that was when mark twain was able to tell him, probably, i -- that was when mark twain was , i havetell him proudly presold 100,000 copies, and i have not canvassed two thirds of going tory.so brand-new at leat his grave that he had taken care of his family and succeeded -- so grant knew at least going to his grave that he had taken care of his family and succeeded. by the time he reached the cottage, mark twain believed that the second volume of his book, of his memoirs was complete. grant was a perfectionist, he still had writing in him. as long as he was alive he would keep writing. he wrote at least another chapter. it was a struggle right to the very end, but he kept on it. he wanted the book to be as good as possible. no matter what his physical condition, he tried to work on the memoirs. some days he could not get out of bed, physically. other days he would write 40 pages. to give you an idea of this scope -- the memoirs would eventually be 1200 pages, 300,000 words. this is a major project for someone who would have been an expert writer, but to have somebody that is struggling

mark twain had his nephew in law running his publishing firm called charles webster, that was the name. it was called charles webster in company. came upharles webster with a plan to sell the memoirs door-to-door. instead of selling them in bookstores. they would arrive and take preorders from folks door-to-door. one of the things that mark twain wanted to do was provide an opportunity for civil war veterans to be salesman. he would request veterans to don their uniforms to go door-to-door. focus of his was a time. he was a celebrity. having him writing the book was obviouslyales, but having a veteran come to the door as well helped sell the books. there were thousands of sales all across the obviously having a veteran come to the door as well counter -- country. it gave them away to make money for themselves and support their old commander in his final hours. twain came to the cottage a few hours before grant passed away. twain was checking on the progress of the book. grant one of to find out how well the book was selling. he wanted to find out if it was a success. that was when twai

mark twain once said there's no such thing as a new idea.t pop culture, that seems true. >> i love that we're quoting mark twain. >> culture. >> music and fashion are giving nods to the past. and in hollywood, the throwback reigns supreme. >> reporter: the dialest and shows you loved once are making a come back in 2017. the throwback so good changing the channel is like stepping back in time. >> they said this would never happen. >> reporter: millennial favorites like "the magic school bus" and "duck tales" are back in american homes again. >> right now sweet remote and we're going to watch '90s shows. >> reporter: and the four friends who redefined the modern family -- >> some people are so excited for it to come back. >> reporter: are back and taking on politics in prime time. >> don't you know that donnie is one of my oldest friends? i helped him pick out melania. >> reporter: "baywatch" rebooted for the big screen. >> you see it, too? >> reporter: proving that this tank is timeless. and the '80s thriller "it" is scarier than ever and sma

there's much better stuff from mark twain.laughter] but at the end of the period, mark twain wrote, quote: there is no distinctly native american criminal class except congress. [laughter] he would add that the political and commercial morals of the united states are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. but twain is in part unfair, because by the 1880s and 1890s, reformers were actually taking over the legislature. they were actually taking over congress. they not only dominated the third parties -- greenbackers and the populists -- but they were powerful factions in both the republican and the democratic party. the result is going to be tremendous social conflict but also this powerful reform movement. anti-monopolist parties. the knights of labor, farmers' alliance, the women's christian temperates union. it's going to be a period where, in fact, great wealth is seen as resulting only through government favors. how do they explain the rise of great fortunes in the 19th century united states? they say it

mark twain had his nephew in law running his publishing firm, called charles webster. charles webster and company. him and charles webster came up with a plan to sell the web -- sell the memoirs door to door instead of selling them in bookstores. they would arrive and take preorders door to door. one of the thing mark twain wanted to do was provide an opportunity for civil war veterans to be salesman. he would request civil war veterans to on there -- don their uniforms to go door to door. was a focus of his time. he was a celebrity. book wasm writing a good for sales. but obviously, having a civil war veteran come up to the door, helped to sell them as well. it was door to door sales. there were many thousands of salesman engaged in this across the country. it gave them a way to make money for themselves and also to support their old commander. twain came to the cottage a few years -- weeks before he passed away. it was an important meeting. on theas checking progress of the book for grant, the most supportive thing was finding out how well it was selling. he wanted t

mark twained had his nephew-in-law running his publishing firm called charles webster. that was the name of his nephew, so it was called charles webster and company. him and charles webster were, came up with a plan to sell the memoirs door to door instead of selling them in bookstores. so they would arrive and take pre-orders from folks door to door. now, one of the things that mark twain wanted to do was provide an opportunity for civil war veterans to be salesmen. so he would actually request that civil war veterans to even done their uniforms or their grand army of the remix uniforms to go -- republic uniforms to go door the door. grant himself was a focus of his time. he was a celebrity, so, you know, having him writing the book was good for sales but, obviously, having a civil war veteran come up to the door as well helped, you know, to sell them as well. so they -- it was door-to-door sales, and there was many, many thousands of salesmen engaged in this all across the country. so it gave hem -- them a way to make money more themselves and also to support their ol

and the mark twain first japanese delegation to the u.s. in 1860. >> i represent the partnership that owns this wonderful asset and today you will hear a lot about its rich history. >> hello, welcome to the willard hotel, located two blocks away from the white house. it is conveniently located near iconic monuments on the national mall. we are very fortunate to have this location. we give our thanks to captain john taylor, who was reputed to be one of virginia's wealthiest plantation owners. he was a friend and supporter of george washington. in 1860, he built the two-story dwelling. you might wonder if this was a good investment for him, because the city of washington was not a city at all. it was more of a town. it was akin to a swap. was a river ofit mud and filth. when it was dry, debris from construction building the president's mansion was everywhere. tourists and people coming to the city found sparse accommodations. >> as washington, d.c. grew as the capital, so did the willard hotel. everything happened within 10 blocks of the whit

included abraham lincoln, mark twain, world war ii soldiers, and i represent the partnership that owns this access and today you will hear a lot about its rich history. hello, welcome to the willard hotel, located two blocks away from the white house. we are very fortunate to have this location. we give our thanks to captain john taylor, who was reputed to be one of for genia's wealthiest plantation owners. ofwas a friend and supporter george washington. in 1860, he built the two-story dwelling. washington at the time was not really a city, more of a town. on a rainy day, some avenues were rivers. debris fromdry, construction building the president's mansion was everywhere. sts and and --touri people coming to the town found sparse accommodations. as washington, d.c. grew as the capital, so did the willard hotel. everything happened within 10 blocks of the white house. if you walked out the front door , exactly one mile from here is the capital, just on the other side is the treasury building and the white house. you can understand how people built their homes and the center of washing

the writer mark twain helped him campaign for president.ecial commission was appointed to figure out who actually won. he was our 19th president, rutherford b. hayes. and he left behind a controversy. hayes agreed to pull federal troops out of the south. they had been there since the civil war, protecting the rights of african americans who were now no longer slaves. by removing those troops, critics say hayes set back civil rights in the south many, many years. with guess the president, i'm luke. - coming up, how yoga can help you deal with those difficult relationships. teen kids news will be right back. let's face it, relationships can be stressful. trying to please your parents, teachers, friends, even the other kids at school, takes a lot of work. and sometimes a lot of worry. dealing with the expectations of others while staying true to yourself is a high-wire balancing act. fortunately, there are ways to handle all that stress. emily has this week's yoga & you report. (relaxing music) - access your inner power is a book on yoga and i

. >> reporter: as mark twain put it, history doesn't repeat but it often rhymes. that's certainly true of the nasdaq, the only major index up 9%, the longest win streak since the big tech breakouts of the 1990s. as then, it's the mega cap tech stocks that are responsible. amazon, apple, microsoft and facebook bigg lift to the overall market and the s&p 500. when you add in alphabet, they accounted for two-thirds of the 1500-point gain in 2017. here is the rhyme part. microsoft, a tech heavyweight back in the '90s, benefiting from its shift to cloud techno here over the last few years, up for six straight years, seeing its best annual win streak since the launch of windows back in 1995. consumer names were the biggest laggards of 2017. many like dish took a hit in the third quarter due to hurricanes. auto parts retailer o'reilly automotive which had ridden the rally to historic highs, down for the firs in eight years. beauty, which had seen consistently all-time highs for the last three years, snapping a three-year bull run. but like a lot of retailers, bo o'reilly

guests have included abraham lincoln, mark twain, world war ii soldiers and at the first japanese delegation to the united states in 1860. >> welcome to the willard. it is located two blocks away from the white house. marie: hello, welcome. the willard is covalently located in the city, near iconic , and memorials on the national mall. we are very fortunate to have this location. we give our thanks to captain john taylor, who was reputed to be one of virginia's wealthiest plantation owners. he was a friend and supporter of general washington. captain taylor acquired the land avenue4 pennsylvania in 1816. he built the two-story dwelling. you might wonder if that was a good investment for him. washington dc at the time was not really a city, more of a town. on a rainy day, some avenues where rivers of mud and felt, and when it was dry debris from construction building the president's mansion was everywhere. tourists and people coming to the city found hotel accommodations very sparse, and if you did find it was communal living. jim: hello, i am the bartender at the round robin bar at the histo

even mark twain says said it would be hard indeed to better president arthur's administration. if arthur was so great, why has everybody, nearly everybody, forgotten about him? i've already allude today two reasons the first is he burned his papers, which creates a real challenge for historians. and he served during an era that is foggy in the minds of most americans. also was very suspicious of the press, not surprisingly, given the way they treated him as gar feel was on his death bed. and he did very little to cultivate the reporters who covered him. nevertheless i believe that arthur and his story are an important part of american history. i wouldn't have spent four years researching and writing this book if i didn't think so. i also think that even though he happened to be president of the united states, a lot 0 about his story is really timeless and universal and applies to just about anybody etch. he certainly wasn't the first mant and won't be the last and has not been at the last to make moral compromises in a bid for wealth and power. the tension between ethics ethic

mark twain's. what politicians do sometimes. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present and you. know some want to listen. to the right person this is what the muslim three of them or people that. i'm interested in the ones in the. west. palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos. this should leave you if you believe this is my complicity is going to sell you know maybe if you do. you go over there you should be the only palestinians who gets the most hope from its jerusalem counterparts i do things is of those who in the world under the old vision they're going to do this. and that is unfair that is different to this lady of the muscle that you have i don't want you to continue me doesn't seem to do more in the middle so last don't presume. that. when nato led by expert interventionist barack obama and hillary clinton lead the humanitarian mission to assist the arab spring movement two thousand and eleven libya was s

. >> i liked that quote attributed to mark twain because it captures what we are talking about, the ideasthat history doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes and i think that is right. even if he didn't say it, it has a ring of twain. >> he deserves it. if you think about mark twain, someone in the news at the moment because of the recent book, he is friends with president grant. there is an element in which we are not saying what happened then is what is happening now but we are looking for residents and coming back to the point, ultimately this is why the footnote is boring as it sounds is so important to the kind of things we are writing because you can read schlesinger, one hell of a gamble and if you don't agree with something you can go to the footnote, if you think that doesn't sound right to me, you can go in my case to the new york public library and find the document and say he got this wrong, he misunderstood this. .. >> are there any other questions? oh, there's another one. >> i didn't realize that you had run the nixon library. so since the question is we're supposed to he

one of the things mark twain wanted to do was provide an opportunity for civil war veterans to salesmanso he would request civil war veterans to even donned their uniforms and to go door-to-door. grant himself was a focus of his time and having him write the book was good for sales but honestly having a civil war veteran come up to the door as well helped to sell them as well so it was door to door sales and there was many, many thousands of salesmen engaged in this all across the country. it give them a way to make money for themselves and also to support their old commander in his final hours. twain came to the cottage of few weeks before grant passed away and it was important meeting. pain was checking on the progress of the book but the grant will support things was to find out how well it was selling. he knew time was short and wanted to find out if the book could be a success and that was when the train was able to tell them probably i have already presold 100,000 copies and i haven't even canvassed two thirds of the country. grant knew at least going to his grave that he had take

. >> i like that quote often attributed to mark twain because i think it captures what we are talking about here is that the idea that history doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes. i think that's right that as always, even if you didn't say it, it has a ring of twain about it. he deserved it. and if youthink about kind of mark twain , someone who read much is in the news at the moment because of the most recent book that he was friends with grant, president grant and there's an element in which yes, we're not saying that what happened then is what's happening now but where seeking for residents and coming back to his point, ultimately this is why the footnote, as boring as it sounds, is so important to the things that we are writing. because you can read schlesinger, you can read one hell of a gamble and if you don't agree with something you can go to the footnote. if you think that doesn't sound right, you can go in my case to the new york public library, find the document yourself and say no, he's misunderstood this . that's why we don't just have one book on kennedy. somebody

mark twain publishes a book called innocents abroad. on one page he sources says fras established the paragon of civilization and a couple pages anter after watching a can-c he says the french have a trifling idea of morality. the american soldiers are also exhibiting this weird idea. one of the things the doughboys talk about before they leave and once they get there is the presence of wild women. all soldiers love wild women, because we know what goes along with that. hamrick is a dirt farmer from folding county, georgia. i'm from georgia. at this time a red dirt farmer is pretty low. togethers to scrape education to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. even he has this idea that france is both attractive and repulsive. for these guys, they start to create a romantic vision of france. once the war starts, american sympathies are almost always with the french. the french have been violated, the french have been invaded, they are the victims of german aggression. american soldiers -- i have read a number of letters and diaries have this sor

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the famous quote from mark twain analyzes to statistics.u have the partisan pathways for republican democrat and you vote for my act or my bill and i will vote for yours. the last one the most effective for problematic ways of passing policy is the symbolic pathway. it's taking the case for an example or an anecdote in getting people's emotions invested in and say support this. look at these poor children that were trafficked on backpage. why do we support them and that's what they used to affect policy but they have no idea what the collateral consequences are. they want to do something that makes them look good and that gets passed in pixley with bipartisan support. if they have collateral a lot of them don't think that far in advance. i take quotes from a web site that is based out of the country and they are hoping backpage closes because they have said they will not corporate with law enforcement that they will absorb the traffic of women and children. they are not going to tell anybody about it. hope that answers your question and i h

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after all, mark twain also lived here. >> how did you see her sense of humor. >> she was very goofy. always happy. always trying to have fun. she was sar castic. witty. >> what did you think when you heard that. >> i was sad, but i was sad and i was like oh miff god, go. you're so brave. do it now. you're so brave. do it now. >> did you see her off. >> absolutely. she parked at her mom's house and i remember running down the street. >> did you have parting words or advice for her when she left. >> i have a photo of husband hugging. it's such a sad photo for me. the saddest day of my life. >> kelly came home to visit often enough including christmas of 2003. by then, there was a new attraction, a minor league hockey team. >> my mom, and ster ani were at a hockey game and this player gets checked io the boar and his helmet comes off and all three of us were like wow, he's pretty cute. kelly's mom, we general joyed watching the game. he was fun. >> he was tom clayton, served as the instigator. the guy who starts fight, but he and kelly locked eyes, it was game over. >> she met him that

maybe dickens, mark twain. dickens or mark twain for dinner.l i've read so much about and he is so, he spent so calm over that if you like i might get a lot more out of dickens because it would be fresher. >> host: we will go to stephen in decatur illinois. go ahead. >> caller: good day to you. i have a shorter thinking spend some listening to you because i've seen your pursuit of the truth and i heard you earlier that while you write, edit think i heard you write because you have that, the truth is like gold. it doesn't run in a straight line. it weaves. when you find it, you don't have to let people know. you're a writer and i'm not a writer. so you discover the truth and you know the difference between fools gold, true constructed or your assumptions than the actual truth. i find you -- you have the truth seeker,. >> guest: you should see my colored contact lenses. it is true what you say that when you find, , seems like an interesting truth. it is really energizing as a writer. however, enough by nature, maybe i'm just proving this this thr

liz: apologies to mark twain rumors of brick-and-mortar's death have been greatly exaggerated so that'shat retail chains would like you to believe but can they prove it? the next 60 hours will be a crucial chance for them to do it but things are looking decent here the commerce department reports consumer spending was up six-tenths of aer sent from october. healthy and decent but what are people shopping for right now and can we then triangulate as to which stocks are going to do well? jeff flock is at the woodfield mall in schaumburg, illinois and keith her doing is here to tell us what you may want to add to your shopping bag this christmas. jeff what does it look like there whose got the crowd? >> i've got to tell you this is, you know the biggest mall in illinois and you can tell if people are standing in line to spend their money this store is limiting the number of people that can get in and look at the line, take a look at that line. these are people standing in line this is actually a jewelry store. pandora standing in line to spend their money, so i'll tell you, this has been a

bertha >> david, as mark twain put it, history doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes, and that's certainlye with the nasdaq 100. the big caps up for the ninth straight year in a row, the longest annual streak for the index since the big tech breakout of the 1990s. these four mega caps, you know them, apple, microsoft, amazon, they've made the biggest impact in terms of the upside gains for the s&p 500, overall market, and when you add in alphabet, they actually account for two-thirds of the nasdaq 100's 15-point gain this year microsoft benefiting from its shift to cloud technologies is up for the sixth straight year, that's its best straight winning streak since the launch of windows in the mid '90s, and on the downside this year, though, we've seen consumer names. they are not huge laggards really many took a hit due to hurricanes, o'reilly automotive one of them. it had ridden the nasdaq rally, down for the eighth time ulta beauty snapping that three-year bull run. but like a lot of retailers, both o'reilly and ulta expect to pay a tax rate this quarter of more than 37%, so as you start

mark twain, samuel clemens said they're liars. and there are the stats ticks. but lying is the propaganda that's been put out all the time by this stuff about ronald reagan. i lived through ronald reagan. i'm 66 years old. ronald reagan cut taxes and raised it seven years after that. you should play allen simpson to this guy. i a senator from utah believe. and every time this guy comes with grover nor-tax nor quistperpwuts this myth. do you remember read my lips when george h.w. bush had to come in and say he wouldn't cut taxes and then he cut them again six months later? it's nonsense. pply side economics is economics. bush said that when reagan proposed it. it's nonsense. when you take a basic economics course in college they would tell you that demand creates an economy and flows it. it's the same stuff. we went in to debt under ronald reagan. big-time. host: let's give henry olson a chance to respond. i believe that candidate bush said he would not raise taxes. guest: that's right. president reagan cut tax rates by 30% -- 25% across the board. he cut tax ra

patriotic fervor and pondered issues of historical accuracy and they may have experienced what mark twain called after visiting the capital the delirium trimmings of art. but above all, visitors have entered and exited the building with a particular sense of ownership, a kind of national home, therefore it is not expected to be museum perfect or history book accurate. as ames put it in 1874, the capital's defects more in dear us, because above all it is human. she said "these corridors, domeng walls, this mighty are years, the highest man in the nation owns nothing here which does not equal to the one -- clearly belong to you. down from her shield bestows no -- the goddess of liberty gazing down from her shield bestows no rights upon the lofty which she does not extend to the lowliest of her sons." third and final section. the very idea of america. all this suggests that the horizon of expectations that visitors bring to the capital is at best highly abstract, and at worst so vague and contradictory as to be almost meaningless, and yet the building is packed with very specific representat

wes: we discover if this watch once belonged to one of america's greatest writers, mark twain. i learned a good lie can travel twice around the globe before the truth gets its boots on.

drawnout and a lot of politicians will rely on famous quote from i think it was popularized by mark twain that there are lies and statistics so they will believe something that defeats their perspective. you have a partisan pathway where both republican and democrat, both democrats have a partnership pathway which is across party lines. you vote for my or my bill, i'll vote for use in the last one, the fastest and most effective but problematic way to pass policy is the symbolic pathway. and it's taking a case for example or an go and getting people's emotions invested. and then saying look at these poor children that were traffic on back page, why would you support them. that's what they use to affect policy but they have no idea what the collateral consequences are. i think that they don't necessarily want to do what's effective, they want to do something that makes them look good. and if, and it's fast and quickly. with bipartisan support. if it has collateral consequences, i think a lot of them don't think that far in advance but in this book i take quotes from a website that is based

the whole group is making a comeback in fact, to borrow a line from mark twain in response to a premature obituary, reports of this industry's demise have been greatly exaggerated. and it's not just the supermarket stocks that have been hanging in there. they've had some remarkable run, up 20% to 40% from their post-selloff lows. crazily enough, at this point, most of the group is trading above where it was when we learned that amazon was getting to the brick and mortar grocery space. that's not supposed to be happening. so what exactly did occur here and what can we learn about the behavior of supermarket stocks and what can it tell us about the way things play out when the amazon death star targets an industry when amazon told us it was buying whole foods for $13.7 billion from june 16 the whole supermarket space got pummelled not one of my absolute favorites, supervalu, but this lost 14.4% of its value. that's a lot kroger, this one plummeted 9.2%. not so good. costco incredibly, oh, my, because it was doing so well, it sank 7.2%. sprouts was down 6.3%. even the larger retailers with a

and a much better job, what mark twain used to say, confound our critics and many of our friends. >> mister chairman, i would like to say a few words in today's hearing, assessing where we are and where we need to go. and i think ranking member cardin and chairman inhofe for holding this hearing, everyone benefits across the bridges and ports, the freight industry allows for american-made products to go to the coasts and across the world. this will underscore the need to upgrade and maintain highways and shipping lanes, addressing the aging infrastructure is a shared bipartisan goal, the public works committee holding 7 hearings on the boards of modernizing america's infrastructure, rural and urban communities, new innovative building techniques being used, and cut government red tape and get building project started and finished faster. as well as the success of low leveraging programs the taxpayers get the most bang for the buck. donald trump made for examination as roads, bridges and rails a top priority. in january the administration will outline its broad vision for infrastructu

mark twain says history doesn't repeat itself but it does tend to rhyme and this bill rhymes with that 2004 bill. the tax cut in this bill is even more egregious. corporate tax cuts floated c.e.o.'s and shared stockholders and those stockholders aren't all american taxpayers. foreigners hold 35% of u.s. corporate stock, foreigners. that means that the republican tax is a giveaway of $48 billion to foreigners in 2019 alone. so think about this. the republicans can find $48 billion to give away to foreign shareholders, but in the same bill raise taxes on millions of middle-class families. by 2027, this bill will raise taxes on over 53% of american households. and at the same time, a full 83% of the tax cuts will flow to the top 1% of americans. so the more the american people see what is in this bill, the more they realize that they will have to foot the bill, the american people are saying no way. new polls today show that over half of the american public opposes this bill. two-thirds of the people recognize that the bill will benefit the wealthy over the middle class, and according to

it was mark twain who said humor is the good natured side of truth.thinking about this. and there are things like this and other ways to mention to the clintons. we don't wish you ill, really, but we kind of wish you gone. >> we asked you guys at home about it, and you delivered. e-mails from michelle. michelle says learn to tell the truth might drop there. that's a pretty strong statement, michelle. >> probably true. >> and e-mail from raymond said write a last book called happens. >> and i would tell hillary to just let it go. get on with life and enjoy retirement. >> we had a lot of them that are not for fitting tv, and we put a filter in there, and we shared those. >> some of them we couldn't share. >> many of them. >> but we're going to read them later and laugh. >> but thank you for sending them in. keep them coming in, friends, at foxnews.com. but, jillian, do you want to share your resolution for us? >> i don't have one. i don't typically have a new year's resolution. >> perfect. you don't need one. >> that is definitely not the case. i don't

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having said that, you had an interesting quote from mark twain which is history doesn't repeat itselfutely. because i think oftentimes you see people compare colin kaepernick to someone like muhammad ali or venus and serena williams to people like billie jean king and people clap back at that saying that was different times, muhammad ali was facing time in prison for opposing the draft or billie jean king was on the first wave of the women's liberation movement in the '70s, it's completely different. and the answer is yes, it is completely different in some respects but in other respects we have so much to learn from this history as well and we can build upon the history of previous generations of activist athletes to understand not only how to keep pushing forward sports as a platform for social change but also keep pushing forward the very idea that you don't sign away, you know, your right to citizenship or to have a political opinion just because you're an athlete as well as how to navigate backlashes. >> you spoke about how some of the players needed security in the aftermath of

. >> even if mark twain and .upper >> but it is rhetorical and metaphorical. but you know i do natural law. >> but i am just trying to think this position against mymy own. >> host: let's interrupt that from california. >> caller: how are you think's poor taking my call professors. here is the bigger picture i am very concerned regarding a potential military conflict between the united states and northth korea. here is the exact question. can you identify in person or in a group of people that may have an acceptable level of integrity and moral character to carefully and peacefully guide us away from any potential conflict that could affect not just united states but the entire world? i will hang up for the answer. >> is a very serious question administration after administration w has come up with the way to deal with north korea and the dictators and all have failed.op will president trump do any better we can only hope so but it doesn't look like it. may be worse.y it is a grave situation and we have very little control of the can do is put pressure on chin

even mark twain and some very atheistic but he's a spiritual being.he is rhetorical and metaphorical rather than anything of substance i'm just kinda think the strongest position against my own position to offer a lot. let's hear from our caller in inglewood, california. >> thank you for taking my call. here is the bigger picture. i'm very concerned regarding a potential military conflict between the united states and north korea. here is the exact question. can you identify any person or group ofso people that may have an acceptable level of integrity and moral character to carefully and peacefully guide us away from any potential conflict that can affect the entire world. i will hang up and wait for the answer. thankp you. >> thank you spent german. >> this is a very serious question. administration after administration has tried to come up with a way with dealing with north korea and with the dictators of north korea. all have failed. will president trump do any better? we can only hope so, but so far doesn't look like he's going to do any better.

mark twain, samuel clemens said they're liars. and there are the stats ticks.ut lying is the propaganda that's been put out all the time by this stuff about ronald reagan. i lived through ronald reagan. i'm 66 years old. ronald reagan cut taxes and raised it seven years after that. you should play allen simpson to this guy. i a senator from utah believe. and every time this guy comes with grover nor-tax nor quistperpwuts this myth. do you remember read my lips when george h.w. bush had to come in and say he wouldn't cut taxes and then he cut them again six months later? it's nonsense. pply side economics is economics. bush said that when reagan proposed it. it's nonsense. when you take a basic economics course in college they would tell you that demand creates an economy and flows it. it's the same stuff. we went in to debt under ronald reagan. big-time. host: let's give henry olson a chance to respond. i believe that candidate bush said he would not raise taxes. guest: that's right. president reagan cut tax rates by 30% -- 25% across the board. he cut tax rate

[inaudible conversations] mark twain ends of their because he's a spiritual being and -- >> guest: livingoff the capital. >> guest: and its metaphorical but as i'm a. [inaudible conversations] >> host: let's interrupt that and hear from back in inglewood, california. >> caller: hello. thankk you for taking my call professor georgeig and professor west. here is the bigger picture. i'm very concerned regarding a potential military conflict between the united states and north korea. here is the exact question, can you identify any person or group of people that may have an level of integrity and moral character to carefully and peacefully guide is way from any potential conflict that can affect, not just the united states but the entire world? i will hang up and wait for the answer. thank you. >> host: thank you, back. gentleman. >> guest: very serious question. administration after administration has tried to come up with a way of dealing with north korea and with the dictators of north korea. all have failed. will president trump do any better, well, we can only hope so but so far it doesn

it reminds me of another quote sometimes attributed to mark twain, perhaps apockly who says a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. i can travel faster than that today because of social media. shame on those who would perpetuate lies in an effort to deny the american people a much needed tax cut and tax relief. thank goodness that attitude isn't shared by most americans and by the texans i represent who want and deserve much better than the same old same old. they don't believe we have to settle for the status quo. and we're going to give them that something better. we're going to keep our promise. and i can't wait til this bill gets on the president's desk. let me just close, mr. president, by saying i'm a proud son of a world war ii veteran. my dad was in the army air corps, flew b-17's out of the air force base in england over nazi germany during the end of world war ii. he was a member of the eighth air force the 303rd bomb group. on his 26th mission he was shot down. and captured as a prisoner of war. thank goodness he survived and

sphwhrg you think that can -- >> guest: it's aristotle, it's lucian, it's even mark twain ends up veryatheistic, but he's a spiritual being in his -- >> guest: living off the capital. >> guest: but he's living off the capital and it's rhetorical and metaphorical rather than any claim to substance. >> guest: yeah. as you know, i'm a natural law theorist. >> guest: oh, i know, i know. you know i'm a bucket christian. i'm just trying to think the strongest position against my own position. >> guest: which is the right way to handle it. >> host: tell you what, let's interrupt that, and let's hear from beck in inglewood, california. hi, beck. >> caller: hi, how are you? thank you for taking my call, professor george and professor west. here is the bigger picture. i'm very concerned regarding a potential military conflict between the united states and north korea. here is the exact question. can you identify any person or any group of people that may have an acceptable level of integrity and moral character to carefully and peacefully guiled us away -- guide us away from any potential confli

mark twain says history doesn't repeat itself but it does tend to rhyme and this bill rhymes with that 2004 bill. the tax cut in this bill is even more egregious. corporate tax cuts floated c.e.o.'s and shared stockholders and those stockholders aren't all american taxpayers. foreigners hold 35% of u.s. corporate stock, foreigners. that means that the republican tax is a giveaway of $48 billion to foreigners in 2019 alone. so think about this. the republicans can find $48 billion to give away to foreign shareholders, but in the same bill raise taxes on millions of middle-class families. by 2027, this bill will raise taxes on over 53% of american households. and at the same time, a full 83% of the tax cuts will flow to the top 1% of americans. so the more the american people see what is in this bill, the more they realize that they will have to foot the bill, the american people are saying no way. new polls today show that over half of the american public opposes this bill. two-thirds of the people recognize that the bill will benefit the wealthy over the middle class, and according to