the chain sells designer labels like jimmy choo, mulberry, yves saint laurent, fendi, and rag and bone. analyst oliver chen, whose firm does business with gap, thinks the deal is a win-win for both firms: >> i think intermix brings a lot of fashion credibility to the gap. also the gap brings cash flow and capital to intermix. intermix can probably have a very successful online business. >> the acquisition comes as gap plans to close more than 20% of its namesake north american stores. like many retailers, gap is looking overseas for growth. >> reporter: gap also plans to also expand intermix abroad, presumably to luxury-obsessed markets like china. gap has plenty of experience with acquisitions, it bought women's athletic apparel retailer athleta in 2008, but analysts do see some risks to the intermix deal. >> we'll have to watch intermix to make sure it stays special. intermix is joining a big billion dollar, and it is a $100 million retailer with entrepreneurial roots, and relationships with these special designers. >> reporter: he's keeping his neutral rating on gap shares, which ar

laurents: what jerry had is almost unique in american choreographers. he was funny. mack sennett thing, which is sheer feydeau farce. saddler: it was based on the old mack sennett movies. there was a plot where there were three crooks. gallagher: and the keystone kops. phil silvers was running away with a bag with all the money in it. lee: the keystone kop ballet was total madness. [ prop gun shot ] it was done to counts. you never knew who was coming out of what door. woman: the first full run-through things started to go bad. phil was going through doors smashing into people. and jerry told the chorus, "just watch out for phil." gallagher: sondra was hit so hard, she was knocked out literally knocked out, and people just jumped over her body. woman: jerry was jumping up and down, running up and down the aisles having a fit. he couldn't stop it. we were picking up bodies all over the floor. saddler: we'd come bursting through the doors with a tambourine. well, i was doing all the things like -- gallagher: and all of a sudden out comes this gorilla. fabray: it was th

laurents: he was a wonderful director for ethel.t as the "king lear" for female performers. laurents: nobody could have gotten that performance out of ethel but jerry. ♪ everything's coming up roses ♪ ♪ for me and for you! ♪ narrator: extending his ambition to straight plays, robbins took an offbeat comedy and turned it into an improbable success while facing a different directorial challenge. man: i stuttered. and so did the character. and it got worse and worse and worse. and i never knew what was going to happen on any given night. and i was, i would spend all day in great anxiety. and i'd said, you know "i gotta quit this thing. i just can't do it." so i get this call from jerry saying, "on, on your way to the theater tonight would you stop at my place?" so i did. he said, "i hear you're thinking of quitting." i said, "i got to, jerry. i can't control it. and it's terrible for the show." and he said, "if you quit this first of all "you probably won't get hired in the industry again, "but even if they do you won't be able to go b

. >> host: laurents is the owner of city lights bookstore in san francisco and what was it like back then? it. >> guest: a carnival of ids of place people would go to buy books or me inspired. the prize-winning american writer told me it was a great bookstore and a good place to pick up checks for entertainment and to have the peace demonstration a place where jerry garcia would meet there when the parents of a girlfriend had no idea what was going on. almost anything could happen >> host: how will you interested in his life? >> guest: i went to the bookstore in the bay area. later when i worked for the bookstore with the free university policies would encircle 1 degree orencircle 1 r for i corrupt buying books from him and it dawned on me there is a booktv written about the totality of his life. >> host: does is still exist? >> guest: when data is business in 2005 that the community would not allow it and put back into business after raising money. this year again the sun would put out of business and once again the community raised seven and a thousand dollars for the bookstore was

one of my favorites, during the laurent exhibition, one of my favorite moments is one suzy stopped in her tracks. she said, this is it, this is what is true of any great artist or any great designer. when they do something, it can be shocking and avant-garde, but years later, we stand and look at it and believe it has always existed. i think that this is true of jean paul gaultier's work. i know that have been friends for a very long time. it is my honor to introduce both suzy menkes, fashion editor of the international herald tribune, and mr. jean paul gaultier. [applause] >> the love seat. [laughter] i just want to know, can you hear me? please shout loudly if you cannot. [laughter] yes or no, you can hear? >> somebody said no. >> mic people, can i be heard? should i start? ok, good. so before i introduced one of the funniest, wittiest, most amusing and funkiest designers that i know, i would like to start with something a little bit more serious. you know, in fashion, the reason that people laughed seem obvious when you see the exhibition of all it's incredible glory and excitement

intermix, which is based in new york, sells clothing from designers including yves staint-laurent and givency as well as lower priced wear. the deal benefits gap with a wider reach on the internet as well as international name recognition. it's a win for google against regulators. the ftc ended its probe into google, confirming it did not violate antitrust statutes. it claims google is justified to favor its own products in search results. but microsoft isn't satisfied. the company claims google refuses to distribute youtube "metadata" - or videos, favorites and ratings - to its mobile competitors. transocean will pay a $1.4- billion fine for the massive 2010 oil spill in the gulf of mexico. transocean was the owner of the deepwaterhorizon drilling rig leased by bp. the rig exploded and sank, killing 11 workers and leaking 5 million barrels of oil into the sea. still to come, it's traders unplugged, with our traders debating whether it's a good time to get in or out of the stockmarket. but first, are small business owners feeling more optimistic following the fiscal cliff deal? bill m

indicted so it's already clear that it's not at all the ministering any kind of impartial justice laurent you want to jump in go ahead this is crosstown. well first of all the one thing was there was just a factual claim being made that the only persons that were indicted before the international criminal tribunal for yugoslavia were serbs and that's simply i mean that just historically force that just a false claim i mean they haven't tried it. which was i thought what i said. but the majority of the. difference is quitting the jury acquittal an acquittal most of them had in the equations and very few of those leaders to the lead on a reasonable animals and there's usually no way you should have. if i could please finish what you said something i was. trying to say that go ahead lauren well you made an incorrect claim at first now you're saying now you're saying in fact these people were indicted tried and acquitted well the fact that someone is acquitted is not an example of the failure of impartial justice in fact in many ways is an example of the success of impartial justice because w

commitment to fighting islamist militants in mali at their meeting in the ivory coast foreign minister laurent fabius stressed that the current french campaign was never intended as a substitute for an african led contingent deployed under a u.n. security council resolution france has also asked for more than just tickle assistance from the u.n. in the ongoing conflict former pentagon official michael maloof says france could be drawn into a lengthly afghanistan like scenario. this demonstrates how the. in the maghreb and islamic magreb basically are coordinating their activities and this is part of an over our overall. plan to basically take that northern the. part of africa as a stepping stone into europe itself and there's been threats in paris already by mali ns and and what's really tragic is the fact that the united states trained a lot of these. now terrorists who basically defected from the government and and know many of our activities and know how we operate from a special forces standpoint and can use them against us these troops are very well trained they were involved not only in

the chain sells designer labels like jimmy choo, mulberry, yves saint laurent, fendi, and rag and bone. analyst oliver chen, whose firm does business with gap, thinks the deal is a win-win for both firms: >> i think intermix brings a lot of fashion credibility to the gap. also the gap brings cash flow and capital to intermix. intermix can probably have a very successful online business. >> the acquisition comes as gap plans to close more than 20% of its namesake north american stores. like many retailers, gap is looking overseas for growth. >> reporter: gap also plans to also expand intermix abroad, presumably to luxury-obsessed markets like china. gap has plenty of experience with acquisitions, it bought women's athletic apparel retailer athleta in 2008, but analysts do see some risks to the intermix deal. >> we'll have to watch intermix to make sure it stays special. intermix is joining a big billion dollar, and it is a $100 million retailer with entrepreneurial roots, and relationships with these special designers. >> reporter: he's keeping his neutral rating on gap shares which are

commitment to fighting is obvious militants in mali and their meeting in the ivory coast foreign minister laurent fabius stressed out the current french campaign was never intended as a substitute for an african led contingent deployed under un security council resolution france has also asked for more logistical assistance from the un in the ongoing conflict one of baseball what activists john rees says the mali intervention shows that western powers haven't learned from similar campaigns such as libya and against. the constant attentions of the imperial powers have generation after generation worsen the problem not made it better i'm surprised that they don't bore themselves by repeating this line we've heard it over afghanistan we've heard it over iraq we've heard it over libya and we should recall that right at the beginning of this process more than a decade ago the head of the security services in britain warned that then probably as to tony blair that the interventions in afghanistan and iraq would spread the threat of terrorism not reduce it that warning has proved. absolutely correct the

to fighting islam missed militants in mali ad they are meeting in the ivory coast foreign minister laurent fabius stressed that the current french campaign was never intended as a substitute for an african led contingent deployed under un security council resolution france has also asked for more logistical assistance from the un in the ongoing conflict a little analyst alex corbell expects the conflict to escalate and spread across the region resulting into willing public support for president alarmed. i don't believe that the public will continue to support please don't postpone indeed you need. me to repercussions in mali because when he was elected sixty four percent of the french public. considered that. the folks who don't. would not be able to take an international crisis compared to thirty percent for ex president sarkozy so i believe that. the public support is temporary and that sooner or sooner or later the french public will realize that it's and this is all it said and this is a rework a costly war and. much more than planned when you do a military intervention in a free count

laurent, it's why armani never wanted to go public because you have to grow and grow and grow and you get to the point where people are saying everybody else is wearing, that i don't want it anymore. have you hit that dangerous inflexion point because coach is so pervasive in north america? >> nothing in our research or in our experience suggests that that's the case. first we're in a very different category than the brands that you mentioned. we're in the accessory category. it's an extremely grand loyal category. second, we have a very diverse consumer, all ages, all attitudes. we also satisfy a very broad use of functions, and we have different expressions of coach, so we have product that's limited edition, that's only available in flagship stores. we sell many bags of well over $400. in fact, about 15% of our sales this past quarter were -- was -- was over $200 while our average bag is less than 300 and some bags are as low as 150. >> what did you learn from that? i found that interesting. your higher-priced bags did better than some of the lower price points but yet we're in an

laurent duboise examines eighty's history. -- haiti's history. david talbot presents a history of san francisco in the 1970s in "season of witch: enchantment, terror and deliverance in the city of love." in "quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking," author susan cain examines the benefits of an introverted personality. david von trailly looks at 1862, the second year of the civil war and the actions of abraham lincoln in "rise to greatness: abraham lincoln's most perilous year." watch for this book on booktv in the coming days. and in "full body burden," kristin iverson investigates the nuclear weapons plant that was located fear her childhood home in colorado. for an extended list of links to various publications' 2012 best books list, go to booktv.com. >> you've been watching booktv, 48 hours of book programming beginning saturday morning at 8 eastern through monday morning at 8 eastern. nonfiction books all weekend every weekend right here on c-span2. >> booktv is in prime time this weekend on c-span2. starting tonigh

>> it is excellent question, congressman, and deserves a very cockle answer laurent and the time i have. let me make three quick points. the cannot retreat from, and give up on, turn our backs on this new arab spring revolutionary countries and regimes. they are very new. most of them have leaders that have never run anything. they have come from backgrounds where they are suspicious of security because it was a dirty word. through them in jail and harass them and their families. we have to do some work. the work requires the stay engaged. we have to do a much better job helping rebuild security apparatus that can be used. we had a terrible assault on our embassy in tunis. i call the president of tunisia and said you have got to send reinforcements right now. our embassy is going to be over run. he said it, it stopped. the government has been responsive understanding that these extremists to not just threaten us in western countries, they threaten the stability and feature of this government. we have to help them the way we helped colombia years ago. we need to do a better job conveying