julius caesar was a great general and the most popular man in rome.nyone with half a brain knows george washington would never do a thing like that. you'd never declare yourself king. would you? no, james. the very idea is abhorrent to me. to say nothing of the fact that neither the american people, nor the vast majority of soldiers would stand for it. the army exists to serve congress, not the other way around. i thought everything would be fine once the war was over. now it seems like things are worse than ever. without justice, the army is a powder keg ready to explode. and right now, i have no idea how to prevent it. congressman: james madison, delegate from virginia, now has the floor. gentlemen of congress, we have no power to act. we have failed to live up to our promises. now general washington warns of an armed uprising against us. armed uprising?! outrageous! who are these men? this must not stand! the army shall not rule! if we do not find some means to pay these honorable men, god only knows what will happen next. [muttering and grumbling]

they ranged from the cunning and prudent julius caesar... to the intellectually inclined augustus... to cruel caligula, deviser of public spectacles that included murder .....to nero, who, it's said, kicked his wife to death for rebuking him. the upper classes were well educated, connected by kinship, business and political ties. wearied by the crowds and hectic pace of roman life, they pined for greater leisure and the chance it gave to contemplate the finer things of life. each spring, as the senate recessed, roman power brokers -- the patrician families, senators, and untold numbers of entrepreneurs made rich by roman dominance -turned to the bay of naples. over generations, they built lavish villas along the shoreline of campania. the villa pausilypon -a greek name meaning "the end of pain" -had a private theater for the pleasure of its owner and his guests. the exteriors of the villas were lined with colonnaded walkways that offered the owners sweeping vistas. like hollywood producers, wealthy romans understood the relationship between

why can't i stab julius caesar? the point is, whatever you call it, the people love it. >> if you're going about living your life in green bay, wisconsin, and you're not paying attention this every single twist and turn, that's what you're going to remember from this fight is ted cruz is the one who was out there fighting obamacare i you. >> stephen: know what? that would make a great campaign slogan in 2016-- "cruz for from the you're not paying att ." scheerp scheerp are ar>> stephet has written and stars in the film "don jon." sounds like somebody should win an oscar for trying too hard. please welcome joseph gordon-levitt. ( cheers and applause ) nice to see you. what a pleasure to have you on. >> it's a pleasure to be on this show. i'm a big fan of the show. i think you do a service to put this out in the world. so thank you. >> stephen: thank you very much. wow. ( cheers and applause ). >> i love your show. >> stephen: you are-- you're one of the heroes. >> thanks, man. >> stephen: joseph gordon-levitt, you're

. >> rose: and everybody knows what's going to happen yet they remain transfixed beyond the of julius caesar. >> well, of course, he's more than just the man. he's the icon. that's one of the extraordinary things there's something beyond him which falls when caesar dies. and what brew us the and cassus do is in assassinating caesar they do provide a vacuum into which much more ruthless men rush. and that's an eternal story. we should listen to that but we tend not to. >> rose: this quote may come from you and you can take authorship if you like. "there's a danger that shakespeare on his pedestal is throwing everybody else too far into the shade for us to consider them viable." you. >> you see, shakespeare didn't spring fully formed like athee that from the brow of suisse. he came out of a school of writers, a stable of writers, a bit like the hollywood stable of writers in the 1930s. shakespeare was collaborating probably more than we know of more. and i guess what's happened is zeus we've put shakespeare so high on his pedestal that we forget all those other writers, the christopher marlowe

i think it's time to read julius caesar.nk his is more appropriate. >> he's been dying a death by a thousand cuts for a long time with those two deputies of his. >> i know. i don't know who to trust. i like boehner, but he seems like a guy in the old jack lemon movie save the tiger or something. thank you. >>> up next, a look back at what happened last time the republicans in congress shut down the government. back in '95 under newt gingrich who started all this. this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ female announcer ] we lowered her fever. you raise her spirits. we tackled your shoulder pain. you make him rookie of the year. we took care of your cold symptoms. you take him on an adventure. tylenol® has been the number 1 doctor recommended brand of pain reliever for over 20 years. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol®. man: [ laughs ] those look like baby steps now. but they were some pretty good moves. and the best move of all? having the right partner at my side. it's so much better that w

a cultivated man and could quote rousseau or julius caesar in their own languages. a widower by the time he was 19 years old. and a sworn bachelor. he said that i will never marry again. however, he was also an insatiable womanizer. every time he wrote in having liberated a talent or a province or village or a city, young girls in white with blue ribbons would come running out to meet him. and he would choose from one or another to actually dance and spend the evening with them and they were always romantic. people were always pushing their daughters towards bolÍvar, they thought he was a very rich man. he had been when he started and he was a very powerful man that was extraordinarily influential. he was always presented with all of these lovely men and women and he had 35 mistresses are actually recorded. they are recorded in the book. one who followed him across the caribbean here and there, then he would have extraordinary meetings in which he would stop all the votes and say i'm stopping here is the soldiers and generals said what? and they learned to live with

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