why dickens? what is it about dickens? >> one of the things was reading dickens before i ever came to the west was that these cities that dickens describes, a great rotting metropolis, it felt like the city outside my window. if you grow up in a city like bombay or delhi, it feels exactly like dickensian. it has exactly that characteristic of corruption and filth and these huge larger- than-life characters. >> jill, you are the historian among us. >> in the united states, dickens is taken as an american writer. it is curious about dickens because he had such a painful relationship with the united states. "great expectations" is the ninth most frequently assigned novel in american high schools. it is interesting to think about dickens readership in the united states changing. i first read dickens as a schoolgirl. george orwell talks about dickens being ladled down your throat as a child. how do you reconcile yourself with a writer who has been forced on you as a kid? >> in london, how do you see him? >> keep the child in vi

dickens. "a christmas carol" first published in 1843, shaped the way we celebrate christmas today. the converge of scrooge, the kratch chit feast and tiny tim's closing words "god bless us every one" yes minds us of the simple things about the season. >> "christmas carol" emerged not out of a consideration of christmas but out of the parliamentary report of the employment of children in the mines and dickens read it with such disgust and horror he determined, as he said, to strike a sledgehammer blow against such activities. and the book is the direct result of that. >> rose: charles dickens for the hour. next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: charles dickens, a great british writer, was born in 1812. throughout the english speaking world his 200th birthday is being celebrated, included at new york's morgan library. >> on assignment for charlie rose at new york's morgan library and museum. it was founded by pierpont m

dickens, mr. dickens. >> thank you. >> you are an admirer of my husband's work. >> he has read every chapter twice. >> i am glad. >> every human create you are is a profound secret to every other. >> until that secret is given to another's perhaps two human creatures may know each other. >> why are you up so early. >> i must go to london. >> why didn't you tell us you were coming. >> a last minute impulse. >> so what will you do with your winningsing nellie. >> i will spend it all at once. >> a fine young woman. i'm anxious for her future. >> if i may be of assistance in any way. >> dow love him? >> he is married. >> it's not stopped him from falling in love with you. >> you cannot keep her a secret. >> yes, i can. >> he cannot. >> this is insanity. >> you have been in every line i have ever read. >> you were part of my existence, in the last hour of my life, you remain part of my character. >> everyone has their secret, and this is ours. >> ray fiennes is here also felicity jones who plays nellie

did you like dickens? >> i liked dickens, yeah. i do. a hungry child trying to entertain you. and perceptive child, and the furious imagination that just can't stop. where that comes from is one of those mysteries. you don't know quite, it just happens to come from this man called charles dickens. >> osgood: ahead. ♪ >> osgood: piano pat is still going strong after half a century. bill geist knows just where to find her. >> great falls, montana. lewis and clark were here in 1805. and local legend has it piano pat arrived shortly thereafter. or so it seems. ♪ it's been only 50 years since piano pat spoonheim began tickling the ivory at the famous league. sip-n-dip lounge. >> i just have to laugh. signing autographs, doing this and doing that, have to take so many pictures every night people want their picture taken with me. i don't know why. ♪ >> the raspy voice of 79-year-old great grandmother is the main reason this remote bar is widely renowned as one of the best anywhere. >> everyone around us. >> owner sandy fare. >> people come from

. >> jimmy: i love charles dickens.> nelly. nelly! it was a mistake. >> did you send catherine to me? >> yes. >> she is the mother of your children. how could you be so cruel to her? >> and for that, i shall always be grateful. but i do not love her. she comprehends nothing. she sees nothing. i thought if she saw you, then she would understand that i have nothing with her. i wanted her to see it. >> it! what is "it," charles? what is it that we are? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: yeah, that's what i'm talking about, right there! ralph fiennes, "the invisible woman" is in select theaters christmas day. juliette lewis joins us next. there she is in the bud light platinum suite! hi! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ i've got the power cuz i live like i want, huh! ♪ ♪ ain't listening to you, i only listen to my heart, huh! ♪ ♪ ♪ try try try try try to lift up the weight ♪ ♪the world is wild at heart ♪ give it to me now high pitched excited squeal yes! thank you! yes! yeah! excited screaming and jumping kids never get this exci

a secondary character in dickens life---it's not very good. > >and mandela? > >mandela i haven't seen yet. idris elba is playing nelson mandela in the film. it's gonna get kind of a small release. not a lot of great buzz on that one. > >let's see what happens there. but definitely meryl streep is going to come to the top as she always does. > >she's going to be nominated, but she's going to be fighting sandra bullock for gravity and maybe judi dench in philomena. so it's gonna be an interesting race for best actress. > >good to have you on the show. thank you eric. > >thank you. coming up...trader tips on how to handle the stock market during the holiday season...and warren buffett's son and grandson share their life lessons after the break. we'll be right back! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm going to pass chemistry, and i'll take it from there. i'm going to do what makes me happy. i'm going to work hard. be independent. live large. make the most of every opportunity. i knew i wanted to go to college. but figuring out how to pay for it? i didn't have a clue. the u.s. departme

"the invisible woman" doesn't look destined to become a classic worthy of charles dickens.me of new york post. >> sounds like it might be the better pick of the two. >> that's it for this half hour. follow us on facebook at wnnfans.com. >> that's it for this half hour. follow us on facebook at wnnfans.com. >>> the snowy weather and lingering power >>> the snowy weather an >>> the snowy weather and lingering power outages. >> there's no place to stay. a lot of hotels are closed and a lot of the hotels are without power. >> the arctic conditions and the latest from accu-weather. >>> mission accomplished. the high-stakes repair work, 260 miles above earth. the risks the astronauts took to fix the international space station. >>> don't stop believing. when a girl named virginia asked if there was really a santa claws, it turned into a legend. >> he exists as certainly as love and generosity exist. >> virginia's message all of these years later shared christmas morning. merry christmas. it is wednesday, december 25th. >> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now" with joh

but thanks to comrade dickens the christmas carol seig heil, chuck. christmas season is always open season on titans of finance. ebenezer scrooge was a job creator. what did tiny tim ever make other than me cry. well, this christmas the median income huggers out there are still pushing bankers around and no one is getting hid harder than my buddy c.e.o. jamie dimon. for more we go to nbc an four grader trick-or-treating rachel maddow. >> the nearest and deerest to jayie dimon this holiday see be, recently graced with this panoramic holiday card in your mail box. it shows the first family of finance having a great time hitting tennis balls inside what seems to be their home. and says hey, we're so rich we can destroy our own stuff with a smile. >> stephen: disgusting. calf or thing around your own home with your own family? at christmastime. come on. i condition think of anything more decadent except maybe murdering a tree and dressing it up like a whore. no wonder, nond withouter, folks, no wonder "time" magazine called the cards maddeningly tone deaf

you pay lot of taxes to create a social safety net, and that is not dickens and the other thing, look who he appointed as schools chancellor, another far lefty who is part of the education status quo, going to reverse what mayor bloomberg did -- >> -- he won with a mandate but with 17% of the vote -- >> doesn't matter in few hours he'll be the mayor of new york city. here's what want to talk about. why in this amazing successful city a rejection of capitalism. why is chile -- why is the pope coming out and saying capitalism is mean spirit. where is this coming from and could it spread across the country? >> i mean -- yes, i do. here's where it's coming from. in the past, you would have an aggressive media, when you take us out of it and a few others, not much aggressive media, who doesn't -- the media should not be taking this stuff so seriously. when the pope talks about capitalism -- i'm a catholic but the catholic church has not opportunity as much to spread wealth around the world and put food in people's mouth as capitalism what. who is saying that? not "the new york times." so w

when charles dickens visited us in 1840, he was truly blown away by high water pressure on the fourth floor of the hotel he was staying in. nowhere in europe had he experienced that. this technology was doing something to support the life and the growth of the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water come

in fact, madam president, when charles dickens back to work on "the christmas carol" actually he was so upset with the plight of youth and children working in the mines in england, he started out to write about that in a novel that evolved into a tale about christmas, a christmas carol. as i watched "the christmas carol" with my wife at ford's theater about a week ago, i was struck about the following line for the spirit of jacob marchly. here -- jacob marley. here's what he said. mankind was my business. the welfare was my business, charity, mercy, benevolence was all my business. the dealings by trade and the drop of water in the comprehensive ocean was my business. end quote. with that line, dickens was advocating for those less fortunate and voicing his support for economic equality. those words are most appropriate today, this time of year. i come to the floor today with my friend, the senator from rhode island, jack reed, to share our concerns about the weak labor market, those who have been unemployed for so long and its impact on the nation's 11 million unemployed. senator re

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tonight we celebrate the life of the man who wrote about christmas-- charles dickens. "a christmas carol" first published in 1843, shaped the way we celebrate christmas today. the converge of scrooge, the kratch chit feast and tiny tim's closing words "god bless us every one" yes minds us of the simple things about the season. >> "christmas carol" emerged not out of a consideration of christmas but out of the parliamentary report of the employment of children in the mines and dickens read it with such disgust and horror he determined, as he said, to strike a sledgehammer blow against such activities. and the book is the direct result of that. >> rose: charles dickens for the hour. next.

an evening with charles dickens and a taste of old bavaria, we have some new ideas. >>> the baby boomersmerica. >>> first, colorado investigators are piecing together the latest school shooting attack. >> it happened friday at a high school in suburban denver less than ten miles from columbine high school where 13 people died in a 1999 massacre. barry petersen is in centennial colorado, with the very latest. barry, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the headline on the "denver post" really says it all for kol. "again." as you point out, this school is about eight miles from columbine, the massacre there. about 16 miles from aurora and the theater massacre there. again, we see students fleeing a high school. their hands held up in the air. now, this is standard procedure so police can check and make sure none of them are a shooter. and it's sad to say there's a standard procedure for a shoot like this. the shooter who has killed himself has been identified as 18-year-old karl pierson. he's ees's said to be a gifted debater who came from a religious faumly who participated in bible s

charles dickens wrote that story because of what england was going through at the time related to whatpublic policy. >> right. >> and so, that's exactly what we're dealing with. and keep in mind now that by mid-january we may find 800,000 federal employees again furloughed. >> that's right. >> so how do you spend money, whether it's christmas, holiday or whatever if you're not certain that come mid-january you'll get a paycheck? >> they're basely determined to do whatever they can to make sure that we have bad economic news instead of the good economics newings we had on friday. you know, this week, president obama talked about inequality and an interrue with our own chris matthews on "hardball." i want to play that because i think it was an important message from the president. >> the biggest issue i see out out horizon is how to make sure an economy works for everybody and that every one of the young people can get a good job, pursue a career, support a family, not be loaded up by $100,000 worth of debt, actually, you know, buy a home. how do we do those things that reduce inequality

johnny, on scholarship to study engineering at u-mass, have a back story that would give charles dickens pause. it found its way onto the pages of the boston globe two years ago. >> they did the work, kept their head down, walked through trouble on the street every night. a lot of these communities have struggled. >> reporter: billy baker's globe story. >> we have to do everything ourselves. >> reporter: with video on their website chronicled how the brothers were academic all stars at boston's elite latin school. it told of their vietnamese immigrant parents, their mother's struggle with mental illness, their father's suicide. the boys basically raised themselves. >> it's definitely helped us become more independent. and to realize that we are all that we have. >> reporter: but they were not completely alone. they came to rely on emmett fogert and the dorchester youth collaborative, a safe haven for neighborhood teens. sometimes emmett fed them. sometimes he was the only one to talk to. >> for them to keep at it and to trust us that much and now to have this kind of victory, it's just -

another government could pick an industry, subsidize the dickens out of it, and give it enough moneybuy into the u.s. market. and if they gave them enough, they could destroy the u.s. industry, because our industry is just -- you know, one or two or three companies competing with a whole government in some other country, with their whole treasury. well, the practical result of that is to simply dispose of your industry. and ultimately and probably not very far down the line, you will have disposed of your steel, your auto industry. you will have grotesquely hurt all of the industries of which the auto industry is the largest single consumer. that includes computers, textiles, steel, non-ferrous metals, glass, rubber, and a lot of other things. and you'll find that you simply will have de-industrialized that part of your economy. you wi find that you will have lost a prodigious number of jobs and you will cvert from high-paying jobs to low-paying jobs, not on the basis of fair competition, but on the basis of subsidy. and all of a sudden, all of those consumers that you've been trying

all of this and went to craig is basically in any case the dickens. this will form the eastern ukraine that is in the minority please support the eu. going to say ukraine's it's beating down on fourteen percent so visible to the west and which is the drawings which has mobilized much more effectively much quicker than the author westwood. russian leaning and traditionally called the region's but i know i need to change it to the streets to make their own sites. he very quickly granted it is capable students to get a new inspection as soon as the auntie regions possesses outfits. take a moment of the other hand people with no hope i can say is today incidentally the bobbin so many open. i don't think it's very effectively be not be made into a one sided die to pay ten times the west. he's leading bpo solutions to the west ukraine on it. many people would argue though that joining the eu is undoubtedly good for ukraine do you not agree with that and why. never mind that this is not joining the eu to say this is an association agreement i quickly signed

the writers he chooses are white and with the exception of emily dickens, mail. he deserves not the community, present purposes. his nationalistic impulse, great work of art in distinction between high and low. at the same time it complicates the monolithic vendors ending. he does so quite willingly. the privilege of social contexts, in david's words, each of these supports the writers can index as rejection of formalism in memphis is on the spirit of the age, i believe from the historical frame with identifiable forms and features all about their good reynolds premise both acknowledges and challenges verities of the day. here it is, david's words a emergence of america's natural literature in the first half resulting in large dramatic shifts in the rhetorical strategies of popular tax. many different kinds of social text suddenly lost their equivalencies and became colored by radical infusion of the imaginative. advancing richly nuanced reading and popular sermons, reform tracks, city mysteries, domestic novels, popular humor. a second shot notion david has writ

. >> you do not get to the top i reading charles dickens.ly not for these guys. >> a lot of history books as well. ended peace"hat was very popular a few years ago, world war i and what led to it. >> i love that. what a great story. thank you so much. simon kennedy there. you can follow him on twitter. with whatull story the big and powerful people in the world read in 2013 and their recommendations. as we go to break, there is a good chance that people do not mean what you think about bitcoin. six percent of americans believe it is an xbox game. another six percent believe it is an iphone app. an additional 40% say they have no idea what it is. 42% correctly identified it as a virtual currency. just more of the mystery that surrounds bitcoin. final thoughts coming up next. ♪ >> welcome back to "on the move ." i am francine lacqua here in london. one of the last major family owned jewelers is going into the emerging markets in search of new wealth. how the proud italian companies looking east. -- company is looking east. is a family business

he plays charles dickens, of course, the world's most beloved author.focuses on his crazy wild affair with a 17-year-old actress at the time. sir charles wallace 45 years old. he was married for 20 years. he had 10 kids. nobody knew this was going on until after his death. >> this is true? >> this is an accurate portrayal. >> who plays the young -- is that scarlett johansson? who plays the young girl? >> it's not scarlett johansson. >> kate, who's the -- >> kristin -- >> okay, but felicity's in it as well. >> all right, there we go. >> kate winslet is in the next one you like. "labor day." >> she got nominated for a golden globe. she's a divorced mom. she's depressed. she goes to the store with her boy. all of a sudden, josh approaches them, insists they take him home. turns out he's a convict on the run. but kate starts falling for the convict on the run. >> oh, no. >> she's great in this. >> it is josh brolin after all. >> got to help a little bit. i've heard great things about this. we end with "august osage county." they made some changes. >> we lov

therefore i say to them, god bless you, each and every one, with apologies to dickens.et's go to arizona and bring in doug napper, an attorney who works for the alliance organization. what cases are you working on this season? >> the majority of americans celebrate christmas so everybody should have the right to enjoy the season without the inter feerns of a few bullies. we have seen basis where schools have banned music based on information put out by these organizations that don't understand the constitutionality of christmas. there were two cases, one in wisconsin and new jersey which you talked about where they banned the christmas carols and last one was in south carolina where it was a school ban, just music. they said, well, even though the students picked these songs, joy to the world and oh, come faithful, they banned them from the schools. alliance defending freedom sent a letter, told the truth about christmas, that christmas is constitutional and they allowed these back in the schools. >> let me stop you there. this is rock hill, south carolina, a suburb of

but there's also the sort of person that mozart and dickens wanted people to be. so i think our young have to have available to them both world views. i'm not -- who could rule out madonna for anything? i mean, time-warner, if i'm not mistaken, just signed a $60 million deal with madonna, so she's going to be with us in every imaginable form. that's all right. no one wants to stop that. but i think the education of the young ought to pretend as if madonna is not there in the classroom because as soon as the children leave the classroom, madonna will be available to them. while they are in the classroom someone else should be available. c-span: mozart is very popular among a small percentage of the population -- very popular. why doesn't mozart appeal to the younger people or the majority of people? what is the difference in this? >> guest: first of all, i'm not sure that mozart wouldn't appeal. c-span: why doesn't he? >> guest: what i mean is that, in part, he is not heard enough; in part, because his music is more complex than bruce springsteen. one has to go to

scaring the dickens out of unsuspecting teachers at a high school in texas. state championship football game against arch rival carthage bulldogs. karthnage won. thanks to my team for letting me have the surprise, as well. golden retrievers moving onto the next story is, fair swimmers but even they need retrieving when they fall through the ice on the false river in december. the massachusetts firefighter who fought their way 50 yards offshore yesterday to save that dog. it took time but everybody did make it out, at which point crosby was warmed up and in the back seat of a nice toasty police car. last we heard, crosby and the firefighters were just fine. >>> well, thanks for watching, everybody. want to wish you a happy holiday. safe travels. safe travels. "around the world" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> a an hair row zg rescue airlifts americans out of the violence in south sudan. now a warning from president obama. the united states may get more u.s. troops involved. >> the offensive tweet that angered people worldwide. one exec no

hamilton endured in the a youth that a novel is like charles dickens would have been hard pressed to write about i think. jefferson -- hamilton's mother was branded by the courts as a horror. his father abandoned the family. his mother and father never married so hamilton was an illegitimate child and the bigots of that day not finding enough to occupy their prejudices visited much of it on illegitimate children. not so much on the parents but on the child himself so that hamilton i think must have experienced a thousand cruel lows in his youth. we know that he was discriminated against in the sense that he could not attend public schools where he was growing up. i think out of that youth, hamilton is really shaped. i believe in the old adage that the child is the father to the man and in this instance i think hamilton comes out of his youths guard and is driven from map point on to seek fame, to seek renown, to seek respect and that drives him throughout his life. another similarity is that both surprisingly grew up with slaveowning parents. jefferson's father owned about 200 slaves

i think reverend jesse jackson, former mayor david dickens who led this fight when it was unpopular when the world was not rising up to say that this is unjust. there were some freedom fighters everywhere, but especially here in the united states. >> eugene -- >> i was going to say, congressman ron dellums of california was an instrumental figure in this and we should not forget how controversial this was and how much resistance there was from the reagan administration which considered the amc a terrorist group, from margaret thatcher considered the amc a terrorist group and nelson mandela a terrorist. and this was in the '80s. >> yeah. >> there was a lot of resistance to the idea that the government should fall much less that this did divestment should take place at all. >> lawrence, you have to remember this was during the cold war. they couched their oppression of black africans in south africa in terms of the kcommunist struggle and it's interesting that when nelson mandela was finally freed and came to the u.s. and did a six-city tour -- i went to the one in new york. it was just ex

in return, he is letting democrats beat the dickens out of the administration over the issues. it's sort of a win-win for democrats. they get to seem like they are skeptical, protect themselves on the issue while giving the administration what it wants. >> there is real concern about democrats leaving the administration's side on this. we're just getting word from state department sources that secretary kerry along with the treasury secretary jack lew will brief the senate behind closed doors on the issue of iran. tomorrow afternoon behind closed doors. tomorrow, all members invited. they are trying to rally the troops here. >> they're working really really hard. what, you know, you heard senator schumer a bunch of other prominent democrats say they wanted to keep, tighten the sanctions regime as incentive for iran to make a deal. >> this is essentially saying in six months, if congress sets up these sanctions, that if iran doesn't meet up with this interim deal that the sanctions would be passed by congress. >> right. >> and iran is saying if you do that the deal is over. >> r

step back into the 19th century for the dickens christmas festival.or its unique gifts and fortune tellers. can't miss on that. if you're looking for a great event, head on over there. >>> florida state university jameis winston is the heavy favorite to take home the heisman trophy tonight, but it comes amid a rave accusations for him and calls for an independent investigation after that case was recently dropped. kristen dahlgren is here with more. this has been capturing headlines for some time now. >> absolutely. jameis winston is here in new york with the awards ceremony and even though prosecutors have made their decision, his attorney's accuser is questioning the investigation and that call not to file charges. >> reporter: as jameis winston posed with other heisman finalists in new york his accuser's attorney was holding a press conference calling for an independent investigation of the case and the tallahassee police department. >> this doesn't strongly ring of an investigation of rape victim rather than a rape suspect, i don't know what does.

therefore i say to them god bless you, each and every one, with apologies to dickens.nd that's a memo. >>> now for the top story tonight reaction, let's go out to arizona. i want to bring in doug napper, an attorney who works for the alliance organization. so what cases are you working on this season? >> you know, bill, as you pointed out, the majority of americans celebrate christmas. so everybody should have the right to enjoy the season without the interference of a few ba humbug bullies. recently we've seen cases where schools have banned music from the schools based on information that has put out by these organizations that don't understand the constitutionality of christmas. there were two cases, one in wisconsin and new jersey, which you talked about on your show where they banned the christmas carol. and then the last one was in south carolina where it was a school band. there weren't even any words. it was just music, and they said, well, even though the students picked these songs, joy to the world and ocome all ye faithful, they banned them from the schools

in new york who doesn't even like to wear a row and he likes to come down to the same level as the dickens that you have these judges that think they know everything and they think that they are supposed to control for the legal system and they are not the best and the brightest often even the supreme court of the united states today i think is mediocre and the supreme court. it doesn't have very many first-rate lawyers. the chief justice was an appellate lawyer and he certainly qualified but many of the others are professorial and they are good professors but when you see some of the opinions that come down the really lack practical insight as to what happens in the courtroom. the supreme court needs a few practicing lawyers particularly practicing criminal lawyers who worked on the defense. there were several former prosecutors but the judges often are arrogant, the irrigate with the juries should do and i think it's an unsettling relationship and by the way there should be a contentious relationship between the judges and lawyers. they have to defend their clients and i don't like what

>> she's south of dickens right now. >> okay. 10-4. >> sergeant ray, a 20-year veteran, will take the lead in the command car. >> we're just south of o'hare, so there's people getting off work, you know, a lot of workers all day and night. a lot of customers on s coming through. >> we usually work in the evenings, the vice team. the street-level prostitution is in the morning. a lot of the girls wake up and are sick and sad unless they get their heroin and are throwing up. first thing they do in the morning, they're on the street getting the guys on their way to work. >> within the next ten minutes, why don't we just switch out? >> okay. >> after 30 minutes and no takers, it's clear to detectives that decoy one with her flip-flops and mom hair falls short in appeal. the second decoy we'll call teresa takes over. >> there's probably 40 to 50 prostitutes that we know of that regularly walk this strip and there may be a girl right there across the street. the girl with the black shorts and the pink top, a female, white. >> a complication arises when potential competition for the decoy sh

the street minding their own business, and all of a sudden, someone comes and tries to knock the dickens and knock them out, people laugh about it. and so, since that pattern is there and the responsibility -- these are young adults who know that they're harming somebody. >> right. ted mentioned the last show, this is going to provoke probably a bernie getz situation where somebody's walking, sees the knockout coming and just takes out a firearm, and then it's atrocious. look at this clip. these things are just so ugly. >> where are the parents? where are the teachers? where is everybody? i mean, you know, and these horrible thugs on the street doing this. and you know what i find even more -- as appalling as the thug who lands the punch are the thugs who sit and laugh. >> yes. look, i think they all should be co-conspirators. i think they should all be treated equally, don't you, bernie? >> right off the top, though, greta's right. i mean, 14 and under, there's going to be so much only we can do with respect to kids. you can't keep them in a juvenile facility. juvenile life is 21 years

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because if you go back and read your dickens, it's pretty blunt on caring for the poor at this time of year. frankly, people who are long-term unemployed, they're in an interesting situation. they are not necessarily the poorest of the poor. they are people who are still struggling to keep above that line. to try and make it back. but they live in parts of this country where job growth has at times been very, very slow, even anemic. so giving these long-term unemployment benefits to these folks, it doesn't keep them from looking for a job. >> of course. >> that's a silly concept. what it does is it allows 1.3 million people and their families to stay in the game. and i find this a really deeply troubling part of the whole deal. in addition to the fact that this deal also asks for more money from government workers and from military personnel for their benefits, that's taking even more money off main street. >> i completely -- >> i don't see this as any kind of stimulative process. >> i agree with that. kate, i suspect that there will be more of a backlash, i think, on this issue about

storied and if you look back you are going to stumble upon oscar wilde and henry james and charles dickens and i wanted to show through this collection some of the best examples of the genre, mary shelley and so forth. but i also -- we were also introduce or reintroducing an author that is very neglected ray rawson with a title called "hunter castle" that was out of print for a long, long time and i wanted to reintroduce the audience toe that and iy very good introduction i think as a primer for people buying that collection for the first time. >> rose: you look around and probably see everything you can possibly see because it provides a kind of -- it provides an experiential quality to you as a creative person. >> i remember a quote by jerry lewis that said "a director reads everything he can and watches everything he can." you can be reading an article for a magazine and you should always be voracious on that and be curious because you don't know where the next great idea is going to come from. so i watch t.v. all the time. i watch movies all the time. >> rose: and you know what else yo

it rained like the dickens overnight. high today 55 degrees. you get the fan side most of you are right now. >> you get the best clean when it is raining. >> we know yesterday a chinese ice breaker was forced to turn around six nautical miles out. this ship is still nearby. >> and the winds have been fierce. the icy conditions have forced a french ice breaker to call off it's mission. way have this shippen route. we are playing -- de where are we? >> i've lost track. we have gone through the alphabet with plans. now the ship is about an hour away. we are so close to getting an update but have no guarantee when the ship gets close to the vessel. the ice may be too thick to get through. the last two efforts to get through from the chinese and the french vessels. the australian ship is bilgger and more powerful. >> we understand the crew is doing fine. but how long will they wait before they would resort to possible ar yell rescues of those folks? >> yes, i spoke to the maritime authority this morning. they told me what ever happens, they would ge

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ronald reagan had dickens of a time his second term so a lot of it is natural attrition but some of itnt where he botched the obamacare rollout, that is not because of any endorsement of the economic record which is terrible for america. it is a sinking ship, but we are seeing more wrinkles to it whether it is nsa or obamacare. dennis: not like he can turn to insurance. >> he should have done a lot of things. i am not defending any of his previous behavior. the fact of the matter is to say we have three more years or two more years left of this presidency, but it is not a sinking ship. we are in this ship together and it is very cliche but we are in this together and we want the president to fail and fall apart? >> in private moments with your most liberal friends, aren't your liberal friends terribly uncomfortable by what the president is doing? >> i am not saying this isn't getting through to certain conservatives mentioned here. we are all disappointed but he is reaching out and attacked as anti business and the reaches out of business leaders, and -- >> raise taxes on business and

a little later on of course 1843, charles dickens writes "a christmas carol" and then it's really commentedf an event, a holiday where there was a lot of riotous drinking. kind of like santacon. that happened a long time ago. there was a riot in 1806 called the christmas riot in new york city. >> vinita was trying to introduce that this morning just before the broadcast and we nixed that. the modern version of santa claus, how did he come to be? >> a lot of things we love and cherish today goes bake to an ancient tradition before christianity. there was a scott named oden who rode across the country on a horse. that got merged together with the name st. nicholas. the dutch call him sinter clause.clause klaus. eventually he becomes santa claus. they all come together. >>> welcome to "cbs this morning saturday." i'm anthony mason. >> and i'm vinita nair. coming up this half hour yellowstone national park experiences 2,000 earthquakes a year. there's a reason. it's sitting on a super volcano. there's a reason. it's bigger than previously thought. we'll talk with an expert what will happen when