. >> reporter: then republican mayor dale ross concluded the market was changing. >> were you always a republican? >> always a republican. >> you grew up in a republican family? >> i did. >> who's your favorite president? >> president reagan. >> reporter: unlike many republicans ross accepts climate science. he supports clean power so much he bought an electric motorcycle. but ross says he approved wind and solar because it's affordable. >> this was first and foremost a business decision. and if you win the business argument then you're going to win the environmental argument. >> have the facts been changing? 10 years ago, 20 years ago wind and solar would have been more expensive, right? >> that's right. the facts have been changing. it's a totally different landscape. in the state of text since january 1st four coal plants have closed. this is the economics of the matter. you buy wind and solar for say $18 a megawatt. you buy coal for 25. you have that choice. which one are you going to buy? >> so you're thinking about the art of the deal. zplt a >> the art of the deal. i might be

about walt disney, henry ford, and the most recent when you're coming out with is dale carnegie and john kennedy. ross douthat is a new york times columnist and with a film critic for "national review," the wall street journal, weekly standard, and he wrote a very scathing article in the new york times speaking ill of hugh hefner, and in fact viewpoint on hugh hefner and his legacy. we are going to ask the audience, on the question of should we dedicate a room to hugh hefner? i would like to see an overall show of hands of those who fuel in general we should honor hugh hefner? that he has made more contribution than he has taken away from society. for a second -- 12345 -- 10, 11, 12. a dozen for, those against? 123-4567. on my staff -- 7. seemed to be 5. i kidding. interesting. i saw more female hands up on the negative side. we have a slight bias in favor of dedicating a room to hugh hefner so we will have a bit of a debate. we will see if we can change any minds and we will start with steven watts, the author. [applause] >> thank you for attending. we will have an interesting exchange of views here.

ross wasn't the only person working that weekend in 1942. gerhart wigner who works for the world jewish congress in switzerland learned about these rumors in the deportation of jews. he learned that dale had a purpose. but there was a nazi plan to exterminate and murder all the jews of europe. this seems really obvious to us now. it's hard to look back at the holocaust and not look at it with a lot of hindsight. back then they saw no precedent to this in jews had been subject it to poke around before and they inevitably ended. but a plan was different. rittner tried to send his news to the u.s. in switzerland, which had a secure communication channel to the united states in one to message back to america, state department officials locked it from being received. you seem to fantastic one row. another thought it must just be aware rumor. i can't see why they would put this thing in a telegram. so, the news of the nazi plan made it through in the press reported the story in november 1942. by that point across mcclellan had escaped from switzerland and the americans who remained behind in france were arrested and interned in germany as the allies invaded north africa and the nazi went so