arguably, hollande should have taken a stand earlier. his defense, we can now see, is a barefaced lies. as you say, the context is so bad for president hollande, who is suffering badly in the polls. his economic policy is being castigated left, right, and center. this could add to his woes. looks like his promise to clean up politics has already been broken. and a decisive few weeks ahead. thanks very much. to afghanistan now where the most lethal attack in years has left at least 50 people dead and almost 100 injured. >> at least nine taliban suicide bombers attacked a government complex that included a court room in the west of the country where some of their comrades were on trial. >> the bombing took place, as we heard, in the capital of the province that borders iran. >> it took afghan forces several hours to kill the last of the insurgents in the compound. officials say the attackers wore army uniforms and arrive at an army vehicles. after two of them detonated suicide vests, the others occupied several buildings, including a court

francois hollande's camel eaten in mali.k to february when an official presented the official of france with a camel in gratitude for france's fight against islamic militants in mali. the noise you hear is the camel. you can barely hear hollande say i'll take him home and use him for transportation. he left the animal with a family in mali saying they'd watch it but shortly after leaving, the family slaughtered it and used it for a stew. how did this happen? well, according to hollande there are two reasons. first, he didn't think a desert animal to quote with the rigors of the harsh french climate. ah, president hollande, there's nothing harsh about paris and camels live in colder zoos. that doesn't add up. [ speaking french ] hollande blamed the complex procedures involved in bringing a cam knell to france. all right. maybe he had us there. what are the procedures? well, that brings me to tonight's number. five. as in section five of the animal importation page of the french embassy website. the first four sections everyth

the arch of the dutch golden age. 17th century travelers visiting holland remarked on the number of artist. typically western european artist on the monarch and the nobility as well as the very wealthie catholic church. an open market to a wide clientele that arranged from variety of merchants. it displays a modern domestic rather than extravagant or royal setting which it was carried. emily who is the director of the morris house. the expansion which i will talk about in an a little bit will give it more space. for the collection there is a limited pictures they can acquire but too large for the building. so where do the paintings come from? how can they be there. this is an exceptional and remarkable museum. this splendid 17th century city palace was constructed between 1633-1634 next to the dutch government. i was told the prime ministers office was still there. it was named for the building's first occupant. the countel elevated to prince and appoint commander and chief in the states army in 1668. the dutch they purchased an outstanding example of this architecture in 1820 to have the

senator roger wicker of mississippi, and katie holland, a judge here in tupelo. they're not saying much about that or their investigation into curtis. but curtis himself, paul kevin kurt isz, is speaking. and he's saying that he had no involvement. he loves his country. he had nothing to say specifically about the letters, he says that he loves his country, he respects the president, he would never try to hurt an elected official. he also said, he and his attorney, that he believes that he maybe was framed by someone who's holding a grudge. i want you to listen to what he said about the time he spent in jail after those allegations were made.

today president hollande received said camel.to the people giving it to them he would like to bring it back to france to get around paris. at least that's what we think he said. it was hard to hear anything over the camel itself hollering so loud through the whole ceremony. the first plan was, in fact, to take the camel back to france to be housed in a zoo. until those details could be worked out, president hollande left his new pet camel in the care of a family in timbuktu for safekeeping. and then they ate it. at least that's what it seems like must have happened. france's minister of defense was supposed to give weekly updates to president hollande about how the camel was doing with the folks in timbuktu, but apparently there was a misunderstanding and the family thought they were given the camel for dinner. when they were told they were supposed to feed the camel, they instead thought they were supposed to eat the camel. and so the defense secretary had to report back the president's camel had been made into delicious camel s

we talked to holland about the arrest. here is what steve holland had to say. >> this could have been devastating, very devastating. i mean, mom could have died had this taken the worst case scenario and that would have been tragic, of course. thank goodness she's fine. we just want to move on. >> reporter: now, we first learned about dust key in a hearing for the original suspect. in that hearing, he said he was framed and said dusty was a possible suspect. then curtis was freed and the charges against him were dropped. now it seems the investigation has taken yet another turn. don? >> alina, he has other legal problems there, and one of the victims is a judge. any connection? >> reporter: so far the only link we can see between the judge and dusky is the fact he ran against the judge's son in 2007. in terms of whether there's a link between he and the job, legal problems, that's something we haven't seen yet. don. >> alina ma chod oh from tupelo. this isn't the first time poison of this kind or another was sent in the ma

is it holland?e sending the bill to the senate. rhode island now the only state in new england without gay marriage. let's get with it, people. [ speaking foreign language ] >> stephanie: this is just the international house of comedy this morning. our favorite character besides mischa -- [ ♪ dramatic ♪ ] mischa was tamerlan's friend, boston bombing guy. who apparently radicalized him. >> played by alexander godunov. >> who was married to jacqueline bisset. >> was not the albino in the movie starring goldie hawn. >> that wasn't the guy from "the money pit." that was shelley long's former boyfriend. >> stephanie: zubeldot. >> i know that my kid has nothing to do with it. i know it. i'm mother. i know my kid. i know my kid. my kid would never get involved into anything like that. >> stephanie: okay. all right. their friend, it was boris and natasha. it was not my boys. >> orl lay tate -- orly taitz should be her lawyer. >> if you're listening. she's the best lawyer in america and the best dentist. >>

. ♪ shop at chowhat is holland? made possible by columbia tristar domestic television what do you mean, what is it? it's a country right next to belgium. no. that's the netherlands. holland is the netherlands. then who are the dutch? you know, i cannot stand this thing anymore. i know. i hate it, too. i feel like an out-of-work porn star. i told you we should have taken some kind of vacation. well, why didn't we? because you said this would be better. remember? "a vacation from ourselves." that's what you said. what if we grew muttonchops? no. buzz cuts? parachute pants?! stop it, george, stop it! i'm sorry. you've gotta get a job. damn it.

. >> reporter: the socialist government of francois hollande will essentially destroy and redefine theraditional institution of marriage for the benefit of a relatively tiny part of the population, as is the case in most western nations, homosexuals account for less than 5% of the population in france. so opponents of france's same-sex marriage law see it as a cynical ploy by a socialist government to use what is billed as a human rights issue to destroy the traditional family and christianity. alana is president of the catholic organization, sinidus. >> it is obvious that the government has declared war on christianity. marriage is between a man and a woman. if today we decide that marriage is for gays, tomorrow we will have polygamy. >> reporter: and antwan renard says the hollande government is using children to carry out its social revolution. >> for example, the minister of education said in writing, that has been sent to all education directors, that the government is committed to use the young people to change the ma mentalitys. can you imagine? it is almost a war declaration. u

president francois hollande announced he had fulfilled a key campaign promise. he said this reform was not taking anything away from anyone and that the french people should be happy at the nation's achievement. >> i am sure they will be proud in the coming days. maybe later. because it is a step towards modernizing our country, towards more freedom, more equality, principles that are the bedrock of our repubc. >> these principles are dividing french society. in recent months, opponents of gay marriage have turned out in the hundreds of thousands. they have stress they have nothing against gays as such, but as public opposition to the bill intensifies, violence against homosexuals spiked. i'm sorry to have to show you this, but non facebook. the face of homophobia, after assailant's beat of him and his boyfriend near their parents' home. >> they yelled, "you gave dogs." i fell to the ground, and they stomp on my head, like you would a soccer ball. >> it was not the first incident of its kind. attacks have been reported in the district in paris known for its many

holland. >>> thank you. murry holland with the planning association for the richmond park. you have a letter from me, it's over a month old by now, in support of this legislation. our basis of our support, the primary basis is the fact that there is no codes for an appeal of either an exemption or a negative declaration in itself is the most opaque part of the process. if you can't appeal the two major decisions to basically deny an environmental review, you've got some real problems. and we think it's important that we get some codification immediately for those two kinds of decisions. and i appreciate the fact that the 20 days we complained about initially and i appreciate and thank you for making that 30 days, that make a lot more sense. but we still have a problem with the issue of the notification. just knowing when the decision is made and knowing that it's related to ceqa is not going to cut it totally. what you have to know is also and the public needs to know is the details of either the exemption what the reasoning is why it was done, or in the case of a negative

long frankly german relations are plummeting to new lows because i mean essentially you've got mr hollande to it's less than a year already can't even less popular than actually charles de gaulle was when they had to move him to an airport in germany in one nine hundred sixty eight and up the german air force guard him against student revolutionaries that's pretty bad to manage that in peace time in nine months he's got a regime that's scarred by the fact that it's got a very corrupt individuals amongst them that lied about their tax affairs all the time but they've been putting taxes up on everybody else so therefore the french are left in a situation where they're desperate to do any. thing and basically the sixty's or seventy's level of the law ticket they want to include the economy by spending lots of money that france doesn't however they're hoping germany's going to give them and mrs merkel says no new criticism can save some former french province of france for failing he said relations are set to get worse or at the core of this is it just that germany wants france to spend money

. >> i came to the country 20 years ago from holland. i was born and raised in holland.and already since childhood, i knew that holland was not big enough for me. so i wanted to explore new worlds. i lived in england, i lived in germany, and even that was too small. so i said, "ok, what about the u.s.?" so i ended up in california and started planting flowers in 1990. >> today, brand flowers is one of the leading cut flower and green nursery operations in california. they have more than a million square feet of cut flower production, specializing in dutch flower varieties like tulips and lilies, as well as begonias and daffodils from england, and hundreds of other flowers that originate all over the world and then come to brand flowers in the form of bulbs. more than 30 million of them arrive here every year, where they are transplanted into the rich soil for wilja and her crew to grow, market and distribute, all while still keeping track of all the new trends sprouting up in the industry. >> i have seen, too, over the years, you know, a lot of shift in colors. what good

mike hollands? >> i really like the u.s. still, but i think china, for all the reasons we just talked about, even more so, we saw the numbers come out last night, the inflation numbers, they're not going to slow down this economy from 7.5 to 8%. it's going to grow faster than any of the other developed countries in the world and the valuations have become even cheaper. their valuations have truly become cheaper in the past 12 months. so i think it's the cheapest, most attract i have market that i know. >> rex macy, going into earnings, a lot of news flow to be coming at us in the next three weeks. what's your favorite stock or sector right here? >> we like health care, domesticicly, j&j, gilead, am n amgen. we like the emerging markets on an international basis. we think they're cheap and they're going to grow. >> all right. that's a good one. neil hennessey, you're up. what do you like? >> i think if you're going to go outside a u.s. market, it's definitely japan. japan has been changing since september of 2009 and it keeps

michael holland with us next. lou: american and japanese central bankers united in their aggressive monetary action and european bankers admit they are thinking of joining them as thought they were all along. michael holland here to tell us of that is good news for stocks, but before we turn tonight, a quick look at what happened on wall street today. news first-time jobless claims rose more than expected, but they adjusted. news japan's central bank has launched aggressive stimulus picking up the mood on wall street as well, $1.4 trillion in the package out of the japanese. 3.2 billion shares traded on the big board. gold declining for a third day in a row, crude oil weaker as well, selling $92 per barrel, the bond market yield on the tenure dropping the lowest level of the year 1.76%. fear continues to be the motivating factor for investors. he with the search for other motivational moments. great to have you here. >> great to be here as always. lou: invigorating action on wall street, really heavy volu volume,

there is a little group at the metropolitan museum and also some regional museums in holland. the morris house has 3, girl with the pearl earring and the view of -- they are scattered afford around but there is only a few around. i should probably wrap up. >> so the question is about the morris house and it's collection and there is some really interesting commentary in the catalog. it a lovely book and i would encourage to you look at that and there is a nice history about the the collection. like i said, it was really the bulk of it was formed by the stockholders. it not the collection of the royal family which is why they tend to use the morris house but the formal name is morris house. i think where the paintings were stolen by napoleon and there is interesting history of pictures moving back and forth but the paintings were form by the stockholders and they have acquire them and two of the most recent acquisitions were the -- in the seen and rembrandt portrait of an old man -- acquired in 1999. there were a lot of donors that contributed to that. thank you for your time,

of hole holland and company.thank you for calling in, my friend. i'm glad you're fine. what did you see? what did you experience today? >> well, a couple of things. one, it was 9/11 we were talking about earlier. one of the most beautiful days boston was today. the beautiful blue skies, the nice cool weather for the runners. it was a picture-perfect day. and we've been talking in the final miles. and all of the sudden we started seeing a bunch of sirens going by the runners. and we thought boy, this must have been some accident up there. and as with 9/11, the 2013, the news spread pretty fast there had been an explosion. and all of the sudden we were taken off the course. it was very interesting that the armed personnel and the police and the marathon officials were so quick to act. they did a spectacular job from what i could see, just so you know. in a chaotic situation, they did a marvelous job of help take care of the people and getting them out. we were told that there were rumors that there were pacts along