsible for what's happening to us and for what might happen if france were to use its nuclear weapons. and i find that on forgivable. behind this image of paradise lies the secret that surrounds the testing and rips apart the people of french polynesia here the economy is dependent on friends and the subject of nuclear testing remains taboo but this doesn't stop maria. bristow mood right now. that i'm thinking of my children's future. not so much to put. a tiny territory a tiny country before but we have a high percentage of people suffering from thyroid long and bladder cancer. and it's frightening to know all that. with the help of her husband the to teacher and mother of two uses the internet to broadcast an image of her country one that is rather different from those in the travel agency brochures. we've decided to speak o

and began smashing the bar, destroying the bottles of booze, and damaged the lovely painting of cleopatra that hung behind the bar. it all started in 1854 when carrie was born, about 150 years ago. and about 1900 when she was in her late 40s by then, moved to medicine lodge, kansas. in medicine sonlodge, she joine the temperance group. the nation didn't enter prohibition until much later. by 1900, she set her sights on wichita and oddly enough, she was only in wichita a month, but it was a very exciting month. wichita was presumably a high target rich area for bars and for boozers in her eyes. good population and they had a newspaper. the bar was in operation during prohibition and as most bars are in prohibition were located in basements of buildings, they usually had an exterior stair as an entrance or in this case in this building, during the renovation, several tunnels and secret pass allege ways were discovered where men could go down, go through a secret passage way and enter a bar down in the basement. there is a picture here that has surviveds history of the bar that was destroyed

and began smashing the bar, destroying the bottles of booze, and damaged the lovely painting of cleopatra that hung behind the bar. it all started in 1854 when carrie was born, about 150 years ago. and about 1900 when she was in her late 40s by then, moved to medicine lodge, kansas. in medicine lodge, she joined the temperance group. ladies who were in support of prohibition. 1881 kansas was in prohibition. the nation didn't enter prohibition until much later after the turn of the century, if you can imagine that.

which of the following household items did cleopatra hide in -- hide in to sneak into caesar's palaceime with him? was it a chest? a rug? a desk? or an armoire? >> b, a rug. >> absolutely right! there you go. >> i think this must be a first in our history of doing this. >> does anybody want this record? whatever it is. okay. here you go. it's on me. >> all right, reege. come on back. what about that, ramin? >> she'd been banished from egypt. she wanted to meet julius caesar. she snuck into a persian rug that was delivered to him and then came out. and they met and fell in love. >> look what love will do. great to see you. >> great to see you too. >> up dmenext, fresh, frozen, canned, or organic. such questions. what to buy and what not to buy when shopping for produce. right after this. another cup of coffee? how long is this one going to last? forty-five minutes? an hour? well... listen. 5-hour energy lasts a whole lot of hours. take one in the afternoon, and you'll feel alert and energized 'til the cows come home. it's packed with b-vitamins and nutrients to make it last. so what's

many impressed with how lohan has channeled her inner cleopatra.nd off-again love. look for the movie on lifetime, october 2012. >>> the talk of the jubilee concert last night, without a doubt, grace jones. burning up the interwebs, as josh says. >> do we have some hula hoop? >> i wish we had a hula hoop. don't think we didn't try to get hula-hoops over our fascinators. we do. >> you don't have to. >> grace performed her entire song hula-hooping, wearing that rubber leotard. with that redhead piece. she is making 64 years young looking so good. showing off the toned legs. i have to tell you. do we have the video of me when i tried hula-hooping on "gma"? not easy. i had to get cpr after about 30 seconds of that. >> you're working it. >> i think i threw my hip out. grace jones, i mean, honestly, it was the moment of the concert. >> we're at the jubilee. we're in front of buckingham palace. step away from the hula-hoop. >> probably not the right day? >> it's in your heart. it's in your heart. >> my voice of reason, everybody. >>> and one of the wonder

which of the following households items did cle p cleopatra hide in to sneak into caesars palace to spends? here you go. it's on me! >> all right, reg, come on back. what about that, ramine? >> she wanted to meet julius caesar and snuck into a persian rug and came out and they met and fell in love. >> great to see you. >>> up next, fresh, frozen, canned or organic. such questions, what to buy and not to buy when shopping for produce after this. -my toes know. -my shoulders know. [ female announcer ] do you know what a difference dove nourishment can make? my hips, they know. my shins, they get it. [ female announcer ] only dove body wash has nutrium moisture and a breakthrough formula that goes beyond moisture to nourish deep down like no other. [ female announcer ] dove body wash. proven effective natural nourishment. ♪ the nourishment of nutrium moisture is also available in all your favourite dove body wash products. that's been wrapped in a flaky crust stuffed with a gooey center toasted up all golden brown then given a delicious design? a toaster strudel. pillsbury toaster strudel. s