ask you something about melville about mobbee dick. >> yeah. >> stephen: that's a big book, okay.ve got a buchl copy of it, hand tooled leather, everything. i don't really want to crack it open because it will ruin the resale value. is moby dick a metaphor for the struggle of trying to read moby dick? (laughter) (applause) >> you missed your calling as a literary critic. >> stephen: i've got a fallback position. how does that pay? (laughter) >> i thought we already covered that. >> stephen: well, professor, thank you so much for joining me. >> thank you. >> stephen: the president of duke university. be an english major. we'll be right back. >> stephen: that's it for the report, everybody. we'll be back in september 3rd. and on september 10th we will have the second installment of the colbert book club, this time dedicated to j.d. salinger. now your reading assignment is anything other than catcher in the rye. i'm going to hold you to that, don't be a phoney. salinger is saying captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ♪ chappell

ask you something about melville about mobbee dick. >> yeah. >> stephen: that's a big book, okay. i've got a buchl copy of it, hand tooled leather, everything. i don't really want to crack it open because it will ruin the resale value. is moby dick a metaphor for the struggle of trying to read moby dick? (laughter) (applause) >> you missed your calling as a literary critic. >> stephen: i've got a fallback position. how does that pay? (laughter) >> i thought we already covered that. >> stephen: well, professor, thank you so much for joining me. >> thank you. >> stephen: the president of duke university. be an english major. we'll be right back. ÷x

we are speaking to dennis johnson of melville house. it at the college is also with us. now!is democracy we will be back in a minute. ♪ [music break] >> "it says here" by billy bragg. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. we are having a roundtable discussion of that jeff bezos purchasing the washington post. dennis johnson is with us from of the house. mac mcclelland is also with us. read an article about jeff bezos written by someone from the columbia school of journalism. she wrote -- interesting questions, and jeff cohen. >> these are all good questions. the one thing that is missing is the discretion of the hallowed journalistic traditions of the washington post. any media consumer who has been looking at the articles in the last day and half has heard about what will happen to the washington post journalistic tradition. the paper of watergate. the paper that exposed watergate, published the pentagon papers. serious and diligent news consumer will realize coming incidents like the watergate conspiracy and the pentagon papers, that was 40 yea

>>reporter: well, megan, city police have filed charges against 35-year-old melville mason. he's the man accused of killing a young couple in their home in front of their own daughter and reportedly over a dispute over $10. now, for the friends and family of 21-year-old william monroe and 22-year-old megan kerrigan, this makes their loss even worse. more than 150 people dwaried outside of victim's home -- gathered outside of the victim's home on south cary street last night. office officials say mason threatened them as early as friday. he broke into the home on tuesday shooting monroe and a family friend before killing monroe and kerrigan who were in a back bedroom with their 17- month-old child. the family says mason would have shot the baby but the gun wouldn't fire. they say that kerrigan and monroe were good people and their deaths are well beyond tragic. >> it felt like a nightmare. i can't say nothing but nice things about them. they were always friendly, they always took care of everybody. will always gave a helping hand for somebody that needed it. megan was very, v

the family of william monroe talked about how melville mason shot a couple but that mason was intent on doing much more damage. >> the baby was there. the baby was crying. the baby came out of the bedroom. he tried to shoot the baby and the gun wouldn't shoot. >> that's all from williams' mother rhonda who remains in the hospital with a gunshot wound in the shoulder. mason was threatening the family since last friday. >>> baltimore city police have a man in custody for a man in a shooting in re and park. it happened north of 40th. >>> a man was helping a friend in a car when two men approached and shot him. >>> a baltimore city police detective was found guilty today of lying about shooting himself in the leg. anthony fata said another man shot him and he repeated the lie during a worker's compensation hearing. the verdict means he will be fired from the baltimore city fire department. >>> neither the defense north prosecution can claim victory have the bradley manning's sentence. he was given 35 years in prison. last night he was found guilty of passing along classified documents. h

. >> melville mason was around the corner from the big m's and he is known for his collection of cars. victims.he he is known for his collection of cars. >> they were getting the two go out for their day. wrecks are they involve anything that might draw this? >> police promised to step it up. this comes on the heels of a very violent weekend. >> we will increase our patrol and hour enforcement. all three deputy chiefs and their lieutenant colonel's the commanding officers in the field. >> neighbors say they could hear for theirs pleading lives and the suspect declared, "i am your worst nightmare" before opening fire multiple times. people were shot in catonsville over the past two days. police are asking for your help as they try to find suspects. live.simms is that is where the man was shot late last night. >> this is where -- this happened around 10 p.m. monday night. neighbors tell us they witnessed the victim run down the street as he tried to get to a house to get some help. startled, cynthia brown was not sure what was happening. >> we were sitting in the living room last night

who is herman melville? yes. you got him. mtv movie awards for $1,200. lila.is "kicking & screaming"? no. [ beep ] correct response -- "what is 'dodgeball'?" back to you, though, lila. mtv movie awards for $1,600. lila. what is "juno"? "juno." correct. mtv movie awards for $2,000. [ beep ] that was shailene woodley. back to you, lila. i'll take "dc" for $400. lila. what is a sand castle? sand castle. yes. okay, "dc" for $800. irene. what is a cage? no. kelton. what is a birdcage? birdcage. yes. "dc" coming up in that order. kelton, back to you. "dc" for $1,200, please. lila. what is a bluffer? no. irene. what is a wild card? wild card. yes. "dc" coming up in that order. "dc" for $1,600, please. irene. what is redcoats? right. "dc" for $2,000, please. kelton. what is bloodcurdling? right. annual events for $400, please. kelton. what is michigan? that's the state. annual events for $800. lila. what is cinco de mayo? yes. i'll take electricity for $1,600. kelton. what are transformers? right. electricity for $1,200. answer -- the daily double. [ applause ] you're

so is brandy melville and nastygal and gypsy warrior. >> what do you think?randy melc iville yesterday. it is the new cool thing. i think that is the kind of place kids are going to. she left out love culture. u n uniclo is going to come to the states. >> these companies can live or die by trends. sounds like you are suggesting that they can be cold for a while. >> there is so much more competition than there used to be. we have seen growth in forever 21. but we have seen skate, surf and retro surf come back as a fad with seteens and that is not wh they sell at ro, aro and a and f. that is what they sell at pac, sun and zumiez. >> maybe the teens are more focused on saving up their money on electronics and gadgets and not clothes as sort of the cool definer in that are life. if you are a retailer that has a handle online. is that going to be a big plus? >> absolutely. so many teens as specially stylish teens are looking to in s stagraham if you have a hot account like gypsy warrior does they can see what they have. >> do you think the american eagles can they

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melville mason killed william monroe and meghan kerrigan. >> delegate don dwyer has been charged for second time in a year. officers spotted dwyer swerving several lanes last night, so they pulled him over. that officer said he could smell alcohol on dwyer's breath. as a result the officer provided sobriety tests which dwyer failed. he is awaiting to be sentenced for operating a boat last year. sentencing for that is scheduled for october. >> we return to summer like weather, 90 in the city. many of the outer areas in the low 80s. these numbers slow to cool off, maybe down to 70, 68 degrees. tomorrow we're back into the upper 80s. a few spots could touch 90 including the city through northern anne arundel county. across the east coast you see the dry weather across the northeast, great lakes. one band of active weather south of the maryland line. so hour by hour tonight, mild, some clouds, partly sunny. temperatures ramp up. the question is how long the sun and hot weather holds up. >> i've got that answer right now. i think so. if you're a fan of fall weather, the last few weeks has

police arrested melville mason. they say he busted through the front door and started shooting not only killing monroe but also his girlfriend meghan kerrigan. >> they were good people. i just don't understand why somebody would go in a house and just randomly start shooting with a child in the bedroom with the mother and father. >> she said when the guy busted through the window, and he said i am the reaper. >> and then what. >> and then he went upstairs and started shooting. >> we're told after the shooting by neighbors mason took off and returned and sat on the couch until police arrived. mason is said to appear in court against next month. >>> a happy ending to a frightening situation for students and teachers at a school in georgia. police say a man walked into the school yesterday armed with an ak-47 and other weapons then barricaded himself in the front office and exchanged gunfire with police. students were evacuated

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>>reporter: megan, city police charged murder charges against melville mason. he's accused of killing a young couple that lived down the street from him over a perceived dispute over what police say was about $10. as for family and friends of 21- year-old william monroe and 22- year-old megan car dl rigan, this makes

police say melvin munro broke into the house and started shooting -- melville mason broke into the house and started shooting. the baby was not hurt. a veteran detective calls it one of the most violent cases he has ever handled, part of the string of city violence of the last five days. >> i have a message on behalf of this police department and the commissioner for anyone that comes into the city armed with the intent to break the law. we will find you, prosecute you. there is no tolerance. criminal record goes back 15 years. he has been arrested for drug and auto theft and had a short prison stint. a trial has been set for september 17. >> again, i regret the incident. i am grateful to have the support that i have. i am grateful to be in an alcohol treatment program. >> that was state delegate don dwyer commenting on last august august's voting accident. charges on ther road. he was pulled over on route 100 east in pasadena. according to the police report, he was swerving back and forth, driving so erratically and dangerously, an officer stopped his car despite transporting a prisoner

. >> host: kathleen in melville, new york. we have a couple minutes left. >> a great pleasure to speak with you. it has been a deeply moving and inspiring time listening to you and i am sure for most if not all of the audience, thank you. okay. my question, my husband and i own property, and i was wondering if you would, and the little bit on the political situation, you know about the international monetary fund and many of the things going on there. i would appreciate hearing from you and -- >> i hope so. we met all of the international monetary fund requirements, the governing labor party has reduced the debt of the country almost by half over the last few years. our democracy is an energetic one, people say many things in the public square as the parties with each other, it is healthy and open and it is free and i have really enjoyed the great privilege of living there given to me by my dear loving wife hazel to be a participant in the process of her wonderful country. >> host: we have a minute left. cadged in indiana, the

on the women's side similarly we create excitement with brands like brandy melville and u ber high wastedve in women's strong trends in sweaters and dresses that we can capitalize on as well. >> gary, pleasure speaking with you, thanks for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> gary shochoenfeld ceo of pacsun. high wasted and uber-high wasted. >> that sounds like urkle to me. >> we should make clear it's a market cap of $240 million so it's small stock but we had it on because it had monster moves this year. >> the one thing that stuck out is inventories were down three percent year over year. maybe that means margins can improve next quarter. if it's a sand bag then this stock basically all you are right now is giving back what it gained today. so with the short interest it has, three and a half bucks, it might be interesting tomorrow for the long side trade. >> the question you have to ask yourself in any of these and gary eludeed to is there a structural change in retail. i think there has, the fact that they're moving up their customer you can say there is a change going on here a

during this event hosted by melville house mr. whip is in conversation with lewis lapham, former editor of harper's magazine and current editor of lapham's quarterly. this is an hour. >> well kaw included a ride over to curtis. i'm a longtime admirer of curtis white. he is now on the editorial advisory board of the quarterly, and i turned to him for wisdom, and darkness, which often comes over me. and i'm going to let him begin by explaining, wanting to talk as much as possible. so if you can set up the premise of the book and then i have a few stray questions that i will ask you if silence falls. >> well, from what i can tell so far, one of the things that people out there, whoever they are, readers, journalists, want to know is why i decided to write this book. now, i'm a novelist and not a science writer. and the answer to that question is familiar for me but curious probably for everybody else. >> i just had to turn it off, sorry. [laughter] >> as has happened more than once in my writing lifetime, i was driving in the car, li

i hate the shirt, but if you think that's the worst shirt in the mall, you have not seen brandy melville'shirts. >> and i believe my sons are wearing shirts way more offensive than that. >> and i do hate the shirt but i like the company and like the stock. i think children's place is getting fixed. i think moving the value centers off of the mall is a good idea. i think they are doing more outlets and running them better is a good idea so i actually like children's place. >> they made a dumb shirt. >> good company, made a stupid shirt. >> thanks, guys. thank you all for coming on today. thanks as well, security, fcour setting it up yourself. start your engines, can gm's new plan bolt volt to the gm finish line? >> jeff bezos bought "the post" but what should amazon buy with its $7 billion cash file? i say maybe the post office, only half tongue in cheap and mandy has ideas. we want to hear your ideas. tweet us and we're back right after this. we route your order to up to 75 market centers to look for the best possible price -- maybe even better than you expected. it's all part of our goal

you think of herman melville changing the shape of the novel. he changed it so much, in fact, in 1850 when "moby dick" was published, he to have torpedoed his career, he went from being a bestseller right to obscurity. but he believed you could change, even nathaniel hawthorne believed in change for a little bit, but didn't like what the change was going to bring. he himself had gone to the utopian community, brook farm. so it's a time of tremendous expectation, huge expectation and great failure as well. it was a time of boisterousness, of the expansiveness of hopefulness and greed, oh, let's not forget good old american greed -- [laughter] which is very much part of this period. and one of the many things i learned while doing in this book is that the gilded age didn't start in the 1870s. history's not consecutive at all. all of these things are happening at the same time. it's a narrative nightmare, as i'll peek to you about. -- speak to you about. what was it going to do? well, as i suggested, i came to this book in a way from two earlier bo

the manuscript is now published by melville house in conjunction with the baffler magazine. the baffler ran an excerpt in the last several months. it's on sale here later. i'm going to stop there. am going to introduce our guests who will tell you the rest of the story, and we will try to save some time at the end for your questions. first of all, john summers. john is the editor of "cotton tenants," and we owe him a great deal of gratitude for the presence of the book today. the baffler magazine is in print and digital journal of art and criticism now in its 25th year. john and the baffler foundation purchased the magazine two years ago and he runs it from cambridge, massachusetts. john has his ph.d and intellectual history and universe of rochester and is the editor of three books of cultural criticism. he was born and raised in gettysburg, pennsylvania, on the mason-dixon line, it just to show how he still has some geographical confusion, he claims he is very much a southerner. >> i said almost a southerner. [laughter] >> well, that's relative, you know, down here. okay,

megan kerrigan and william monroe were shot to death on tuesday with melville mason.dispute and a $10 debt. >>> new this morning, baltimore city is raising the price of student lunches to $thee. the price is among the highest in nations for city districts like baltimore. published reports say it will offset the cost to provide meals to low income students. some argue it will hurt middle class families. >>> mike is following an accident, is that right? >>reporter: south of bwi, guys, a mess. still jammed on the southbound lane, subject to closure. actually, it is closed right now. they're directing traffic onto 198. be aware of that, bwi going into d.c. this is near fort meade road. all lanes on the southbound side of 295 are closed. and another serious accident, this is old mountain street just off of 95 as you get into hartford county. we do have two vehicles colliding, so the law is on the scene try to go clear that mess up. we'll take a look and show you again another issue at i-75 also being affected this morning with some heavy traffic. we'll talk traffic coming