(laughter) >> jon: i read from melville. it just doesn't have the gravity that we were-- fine. first up, puzzling maritime news from the bay area. >> more than a month after the america's cup something else is grabbing attention this morning on the san francisco bay. >> jon: pless tell me it is not another ghirardelli chocolate drilling station disaster. still licking chocolate off the boards from the last one. >> four stories high, this building made of cargo containers first appeared a few months ago. sitting on a barge 250 feet long and 72 feet wide. on top are dozens spires that could be masts or flag poles or antennas. whatever it is, it's off limits to the public and guarded by private security, cnet reporter daniel terdiman began investigating and soon unearthed legal documents showing that google is involved. >> nobody outside google really knows what it is. >> jon: that's weird, it a google project that no one in the outside world knows what it is. i guess what they're saying it is google plus. boom! boom! book! -- book! note to self, google shoulder injury. let's see,

melville talked about a ripple of death of which the slain offers are.and that has been very much in my mind always as i've thought about the ripple that we all face and those that have gone before us often. [applause] this is a special presentation that i'm going to make to doctor faust and my two friends don't know about this but i wonder if tom were the turning of the board of the foundation of the national archives would join me on the stage please you will see why in his second. >> these are not originals. the letter to president eisenhower. >> my letter because it went to the president. it was preserved. [applause] >> and to the master of the telegrams to lincoln, this is one that you perhaps would want to explain to people the significance? >> this was a message to the president of the united states, abraham lincoln to the senate of the united states dated february 29, 1864. he and a you can see as with all of lincoln's documented his handwritten on the head of the executive mansion in which he says i nominate ulysses s. grant as the service to th

or herman melville "motorbiky dick", or alexander's "three musketeers", these works have been scanned and are available online for free through google books. it's working with groups to give classics and long forgotten works new life. millions of titles are included and that has google fighting accusations of copyright infringements. the author's guilt and the association of american publishers sued google. a judge ruled google's project is league app under fair youth. i spoke to a researcher and asked him what the lawsuit means for the web. >> this is a landmark ruling, an amazing - after eight years in litigation it's an absolute complete support for google. it's a repudiation of the people who brought the lawsuit, and a real win, a victory for google. i am sure that some of the executives at apple and microsoft were looking for google to lose much the judge came out swipinging for google -- interinging for -- swipinging for google here. >> if you go to google books. a lot of people will be surprised how large the search database is. there's millions of titles and a huge chunk of bo

maybe charles dickens "tale of two cities," or herman melville's "moby dick" - there you have it. or department of human evolutionary biology's "three muskateers." that is one of my favourites of the those famous stories, and countless others are available online for free through google books. google is trying to give classics a lease on life. some of those books have copyright which is why google is fighting accusations of a massive copyright infringement. the author's gild sued google for its book project. it is leaguele under fair use. >> after eight years in litigation, it's an slewed complete support for google. a real repudiation of the people who brought the lawsuit, and a real win - a victory for google. i am sure some of the executives at apple and microsoft were looking for google to lose on this one. the judge really came out swinging for google here. >> nick o'malley from the harvard kennedy school researching links between culture and technology. 40 million people in nij can't read or write. it's half of the country's population. numbers have pushed the world bank to

henry melville, the last chapter about the hunt. i read about the kennedy book. i love to do that and get that rate. so your rep to. and then i write about being with the toughest job ever in my life, which is working with tip o'neill. i lucked into the biggest job in politics for me. the topic i fighting reagan come a great communicator. the great irony is that grew up liking reagan. without likes him. he of course is the gipper. speaking of catholic school, one thing they did in catholic school in third grade they prevent a movie projector to show you the all-american said they can begin the indoctrination. this is your orientation as a catholic. you got to know the importance of notre dame. it's all about the team. they're never changing the name, by the way. it's always going to be the fighting irish. some people say it makes us look bad. well, we do fight. i was going to call this book donnybrook. i thought two irish guys fighting wasn't very newsy. two guys want to fight? that's interesting. no it's not. they always fight. but they did fight a lot. i though

there is a great thing in the book where herman melville, the author of moby dick, comes to the whiteouse. you do not get the sense that he wants to hone his diplomatic skills. he wants a vacation. he wants to have a good time in italy. there is a great scene where a group of men show up at the white house to try to get their diplomat ind as a the sandwich islands, modern-day hawaii. they say, our guy is really sick. the change of climate would do him good. lincoln has this redline. he says, i have 8 -- lincoln has this great line. he says, i have eight other applicants who are all sicker then your guy. host: we are talking about president lincoln's foreign policy approach. on're on with kevin peraino the independent line. go ahead. let's move on to william. from rhode island on the democrats' line. i came in late. i was wondering if you covered the exchange between karl marx and abraham lincoln. a congratulatory message when lincoln was elected. lincoln responded, they did that to the ambassador. commented on free labor. guest: i devoted an entire chapter to it. it is one of my favor

henry melville, the last chapter about the hunt. i read about the kennedy book.your rep to. and then i write about being with the toughest job ever in my life, which is working with tip o'neill. i lucked into the biggest job in politics for me. the topic i fighting reagan come a great communicator. the great irony is that grew up liking reagan. without likes him. he of course is the gipper. speaking of catholic school, one thing they did in catholic school in third grade they prevent a movie projector to show you the all-american said they can begin the indoctrination. this is your orientation as a catholic. you got to know the importance of notre dame. it's all about the team. they're never changing the name, by the way. it's always going to be the fighting irish. some people say it makes us look bad. well, we do fight. i was going to call this book donnybrook. i thought two irish guys fighting wasn't very newsy. two guys want to fight? that's interesting. no it's not. they always fight. but they did fight a lot. i thought that was the story. then i realized whe