mark twain his he all of this is just a way of saying that mark twain had in what he an audience that didn't was it like you and me, a literate and intelligent and going to lectures simply bought his books on. submerged fame he called it or when they are sitting story is told he and stevenson agree that this kind of thing, the kind of thing that have never met and are unlikely of all the kinds of things the best, think something heavy first volume of the autobiography. i think that audiences we have never seen it any case. now we didn't original estimate on my part was that would be five times the press is now on 100,000 copies what the photograph should be on the front one of people from the press saying that they wanted something he really eye catching, table at you thought that was so we thought it would table at costco. those are brand-new copies and is something we havecertain things to sell this book that we wouldn't ordinarily, atlantic, "harper's" and are called first serial rights. these are basically small chunks all they needed to be unpublished that was easy and of course

mark twain. there's the compliment.ement is an american loves his family that has love left over for some other person he generally selects mark twain and mark twain says i think the world of that complement. yes he does. yes he does. there's another complement he cited in the same 1908 speech that i am referring to. i've given you is transcription in case his handwriting isn't clear you can follow that. a little montana throws complement mark twain says someone from allin i sent this to him. she was gazing thoughtfully a photograph of mark twain on the neighbors mantelpiece and she said we have a jesus like that at home only hours has more trimmings. [laughter] what does she mean by more trimming? [laughter] so for those of you that have forgotten what jesus looked like pulled a copy of one of the family bibles mark twain said that the difference in the trimmings was the halo. his had not arrived yet. all of this is just a way of saying that mark twain has in his own lifetime an enormous silent audience of what he call

i said because mark twain was available. mark twain, jon stewart, they understand in the society that the truth goes down better if it's marinated in humor. i don't have a sense of humor. i'm a baptist. we don't make jokes. and i do and jon stewart and mark twain if he were here, far more effective than an journalist in trying to get people as close as possible to the verifiable truth. that's the work of journalism. i'm jealous that you guys do better at it than i do. >> you've already made the people laugh hard three times. >> i've told you, the baptists have things in common. >> we had a lutheran in marshall once, he was a traveling salesman. >> we actually spent three days at the marshall hotel. everybody would go by and look in. that's a real lutheran. i became very good friends of martin marty and his son is a wonderful legislator here. he was the second lutheran i'd known. i realized i was wrong. >> we need opposition, we need something. this is a basic american idea that opposition and competition bring out the best i

i want to welcome everyone to what mark twain calls a classic summer day in san francisco. i am proud to be here as part of this announcement, and i am here on behalf of my colleague jane kim, who is stuck in city hall. the two of us have the honor of representing the number one place in san francisco where people come to shop, and hello to everyone on the cable cars, spend time in our incredible city. this is an announcement of how we build 21st century city -- cities, how we can create communities on very busy dance streets. we know it takes a village to create a parklet. i want to thank the city department for being our partners. dpw, oewd, mta -- these acronyms refer to organizations and thousands of hours done to come up with this. three years ago, when i first came into office, a number of merchants from union square came to me and said, david, we would like to tax ourselves more. we would like to triple the size of the business improvement district. today's announcement is part of that portion of that amazing vision. i want to thank the in square business improvement

>> remember the great quote from mark twain, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated? it applies to thousands of social security recipients every year, including one elderly woman we met who received very untimely news from the social security administration. marjorie is a healthy and vibrant 94-year-old yet the social security administration thought she died five years ago. >> you look very much alive to me. >> i feel alive now, but at one time i didn't. >> was that because of what the social security administration told you? >> yes. exactly. one young clerk looked me in the face and told me i was dead and i said but i'm standing right here. >> she went to her local bank to get cash, but her atm card wouldn't work. when she went inside, a bank officer cut the card up right in front of her and said according to our records, you're dead. >> i explained to her well, i didn't feel dead, but she insisted i was. >> to your face? >> to my face. >> someone inside the social security administration corrected an incorrect digit while recording the number of a person who had rec

mark twain used to say, is it going to stop raining? mark twain says it always does. stocks will not stay down. the problem is you can lose a lot on paper while you are waiting for that bottom. >> greta: thank you. donald trump says we have one hell of a problem. dow down more than 634, nasdaq down 175, s&p 500, now nervous should we be? didn't the whole world has jitters especially in the united states. dow going down 634 points just today, your thoughts? >> they should have jitters and jitters about in country and the way this country is run. i don't blame them. frankly, if you're a great citizen of this great country, and i say great now, but it has to be somewhat tenuous, because what is happening is going to make it not so great. you have to to be very, very nervous. >> greta: the thing that seems to be the catalyst for the horrible day with the dow and the stock market is the s&p downgrading the united states. the president blames that on the of political will as well as as insistence on drawing lines in the sand meaning the political divide. david axelrod over

. >> first of all, you paraphrase mark twain.umors of the tea party's success may be proven to be premature. >> let me give you another mark twain -- >> you republicans like to have your time and don't want nobody to answer. >> let's look at what was achieved. we see what they wanted to do in terms of having this debt revisited the end of this year, they lost that. the pentagon budget was cut more, cut since the 90s, they lost that. social security, medicaid, medicare sun touched. i don't know if the tea party had the big victory they think you had.r. >> john boehner is not going to be running for president. >> his approval numbers jumed, disapproval, 57%. that's up from 41%. is boehner getting dragged down by the tea party? therefore, if any of the canned candidates running, if they get too close to the primary, will they get dragged down like john boehner? >> i don't think so. on the new york times poll, i could go into the internals on it. they overweigh the democrats by 8%. every other poll, gallup, shows 41%. so i think the

watching us on news channel 8 in portland, oregon, head to salem and enjoy a musical take on mark twain's classic "huckleberry finn." >> love that, love that. >> classic. >>> here's a look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. this weekend at the box office audiences are ready to go ape. "rise of the planet of the apes" starring james franco is the latest in a franchise that kicked off in 1968. the films have always drawn well. this one has received very good reviews, and experts see it taking first place with around $40 million. last weekend's bridesmaids, the smurfs are expected to make a more triumphant second place showing this week. only a moderate audience drop from its opening weekend. the experts think it should take in around $20 million. the weekend's big question mark is the debut "the change-up." jason bateman and ryan reynolds star in the body switch plot, but then again, this is the year of the r-rated comedy. it could finish near 20 million and challenge "the smurfs" or it could disappoint and fall behind "cowboys and aliens" or "captain america." we talked about "b

. >> reporter: mark twain said the only way to keep your health, eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not. it doesn't seem to apply to chocolate. nothing is perfect. but chocolate may be as close as mother nature can get. lee cowan, nbc news, los angeles. >> okay, permission to go wild. that's our broadcast for this tuesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> good evening,thank you for joining us on this tuesday. i'm raj mathai. >> i'm jessica aguirre. not if, but when. the ntsb slamming pg & e saying the rupture in san bruno represented a multitude of mistakes. >> the ntsb claiming that it was a cyst mat systematic failure, live team coverage beginning

and i won't say the old mark twain thing. we've heard it before.cc1: what's going on, nick? marine re cigarettie i getting: layer. temperatures way below the cc1: average. live pictures from san francisco, the marine clouds pushing, strong onshore flow continues. we got a busy northerly component around the coast, santa cruz and down toward p apptos and watson vl. for the most of us inland, temperatures were running between 5 and 10 degrees below average. normally upper 80s around livermore, today 78, 81 in normalcc1: high is 88. stan jose and that strong onshore wind is going to bring in those low clouds, the fog once again tonight. probably some patchy mist and drizzle. here's the setup. i'm kind of a broken record, saying the same thing we said yesterday. the strong onshore flow continues. we'll get a bit more clearing at think tomorrow and that trend will continue. n fact, a bit of a warmingcc1: trend as we head through the middle part of this coming week. here's the setup for us.cc1: that persistent trough that's been sitting across the pacific washington 1: state, brin

both of whom have been in combat and so i don't have to take any nonsense from anybody nor will i mark twain's definition of patriotism his patriotism is supporting your country all the time. and your government when it deserves it i don't think it's patriotic to stand by and remain silent while your country stumbles into disaster a patriotism is the last refuge of sky. and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation but i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of others insiders i know that the insiders don't have it all right make mistakes it's more likely to be mistakes and it's more like it being destroyed if there is no criticism they was jefferson who said that that our kind of government is not based on trust it's based on the in fact suspicion to suggest that if you have a different viewpoint than any given an administration and or if you're not supporting the president and policies that may be highly erroneous i don't see that as patriotism at all in fact i

the library houses some amazing items, archives from the free speech movement, mark twain's papers, andgyptian chronicles printed on paper made from 2,000-year-old mummified crocodiles. she says her biggest challenge will be making the library's collections available digitally. >>> when we cozing lmeibry, ban. >>> when we come back, a home run wedding. >>> apparently it's very expensive. you're going to tell us how much it is? a new york bride gave her husband a surprise wedding so big and so expensive, his only word was unbelievable. >> you could call it a nuptial home run. yankees fans kathy shiploe and nick cassiano exchanged wedding vows inside yankee stadium at home plate. was kathy's idea. she said since nick is such a big yankees fan, she coop think of a better place to get married. nick says kathy made it happen, and that's exactly why he loves her. >> okay. price tag -- >> okay, we hear, our producer tells us to book a wedding there is $750,000. three quarters of a million dollars. >> wow. they paid that? >> they should have invited more people. throw in jeter for that price. >

. >> famous diners abraham lincoln, mark twain, charles dickens. >> in the daytime you have all the business guys. at nighttime the tourists. at nighttime it's 90% steak. and the weekend chicken a la king, baked alaska, even eggs benedict for dinner. we can run out of just about anything. we can't run out of steak. >> that's the show for today. thank you so much for joins u. my guest next week, harvard professor and author ken rogoff. join us for ken rogoff. have a great weekend, everybody. i'll see you next week.

of the anglo-saxon girls share which is immense very each outstanding going from shakespeare to mark twain and if you like bill gates so this is very true and if you want to enjoy it if you want to read that we should always contend you need to run english which four percent of me is a lifetime if not if you want to close a deal in must call or kill or in c. or. if you speak like people speak in dallas texas must look at the people who will not understand you and this is my observation when i went to japan in one thousand nine hundred ninety four does business decisions i observe some americans when joining me from a team i was a vice president with i.b.m. usa then and i observed that the japanese there and then the koreans and soon and the chinese in beijing i told the far east where much better ideas we mean understood me better understand them better than what i could observe between them and americans and that's why i said we thought we were speaking english we are not we are speaking a different kind of language there is something different so what is correct as fast can show its func

the anglo-saxon going to share which is immense verity each outstanding going from shakespeare to mark twain and if you like bill gates so this is very true and if you want to enjoy it if you want to read appreciate all your content you need korean english which for pursuit of me is a life that if rocked if you want to close a deal in must call or talk ill or in c. or. if you speak like you speak and then mistakes as must be local people will not understand you and this is my observation when i went to japan in one thousand nine hundred ninety four does business decisions i observed some americans when training me for making him i was a vice president with i.b.m. usa then and i observed that the japanese there and koreans and sooner and the chinese in beijing the far east where much better ideas with me and just who knew better and better and what i could observe between them and americans and that's why i said we thought we were speaking english we are not we are speaking a different kind of language there is something different so far that is correct and starts going to its conclusion this

cybersecurity issues are go after that, our booktv coverage starts with robert hirst, and curator of the mark twain papers. >> this week on "the communicators" to legislators discuss congress's role when it comes to cybersecurity issues. representative mac thornberry is the chair of the house republicans cybersecurity task force and democratic representatives jim langevin is co-founder of the house cybersecurity caucus. >> host: this is c-span's "communicators" program. we are continuing our series on cybersecurity and cyberthreats to the united states this week. the congressional response to cybersecurity. joining us is representative mac thornberry, who serves as chair of the house republicans task force on cybersecurity. congressman thornberry thank you for being here. jennifer martinez the politico is our guest reporter. congressman, what in your view are the cybersecurity needs of the u.s. to defend against and to you think that the white house plan introduced in may addresses those needs? >> guest: well, the country faces a wide spectrum of threats in cyberspace, all the way from vandalism an

mark twain said rumor halfway around world before truth gets its shoes tight. we still deal with that today. i am going to have you go through these slides fairly quickly but let me hit a couple highlights early on. somewhere in here. there we go. i don't know who to attribute this to. it was sent to me but i use it to illustrate how quickly something can happen. in the public safety and the emergency response world the first seventy-two hours are critical. that is when everything is happening locally. i want to introduce a new element. the first twenty-four hours can become extraordinarily impacting because the first responders to any incident are the victims. the ones who are involved in that incident. they typically are the ones first to take action. we call that the zero hour. in the first six our the microbe media such as twitter coming on and mainstream media this particular illustration uses the newspaper. i assume it is the online newspaper because the bridge will be off in six hours. more likely it is going to be some type of video media, television or

changing american history are in the context politically correct speech code and given the fact mark twain sanibel cleamons wrote it with the power of that word intended soto look at the sanitized text looks like and that is sitting on my desk. then there

>> mark twain said i want to die in kentucky because everything happens 20 years later. the first couple of years of the depression have not been too bad but then state government started to falter. that hit a bit harder now is looking better now the chain's closing in the big box stores we hope that trickles our way. i have been here since i was 27 years old. and has spent 33 years and i am so excited openings of boxes it is like christmas every day of the year >> what is your book about? >> the way medicine has changed as it has been transformed essentially. traditionally it has been a self policed and honor based and over the past 30 years, it has been taken over buy a range of market forces the medical education industry and a whole range of profit based businesses because they are self regulated. >> what is the root cause of that? >> transformation? i am interested in the emergence of the pharmaceutical industry. lead to a company looked for the drugs they could market to as many people as possible for my old and chronic illnesses. when the pharmaceutical industry b

mark twain said it could be shown by facts or figures that there's no distinctively native american criminalf the men and women they think we're stupid. they're not listening to us. >> isn't that sad? we have freedom, we can vote, we have liberties, we have a market. why does that have to be the case? >> i think it's because they're not doing the bidding of the american people but doing the bidding of the people who pay them to write the rules and regulations to help their industries. i think the americans would like the see the money taken out of politics. they want to see the money taken out of campaigns. we'll see what happens. i don't think anything will change anytime soon. >> how will republicans and democrats fair in 2012 because of this economic time we're going to be in. >> americans are going to blame congress and going to blame republicans according to the poll of what happened to the debt ceiling crisis for being this word -- who would have thought we heard the word intransigent so many times. but they could blame the president, who knows? it depends. we'll see the job numbers co

you know, mark twain used to say history doesn't repeat itself but it does tend to rhyme, unfortunately we're going to keep rhyming with what's already happened this year unless we change the pathway we are on and i think that requires a big vision of where we are so that we protect those programs that the american people love and not allow the tea party to just lump it all into the government. the people might not like the government, but they like almost every program in the government if it's explained to them. that's the president's job, he takes the bully pulpit, we win. >> ed markey of massachusetts, member of the house commerce and energy committee. always a pleasure to have you here, sir. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> the great state of new jersey just had its credit rating downgraded. will republicans in new jersey blame chris christie for that? of course, they will try to blame democrats for this one too. that's coming up on "the ed show" tonight. coming on here, more high-end illegal liquor than ever before. [ female announcer ] we always try to save you even more money whe

and how inappropriate it was, given the fact that mark twain, samuel clemmons, wrote it with the power of that word intended. so i want to just take a look at what the sanitized, if you will, text looks like, and i picked up that book and that's sitting on my desk. and then there are two books -- i'm trying tomorrow their names, and i -- this is such an opportunity to help out authors i'm reading. but one is a book by lawrence block, who is a mystery writer, and i think it's called

how boehner's senate nemesis finds a way to casually mention it while showing off a painting of mark twain, speaker boehner can have none of the pictures in his office. why do you think that is? >> i have no idea. >> he smokes. >> oh, my goodness. had to work that in here. ♪ why is everybody always picking on me ♪ >> reporter: and with smoking at an all-time low, it is interesting that the pillars of two branches of our government have a history of smoking in common. and where there's smoke, there's fire, and some things need to be burned. while walking with the sergeant at arms, bill livingood, i saw a familiar sight from my washington days.cc1: >> i know a government burn bag when i see one. this is for all the secrets. so secret, can't go out in the trash. it gets burned at the end of the day. >> reporter: we also learned doors are highly important to the folks around here. we were told our shot through the house chamber doors was the first time such a thing has been allowed. and one is never allowed to shoot pictures of the senate chamber doors, though those just might be them in the b

>> this is where mark twain said if i die i want to die in kentucky because it happens 20 years later. it is of little later the first couple years have not been too bad but then the state government started to falter and it hit a bit harder but everybody is hopeful with the bigger picture to be hopeful with the big box stores closing we're hoping some of that trickles our way. that was from when i was 27 we have been added for quite some time. it is still exciting every day to open the box and pullout the books it is like christmas every day of the year. >> the kentucky book fair started 30 years ago who of our founding members to are still the ball today but the purpose is to provide grants to public schools and libraries to bring readers together in the literary atmosphere to promote below that of a reading through the commonwealth. 4,000 people attended be primarily focused on in kentucky's off fares better with the past 30 years we have a wonderful array of mickey mantle rosalynn carter, people to draw in the crowds though we do focus on the kentucky author. >> what role does it

that quote attributed to mark twain certainly applies to thousands of social security recipients everywho received some very untimely news from the social security administration. marjorie louer is a healthy and vibrant 94-year-old, yet the social security administration thought she died five years ago. you look very much alive to me. >> i feel alive now. but at one time i didn't. >> was that because of what the social security administration told you? >> yes, exactly. yes. in fact, one young clerk looked me in the face and told me i was dead and i said, but i'm standing right here. >> reporter: marjorie went to her local bank to get some cash. but her atm card wouldn't work. when she went inside, a bank officer cut the card up right in front of her and said according to our records, you're dead. >> and i explained to her, well, i didn't feel dead but she insisted i was. >> reporter: to your face? >> to my face. >> reporter: someone inside the social security administration had accidentally typed in an incorrect digit while recording the number of a person who had recently died, leadin