i have a nativity scene with my peabody where the baby jesus would be. but i want to stress this is accurate to what the manager would look like if jesus had won a peabody award. (laughter) >> stephen: an of course, folks, no christmas would be complete without mistle toe. (cheers and applause) oh boy, oh boy. oh, hey. hi there. later. (laughter) so merry christmas, everybody. to all my jewish viewers, happy jesus's birthday. (laughter) nation, folks there are three kinds of people in this world. those who can count, and those who can't. this is tip of the hat wag of the finger. (cheers and applause) first up, folks, the latest edition of the so-called american heritage dictionary has added one of my favorite words. anchor baby which they accurately defined as a child born to a non-citizen moth another a country that grants automatic citizenship to children born on its soil, especially such a child born to parents seeking to secure eventual citizenship. much more accurate than wikipedia which defines them as a child born to a non-citizen moth never a cou

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if i don't smell a peabody, i think i do. >> i hope a peabody is some kind of award and not a euphemism. assuming the story is true, which i will for the purposes of this show, does it prove there is one set of laws for citizens and another set for rappers? >> that's always the case. we have all of this nonsense living under the rule of law and not the rule of men. but the fact is you always live under a system where you rely on the discretion of people and power. i like that the tsa did this. i also doubt it because my experience with the tsa is these guys would steel the weed and then go and smoke. it most are high on-the-job it seems like. one of the worst security forces in the country, not as bad as the atf, but they are pretty bad. you can believe the story or not believe the story. but i hope it is true. >> i hope so too. i hope for a lot of things. sometimes i hope you get hurt, but that's wrong. might this be the most sensible tsa agent ever? by the way, i like the tsa. i fly a lot. i think they are trying to do their best. just covering my bases. >> i showed up to the airport

and peabodie energy soared 14%. >>> further boosting investor spirits, data showing clear signs of economic recovery. the private sector added the most jobs in nearly a year in november. november midwest business activity grew faeser than expected. october contracts to buy homes jumped to a high for the year. november was the best month for auto sales in more than two years. >>> elsewhere, reports say private equity firms blackstone and baincapital have teamed up to bid for yahoo. >>> the salvation army's red kettle has gone high tech. a holiday donation tradition since 1891, now you can host your own red kettle online raising donations from family and friends. making it a little easier for you. >>> coming up, the red wings light the red light. a scary moment in cheerleading. and a top ten college basketball battle. plus, you can argue about whether frisbee is a sport but no arguing this is a major league grab. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> that is pretty incredible. hey, it's the almost end of the week. we'll get you set tore the weekend. you're watching "earl

i spent years going through museum collections and opening up drawers in the basement of the peabody and the american museum of natural history where you are going through masses of artifacts, the striking black on white pottery of the anastazi, what is in this place? but the granary was not mine to open, it was left by other people, a stockpile waiting for their return. as i understand more of the anastazi, it is hard to say they ever truly vanished. the more i track them, it more it seems they are right in front of me until i can feel body heat in their foot steps. it is not unthinkable that somebody might return to this granary, maybe a century from now, relieved to find a sign of ancestry deep in this river gorge. i climbed down to this granary and laid my hand on its stone, feeling the grit of sand and the hardness of rock. a person could be found here in a thousand years, a person kneeling in the moment of decision. i climbed out and went back to my career, the obsidian night closing around me. i climbed into the canoe and swept the paddle across the water, setting a wake acros

figure who is also known to be linked to washington national endowment for democracy and recent peabody's so he's actually found himself in the center of a lot of scandal where some of his phone conversations were leaked into the internet and when he talked about some of his fellow opposition leaders described them really using some obscene language there's also figures like. who's a blogger on active anticorruption activists a serious critic of the kremlin but he's also known for his often aggressive and sometimes even nationalist oriented speeches resize them they're also going to long to be celebrities some. journalist public figures including even the first and last presidents of the u.s.s.r. . by your. thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update the work has been off there. to the stories now the christian world is getting ready for christmas but there is little festive spirit in syria the capital is recovering from a two suicide blast which left over forty people dead and more than one hundred injured the arab league is searching for a solution to the crisis and trying to fi

. >> if you could win $700 in groceries delivered to your door by peabody by giant the liver. -- by giant. log on to our facebook page. >>> it is the year of katie couric. celebrities will talk about the highs and lows of the year. >> i am really passionate about life. i am really passionate about using the second chance i have been given at life's. that is one thing. to be a survivor and not a victim. >> you can watch the year with katie couric at 9:00 tonight followed by abc7 news at eleven o'clock. >>> coming up -- >> is it business as usual? why protesters say a local business is sparking issues. >> drudge. -- drama. >> and the golden globe nominees are >> of hollywood was buzzing with the golden globe nominations today. >> who is in and who is out? we have the details. >> the year of the senate bill might have ended 80 years ago -- of the silent film might have ended eight years ago but ironically a film about silent films won eight nominations, among them best comedy or musical. >> "the help" about black servants in the pre civil war south. a 12-year-old was nominated as george cloo

today's visit took us to del rio botanical farm in yolo county, where suzanne peabody ashworth was keen to get restaurants to start trying the fresh fava beans and greens she's growing. >> so we'll take some of these greens into a couple of restaurants this morning and see what the chefs want to do with them. in sacramento, there's been an explosion of restaurants over the past 4 or 5 years in our capital. again, sacramento, california, agriculture, fruits and vegetables--there's a very bice link there and the interest that my customers have in this produce. >> we call at 5:30 in the morning and get the normal order, a then, along about 7:30, we get the emergency orders. and if the phone doesn't ring between 7:30 and 8:30, it's a really wonderful day. but if it rings around 7:30 or 7:45, we then have to hustle around and make sure that we have enough for jim, who's always early and picking it up and geing out to the restaurants real quick. [indistinct talking] >> so we've got salad greens today, fava greens. >> her fava beans and boxes of her braise mix were eagerly received at the magp

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do they give out peabodys for this? >> i think so. >> it allegedly surpassed auto accidents as the leading cause of accidental deaths. according to the national center for health statistics, yes, that national center for health statistics, they died from what they called poisoning in 2008 versus 38,000 who died in traffic accidents. and nine out of ten of those came from prescription drug overdoses with the most being things like vie co -- vicodin, oxycontin 1k3* per cassette. >> this is just the tip of the iceberg of the prescription drug abuse problem. the take home here is this should be a wake up call. whatever. for more on the benefits of pill popping let's go to tripsy the owl. what do you have for us? >> somebody is on ecstasy. so, kimberly, have we become a nation of pill popping nincompoops. >> we have. we have doctors that are just prescription junkies themselves who write them for anybody who ask for them. in fact, people who know the doctors that do that and pass the name along. people are more drug addicted

climate change, but that was before he ran for president and took hundreds of thousands of dollars from peabodylobal warming is occurring." this is something of a pattern throughout the gop field, and it may yet prove to president obama's benefit. for more on this, i'm joined now by tim dickinson, who covers national affairs for "rolling stone" magazine and focuses on the republican race in the latest edition of the magazine. good afternoon, tim. >> good afternoon. >> with the economy in such dire straits, one might have assumed that this election was there for the taking. and yet you seem to be suggesting in your piece that the policies promoted by these republicans make them almost unelectable. how so? >> well, don't just take my word on this. this is a man who knows of which he speaks, pat robertson, has called the way that the republicans are tripping over themselves to the right to appeal to the base voters of the republican party a loserous game, and if they keep it up, they're going to lose the general election, because they've adopted policy positions that would give full constitutional

lucy peabody, the asn'ciegioats vice regent, had preferred to get results rather than grab headlines. she believed that only as a national park could mesa verde be properly saved for future generations and now felt compelled to resign from the association. wien hpo wert many other members including some of the group's most nationally prominent women. mcclurg, once the darling of the press found herself disparaged in newspaper editorials. smith: there was a sadness in all this. at the moment of your greatest achievement, you lose it. i--i think it's a normal reaction. this becomes so possessive with her that to have it within your grasp, right there, and it's gone. coyote: on june 29, 1906 president roosevelt signed the law creating mesa verde national park, the first of its kind, meant to celebrate not majestic natural scenery but a prehistoric culture and its people. with mesa verde protected, anger over richard wetherill's excavations at chaco canyon in new mexico boiled over and set in motion events that would change the course of park history. smith: the bill for mesa verde was ju

luck but i have a speak news spigs that you'll be back because i raided your desk and stole your peabodypin and i'm keeping your badge clip. >> hey, t.j. good luck in your endeavors. we're going to miss you around here at cnn overnights. >> bye, t.j.! >> bye, man! going to miss you! >> what more proof do you need to know that people adore you. not just in the world of tv but it also transcends into politics. maria cardona was kind enough to wish you good-bye, also. >> t.j., i just want to say thank you, my friend. have you been a true friend. you have been the consummate professional. you have been one of the highlights of my weekends every single weekend for about a year-and-a-half. the listeners, the audience, the viewers, the voters love you. they love your professionalism. they love your energy. they love our segments together with my friend lenny. and i just want to thank you for giving us the opportunity for a very high-level intellectual debate that is always focused on the issues, is always fun, and is always energetic. >> see? i mean it is incredible. you got a lot of people on

go and look how they cut a peabody. go and look at what other people do. was reminded by this in part by this fabulous quotation you have of the former president of io, where you say -- it's fantastic. you are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know. i'd love you to elaborate on that because i felt that was very inspiring. >> i waited for our giamatti's freshmen incoming speech every year. and then his baccalaureate speech. and then i approached him. i made it clear that i am ripping them off as fast as i can. it was real -- it was real alloyed within the best kind. and he is a very literary figure. he's a renaissance scholar and he would give wonderfully wise speeches to incoming freshmen and those who are leaving you know. it would also say to them if they did, i think that was a baccalaureate speech in which he said, do not become hostage to the orthodoxy of others as you leave here. and at that point, we were going through the jerry falwell, pat robertson influence in american politics and the moral majority. and he found that tyrann

nixon peabody. you went to a lower white-collar firm in india. we went to a blue-collar firm, dupont, and the world's biggest recall effort, the u.s. army. and we asked all four of them the same question, what are you looking for? as i said, they're looking for people look at a critical thinking and problem solving in order to get an interview because what all for action licking for, they explained, are people who can not only do the job, this complex task, but invent, reinvent, and reengineer the job as they're doing it because when the world gets this hyper connected change happen so quickly that the big boss of the above, he or she cannot possibly know what is going on. therefore they need every employee to actually be an innovator. so, for instance, we interviewed ahead of this washington law firm. the first thing he said is we just hired a chief innovation officer. what? the law firm went out and bought the chief innovation officer. what is that about? >> well, i interviewed him in the two dozen days of progresses, the middle of it. and at t

. >> host: you used kidder peabody as -- >> guest: yeah. he had worked there. i was being pushed by people to put all the facts in, and every now and then, you know, you have to be very careful because if people don't want anyone to know who they are, it's very hard to tell a story like this and make it accurate yet at the same time protect people. i remember when i wrote this book, there was one chapter which takes place in hong kong where there was a hong kong businessman, and the main character called me and said you have to get rid of this chapter. and i was like, why, and he goes, because that guy's notorious for killing journalists. and i was like, all right, that chapter's gone. [laughter] just like that. i tried to disguise who he was, he's a wonderful guy, he's done very well. he's a billionaire by now. but he wasn't in bermuda. he's out there and still trading. >> host: ben mezrich is our guest on "in depth." charlie in huntersville, north carolina, you're on booktv. >> caller: hi. i'm enjoying the interview very much, thank you. and thank you for c-s