>>connally? >> all of us, every one. that was easy. >> so what did you give up? to give them up for good. mark has a little treat for you doing so well. >> he's going to be in the corner in about five seconds. and finally you asked them to switch to whole grain bread, brown rice and whole wheat pasta. thumbs up or thumbs down on that one? >> thumbs down? >> talk about the bulgur first. >> we thought for us we really want the white pasta. that was really difficult. but we introduced bulgur wheat and polenta. so we added. and that was great. that was, we actually enjoyed that. >> so final question. thumbs up or thumbs down on actually working with mark bittman. >> oh, thumbs up. >> you did it again. >> and you? >> miller family. congratulations. stick with it. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> connally, keep cooking. mark, you keep cooking, as well. when we come back, cheap ways to add style to your home. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. a late night motorcycle accident has left one pe

thank you very much. >> connally, keep cookin mark, you keep cooking, as well.o your home. >>> 8:26 is t time. 73 degrees, a hazy day here in washington, d.c. good day, though, to be running along the potomac river. it is the 22nd of july. i'm joe krebs. we'll get the forecast in the news for today. metro has acknowledged problems about a half dozen circuits that track trains. however, metro's gm denies a report in "the washington post" that the trains cannot be det t detected by the control center. he says the problems are not the same discovered after last month's crash. we'll take a break and look at weather. (female narrator) from jennifer: a microfiber sofa bed for just $299, only at jennifer. $299. jennifer: the only place to buy a sofa bed. >>> good morning. the air is filled with a summer haze. it's turned more humid. it's going to be rather humid today, tonight and tomorrow. afternoon highs in the upper 80s. hazy sunshine. there is a small chance of an afternoon thundershower. then a cool front tomorrow afternoon will trigger likely passing thundershowe

very often but i suggest you investigate other points of view you might read shelby steele or where connally or any number of other people. and i thought i answered adequately. i got the guy drove me to the airport after the speech in dallas. i arrived home and one of the people from the organization that sponsored the speech called and said we are getting calls from reporters at the fort worth star-telegram who says you gave a racist speech and made racist remarks and i got the guy on the phone, the reporter and i explained the context and told him the story about my son and he seemed very disappointed for one thing that he wasn't going to be able to nail me but also satisfied with my explanation and he said he would look into it further and call me back before he ran with anything. he never called back. here in this piece essentially accusing me of being racist. it took what i said, kind of twisted the context. it was a very, very ugly thing and then i saw this piece picked up by a bunch of other papers, liberal papers i must say all throughout texas, and it was extremely upsetting. i marc

most famously essentially chasing to his side john connally and philip crane. it's also during this time he starts to cry to his own kind of right-wing populism as we've come to know today, he gives a famous speech and one in which he says it isn't the republican party of the country clubs but of main street, the small guy, kind of almost fdr forgotten man. and he also pioneers his attack by government are doing if we simply deregulates we open -- and there will be an abundance of oil in the united states an abundance of cheap oil. there's a lot of different issues going on for ronald reagan to define himself, their strategic arms limits talks, there's questions of the the panama canal treaty, but is very clear one of the things ronald reagan does is he decides to define his candidacy with the term malaise. it's very clearly november 1979, so too does ted kennedy but in the end kennedy doesn't matter, ronald reagan does. here is his candidacy announcement in november of 1979 and this is where you're starting to hear jimmy carter's speech being used against him.

them was allen's biography of hitler, study and tyranny and one was on george washington, marcus connally spoke, george washington, man and a monument and dr. paynter didn't lecture. we just had class discussions about these books and i learned very quickly i didn't know how to read so there was an education learning how to read a book and as we would have these class discussions i found myself becoming more and more intrigued going to the library and reading and i became very interested in american history for the first time really and decided i would go to graduate school in history and when i was working on my master's degree i took the course on the american revolution and i think that is what steered me in the direction of the revolution. i got very interested in that topic. >> host: next question is from oregon. the fierceness steve. hello, steve, welcome. >> caller: good morning. over 40 years ago i took a couple of survey courses from a young forest mcdonald and i continue to keep in contact with him as recently as early this year. i seem to recall him describing washington as col