>> niels: hello, it's niels. cheers. >> anthony: cheers. i'm learning.ll know how to drink. niels is a danish renaissance man. drinker, sailor, charter tour boat operator, musician. so you were a neighbor of uh, rene and noma. >> niels: i've known him from the absolute beginning. and when noma -- can we start now? >> anthony: yeah, we're going. well what did you think of him when you first met him? >> niels: i saw an ordinary man, he fight for what he think about. >> anthony: he had a vision. >> niels: yeah. a vision. he have a vision and fight for this. >> rene: all right, very close to, uh, bitters. >> chefs: yeah! >> rene: nicely done, chef. >> niels: look at the beautiful girl, there. here we go. >> anthony: what was that? >> niels: gammel dansk. >> anthony: what's in it? >> niels: it's gammel dansk! >> anthony: i know, but what is that? >> niels: i don't know exactly how you make that. but this has been drinking in denmark for many years. >> waitress: so, we have gammel dansk. >> alessandro: it's a liquor. >> waitress: so, it's a danish bitter that

niel, back to you. neil: all right, jo ling kent, thank you so much.thers make it look good and some make it look bad. the more important thing right now is the x box 360 pointed it out. why is microsoft doing this, getting rid of the console? charles: generate the demand. neil: 360 rise in value? i only ask because my boys have 700 of them. [laughter] charles: it is, it happens all of the time. neil: on the housing thing i'm confused. we get a lot data with housing than we used to but the latest one is pretty good. it's a slowdown that worry us earlier on or this sudden surge in existing homesales? charles: i think it's a combination of things. number one, number one most important as we are still not getting the new buyer, historically that's a 40% number, we are still hubering around 30%. now, on one hand, you can say that's good. they will start to trickle in as the economy gets better and millennials move out of the basement. so construction workers are coming on. you look at the report, the construction jobs are really starting starting starting

moynihan,niel patrick who lived on capitol hill, dislike a lot of the modern architecture that was going on. and during the winter when they were working on the building, they actually covered it with spring, theyn the took the plastic down. and the senator introduced a resolution asking to put the plastic backup. frankly, people have got used to the building over the years. it is a comfortable building. unlike the russell building that has an open-air courtyard, the hart building has an open air at three him. it is a great space all year round. but it was a desperately empty space. when you first came to this building before, and think of the constructive in the afternoon, it was just a vast, empty space. they knew that they needed something in there to fill that space. was commissioned to do something specifically for .he space in the heart aetrium and he created a comment that but they hover over the mountains. they refilled the space and created a nice area for all the class pictures. that was constructed in the 1980's extra u.s. senator named nicholas brady from new jersey who raise

. >> our guests are mike and niels. you are up first. >> thanks for joining us today. year in a unique position for a really hot button issue right now. -- you are in a unique position for a really hot button issue right now. you are a technologist by trade. you've taken a deep interest in that industry. there is a grand national debate right now about encryption. your colleagues on the intelligence committee are working on legislation to address this issue. can you give us enough on that legislation -- an update on that legislation? >> it's going to start to circulate real-time and i'm looking forward to reviewing it. i have the norm's both richard and diane. respect for richard and diane. this is an area that i've spent a lot of time trying to think through. i have a background in telecom and i.t. we started looking at the question around digital security. encryption is part of that but -- it is going to be a minor compared to the debate that arises as we move into the so-called internet of things. when we start thinking of everyday appliances having cameras and sens

niel gives account on how allies sabotaged nazi effort. cheryl casone after lengthy absences in the comeback and in ruthless examines the sciencology, watch for the authors in the near future on book tv. >> so i called my -- the social life of dna after the work of an anthropologist, now 30 plus years ago called the social life of things and he suggested to us that it was by following things in motion, right, that we can illuminate human and social contact. so i wanted to understand why genetic ancestry testing was significant not only for individual identity and family history but beyond as well. so the social life of dna for me means two things, it means the way in which forms of genetic analysis travel between social sites and domain, which i will say a little more about, and the multiple uses of one type of genetic analysis is set. so we tend to think of forms of genetic testing and analysis in these domains, right? we typically -- i think researchers, regular -- regulatory bodies, recreational genetics and used for family-court settin

welcome, niel.applause] >> thank you all very much and specially professor roz thank you for writing this book. i think, you know, doing education policy all of the time that threats to basic rights in public school is not a subject that gets nearly enough attention, all sorts of questions about what we teach, how we teach it and how kids interact, those are all sort of been pushed aside with a session over test scores, everything is what is the test scores, what is the test scores, fbi way, what are the test scores, and these are topics that we absolutely need to talk about. now, i think there may be some collision between people who run schools and the public transportation system in dc trying to keep people away from today's event by closing down viently the metro but we will see. [laughter] >> within the book i appreciate the discussion of dangerous federal overreach, i have done work on the federal role and education but the specially the antibullying 2010 dear colleague letter and someone in t

niels? >> i wanted to transition of something of interest to your constituents in northern virginia as well as everyone who sort of lives and works in the washington metropolitan area. which is the state of the public transportation system that we metro around here. and somee been reports discussion that there may be entire lines that may need to be timedown for weeks at a for massive repairs. its -- in is now at its 40th anniversary. and what do you think is the of whatrole in terms needs to be done, and also, what -- one of the issues has been with the state governments. governor inbe the virginia. what does everyone need to contribute, and is there any happen?hat's going to >> let me take this in two bites. first of all, as a longtime beenrter of metro, i've really disturbed and frankly angered at the failure to enforce a culture of safety. years back,mber of the horrible tragedy in maryland where a number of individuals killed, a little over a year ago. we saw the incident where at the p