there are seats up here to my left her new costanza off to the corner and find an open seat for the back. welcome to politics and prose. thank you for being here. i want to start by welcoming you and saying thanks for being here on behalf of bradley graham, and the staff here, collective thanks for supporting the event series here and being here for lisa randall's book "knocking on heaven's door". we're excited to be talking about this book. if you are new here, welcome. i will go over the format. what is going to happen. lisa will present her book and talk about her book using some visuals as well. what we are going to do is leave the lights up because we are recording. if you do want to get to the corner so you have a pretty good view of it, the talk will go about 45 minutes. we have a little time for q&a from you. we look forward to your input. we are going to take questions from the audience microphone in the middle aisle. if you can get to that, that would be a help. we will field questions from there. afterwards we will have a book signing up here. lisa will sign her book "knocking

what do kirstie alley, george costanza, and mariah carey have in common?ght on jenny craig. there you go. that was my big aha moment. "us weekly" has exclusive pictures of mariah 30 pounds lighter. and she will speak to us on "gma" tomorrow after she got the body back using jenny's diet plan. and she is now the latest spokeswoman. >>> i have exciting news for you madonna fans out there. madonna album coming out. not until early next year. but the single, "give me all your love" was released yesterday. it's a trending worldwide topic on twitter. and the song is getting great reviews from fans worldwide, which is described as having an infectious '80s vibe. for the fans, they may move the release date up to tomorrow, to try to combat the fact that it's already out there. yeah. >>> next up, rihanna, sharing some personal pictures with her fans on facebook. the shots are giving them a glimpse of how she likes to roll when she's not on tour. the pictures are from a girls-only trip this sommer. around st. tropez, italy. you know, the regular girls trip. fans can

so, what do kirstie alley, george costanza, his character, carey fisher and now mariah carey all haveully lost weight on jenny craig. "us weekly." there you go. that was my big aha moment. "us weekly" has exclusive pictures of mariah now 30 pounds lighter. and she will speak to us on "gma" tomorrow about how she got that body back, using jenny's diet plan. and she is now the latest spokeswoman. >>> all right. everybody. i have very exciting news for all of you madonna fans out there. myself included. madonna album coming out. not until early next year. but someone couldn't wait. but the single, "give me all your love" was leaked yesterday. it's already a top ten trending topic worldwide on twitter. and the song is getting great reviews from fans worldwide, which is described as having an infectious '80s vibe. and you can hear a little "hey mickey." for the fans, they may move the release date up to tomorrow, to try to combat the fact that it's already out there. yeah. >>> next up, rihanna, sharing some really personal pictures with her fans on facebook. the shots are giving them a gli

. >> you and george costanza can go to the reference store, a web site that provides job seekers withuse really good phone references for $50. the company says what it's doing is not illegal though it understands why some people would find it morally objectionable. those are your headlines. >> $900,000 salary and a $6 million bonus. good deal on taxpayer dime? way too good. good enough that the republicans and democrats would agree on one thing, they are outraged by what the ceo's of fannie and freddie made and they bought mike williams, ceo of fannie mae and charles halderman, ceo of freddie mac to capitol hill to get their side of the very rich story. >> keep in mind, while we know that fannie and freddie have cost us a boatload of dough, something like $151 billion since the mortgage collapse, keep in mind, fannie and freddie right now have a $5 trillion portfolio of mortgages. so they got to manage those. plus there's about a trillion dollars worth of new business every year. that's one of the reasons why the ceo's were on capitol hill yesterday saying look, if we're going to have