and one them said this is he tea was owned by marie antoinette and this belonged to marie antoinette and this belonged to king louie xvi. >> i said they had a fixation on the king and queen who were guillotined. they weren't sure they were going to be killed by the mob themselves. they didn't know what we know, that that kind of revolution didn't happen here. we have all sorts of good reasons why it didn't. but your picture of people alienated, i start off with demography often and in 1910, as i said, new york city, the five boroughs had 5 million people. manhattan had 2.3 million people. the current population of manhattan is 1.6 million. they had 2.3 million. one-half of them, 1.15 million, lived in south of 14th street in manhattan. that is essentially the size of the peninsula of charleston. imagine 1 million people living from here south to the battery. 1,200,000 people living. you were looking at the most crowded spot on earth. people speaking all these different languages. i think your picture of that is the right one. tocqueville's warning in that kind of a situation is like

be very professorial and that's off putting and sometimes, like always, romney can have the marie antoinette syndrome and insults the working people like today. >> i love that your big insult of the president is he's professorial and mitt romney is he's marie antoinette. >> i'm a state school guy. >> equal on the criticism. but go on, paul. >> well, the president can be a little ethereal at times. neither are like joe biden who i think is great on middle class kind of cred. but if it's about who you'd rather hang out with, i don't think romney is going to succeed there. >> all right. it's been a fascinating day. thank you. >>> let us know what you think. we're on facebook. follow me on twitter. what do you think of the president's remarks today? >>> there are new images out of syria tonight. video of a doctor and staff of volunteers risking their lives to save civilians and others in a city under siege. we're going to show you what they're up against. it's a cnn exclusive, next. >> announcer: meet mary. she loves to shop online with her debit card, and so does bill, an identity thief who sto

the show was one even marie antoinette may have approved of. >>> in france one competition has competitors going to great heights. elite divers competed in the first of several meets in the 2012 cliff diving world series. athletes bounded from a 0 foot flat form executing somersaults, flips and twists before diving into the water before. the winner performed an amazing back triple somersault with three twists. one, two -- maybe that wasn't the winner. >>> finally if you're headed to finland you may want to pack sunscreen, a couple of sleeping masks because in the northern part of the country the sun doesn't set for 60 days during the summer. the phenomenon occurs in latitudes north of the arctics, south of the antarctic circle. residents celebrate by relaxing in hot tubs, bonfires. i have relatives in sweden and they called me at midnight once and they were at the beach. >> i can't relate to it. i know our friends in alaska and they deal with it. i lived in maine and the sunday set at 3:30. >> time now for an early look at some of the stories we'll follow on nbc. >>> time now for an early

. >>> well, a new exhibit at versailles has some wondering if marie antoinette would approve. what was once home to french royalty is now showcasing items like giant steel stilettoes and furry pink helicopters. it's the works of the latest in a series of contemporary artists being featured to show versailles as a place that an talk about contemporary issues, not just past ones. >>> one man in iraq is realizing a childhood dream of opening a zoo -- sort of. with the purchase of three lion cubs he's well on his way, originally forbidden to keep wild animals under the sadam hussein regime, his home is a popular place for children. he's says if the government grants him land, he plans to add an elephant, tigers, giraffes, and bears, oh, my. >>> passion isn't all that burns for a pair of lovebirds in england. taking a break from the olympic torch relay, one man handed off the fiery beacon and got down on one knee to propose to his girlfriend. at eight months' pregnant she happily accepted as they embraced and she slipped on the ring. with the crowd delighted, he then resumed the tr

in this case it's about napoleons, at least marie antoinette said let them eat cake.oedominion not to eat cake. go down this road it's going to get tricky for you once in a while, mike. what happens when they start putting 5'8" stipulation on height to get into the island of manhattan. you are screwed you are a bridge and tunnel guy. i find it odd that liberals get so behind this stuff to think that bump on a log taking a dump on a log at woodstock is now in bed with a man on all this sort of crap is just so weird to me. how did government play such an important part in liberal's lives? >> i don't know why the soda thing upsets bloomberg so much. but i do know he wants everybody to be slim. he wants us to be in good shape. he thinks that the giant big gulp is going to work against that. >> billy, the reason it gets to bloomberg is because he has to look up at the rim of a 64-ounce. >> always a height deal for miller. one more thing about, this it's very very interesting that in new york at the mania of getting the big gulp out of here, they want the big smoke to be ok