we have the ambassador to the ukraine, john hurst. and research associate from the ukrainian studies. and from the ukraine, the executive director of the national minorities of the ukraine. ambassador, let me start with you. you heard our reporter in the square mention that over time, the demonstrators have upped their demands, and they have seen the possibility for getting a greater prize. did yanukovych miss an opportunity. and does he continue to miss them? >> i'm not sure that the protesters have upped their demands. in the very first days of late november, people in the square were calling for the president yanukovych to step down, and they are doing it again now. i'm not sure that those demands are realistic. i think that there are many steps that mr. yanukovych has to take to try to quell the arrests. but it's unlikely that he will step down there power. what we have seen over the past two months is a regularly handheld effort by mr. yanukovych to per wad persue protests from coming off the square without giving them anything,

. >> the enemy of hemp was william randolph hurst. >> the paper. hemp is a much more efficient way to make paper. in one acre of hemp you can do 10 times the amount of paper than with trees. >> why did he want it outlawed? >> he owned thousands of acres of forest. he wanted newspaper. >> so it was political and nothing to do with hemp itself? >> it was more about the money. it was more about eliminating the competition. that's it was demonized and thought of an evil weed to make people afraid of hemp. when in reality, that's one small use of hemp, the recreational use which we call marijuana. that was a slang term they developed to make people afraid of it. >> mary jane, doobies. what were they making these for some. >> the medicinal uses of hemp are numerous. hemps -- well we can talk about the cancer helping with hemp. it is good for ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder. it is an anti-inflammatory. what i look haded at the number of cancers, there are a dozen cancers studied in depth with medicinal marijuana with hemp. and so the study from brain

. >>> we are getting video of a coast guard rescue near hurst castle on the central california coast. the coast guard was called out at 5:00 yesterday morning after a sailboat ran aground near the lighthouse. a helicopter rescued one man from the boat and he was not hurt. >>> time is 4:41. it is one of the most popular phones nationwide. coming up in our 5:00 hour we will take a look back at the lunch of the iphone and the changes over the past seven years. >>> and drought conditions in the bay area. the new campaign asking people to conserve. >>> right now traffic is doing pretty well around the bay area. we will let you know where traffic on highway 4 is beginning to slow. >>> its a fabulous friday forecast. there will be changes tomorrow. will rain make it this far sot? >>> welcome back to the ktvu channel 2 morning news. we have new information in the investigation of an attempted kidnapping in oakland. police have created this sketch of the suspect. he is described as african american in his 20s. he is about 5'7" to 5'8" tall and weighs 180 pounds. during the new years night att

>> zero pain, nothing was hurst. once i hit the ground, hey, ron, hey, billy. maybe i am accident prone? >> did you get hurt? >> no, i did not. >> did you ever get the camera in the right ot? >> not really. >> iwould tell you to keep your hat anyway. >> you are the coolest man alive, i think. >> hey, ron. >> hey, billy. >>> miniature pincer goes crazy. ♪ ♪ >>> even when you catch the perfect wave as a surfer it's still not a very long ride. except when you catch a wave like this. off in the distance is alex and he's off the southern coast of portugal, watch how far and how long this guy rides this wave. the wave being generated by winter storm hercules. alex is actually an injured surfer right now and shouldn't have been out there but couldn't pass up the swells the storm was producing. gets out into it and looks like he's about to get washed away in the surf right there but manages to hang on and just goes for a ride. not really pulling many tricks. not doing anything spectacular. just basically becoming one with the ocean. >> this is a surfer's dream. this is

american dream and dream of turning out the only people who can make it hurst seems like. and of course the point one per cent of the one percent does i mean davos switzerland this week for an economic forum the one and only goldie hawn modern a panel on how to alleviate your stress leave because really nearly causing the entire class to the global financial system is stressful it's stressful sometimes have you ever tried to get barbecue sauce out of a diamond tiara it's very difficult ok it's very stressful it is but i also did read that they're doing some things to consider the you know the underprivileged the people having trouble around the world like during the hot stone hand massage yoga they're doing the giving pose so they're just to remember the giving for giving pose and the chocolate water fountains actually the lifeguard they've hired is an underprivileged child for the talk of water so that they're considering the poor while they're there. oh my god of course our fair back out banker jamie dimon just got a raise despite owing billions dollars in the company bu

linden hurst and long island. 6.3. i didn't put it on here. the northern part of central park saw 5 inches of snow. we'll see the snow through the next 18 hours. one effect - by tomorrow morning there'll be a lot of people stuck that can't get to work from the high whiches. back to you. >> hope he gets a hat if he goes outside. >> we'll talk about the prospects of piece in syria, what could be an important step forward as key players sit down to talk. could it lead to a breakthrough. big stumbling blocks. a diplomatically walk -- awkward moment after secretary-general had to withdraw his invitation to iran. if not syrian opposition would not come to the negotiations and shocking pictures emerged. a team of diplomatic experts. the syrian government tortured and killed 11,000 prisoners. disturbing. all that and the discussions have not started. let's talk about the prospects for the geneva ii negotiations. the co-ed tore of the book "the syrian dilemma" joins us, a social professor and at the university. can you talk about your feeling? given al

. >>> we're also getting video of a coast guard rescue near hurst castle on the central california coastthe coast guard was called out after 9:00 yesterday morning after a sailboat ran aground. a helicopter rescued one man from the boat. he was not hurt. >>> time is 6:16. happening today the defense department report comes out today. it finds that students at the three u.s. military academies often believe they have to put up with sexest and offensive behavior. the goal is to reduce sexual harassment and assault. the report points to scandals involving sports teams at the army, navy, and air force academies in the last school year. its urging leaders to do more to improve training and prevention programs. >>> last night an employee at an o'reilly auto sports store was shot and killed. the suspect went into the store, ordered the stores three workers to get down on the ground. one of the workers stabbed the suspect who then shot and killed him. there were two shoppers in the store at the time. they were not hurt. the suspect was seen running away later. >>> after going down for six years,

last but not least in the alternatives category, the team of brian hurst from aqr managed futures. futures has been as cold of a category as there can be but this team continues to produce positive returns. congratulations. >> congratulations. daniel, let me start with you. in fixed income, you have had good performance in different kinds of environments. last year was a challenging one. interest rates moving up in the summer. now we have yet another different kind of environment marked by the so-called taper, the withdrawal of federal stimulus money. what are you doing differently this year, if anything, to get ready for that? >> sure. it's always been a mixture of the firm's best bottom up ideas as well as top down views on the market. the taper is a concern but the good news is that it's been well publicized at this point. although it presents a risk, we are less worried about it than we were this time last year. one of the key focuses of the fund is to keep our maturities short. one of the highest conviction views we have as a firm currently is the fed will hold for an extended

the study of popular political indications for constitutional democracy getting a ba degree from am hurst, masters from harvard, and juris from yale law school. he clerked for the fifth circuit judge, jerry smith, and in addition, by the way, against obamacare, i will gladly put in another plug, he's the author of another book here, "democracy and political ignorance: why smaller government is smarter," and his articles appear in scholarly journals. he's going to discuss competing constitution thal visions that were at play in the case, and also about the role of the roll of conspiracy in terms of influencing the debate that surrounded the case. we'll hear from orin, the fred steenson research professor of law at george washington law school, got a ba from princeton, a master's from stand ford, a jury sis from harvard, and after graduation, he clerked on the third circuit for judge leonard, and on the supreme court for justice anthony kennedy. he's nationally recognized scholar in the areas of criminal procedure and also computer crime law. he worked for a while in the department of justi

. >>> still ahead, mika's must read opinion pages and she has cleaned out her hurst. phurst.h. . . . . . ♪ >>> let's do it now. kevin williamson thing. we are going to read it. >> check it out. >> you were talking about mitt romney was on fox yesterday. >> talking about melissa harry's apology. >> he very graciously accepted an apology that he felt -- and i think most people agree -- was very meaningful and sincere in its expression of remorse. >> you say you've seen her apology? >> i didn't see the original offending incident but i saw her apology and him accepting her jooi. i thought, wow, if some of the other controversies were handled like this and someone realizes they stepped in it and apologizes. >> we all realize we step in it. i was watching and thought, my goodness. her intentions going into it were not what happened. >> you could tell -- >> that happens. >> mika, you said that they had this conversation. >> it went off the rails. >> it kind of went off the rails. >> yeah. and she talked about it after it not being the way she wanted to go. she actually identified v

. >> you look at the hurst deal. in that deal, look at this fire. what happens is the acquirers keep winning. this would be a fabulous deal for men's warehouse because they would own this category of discount men's apparel and that, if they own it, that's a win. men's warehouse goes higher. >> today's not a win for cnbc. did you see how many jos a. banks -- men's warehouse has their entire board of directors up. to want to come back with its own tinder offer, although financing for banks is more in question. the it's the smaller of the two questions. it had come in partnership, but raising the money for a tinder offer would be more tenuous, but the entire board of men's warehouse comes up not a staggered board, so just something to keep in mind. >> you are going to like the way you make money if you own men's warehouse. >> we do have ge buying a unit from thermo. a little spectrum for sale. i wonder if we're going to see the coffers open up a little bit. >> of course, monday. remember what we used to talk about. you come in, the bankers would be wor

. >> host: len is calling from cedar hurst, you're on booktv with mark levin. conclude hi. >> caller: hi. i think that mark would probably call me a kook along with that first caller. i think the persons that she was referring to were the koch brothers, amongst most. you know? the koch brothers are the ones that fund the heritage foundation which pays for half of this guy's commercials, and they're the ones that fund other organizations that buy his books that create them as bestsellers, and then they give them away because nobody would really want to spend the money on them. [laughter] and the koch brothers are the people who pay for the buses that take the tea party people to their rallies because they really -- and they also now are paying the people who organize, who hand out the leaflets, people who don't necessarily even know that they're being paid for by the koch brothers in order to get people to rallies. which, of course, for white, older people is a very easy thing to rally against. >> host: so, len, all that said, what's wrong with that? is that, is

. >> host: len is calling from cedar hurst, you're on booktv with mark levin. conclude hi. >> caller: hi. i think that mark would probably call me a kook along with that first caller. i think the persons that she was referring to were the koch brothers, amongst most. you know? the koch brothers are the ones that fund the heritage foundation which pays for half of this guy's commercials, and they're the ones that fund other organizations that buy his books that create them as bestsellers, and then they give them away because nobody would really want to spend the money on them. [laughter] and the koch brothers are the people who pay for the buses that take the tea party people to their rallies because they really -- and they also now are paying the people who organize, who hand out the leaflets, people who don't necessarily even know that they're being paid for by the koch brothers in order to get people to rallies. which, of course, for white, older people is a very easy thing to rally against. >> host: so, len, all that said, what's wrong with that? is that, is