half the world as the saying went back when this was the capital of persia and beyond.ridges and mosques dating back to the middle ages. ♪ >> where are you from? >> usa. from america. where are you from? from, isfahan or from tehran? >> tehran. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, too. >> yes, hello. >> welcome. >> thank you. thank you so much. very beautiful. ♪ >> i'm guessing from the decor, this is a former wrestler's hangout? ♪ ♪ tucked deep in the labyrinth of the bazaar, the smell of something very, very good. this shop has been here doing the same thing for a hundred years. and based on the line, it must be doing it right. i've had biryani in india. i had it in uzbekistan but there's no question who invented it. >> no. >> biryani. maybe you know the word. though this doesn't look like any biryani i ever had. minced lamb shoulder, onion, tumeric, cinnamon, mint, and of course, saffron, more valuable than gold by weight. this is delicious. >> very good. >> isfahan today one of the most visited areas by tourists. >> yeah, everybody know if you go to tehran, you

it comes from the guitar family in persia. it's the ancestor of the lute and the guitar family. is actually the most prominent instrument in arabic music, and it's as valuable as the piano for the western composer or performer. as far as i'm concerned, this is one of the greatest instruments in the world. it's very dear to me. ♪ her cheeks were like the lily white ♪ ♪ that bloom in yonder valley oh. ♪ (narrator) the human voice is perhaps the most flexible of all instruments. [singing traditional japanese music] [choir singing] the great variety of vocal timbres found around the world are reflected both in how singers render individual pitches and how they place their voices. ♪ i know i've been changed. ♪ (lausevic) there are so many elements that create a particular type of sound that are much more variable than when you're plucking an instrument or playing an instrument in which you have an expected sound. there is some aspect of the voice that is unique to each person. [singing doleful melody] when you're talking about vocal timbre, you need to think about whether the sound i

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and the -- the history between persia -- persian shia and arab world and arab shia is complicated.emember, iraq and iran had a ten-year war -- eight to ten-year war. people were gassed. iranians did not respond with gas. there are a lot of interesting facets of how that played out. and yes, iran's influence has spread at this moment and we're deeply concerned about it but if -- if you are concerned about it now, think of what happens -- and i hear this -- we heard it in the florida house recently, and you hear it elsewhere, if they have a nuclear weapon and they were doing that. that's why this administration believes the first step is to prevent the access to the nuclear weapon or prevent their ability to develop a nuclear weapon. and that's our goal first to try to do that diplomatically. and if it cannot be achieved diplomatically, then we all have a lot of options available to us. but we are eyes wide open with respect to what is happening, and all of those issues we have made it clear to those in the region and elsewhere in the world, they don't disappear. if we are all satisf

instead his legacy is going to be a horrible war precipitated by the ineptness and incompetence toward persia. >> it certainly could be, but let's say republican president is elected and sworn in in january in 2017. do you think that the republican president, if that is the case, do you think that that person would nullify that executive order? what is that due to the other nations were involved in this negotiation right now i'm. >> what they stated and i read this back in 1984 and i read this one, this one is accurate because if it doesn't involve the congress and the senate specifically, it has no force other than an executive order signed by the president. every new president comes in and reissues those executive orders or cancel them. but my point is that this does not change a thing on the ground, because there's no one deal he can do inside that is going to change the outcome for the sunni states that feel threatened by the persians and i call it, the bottom line of all of this is the possibility of a major war and airstrikes against iran have gone up dramatically. kennedy: colonel, goo

the tiny city-states of greece were threatened by persia, one of the greatest powers of the ancient world. twice they inved. in 490 b.c., the persians were repelled. in 480 b.c., the persians reached athens, sacking the city and reducing the acpolis to rns. greeks from rival city-states banded together for the first time to defeaeir enemy, a all odds. aeschylus pressed the athenians' fervor: "sons of the greeks, go forward and set free your father's country. now is the one battle for everything." the united greeks were triumphant. herodotus captured their spirit: "freedom-- you have never tried to know how sweet it is. if you had, you would urge us to fight for it, not only with our spears but even with our hatchets." for the greeks, man was no longer at the mercy of external forces. his own actions could alter the world around him. man took his place as preeminent in the world order. on the island of aegina near athens this new idea of humanism can be seen just as it was emerging at the temple of aphaia. the pediments show scenes of the trojan war. the west pediment was sculpted about 50

until we recognize that fundamental reality, persia iran is rebuilding an empire to baghdad.he kurds are fighting to survive. iraq doesn't work. sorry i don't like this. if you don't have boots on the ground you don't get a vote you don't have full instinct. speculation that vladimir putin was behind the assassination of his most vocal kritd tick. this grainy recording is the only video that appears to show the actual murder. the kremlin is considered the most watched location in that country. many of the cameras in plain view most of them were pointed away from the bridge at the time. >> back at home civil rights leaders in los angeles calling for an indpent investigation into the deadly shooting of a homeless man. >> police are defending the shooting saying the man reached for an officer's gun. new video before the shots were fired show the man slipping a tent into the street injuring someone inside. well the struggle began when police and paramedics show up. investigators say officers tried to subdue the man with a taser and baton but he still resisted. >> gives the office

jews celebrate surviving annihilatory threat in ancient persia. lou: i believe the scroll of esther will be read. >> i just came from reading it. we're supposed to drink a lot. lou: and you get on repeat the practice, i believe. i didn't want to show off anymore. >> that's very impressive. lou: thank you very much, and i'm going to quit while i'm ahead. >> i'll make you a rabbi. lou: i will stay a student. very happy in that role. >> thank you. lou: thank you, taylor swift's music moves you, some more than others. we'll explain in a moment. and it appears president obama thinks his last executive fiat was so successful he's going to just keep on, keep on and keep keeping on. he's got the second amendment in his sights the head of the national rifle association joins us next, wayne lapierre. [ female announcer ] who are we? we are the thinkers. the job jugglers. the up all-nighters. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we've made our passions our life's work. we strive for the moments where we can say, "i did it!" ♪ ♪ we are entrepreneurs who s

syria, it was the great empire that stretched from persia to the footsteps of greece to the west.u look at the list with a magnifying glass. and first libraries. this really was the civilization. >> so to see what they are doing now to this but priceless antiquities on the black market but public display, they destroy antiquities. it's devastating to see this. >> it feels, when i first heard it it was like a kick in the gut who know this part of the world. but something about this not surprising. we've seen them debase humanity in the last several years and we should say lots of conquerererss destroy places they conquer. and japan did not bomb. and saddam knew we wouldn't so there were bases next to war in the south and babylon. there was a change in the rules and laws of war. >> there is a religious justification and follows their interpretation. >> i think this has been misunderstood in the way it's been discussed. what are they after? the simplest level, they want to erase it. simply before the birth. they want to stick it to jews and christians and sort of erase the legacy of

rather than iranians, but i was given the impression that within tehran, which is the capital of persia, there is, in fact, a thriving jewish community, and this is so conflicted to the presentation that the media gives to me, as a jew. jew by birth -- my mother was jewish. that is one thing. the other thing i cannot figure is how come they routinely show people purportedly minute -- manipulating radioactive material, and they're were in a fiber-cotton mask to protect themselves -- wearing a fiber-top and -- fiber-cotton mask to protect themselves from nuclear toxins? none of that makes any sense. maybe ruben could elaborate on that. thank you so much. guest: daniel, thank you very much for your question. first of all, as a republican, i should not do this, but in defense of secretary of state john kerry, one of the things we need to recognize is there is no magic formula in the middle east and not everything that is occurring in the middle east is sickly reaction to what the night -- is simply a reaction to what the united states has done. that said, there are impacts and our policies

sunni arabs won't allow shia persias in iran to have a nuclear economy. eliminating nuclear iran is a blessing to the world. >> hunt: if sanctions don't work does that mean force is next? >> if you attack iran you opened pandora's box, if they get a nuclear weapon, you emptied the box. the economic pain has to be sufficient burks if they don't believe we'll attack them as last resort they will press forward. here's what i worry about the most, look what they're doing without a nuclear. the iranians have destabilized four arab capitals. took the pro american government back in the how houthis. 220 people have been killed in syria. shia militia running wildl in baghdad, in iraq and lebanon is controlled by hezbollah. if you believe in sanctions and gave them more money, i would argue they would not build school houses and hospitals, they would invest in the havoc they're wreaking and build more nuclear weapons. >> hunt: i.s.i.l you mentioned in the beginning what differentiates you from the other possible republican candidates is you want to put boots on th

the history between persia and arab world shia is complicated. remember, iraq and iran had a 10 year war. people were gassed. iranians did not respond. there are a lot of interesting facets as to how that played out. iran's influence spread, and we are deeply concerned about it. if you are concerned about it now, think about what happens. we heard this in the floor of the house, and you heard it else where. if they had a nuclear weapon, that's why the administration believes the first step is to prevent access to nuclear weapon or develop a nuclear weapon. that's our goal, to try to do that diplomatically, and if it can't be achieved diplomatically, we have a lot of options available to us. we are eyes wide open with respect to what is happening. we have made it clear to our friends in the region and elsewhere they don't disappear. if we were to get an agreement we still have these other issues with iran. we will need to be working on the ways in which members will be coming here to washington in the next month to continue the dialogue we had in

if you look at it, persia is in control -- or iran has their fingers and everything.y, what has iran done in the last 40 or 50 years that we can trust them? host: thank you, michael. guest: let's be quick, and the initial world work. -- in the initial wcold word period, we trained iranian security forces and put together and they were our main allies in the region. it was only in 1979 when iran took over and became an enemy of the united states. at that point, the united states shifted the alliance from iran to saudi arabia. of course, we are interested in securing the oil in saudi arabia and the persian gulf in the shipping lanes, and iran is situated purposely to do so. we did so through iran and when they became anti-america, we switched to saudi arabia. it is not really about persians and arabs, but it is about short-term geopolitical interest in the area. host: james makes this point on twitter, go with the dictators and forget about democratizing anyone. guest: well, to tell the truth the democracy is not on the front line. it is just a question of trying to fin

also, there are countries at the table listening to the details about iran who was persia at one time. no decision has been made yet. we need to learn how to be patient and wait to hear about the decision. and not run off to war to fight with iran, syria, and anybody else. i do not want to see my sons in either one of these wars. that is my opinion. thank you for the call. guest: as it relates to the prime minister's speech to congress, it is undeniable israel has an interest. it is also undeniable that israel is not at the table. it is, i think, perfectly normal for a leader of the country that feels it faces an exit essential threat to its very existence from iran to be concerned. whether or not his speech to congress was a good thing or changed anyone's mind, i think it is very open to debate. i am not sure. i was away when the speech was given. i saw a little bit from my hotel in switzerland. if anyone has changed their minds regarding the negotiations as a result of the speech. clearly, i have not pulled everybody and i do not know. it seems to me to have entrenched positions eve

rather than iranians, but i was given the impression that within tehran, which is the capital of persiaere is, in fact, a thriving jewish community, and this is so conflicted to the presentation that the media gives to me, as a jew. jew by birth -- my mother was jewish. that is one thing. the other thing i cannot figure is how come they routinely show people purportedly minute -- manipulating radioactive material, and they're were in a fiber-cotton mask to protect themselves -- wearing a fiber-top and -- fiber-cotton mask to protect themselves from nuclear toxins? none of that makes any sense. maybe ruben could elaborate on that. thank you so much. guest: daniel, thank you very much for your question. first of all, as a republican, i should not do this, but in defense of secretary of state john kerry, one of the things we need to recognize is there is no magic formula in the middle east and not everything that is occurring in the middle east is sickly reaction to what the night -- is simply a reaction to what the united states has done. that said, there are impacts and our policies i wi

also, there are countries at the table listening to the details about iran who was persia at one time. no decision has been made yet. we need to learn how to be patient and wait to hear about the decision. and not run off to war to fight with iran, syria, and anybody else. i do not want to see my sons in either one of these wars. that is my opinion. thank you for the call. guest: as it relates to the prime minister's speech to congress, it is undeniable israel has an interest. it is also undeniable that israel is not at the table. it is, i think, perfectly normal for a leader of the country that feels it faces an exit essential threat to its very existence from iran to be concerned. whether or not his speech to congress was a good thing or changed anyone's mind, i think it is very open to debate. i am not sure. i was away when the speech was given. i saw a little bit from my hotel in switzerland. if anyone has changed their minds regarding the negotiations as a result of the speech. clearly, i have not pulled everybody and i do not know. it seems to me to have entrenched positions eve

the history between persia, the persian shia and arab world and arab shia is complicated. iraq and iran had a 10 year war. people were gassed. iranians did not respond with gas. there were a lot of interesting facets of how that played out. iran's influence has bred at this moment and we are deeply concerned about it -- has spread at this moment and we are deeply concerned about it. think of what happens -- we heard it recently and you hear it elsewhere. if they had a nuclear weapon and they were doing that. that's why this administration believes the first step is to prevent the access to the nuclear weapon or prevent their ability to develop a nuclear weapon. that is our goal. first, to try to do that diplomatically. if it cannot be achieved diplomatically we have a lot of options available to us. we are i slight open with respect to what's happening and all of those issues, we have made it clear, they don't disappear. -- we are eyes wide open. we still have all these other issues with iran. we will all need to be working on the ways in which -- gcc members will be comin