now for the top story tonight, according to a consulting firm mackenzie and company, 20% of americanen ages 25 to 64 are currently not working. that's up 13 points since 1970. if the study is true, that's obviously a massive problem. here now to analyze our barack and hard place duo monica crowley and alan colmes. colmes, all of the trillions spent on the poverty programs and the poverty rate is almost exactly the same. >> i have got to disagree with your statement in talking points that somehow this president is like lyndon johnson's great society wanting all these entitlement programs. he has offered to cut medicaid, medicare and social security which, by the way is not an entitlement. we pay into that it's our money. it's not a government entitlement. >> bill: when did he offer to cut that. >> that's the deal. >> bill: when did that happen. >> in his negotiation with john boehner. >> bill: a week ago? >> over the last couple of weeks. >> bill: couple of weeks. the may budget that he submitted? >> yes. >> bill: no cuts. >> in those debt negotiations contrary to what his will party

mackenzie.ing up, the ex military commander of rebels as idealizations that there was murdered by a man on his own side. in the warning from the united nations as it tries to attack the famine in somalia. the u.s. senate has rejected a bill to raise america's debt ceiling passed earlier by a republican-controlled house of representatives. the vote has been expected. there are intense talks to reach a compromise. the leader of the democrats in the u.s. senate, harry reid, says it is typical. >> it is the worst possible time to conduct a filibuster. and they are forcing us to wait until tomorrow morning to have this vote. our economy hangs on the balance. for the first time in history, we are headed for economic disaster if we do not reach a compromise. [inaudible] [unintelligible] there was a meeting in my office with republicans this morning that fell through. we have heard a lot of talk about being interested in a compromise, but they need to move forward. they are refusing to negotiate with us

the mackenzie space center, the apollo rockets. the launch of atlantis is the end of america's space exploration. >> what do think about this question that david was raising in a report about whether it has been worth it in terms of financial cost or the cost in human life. do you think this has produced enough to justify those costs? >> this is a risky business. this does not come without cost. this was supposed to give regular access to space. it cost more than a billion dollars to launch. this delivered some benefit. it launched countless satellites including the hubble scope. at the end of the day, they decided that the shuttle was too expensive and dangerous to contend with. the problem is that they don't know what will replace it or when it will come online. for now, american astronauts will rely upon the russians to travel into space. >> thank you for joining us. now to take marvell found in the mountains approve. machu picchu is a site shrouded in mystery. 100 years ago, and explore was thrust into the international spotlig

law firm baker mackenzie. that makes her more than ready to manage the fund, even the economist. but she also has to help the fund forget the arrest of her predecessor, dominique strauss-kahn, on sexual assault charges which might now be dropped. >> suffered a shock, obvious. you don't lose a managing director overnight without suffering as a result. >> and then there's the biggest item in her entree, the euro zone crisis, which she admits could have been managed better. >> the solution that we will have to reach will concern everybody. >> including investors? >> private sector, international institutions. if they're asked to contribute and participate. and it will have to be comprehensive, cohesive, and not -- and sometimes has been the case in the past. >> experts say you can view her experience as french finance minister two ways. >> she knows very well all the players and she knows that -- the landscape and therefore can operate in that environment quite effectively. and the other, that she's part of the problem and was part of the problem and therefore is that impares her ab

out of the mackenzie books of the 800 probably 77 exist today. with the college of charleston, friends of the library are trying to reestablished mackenzie's library like the library of congress, one of the things we have done is the books you can see survived are not in great shape. i have a grant this summer and working with one of the students and i am teaching him to do some leather binding and we will work on surge in the volumes this summer. the volumes date from 1660 to 1760. mckenzie died in 1771. the volumes deal a lot with history, religion, art, plays and classics. i am going to walk through some of the process. you can see the spine on this book has been removed. accords have fallen off. we will have to be so this book. we take the book apart in to the signatures which is what this is. it has been taken apart in the various signatures. in order to be able to so the book what we do is we use some japanese tissue and create the signatures and you can see the japanese to issue here. we have done a little repair here on the book. this is

david mackenzie is there tonight at the daub refugee camp. what are they finding there? are a lot of disturbing statistics in this crisis. one of them 2 million children who could be starving in the coming months if they don't get food aid here in africa. at the end of every statistic, there's often one person. in this case it's the terrible and tragic story of sarah. >> reporter: carrying the limp body of sarah. his dead child. she drew her last breath at dawn. sarah was just four. facing mecca, they prayed for her soul and bury her. severely malnourished, abraham tried to get sarah to the nearest hospital. but a ride costs just over a dollar here, more than any of these could afford. sarah's uncle says they fled here hoping for better. we didn't come with money from somalia. we didn't come with anything, he says. we're refugees but we're dying because we don't get enough help. his family arrives tired and hungry but they were forced to beg for food for two weeks. when they finally got given it, it didn't help. we haven't been given enough help, he says. we've been give

they were all hand tulled with jp mackenzie esquire and that will be the last part of the project. >> do you know on average around it costs per book to do it? >> it's going to depend on the size of the book because you've got some of these books "the works of john locket" obviously a lot bigger this book so we have estimated -- about $350 when we did the estimate on the books that we would be working on this summer, per book. it's really funny 'cause the end sheets to match the end sheets -- the sheets are about $28 per just the marbled sheet to match these end sheets and so i need six sheets. but my student is a chemistry major and he came in one day and just asked, could i repair a book? well, i'll teach you how. he's been working in the library on and off with me this past semester and we're so excited to work on this project this summe summer. >> for more information on booktv's recent trip to charleston, south carolina, visit c-span.org/localcontent. >> and now on booktv, a book launch party for john merro, author of "the influence of teachers" and presents his thoughts on how t

a recent study by mackenzie and company which is a reputable national consulting firm produced the report titled "how u.s. health care reform will affect employees' benefits." they surveyed over 1,300 employers across diverse industries, gee og fiscal and -- geographies and employer sizes. the results confirm what americans and their families knew all along and they knew it long before the president and washington democrats forced this health care law down their throats. overall, the report says, 30% of employers will definitely or probably stop offering employer-sponsored coverage in the years after 2014, when the obama health care law goes fully into effect. among employers with a high awareness of the health care reform law and what's specifically in the lawmakers then the proportion of those who will definitely or probably stop offering coverage jumps to 50%, and upward of 60% will pursue other options. so at least 30% of employers would actually gain economically from dropping coverage, even if they completely compensated their employees for the change through other benefit offerings

again mackenzie died in 1771. the volumes deal a lot with history, politics, religion, art and plays and classics. i'm going to walk through some of the process that we're doing. you can see the spine on this book is -- has been removed. and the cords have fallen off and so we're going to have to re-sew this book. so in order to do that what we do we take the book apart into the signatures and that's what this is. this is one of the books that's been taken apart and the various signatures. in order to be able to sew the book what we do is we use some japanese tissue and we create the signatures and you can see the japanese tissue and we've done a little repair here on the book, and this is what we've done and you can see the book has expanded a little bit but this is what the book looks like after it's been -- had the tissue repair. okay. and we put a weight to keep it flat. then what we do is we take the book after it's been put back in the signatures and it's had the japanese tissue repair this is called a sewin