mary magdelene.ife in jesus's life has been at the certainty of debate more than ever. >> the da vinci code is the idea that leonardo da vinci was a member of a group that knew jesus was actually married to mary magdelene but because of the pressure of the church they had to communicate it in code because now one could come out and actually say it. >> pastor irwin luster is author of the book the da vinci deception. >> dan brown's book is a direct assault against the christian faith. the reason is because it attacks the two doctrines that are most important to christianity. the liability of the old testament and deity of jesus christ. as a result of what he has done people are reading it and believing it. >> one way dan brown hooks his readers is by weaving in historic fact. finds more how catholic church smeared mary magdelene by labelling her a prostitute. >> dan brown in his novel comes and says no she wasn't a prostitute she was jesus lover and wife. in each case there are sexual roles. i am not

todd lincoln -- >> mary lincoln yes. >> mary lincoln didn't like grant too much. >> no. >> and she liked his wife less julia, but my question is she called grant a butcher after cold harbor but in the 1870s curiously enough when grant becomes president, he secures some type of presidential pension for mary lincoln when she's financially struggling a little bit. did she ever -- >> you think grant was the one to secure her pension? >> that's what i found in the reading, yeah. >> well, i would just check my last chapter because -- i believe it was a long campaign on her part. i would say there were congressional persons pushing it more than i would give grant credit. it may have been granted during grant's period but i don't really think he would be someone i would line up as advancing that cause too dramatically. >> that's what i heard. i just wondered if she ever thanked him for that or not. >> did mary ever thank grant for advancing her political fortunes? no. >> or her -- >> any actually had an interesting incident that she was living abroad and it's a very small town kind of very sprin

anyway my question is mary todd linken didn't -- >> mary lincoln yes. >> mary lincoln didn't like grant too much. >> no. >> and she liked his wife less julia. but my question is she called grant a butcher after cold harbor. but in the 1870s, grant becomes president, he secures some type of presidential pension for mary lincoln when she's financially struggling a little bit. did she ever -- >> you think grant was the one to secure her her pension? >> that's what i found in the reading, yeah. >> well i would just check my last chapter because i believe it was a long campaign on her part. i would say there were congressional persons pushing it more than i would give grant credit. it may have been granted during grant's period but i don't really think he would be someone i would line up as advancing that cause too dramatically. that's just my -- >> that's what i heard. i just wonder if she ever thanked him for that or not. >> oh did mary ever thank grant for advancing her political fortunes? no. >> or her presidential -- >> they actually had a really interesting incident that she was living

hamburger mary's was very popular. in 2007, a group of men decided to open the worldwide chain of restaurants using a suburban knock off of the old hamburger mary's. as is now 12 are open around the world. in order to qualify for conditional use permit a business must prove that it's necessary or desirable. currently we have a -- bar and other businesses. it appears thereby support for many restaurants in the neighborhoods. my sense is the support comes from people that are tired of seeing the ghost area or the former combination of hamburger mary's. this will be one link in a growing chain of restaurants. if mr. natalie gets cold feet with an idea or will other businesses be open for progress. >president cindy wu: thank you, next speaker. i have more speaker cards. allen nelson. >> hi, thank you for taking comments. my name is john church and i think i'm the old guy in the neighborhood. i got to the castro when i was 17 years old. last friday i just turned 65. i think i'm the old guy in the neighborhood. i have certai

mary has been banned from russia. i was banned because i took exception, significant exception to the russian takeover of crimea and activities in ukraine. i was surprised by that. mary was banned for all the unnecessary reasons, and that is trying to help russian children find adoptive parents. obviously, she was successful and obviously she was as relentless there as she was on all the other issues, because russia saw that as a threat, here's someone reaching out for all the right reasons and doing something for all the right reasons. passion for children, finding them a home. and so i wish her the very best going forward in your next chapter of life, mary. i can testify to you from personal experience that there is life for you after congress and it can be a pleasant life. knowing you, you will be engaged in something very significant, whether it's for your state, your country, your life of office and your family's life of service is well recognized. so i wish you the very best as you go forward. it's been a pleasu

the son of mary. ♪ the babe, the son of mary. ♪ the babe, the son of mary. ♪ the babe, the son of marybaby boy some day will rule a marry did you know that your baby boy some day will rule a nation, mary did you know? huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent marry did you know that your baby boy some day will rule a nation, mary did you know? or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know you that former pro football player ickey woods will celebrate almost anything? unh-uh. number 44... whoooo! forty-four, that's me! get some cold cuts... get some cold cuts... get some cold cuts! whooo! gimme some! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. whoo! forty-four ladies, that's me! whoo...gonna get some cold cuts today! >>> welcome back. merry christmas. hopefully you are having a fantastic morning, opening up everything you wanted under your tree. >> did you get to the ginger bread houses as we awe in that graphic. >> we have never done ginger bread houses. my aunt used to do it and they are impressive, elaborate and big.

joseph and mary were never married. most people don't realize that. >> didn't they get married letter. >> no. never -- in fact never called anything except for her betrothed. >> in the first century, betrothal was a legal contract, a much stronger bond than we call today being engaged. >> the virgin birth. how would that go over in a first century, nazarine town. >> a lot of jews would say she got raped by a roman named pan terra and we have those early accounts, but the claim of being born of a virgin as unusual as it seems was not unthinkable. >> a 13 or 14-year-old girl who is now found to be pregnant and not married, that's a death sentence. >> this was the high point in joseph's life. because he could have exposed her. you're right she could have been stoned help protected her. yes, you can have facts and history, but at the end of the day, you don't want to always separate was virgin birth fact or fiction? >> i can make a parallel between christmas and easter. easter we hear the question how important is it that j

the son of mary. ♪ the babe, the son of mary. ♪ the babe, the son of mary. ♪ the babe, the son of mary babe, the son of mary. ♪ the babe, the son of mary. ♪ >> mary, did you know that your baby boy would some day rule our nation. mary did you know? ♪ >> that was something. >> fantastic. >> it remind me that jesus is the reason for the season. i love that. remind me of when my family would all get together on christmas day, sometimes a sunday before christmas, we all get dressed up in our sunday christmas best. >> yes. >> listen to the choir. >> yes. >> boy i have they have a great choir. >> somebody on twitter asked me are those real gifts behind us. >> yes. >> this is tv, folks. i got one of them here. >> are you going to tell the secret. >> printing paper. >> they make nice gifts here. we all run out of paper here. >> i'll tell you what it is good for too, printing paper out to really go up, don't you think. >> it should. >> all right. here we go. >> okay. >> wow. >> wow. >> that is a big fire. >> that is pretty cool. >> way to go, mike. >> well, while mike is getting that fire toget

>> i like peter's response best. >> we needed two years to process mary's passing.ining what it was in our hearts that would be a way to express this legacy. and an invocation to the next generation. we're talking about a 50-year span of music -- not like let's do something to make money this year. this is not that piece of work. that is very vapid -- person who did not even read the material was insulted. >> i think the thing that stands out about the text -- if we say so ourselves -- it's not just a description of who was where but how we felt about being there. what went into getting us there and keeping us there. >> and how we viewed the things we were involved in. rather than just talk about them, how we made decision about the songs. how we worked out what -- >> and why would it be important to anybody not in the music business. metaphorically, it's a blue print that we all need. i learned from seeing how you relate to the people that you work with here. i got to tell you folks, that's what makes this show bubble is because there's a beautiful harmony between

they didn't immediately respond to the regal image of mary, but mary as a well off lady of the upperclasses with a beautiful baby in her arms allowed them to see their own wives or daughters or mothers and so we begin to find much more human images of mary who was in dresses who were in fashion in the 15th or early 15th century. it is a very contained posture of her body. her person is deeply humble and thankful to god. it's the image of people whose life may be comfortable, but in their hearts they maintain a spiritual simplicity. mary is usually shown with the christ child and in a certain number of these works even when christ is still a child, one senses that she is aware of his future of suffering and death and her joy in holding the child in her arms is overshadowed by that future sadness and tragic fate that awaits her son. >> it's deeply reflective and sat appearance, they want to than they are thinking about the child's future. a later artist puts in the signs of that. the child has three small nails and a crown of thorns. it shows mary tickling the baby. they are loving it.

selma>> jon: selma, birmingham, mary's diner?one case racism and the other religion. >> jon: i went to stair into the face of mary. >> we set out to make everyone feel welcome. we just felt it was an act for rewarding people for being grateful. we never thought of it as discriminatory at all. >> jon: how long have you been a bigot? >> i'm not a bigot. >> jon: you would never serve the people from the freedom of religion. >> i've never met them. >> jon: you never talked to them when they came? >> they never showed up. >> jon: bull (bleep). i don't think anyone from freedom went to mary's. >> jon: you didn't go there? it came to our attention through social media. >> jon: you're trolling the internet. >> some are, we are not. >> jon: but there were actual atheists who ate at mary's and they were dehumanized. >> i don't feel like i have been discriminated against. >> jon: why not? i got the discount. >> jon: why, you broke your core whreefs? >> no, i just said thank you to the dhef. >> i get other discounts. i get one to the symphon

mary landrieu couldn't keep up. mary landrieu, oh has been a fixture in louisiana -- who has been a fixture in louisiana politics will be leaving her seat and bill cassidy taking over, padding the leave for republicans in the u.s. senate. >> jonathan martin in new orleans. another race was decided tonight. republican garrett graves defeated democrat and former governor edwin edwards. grave will be the next congressman of the sixth congressional district. i spoke with al jazeera's political contributor michael shure, and asked what mary landrieu could have done differently and what cassidy's victory means for the south? >> it was the second time u.s. special forces tried to rescue american luke somers. he died alongside pooer corgi, expected to be released in the coming days. u.s. officials were shocked by their captors, al qaeda in the area of yemen. >> as a source told me, they started to kill him and tried to escape with him, but the operation was very strong, and they were surrounded. so they killed hip. >> accor

hamburger mary's was an activist restaurant long before aids struck. we were raising funds with the no on bridge initiatives. the waiters would spontaneously or the wait staff would spontaneously say, all of the tips are going to the no on six kiddie jar and why don't you add some of your own. they have a long record of raising money for as an activist business hamburger mary's did likewise. hamburger mary's had something that none of the other restaurants had. it wasn't fast food, it wasn't having flat screen tv's blaring at you. it was a warm and welcoming place where you can take mom and dad to the restaurant and where they can see you made a really good decision about being the person you need to be. it's that you may even thrive as a lgbt person. look at these people having lunch together. i think i'm here as a cheerleader for this and i'm tired of the big hole in the neighborhood in the middle of the block. i urge you to not consider hamburger mary's a formula restaurant because it's independently owned and management and i think that needs to be

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and thank you to mary. for her inspiration. >> thank you, so much, nicole and we also honor the memory of lewis and her family, who are here as beverly mentioned and next we will be hearing from the adult probation, director crystal tuluc who is here on behalf of the adult probation chief, wendy still, and please help me to welcome crystal. >> good evening, thank you to inviting adult probation to participate in this event, parking san francisco domestic violence awareness month. and the mission statement of san francisco adult probation is protecting the community, serving justice, and changing lives. and we emphasize changing lives because over the past five years with the vision and drive achieved still, adult probation has been elevated as being a nationally and internationally recognized model of how to build a criminal justice service delivery system that is evidence-based family focused and gender responsive and trauma informed. we emphasize changing lives by conducting risk and needs assessments to

mary o'grady? >> this is a miss for new york state legislators and governor como who signed into law a ban on tattoos and body piercing for pets. i think that the new york state politicians might have something more important to do than putting a ban like this into law. but if they insist, i have another species in mind that can benefit from a ban on body mutilation and i think that would make all of us better off. >> matt? >> former u.s. prosecutor garcia for shaming the most scandal ridden sports governing body in the world, no, not the nfl. i'm talking about fifa which oversees the world cup. he wrote a world report for the 2018/2022 world cups that were given to qatar and russia. his report wasn't publicized. he stepped down this week and friday fifa said they would publish versions of his report. >> and nothing will change? >> we should still be calling for the world cup to be taken away from those two countries and given to this country and possibility the uk. >> i'm for that. if you have you

i'm anne-marie green. the cia says the senate report on the agency's program of terrorist suspects is off the mark. the report paint as disturbing picture of brutality and dishonesty. among the findings cia misled congress and the white house, it details harsh interrogation tactics including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and confinement of suspects to small boxes and the most damageling, the methods were not effective in keeping americans safe from danger. >> history will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. >> well, susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, group morning. the full 6,200-page report remains classified but the executive report is out with a message saying this is not what america stands for but now cia is fighting back in all the report says at least 39 prisoners were subjected to harsh in teargation between 2002 and 2009. sometime before conventional methods had been exhaus

mary as -- mary i want to read you the latest. to make sure you are up on it. sar, search-and-recovery. found the location of the plane. the location of the mren useplane using sonar technology. at the bottom of the java sea. at the moment they don't know if the plane is one piece or broken up. the official could not confirm the report. reported by "the wall street journal" the plane was turned upside down. mary what do you think of this new information? >> well it is very important. very useful information. and what we want to hear is also that the tail portion of the fuselage is still on. which would give them the black boxes we hope. but the fact that it is upside down. may not be able to tell anything. obviously, if the plane haddynamic stall. it can fall to the earth like a leaf kind of belly first. or it could, you know could be spenting down. that doesn't really matter. once it hits the water, even if it caught one wing or the other could be turned upside down in the crash sequence. but with a large pieces like that you would think that perhaps it did, d

she's marie osmond. >> hey, kathy! >> hey, marie.

. >> let me get to you, mary schiavo joining us as well. john luke wrote into us, "why halt the search at night if the blinkers on life vests can be seen?" this is someone who wrote "from a worried airasia passenger." >> well, part of it is also for the safety of the searchers and safety of the people out there. it's dark, it's bad weather. they will expend a lot of energy and a lot of time and it will be very difficult to see even the small blinking lights on the light vests plus they're searching in the dark. there's also risk of danger to the search crews. >> and another question, mary, that i do want you to address, is the safety standards, because this was written into us from ed mcintosh who said "are the safety standards the same for this airline as airlines in the u.s.? or the eu?" >> no, actually, that's a very good question, they are not. every nation has to adopt, to be part of an aviation nation and the aviation world, and you have to have aviation safety standards and have to have a body of regulations that govern your aviation

i'm anne-marie green.m overnight. its lappic extremists are suspected of staging a bloody terror attack in northern kenya. at least 46 workers at a quarry near kenya's border with somalia were killed. militants with the terror group al shabaab are expected. >>> and more fallout from the ferguson missouri shooting, proposals from the attorney general to end racial profiling and from the president a task force to study police reform and accountability. meanwhile there have been national walkouts to protest the shooting. susan mcginnis is in washington and has more on the nationwide protests. susan, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie, people walked out of their jobs and out of high schools and across the country in l.a. and san francisco and elsewhere. meanwhile at the white house spent muff of the day focused on ferguson. >> reporter: hundred us of protesters disrupted holiday shopping at this seattle mall, a week after a missouri grand jury failed to indict former police officer darren wilson in mich

>> mary yeah. mary schiavo. >> oh. of airbus they're going to be a party to the investigation. so they will have a significant role in the investigation. but then they do in the united states too. that's the way the investigators are set up. once they do start getting the parts and pieces of the plane, what they will do is they will play the role of investigating what's wrong with the part. they will take the parts back to airbus. they will see if they can get them working again. they will if necessary reconstruct whole pieces of the plane to try to see what went wrong, if something went wrong, and also rule out if something went wrong. so their role is going to be a very big role. just as boeing's is for example, in the united states for an investigation concerning a boeing. they are just a very huge part and investigations. frankly, they have to be. the ntsb in the u.s. doesn't even have that kind of personnel that could do that work. >> matthew, given everything that we know what's the likelihood that human error pl

mary landrieu. be bringing you his victory speech when it occurs life here on c-span. here on c-span. thursday, former senate majority leader trent lott and tom dashiell talk about the affordable care act, the eric garner decision, and the need for bipartisanship in congress. this is one hour. >>ok. thanks for coming everyone, dave cook with the christian science monitor. i guess this morning are all affiliated with the bipartisan policy center. they are center co-founder trent tom dashle, and center president, jason grumet. then senate majority leader dashle was the guest speaker at bud sperling's final breakfast as host. the senator had visited nine times before that, he's a graduate of south dakota state university, served as an intelligence officer in the air force was a senate staffer and one election to the u.s. house in 1978. and the senate in '86. he became democratic leader in '94. serving both as minority and majority leader. he left the senate in 2005, and is now founder and ceo of the da

i'm anne-marie green.icially they have stopped blaming north korea but sources tells the cbs news the fbi has tracked the hacker barack-in to the government. the options are limited. meanwhile anger over sony's decision to cancel the release of the movie at the heart of the issue is growing. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. there is widespread outrage over sony's decision to pull this christmas film from celebrities in hollywood to law firms here on capitol hill. the white house is considering its options which appear to be few, while companies across the globe are trying to figure out how they can avoid becoming the next hacking victim. companies around the world are now on high alert after a crippling cyber attack against sony. federal investigators are said to have traced the attack to north korean government and kim jong-un. >> it's being carefully considered by the president's national security team. >> they say they used a data-wiping malware to steal

hamburger mary's had something that none of the other restaurants had. it wasn't fast food, it wasn't having flat screen tv's blaring at you. it was a warm and welcoming place where you can take mom and dad to the restaurant and where they can see you made a really good decision about being the person you need to be. it's that you may even thrive as a lgbt person. look at these people having lunch together. i think i'm here as a cheerleader for this and i'm tired of the big hole in the neighborhood in the middle of the block. i urge you to not consider hamburger mary's a formula restaurant because it's independently owned and management and i think that needs to be mentioned at least once. thank you. >president cindy wu: thank you. next speaker? >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is allen nelson. i live in the neighborhood. the discussion on this project with extensive outreach, in fact we did an unprecedented thing. we for the first time ever put a vote to all the membership. normally it's 10 percent of the membership, if they show up to the meeti

want to tackle that mary? >> absolutely.tion that really has to be asked by the investigators of the airline because the theories on that have changed dramatically now that we have on board weather radar and weather facilities in the airlines. and a lot of u.s. carriers will opt to cancel flights rather than not just risk the lives but also risk the schedule. and that's a very good question give than wall of red, that horrible weather. i think the answer is they shouldn't have been there but that remains to be seen by the investigation. >> as far as the equipment on board the plane, les, did the pilots have enough information to determine how to get around that storm in they? they're the ones making the decision not air traffic controllers. >> of course. they probably had very sophisticateed radar on the a-320. it has the ability to adjust the radar automatically and manually. they can see where where the cells are left to right. deviations, what is the appropriate way to go. so they have systems available to them. >> so the

brett stevens. >> mary, is this a better deal for cuba or the united states? >> quite obviously it's a better deal for the cuban regime, not for the cuben people. not only because we got one person who was spying for us in prison in cuba almost 20 years in exchange for three cuban spies that were in jail in the u.s. -- >> and alan gross. but the president insists that was part of a humanitarian deal he made with the castros. but i think the other big reason here obviously is that the president has legitimized the regime by restoring diplomatic relations. >> going to negotiate towards that end. >> right, he wants to have a u.s. embassy in cuba and open a cuban embassy here. the big thing here, paul, cuba right now is on the ropes. they are losing all of this subsidy money they are getting from venezuela through the oil market because the economy is in bad shape and oil price is dropping. the last time that sort of thing happened in cuba was 1994. that's when they had to introduce the special period, which was to basically start liberalizing the economy and they

mary peter, david, stick around. we'll talk with you more at this hour. >>> still to come we have a closer look at this storm. the pilot appears to have been trying to avoid it. >>> plus, airbus, the maker of the missing plane is jumping in to help find this flight. the new numbers of those rescued and killed after a fire tore through a ship stranded on frozen waters. (vo) nourished. rescued. protected. given new hope. during the subaru "share the love" event, subaru owners feel it, too. because when you take home a new subaru we donate 250 dollars to helping those in need. we'll have given 50 million dollars over seven years. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. >>> let's get more now on a second day of searching for the missing airasia jetliner has turned up nothing. as we've heard, the head of indonesia search and rescue agency says speculation is that the jet is quote, at the bottom of the sea. indonesia has asked the u.s. to help in the search. we have aviation correspondent rene marsh, tom foreman who is al

askseadline, mary landrieu bill cassidy to bring records. the keystone pipeline has been an issue in the race. especially the votes in the house and senate. what did the votes do for both sides? caller:the keystone pipeline han an issue in the at the end of t, -- iote was a lot more think it played better on tv and in d.c. than it did here. anything, these are going the way it did and mary landrieu not getting the votes she needed, that probably hurt a lot more than it helped. like getting it to vote or anything like that. i think if it had passed, that would've become a really big campaign issue but it doesn't seem to be something people are talking about here. it was a couple of days or whatever. everyone was kind of wondering what was going on. but once it ended and it didn't pass, i haven't really heard people talking that much about it. people don't seem to care that much about it or if bill cassidy wins the senate seat it would give republicans 54 seats in the 114th congress in the senate and one and 14 congress. what are the key place

i'm anne-marie green. >>> well, more rain is forecast for southern california today threatening more floods. it drenched the los angeles area with record-breaking landfall yesterday. more than an-inch of rain fell in l.a. breaking a record set in 1961. the national weather service said by the time all is said and done today up to 6 inches is possible. area where recent wildfires that burned away vegetation is most at risk. there have been some flooding and mudslide. >> it looks like it's going to rain again tomorrow so instead of going through the drama, we're down the road. >> reporter: she rushed in to grab a few things after the evacuation order was lifted for 24 homes. they stayed away. many homes were surrounded by sand bailles. >> they said they're going to stay no matter what. >> we're going to ride that situation out. that could be for a year or two or literal. >> reporter: but the heavy rain and mud flows earlier were enough to keep her and her dogs at a hotel. >> i always love the rain and the mo

i'm anne marie green. the new york city police department son high alert tonight, one day after an ambush attack that killed two of their officers by a man who came to a city on edge with a mission to kill cops. before opening fire, police say the suspect told witnesses, watch what i'm going to do. he then shot the officers through a car window. the murders took place outside a housing project in brooklyn. don dahler is at the scene tonight. don? >> anne marie, the two officers were sitting in their parked police cruiser along this street. they were working an overtime shift to protect the people who live in that housing project. a newly released video shot from one of those windows shows what happened shortly after ismaaiyl brinsley opened fireance moments after the officers were shot multiple times, emergency workers desperately tried to save their lives. liu, a seven year veteran had been married only two months. ramos, a father of two, was a former school safety officer who joined the nypd two years ag

mary dickson: hello, i'm mary dickson. this station belongs to you.ow you care about what you watch, and one way to make sure this station is always here for you and your family is to become a sustainer. it's like adding a line in your budget for the best in entertainment, information and inspiration. first, choose how much you want to give on an ongoing basis like $10 a month or whatever fits your budget. then choose the account you want to use. your contribution will continue until you tell us otherwise. it's as simple as that. your support will always be current and, if you need to, you can adjust your ongoing contribution. so please visit us online or give us a call now. thank you. mike kudkudijaroff: for us children it wasn't as bad as for the adults because you know later on i found out that there were days where mom and dad didn't eat just to make sure the kids had some food you know so, that's pretty tough. my dad he knew how to cook just about everything and he could make things out of nothing almost. he could make a potato look 19 different

i wish mary landrieu, her husband frank and their children connor -- who recently is married -- mary shannon the very best. mary shannon, i remember when mary brought that little baby home and she brought that baby to the senate. a tiny, little baby. now, a beautiful child, this woman is an excellent horse woman. she is one of those people who rides horses all the time. shoo has entered in contests -- she has entered in contests. connor, of course, i knew him when he was a little boy. he is married, they have a little bay named maddox. mary is so proud of that grandchild. frank, her husband, is a wonderful human being. i think so very much of him, and i hope that we will continue seeing them. mary brings her family very often to my office. she takes them out on that balcony there overlooking the mall. mary's touched my heart for a number of things, but the one thing she has done that has been unsurpassed is her caring about children who have no parents. adoptions. she's led the senate in adoptions. her two children are adopted children. connor and mary shannon are adopted, and she is