one of the late john lenin's teeth sold for more than $31,000 at auction.ian dentist bought it. >> put it in my pocket and walk around with it so i know where it is. i show a few people. and later on i'm going to have it mounted and have it on display in our office for a few weeks and maybe arrange a john lenin tooth tour. >> bill: my question, pardon the pun is that in good taste? the answer is no. the tooth was sold by a former housekeeper for lenin who says he gave her the tooth. why? why would anybody give you a tooth? that is relation check. pinheads and patriots up next. liz cheney schooling bob schieffer. p and p moments away. >>> first, once again this year we are going to send books to our troops overseas for the holiday season. if you my publisher will co nate a corresponding copy to the troops overseas. very nice of them. we've been doing this for years. a very successful program. operation shoe box out of florida makes it all possible. i've given them a nice donation. they're sending lots of stuff to the troops this holiday season. you can check

one of the late john lenin's teeth sold for more than $31,000 at auction.ist bought it. >> put it in my pocket and walk around with it so i know where it is. i show a few people. and later on i'm going to have it mounted and have it on display in our office for a few weeks and maybe arrange a john lenin tooth tour. >> bill: my question, pardon the pun is that in good taste? the answer is no. the tooth was sold by a former housekeeper for lenin who says he gave her the tooth. why? why would anybody give you a tooth? that is relation check. pinheads and patriots up next. liz cheney schooling bob schieffer. p and p moments away. how can you get back pain relief that lasts up to 16 hours? with thermacare heatwraps. that's 8 hours while you wear it, plus an additional 8 hours of relief after you take it off. can your patch say that? for up to 16 hours of relief... try thermacare. like a ramen noodle- every-night budget. she thought allstate car insurance was out of her reach. until she heard about the value plan. shop less. get more. make one call to an allstate

the strongest reminder of russia's soviet past is lenin's mausoleum on red square in moscow while the leader of the revolution rest peacefully here at the very heart of russia's capital the prison there members of the party he founded are working hard getting ready for the parliamentary election the second major party in russia and like all of those standing in the election race aspired to be the first in one thousand nine hundred one just before the soviet union collapsed economy spikey of them saw the republic of russia almost bound by decreed by president yeltsin a coup years later the party remerge to under the leadership of do not use uganda the painful transition from state run to unlocking to in the one nine hundred ninety s. some millions of russians into poverty many became this knowledge of the times of the soviet union when low prices in this. and wages were guaranteed by the state the communist party grew in popularity on the back of that sentiment throughout the turbulent nineties but the turn of the century so great economic stability in russia and the subsequent song in

it never took the the it failed to take the path of european socialism i mean they still talk about lenin here they talk about marx they did the stuff they do the vast majority of the people in this country are not interested any more though i do point out that it does still do well in elections and we can talk about why that is but it's certainly not a hedge a monic power and it will never be that again i mean it's interesting that is that we have earlier in the early eighty's and early and up to ninety ninety one it was the communist party that unraveled itself but then once it's finally collapsed once it was banned it didn't want to really reform itself any further as my factor got very rigid. it's not quite the same party that is the party that gorbachev ruled over this great big soviet communist party was made up of all kinds of different factions there were conservatives he got charles types there were more reformers there are quite radicals. you know it's so there was sort of in the center he moved gradually rather steadily however towards social democracy and by august of one nine

lenin looking down on you there? >> guest: yes. well, you know, a friend of mine took that snapshot. the picture of lenin and dzerzhinsky and sverdlov and all those wonderful people in the back, actually, were depicted on this huge portrait that was hanging in the communist party guest house. and somebody said, oh, why don't you have a kiss right in front of lenin. and the picture was just marvelous because it really looked like he was looking at the service. c-span: you tell a story in the book about a long ride one night out to a hidden dacha with someone that was involved with the coup eventually. refresh our memory as to the dramatic (ph) times back in those years. when was the coup? >> guest: the coup was in august of 1991. now, just to give you the chronology here, roald and i told the politburo that we were going to get married in september of 1989. this was literally just as eastern europe was trembling on the brink of collapse. the regimes were beginning to fall by the wayside. and of course, we weren't sure whether the so

court to face criminal charges face actions in world war two he did it toward this is the order of lenin they gave it to me for blowing up sixteen german trains when i was a partisan issue krishna traditional. in modern latvia the x. parties and was declared an enemy and spent almost two years behind bars for taking part in the killing of local volunteers they were helping the germans. kannan of was acting on of the situation taken by parties and tribunals in one nine hundred forty three. when radical nationalists came to power after the regime change their lackeys started a massive campaign against info fascists of people who had fought in the entire hitler coalition they were all to review the outcome of the war edition in order to whitewash naziism and fascism as usual for she is a. ivers guard that is lead a political organization called the national front of latvia the front publishes a newspaper founded by him. that weekends and during public holidays volunteers hand out free copies to anyone willing to read the paper. its name contains three d's they stand for d. or q patient colo

of the world's first nuclear powered icebreaker was called lenin and was launched from advanced in one nine hundred fifty seven today it's a floating museum by a peer of the city's perth with the help of the icebreaker fleet it was possible to explore the russian arctic only around the time spent sailing was limited only by the amount of food over. during winter the crew would stay on the ship the several months the onboard clinic regularly performed surgeries the unique for that time. no expense was spared on the find him the interior of the first nuclear icebreaker . hours can be spent laundering around the boat looking inside the cabins of the crew who maintains the nuclear reactors the open bridge overlooks the course and the beautiful bay of more than others. so that is. early on in the ancient times all the little nobility used to come here young people first settled there moments fountains of years ago this old looking man made structure that weighs many tons is at least ten thousand years old it's known as a megalith faced with stones along the perimeter it's reminiscent of bri

holos liberal democrats for the poor but i think the last time it was the party headed by vladimir lenin that used the slogan in one nine hundred seventeen don't you fear it could play against you. we are not afraid of any historical comparisons our party out holds the freedom of discussion i reject any left wing political ideology because we believe these are defeatist use that have no future when we say that we stand for the poor we don't mean that we are against the rich rather our aim is to help them get rich we don't seek to sprawl pre-death is from someone and give them to the needy we want to remove any hurdles that prevent the majority of the poor from getting wealthy that's the message of our slogan there can be no historical comparisons no similar examples no connections to the policies of the bolsheviks we absolutely reject anything of the sort of. you're an old timer in the russian parliament and during all these years you have the decisions of the ruling party however recently you have stepped up your criticism and we've seen the mounting confrontation with the party in powe

. >> and if it is about the death of lenin, you seem to be a little attached. >> a little what? >> a little detached. the next american. is there was a bridge. >> james, what is your favorite jimmy breslin column? okay. james, we will leave it there. a reminder to our viewers, turn down the volume on your tv when you call it. >> my favorite jimmy breslin column is probably dead an emergency room one where his work after the jfk assassination is as to mitchell, important because he zigs with other people's ag. the famously interviewed the grave digger for jfk in a column called it is an honor, but in death emergency room when he interviews the attending room physician on duty at the dallas hospital that date. and he recreates his day. the president comes in, given last rites, and with the first lady standing, never crying, just in the back of the room, last line of the piece is, i never saw a president before. but the piece on john lennon is a beautiful piece of work. >> we are in miami. >> absolutely. carl tyson is one of the very best. it is important to appreciate that this is

major for point of legitimacy for the party because it looks like it went from communist ideals of lenin marx and engels and all that to you it legitimized its rule because it won the second world war but decades later you can still keep saying well it's because we won the war that's why we want to have exclusive power i mean at a certain point you just can't keep playing that card over and over again right there it's true that even with there was a kind of we go go ahead go ahead round go ahead. there was a there was a kind of we were in a way of the ideology there was a kind of disillusionment that sort of started at the top among some party officials like gorbachev and shevardnadze like and also among the intelligentsia more progressive or liberal intelligentsia within the party so that that actually happened but it's something that's important to remember the soviet system disintegrated always was reformed radically by gorbachev and successfully before the soviet union itself collapsed in other words the system has to be separated from the state itself by nine hundred ninety already

history kate that we can because i was happy for the world over and over and over it open the door for lenin in the bolsheviks i mean in the roman republic the really out there you go there it's it's it's a grim analysis we're going to continue our conversation with chris hedges here still ahead of the big picture. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decision. made who can you trust no one who is human view who would have noble mission where we had a state controlled capitalism in school that he's when nobody dares to ask we do you are t. last gen more. for. with us chris hedges his new book pulitzer prize winning author and reporter. renaissance man his new book death of the liberal class an extraordinary work chris we've been talking about the descends into now was a descent into a permanent underclass neo feudalism. are we seeing and i keep looking for historical allegories and maybe there aren't any good it's seems almost like we could wander into a long stagnant period like europe did in the dark ages the so-called dark ages or we could see the rise of

he became the foreign minister of the sandinistas and he won the lenin peace prize. the world -- the merchant class the money lenders. and what we've seen in america because you see a decline. i see a decline in this way. parental authorities being sidestepped by corporations selling to kids junk food, violent program, sadistic stuff finish. >> right. >> i agree with you 100%. >> and let me -- i'm trying to get the variables in here. the military industrial complex doesn't mind our empire abroad. ize b hour -- eisenhower warned us about that.ñ!ñ% the corporations pushed nafta and wto through. that has dealt with a huge abandonment of jobs and industry through communist and fascist regimes overseas who know how to keep the workers in their place at 80 cents an hour. nafta dumped a lot of cheap coinñ%ñ% into mexico. this possessed millions of families. some of them went north over the border increased the immigration there. youo% have the corruption of our democratic politics but with the big money in politics. and they want to own everything even our jeans. they have

. >> by the way, stalin does have a brother, lenin. the owner gave them the names.oving around. >> all good stuff caught on tape. more "world news now" coming right up after the break. ♪ do you remember the time we fell in love ♪ ♪ do you remember the time we >> welcome back, everybody. well michael jackson's doctor, conrad murray is again opening up this morning, after the verdict in his manslaughter trial. >> we are getting an inside look at exactly what happened inside that jury room. jim avila has an abc news exclusive. >> i think we really did our job. >> reporter: she is juror five, debbie franklin, the 4-year-old mother of two, a paralegal put in charge of ringing the buzzer that alerted the judge and world a verdict had been reached. >> our hearts were pounding to go out there. >> reporter: franklin the first and only juror to reveal what went on inside the jury room. in our exclusive interview she says while nearly all the jurors had decided on guilt during the first day of deliberations, not everyone was convinced that dr. murray was solely responsible for

. >> by the way, stalin does have a brother, lenin. the owner gave them the names. couple of dictators. clearly they are. >> isn't that something? >> the video yesterday, with the police horse and the litle dog. >> moving around. >> all good stuff caught on tape. more "world news now" coming right up after the break. ♪ do you remember the time we fell in love ♪ ♪ do you remember the time we >> welcome back, everybody. well michael jackson's doctor, conrad murray is again opening up this morning, after the verdict in his manslaughter trial. >> we are getting an inside look at exactly what happened inside that jury room. jim avila has an abc news exclusive. >> i think we really did our job. >> reporter: she is juror five, debbie franklin, the 4-year-old mother of two, a paralegal put in charge of ringing the buzzer that alerted the judge and world a verdict had been reached. >> our hearts were pounding to go out there. >> reporter: franklin the first and only juror to reveal what went on inside the jury room. in our exclusive interview she says while nearly all the ju