archaeologist george stuart. stuart: this is a color facsimile of the dresden codex -- actual size, real colors. it's made on, like the others, on bark paper sized with lime plaster, on which the images were painted with fine hair brushes and pigment in about, oh, five or six different colors. keach: many of these books were discovered by the sixteenth century spanish. they were said to be filled with genealogies, prophesies and religious beliefs. but to the spanish conquerors, they were blasphemous. in 1562, bishop diego de landa ordered them destroyed. "we found a large number of books in these characters, "and as they contained nothing "in which there were not to be seen "superstition and lies of the devil, "we burned them all, "which caused them much affliction." ironically, a book by bishop landa himself proved crucial to the understanding of maya writing. stuart: and in it is everything that he observed in yucatan about the maya, about their ceremonial cycles, their ritual calendars. he even had pictures of

george. mr. miller, you are now recognized for five minutes. stuarty russell george just finished and repeated his inspector general report. because that's who he is. steve miller is about to start. we're going to listen to this one, go. >> i know this hearing within the last two days, the irs was unable to prepare written testimony. would i note that i have a very brief statement before i take your questions. first and foremost, as acting commissioner i want to apologize on behalf of the internal revenue service for the mistakes that we made and the poor service we provided. the affected organizations and the american public deserve better. partisanship or even the perception of partisanship has no place at the irs. it cannot even appear to be a consideration in determining the tax exemption of an organization. i do not believe that partisanship motivated the people who engaged in the practices described, in the treasury inspector general's report. i' i've reviewed the treasury inspector general's report, i think what happened here foolish mistakes w

to george, you are a first, welcome. >> thank you. stuartive the first opening statement. i believe lois lerner will be the last of the witnesses to make that statement. we will take you back to that hearing when ms. lerner makes her statement. don't know what statement it is going to be but she will make a statement and we will bring it to you when it happens. what would -- i know ms. lerner is not going to answer any questions today. but if you had a chance to ask one question and have it answered by ms. lerner what would the question be? >> how did you select these groups for scrutiny? and why would you ever allow a system to continue that uses the title of the group as a reason for irs special attention? i know that she has said it came to her attention late in the process and she took steps to stop at once she learned about it, but it went on for way too long. where is the accountability and what was the irs thinking about when they made these judgments? stuart: that will be a question we would all like to get an answer do. thank you so

george mason. welcome to the program, good to see you. >> thank you, stuart.that bold statement, the foreclosure crisis is over. >> just insert peter schiff's comments in here. the answer is, it's improving, paul though 30-day delinquencies are up. it's improving primarily for the same reasons that peter schiff has said. the fed has been pumping lots of air into the market and the housing recovery is mostly an investor recovery, not a traditional home owner recovery. so, the second the punch bowl is pulled away, it goes. stuart: now in the short-term, before that punch bowl is taken away, does this foreclosure decline, the fewer foreclosures, does it mean that more homes are going to come onto the market, you know, to make juice up the housing market some more? >> yes, it should mean we should be seeing more inventory he released in the market, shadow inventories from the banks, et cetera. however, there's another problem, it's not clear that there's borrowing demand from consumers. they're just not buying. and so, a thin inventory, few buyers, these are all i

. >> what i am shocked about is back in 2004, george bush won reelection and i was not happy about it. stuartmanufacture all the evidence you want. stuart: here is the irs, for heavens sake. >> was anyone denied? no. let me explain how this works. you can start a 5o1c4 and the irs can deny you later. stuart: they intimidated the people who created these groups. they demanded all manner of documentation. by the way, the president's own brother was given in three weeks, he got his tax exemption for his foundation. that tax exemption -- >> here we go. you are telling me that carl rove was denied his activity to spend $400 million? stuart: you are blinded to a patent of behavior. government machinery was used. >> what i am shocked about, and, i think that conservatives need to come to terms with it, for your own sanity, you lost the election. i am sorry. he outwork you guys. you lost. lived with it. >> 1972, president nixon one reelection in a landslide. then watergate happened. >> you can question him, you can question him, but you cannot say that he did not win this election fair and square. st

stuart recounts the lives of revolutionary era women. peggy shipman and lucy flucker, wife of george washington's chief of around tillty, general -- artillery, general henry knox. this is a little under an hour. >> it's a pleasure to be here in this historic place, and, well, i guess the ghosts of history are here visiting us tonight. people often ask -- now can you hear me now? louder? okay. still not projecting. try again. people often ask me how it is that i wrote an 80,000-word book, and i'm going to the give you two words why. one of them is curiosity, and the other one is coincidence. curiosity because i knew from the earlier book that there were two and a half million people who were alive during the american revolution. now, i'm sure that you can name at least five, maybe ten people, men, who were involved in -- significant figures in the revolution. can we try? >> george washington. >> josh adams -- john ad also. >> hamilton, hancock. both adams, john and sam. >> daniel morgan. >> daniel morgan. i'm sorry? >> [inaudible] >> robert morris. we can -- >> nathaniel green. >> wil

stuart: i would take that shot. headline of the morning i walked into, france is in recession, interesting news, let's bring in the market center at georgeaised and educated in france. good to have you back again. france is in recession. i want to know why. i have a suspicion not cutting spending, raising taxes. am i right? >> you are exactly right. the only policy implemented in france is what i called trident austerity, there has been no public austerity, not cut spending. stuart: over here we look at europe. and all this cutting of spending, just dreadful. tax increases are going -- >> i am back to hear -- i will be wealthy if i get a penny each time austerity and people and prized spending cuts and looked at the data, spending data, most countries have increased spending slower increase spending over the period, raised taxes so much whether it is the value-added tax, capital tax, income tax rates will almost anything that moves like this like the device tablet, cellphone taxes, everything. stuart: i just wanted to get to that because as i understand it there is a new tax on cellphones and tablets and revenues going to be used to supp