this was part julius' grand design for a new vatican.owever reluctant he was, however much he complained, between 1508 and 1512, michelangelo created one of the boldest and one of the largest paintings in history. monumental figures act out the biblical drama from the creation to the flood, framed by figures still more monumental. the human body became as mh the subject of michelangelo's painting as it was of his sculpture. pope julius had neither armies nor canon enough to influence europe as he might wish, but in the vatican, he could present an image of papal power to impress all comers. the story is told that raphael was mightily impressed when he was smuggled in to see the unfinished sistine ceiling by the architect of the new saint peter's, bramante. certainly, in the decorations of the pope's library, which raphael was painting at the same time, there is a figure answering to michelangelo's description. there's evidence the figure was added later than the others, and its style seems a tribute to his rival's style. the school of at

ethel and julius rosenberg were convicted of passing nuclear weapons secrets to the soviet union. they were expected back in 1953. since that time, soviet cables were released that appear to confirm that julius was a spy, but there are doubts about ethel rosenberg's involvement. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> well, we had sunshine much of the day, but the clouds have advanced and the next thing to come is rain for at least a portion of the weekend. but it's not a total washout. and the most likely dry period of the weekend is when the eagles are playing. a nor'easter looks like it's going it be developing early next week and affecting much of the area. we have a beautiful looking evening right now. it's 41 degrees. kind of chilly. 6 degrees colder than it was at this time yesterday. and the clouds, well, they have certainly moved across the area. they're mostly just high clouds. not producing any kind of precipitation. it's in the 30s across a good bit of the area. low 40s farther to the south. and there is the rain.

. >> after julius caesar died haley's come met flew over the skies in rome.tus claimed that was in fact my father julius caesar it's his soul ascending into heaven. caesar augustus used that star on all of its coin. when you sang the nativity story the real star is in fact over a manger in healle bethlehem and little jewish boy was there. that is a dramatic counter claim to the message of roman imperial theology. >> i think these details become food for thought. i also agree with the expression that the devil is in the details. >> bernard is pastor and founder of christian cultural center in new york city. >> to me the birth of jesus is the miracle and mystery of the incarnation of god. we are taught to question or taught to treat things, too, but we are taught to never allow these discussions to actake awa face to face. that's what it is. a matter of faith. >>> next, we travel to what was once a humble peasant village jesus' home town of nazaretnaza. we will visit a first century village to see how the carpen r carpenter's family lived. first stories that we

julius hobson. hilda mason. stokley carmichael. brown. jim farmer. brendan jordan.leanor holmes norton. wyatt t. walker. roger wilkins. james babel. marion barry. these of the soldiers that built the new south. dorothy heights. marion berry. his name was on the honor roll of freedom fighters. these are but a few of the honor roll of freedom fighters in the sacrificial service of the new south. no southern governor or public has his name on that list. but that was not enough. many started in 1960 and some stopped in 1965. they cashed in their pensions. but marion was a long distance runner. the black in d.c. did not have much. when black congressman robert nixon, william donaldson, they could not get their hair cut in the capitol. when blacks in d.c. could only live in certain parts of town. they had never walked the carpets of city hall at any authority or served on commissions, airport and commerce. in d.c. marion helped emancipate washington and much of southern maryland and northern virginia all about the work of marion barry. [applause] marion never stopped figh

in ancient rome, this is how they carried julius caesar. tomorrow they will be here from philadelphia, san francisco, boston, and elsewhere. 25,000 policemen expected. this contingent arrived today from l.a. nearly 700 police officers arriving already. courtesy of free flights offered by jetblue. at least seven arrests this week. one man overheard saying they should have killed two white cops. many rank and file officers blame new york's mayor. today, this banner flying, deblasio, our backs are turned to you. >> reporter: here in queens tonight, the wake for officer ramos, open casket. and the line of police officers in their dress blues extends three or four blocks. tomorrow, the funeral. vice president is expected to attend. >>> now to the sony hack attack and a new battle front in the cyber war. two gaming systems, the new target for hackers. and a victory for "the interview" in washington, d.c., sold out. but a police officer standing watch in the lobby. tonight, fans sending a message with every ticket and every download. here's brandi

her husband julius was the chairman of the -- like edith nourse rogers, she was another woman very involved in her husband's political career. when he passed away, she was asked to run for the seat, she was decided she was going to stay on. she stayed on for more of a decade. she is the first jewish woman elected to congress and she is also the first woman to be appointed to the prestigious appropriations committee. and she is responsible for steering a lot of funds into the bay area to develop things like the bay bridge connecting san francisco and oakland. then also the alameda naval air station. she sat on the military affairs panel. >> we have a wonderful portrait of her. she is standing in her district. and right near where she lives in what is now parkland. behind her, the view that you would see if you are standing there today, is of the golden gate bridge. and there's a little bitty, in the painting, but enormous in real life, ship coming through there that was part of the naval air station. so, there's a lot in there. one of the things that is most interesting is i have not mention

and i'm joined now be kristin welker from the white house lawn and julius wide on foreign relations. kristin, first, let's talk about the president's involvement in this extraordinary conversation between president obama and raul castro. >> as you point out andrea, it lasted for 45 minutes, extraordinary indeed. officials describing this as the biggest shift in the u.s.-cuban relations in 50 years. president obama and president castro discussing that, finalizing all of the details of this release of alan gross and of the announcement they are going to make today, andrea. among the changes will be an increase and lifting of some travel bans. that means that more americans will be able to travel to cuba. they'll have to fall under 12 categories which include family visits, government business, journalism, research, religious activities, what won't be lifted, andrea as travel for tourist activities. that's something that congress would have to approve. president obama also not able to lift the embargo. but the other change that you're going to see in addition to the embassy that will be

. >> the first new year's celebration dates back to 4,000 years in rome with julius ceasar declaringa national holiday. >> and americans will drink 360 million glasses of champagne. >> and americans make resolutions. >> and they have have hangovering tomorrow. >>> taylor swift is making new year's resolutions. she's been named the most charitable celebrity by the advocacy group, do something.org. >> she announced that the proceeds from her album welcome to new york would go to public schools. she will perform right here on new year's rockin' eve on abc. but she only gets to celebrate once. the astronauts pass over locations celebrating the start of the year 16 times. >> and they recorded a video message saying they'll celebrate each and every one of those times. but there's no danger of them flying a space station under the influence. there's no champagne just fruit juice. >> where's the fun. >> can't they have tang champagne? >> that's right, tang. >>> there's a new star at the san diego zoo. he's not good but cute and bringing in the crowds. >> he's the zoo's new baby gorilla, born

in ancient rome, this is how they carried julius caesar. tomorrow they will be here from philadelphia, san francisco, boston, and elsewhere. 25,000 policemen expected. this contingent arrived today from l.a. >> if something happens to one, it happens to all of us. that's why we go. >> reporter: nearly 700 police officers arriving already. courtesy of free flights offered by jetblue. the nypd says it's investigating about 40 new threats against the police this week. at least seven arrests. one man overheard saying they should have killed two white cops. police finding guns and a set of brass knuckles at his house. many rank and file officers blame new york's mayor. for stoking public anger at police tactics. today, this banner flying, deblasio, our backs have turned to you. how do you think this mayor will be received at the funeral? >> there will be no disrespect. >> reporter: nobody will turn their back? >> i don't believe that will happen, and i encourage every nypd officer not to do that. >> reporter: here in queens tonight, the wake for

julius hobson. hilda mason. carmichael. brown. jim farmer. brendan jordan. eleanor holmes norton.rry. these of the soldiers that built the new south. dorothy heights. marion berry. his name was on the honor roll freedom fighters. the honorbut a few of roll and the sacrificial service of the new south. no sudden governor or public has his name on that list. but that was not enough. stopped in 1965. they cast in their pensions. long.rion was a distance runner. d.c. did not have much. when black congressman robert nixon, william donaldson, they could not -- to the capitol. d.c. could only live in certain parts of town. they had never walked the carpets of city hall at any authority or served on commissions. helped emancipate washington and much of southern maryland and northern virginia, all about the work of marion barry. [applause] never stopped fighting for d.c. statehood. 000 people living under occupation. had to get a budget passed with hostile attitude towards his people. congress governs d.c. without the consent of the governed. from havana, cuba, to beijing, moscow, the capi

tell julius hobson we miss him on the marches. tell john wilson, howdy.fighting. say hello to beveragele and hoejosa and abernathy and tell my yeaha maya angelou we miss her so many. and we're not giving up and give them your report. tell them it's not over. tell them terrorists are shooting us, though unarmed, choking us to death. jurors are finding no justification to indict the shooters though they choke eric, tell them we have a second wind. we have a brother beloved in the white house but they call him names and reject his help to heal the sick. we have a stand-up attorney general, they are keeping him busy. we're making progress but down in the red zone it's getting mean down here. the jails are overcrowded neither the jail cells or graves will hold our bodies down. the shootings of eric garner trayvon martin, still them we're still driving home. we're not giving them up. tell them we're free but fighting back. tell them the banks are robbing the people, not the people robbing the banks. tell them there's a new generation. their children and grandch

. >>> and a spokes spokesperson on julius bianchi gives an update on his condition. >> the arduous task of retrieving bodies from the airasia qz8501 continues. seven passengers and crew have been recovered so far. taken back to the indonesian city of surabaya where the ill fated flight took off from. scott heidler tell us more about the search for the bodies and what's happening to them when they come back. >> exactly, we saw these two bodies come back. within the last hour they were brought in an air force craft. the bodies were brought back in coffins. the governor of surabaya was that airasia officials were there. they are being transferred to a police hospital very close to the airport. that is where the identification process is going to go often. that is where the family members quite honestly near there will be moved to. it is going to be slid over moved over to that hospital in the coming hours. we know that some of the fannie mae members have already moved over there. airasia officials have already moved over there. that's what's going to be happening. we are also hearing that

and germany led a patrol on the southern ridge southeast in the mountains where 1,972 years earlier julius caesar had advanced against a german force under ariel vistas. suddenly french guards of the 44th infantry regiment appeared. myer charged with be striking the first frenchman over the. the remaining french soldiers took cover in a ditch opened fire. myer tumbled from the saddle dead. and in this unexpected encounter, the 22-year-old yeager became the first german soldier killed in what ironically and collectively would be called the battle of the marne which raged from the swiss border to the channel. i have argued as you've just heard, this is the area, that the marne was the most decisive battle of this war. there is our favorite friend in one of his many incredible outfits, william ii. germany failed at the marne, as you just heard. and the promise was gone. yes, for all you a zuber fans there was a schleefen plan. it existses. what is so incredible about the marne is the scale. between 5 and 11 september 1914, the two sides committed nearly 2 million men with 6,000 guns to a fron

julius caesar advanced against a german force under ariel vistas. suddenly french guards appeared. he charged and struck the first frenchman over the head with his broad sword and another drove it into the chest of a second and another shot a third. the remaining friend soldiers took cover in a ditch and opened fire. he tumbled from the saddle, dead. in this unexpected encounter, the 22-year-old jaeger became the first killed in what ironically and collectively would be called the battle that raged from the swiss border to the channel. i argued as you have just heard this is the area we heard this it's between 5 and 11, september 1914, the two sides committed nearly two million men with 6,000 guns to a front 200 kilometers wide. the technology was unprecedented. rapid small arms fire and machine guns and hand grenades and heavy artillery made the killing ground lethal. the casualties suffered by both sides were unimaginable to prewar planners. 200,000 men per side and another 200,000 along the chalkyxplc p. no others in terms of death. the chapel of a french military college had o

said he was the greatest european men of action since julius caesar. >> churchill desperately wanted to be a man of action. >> he did it when he had the chance to become he marched in the last great calvary charge. he never commanded an army. always wanted to. he admired napoleon. >> the world you're talking about has to do with global leadership? >> he does personify leadership. he was able to master his own emotions. he was also a fantastic organizer of his time. he would have newspapers read to him in the bath. he would only sit down 20 minutes maximum to a male. >> did he have great dinner parties? >> can you imagine? all the wine and food you can have? it would be the most fantastic life. 20 minutes maximum. he also appreciated the power that luck played in his life. he was 20 when the french revolution broke out. he was able to become a general at the age of 24. he deserved it. he won a battle brilliantly. for that opportunity to come is a tremendous luck. >> his ego. describe it. monumental? >> no. i think it was as much as it deserved to be. he was quite clearly the best sold

julius peppers has done it 14 in a row. >>> joe fonzi with the 49er side of the ledger. >> the math saysers still have a chance to be a play off team. what we've seen on the field says otherwise. a very grim 49ers players were left in the locker room to explain where they go from here. >> is it a low point in the season. >> i wouldn't directly call it a low point. maybe what can we say, we have to be, we just have to move on and get ready for seattle at this point. you can't dwell on this loss because if we do, we just find ourselves in a hole. and frustrated, depressed. trying to control things that we can't control. >> i'm not thinking about what people are saying about our area codes. i think we can say for the whole team. when we're out there we're playing football, we're not worried about what anybody else is saying about us. >> my priorities are are number one winning football games. number two the welfare of our players, coaches, and staff. and lastly is, what my personal professional future is. >> you in particular don't seem to be playing at your usual level your last few games.

they want people to rely on government services to breed a nation of julius instead of people that are to put themself to make money. [ overlapping speakers ] >> welfare and government social programs, all of the above. higher taxes for middle class, too. >> amazing. it's like you pull a string. megyn kelly said she had an awkward conversation with president obama at the white house christmas party tuesday night. it was only 30 seconds long. what happened? you're going to hear from megan next. >>> if you had 30 seconds to talk to the president of the united states, what would you say? megyn did and she said it didn't go well. >> did you talk to the first lady? >> i had 30 seconds to get in and get out without embarrassing myself and i blue it. -- i blew it. >> and speaking to my house, doug, next to me, i said "maybe we'll be here two years." and he was like, "what?" it was like a joke that we would run for office and we'd be here two news. all i can think is she's from fox news, oh, i don't like fox news, she must be a republican. is that a shot at me? >> that's exactly what it was, m

orange julius had one and -- >> jimmy: now when were you in the monkees?nt to the peter tork web association and i remember, it was at comic- con. >> so justin may have brought sexy back, but i'm bringing bow tie back. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that is a strong, serious -- that's a serious, strong bow tie. >> that's a strong statement right there. >> jimmy: but this is a great bow tie, because this actually goes with nothing. [ laughter ] i'm kidding, i'm kidding. i love it. i love it. i like it a lot. pumpkin paisley. pumpkin paisley, that was the name of my first band in high school. let's talk about this "call of duty" thing. 'cause i'm telling you, this is exciting. are you a video game fan? >> yeah. i'm not a gamer, i haven't played a lot. i actually just started to play this one. >> jimmy: it's amazing. >> and i play characters, like frank underwood plays games. but it is kind of, it was an incredible experience to do it. because the technology has gotten to the place -- i think i'm maybe the third actor that's ever done it. i think ellen pag

they want people to rely on government services to breed a nation of julius instead of people that are there able to put themself to make money. [ overlapping speakers ] >> welfare and government social programs, all of the above. higher taxes for middle class, too. >> amazing. it's like you pull a string. megyn kelly said she had an awkward conversation with president obama at the white house christmas party tuesday night. it was only 30 seconds long. what happened? you're going to hear from megan next. you can't breathe through your nose, suddenly, you're a mouth breather. a mouth breather! well, put on a breathe right strip and shut your mouth. cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip and pow, it opens your nose up to 38% more. so you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do, sleep. add breathe right to your cold medicine shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. and look for the calming scent of new breathe right lavender, in the sleep aisle. . . >>> if you had 30 seconds to talk to the president of the united states, what would you say? m

>> churchill admired him, he thought he was the greatest since julius caesar. >> charlie: and churchill wanted to be a man of action. >> he charged in the last great cavalry charge. he never commanded an army and wanted to. he admired napoleon unreservedly. >> charlie: if the world you're talking about has to do with global leadership. >> he personifies leadership because on so many levels he was able to master his own emotions and was a fantastic organizer of his time. he had four secretary working at all times, newspapers read to him in the bath, only sit down 20 minutes maximum at meals, and when he was, he would have painters paint him and sculptors sculpt him. >> charlie: no more than 20 minutes? >> no more. >> charlie: what about the great dinner parties. >> can you imagine, if you were emperor and could have all the wines and foods. >> charlie: 20 minutes. 20 minutes and then he got back. but he also appreciated the luck and the roll it played in his life. he was 20 years old when the war broke out. the senior officers were executed or guillotined or escaped the country and he wa

. >> well, we're going to be leaving at some time and i think over 2,000 years ago julius caesar saidu know, the die is cast when he crossed the rubicon and came back into rome. well, that's the same thing here. we've been going down a path for years now accelerated recently in the last two where we've put out a timeline. the enemy knows what we're doing, our friends know that the time is running out. and so the die is cast. it is what it is, to use an overused phrase. >> many skeptics might ask the following question, after so many years our brave men and women serving in afghanistan, they're coming home, many of them will never come home again. we're still hearing of such violence, i would hope to god that their service there was not in vain, but will it only get worse with less u.s. military presence there? >> well, i think what the taliban will try to do is, as they have over the last year or so, increase the green on blue attacks to show vulnerability. they'll continue to attack the dwindling number of u.s. and nato forces to try to keep the narrative alive that it was they who f

[laughter] tell julius hobson we miss him on the marches. tell john mason howdy.tell -- [inaudible] we're still fighting. say hello to bevel and hosea and ralph abernathy, and tell maya angelou we miss her so much. tell them, the old friends, john lewis and julian -- [inaudible] and marion barry and maxine waters and -- [inaudible] right behind them. done given your reports. tell them it's not over. tell them terrorists are shooting us, choking us to death. juries finding no justification, tell them we have a second wind now. tell them we have a brother beloved in the white house, but they call him names and reject his health plan to heal the sick. tell them we have a stand-up attorney general. tell them we made progress, but it's getting mean down here. tell them though we have progress on our backs and the jails overcrowded and neither jail cells nor or graves can hold our bodies down. the resurrection of trayvon martin and michael brown and -- [inaudible] emmitt till and medgar evers, tell them we're still driving on, mayor. tell them we ain't giving up. tell t

if you got robbed in julius street brooklyn. the idea was let's make every crime count.treat every victim as if that victim was your mother. that's what started it. then it came into the hands of people who didn't understand the driving theory and the purpose behind it. it became a numbers game. there are a lot of decent police officers found themselves in situations where discretion might have led them to give a guy -- but they needed numbers. >> when you hear them discuss policy changes and the numbers games in minority neighborhoods for minor offenses, do you feel they are in focussed in the right direction that will lead to genuine change? >> i think they are rationing it back. and i think one of the hopeful things that happened before the grand jury decision on monday was that the police commissioner and the mayor were able to announce despite radical reductions of stop and frisk and big reductions in marijuana crime was still down. the fact is that the new york miracle and crime reduction was not based on broken windows. it was based on lost lives. it was based upo

violate that privacy and in the span of our recent timeframe of the notion of it of edward snowden and julius and the first leaker had to go through an entity and that entity was then able to broker that information with the so-called press. and edward snowden brokered his own deal and the fear is that the next person is going to say here it is. and our concern, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of documents, which in and of itself it is hard to get the pentagon papers. "new york times" had to publish it and they have been printed in the book him you had to get the book. there was a physicality to that issue and now the ability for hundreds of thousands and when i was in the government, it was unprecedented with the actual nature of the crime. because the volume that was involved come across so many sectors and so many industries that people forget that it was just dod. and these leaks have gone across the entire institution. the doj come in the date, the dod across the board. and so i will end with that for our sense of engaging in this conversation about the new brave world that we

charles: we're run aring out of time, but even julius caesar had a rule that the roman government coulduse was his castle. the household made the rule. they're going to put dogs down just because they're the wrong breed. that's serious stuff. >>> since we originally aired that segment, the village has repealed their pit bull ban, but another louisiana town did not. >>> up next, a story that may be the dumbest government decision that i've heard all year. we'll be right back. ♪ you don't need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. we're exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg... isn't as simple as just boiling an egg. life takes energy. energy lives here. ♪ ♪ charles: tonight we're taking on big goth because sometimes -- big government because sometimes they do things that are down right stupid. here's one for the books. a 90-year-old man in ft. lauderdale, florida, goes out to help feed the homeless and gets arrested. check this out. every day we celebrate this new, sharing economy, right? and it is propelling all

and i'm joined now be kristin welker from the white house lawn and julius wide on foreign relations.st, let's talk about the president's involvement in this extraordinary conversation between president obama and raul castro. >> as you point out andrea, it lasted for 45 minutes, extraordinary indeed. officials describing this as the biggest shift in the u.s.-cuban relations in 50 years. president obama and president castro discussing that, finalizing all of the details of this release of alan gross and of the announcement they are going to make today, andrea. among the changes will be an

was nominated as a woman judge that was a part of her identity that was the lead least and with the julius justices they were nominated in spite of being jewish and of those that were nominated in spite of being jewish, so it's when they felt he is replacing the jewish justice in that representation. now there is no need for the seat. a >> you brought up this question of whether talking about the religious of the justice is a proxy for talking about their politics or how they are likely to vote. can we talk about how that has played out in recent cases, for instance how the catholicism in the various justices played out in terms of the marriage decisions or even the healthcare law which you might have thought of religion will play a part. a >> i would say that in the hobby lobby case having to do the right of the private business under the religious freedom restoration act to refuse to provide the contraceptive health coverage for their female employees i would say that the justice opinion in that case very much was influenced by his religious preferences because to accept the notion that

slave society i've studied from ancient rome, which i wrote a book about -- i wrote a book about julius caesar but ahad chapter on slave in every slave society i came across a group of people in that society. no one ever reported this but i have seen a group of people in every one of those societies who denounced slavery, who opposed it, who understood its injustices injustices and its horrors who hated it. they were called slaves. and they never got their word in very well. there weren't many interviews, not too many of them interviewed. well, that's what i would tell daniel borsten, how shallow his response was to that question. questioner. i've tried to teach that we should relate -- another thing, more general statement -- that we should relate immediate social experiences to larger social structures and to larger social relations. might begin to sound also to social science-y. if appearance was the sum total of reality we would need no investigation and no analysis and no social science. furthermore, furthermore, much of politics is the rationale universe irrational symbols. much o

tell julius hobson we missed him on the marches. cal held mason we are still working on statehood. -- tell hilda mason. say hello to hosea and washington and ralph abernathy. and tell maya angelo we miss her so much. tell them, the old friends, john lewis and roger wilkins and mary marion barry. and maxine waters. we are behind them. tell them it is not over. jurors are finding no justification to indict the shooters. tell them we have a second wind now. tell we have a brother beloved in the white house. but they call him names and reject his health plan to heal the sick. tell them we have a standup attorney general. they are keeping him busy. tell them we made progress but down in the red zone, it is getting mean down here. tell them that we have -- on our -- congress on our backs and the jails are overcrowded, they cannot hold our body down. martin, and michael brown and medgar evars. so that we are still driving on, marion. tell them we are not giving up. tell them we are fighting back. tell them banks are robbing the people. not

and on every coin that augustus had were the words, divi filius, "son of the divine one"-- julius caesar-- son of god. >> this is on every billboard in the mediterranean world. he is the savior of the world, and he brings the peace. now, you may have scruples about how he brings the peace, but he brings peace to rome. and as the saying goes in latin, "peace to the rome and quiet to the provinces." >> ( dramatized ): this is he, augustus caesar, son of a god, who shall restore the golden age and spread his empire. >> narrator: rome's empire spread across the mediterranean, sweeping through north africa and reaching as far west as spain. to the east, it encompassed egypt, turkey, greece, and palestine, where jesus was born in the jewish land of judea, then ruled by king herod. >> in judea, the king, herod, was in effect a client king. he ruled almost in place of rome. he was the... he was the voice of rome, the instrument of rome, probably "instrument of rome" is best in that, because he... he had his own independent notions certainly. >> herod the great was probably one of the greatest ki

we are hearing that julius bear has been invited for the subsidiary coup. the shares have not reacted on behalf of this news down half a percent today. >>> back to china, of course the shanghai index up 21% over the last ten days. is there opportunity or have you missed out on the run? we'll bring in jonathan fin, director of chinese research at trusted resources. some say this is a rational exuberance given the rally in the chinese equities. is there supportive data to support this run or are we setting up for a correction? >> i think it will continue for a little while. what you have to remember is we are coming off a low base. chinese equities have been undervalued for a long time. they were kicked out of the market. now they are getting into the market partly as eunice says because of the stimulus, but also because the communist party has committed itself to a long term program of reform. and if this works, the main beneficials will be the statehood enterprises that represent 75% of the shanghai index. and the room for improvement there, i think, is in

and germany led a patrol on the southern ridge southeast in the mountains where 1,972 years earlier julius caesar had advanced against a german force under ariel vistas. suddenly french guards of the 44th infantry regiment appeared. myer charged with be striking the first frenchman over the. the remaining french soldiers took cover in a ditch, opened fire. myer tumbled from the saddle dead. and in this unexpected encounter, the 22-year-old yeager became the first german soldier killed in what ironically and collectively would be called the battle of the marne which raged from the swiss border to the channel. i have argued, as you've just heard, this is the area, that the marne was the most decisive battle of this war. there is our favorite friend in one of his many incredible outfits, william ii. germany failed at the marne, as you just heard. and the promise was gone. yes, for all you a zuber fans, there was a schleefen plan. it existses. what is so incredible about the marne is the scale. between 5 and 11 september 1914, the two sides committed nearly 2 million men with 6,000 guns to a f

he worked for rca, and that's julius montgomery.hat when a missile came down or something went wrong, he and a crew went out and worked on it to find out what was wrong, fixed it. his first day on the job at cape canaveral he goes in, and there are all these white people there. he doesn't know anybody. he's the only african-american there. and finally he decides he's going to go introduce himself to one. he puts out his hand and introduces himself, and the man looks up at him and says, is that how you talk to a white man? and montgomery stops and says, "forgive me, o great white bastard." and according to the story that montgomery tells, they both laughed at it, shook hands and everything was fine. i love that story. it's sort of like the two men were testing each other, are you going to be able to handle this job because there's a problem here. another would be morgan watson. morgan watson was one of a group of interns from southern university in baton rouge, and he was, his group were called water walkers. because they could walk

. >> the julius peppers part. [laughter] >>, so again, many thanks to all of you for coming today. just one request, and that is that you kind of clear this aisle, because actually the two of them have to get to a press conference and rather quickly. so we have a -- [inaudible] [laughter] and if you could help clear the aisle and let them get through, that'd be much appreciated. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> booktv of in prime time continues tonight at eight eastern with books on president richard nixon beginning with "washington journal: reporting watergate and richard nixon's downfall." at nine pat buchanan in "the greatest comeback: how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority." and at 10:20, john dean looks at watergate in his book "the nixon defense: what he knew and when he knew it." >> the c-span cities tour takes booktv and american history tv on the road traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary or life. this weekend we partnered with me warner cable for a visit to austin texas. >> we are in the private suite of lyndon and

speaker, the roman republic died when julius caesar seized the legislative authority of the roman senate. repeated acts of use patient went unchallenged until the constitutional vuckture of the republic simply disintegrated. let that not be the epitaph of the american republic. of this crisis let history record that men and women of good will on both sides of the aisle joined together to defend the constitution that they swore to uphold. and that this generation passed that constitution and all the freedoms that is preserved, intact and in vie lat, to the many generations of americans who followed. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair now recognizes the gentlelady from texas, ms. johnson, for five minutes. ms. johnson: thank you, mr. speaker. i stand here this morning as a proud american and proud of this republic who elected the first african-american president six years ago. and re-elected him two years ago by an overwhelming vote. and i rise today to celebrate the outstanding colleague and my dear friend, representative marcia fudge, on th

seize your of legislative authority by the -- the seizure of legislative authority by this and it was julius sees ar's legislative prerogatives that brought down the roman republic and brought down years of dictatorship. it's a very difficult thing to stop. now, unlike every law that's passed under our constitution, the constitution itself has no penalties for those who break it. the reason is that the constitution was written to be self-enforcing, but that only happens if the powers of government are evenly balanced. the founders relied on each branch acting to keep those powers in balance, now in our time that responsibility is ours. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from oregon, ms. bonamici, is recognized for five minutes. ms. bonamici: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i'm here this morning to discuss an important issue that we hear about when we talk with teachers, parents, students and school administrators. in conversation after conversation they've expressed concern about what seems like an endless stream of tes