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middle eastern cities including the world's tallest building in dubai and plans for branches of the louvre and the guggenheim museum in abu dhabi. you heard that right sampson appears to be arguing the providing healthcare education and employment opportunities for millions of people is far less important than flaunting your wealth for the entire world to see with fancy buildings that the entire population out of crippling poverty is no thing compared to building a big glitzy building or opening up a new museum. if these were the feelings of just one journalist we could move on but the problem is that these sentiments are echoed throughout our country oil corporations have become so powerful and influential in our society that the idea of nationalizing our oil and using the money from it the way the venezuelans the saudis and the norwegians among others do to help the american people is according to could mention all wisdom crazy and absurd this is the reason why up until chavez is to earth but the us and venezuela have frosty relations at best chavez his decision to use his nation's vast

. >> that was the first one right there at the louvre. you can see the pyramid behind me.arc de triomphe, and that night we went to the eiffel tower. >> reporter: international, yes, but wedding crasher extraordinaire, noah doesn't quite see it that way. >> i wouldn't say that i'm a wedding crasher, per se. i would just say i'm really good at third-wheeling couples. >> reporter: noah hopes to pursue a career in social media, a field he believes he's well suited for as a result of these posts going viral. until then he hopes to actually attend one of the wedding he crashes. >> to my knowledge i haven't been invited to any of the receptions but at the same time most of the people i took pictures with were european and didn't speak english. i may very well have been invited to a reception and just not known it. >> reporter: and he has one other thing in mind for all those pictures. >> i think it would be pretty cool to publish a coffee table book of myself and people getting married around the world. >> he's well on his way. now, should his real life party crashing -- it's on

republicans want to close tax louvre -- locals but on not in -- loopholes but not in the context of sequestration. i think they can meet and discuss but if the lines in the san continue to be drawn, there might not be much point to these discussions. at least one side needs to be willing to compromise here and that is not happening. host: this is our sunday brunch with brunchsiddiqui. -- sabrina siddiqui. she has worked for bloomberg and businessweek and will ron is a -- will rahn is a co author of "the lizard king." guest: it was a satirical book based on the obama white house. host: you were on another morning program. guest: joe scarborough is a fantastic guy who is smart and dedicated and as one of the greatest work ethics i have ever seen. host: the you take away from that program? guest: i would say is one of the better morning programs out there on cable news today. host: lisa is joining us from pittsburgh, okla., republican line. caller: i would like to discuss the definition of sequestration. in the dictionary it is interesting. we already cannot afford insurance and are budgets are cut

and i think it's, in many ways, a foundation of the modern economy that we live in and shapes our louvres in ways that -- our lives in ways that are often ip visible to us just because light so ubiquitous. >> did you have a theory about edison going into the project? >> i think i began with the premise that shows up many our textbooks, that edison was the inventer of the lightbulb. i was not so much interested in edison's role as i was sort of what happens when the light bug b leaves his laboratory and goes out into -- looking at what isn't actually there, i began to realize the actually story of his invention process was a lot more complicated and interesting than i had expected. >> and you used the grade about past examinations of edison as often being, in your words, more hero worship than history. and while i want to get into the process of inventing in a minute, because that's a very important topic for us, why as a historian do you see it necessary to make that distinction? >> well, i think partly it's, we need to understand how important it is for inventers themselves to turn thems

republicans want to close tax louvre -- locals but on not in the context of sequestration. i think they can meet and discuss but if the lines in the san continue to be drawn, there might not be much point to these discussions. at least one side needs to be willing to compromise here and that is not happening. host: this is our sunday brunch with brunchsiddiqui. she has worked for bloomberg and businessweek and will ron is a co author of "the lizard king." guest: it was a satirical book based on the obama white house. host: you were on another morning program. guest: joe scarborough is a fantastic guy who is smart and dedicated and as one of the greatest work ethics i have ever seen. host: the you take away from that program? guest: i would say is one of the better morning programs out there on cable news today. host: lisa is joining us from pittsburgh, okla., republican line. caller: i would like to discuss the definition of sequestration. it ise dictionary it say interesting. we already cannot afford insurance and are budgets are cut for grocery and we cannot afford our ut

michael, probably the most evocative and truest inmost -- image i have seen since i was at the louvre. that is the world i have lived in. but it is also, hilarious, your depiction of it. maybe conservatives should get a sense of humor, too. >> let me tell you what the democrats do which is very, very good. redundancy. concise slogans. it does not have to be about accuracy or the truth. they have their leadership meetings during the week, and they figure out whenever the word is going to be, and they repeat it like a mantra -- figure out whatever the word is and they repeated like a mantra. it is like a urban myths. -- myth. enough, it becomes the truth. republicans should not be afraid to take the gloves off and point have antruth when you incompetent administration that is doing horribly. anyone can drive down the street. two of my favorite restaurants that have been around for 30 years have closed down. vacant businesses. it is not wrong to point that out and say that is the reality. we need bolder candidates. john is entirely right. the gop is supposed to be the party of the free m

european capitals, guys, is that you get the sense like you could go in five years, ten years time, the louvre will still be there, the eiffel tower is still going to be there. >> you've got to do it while you're there, though. >> i know. i know. but anyway, i might try to squeeze in still a trip to the mideast or something. >> you sound like a jaded new yorker. >> yeah, i know, i know. exactly. >> it's like all the people here who have never been to the statue of liberty. >> right. all right. we shouldn't mention the statue of liberty. icahn will probably want to buy it. carl icahn is making headlines in recent days for his interest in dell, but no one else is interested in the statue of liberty, carl, chill. >> is that him? >> yes. >> he's stepping out? you know, it's like blankfein does it, then he wants to do it. >> oh, man! >> bernanke did it first. >> that's pretty cool. he looks all right. this morning he is on the cover of the latest "forbes" magazine. >> he looks kind of -- >> steve number toni, "forbes" executive editor. >> looks good. >> he was in miami, away from new york for like

in the next 20 years louvre our health care costs from people who are aging.esearchers and how to keep people healthy they will tell you what decides whether or not you are healthy, a very small fraction of that are the things that happen when you go into the doctor's office. much more of that is about your job, it's about the way you live. it's about what you eat. it's about your genes. it's about all of these different things. one thing we have done a very poor job of in this country, to some degree, across medicine all over the industrialized world, is figuring out how to work on the things that keep people healthy as opposed to to things have made them sick. it's a very tough thing because it spans a lot of different disciplines and a lot of different parts of people's lives and we don't know exactly how to get into that. it is, if we want to keep people healthy and improve their quality of life, there are much bigger gains to be made in terms of keeping these things from going wrong in the first place than in terms of event treating them once they have go

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