one thing mark twain wanted to do was provide an opportunity for civil war veterans to be salesman. they would request civil war veterans to don their uniforms to go door-to-door. grant himself was a focused of his time. he was a celebrity. having him writing the book was but actuallys, having a civil war veteran, to the door as well helped -- civil war veteran come to the door as well helped sales. it allow them to make money for themselves and support their old commander in his final hours. twains came to the cottage a few weeks before grant passed away. it was an important meeting. twain was checking on the progress of the book, but for grant, he wanted to find out how well it was selling. he wanted to find out if the book was a success. twain told him proudly, i have already presold 100,000 copies, and i have not even can just 2/3rd -- canvassed not even 2/3rd of the country. grant knew he had succeeded. by the time he reached the cottage, mark twain thought the second book of his memoirs was completed. grant was a perfectionist. as long as there was life in him, he would keep w

one thing mark twain wanted to do was provide an opportunity for civil war veterans to be salesmen. he would request civil war veterans to don their uniforms the republic of uniforms to go door to door. grant himself was a focus of his time. he was a celebrity. so having him writing the book was good for sales, but actually veteran comel war to the door, as well, helped to sell them, as well. sales andr to-door there were many salesmen engaged country.cross the it allowed them to make money for themselves and support their old commander in his final hours. twain came to the cottage a few weeks before grant passed away. it was an important meeting. twain was checking on the progress of the book, but for grant, the most important thing was to find out how well it was selling. he knew time was short and he to find out if the book would be a success. twain told him proudly, i have already presold 100,000 copies, even canvassed two-thirds of the country. so grant knew going to his grave that he succeeded taking care of family. by the time he reached the cottage, mark twain thought the se

but the era that mark twain called the guilded age doesn't feel didn't at a time when -- distant at a time when economic inequality and corporate malfeasance are once again shaking people's faith in the american experiment. most of all, i wrote about arthur because i think he has an amazing story that deserves to be remembered. he was born in vermont in 18 9:00 the son of a rigid ab abolitionist preacher. even in the north, abolition was not popular, and arthur's father was so outspoken and uncompromising in his beliefs that he was kicked out of several congregations, forcing him to move his family from town to town in vermont and upstate new york. arthur graduated from union college in schenectady. he did what many ambitious young men do, he moved to new york city. once there he became a lawyer, joining a firm of a friend of his father who was also a staunch abolitionist. he started out on the right path. as a young attorney, arthur won the case that desession regated new york city's streetcars. during the civil war when many were enriching themselves on government contract, he was a

mark twain certainly had been. but he never, he never took personally any of the turmoil of politics. and so he also had sort of upped the incident of the president talking to the american people. he traveled a lot, made a lot of speeches. some of them designed to be major policy addresses. and he would explain what the policy was and why he had done it. so he understood that he had opposition. it was particularly bad when foreign affairs got particularly bad with the korean, with the philippine insurrection. and he, he was on the defensive. but he basically just handled it as part of the great american debate. fascination. he went to, he was supposed to be at the great pan-american exposition in buffalo in the spring of 1901, but he was traveling in california. part of that policy he had or that practice of traveling around giving speeches explaining himself to the american people. he thought that was very important. one of the things that led one of his academic biographers to suggest that he was the first modern

back in the 1800's, there was a famous guy by the name of mark twain. and the society came to him and questioned mr. twain about the fact that he liked to smoke cigar and have a shot of whiskey in the evenings. and they wanted him to as a figure he was, to disallow this. and this is what mark twain said about this issue. he said nothing -- as other people's habits. fanatics will never learn that. though it will written in letters of gold across the sky. it is the prohibition that makes anything precious. so i will leave those words are the west of the people today to think about. we will do not need to be telling other people in their lives what they should and shouldn't do. thank you, ma'am. host: all right. and teresa is on the line from redding, california. you support both there, teresa. and it's been legalized in your state. what are your thoughts? caller: it has. medically, specifically, i'm a caretaker, full-time caretaker to my husband. he's a very sick guy. and his doctor has seen fit to go ahead and allow him or recommend to him to smoke marij

intellectual and mark twain and others -- and but he never waiverred.got the negotiation, he sent it to congress. he couldn't get it through the senate as a treaty so didn't give up. he senate went back to congress as a -- a -- as to be dealt with by both houses didn't acquire a two-thirds vote in the majority vote in both houseses and that's how we got hawaii. and then there was a philippines. he -- went when the spanish sued for peace after three months of that war, he basically said okay, fine. i'm more than happy to negotiate a peace treaty. but here, here's the deal. spain has to leaf cuba not going to take. take it temporarily but it will be independent spain has to leave puerto rico came out of nowhere but he had concurred puerto rico. and spain had to give us in the pacific turn out to be guam. and that has to happen before we lose the negotiations. and that's really tough diplomacy. and then he basically said after the philippineses which he had essentially acquired we took over after admiral dewey he destroyed the spanish in the the bay. he sa

to siberia forget america it's done certainly warmer there than and here i was never just go as mark twain said he's never had a colder day than a summer in san francisco and i paraphrase of course now speaking of dystopian nightmares here is a dystopian algorithm this is zillow you know which is an app here a website here in america that tells you basically house prices will tell you what the net worth of a house is or was a low accurately predicted homeless count in seventeen of twenty five match owes based on how fast rents rose so low analysis published earlier this year examined the relationship between rising rents and homeless populations accurately predicted the recently released twenty seventeen point in time counts with the median absolute. percent error of eight point three percent so the two areas that predicted accurately of how the increase of homelessness what arises in sacramento los angeles based on the rising rents and how fast they were rising and in fact the opposite is true as well and houston rents declined by something like eight percent and homelessness also decline

mark twain is involved in it and various other people of prominence.he never took any of the turmoil politics personally, so he also had sort of traveled a lot and maybe a lot of speeches. some of them were designed to be major policy address yours and he explained what the policy was so he understood that he had the supposition that it is bad when the foreign affairs were created in the resurrection and the defensive but he basically just handled it. he was supposed to be at buffalo in the spring but was traveling to california as a part of that policy and practice. he thought that was very important. one of the academic biographers nevertheless developed an infection in her blood and almost died. they went immediately back to washington and san francisco. so his appearance postponed and that's when they concocted the idea. as part of their optimism about the prospects anybody could harm the presidency would talk openly with people but he didn't worry about it very much. he would reach for his left hand and put a pistol in his chest and fires at point

mark twain said it's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled that could be why america is so divided because people have been fed a fake news feed for by corporate interests they beat you down until you believe their fairy tales well here's a story for you it's called big and it's full of facts not fiction just. rejected tonight is a comedy show. not defect by the corporate. you go after the corporations it's just more your life profit over people and you turn. your back it's not for me it's like medicine it's like a cancer from all the stress that the news puts a blunder redacted tonight is a show where you can go to cry from laughing about the stuff that's going on in the world as opposed to just regular crying we're going to find out what the corporate mainstream media is not telling you about how we're going to filter it through some satirical comedic lenses to make it more digestible that's what we do every week hard hitting radical comedy news like redacted so ninety's where attack. welcome back to our special coverage a saving of president donald trump's

. - or mark twain, who i repeat a lot again and again in this book, that history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes, which i love and it sounds like twain and you want it to be twain, there's no evidence that it was. - it's not twain. george washington jumped off the page to me as an example. buffalo bill cody, another great example. - yeah, buffalo bill cody is a great character and he's one of several people or characters in this book who, if i wrote operas i could write an opera about. - [evan] right. - he was extraordinary because as a young man, this actual scout, pony express rider, fighter of indians, soldier, medal of honor winner at 26 or something, he has turned into kind of a fictional version of himself by pulp novel writer slash journalists from the east, and he goes with that. - and he embraces it, right. - then for several years, he spends half his year going on stage playing buffalo bill, this name that he was given by a journalist and then back in the west actually killing indians. - so unlike washington, around whom the fake news myth arose. - correct. - buffalo bil

. >> i like quote attributed to mark twain because it captures what we are talking about. the idea history doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes and that is right. as always even if he didn't say it, it has a ring of twain, he deserves it but if you think about mark twain, very much, he was friends with president grant. there is an element in which we are not looking at things like what happened then is what happened now but looking at residence, coming back to the point, this is why the footnote, as boring as it sounds is so important to the things we are writing because you can read arthur schlesinger and if you don't agree with something you can go to the footnote, if that doesn't sound right, you can go to the new york public library and find the document yourself and say he has got this wrong, he misunderstood this and that is why we don't just have one book on roosevelt and one book on kennedy. someone else will come along, hopefully not too soon, and write another book about arthur schlesinger because there's always more to be said each generation, something new

our quotation of the evening, this one from mark twain. he said this.y two types of people. people who accomplish things and people who claim to things. the first group is less crowded ." we're coming right back with much much more. stay with us >>> republicans, you're now preparing for the schumer shutdown as democrats refuse to back a short-term spending bill. >> this is the greatest country in the world. but we do have some really stupid people representing it from time to time. >> we take up the political fallout of a possible shutdown with ed rollins close call caugt on camera. a truly miraculous moment from detroit after a driver lost control of a car on an icy highway. extraordinary and you don't want to miss it. we'll be right back with that video in just moments. when you think of miami you think of,you know,rich,glamour but 5 miles away from the beach there's people who have never seen a beach. i was confused why somebody was in this situation especially in america. ♪music:oooh,oooh,oooh so when i started joshua's heart foundation it was a key

they're not perfect analogs but to quote the late great mark twain who holds up well.istory doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes. so how had the two marriotts to use the analog done since the breakup at the end of 2011 marriott international the hotel business has seen its stock more than quadruple surging up to $134 for a monster 394% gain. ♪ hallelujah and marriott has skyrocketed from $18 up to $134 in the same period that's a titanic gain. to be fair this has been a phenomenal period for the broader stock market, but both left the averages in the dust. and more to the point maybe the best comparison here is wyndham worldwide itself which is more than tripled since the end of 2011 hey at 238% gain is great but both marriott international and marriott vacations has done a heck of lot better they had that broke itself up is better than the one that stayed better if you hang on to both parts of the company after the spinoff that would be too rosy history doesn't repeat itself like that. and there are important differences that i'll get to in a minute but i think i

>> mark twain had a really great quote. he said that, "when there's a gold rush on, it's a good time to be in the pick-and-shovel business." and that is clearly happening right now. [ sirens wailing ] >> you can see it on the streets of denver, where gun-toting guards and armored cars protect the currency of the new marijuana merchants. dan sullivan's blue line security company can't train people fast enough. >> we went from 6 employees to over 70, so that gives you an idea of, in eight months, what we've done. >> and at grow big, a garden-supply center for the cannabis trade that's living up to its name, sales have quadrupled in the past year. >> we started at 800 square feet less than four years ago. we're at 50,000 square feet, and we're not stopping there. >> owner oliver poiss hosts a weekly customer meet-and-greet with free pot... [ electronic dance music plays ] ...catering to a clientele with nocturnal habits. >> this community is night owls. we're open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. we never close. i don't

look, despite the rumors of his early exit in the early part of the year, he said there to quote mark twainthey're premature and he's looking for several policy options he wants to lay in the new year. point bank, i think he laid a marker down, if if president wants him to leave, he will have to fire him personally. he won't be out by antagonists. >> i like how you pushed him, for the whole year? he didn't hesitate to answer. >> he didn't say three years, at least for the year. >> we shall see. coming up, from flood waters in massachusetts to one of the strangest things along the east coast, frozen iguanas falling from trees in florida. we are back in a moment. >>> it is a bone chilling cold weekend from north to south on the east coast, bitter winds making single-digit temperatures feel even colder. overnight the northeast could see new record lows. in massachusetts, look at these pictures. this week's storms deluged harbors with icy water coinci coinciding with more than a foot of snow in eight states. in florida, it got so cold, iguanas were found falling frozen from the trees. they are

mark twain spoke here." that's pretty cool. >> seth: that's very cool.. i want to ask about this, because i also -- i know you recently went to mor. >> seth: i went as well. i went this summer. and -- >> why? >> seth: well, my wife wanted to go. yeah. i mean, i enjoyed it. i get the sense you didn't so much? no? >> no, not at all. [ light laughter ] >> seth: what, uh -- >> i was there shooting something for about five weeks, and i went -- and i'll get it wrong. there's the market -- >> seth: the souk. >> souk. >> seth: yeah. s-o-u-k. >> souk. souk. >> seth: souk, that's it. that's it. >> went there, and you've got lambs, goats hanging and all of this stuff. and you're going, wow, fascinating. [ light laughter ] and you're walking around and then you see these hand-made bags. >> seth: yeah, they're beautiful. >> incredible hand-made bags. and you're going, "my god, the workmanship. and the thing --" and got to have one. 80 bucks? that's nothing. it'd be 500 -- so you buy one. you take it back to the hotel room. and i don't know why i didn't smell it in th

mark twain. he puts a quotation in a leather portfolio on his desk, and it reads: "i do the very best i know how, the very best i can, and i mean to keep doing so to the end." that's abraham lincoln. that's truncated slightly. and he rolls up his sleeves and he goes to work. now, those same staffers and cabinet members who kept those detailed diaries who were all writing on april 13th who is this guy, right? you see the narrative unfold in their diaries. so i'm going to read some impressions of what people were thinking about truman four and five weeks into his administration. this is joseph grew who was second in command in the state department. he wrote: nothing but the most favorable reaction. i think he is going to measure up splendidly to the tremendous job which faces him. this is the notoriously cranky white house chief of staff, admiral william leahy. he proved to be easy to work with and one of the nicest people i have ever known. here's another one. this is my favorite. this is assistan

well, as the famous resident oc from the state of connecticut, mark twain, once said, rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. yesterday the connecticut exchange, access health exchange, announced their enrollment numbers for 2018. rather than going down, even though they were only able to enroll people in half the time as 2016, even though they had no budget in terms of trying to actually promote and advertise, their enrollment went up. it went up by 3%. in terms of the number of people that signed up for them blue cross plans, for conniti-care plans and medicaid plans. it was done because of this amazing grassroots, organic effort by libraries, community health certainties, human service agencies, by hospitals -- you health centers, human service agencies, by hospitals that took on the task to get the word out that the affordable care act was still alive and people would have access to affordable health plans. sure enough, it resulted in an increase in health plans. interestingly, the young invincible, the young enrollees everybody predicted was going to abandon the program be

if we do that, we'll do a much better job, and our -- what did mark twain used to say? if we do that, we'll confound our critics and amaze our friends. that's what we need to do. thanks so much. >> senator barrasso. >> thank you, mr. chairman. before i introduce mr. speaker to the committee, i would like to say a few words about today's hearing. this morning the subcommittee is examining freight movement, assessing where we are now, and where we need to go. freight is a vital part of america's economy, and i thank chairman inhofe, ranking member cardin, for holding this important hearing. everyone benefits from goods being shipped on our roads, across our bridges and through our ports. the freight industry how allows for products to go from the heartland to the coast and even across the world. this hearing will underscore the need to upgrade and maintain our highways and shipping lanes. addressing america's aging infrastructure is a shared, bipartisan goal of this committee. this year alone, the environment and public works committee has held seven hearings on the impor

tengo que reconocer que es un miedo real, no es un miedo imaginario, pero recuerdo una frase de mark twain lo que sabes hacer bien. estudio, trabajo, amar a mi familia. es otra me canso de demostrarle al mundo que valemos mucho. que el miedo impulse y que sirva de algo. que la esperanza sea lo Último que muera. lorena, creo en el poder de la fe y de la esperanza. el amor hace milagros. le pido a los jÓvenes que nos estÁn viendo ahorita que no olviden los puntos que dijo ismael. la recomendaciÓn que hace la invitada de hoy, el conocimiento da seguridad, infÓrmate. para eso estÁn los medios de comunicaciÓn. univisiÓn informa sobre recomendaciones. debemos estar informados y siempre con un toque de esperanza. karla: como siempre, grandes recomendaciones. a veces nosotros queremos cruzar el 20 antes de llegar, no? tambiÉn se nos olvida contar las bendiciones que tenemos. a veces pensamos que el sufrimiento es el mÁs grande. si te pones a pensar que aveces hay gente que tiene un hijo enfermo, es peor. ver las cosas desde otro Ángulo, es difÍcil pensar que a lo mejor tienes que pesar de cero en

it, that means wheelchair rants, the complete works of alice walker in the library, although no mark twain will have to repeal equalities act because if the exam is not accessible to a functionally illiterate troglodyte with a mental age of six will be judged to be elitist and forbidden by harriet harman's law. in 2015, he wrote about technology that could allow parents to select the most intelligent embryo in vitro. you wrote this, my proposal is this, once the technology becomes available why not offer it free of charge to parents on low incomes with below average iqs? it could address the problem of intergenerational social mobility and serve as a counterweight for the meritocratic elite to become a hereditary elite. i read those out for the benefit of our audience. you have a disability, a form of cerebral palsy, what does it make you feel when you hear those words that he wrote gemma well, it is horrible. if i go to a building, because i have difficulties with my legs, and i see there is a ramp, i am filled with delight. when you hear those kind of things from people who know nothing

we know that predicting is tough and the reminds me of a quote that has often been attributed to mark twain when he said predicting is difficult, particularly about the future. but i guess intransitive experts that you bring in could you characterize to me what you look for? are you looking for the best thinking in the country? would you say that the group you have really does provide some of the best experts in terms of policies that we're looking at? >> absolutely i do. we get people who are very smart, very capable who have a lot of technical skills, and part of family giffin is because is because we work for congress. they feel like they can make a difference by helping inform congress that we have an important job. one of the things i think it's under it is we spent a lot of time, our folks, , keep in touch with experts around the country so we have really -- >> how do you choose those experts? >> well, part of it starts with a panel of economic advisers. we had a really good panel that are all very well smart connected people, and we do about of call and say here's a topic where conce

[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