i had a wonderful professor named mark oswald. he was a great scholar and marvelous human being. i took a course of his as a sophomore and i went into his office because he was very congenial. i said i'm not sure what i should do and he said well you did pretty well in my class. why don't you become an ancient historian. okay. that was that. [ laughter ]and i never looked back. so he is responsible for the in the upon the profession. >> and he -- he is responsible for inflicting me upon the possession. >> and then you got a phd at harvard. what was your dissertation? >> it was on roman politics and the criminal courts. it was a dissertation kind of book when it came out but the important -- it was the first important book about the last generation of the roman republic. >> last generation of the roman republic and here is a small home running 500 pages which i have been reading for months now. >> [ laughter ] >> i started about 20 years ago and talk -- talking with gruin i said i can't hold this in my head and he said he can't either which came as a great relief to me. but you sa

this is the balance for mark oswald as of 8:00 a.m. you could describe draghi's performance as stumbling, no discussion of changing the time commitment or the volume of qe program. don't get that wrong. in addition you might see the bond-buying caps being raised as a sign of difficulty with the existing program. not a precursor to expanding qe. it's boosted the markets, it's further soothed how europeans feel. a couple of sections shifting today. the miners are substantially higher. this after rio came through, reaffirming its target for steel in china despite the fact that bhp billiton cut theirs back in the sector of glencore. >> and another sector doing well is the ail sector across europe. led by easy jet in the uk up over 5%. easy jet is predicting record sales for the year. partly because the winter in the united kingdom was so bad, everybody booked to travel around the rest of europe. a reminder to any britain that lives in this country, one of the major reasons we're here, never forget, is for the weather back home. guys, back

presented itself to him and he probably wanted to make a mark on society and it suddenly occurred to him that he could. >> people who think oswaldt of a patsy and such an ineffectual, innocent person forgot that when oswald was stopped by a police car and a policeman gets out to talk to him, oswald shoots him four times in the middle of the body. that plus his previous attempt on general walker. interestingly on saturday morning in "the dallas morning news," it said that there may be a connection between this guy who was just arrested for killing a police officer and president kennedy. and this effort to assassinate general walker back in april. >> oswald used to attend a small discussion group. and he began to rail against this right wing general, edwin walker, who was calling for the invasion of cuba. >> general walker was about as right wing as you got in the early '60s. and oswald saw walker as an american adolf hitler. >> and oswald said someone should kill walker. he then ordered a rifle with a sniper scope, and he planned very meticulously his assassination of general walker. he took photographs from different angles, he

primary, with endorsements coming his way from the likes of actor mark ruffalo who will use his hulk-like progressive cred. also patent oswaldho, feeling the burn. and musician jeff tweety who senses a kindred spirit in values and perhaps hair style. ♪ and flea from the red hot chili peppers who wants you to give it away now when it comes to your vote. the good news for hillary clinton when it comes to hipster ground zero is there really isn't any significant brooklyn primary. with classic hipster irony brooklyn is where hillary clinton's campaign headquarters are located, which might make for some awkward encounters, as she goes out for some organic fair trade coffee outside her office in brooklyn. >> thank you for spending your sunday with us. you can catch me here every sunday and weekdays on "the lead" at 4:00 p.m. eastern. that's "state of the union." fareed zakaria gps starts right now. >>> this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. today we'll tackle the top stories affecting the world. refugees in europe, russians in syria, new threats