i don't know if you remember mr. dick in "david copperfield" but he's working on his history and -- he's been working on it for many, many years and everyone talks in hushed tones about it because they don't believe the history exists and that was a bit like it was with my family in this book. i think -- >> rose: so three novels and how many years invested in three novels? >> so it's been 30 years. they've been a decade each. >> how many books can you write? >> i guess not many if i go with this devastatingly slow pace. five would be good. >> rose: can you become prolific and start with -- i mean, don't you get faster with effort? >> i've tried to write faster and i don't really enjoy it. i don't enjoy the process of doing that. i've tried to speed up. i thought well, i'll try to write -- it was a mistake. i thought i'll try to write a book in a year. i didn't enjoy it at all. it was no fun for me. no fun for the writer; no fun for the reader. >> rose: how do you write? >> in a very confused way. it's -- when i first begi

mr. dick grasso. >> act. answering the question why steve cohen hires so many criminals. >> that is bad, charlie. you're bad. ashley: how do you follow that? charlie gasparino, bo dietl. lori: i'm traumatized after that conversation. ashley: where do you begin? lori: great tv, thanks, twice. live look on capitol hill, where newly minted fed chair janet yellen testimony is underway after a second recess. certainly more fireworks than the conversation than you just heard from janet yellen. ashley: i doubt it very much. check out the big board which by the way is looking big today. the dow up nearly 200 points. by the way, first comes love and an app telling you when to get married. i'm serious. why facebook might be the best judge, of course it is, of when you should get hitched. that's next. lori: let's check the markets. we do have a solid rally underway on wall street this afternoon. let's check in with alan valdez joining us from the floor of the new york stock exchange. alan, would you say gains are in rea

mr. thune: cuts to medicare advantage, cuts that were dick indicated by obamacare and will result in higher prices and fewer choices for millions of american seniors. more than 15 million seniors, close to 30% of all medicare recipients are enrolled in medicare advantage plans and the "wall street journal" reports that approximately one out of every two new medicare enrollees chooses medicare advantage. medicare advantage offers seniors the chance to pick a plan that's right for them instead of a one-size-fits-all approach. advantage plans also frequently offer important health supplements like dental, vision and wellness benefits as well as sphaur co-pays or -- smaller co-pays or deductibles. enrollees experience better care and experience better outcomes than those enrolled in trab additional fee for service medicare. despite the benefits offered to seniors, in 2010 the president and democrats paid, or i should say tried to pay for obamacare by cutting more than $700 billion already on its way to bankruptcy to pay for a new entitlement to nonseniors. more than $300 billion of those cuts w

. >> reporter: prance no one is better suited to bring minton's back than dick parsons known as mr.ing deals. almost sounds like you're describing jazz. >> i think that's why i like the music so much. it fits with my sense of self and maybe even with who i actually am very the new minton's opened in october and is designed to be a supper club where patrons enjoy good live jazz and good food at the same time. the music is provided by older musicians sponsored by a nonprofit. the food is handled by his long-time fren and business partner executive chef alexander smalls. >> it's a spirited relationship. we have a lot in common. we're zbik aficionados of jazz we like to eat, and we're storytellers. we make good company. >> reporter: and for richard parsons, the company at minton's somewhat's all about. >> the concept here is to meld the music with the food with the ambience with the, you know surroundings so that each is an accompany.iment to the others and people come in and have a relaxing exhilarating time. >> and the words you want rolling off their lips when they leave here? >> fab

dick cheney going after food stamps. your response. >> mr. halliburton no bid contract vice president has an awful lot of nerve talking about that. it's really kind of shameful. i mean, the fact of the matter is the reason why people are on food stamps, especially now, is because it has been a long time coming out of the recession. we know that unemployment still is very high. and frankly, i believe if it wasn't for the self-inflicted injuries that this congress has done to the economy, we should be roaring right now. there should be plenty of jobs. but the cuts that have been imposed because of the sequester and because of the republican agenda contributes to the fact that people need food stamps. you are talking about food primarily to children, primarily to people are understood employed. . >> you know, richard, i think the thing that is so striking to me is the insensitivity. >> right. >> of the citizens in america that need food stamps, like someone wants to be on food stamps or use food stamps. and that food stamps is some great profit

well, pat and dick worked together to do documentaries, to counter these accusations, and there was documentary made of this trip, called "mrs. nixon's journey" showing her going through orphanages and how engaged she was with other people. and when it was played on television, richard nixon stamped his fist on the table and said, that's right, that's who you are, and pat called up nancy dickerson to tell her how thrilled he was to seer in that way. and as the white house yea

mr. tillerson and his neighbors who include former house majority leader dick armey argue the water tower'snsightly appearance is at odds with their wishes. can you blame them? "each of the homeowners built or purchased their homes in bartonville to live in an upscale community free of industrial properties, tall buildings and other structures that might devalue their properties and adversely impact the rural lifestyle they sought to enjoy." and that's problematic for tillerson and his neighbors because as their lawsuit states, the company that owns the tower could sell water to oil and gas explorers for fracking shale formations leading to traffic with heaving trucks creating noise nuisances and traffic hazards. that's also reasonable sounding. rex tillerson is all about fracking as long as all the ugly trappings that come along with it that are really built into it are nowhere near his property. now, the attorney representing mr. tillerson and his neighbors is trying to distance his clients from scrutiny. michael whitton tells the ft. worth "star telegram" he wishes he'd been more careful

well, pat and dick worked together to do documentaries to counter these kinds of accusations in the press and is a documentary that was made of this trip called mrs nixon's journey, showing are going to orphanages and showing how coldhearted and engaged she was with other people. and when it was played on television, richard nixon stamped his fist on the table and said, that's right, that's right, that's who you are, that's how they have to see. and pat called nancy to tell her how thrilled he was to see her in that way. as the white coaches went on, pat developed her own independent role as first lady. nixon center to peru for the first time, first lady went on a humanitarian mission to of people who had an earthquake there. she showed the first lady of the peru how to get -- comfort people. in 1972 she went out on her own trip to africa and she was the first first lady to represent a president at an official inauguration, the president of liberia. she discussed policy with a number of heads of state. so she was emerging. one of the tragedies of watergate is that pat nixon was emerging as high level diplomat. i think she could have been like jea

democrat dick durbin and republican jeff blake. this is 20 minutes. >> mr. president, this is the conference report from the agricultural act of 2014. when the senator was on the floor earlier she has poured her heart and soul into this document and this work. two years ago we passed the farm bill on the floor of the senate, two years ago. she did it. senator roberts from kansas. i voted for it. i thought it was an exceptional effort on our part off. went to the u.s. also representatives as is the customer under the constitution to whether endive two years ago. and then a year ago they said, let's try again. let's pass the farm bill again in the united states senate in the hopes that the u.s. house of representatives will take it up. a year ago. mr. president, i asked. >> the senate will be in order. so a year ago the senators send this measure to the house of representatives for consideration. again, it languished. it may have been one of the longest-running conference committees in the history of congress, but thank goodness for the perseverance of senator

well, pat and dick worked together to do documentaries, to counter these accusations, and there was documentary made of this trip, called "mrs. nixon's journey" showing her going through orphanages and how engaged she was with other people. and when it was played on television, richard nixon stamped his fist on the table and said, that's right, that's who you are, and pat called up nancy dickerson to tell her how thrilled he was to seer in that way. and as the white house years went on, pat developed her own independent role as first lady. nixon sent her to peru for the first time a first lady went on a humanitarian mission to help people in an earthquake there. she showed the first lady of peru how to get in the ruins and comfort people. in 1972 she win on her own trip to africa and the first first lady to represent a president and an official inauguration, the president of lie beer -- liberia. she discussed policy with heads of states. one of the tragedies of watergate is that pat nixon was emerging has a diplomat. some could have been like jean kennedy smith as an ambassador to the country had not the watergate crisis hap

mr. dunn? >> well, carol, neither can predict what they want to do. we predicted that every tom, dickand your ground when they killed somebody. in trayvon, a hoodie on. in jordan, it was loud music. a minority kid winks at me, i feel threatened. i kill him. stand your ground. we got to stop this. even though they are saying jordan davis, like trayvon, stand your ground is an accepted defense. the instruction is read to the jury and it is very confusing. they say he had a right to stand his ground. we all have to deal with this stand your ground law. >> george zimmerman's attorney says this is not like the zimmerman's case. we had physical evidence of an extended fight. in the dunn case, we have none of that. does mr. o'mara have a point. >> i think in these two tragedies, there air lot of similarities and distinguishable aspects. both trayvon and jordan, 17-year-old, both african-americans, both parents are being put through hell trying to get justice holding the killer's responsibility for taking their child's lives but the big difference is, you have live witnesses in this case. in

mr. speaker, take us down to the lower end of this, first the dream act gets addressed and it pretty much embraces dick durbin's dream acts, and of course i reject that for the same of this, that again it rewards law breakers, but in the final paragraph, the concluding paragraph, it say, individuals living outside the rule of law. it says, mr. speaker, and i >> it says no special path for people who have broken our nation's immigration. o special path to citizenship. well, if you put people on a path to citizenship who are in this country illegally, while you have five million people waiting outside the united states who do respect our laws, then you have given a special path to citizenship. the non-special path is to line up behind the five million who are lined up, waiting, respecting our laws waiting to come into the united states. but they go on and say, but there be no special path to citizenship. they say it would be unfair to those who played by the rules and harmful to those promoting the rule of law. breathtaking. we aren't going to provide a special path to citizenship, except we are going to