>> as you can see, george orwell was live and well in puerto rico. have a situation where a man is in jail for 25 years followed by fbi agents. his body was so stripped or striped with burns, he looks like it and flipped over on a barbecue, if you will. you have the head of the cuban radiology, cuban cancer association, a world-renowned radiologist, who went and diagnosed him as having been undergoing radiation. you had a geiger counter that broke when it was approached -- put in proximity to his body. you had an x-ray film with a paper clip when it was placed on his skin, the paperclip irradiated on the image onto the x-ray. amy: quickly, what happened in the jail cell? he described what it was like with lights flashing. you thought this was at night. >> there's a woman who won the pulitzer prize for book called "the plutonium files." she found this close and they agreed there had been undisclosed experiments conducted for about 40 years from the 1940's or 30 years -- to the 1970's, of 16,000 that were found for stub 16,000 unwilling subjects, inclu

paul was first out of the gate with a clinton-themed classic replete with dystopian cliches because orwelldicted the future where tv is giant never in color and for some reason outside. (laughter) rnc chairman priebus was prepared with a humorous clinton-themed thumb drive attack. and presidential candidate ted cruz was also prepared. >> hillary clinton represents the failed policies of the past. >> jon: are you [bleep] kidding me? rand paul has got sachi an sachiÑi priebus is manufacturing premiums and are you banging out a quick vine on the set of what looks like a 1970s porno shoot? (laughter) can we zoom out on that? oh! i knew it! i knew it! decapitating a panda. first time i saw cruz i said to myself i bet that guy chops up pandas. he taped that in a panda chopping dungeon. and of course the pundits were not impressed wnsd she has tremendous baggage. i mean do american people really want another four or eight years of clintons an their weird marriage? (laughter) >> jon: maybe, maybe i'm old-fashioned-- i want a presidentñr that is part of aÑi couple i can get along with. maybe later

burma, now myanmar, where orwell once served as a colonial policeman, where he first had grown to despisecurity state, became more orwellian than even he could have imagined, in a nation where even having an opinion coulding dangerous. >> i am very honored to be here at this university and to be the first president of the united states of america to visit your country. >> morning in yangon, to nearly everyone's surprise, there have been some huge changes in recent months. >> difficult time in transition is when we think that success is -- >> nobel prizewinning democracy champion, aung san suu kyi, after 15 years in house arrest, was released, now taking an active role in politics. just as the door's opening, our crew is the first to see what has been unseen for decades by most of the world. meanwhile, this southeast asian country of 80 million people is collectively holding its breath, waiting to see what's next, and will this loosening of government grip last? of course, morning in yangon has always been about tea. it's black indian-style tea, usually with a thick dollop of sweetened con

then i would go back and read george orwell.ovel but we collection of essays and it's about political issues and he was one of the greatest political essayist of all times. c-span: david brooks has been our guest, you can read his new book available for pre-order on amazon even now and also in "the new york times" twice a week. thank you for talking about this with us. >> guest: it is a pleasure ♪ ♪ >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qa.org. this is also available via c-span podcast. >> cory gardner said you need to be firm and your principles but flexible in the details and i think that it reflects the harsh polarization we are seeing across the country and the methodology that all the senators and congressmen and women all the state legislatures can adopt we can come together and solve these issues. >> my favorite quote came from the secretary of the senate giuliana too says a member to be humble and have a strong work ethic. the kinds of people that you meet on the way up you w

government do in those cipa courts would have made orwell, stasi and even the nazi courts be envious, okay? let me give you a couple of examples of what they can legally do. under section 6 of cipa and i'm going to come back to section 5, a key one, even when the court says yes you can bring this evidence forward, the prosecutors have to agree what language you can use. in other words they can intervene and say, like, for example, i can't tell you the four agencies i worked with. even in trial i couldn't say it. i could say four clandestine security agencies. if i wanted to say i got a call from -- i'll make up a name from that genre of time i'm not suggesting it is true. but let's assume i was meeting with george tenet, the head of the cia at the time, i couldn't say, i had this assurance from george tenet the head of cia. what i would be allowed to say is i met with the senior government official. now, you guys know in front of a jury that specificity leads to credibility. and i would think that it is much more credible if i was going to make a claim that i met with george tenet tha

i read george orwell's animal farm.n earth. i think the years since my departure yaeb been vindicated. anyone who tries to create a perfect society on earth is bound to become a tyrant. that's what any islamist will be what it becomes. >> thank you for joining us with your expertise. >> thank you. >>> all right. meanwhile, coming up, trying to drop that winter weight fast? put on a couple of pounds? celebrity trainer joel harper shows us how to quadruple your weight loss in 15 minutes. that's dr. oz's trainer. he knows what he's doing. ♪ we're here today asking kids what their favorite vegetable is. kids? [ crickets chirping ] now we're gonna give those same kids bush's baked beans. [ kids ] mmmm... finally, we're gonna tell them that bush's baked beans are actually a veg-- tut-tut-tut. ix-nay on the egetable-vay. oh, right. bush's secret family recipe gives them a delicious flavor so they're a [whispers] vegetable that kids actually like. bush's baked beans. the [whispers] vegetable that kids love. >>> you know what ti

. >> reporter: britain's wartime prime minister winston churchill, george orwell and even the authoregacy that will get most interest. a woman who changed the royal family and became a global superstar. and there it is again, diana's signature on the end of her will there. isn't that just amazing? and 20 -- almost 20 years ago she died. it just seems incredible guys that all this time has passed. of course i'm standing here outside buckingham palace waiting for kate to go into the hospital and give birth to her second child. and it's something really special about that couple getting ready for that moment with everything that's gone on in william's wife before. >> all the things she's missed that has to be one of the most precious grand kids. keir thank you. appreciate it. >>> now we have a special kickoff to a week we're doing here on "today" called make your today. we are making viewers' dreams come true. yes, that is elvis music you hear. it's no accident. we are starting by announcing the finalists for our ultimate elvis wedding. >> on thursday one lucky couple will become the fi