and, of course, today a lot of people in billings travel to the annual crow fair and celebrate crow culture>> billings is also known for its striking natural beauty. it's hard to believe that this area was once covered by a great sea. >> there are large cliffs of sandstone around billings, great walls of rock. we call them the rim rocks or the rims. that's all that's left of that great inland sea. >> from the top of the rims, you can see present-day billings. >> well, billings has always been a major transportation center here in the northern great plains. it had irrigation, which allowed agriculture to prosper. we grow sugar beets here for refined white sugar. we're an oil and gas center. we have hospitals here, colleges. and because we have so much diversity, unlike other frontier towns, billings has continued to prosper and grow through all the years. >> billings even has its own theme song. >> ♪ in the shadow of the rim rocks ♪ ♪ by the banks of the yellowstone ♪ ♪ there's a place i long to be in ♪ ♪ there's a place i call my home ♪ ♪ you're a booming human city ♪ and you're really rath

article he talks about how no african-american said jim crow was a bad thing. >> he never said jim crow he said during the jim crow era african-americans were doing well. >> that's not what he said. >> did you read the same interview we read? >> read the quote. don't put words in his mouth. >> he never said jim crow. >> we could sit here all day. >> we can. if you don't want to talk about the facts what's the point of having a discussion? >> i'm trying to talk about the facts. we could sit here all day -- >> you are making up quotes. defending him on a false quote. when did he say jim crow. >> he said it in the gq article. in the text of the article. >> richard, here is the thing. you cannot put words in their mouth or quote them. we talk about the culture battle, war. this seems like a war they need to be involved in. this is something the party won. >> it's not just conservatives. it's people who realize that outrage for outrage's sake is ridiculous. it's amazing to me that you can cite scripture and people are up in arms over it. i hope christians get the message that they outnumber

hollywood is catching up with noah starring russell crowe based on the story of noah's arc. take a look at the trailer. >> you must trust that he speaks in a way that you can understand. >> i saw water. death by water. >> a great flood is coming. we build a vessel to survive the storm. we build an arc. >> momma -- >> what do you want? >> you don't know you're king. there isn't anything for you here. >> i made this off my back and you stand alone and defy me. >> i already want to see it. it hits nationwide this spring and it looks like a fantastic production and russell crowe always delivered. what do you think, eric? religion making a comeback? >> i hope so. i wear my religion on my sleeve. you know that. it is great to see russell crowe, one of the top actors, making a movie like that. looks fantastic. the bible was on fire. bill o'reilly is killing jesus. i'm thrilled about it. thank you for that. >> but not doing it for perhaps the right reason but for the financial reasons because there is the need or the desire to have more faith and spirituality in their life. >> it go

and we never accepted it, and jim crow was a heinous act of injustice. and ann coulter and sean hannity out to be anamed and gay and lesbian and transgender and bisexual people ought to speak up and link their own fate to american people, because ultimately we're in the thing together. >> what do you think of this attempt to recruit essentially rosa parks? because this is something that has been done before on the right. any time that something they say is taken as offensive by african-americans or taken as offensive by the lgbt community, you get well, martin luther king jr. would have been on our side or rosa parks or phil robertson. what counseling do you think of that as a tactic? >> first of all, it's skurless, but the same as using jesus and making jesus cosign this bigotry here. jesus was a jew who around -- around whom a religion was made. so the anti-semitism of christians is ironic to begin with. and secondly, the gay and lesbian stuff, look in the bible. the same men who stand up in the church of all men, i put my god, jesus, over all women. i

called old crow.le. >> you're a too successful guy. >> that was back in our virginia days. >> oh, yeah. >> this whiskey will have nothing with old crow. >> mad dog 2020. i'm out. >> all right. guys. there's a cinnamon whiskey i found in a certain resident ofback in my house but that's a different story. markets gain insider buying and selling. show da dharmarajan -- i got the easy name, blew the easy name. >> hey there. $7.4 billion, that's how much stock was sold by insiders when it came to the month of november and it is common to see insiders selling pick-up as markets go higher. keep in mind this is an 85% increase in selling since october and highsest level of insider selling since may. definitely worth taking a note of which companies have the biggest insider sellers. amongst the top ten names we're seeing big insider selling over the past three months best buy, more than $200 million worth of shares were sold by insiders. then comes amazon. more than $400 million shares sold by insiders includi

if he is advancing jim crow, how is he processing is helping? that he grews was up in the south, was born in virginia, raised during the civil war. raised in segregated society. he saw the first bits of integration when he became president. there was integration just darting in the postal service and the treasury department. and there was friction there. wilson's feeling was i don't think this country is ready and the south is ready. i think it will be safer for everybody if we have separate but equal, which was the law of the land in those days. he thought a couple of things. he would make life safer and more peaceful for whites and for blacks if they didn't have to rub shoulders. wilson is getting attacked by both sides. whites were saying, why are you still appointing judges? why are you getting middle- management positions? you realize a black woman -- a white woman will be working on over a black man? that is unacceptable. deep down, he felt the southerners were not ready to accept it. to be really political about it, he had a very progress

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for him to say blacks were happy during jim crow is false.ey were happy around him was probably a defense mechanism. why would they act sad or seem like they were going to rebel in an era where they were operating under terror and fear? so this was in spite of the situation, in spite of their oppressive laws that were ruling the land at that time. they were going to be joyful. again, this is about how he's remembering history, these rose colored duck glasses he's wearing, he needs to take them off. because he really doesn't know the truth. >> you know, maria, it was mentioned about the louisiana governor bobby jindal claiming it's all about religious freedom and free speech. let me play with the governor said. >> i think you see a growing political correctness amongst the left where they say they're for tolerance and diversity but only if you agree with them. the bigger issue is not what he said or how he said it, the bigger issue here is about religious liberty. it's about the first amendment and the right to speak up and say what you believ

because they were influenced by the early research that said crows were shortchanged in the 1990's. and so they have not adjusted or adapted to the times. we have a white house that is consent of the education of girls. rows of fall behind. and when it is boys, every significant devout almost every significant metrics significantly behind girls. so i think many of white house council on boys as well. >> host: christina hoff sommers in a recent atlantic article you're right that women in the u.s. now are 62 percent of the associates' degrees, 57 percent of bass's degrees, 60 percent of master's degrees, 52 percent of doctorates, college admissions officers were at first baffled in and concerned and finally panicked over the male applicants. male enrollment fall below 40%, fiesta inns began to flee. officials at schools at or near the tipping point are helplessly watching as their campuses become like retirement villages with women competing for a handful of surviving men. >> there are campuses that admissions officers are looking at 60 percent female, 62%, 65. seems to get worse each

and use of jim crow laws, you referred to. you look at the racial violence that extended right on through our time. where do you get any hope that this ideal of compassion, that we can create a society, such as you describe, given our conflicted, often savage past? >> i get my hope from this revolutionary idea that doesn't seem to die in the united states. this idea that all people are created equal with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. that was a revolutionary idea in the declaration of independence. and it was wholly incomplete. it was all men are created equal and implicitly slaves were left out, you know, poor people were left out. >> women were left out. >> women were left out. right. but it was a revolutionary idea then and it remains a revolutionary idea today. this idea that keeps changing and growing and expanding as our consciousness changes and grows and expands that all human beings are created equal and have certain inalienable rights, it won't die. it didn't die wi

he talks about lax singing and dancing in the jim crow -- about incks singing and dancing the jim crowtimes. of course he is going to see that. it is sad we are overlooking the racial stance. in the book of matthew, it tells us in every idle word, you will give an account for. watch your words. host: that was the last word from our callers. you can continue the conversation on our facebook page. how to be a right-wing cause cÉlÈbre. .ut down some minority group it is easy. is bigotry on both sides. it is all a sick joke. what about farrakhan. doesn't he say a lot of hate filled things people don't like. c-span has gone downhill big- time. so worried about covering that theye issues have lost credibility with the public. of the tweets. continue the conversation. we have got three segments coming up this morning. tomer congressman and omb her, james nussle -- and omb ,irector, will james nussle will be out here. we will talk about the progressive agenda. that is all coming up on "washington journal post quote today. -- coming up on "washington today." >> as a moderate in the privacy deba

a crow getting in on winter fun, sledding down a snow-covered roof. made it happen. >> a win and loss for a teen football star. what he was robbed of just after winning the state championship. >>> two minutes till the top of the hour. before you leave the house lear's what's happening. a search in new jersey after a man is killed in front of his house during a carjacking at an upscale mall. >>> it is the busiest day of the year for the united states post office. the mailing service expected to process millions today. the jacket pot could climb to a record $676 million. >> time to look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. up first, the good. check it out. a crow using an old mayonnaise lid to sled down a snow-covered rooftop. when he got to the bottom, flew back up and did the thing over again. next the quarterback who just won the georgia state championship returns home to find his house had been robbed. thieves stole presents from under the tree. the ugly. a mad rush for nike's air jordans. hundreds of people storming the mall and this was just for vo

on gay people got more attention than the attention on african-americans and his belief under jim crow laws they weren't happy and singing the blues. >> i was interested in that, too, because i didn't know about it. somebody tweeted to me that the homophobic stuff and i assumed that was the whole -- >> the things he said on gays and lesbians are not different than what is preached -- it's -- you know, religious believes held by many people. just because somebody has -- >> i think -- >> -- beliefs, should they be taken off the air? >> this is the ambiguity, it's a little unclear what a&e is suspending him for, punishing him for, et cetera. if you look what he said about gay people, it's a mix of course and i think offensive comments about genitals and rear ends and so on, nix -- mixed in with some boilerplate quasi paraphrase and about homosexual sex to adultery there are christians leaping to his defense feeling this is a case where essentially a&e is saying -- and i think this is something that's becoming a fairly common opinion, actually in our culture, traditional doctrine on this q

connecting with people and then let the chips fall where it may and if we do not defeat them this time, jim crow didn't come down after one below. we live in a country that has stretched the lead car sparked some of the greatest transformation the world has seen and it was regular ordinary people which i hope this isn't derogatory, but regular ordinary people like kari. [laughter] and the folks in this room that are brave enough to stand up and say what is right and in very difficult times. i am encouraged because i'm looking around the room and all of us represent a different segment in the cities of the charges to leave here and begin to organize the communities and churches, fraternities, sororities to make sure that the issues are eliminated and when the candidate emerges they will have a platform to run on and not just the party to represent. thank you. [applause] those were the perfect words to end on. if thank you, brandon, amisha and ben and to the haymarket brewery and all of you for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] we would like to hear from you. tweet your feedback, twitte

i have often pushed back against miss alexander's book, the idea of the new jim crow. be bad in its own way. it doesn't have to be the new old bad thing. book titles are almost never crated by the author. we've got to give her a pass on that one. that said, to bring back the slavery piece of it, i've also always pushed back around any attempts to make anything that is now that thing then, and one of the key aspects of why this thing now is not that thing then is simply what distinguished slavery in the u.s. south in the 17th, 18th, 19th generate -- century is the intergenerational nature of it. slavery there have been in other places, the thing that made the slavery different and unique in human history is the idea that you could expect nothing more for your children either than bondage. been doing this work, and also as i have learned more about the work you do, i am increasingly convinced i have made an error of judgment, and that in fact the current system of impersonation doesn't have this deep, intergenerational component. and so many ways, the marissa alexander c

south. >> he wasn't endorsing jim crow. now. >> the beauty of america -- >> he was. >> -- is the differing of opinions. obviously we don't want to promote racism or sexism. it is being able to express your opinions. in the case of phil robertson he used words that were crass and his tone was inappropriate. but when you get down to it, he was expressing faith and beliefs. in that case, it is sad to see that it's an attack on this reality tv star when you look at bill maher on hbo. he's repeatedly offending religious individuals calling christia christians herpes, calling muslims cancer. having the ability to express your beliefs and really not being completely criticized for it. >> do you want to be obedient robots reading off the the script? isn't it better to have original opinions and maybe slightly offensive? how about interesting people. who do we have dinner with? it will be boring in your world. >> tucker, i don't want robots. i agree. we do have to show some level of respect and decorum. if you don't want to, that's

she's not only a local figure here in washington bg, ka she is a global figure and because of jim crow in d.c., the city that it was she purchased a property at

there is jim crow. so i really do resent it when people come along and say well you can't say the phrase illegal alien when you use the n word. you can't say retard but you say the n word. you can't say a million other things. they're always comparing it to the n word. the main point i want to make is no other word is like the n word. >> ann coulter for the win, ladies and gentlemen. nobody saw that coming. cnn let's go. >> ann coulter, this is one of the first times i've ever agreed with ann coulter on cnn. mark this down in your calendar. >> ann you've always felt this way. this isn't new for you, right? >> it's not only not new for me. this is standard republican position. justice rehnquist. >> and we're back. now we're back to normal. >> there we go. there's the ann coulter we know. the one who wrote this book called "mugged" and the new one now. >> you're going to love it. trust me you're going to love it. >> stand by. we'll talk much more about the n word and a lot of other things. when we come ba

looks like a fantastic production and russell crowe always delivers.s. what do you think, religion making a comeback? >> i hope so. i wear my faith on my sleeve.rei you know it. it's great. thank you for that. it's great to see russell crowe like one of the top actors making a movie like this. i'm thrilled to see it. it looks fantastic. the mini series "the bible" was on fire. i'm thilled. thank you for that. a >> they're not doing it forbo th right reason or for financial reasons or because there is a need, there is a desire for people to have more faith and mo spirituality? >> it goes beyond just movies and books. look at the number of and evangelical christians. the numbers aree growing remarkably. the number of mega churches that are growing. the east coast, but most of the rest of the country, church attendance is up. i think a lot of this is because this is a time when people just -- there is no order in the world.- th there seems to be -- like it used to be things were w predictable. thingshe come the you so fast. things seem to be out of control.

growing up in louisiana in the jim crow era. this is what he said -- i never with my eyes saw the mistreatment of any black person. i hoed cotton with them. i'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. we're going across the field. they're singing and happy. pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say. were they happy? they were godly. they were happy. and went on to talk about happier under jim crow. and again, the argument is not his right to say it. the argument is that as you say working for a private enterprise, if you say it, they have the right to say this can't represent that enterprise. >> well, that's exactly right. we as viewers and i happen to have been a viewer of "duck dynasty" up until now. the idea that phil or si or any of the others on the show may hold views like this is not a surprise to me. i think i watch it because i want to see another part of our culture. another segment of our society and understand how they live, work, and play. and quite frankly i've seen a few things on the show i identified with. one o

i have often pushed back against miss alexander's book, the idea of the new jim crow. be bad in its own way. it doesn't have to be the new old bad thing. book titles are almost never crated by the author. we've got to give her a pass on that one. that said, to bring back the slavery piece of it, i've also always pushed back around any attempts to make anything that is now that thing then, and one of the key aspects of why this thing now is not that thing then is simply what distinguished slavery in the u.s. south in the 17th, 18th, 19th generate -- century is the intergenerational nature of it. slavery there have been in other places, the thing that made the slavery different and unique in human history is the idea that you could expect nothing more for your children either than bondage. been doing this work, and also as i have learned more about the work you do, i am increasingly convinced i have made an error of judgment, and that in fact the current system of impersonation doesn't have this deep, intergenerational component. and so many ways, the marissa alexander c

this one from japan, crows living in tokyo, using clothes hangers to make nests. this from hungary.his is titled appropriately enough, a man feeding swans in the snow. from malaysia another winner. adam trained his camera on a town in transition from the old to the new with the mother carrying a child in a basket. here a lioness lies in wait. the photographer said this shot means more to him than the whole sequence that came after it. finally a series of pictures on a poor romanian family living in in belgian, a child bundled up with a gentle, cautious grip on a bird. ♪ >>> well top of the morning to you all. it's a warm morning across the east coast. the first morning in a couple of weeks that i didn't have to wear my jack set outside. we have high-pressure in control right off of the east coast. continuing to draw the warm air out of the south. we have record-challenging temperatures on the way across portions of the mid-atlantic, and also across the northeast by the end of the weekend in new york city we could reach 60 degrees. a comfortable day here. we're going to reach a high

i am the chairman of the north shore unitarian universalist church new jim crow task force. my particular question has to do with an issue that was raised in michelle alexander's book, the question being, where are the black men? we know where the black men are. my question for you is, how does that affect black women and their communities? i understand there is something like a 26% gap between available women for marriage and available men. i wonder if you can expand on that and other factors. >> i've got so many emotions. [laughter] >> can i touch it from a public health standpoint? >> i would love that. >> that question -- i don't want to go too deeply, but i will tell you how probably the cdc -- not that i agree with them most of the time -- but how the center for disease control uses that and how they label that as the number one cause for the rise in hiv rates of black women in this country, because they have multiple sex partners because all their men are gone. they end up finding more and more. then their man comes out, and they get another one. not really looking at

we know cheryl crow, back street boys, any surprises you can tell us about?rmation on national tv? >> i don't know, it's not often you say which i recall crow, back street boys and charles barkley. anna kendrick is performing. i'm very excited about that. she's an actress, "pitch perfect." she can sing. my kids are very excited about that and so am i. the rest, i have to keep some mystery, come on. >> we have been digging, i have to say, and we were surprised to learn this isn't the first holiday special that you have hosted. take a look at this gem that we found in the cnn vault. >> oh, no. ♪ >> now, i have to ask, who is the better performer, mickey or the back street boys? >> you are going to get me in so much trouble, rosa, so much trouble. when ever someone says we have prizes from the vault, i hang my head. everything i did back then, preyoutube, is never going to be found. >> ooh, tell us more, hugh. >> trust me, there's some things i don't want to be found. i can tell you that. but, i will be singing on the special. there's another surprise. >> there

he also waxd nostalgi nostalgia-- nostalgic for the jim crow era, he said i have never in my sigh eyesn any misdream of blacks. they are sing and happy, i never heard one, these doggone white people, not a word. free entitle thement, they were godly, they were happy no one was sing the blues. yes, but people had nothing to sing the blues about, for pete's sake, they got their own water fountain. in fact, they had it so good white people pretended to be them. i tell you, who i kneel sorry for, folks, a & ew this controversy, they may have just lost duck dynasty's massive black and gay audience. we r r >> stephen: welcome back, everybody, you might know my guest, he is the star of the secret life of walter hitty, please welcome ben stiller. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: whooo! hey, ben, good to see you. hey. thank you so much. good to see you, so flis nice to meet you face-to-face. >> i know, how are you. >> stephen: i'm great, how are you. >> i'm doing well. >> stephen: you're that guy i like. >> oh, good. >> stephen: i love your movies, man. >> thank you, thank you. >> stephen: i l

i know you worked with cameron crowe. >> oh, cameron crowe. >> jimmy: gosh. >> i want him to do the -mazing -- >> jimmy: no, anything. any day of my life. i was in a couple scenes in "almost famous." but you were in "elizabethtown." you were great, and i loved it. that guy couldn't be a cooler human being. he's one of my idols. >> he is mine, too. i agree. >> jimmy: he would just play music to direct you, right? >> he would actually flip it on in the middle of a take, yeah. he would just -- it was -- and he actually -- something that carried through -- and everything i do now, i have a playlist of, you know, everything i'm doing. >> jimmy: whenever you have stuff like that? >> whenever i have a character, yeah. way into -- a way in and out of music. music's a way in and out of characters. and that really started from cameron. because i'd be in the middle of a take, and suddenly he'd just bust out some phenomenal tune. and i'd be, like, "whoa." >> jimmy: i remember i had to scene where i had to, like, walk like i was really confident or something. he's, like, "all right, come on. we're

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remind everyone what phil robertson said about growing up in louisiana, for example, during the jim crowhe said quote, i never with my eyes saw the mistreatment of any black person. i hoed cotton with them. i'm with the blacks because we're white trash. we're going across the field. they're singing and happy. pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say. were they happy? they were godly. they were happy. i mean, i can understand and deal with you wanting to watch them rather than the kardashians, but if the kardashians were saying things that were against gays and talking about bestiality, talking about people happy under jim crow, i think many of us would have the same reaction and their sponsors have the same right these span sors have to say you have the right to say it but we have the right not to subsidize it. >> that's right. i agree. i disagree on all counts with phil robertson on all this. in fact, i wish he would sit down with bill russell who also comes from monroe, louisiana. he'd give a different view about how black folks really felt back in those days which i can remember too. i'm

. >> can you fair it to the days of jim crow and the united states. how do you compare those two? >> i didn't live through it. i think so, i think if it is anything that the distance is greater. i don't think people have stopped from going downtown, in american cities when they didn't have a job. i think in some ways it was more extreme that kind of special separation, and even often the identity that didn't have a job in the city, they will move the mark. very young, at the age of 12, was a settlement that was just destroyed. there were people that didn't have the right paperwork. in the state not once in there, and he simply put them on track, and drove them off. i knew that it happened. at the same time the people that ran the government the president has been a member of a underground organization that was part and linked to german intelligence. doing operations on german bell jens. my teachers were pro nazi, you have the sense of who is right and wrong. it is obvious that this absolutely moral outrage. somefect violated -- one of the great leaders and teachers of the 20th cen

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it's nonstandard on the right to defend the jim crow south in the way phil robertson did. conservative by and large understand in the 1950s legal and social structure surrounding race in the south is unacceptable. >> do they understand that? >> partly they like to talk about that to talk about how much progress we made since then and people shouldn't complain today because they are not like they were in the 1950s. >> i think politically speaking, lets be frank about what's going on here, part of the reason you're not hearing reaction is the calculation is the base of the party loves duck dynasty. they are thinking if i say the wrong thing, than i'm going to upset the base. for a lot of these guys already terrified of the tea party and i'm not saying the tea party is racist, i'm not saying all the base of the republican party is racist, they know this is a popular show. you don't go after a popular show and a popular figure if you think the people who want to vote for you -- >> that's a perfect point. i want to get matt in here. the politics are very interesting. it's now b

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that was followed by decades of segregation and insubordination and humiliation which is what jim crow laws did. >> stephen: so can i blame this on muslims? >> no. you actually, we are all actually responsible for our failure to tell the truth about our racial history. >> stephen: so you too, you are a black guy, right. >> everybody. >> stephen: people tell me i'm white and i believe them because i feel terribly guilty about this conversation. so black people have some burden in this. >> well, yes, because we actually have to get the entire country, blacks, white, latino, religious minorities, everybody to be more truthful about what discrimination and bigotry does to us all. >> stephen: what it used to do, rosa parks ended it. >> i heard you say that. >> stephen: not me, that was the rnc. >> well, actually, i still see tremendous racism, tremendous racism. >> stephen: we have a black president. >> we do. >> stephen: we have a black president-- hold on. we have a black president. what part of we have a black president don't you get. >> well, i get that we have a black president. it see

an accident cleared to the right shoulder at crow canyon.'s slight delays but not much heading into san ramon. outside here's a live look at the nimitz freeway 880 in oakland. northbound traffic those taillights still moving at the speed limit towards downtown oakland and again this is how you know it's a friday before a big holiday coming up. antioch commute looks great now on westbound and eastbound highway 4. that is your "kcbs traffic." back to you guys. >>> this just in. senate majority leader harry reid has been hospitalized. his office released a statement saying he was not feeling well and decided to go to the hospital as a precaution. test results show everything is normal. he is alert, resting and feeling better. but doctors have asked him to stay in the hospital for observation. >>> monday is the deadline to buy health insurance to get coverage by january 1. but some rules are being relaxed. as tara mergener reports, those who lost their existing coverage because it did not meet new standards are getting a break. >> reporter: in a

won't get into heaven and he suggested that african-americans in louisiana were happier under jim crow than they are now. robertson has been put on hiatus and saying, quote. i would never treat anybody with disrespect because they are different from me. we are all created by the almighty and like him, i love all of humanity. >>> people who find hillary clinton fascinating. the former secretary of state, senator, and first lady topped the news anchor's most fascinating list. >>. >>> we know the name of one of the big megamillions winners of tuesday's near record 648 million dollar jackpot! her name is ira curry. she is of stone mountain, georgia. a 56-year-old married mother who a lot of people say she picked the winning ticket using a mix of family birthdays and her lucky number seven. >> they were very, very excited about the win. they were, as they said, still in a state of shock. she heard on the radio station that the announcer talking about a number 7 as the megaball. she realized that was her pick and so she called her daughter. she woke up her daughter. her daughter checked the