wleet distinguishes martin and marks him as a major -- what makes him as a major force for he of lucien in fantasy is his refusal to embration the vision was world as a struggle between good and evil. do you agree? >> i think the struggle between good and evil is central to fantasy and indeed in some ways central to most fiction. it's certainly a worthy subject for fiction. where i think i differ is i regard the struggle between good and evil as being waged within the individual human heart. it's not waged as favent see would have it like the dark lord gathers the evil people together and puts them in black clothing and you know they are evil because they are really ugly and all of the good people are handsome and they wear white and meet on a big battlefield. in the real world, they are not that complex. very few people get up in the morning and say, oh, i am evil. what evil can i do today? i am going to cover the world with darkness and my leak options of evil will rule all. >> that's silly. you know, the greatest mon store of history as we look back on them thought they were the hero

you can see through rush is a the lucien islands that is going to be moving our way by late next weekendby next weekend. a week from saturday, we will see a lot of cold coming back in so the end of the month we have a better chance of seeing real cold air and maybe more snow. on the he can clues suv "eyewitness weather" seven day forecast check it out. we'll slowly warm the up peeking on sunday. and then for mlk day little bit cool. chilly on tuesday. temperatures in the 40s on wednesday. >> not so bad. >> no. and sunday will be nice with those little warmer temperatures. >> all right, kathy thanks. >> lesley in for beasley tonight talking some hoops. >> that's right. we have lots of basketball going on both pro and college and the flyers in the nation's capitol could rob zepp get them another win? norwegians are free to do everything under the sun. free to cruise at their own speed... free to explore their own way... free to discover a new world of taste... free to smile wider... applaud louder... free to live fuller, deeper, and closer... that's how you cruise like a norwegian. ♪ cruis

so, the low oil prices, i believe there is some co lucien. there is no evidence to prove that. am merely speculating on this. i believe they want to eliminate the limits on oil the xl pipeline will help to eliminate the glut in north dakota and colorado and will eventually raise the oil prices up. i believe the politicians are using this as their agenda to raise taxes and gasoline because these oil prices not going to last that long. i believe there is an agenda involved. i wish you would address that. host: thank you for the call. we will look at where crude is and has been going over the last several months. it's been on a downward spiral now well below $55 a barely. guest: it's amazing. i think it speaks to the strength of the supply side in this case. saudi arabia's motivation is not just to recap the players in the united states oil cap but it wants to weaken iran. if you look at the dialogue within opec and energy ministers pleading with each other for austerity and saudi arabia a looking back saying we are comfortable where the price is now, comfortable with market share

so, the low oil prices, i believe there is some co lucien. there is no evidence to prove that. am merely speculating on this. i believe they want to eliminate the limits on oil the xl pipeline will help to eliminate the glut in north dakota and colorado and will eventually raise the oil prices up. i believe the politicians are using this as their agenda to raise taxes and gasoline because these oil prices not going to last that long. i believe there is an agenda involved. i wish you would address that. host: thank you for the call. we will look at where crude is and has been going over the last several months. it's been on a downward spiral now well below $55 a barely. guest: it's amazing. i think it speaks to the strength of the supply side in this case. saudi arabia's motivation is not just to recap the players in the united states oil cap but it wants to weaken iran. if you look at the dialogue within opec and energy ministers pleading with each other for austerity and saudi arabia a looking back saying we are comfortable where the price is now, comfortable with market share

>> i think part is thinking beyond des-lucien. it gets to your prior question about the subjects we take up. in some ways,olution. it gets to your prior question about the subjects we take up. in some ways,. what subjects ought to be taken up? >> not up to us anyway. but in thinking about how to approach public problems. i think there is a great difference between the left and the right in america on the question of how to approach public problems where there is an inclination on the left as you say and it's rooted in progressive thinking and seriously, i think a lot of con contemp raerm conservatives don't wrestle with that that we ought to think about american society of consisting of individuals and a state and that the role of the state is to enable those individuals to live the lives they want to lead. it's a very appealing idea. conservatives emphasize in what happens in the space between those two, the individual and the state where our families are, where our civic institutions are, religious institutions where the market