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they want to take hanson and his engineer off the ship.er at the bow again. and wearing survival suits, the captain and the engineer will need to cross the boat from the wheelhouse to the bow. >> from our point of view, they got about halfway across. we saw the captain slip, go down on his knees, and this huge mound of ice just crushed -- came across the beck and swept them overboard. >> oh, no! >> the two men are flung into 28-degree water. the tide pulls them dangerously close to the "monarch." it looks like they'll be crushed by their own ship. now, they're at the mercy of mother nature. >> waves come in sets, so not only were they hammered by that one wave that washed them over, there were about three others that came through, just boom, boom, boom, right on top of them, crushing them. we're sitting up there going, what are we going to do now? >> the wind is howling at 30 to 40 knots, but pilot gooth moves fast. she maneuvers her chopper tight between the "monarch" and the coast guard ship. with a steady hand she holds her position, an

julia butler hanson of washington state is definitely one of the women in this era who is pushing the ball along for women in terms of this apprenticeship that they are serving as a group. her background was a long-time member of the washington state house of representatives, she has a lot of legislative experience before she ever comes to capitol hill. she was the chair of a couple different committees in the state legislature, served quite often as speaker pro-tem. she -- one of the things she did in washington was she was a prime mover behind establishing the ferry system in the state. so she has got a lot of legislative experience and she is not your typical freshman when she is elected in 1960 in a special election. she very quickly moves in to a position of influence. she gets a seat on the appropriations committee in the house. and by the mid-1960s, she vies for a subcommittee chairmanship, one of the so-called cardinals of the appropriations committee. and she competes for a seat on the interior and related agencies subcommittee and it's a tough competition, but she wins out.

hanson recommends doing your own homework when booking flights. >> any travel booking site will enableut the performance of your particular inflight performance is. and also the outbound flight. >> reporter: and we did reach out to sfo to talk with us on camera. the airport denial our multiple requests for an interview. we also reached out to the airline industry which claimed airlines do not overbook. instead they blamed weather for delays, cancellations and missed connections. if you want to see the data yourself, go to our webl and search investigations. nbc bay area news. >>> if you have a tip for our investigative unit, give us a call. >>> today marks two years when a gunman killed two students and staff. today the victims were recommended. on the christmas tree were the faces of the victims. family members stay pain never goes away. >> there will never again be normal. i go to the christmas tree shop and i still buy treats for two kids now. one set goes in a goodie bag and another set goes on a grave stone. >> the mother of anna march kes is making recommendations that will go to

. >> debbie hanson runs the little shop, a long-time quilt store here. and even if this benefits the newer stores more, she says it's still a win. >> even if it isn't great for my business, if it's good for the highway, it's good for everybody's business. >> you can find parking. you don't have to deal with the crowds. and it's better selection. >> no comparison for you? >> no comparison. >> and this first-ever midnight monday was organized in just a couple of days. >> one of the largest gaming and entertainmented companies in the world. once the deal is done, caser's entertainment have a love of -- >> dupont is moving its head quarters out of wilmington. they announced to move nearly a thousand employees just outside of the city. the move begins in july. dupont plans to use the wilmington facility to start a new spin-off chemical company called kamurs. >> temperatures heading to 60. but we'll also have to put up with heavy rain and fog. coming up, i'm tracking how the changing weather will possibly back up your holiday travel and how soon we'll dry out.

reporting from the criminal justice center, tony hanson, kyw news radio. >>> well, what had mattered in 2014. still to come tonight the years top google searches. >> and then the next time a guy you know gets the flu, you may want to show him more sympathy, that is right, health reporter stephanie stahl is on your side with why the the flu vaccine is lessee effective in men, beasley. >>> eagles reduced to depending on help to get in the post season but they still have business of their own to take care of with washington and giants in the way, mark sanchez talks about improving a critical stat, coming up in okay buddy, what's your favorite kind of cheerios? honey nut. but... chocolate is my other favorite... but apple cinnamon is my favorite too... and fruity... oh yeah, and frosted! okay, but...what's you're most favorite of all? hmm... the kind i have with you. me too. >>> well, the rain has started and is it still going? it is coming in waves. >> yes, we have a couple waves, we have a first wave this have afternoon. right now it is just scattered and more rain, moving in during th

mel robbins and heather hanson. this is a very different set of circumstances in that the d.a. a decision that many people who have been protesting in the streets were begging for in ferguson, why can't we have an independent investigator? i think they're saying the same thing about eric garner. why can't we have an independent investigator? and this time there's an independent investigator. and, mel? >> people are still going to be upset. prosecutors do this across the country every day. they're elected to make judgment calls based on the law and the facts of the case. they had the division of criminal investigation, state agency conduct an investigation. they filed a report. they even had an outside expert that cost the state almost $20,000 involved in compiling the report. and based on the evidence, based on the law, what the district attorney said, he said in his opinion, there's a justifiable self-defense claim here and i cannot overcome it at a trial. i can't prove this case. >> meaning, sure, why don't we take this to trial and spend all the state tax dollars trying this

hanson also recommends doing your own home work booking flights. >> any travel booking site is going to -- enable-up to find out what the on time performance of your particular inbound flight is and also of the outbound flight. we reached out. and the airport denied our multiple requests for an interview. we also reached out to the airline industry which told us, airlines do not overbook. they blamed weather for all of the delays, cancellations and missed connections. raj, we crunched numbers with california airports. all you do is go to nbc bay area.com. search investigations. >> very good. thank you. if you have a tip for any one in our investigative unit urge you new give us a call at numbers on the screen -- a high profile case. now multimillion dollar settlement. a woman found dead in the stairwell at san francisco general will get $3 million. she went missing in september of last year while a patient at sf general. she was found dead weeks later in a stairwell at the hospital. now, spalding's family will receive $3 million to settle a lawsuit. san francisco's board of superviso

major kevin hanson is there to meet the folks that benefit most. few people know that better than dallas vincent. this single another has nowhere else to turn. >> every drop in the bucket, or kettle can help make that happen. >> we need your support. ke can't do it without individual donors. >> in napa, nick smith, abc7 news >> how the people of new york are remembering officers. >> and some young central american refugees have had a taste of christmas in the usa. >> >>> demonstrators are marching just hours after a moment of silence in honor two of officers guned down in the line of duty. the mayor asked protestors to hold off on demonstrations until after the funerals before this march the city paused to remember the officers. they were shot and killed in an ambush attack on saturday. >> we need to protect and respect our police just as our police protect and respect our communities. we can strike that balance we must. >> the mayor and his wife visited the shooting site. people continue to pay resnekts a growing memorial. >> we came here to make

major kevin hanson is there to meet the folks that benefit most.ew people know that better than dallas vincent. this single another has nowhere else to turn. >> every drop in the bucket, or kettle can help make that happen. >> we need your support. ke can't do it without individual donors. >> in napa, nick smith, abc7 news >> how the people of new york are remembering two fallen officers. >> and some young central american refugees have had a taste of christmas in the tag: sooner or later, everyone needs a helping hand, or a helping paw! so mattress discounters good deed dogs is raising money to help train assistance dogs for wounded veterans. veteran: i live independently because of what all it provides for me. and it's huge! there's a lot of wounded, ill, and injured out there just like myself, who just maybe need a little bit of help. tag: you can lend a helping paw too. give at mattressdiscountersdogs.com or any mattress discounters. mattress discounters good deed dogs-- helping dogs help people. >> >>> demonstrators are marching just hours aft

police are now looking for two juvenile black men both approximately six feet tall, one was wearing a hanson jacket and pants, anyone with information is asked to contact d.c. police. by the way the man stuffed in the trunk of his own vehicle we're told he was not harmed. live in northwest, wusa 9. >> quite a story, thank you. >>> well a lawsuit was filed today by a student at georgetown university law school alleging the 62 year old rabbi lured her to a ritual bath and possibly recorded her. >> our jim osmond is breaking down that lawsuit filed against the school. jim what did you find out? >> reporter: we're in the very beginning of what could be hears of legal issues in this case. all new tonight we're learning explosive new details how the rabbi used his position of authority to lure young women. >> this may be the opening legal in a sloo of civil cases brought because of the alleged actions of the rabbi affiliated with the israel synagogue until he was recently fired just such a betrayal on so many levels and so it really cuts to the core. >> stephen kelly is the attorney for an unnamed

linda hanson -- ends up in the pockets in the hands of jesse jackson and al sharpton and others. but they will give the money to the preacher or the leader in the black community. so it does not trigger down to them at all. maybe we would see a better change america. neil: beginning with reverend jackson back with the rainbow coalition getting companies to pay up but the fact is this is happening through democratic and republican presidents alike and it is pretty much a way it has been for the user community. so what will it take to change that? is it is the head of sony getting themselves covered or like al sharpton off their back? >> a good question the only way it will change is white americans have to overcome the fear to be called racist. as long as they have that power over. then black americans have to overcome the idea that they need a leader. i grew up in alabama under jim crow. i left all that 80 years of age i did not have the leader over me telling me how to think or who was bad or good. you just have to act normal. and tell black americans say no, you are not my beat

hanson suggested the ecb could end up illegally financing member states. still with us, abi muiji. does this concern you that we're starting to see mixed opinions on whether or not in fact we will see that additional quantitative easing in early 2015? >> it doesn't sprieft me. i think the surprise will be they come out all lined up with some sort of concerns on qe. but i think this problem with the easing can be policy measure. and i can in line with my expectation, we all expect -- eventually do some form of qe. >> do you think we're going to be looking at central pinification of the eurozone? >> outside deflation on the eurozone levels will send out the -- several members states are saying -- the question is what will the ecb do about it? the problem with hindsight is that it's not doing enough. >> a quick question, actually, on greece because we just -- with var your leaders about the election and the results and what that could do to the economy if deemus does not get the support that he needs. that raises the likelihood of greece exiting the eurozone. how does that impact your

composite index, head and shoulders above the rest in the nasdaq, this company used to be known as hanson's natural. today it's known as monster beverage. a stock that's gone from being 27 cents a share all the way to 111 bucks today. a gain of 41,000%. a thousand dollars invested back then is worth 412,000 invested today. that's the best. other stanouts have also shown significant gains. many of them are stocks in the news that we talk about every day. biopharmaceutical company gilead has been very volatile, especially recently. it's up over 4,200% since the bubble peaks. and then there's apple, up 2,500%. not all of them have been able to reach the record highs. some have lagged the overall record and the nasdaq. take a look at one of the worst performing large cap stocks. sirius xm holdings. it's still 94% below where it was during the peak levels in march of 2000. some other large cap and megatech stocks, it's just a stone's throw away. they're all going to need some hefty stock gains to get back to their records. intel, 38% below that level. yahoo, 43% below it. and cisco, nearly 60% b

. >> hanson was giving unwanted attention to a new female staff member. he was talked to about it repeatedly and it's progressed to a level where he has been removed from population and put in the hole and they're investigating this. >> i'm currently housed in deep segregation for investigation. there was new female staff that started over in unit 4, and my job over in unit 4 was the unit clerk. and they were saying that i was spending way too much time in the office with the new female staff, and i explained that i don't spend anymore time in there with her than i did with any other officer. >> but according to rookie office dawn mcdaniel, hansen did more than spend too much time in the office. >> it was kind of over a couple of day period. just, you know, nonchalant questions here and there and, you know, asking me if i had a man, he'd make me happy, and just out of the blue he offered me a ring and said it was mine if i wanted it. and i was pretty sure i didn't want it. so i had to write a report and turn it in to the shift commander. >> hansen was wri

. >> thank you, robert hanson. to join this discussion, please follow me on twitter.use the hash tag reason or like my facebook page. you can post on my wall. i want to know what you think. >>> coming up, most people believe a minimum wage helps the poor. most people believe charity helps the poor more than investment. they're irrational. that's next. . >> raise the wa . raise the wa >>> raise the wage! >> one of the simplest and fastest ways to start helping folks get ahead is by raising the minimum wage. >> raising the minimum sounds reasonable to most americans. recently people in conservative states like alaska, south dakota, nebraska voting to raise the minimum wage. americans also support laws against price couching and monopolies, but if you simply pay attention to free markets, you would know that monopolies are not really a problem today and that laws against price gouging deprive people of good things, of what they need after disasters. minimum wage hurts people. economist lee jones says there is so many economic myths. let's go over these three. minimum wag

actually, in that spirit, kent hanson and i are good friends. is he a guy that beat me by the way.d, no, i think it's a great story. of the human heart. that and i make the case in the book at 92, incredibly tough on him. and i didn't realize it. because is he not a man of self-pity. >> after he lost? >> amp he lost. it hurt it stung him. and, yet, soon thereafter he and bill clinton, the man who beat him established a very strong relationship. so, you know, you make choices in life. dad chose not to be a bitter person. not so say defeat defines me. if defeat defines him he wouldn't have won he lost in texas and lost to governor reagan and goes on to be president. a very successful one i might add. >> a credit to president clinton too. >> no question. >> the two of them. >> he has been very kind to dad and all of us have grateful. he and i are the only two baby boomer presidents. we are both governors of southern states. and we are both grandfathers. so we have got a lot in common. i have always admired the way bill clinton treated 41. >> what about the fact the president -- you do

joining me are heather hanson, defense attorney. and mark judge is a freelance journalist and film maker. i want to welcome both of you. heather, if you would stand by, i want to start with you, mark, because i understand that you were the person who said wait. this is not right and you tried to get other publications and media outlets to pick up on your story. walk me through this. when did you first smell a rat? >> well, it was the most frustrating week of my 25-year journalism career because i smelled a rat by the third paragraph of the story. i subscribe to rolling stone. the day the story came out. by the time i got to the fourth or fifth paragraph, i said wait. three hours of a rape by seven people? three hours is a long time. that was the first thing that was a give away. and i immediately wrote something up about it in op ed, an opinion piece about why the story was false. and for the next three days, tried to get it placed in various web sites and publications and nobody would run it. so i got to sit there for a week and wa

. >> berkeley resident j hanson grew up in the south. she saw the images online and came to campus in case student needed comfort. >> unfortunately i don't think a lot of people understand what a destructive image and what a horrible history lynching was. >> as for the students they are using the effigies for yet another reason to bring attention to their cause. in berkeley, lilian kim, abc7 news. >>> getting a check of our other top stories. two people are recovering after a safeway delivery truck lost control going down a hill in san francisco. witnesses say the truck was headed down 21st street yesterday afternoon but the driver couldn't stop when he got to guerrero street. the truck slammed into a car, then went over the median and into three parked cars before finally crashing to a stop in the building. the truck driver and the driver of the sedan were both hurt. >> the lucky thing were apparently people were working on that building and had been there like 30 seconds before. one guy apparently was up on the scaffolding still and pu

. >> berkeley resident j hanson grew up in the south. she saw the images online and came to campus in case student needed comfort. >> unfortunately i think a lot of people don't understand what a destructive image and what a horrible history lynching was. ed >> as for the students, they are using the effigies for yet another reason to bring attention to their cause. in berkeley, lilian kim, abc7 news. >>> two people are recovering after a safeway delivery truck lost control going down a hill in san francisco. witnesses say the truck was headed down 21st street yesterday afternoon, but the driver couldn't stop when he got to guerrero street. the truck slammed into a car, then went over the median and into three parked cars before finally crashing to a stop in the building. the truck driver and the driver of the sedan were both hurt. >> the lucky thing was apparently people were working on that building and had been there like 30 seconds before. one guy apparently was up on the scaffolding still and pushed himself into a window or somethin

we'll take a closer look at this case when legal analyst heather hanson in the 7:00 hour of good day, like oklahoma-texas football, a different thing. >> i mean, that's just crazy, how much into football they are there. one grandmother, this lady's tough as names. some teens tried to carjack her. but she was having none of it. why she said it was worth literally fighting for. and bob kelly checking traffic for us this thursday morning. >> good morning, everybody, 5:42, wet roads, snow covered roads, little built of everything as you step out the front door, as we look live at i95 in northeast philly. we'll check the rest of the good morning everybody. we are about to make more deliveries to more places than anybody on earth. we have the speed. we have the technology. and we have the team. we made over 15 billion successful deliveries last year. 15 billion! football has a season. baseball has a season. this is our season. >>> you. >> bell, montgomery county, traffic begins to pick up, you may have couple of problems on the roads, the snow coming down, depending on where you live, knott

bob hanson has some good advice. >> reporter: the goal of a family vacation is simple enough. >> it's important to spend time together. >> reporter: for allison's young family, is spending time together enough? >> as long as everyone's having fun. >> reporter: but having fun can be a challenge. >> we know if you're on a trip with unhappy kids or sulking teenagers, you're miserable. >> reporter: how do you get your kids not to be bored during the family vacation? have them help plan it. >> definitely should get the kids involved in planning it and a lot of times you would be surprised what the kids say they want to do. >> reporter: eileen says today's kids have more online resources than ever to help research the next family vacation. >> the more kids that are vested in where they are going and what they are doing, the happier everyone is going to be, the more the kids are going to be willing to compromise. >> a kid today is the world is literally at their fingertips. >> travel researcher says millennial families are looking for more active trips. >> hiking, biking, eco, it's, you know

. >> berkeley resident j hanson grew up in the south. saw the images online and came to campus in case student needed comfort. >> unfortunately i think a lot of people don't understand what a destructive image and what a horrible history lynching was. >> as for the students, they are using the effigies for yet another reason to bring attention to their cause. in berkeley, lilian kim, abc7 news. >> now to our other top stories. two people are recovering after a safeway delivery truck lost control going down a hill in san francisco. witnesses say the truck was headed down 21st street yesterday afternoon, but the driver couldn't stop when he got to guerrero street. the truck slammed into a car, then went over the median and into three parked cars before finally crashing to a stop in the building. the truck driver and the driver of the sedan were both hurt. >> the lucky thing was apparently people were working on that building and had been there like 30 seconds before. one guy apparently was up on the scaffolding still and pushed himself int

joining us on skype attorney heather hanson. heather we want to start with our viewer comments.dreds of people had something to say about this on our own facebook page. shawna writes anyone who truly loves their pet would never choose to have it euthanized over letting someone a doubt and give it a loving home forest of its life. this disgusts me. meghan says, it's her dog, if that's what she wants it's nobody's business or place to say otherwise. sarah simply asked, how is this legal? heather, where do you stand on this issue when you hear all of these points? >> well meghan said it's dog and she can do what she wants and under the law that is sort of true. dogs and animals, pets are considered property, and therefore one disposes of them in their will. however, there's also some other laws that talk about the human treatment of animals. you sort of have to balance the two. here what this owner wanted to do is completely legal. however, it appears as though given there's two options, one seems much more humane to push to put bella in no kill shelter. >> it seems we're able to b

heather hanson, trial attorney, criminal defense attorney, joey jackson is here. okay.with cuba, does that mean just maybe they'll send her back if we ask nicely enough? >> i would have thought if that was going to happen we would have heard it already. we have a' heard about exchange of some prisoners and this particular woman causes a lot of upset. there are a lot of issues with regards to her conviction. a lot of people said her conviction was unfair, a lot of people consider her sort of a racial -- someone to look up to. and so there's a lot of issues with regard to her conviction that make it a political issue for obama that maybe something, given the environment right now, he doesn't want to touch. >> i was only 6 when she killed this trooper on the new jersey t turnpike. she was convicted of it. i cannot speaks to the evidence, i cannot speaks to the trial. i've seen a lot of bad trials, i've seen a lot of good trials. the facts as reported have been she shot this trooper in the head twice with his own service revolver and she had accomplices that helped her bust

>> late 1980s was a moment when we lost all plausible deniability when james hanson testifies on capital hills, so this is a moment -- >> yes -- it is when gush. >> rose: the canary in the mine. >> but also when governments first .. began negotiating to lower emissions, and it was the year of the first intergovernmental panel, first intergovernmental conference on climate change and it was the year that the intergovernmental panel on climate change was formed, the scientific body, so what else was happening in 1988 well, it was the year before the berlin wall collapsed, it was this triumphant moment for what joseph sigalet called market fundamentalism this idea that we need to remove all boundaries to multinational corporations, crack the world market wide open, dereg -- deregulation. >> rose: 1988 was the second term of the reagan administration? reagan ran first in 1980 and then ran again in 1984 so it is it was the end of the reagan administration and the start of the bush 41, in -- >> yes so this is definitely been bay partisan in terms of the response,. >> rose: or lack of response?

that's where the iff and christian hanson fit. mario, thank you very much. >> always a privilege. >> join us tomorrow. "squawk on the street" begins right now. >>> good tuesday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer. david faber is at the communications conference. it has been 1 1/2 months since the dow fell two days this a row. today might break that street. premarket rough on worries about the fed signaling an end. shanghai had its worst d

michael hanson, a senior scientist with "consumer reports" says consumers mistakenly believe these are> what most people think it means is that the food is bad after that date and they shouldn't eat it, it could be hazardous so tend to throw it out. >> reporter: "gma investigates" learning for the most part this is not the last date the food is safe to eat. instead, the manufacturer determines it's the last day the product is at its peak quality. the guidelines for label dating vary from state to state. some states have no guidelines at all. >> this is required to be labeled. >> reporter: the only product with a federally regulated date infant formula. even the food industry recognizes that current practices do not adequately serve all consumers and tells us there's an effort among many partners to improve current code dating practices with the goal of creating a uniform global standard. >> use by, sell by and nothing but just a date. >> this is all the same brand. >> this is all the same brand. this is not only the same brand but also the same 2%. >> reporter: what does this show us?

that's where the iff and christian hanson fit. in infrastructure we need. >> mario, thank you very much. >> always a privilege. >> join us tomorrow. "squawk on the street" begins right now. >>> good tuesday morning. welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer. david faber is at the communications conference. it has been 1 1/2 months since the dow fell two days this a row. today might break that street. premarket rough on worries about the fed signaling an end. shanghai had its worst day in five years. our road map begins with the sell-off in the markets. renewed concerns about the economy. just out, abercrombie and fitch ceo stepping down. a controversial figure on cramer's wall of shame. stock's up 8%. verizon with a warning, a surge in new subscribers, but promotions and price cuts are going to hurt profits. first up, stocks on track to extend losses the day after the s&p recorded its worst day since october. got weakness in the energy sector. got worries about the fed changing language. on december 1

john and jody hanson who are back there who have published the three most recent of my books and who supported me so well all these years. in fact john was the one who when i had put in the book that this guy was a navy s.e.a.l. john said there were no navy s.e.a.l.s back then. navy s.e.a.l.s came along and 62 with kennedy. we did have udp's underwater demolition technicians and they were what we would call familiarly fraud man at the sky was a fraud man. this guy was so strong and so agile. he did something one day i thought he was -- i was hallucinating. he walked on the wall and i don't know what was keeping him on there. this guy was incredible. he disappeared and we wondered where he was. we looked all over and he wasn't there. i happened to notice in the head the navy word for bathroom, in the head that the vent in the ceiling was a little bit askew. how he got up there 14 feet up i didn't know that and we couldn't figure it out but he somehow got up there. so we got a stepladder and i got on top of the stepladder and kept yelling his name. his name by the way was joe lewis smi

are still monitoring of very light ride around the bay we're not tracking any hot spots and one new hanson that out to you in a moment it will cost little time on the nimitz freeway here was the ride at the bay bridge out and this could not be any better no back of snow delays no metering lights and we are problem freeing and into the free across and and on highway 92 of the commit for the san mateo bridge berrylike traffic in both directions when not even see in the crowding in the lines of 92 westbound in the east and west bound traffic flows and the golden gate bridge the bride is the very light south down and all found no problems on the presidio parkway in getting into law ran the of the richmond bridge an easy proposition here would know that the house on 580 westmount interesting and the one as a them to point out to you is a brief delay of the nimitz freeway southbound as we get down to the corridor tracks all from the coal role for the dumbarton bridge. >>george: it was an accident on the shoulder. >> reporter: public transportation on this eve can be a headache for some folks if

so, legal analysts heather hanson here to explain.n the field, ends up in a courtroom? >> it is a little bit ridiculous. what happened was initially, the team, the school district, appealed to the school association, for all of the sport. school as' association says messed up, in doubt about it, but can't replay the game just because of. that will so then the school district went and took it to the court. >> it had's roll the tape again. watch, drop the stinking lower third, because the issue is the coach who is running down the side line, in the orange jacket, look at him running, so what happens? >> he hits the rev. apparently this was the second time this happened. so, it does deserve a penalty, from what i understand, football. >> minor violation, though, 5-yard penalty. >> that's right. the penalty that they gave took away that last touchdown, and therefore, the win. so, what they're actually asking for is to replay the last minute and 42nd of the game. >> hold on a second. they would get together and simply play one minute of fo

those who say you are not doing enough on disarmament if we somehow backed off or sat on our town -- hanson didn't try to make practical progress every way we can whether it's generating the conditions for a more sophisticated and difficult verification regime in the future like putin monitoring warheads. that's the whole meaning of our verification initiative and also as i mentioned getting nonnuclear weapons states involved so they recognize what kind of difficulties are in that regard. but you have to do both at once i think. >> i will give myself the option of the last question. rosie talked about the russians being serious in terms of implementation of new s.t.a.r.t. and obviously since they calculated that it's in their interest but you also say the russians have been prepared to go beyond that and i think you used the term blocking further reductions. is there a central -- [inaudible] usually above and a third country is 300. is there a sense to why the russians at this point, reluctant to engage in a discussion in going forward? >> prior to the ukraine crisis i think it was a comple

. >> historian dan hanson just got back from visiting the white house and joins us now.s unique this year at the white house? >> what's really unique is that the blue room tree is dedicated to veterans. so you have a lot of signs and ornaments that say home of the brave. it's just a really beautiful tribute to those who have served and fought for liberty for us. >> let's take a walk back in presidential history. let's go back to richard nixon and that famous picture with elvis. tell us about the significance of that. >> this picture was taken christmas week in 1970. it's the most requested photo from the national archive. and elvis' father chided him for spending $100,000 on christmas gifts. sew got a little mad and went to washington, d.c. and arranged this meeting with richard nixon and he gave president nixon a colt .45 and asked the president if he would give him a federal badge and nixon complied. this famous picture also placed. >> a d.e.a. badge. >> he did. it was interesting. but elvis had a collection of police badges. he just wanted to add to his collection, i

[inaudible conversations] >> my name is carolyn hanson, and i am the speakers director of buckley program. it is with great pleasure that i am here to introduce a distinguished patron of the liberal arts and scholar of western civilization, professor noel valas. she is the director of graduate studies of spanish here at yale and also a professor of spanish and portuguese. >> just spanish. >> okay. no longer portuguese. [laughter] she is a recipient of the guggenheim fellowship and also a national endowment for the humanities fellowship. she's written on sacred realism, the spanish civil war and 19th century spanish novel. so without further ado, the moderator for this second panel, liberalism at home and the challenges to western survival. [applause] >> you hear me all right? good. welcome to this second panel on this conference on james burnham's "suicide of the west," which the william f. buckley program at yale has so beautifully organized and put together. i should point out at once that, unfortunately, james was unable to attend. but wonderfully at the last moment we have a replaceme

and hosts from christopher walken to scarlett yo is hanson. so it's really interesting. probably more than 100 interviews. >> mr. miller, how important is saturday night live to politics or has it always been a political show? >> well, it has. i mean, right from the beginning when chevy chase used to make fun of gerald ford and fall down, you know, i think it's an important part of the political process. every four years when there's a presidential election, you kind of look to saturday night live to see how they're going to, you know, characterize and even brand some of the characters. governor palin told me that she thought that people overestimated saturday night live's influence on voters, but i think it's -- it may not actually materialize in the voting booth, like somebody who was going to vote for mccain and palin doesn't say, well, i'm going to vote for obama and biden because of that one saturday night live sketch, but it does give us, like, an image of somebody. you know, will ferrell playing bush 43, dana carvey bush 41, you know, it just gives us a sense of w