journal, the original series, was unusual for "the new yorker" into in those days "the new yorker" didn't say this story should be about so many thousand words long. it was sort of a against the philosophy of "the new yorker" which is one of the reasons why pieces ran so long, that everybody thought there peace deserves more. but the u.s. journal was specifically 3000 word piece every three weeks, and i was afraid of sort of creep if i went over that. so a couple of them may be a couple hundred words but basically i stuck to that. and i felt i wanted to write a little more, just the fabric of a looser peace. but i found reported the necessary take that much longer, maybe i stayed over the weekend, but we usually got home, my girls were growing up then and so i went home. usually i found that if i started knowing what the answers to the questions were, it was probably time to go home. and reporting didn't fit into any space you could fit into. you could stay for a year. at least i have always said i have to be sort of arbitrary, this will take about a week. >> your book about alice is so t

at that time, the highest paying magazine was "the new yorker," which pay $10 a line. so i would say you can understand why there's not a huge crowd in front of the poetry booth at the career day affair. but i get $10 a line -- $100 upon the matter what. so when i want this sort of does you get for working for the absolute top dollar in your field, i write it to line poem. one of my early ones was about voip and thin, the former texas senator when he was named secretary of treasury was called called -- boot a short history of voip and from stealing the special interest groups was the man is known for provo quaintness. in texas, that is how folks to goodness. that's $50 a line. that is not the shortest poem. my shortest poem is the political, societal and philosophical implications of the o.j. simpson trial. that is the title. and the whole poem is o.j., oy vey. maybe anybody's shortest poem. >> do you ever hear from politicians say you are being too hard on me? >> no, i never have. and i have had this sort of nightmare, which i have during the day. one of the reasons i

journal, the original series was unusual for the new yorker that in those days the new yorker didn't say the story should be about 70,000 words long. it was sort of against the philosophy of the new yorker which is one of the reasons the pieces ran so long. everybody thought it deserved more. but, the u.s. journal was specifically a 3,000 word piece every three weeks, and i was afraid of sort of creep if i went over that, so a couple of them, maybe 3200 words, but basically i stuck to that and i felt i wanted to write in a little more just the fabric of it a little loose but i found the reporting didn't necessarily take that much longer just maybe i still do for the weekend my girls were growing up then so i went home. usually i found that if i started knowing what the answers to the questions were probably time to go home and the reporting was fit into any space he wanted to fit you could stay for a year i have to be sort of a barbiturate to this would take about a week. your book about alice is so touching and loving towards your wife. did you find all of the single ladies were con

in the home of wall street, 73% of new yorkers say they support that tougher regulation. even republicans say they support tougher wall street regulations. so this is it. there's this base question about whether there is any countervailing force protecting americans' individual human interests from really, really powerful, really, really, really rich sometime bad actors who are preying on us and have really hurt individual americans' fortunes badly and spending now hand over fist to keep doing that. is there any countervailing force against their interests or isn't there? is there any countervailing force on the part of individual americans? is it possible for politicians to act against the interests of the most powerful corporations when it is in individual americans' interest that they do so? this really is a 1% versus 99% question. people overwhelmingly, frankly left, right and center realize they have been victimized by a economic system and political system that tilts so disproportionately toward the 1%'s interest. right now democrats are trying to turn the upcoming

. >>> honking soarns -- horns are a sound new yorkers and others are familiar with. but some tax drivers may -- taxi drivers may pay dearly for tooting. >> they're part of the sights and sounds of new york. [ honking ] >> reporter: in a city that never sleeps, they're what's keeping everyone awake. an e-mail from one annoyed new yorker, saying he can't sleep at night, has the city reminding cab drivers that honking comes with a heavy price, a $350 fine. when you heard they were coming out with this warning and reenforcing the warning, what was your first reaction? >> it's ridiculous. it's impossible. this is new york. >> reporter: we came to one of the busiest taxi stands in the city, penn station, to see what people think. >> i think it's part of the atmosphere, to hear them honking, pushing their way into the traffic. >> i'm just getting to new york city. i think the honking could be scary if it's not for a real reason. >> i kind of like the honking. >> you do? why? >> because it adds to the ambience. >> new york city taxi and limousine commissioner david yaske says

and they thought that that did not bar them from being real new yorkers. i i think there was a cultural divide in some ways which is still with us in some senses. at 44, he had a difficult different situation. the 8000-pound gorilla was to ensure of his health. we now know that f.d.r. was dieing in the fall of 1944. but it was not something that you could possibly touch. and the other was the award with pearl harbor and there's speculation as to what if anything the president might have known? and i i think your dad would have some fairly good views on the subject. >> that's correct. well, there was -- not ironclad but presumptive proof that we have broken the japanese code before pearl harbor and did nothing about it. and that was once spread at the time and in fact, i think in the book roosevelt set the colonel up from washington to see him during the company. he said i just you're not going to mention this because there are police who use the same code which is and cost lives. he sucked it up and never did mention. >> but, it is a logical assumption tha

for depression and the various kinds of anxiety that burdens so many people, so yes, there may be new yorkers taking these medications for fun, but that's not the way it is for most americans. >> she describes a cocktail party as a pill bazaar where pills are exchanged, correct? >> . yeah. i think a point that comes up with this is that there can be a fine line between medication and recreation. it's not like cancer where you can take a test and either you have it or you don't. there isn't a test to see if you have enough seratonin, which is why somebody would take prozac or another ssri. i mean, it's not as black and white. >> it's not likely you have an x-ray that shows you whether or set outhave a major depression, diagnostic criteria for these conditions and people either meet them or they don't. it's not just that these are set by the american psychiatrists. these diagnostics are criteria around the world. we do have diagnostic criteria and people ei$her do or do not have certain real problems. >> one of the strong characters in your narrative here is molly small, and molly small says "i

business. >> i grewa group of men and women were asked to write captions for new yorker cartoons andr not. >> we found that men are funnier just by a hair, and they're mostly funnier to other men. >> the study also found the not so funny captions were most often attributed to a woman even if they were man made. >> do you think it is a stereo type that men are funnier. >> yes, 100%. >> definitely. >> we took our unscientific poll to one of the funniest places on earth, chicago's second city. >> they work the same stage that launched john belushy, bill murray and gildna radner. >> they're taught tonight be funny on purpose. >> we may be more crass. does that make it funnier? >> before the guys start getting one more point -- >> we found the confidence out strips the compensation. they thought it would be a lot funnier. >> that's funny. [ laughter ] >> maybe crass is more appropriate. >> yeah, right. [ laughter ] >> we'll be right back. [ dennis ] juggling insurance policies at different companies... is a pain. but with allstate, bundling policies is easy and can save you money. you sho

joining us now is jane mayer, staff writer for "the new yorker" magazine. her new article on north carolina republican king maker art pope appears in this week's issue of "the new yorker." jane mayer, thanks for being here. >> glad to be with you. >> should art pope sort of be seen as the one-man band that is the republican party in north carolina now or is he something new and different? >> well, in many ways he is the one man who is single handedly bankrolling a kind of conservative takeover of the state. at least that's how the democrats see it down there. it's a state that as you said is just completely key to barack obama's re-election and it's a state that is traditionally neither completely red nor blue. it's kind of a purple state, but it went blue in 2008 and basically the republican party took one look at it and thought they've got to make sure that it doesn't go that way again in 2012. so there's been a lot of very careful and smart thinking going into the state and a ton of money. as you say, almost all of the accounts, three-quarters of the inde

they won't have to pay anymore complain and twelve and a lot of these new yorkers say that this is an indication of how the wealthiest americans reap the largest rewards and if they're paying if they're going to be paying that mandatory tax a lot less revenue is going to be coming to new york city and new york state and the ninety nine percent with the majority of those living here are going to suffer and they say that's just an indication of the richest always reaping the benefits and the rewards and the common american always you know suffering the consequences of work now reporting their public distrust towards the u.s. government is also growing according to the latest polls more than two thirds of americans now say they're unhappy with washington and as if he's going to force the white house and congress are havel influenced by equally unpopular of powerful corporations. investing in politics has proved to be good business in america just a few million dollars in contributions and some lobbying can bring your company billions in bailout loan guarantees tax refunds another stimulu

and coming up we asked new yorkers if they think the decade long fighting in afghanistan has brought any results. i don't see role and i really see anything changing even if we stay there another hundred years for a war there for that long it better be for something and we better be getting something out of it and that's going to happen now. more opinions on the afghan war from of the big apple in just a few minutes. also ahead a suicide epidemic hits bankrupt farmers in india as the country faces one of the worst droughts and years we see why families think it's not nature to blame but rather the government. on to libya now where thousands of people are protesting against the forces a loyal to the national transitional council that have taken over the capital tripoli locals argue that the presence of troops provides a little security as they follow no particularly orders and fire their weapons indiscriminately and as robert perry the editor of internet investigative magazine consortium news says the people currently in power have suspicious links with terrorist cells. there is evide

millionaires to pay they won't have to pay any more come two thousand and twelve and a lot of these new yorkers say that this is an indication of how the wealthiest americans reap the largest rewards and if they're paying if they're going to be paying mandatory tops a lot less revenue is going to be coming to new york city and new york state and the ninety nine percent what they call the ninety nine percent the majority of those living here are going to suffer and they say that's just an indication of the richest always reaping the benefits and the rewards and the common american always you know suffering the consequences. right there thousands out on the streets of american cities are fed up with breaking their backs well street corporations growth on the profits of the culture and the big bank mentality seems to be falling on deaf ears and sign the white house is going to explains washington isn't ready to turn its back on old friends. investing in politics has proved to be good business in america just a few million dollars in contributions and some lobbying can bring it company billions in

jubilant crowds celebration new yorkers and protesters when the right to continue campaign to clean up big business worldwide. and the european central bank says. it's time for governments to take the lead in saving the region's economies. around the clock around the world this is the life in moscow the total number killed in the syrian conflict now stands at one of a three thousand activists say at least twelve people have died in fresh violence off the security forces opened fire on protesters were calling for nationwide demonstrations in support of army defectors who joined the opposition the government insists that not revolutionaries but armed gangs that threaten the public has more. about one hundred eighty kilometers north of the mass this is a city of on the west on the site of five days of recent deadly clashes within the security forces and protesters in which at least thirty died it's close to the cities of homs and hama where most of the assad protests have been taking place evidence of fighting in oliver stone is plain to see there was an air of suspicion . and smoot only

for millionaires to pay they won't have to pay any more complain and twelve and a lot of these new yorkers say that this is an indication of how the wealthiest americans reap the largest rewards and if they're paying if they're going to be paying that mandatory tax a lot less revenue is going to be coming to new york city and new york state and the ninety nine percent what they call the ninety nine percent the majority of those living here are going to suffer and they say that's just an indication of the richest always reaping the benefits and the rewards and the common american always you know suffering the consequences thanks very much indeed for that report from you sure. thing exercise prime minister putin's strength and russia's partnership with china during his holy proof visit to the world's fastest growing economies came together to share common interests and commercial goals and the dominance of the west deals with seven billion u.s. dollars and trade and high tech industries have already been signed to more is yet to come of course from experience. the two day visit was more of c

old war has a left thousands of nato soldiers and afghan civilians that dead or harnessed as to new yorkers if they think of a campaign has been worth it. it's been ten years since the u.s. power to afghanistan as a prelude to an ongoing war i think a leader has it been worth it this week let's talk about that for wars there's no benefit to what is going doing there for ten years i don't know what the hell. they do and i don't know it's probably another vietnam. war where the problem is not a we're not. going to win it's just a case of more and more americans and others dying it seems clear cut see that it's not worth it i don't see a goal and i really see anything changing even if we stay there another hundred years it was worth it to hunt down al qaeda but i think we did there at the start with our special forces and for the past nine years i don't think we've accomplished much at all very controversial question there's pros and cons to the situation but at the present the proses i think that we have to make a statement that we aren't able to. see things sitting down that we have a voice

jubilant crowds celebrating new yorkers and to call protesters when the right to continue campy trying to clean up big business world wind. and the european central bank says it's. time for governments to take the lead in saving the region's economy. story and business process is ready to act against the european energy legislation banning energy supplies gas pipelines the need for a pullback the book and more on that. around the clock around the world this is r.t. live in moscow the total number killed in the syrian conflict nell stands at well over three thousand activists sent least twelve of guided fresh bottoms off to security forces opened fire on protesters were calling for nationwide demonstrations in support of army defectors who joined the opposition the government insists that revolutionary gangs that threaten the public as well. about one hundred eighty kilometers north of damascus is a city of unrest on the site of five days of recent deadly clashes between security forces and protesters in which at least thirty died it's close to the cities of homs and hama where most ant

in the footsteps of another nato led military intervention in the afghan war coming up we asked new yorkers if they think of the decade long fighting in afghanistan has brought any results. i don't see goal and i really see anything changing even if we stay there another hundred years or a war there for that long it better be for something and we better be good sort of out of it i think that's going to happen. more opinions on the afghan war from the big apple in just a few minutes. also ahead a suicide epidemic hits at bankrupt farmers in india as the country faces one of the worst droughts in years we see why families think it's not nature to blame but rather the government. dmitri medvedev his latest interview has dominated the russian press in the last few days during a meeting with the chiefs of the country's three biggest a t.v. stations the president explained why he has decided not to run for the office a second time or to go to peace cannot tell us what he said. well the president's interview with the heads of the three biggest t.v. stations in russia did focus on some of the most

demonstrate and the reason they were demonstrating and and going door to door to get to the wealthiest new yorkers holmes is because at the end of this year two percent millionaire tax will expire meaning that two percent that was required for millionaires to pay they won't have to pay to will complain and twelve and a lot of these new yorkers say that this is an indication of how the wealthiest americans reap the largest rewards and if they're paying if they're going to be paying taxes a lot less revenue is going to be coming to new york city and new york state and then ninety nine percent of the majority of those living here are going to suffer and they say that's just an indication of the richest always reaping the benefits and the rewards and common american always you. suffering the consequences. are reporting their public distrust towards the u.s. government's also growing according to the latest polls more than two thirds of americans now say they're unhappy with washington and he's going to reports the white house and congress are heavily influenced by equally unpopular a powerful corporat

and it was, welcome u.s., we're all new yorkers.ntry going forward and fighting. if we can end this correctly so that we can move on, we will walk ahead with our heads high as new yorkers as well. that's what i hope for. >> final thought, that was a pretty amazing moment for you in your career. i remember talking to you years before that moment and you had told me about certain individuals that you trained for to get ready to possibly be in battle with osama bin laden, the name was out there. saddam hussein's name was out there. you trained for so long and then your moment came. would you say this was one of the most defining moments of your career when you were out there on the stenace leading the attacks? >> certainly it is. on every september 11th, i get e-mails from those i was out there with. it was a deep sense of honor and privilege and pride for representing our country for being called upon to go do that. our main focus was, let us do it right, let us fall back on the training that our country's given us and let's just go o

was generally well reviewed when i came, when it came out but there were very nasty reviews, the new yorkern particular and it never made "the new york times" best seller list. it never won a literary award, it won no prizes, it actually -- when it was published a few months later in england, it went right to the top of the english best seller list and it took mike nichols to make it a u.s. best seller, when mike's 1970 movie. >> rose: you didn't know that? >> it sold 1 million copies in six weeks. >> rose: soow did you -- >> would you please make a movie out of m book. >> rose: 1 million copies in six weeks? >> six weeks. but that is the first time it appeared on a u.s. best seller list. >> wher where were you in your r when this came along? >> i amrying to remember. i think it was after my first few movies, who is afraid of virginia wolf and the graduate, and then the question is, did i slip in casual knowledge before. carnal knowledge before? >> i didn't think so. >> i believe catch 22 .. was 3. my friend john kelley, who just died, was producer of catch 22 because he bought it for me wi