that's the prequell to eliot's book, eliot's tale of the next 200 years.we've talked a little bit about place and the long history of america's great warpath. so we can talk about grand geography, grand international alliances, strategies, those alliances between the huron, the algonquin and their forced french allies in driving the mohawks out of that end of the southern end of lake champlain. but war, as you all know, is a story of individuals; individual memories. want to just wind up by sharing with you the story of one young man who was born the year of the fort william henry massacre, 1757, porn in new haven -- born in new haven, connecticut. young man joins a connecticut regiment two weeks after the fighting begins at lexington and concord and marchs off with daniel worcester's regiment to lay siege to the british trapped inside boston. he spends the summer helping to build the american fortifications around boston, and then when the drum is beat to recruit men to follow benedict arnold on a crazy march through the maine wilderness, benjamin warner

that is the prequel to eliot's book. eliot's tale of the next 200 years. we talked about place and a long history of america's great warpath. we can talk about grand geography and rand international alliance strategy, bose alliances between montagnais and the elbow when and their french allies in this driving mohawks' end of lake champlain. war as you all know is a story of individual valor, individual fear, individual courage and the individual memories. i want to wind up by showing you the story of one young man who was born the year of the fort william henry massacre in new haven, connecticut. the man joined the connecticut regiment after the fighting begins in lexington and concord and marches off with daniel worse perhaps regiment to lay siege to the british tracked inside boston. he spends the summer helping build the american fortifications around boston and when the drum is beat to recruit men to follow benedict arnold on a crazy march through the maine wilderness benjamin warner signed up for that effort and marches to lay siege to quebec. that in

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. >> the sheriff of wall street himself, eliot spitzer, and we're going to be talking about your favorite subject, though it is one that is remarkably somber and important, not nearly discussed enough, and that is the reconciliation between the extractive banking policies and the consequence of social unrest to the risk of potential actual global conflict. that is where this ends if we don't reconcile it, and i'm excited to talk to the governor about it. >> sounds interesting, dylan. take it away. >> here we go. show starts right now. ♪ so this is christ mass >> well, the big story, war is over. good wednesday afternoon to you, i'm dylan ratigan. nice to see you. note the question mark in the statement behind me. the remaining 5,500 u.s. troops in iraq are packing up. good news. ready to hand full control over to the iraqis by christmas of this year, nine years after the u.s.-led invasion but after they come home 16,000 u.s. contractors on our tax payroll and personnel will stay behind in baghdad wearing our identity and doing our work. in fact, baghdad will be the largest u.s. embassy on

eliot, the great mentor and publisher. he thought it was it placement about which ted hughes would have been exulted. >> you have been >"newsday" on the bbc. i am in singapore. >> i am in london. the afghan president, hamid karzai, has cut short a visit to europe and returned home after nearly 60 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack kabul. the afghan government blamed the taliban, but they denied responsibility. that is all from us in london and singapore. coming up next, the asia prison -- the asia and business report. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global strength to work for a wide range of financial companies. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los angeles. presented by kcet los angeles.

i found it ironic last night that eliot spitzer was interviewing people talking about these sorts of activities, and that cycle is going on and on. if you want to play a drinking game, you know, who wants to take bets of when we're going to have the first appearance of gloria allred? it's inevitable. i'm getting off the point a little bit here. but at some point i think it was around the time of the o.j. case where you had this confluence of a big public figure, it was a juicy trial, and cable news was just becoming a force. it changed the environment in which we operate, at least criminal system operates. because it's not just cases anymore, it's entertainment. it's a whole media frenzy on big cases. and i don't think that's a very good thing, but that is the environment in which we operate. and lawyers have to deal with that now. >> a very good point. we have some questions from the audience. i'm going to ask the first one for paulette. in taking tony's essence, who he is as a trial lawyer, how does you tell that story in the book? paulette's book is for sale in the lobby and also

and eliot spitzer shamed new york governor involved in a prostitution ring turned tv anchor and axed by that cable network, due to audience interest meaning nobody was watching. and speaking of low ratings and under the what were they thinking category, katie couric leaving the anchor desk and supposed to be hosting a talk show and much richer. oprah winfrey said goodbye to her duly show, moving on to start the oprah winfrey network, is anyone watching that and glenn beck started gbtv and also heard on his radio show every and every day. so, some of the big media stories of the year and there was the phone hacking scandal in principle, a bigger story overseas than it was here and you said you were watching it. >> some of the hearings were fascinating. nobody will forget watching it live. the wife of rupert murdoch, the chairman of newscorp, got up and defended her husband go ens this pie throwing maniac in there and one of the headlines i loved, said crouching wendy, hidden tiger, that was new york post stuff. that's good. >> jon: with an about the wikileaks, julian asange putting ou

eliot brenner talking to reporters. as we approach the wednesday hearing, the hearing yesterday, it would be a useful exercise to read two things. the 1980 organization plan with an emphasis on the bulls and responsibility for commissioners and direct during the chairman and also the murky reporter. i got deep into the marketing and found it quite interesting. this is -- this was instructions to the reporters covering yesterday's meetings to read this report appeared, which is about the four commissioners. i was a chairman jaczko coming to believe representative markey's report is an accurate characterization of the nrc that to reduce clicks do you believe that? >> i certainly believe it's based on a nostrum the colleagues and i was deeply disturbed when i saw the content. >> to believe this increases public confidence? >> i don't and it is unfortunate some communications going along with colleagues unbeknownst to me were happening. >> it does not increase public confidence. i can't tell you how stunned ibm and all use

. >> you're talking to the man who brought eliot spitzer back into the conversation, because i think he's brilliant on the banks. the point of my book is that everybody's a greedy bastard. it's really a matter of whether, in fact, you're able to change the system that you work inside. so i think it's important that people like you are involved in this to model both your own awakening, your own awareness, and your own willingness. >> thanks very much. >> ed rendell, we'll talk to you soon. ed. >>> coming up here on "the d.r. show," president obama tries channeling teddy. we'll talk about the real teddy roosevelt and what he would do with giant bank and health insurance monopolies. >>> plus, occupy clashes, afghan car bombings, and yet our specialist says we may be living in the least violent period in history. >>> and he parachuted from a plane, disappeared into a night, had 200 gs on him when he was done. now after four decades, police may be finally closing the book on old d.b. cooper. details, straight ahead. p so much shrimp cocktail. where do you think it all comes from? elves. [

with eliot spitzer went down all explain my wife i know it a madam for a year.i get e-mails from charlie sheen people. that i would love to her right. but again, i don't think my way for them he do that. everyone does contact me at some point. i like some off the beaten track unchained past. >> he got arrested in orlando. >> helicopters close a major highway. >> i'm not going to say not that. i don't know how nasa covered it up, but nasa was embarrassed. he was one of their own who robbed them. >> a big trial and yet, i don't know how public u.s. it is a federal trial. there were reporters there. it was written about so little. and it didn't really -- it never exploded. it was a wonderful l.a. times article about it come a four-page article that was really it. that was years ago. >> at nasa cooperate at all? >> they told everyone not to speak to me. which makes people want to talk to me. i actually got axil lettermen, the belgian mineral collect there. never been to antwerp in his life. he corrects rock in his wife's name is crystal. he meets every monday night

it's like when eliot spitzer went down, the madam was e-mailing me, right? i'm going to hang out with a madam for a year. i got e-mails from charlie sheen's people. again, i don't think my wife would have let me do that one. julian assange. everyone does contact me at some point. i do like the stories off the beaten track because no one's heard of them. >> well, sex on the moon, he got arrested in orlando, big trial -- >> 100 agents, they closed a major highway -- >> headlines in tampa -- >> and yet they covered it up. nasa -- and i'm not going to say nasa, i don't know how nasa covered it up, but they were very unhappy. he was one of their own who robbed him. >> big trial. >> big trial, i don't know how public it was. it was a federal trial, i would assume it would have had to have been. >> yeah. >> there were reporters there. it was written about so little, and it didn't really just -- it never exploded. there was a wonderful l.a. times article about it at the time which was, like, a four-page article, and that was really it. and that was, you know, years

eliot. a lust for learning.cators have to make it clear that there is nothing more significant in our lives than education. secondly, we have to create a structure that allows students to work together and to want to be smart. in american culture, we do not teach kids to want to be smart, to think about ideas. it sounds so cool, global ideas. thinking about things. creating a culture on campus. domestic diversity. they will be working together. we mixed up. get beyond your comfort zone, and whether they are talking about theater or a computer science program, that is focused, that is the passion we have to have. >> i hear the footsteps behind that tells us that we are finished. thank you all for coming. that was great, and congratulations. [applause] >> thank you, steve. that was great. great. thank you. and to lead our next discussion, let me introduce david, a professor of public service and the director for the center for public leadership at the harvard kennedy school. many of you have also seen him on cnn,

carson daley, we have a broad spectrum of talent from rodney atkins, to big time rush, marsha brody,eliotlding. and for many kermit the frog will be here tonight. in addition to that we have our tony-award winning santa claus and the greatest feature of the show is we have the obama family, the president and the first family will be here to light the tree. reporter: excellent. thank you very much, neil. so if you plan to head on out today, log onto our website, myfoxdc.com. we have a link to theirs where you can find all the information. again, bundle up, it's going to be very, very cold tonight. it's already cold now, and coming up in the next hour we have a very special guest, kermit the frog will be joining us live out here. rehearsal is going on now, they're doing mic checks and just doing a rehearsal, as you can see, so stay with us. back to you, allison and steve. >>> 7:56 right now. coming up next hour, in light of the sex abuse scandal at penn state, advice on how to protect your child from a sexual predator. >>> also coming up after 8:00, steve, tis the season to deliver holiday

this is eliot brenner talking to reporters. "as we approach the wednesday hearing, it would be a useful exercise to read two things. 1918 plan with an emphasis -- in 1980 and this is -- the 1980 plan with an emphasis on the role of directors and the chairman, and also the markey report." this is instructions to the reporters covering yesterday's meeting to read this report up here, which was about these four commissioners. i would say, it you believe rep is an accurate characterization of nrc activities? >> i was deeply disturbed when i saw the content of many of those e-mails. >> do you think this increase is public confidence? >> no, i do not. >> u.s. answer the question. it does not increase public confidence. i agree with you on that. i would argue the same characterization's at the chairman. the idea that an official spokesman would encourage the media to read a report that is clearly designed to denigrate four commissioners, to attack the agency's capability, and to undermine public confidence, i think it is reprehensible

. >> yeah, i've known bono for a long time, but mike eliot works with us, runs the one organization,has an event. tonight in washington with president obama where he basically says that obama will commit to funding for another two years and increase the funding from 4 million people being helped to 6 million people being helped. and bono says i'm here to thank america for american leadership, for saving 5 million lives and talks a great deal about -- and gives a great deal of credit to george bush who stuck with this policy, who started it, who announced it in the state of the union and basically has been transformational in africa when it comes to this disease. >> people like bono and others working in africa talking about how george w. bush did more for africa than the other american presidents. >> absolutely than any other american president. and he talks about it with this interesting combination of strange bedfellows including the evangelical christians who supported the efforts, the military because they saw aids as a security threat. and bono talks about how visionary it is be