he said, at last, you are turning your hand to fiction. [laughter] you know, i mentioned earlier i studied and was friends with berlin who wrote a great -- on tolstoy called a hedgehog and the fox, and he's quoting the great greek who said the hedgehog has one big idea, and the fox as many ideas. and i'm a fox, but as a fox we always love the other day and i'm in love with hedgehogs. and only write about monsters and hedgehogs. jesus is a big hedgehog of course. gore vidal is a hedgehog. he only has one idea, we know what that was. but tolstoy had commuted, he was the ultimate hedgehog, and frost was a hedgehog. and remember, i made a joke yesterday about when i wrote a novel about tolstoy and the sentiment mother and she said, was to start writing books about me? [laughter] -- stop writing books about me. it seemed like a terrible joke she was making, and she was serious but i realized my mother is kind of, she's a wonderful tirade. she's 97 and she still going strong. she's amazing. certainly i learned about tolstoy by growing up with my

i think there are decisions by people who write fiction, historical fiction, or fiction, to focus our attention in ways that are dramatic. i said if we want to get the exact history of the debates in congress we can read the congressional record. nor do we think congress was visited by an angel. i think the question is, when you are an artist and you decide to dramatize a historical event, you're certainly borrowing trouble because if i write a play about completely madeup people or screen play about madeup people i can have them do anything i want and people can't say they wouldn't do that. when i say i'm going to dramatize the fight of -- during the lame duck session of congress for their 13th 13th amendment i'm asking for trouble because i'm saying this happened. my ruling has been you can't change what happened but you can change what happens on the way to what happened, but which i mean you can say, did this happen? if you say, yes, then it's historical. did it happen this way and the answer is yes, it's history. if the answer is, yes, it happened but not exactly this way, it's h

that's fiction. >> they will be seeing some staff reductions, particularly in congress. you will be seeing some staff reductions in the white house, assuming there are widespread staff reductions. >> it's a lot of if's so far. and if you think march 1st is the final deadline, think again. at the end of march we're looking at the end after continuing resolution that funds the operation of our government, another deadline. wusa 9. >>> and on our website we're asking should congress face penalties if federal workers are furloughed? you can have your say at wusa9.com. while you're there, check out the petition we've created with our partners, so far more than 1,800 of you have weighed in with your thoughts and those thoughts have been sent as letters to representatives on capitol hill. >>> new tonight at 11:00 with budget cuts bearing down on us, the federal government says it released immigration detainees in order to save money. u.s. immigration and customs enforcement say field offices have been asked to review their numbers and see jail populations stay within the budget

you know what slash fiction is? >> jimmy: no. >> do you know? okay. bad," or "csi: miami," whatever you like, they like to write stories online -- >> jimmy: oh, yeah. >> -- about what characters on those shows would be like if they were having sex with each other. >> jimmy: yeah. >> so it's pornographic fiction for fans of tv characters. >> jimmy: "fifty shades of grey" was based -- >> that kind of thing, and it doesn't matter. it's niche. they're just enjoying it in themselves. it's not in your face. >> jimmy: absolutely, sure. >> it's niche. it doesn't matter. it doesn't affect your life in anyway, does it? >> jimmy: no. >> does it? >> jimmy: no. >> does it? >> jimmy: no. >> does it? >> jimmy: no. >> does it? [ laughter ] until it does, jimmy. [ laughter ] because i'm here to tell you this evening that it turns out there is such a thing as "daily show" slash fiction. [ audience groans ] how do i know this? [ scattered cheers ] because i received an e-mail from a friend of mine in england with a web link in it, and a message that just read, "click on

the racy new revolution that has young adult fiction flying off the shelves. >>> body guard confidential. from rihanna's punch-out to justin beesh's smackdown, inside the world of the people paid to protect celebrities, billionaires and v.i.p.s. >>> american women fighting an invisible war, the oscar-nominated documentary shining a light on a hidden epidemic, reaching the military's highest ranks. >> keep it right here america. "nightline" is back in just 60 seconds. >>> from new york city, this is "nightline." with cynthia mcfadden. >> good evening and thanks for joining us. well, move aside nancy drew, these days the hottest new trend in young adult fiction is decidedly adult. racy reads with sexual themes finding a passional ate fan base in young girls all across the country but is extending the white-hot success of "50 shades of gray" to a younger audience a good idea? ju you why chang brings us a look between the lines. >> reporter: if you could put lust in a bottle. >> it's like a drug to me. >> reporter: it might look something like this, the nectar forbidden love. before "twiligh

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>> that's absolutely fiction.what is interesting about this, when you get married you don't know, you don't choose a partner based on how you sleep. when you are in the relationship women control sleep. women tend to go to sleep earlier than men. men have to comply and i happen to know that. i happen to know that being married. that's not something we are told about in advance. then there are issues like snoring people don't necessarily sleep well together. >> i like to end it on that note women control everything, right? >> absolutely. >> more on fox and friends first coming right up. stay with us.

it is important for those who know the truth to set the record straight and separate fact from fiction. today, we have a distinguished panel to help us do that. three veterans. there were directly involved in the cia integration and detention program.

mark ceiling is here to talk about the diet facts and fiction. lawmaker wants to tell you what toaster you can use in your house. >> it is 21 past the hour. now time for a segment called what the hill. mary landrieu last week argued the government needs to increase your taxes to raise revenue. she owes 1200 bucks in tax penalties to the district of columbia. democratic congressman pushing the obama administration to regulate oil refineries and household appliances. if congress doesn't act on global warming the president should. and finally... speaking of global warming thousands of climate activists gathered in washington, d.c. to call on the president to fight harder to combat global warming. the weather not exact lipping them make their case. temperatures well below freezing most of the day. >> show that go video makes me think of summertime thousands of diet tips on the market. a lot of trick out there. we can often find ourselves confused as to what is fact and what is fiction. joining us now is mark seigel. good morning, doctor. we are think

mayor koch wrote 10 non-fiction books, four mysteries, and four children's books. childhood obesity is the number one pandemic in america today. the mayor got a lot of laughs out of his soda remarks, but there is truth there. he was thinking about what life would be like for the youngest people if they made choices or had choices forced on them but would foreclose their futures. ed koch wanted us all to shape up. i sent him a note on his 88th birthday. he sent me a letter back. he had a big brain, but he had a bigger heart. ed -- how she doing? she is doing fine, but she misses you. we are all doing fine, but we missed you. we miss you so much because we all know we are doing a lot better because you lived and served. [applause]

i think they are decisions by people who write brilliant fiction, historical fiction or fiction, to focus our attention in ways that are dramatic. i have said that if we want to get the exact history in congress we can read the congressional record. the question is, you know when you are an artist and you decide to dramatize the historical event, you are certainly borrowing trouble because if i write a play about completely made of people or a screenplay i can have them do anything i want and no one can say they didn't do that because they didn't exist. when i say i'm going to dramatize the lame duck session of congress for the 13th amendment i'm asking for trouble in a way because this happened. i rule has always been you can't change what happened. you can change what happened on the way to what happened by which i means you can say did this happen and if you say yes, then it's historical. did it happen exact way this way? if the answer is yes then its history it's history and if the answer is yes it happened but not exactly this way then it's historical action grounded in history. the

it turned out the real guy was infinitely more interesting than the fictional terror.just found he was the sum is so a character, who even though he was innocent powerless and an illiterate rant away from from this area, he knew everyone on the western stage. he and her site difficulties historical figures and was intimately involved in the exploration and allies, in the mexican-american war, in the civil war, and yet wars. this is the kind intersected with history, but in an intimate way. so i decided to devote a book at about four or five years of a life trying to figure out who this guy was. kirsten came out here in a way to escape america. he was a runaway and i'd heard of these stories about the wild west and wanted to be one of these mountain men, one of these for trappers. he did come out to new mexico and intersects with these guys. they became an intimate part of the road, which is mainly a french-based culture. he learned french and became fluent in french and lived with these guys have learned to their persistence of the west, basically hunting beaver pelts.

fiction is not the same thing as fraud not wealth but it is in this case the lives or rate is just a rate they pull out of their butt to help in committing fraud gary gensler knows that he has admitted on several occasions but of course somebody somewhere is looking at a reflection of a some sort of convex mirror guessers own dimentia so therefore it's ok then it's trickle down stupid because again it's no wonder you see this throughout the world throughout history is if the elite the people who rule the society acts like criminals crooks corrupt officials and they can't find every any evidence of any crime by any banker despite all of the evidence that is obvious to everybody else then of course the population won't understand what guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt right i mean area gary gensler is acting like a moron he's acting like a full fledged certifiable all manner of diminished mental capacity who under any other circumstances you would see this guy and say he needs to be either a straight jacket on drugs or put in a home for the mentally disadvantaged but he has a job as a

fiction is not the same thing as fraud not wealth but it is in this case the lives or rate is just a rate they pull out of their butt to help in committing fraud gary gensler knows that he has admitted on several occasions but of course somebody somewhere is looking at a reflection of them as some sort of convex mirror guessers own dimentia so therefore it's ok then it's trickle down stupid because again it's no wonder you see this throughout the world throughout history is that the elite the people who rule the society acts like criminals crooks corrupt officials and they can't find everything any evidence of any crime by any banker despite all of the evidence that is obvious to everybody else then of course the population won't understand what guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt right i mean here you have gary gensler is acting like a moron he's acting like a full fledged certifiable all diminished mental capacity who under any other circumstances you would see this guy say he needs to be either a straight jacket on drugs or put in a home for the mentally disadvantaged but he has a

fiction is not the same thing as fraud not wealth but it is in this case the lives or rate is just a rate they pull out of their butt to help in committing fraud gary gensler knows that he has admitted on several occasions but of course somebody somewhere is looking at a reflection of them as some sort of convex mirror guessers own dimentia so therefore it's ok yanis trickle down stupid because again it's no wonder you see this throughout the world throughout history is if the elite the people who rule the society acts like criminals crooks corrupt officials and they can't find every any evidence of any crime by any banker despite all of the evidence that is obvious to everybody else then of course the population won't understand what guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt right i mean here you have gary gensler is acting like a moron he's acting like a full fledged certifiable all manner of diminished mental capacity who under any other circumstances you would see this guy and say he needs to be either a straight jacket on drugs or put in a home for the mentally disadvantaged but he has

so to you it's a fiction. >> it's an utter fiction. >> bill: second thing is, the president claimed that manufacturers in the u.s.a. have added a half million jobs. 500,000. and you say? >> again, it's a question of timing and the time frame. again, in this instance, he goes back to 2010 and begins in january. the count or at least his. >> bill: first year of his tenure he doesn't count anything. >> doesn't count anything in that statement. in fact, we have lost 6 million manufacturing jobs. >> bill: 600,000? >> 600,000 rather than 500,000. >> bill: instead of a gain of 500, you say, you lou dobbs. >> negative 600,000. >> bill: on the fox business channel says we have lost 600,000. >> absolutely. >> bill: again, big discrepancy. >> big discrepancy it leaves out the fact that we still have 3 million fewer manufacturing jobs in this country today than we did 10 years ago. the president's statement almost sounds like we have recovered those jobs to the -- added. >> bill: bush administration. >> absolutely. >> bill: that's two fictions. >> correct. >> bill: you are saying. guns, the presiden

fiction is not the same thing as fraud not wealth but it is in this case the live or rate is just a rate they pull out of their butt to help in committing fraud gary gensler knows that he has admitted on several occasions but of course somebody somewhere is looking at a reflection of a some sort of convex mirror gary guessers own dimentia so therefore it's ok then it's trickle down stupid because again it's no wonder you see this throughout the world throughout history is if the elite the people who rule the society acts like criminals crooks corrupt officials and they can't find every any evidence of any crime in by any banker despite all of the evidence that is obvious to everybody else then of course the population won't understand what guilt is beyond a reasonable doubt right i mean here you have gary gensler is acting like a moron he's acting like a full fledged certifiable all manner of diminished mental capacity who under any other circumstances you would see this guy say he needs to be either a straight jacket on drugs or put in a home for the mentally disadvantaged but he h

notice which might allow us might allow us to actually do something about it it sounds like science fiction story but it might be possible but it's it's going to happen now the last one was five hundred years ago they happen about once every hundred million years so it's anyone's bet my same to opera to sleep over it all right well or outdoors but you say do something about it what are you talking about intercepting these with rock is well deflected yeah i mean you would have to deflate if you caught it early enough you wouldn't have to deflect it very far before you could make an impact meteorite or an asteroid that was going to impact on the earth miss the or so it's not science fiction and you wouldn't have to do anything really fancy just perhaps have a rock is that either in fact on or or or or was near it and shot its engines and and you know people are talking about these things because in fact it is a threat and at some point we'll have to deal with it although it's as i say it's not an imminent threat and and the asteroid that's coming as close to the earth as this one is extremely

later on he would go on to write fiction that was famous at the time.thinks fiction is all about these people who meet other people who think they are long lost twins, or they meet -- in some of the stories the characters meet people who are clockwork rep caz of other people. it's this weird sort of idea that you have to go through this hall of mirrors and at the end of it, you come out realizing that there's this wholeness you don't quite have access to but the romantics believe music gave you a glimpse of that. these are incredibly heady ideas but beethoven was the delivery vehicle for it. >> stephen: now, i did not follow all of that. [ laughter ] so these germans had some big ideas. >> very big. >> stephen: and betoafen's music seemed like a manifestation of these ideas. why these four notes the manifestation of that? you don't need to go through it again. [ laughter ] because i'll be just as lost. >> to be honest, they were, too, so. >> stephen: to they had a romantic longing for some sort of ideal and they thought that this was the ideal the repre

turns out the real guy was infinitely more interesting than the fictional character.nd he was one of these characters in the sense that he was powerless an illiterate runaway from missouri, he knew everyone on the western stage. he intersected with all these historical figures, and was intimately involved in exploration in the west, in the mexican-american war, in the civil war, and the indian wars. this is a guy intersected with history, big history, but in an intimate way. so i decided to devote a book and about four or five years of my life to trying to figure out who this guy was, kit carson. carson came out near a way to escape america. he was a runaway, and he had heard all these stories about the wild west and wanted to be one of these mountain men, one of this fur trappers. he did come out to new mexico. intersected with these guys, he became an intimate part of their world, which was mainly a french based culture. he learned french and became fluent in french and lived with these guys and learned the river systems of the west, basically hunting beaver pelts.

so to you it's a fiction. >> it's an utter fiction. >> bill: second thing is, the president claimed thatanufacturers in the u.s.a. have added a half million jobs. 500,000. and you say? >> again, it's a question of timing and the time frame. again, in this instance, he goes back to 2010 and begins in january. the count or at least his. >> bill: first year of his tenure he doesn't count anything. >> doesn't count anything in that statement. in fact, we have lost 6 million manufacturing jobs. >> bill: 600,000? >> 600,000 rather than 500,000. >> bill: instead of a gain of 500, you say, you lou dobbs. >> negative 600,000. >> bill: on the fox business channel says we have lost 600,000. >> absolutely. >> bill: again, big discrepancy. >> big discrepancy it leaves out the fact that we still have 3 million fewer manufacturing jobs in this country today than we did 10 years ago. the president's statement almost sounds like we have recovered those jobs to the -- added. >> bill: bush administration. >> absolutely. >> bill: that's two fictions. >> correct. >> bill: you are saying. guns, the president

i can't leave out the robotic exoskeleton a bodysuit straight out of a science fiction movie that can get paraplegics a new lease on life and give the average person more than average abilities and last but not least three d. printers capable printing anything almost including human organs could this be the end of organ donors and could we start seeing human being blown out of the machine to this guys these amazing new technologies their benefits and their potential for abuse i'm joined now by b.t.s. producer manual rob lowe hello i have a house going low let's start talking about the proto proto robot looks let's check this out ok this is terrifying i think i have i don't know i mean i know that it has a lot of practical applications which i want to talk about now but it's just it's a really frightening image and it's a really i mean i think it's pretty cool looks like it looks like the little dots from there from robocop and you can even see it going up stairs and going through all these new things there's tons of practical action that come into your house and i don't want to mentio

somebody who would very similar to much of his fiction. in scientology, the idea is you are an immortal soul that is called defeat any of the e4 and you live again. they can help you remember this past lifetimes and achieve your salvation. this is great news to a lot of people. in the course of therapy that scientology has this code auditing. the auditor, between you and auditor is a device and it's called in emea to. you hold toucans. in the old days they used to be campbell soup kids with the label scraped off. there are wires connect in a three-meter and a small amount of electricity passing those wires. it's one part of a lie detector that measures your cosmetic skin responses in this adventure upholster restoration. but it gets to something. so when you are talking your auditor, bonito is constantly registering. they think it measures the mass of the earth sized. you can see the movement as they disaggregate an old painful memory might show up in the meter and if you continually go through this thought entering of his painful qualitie

technologies that have been calibrated perfected and pave the way toward a reality where science fiction has become a fact starting with darpa pro robot humanoid robot capable of recreating common tasks all with super human ability what about the mind control prosthetic arm developed at the university of pittsburgh with enough practice this robotic extremity is capable of performing complex tasks all controlled by electric signals created in the brain there's also the bio nick i revolutionary procedure that consists of a ret no implant that could restart eyesight to the blind procedure that was once only a dream actually has f.d.a. approval right here in the us can't leave out the robotic exoskeleton a body suit straight out of a science fiction movie that can get paraplegics a new lease on life and give the average person more than average abilities and last but not least three d. printers capable printing anything almost including human organs could this be the end of organ donors and could we start seeing human being blown out of the machine to discuss these amazing new technologies t

although it's not maybe all fiction. scott thuman took a trip through thre scane glenn beck taken place in a stone's throw from the city. >> a lot. >> our first scandal in the 1800's. a u.s. representative out of town a lot. >> his wife teresa puts a white handkerchief on the second-floor railing. her lover and across the square, fillipo, the son of francis scott key, he would see the white handkerchief and would raise his own white handkerchief and that would be their signal to meet. >> when her husband learned of the affair, he told his wife to send a signal again and then key showed up instead. >> he said, is council, you betrayed my house, now prepared to die. snooki shoots and kills him in lafayette park confesses an aside, leading a temporary insanity, a first. he is seen as a hero by some. >> he is, because his marriage was violated. >> most people think of when abraham lincoln was killed at, that it was a great loss for the country, but they don't think about the other characters involved. >> and there was the ma

. >> there are fact and fiction. you can tell us which ones are a myth and which ones are true.think if you don't have any chest pain you are not having a heart attack. >> that's fiction. heart attack can come in many different varieties. it can be a jaw ache, it can be you are just not feeling like yourself. could be your arm is bothering you. could be nausea. especially for women. 60 percent of women present with a heart attack the first time they felt it it could be you are not feeling well. >> good to know especially women. trans fats are enemy number one in your diet. >> that's absolutely true. trans fats are enemy number one. they taste good. they clog your coronaries. a lot of times we take trans fats out and put butter in. butter is almost as bad as trans fats. >> you can have a tiny bit and have sdmrezero label. >> you got to watch out for it. >> it is a portion that is accessib accessible. >> if people think it's stress i am not having a heart attack i am just stressed. >> that is fiction. the thing is you don't know it's stress. i don't want you to be physician patti

back on the earth missed the or so it's not science fiction you wouldn't have to do anything really fancy just perhaps have a rock is that either in fact on or or or or was near it and shot its engines and and people are talking about these things because in fact it is a threat and at some point we'll have to deal with it although it's as i say it's not an imminent threat and and the asteroid that's coming as close to the earth as this one is extremely rare and one this size that were to hit the earth might happen once every million years at best but i think i thought yeah that's comforting because obviously some people live in china banks will be wired that this could be the sign of another one coming it that isn't the case i know at least first of all these two things regrettably unrelated and as i say it ten times it's a single object it didn't most of it didn't even hit the earth it just was destroyed in the atmosphere most meteors are small enough that they could destroy the atmosphere they come down as dust and i wouldn't and i'm sorry about what's happened there but this is not a p

when you can fill it with those real details fiction has its best when it has one foot in reality and in terms of the place we got to explore here i finally got to decamp david. i don't even know what camp david was. the camp david accords we have all heard of it that what is this place? what is this place that they go and do there? i found that camp david has security that is better than the white house. what is going on there that they have better security than the white house? they have marines and secret service, doubletime. it's amazing. when you look at it here's the great thing for them. it's really their second home. it's a getaway place and what's interesting is they can go skeet shooting and they can play golf and bowling go swimming but here's the best part. no press allowed. when one of the secret guys -- secret service guys told me when clinton first took office i set i have had allergies. that day his allergies were magically cured and i do blame him. have a place we can get away and be by yourself but one of the best things we have found as there is a hidden tunnel that

you can ask about comics, about novels, you asking about open heart surgery, i write fiction. i'll make up an answer, and c-span is here so they just want to make sure if you have a question, please take the microphone. there's one question up here. >> hi, mr. meltzer. big decoded fan. >> i'm a big decoded fan, the biggest. i'm a bigger decoded fan than you. i call it brad meltzer's decoded. the best title of all-times. i said to my wife, what are we having for brad meltzer's dinner tonight? and she said you can sleep on brad meltzer's couch. >> my favorite episode would have to do with the fear of destiny you did a while back and i was wondering what your thoughts were since time has passed on the spirit and where you think it might lie. >> the question is' the sphere of destiny and we did an end soap about the fear that -- when christ was being crucified, and the amazing part of the story, they say all these different leaders had thisster and used it to gain power, and napoleon and other people took this thing and the best part of the store was they adolph hitler wented it.

fiction is great. i love fiction that the problem is people will say things like i had a friend that had an appendectomy and they charged him $10,000 which is in same if you have never actually had one but that is what the bill says. how could i have never afforded this without insurance? this is the we've i got to in the house and dollars lobbying around. this company paid $18,000 a year for his entrance, so if the had given that money to him his family would have run out of appendices well before they had run out of money. it affects the way we think about this. my aunt got a bill for something like $400,000 the share was $100. that sounds pretty good except there is no for hundred thousand dollars and it is completely fiction it affects the way they think about the distance. it affects the we've resources are allocated. the medical examiner determined we cannot approve the hospital stay for the acute appendicitis with rapture. we don't have enough facts to show that it was medically necessary. this