. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> my name is peter stein. lifelong friend of milton marks and his family at least going back a generation and it's really my honor today on behalf of milton's family, friends and his wife abbey and his sons and nathan and will and theo and you will be hearing from this afternoon. it's really my honor to welcome you to this commennation of the life and spirit of our irreplaceable friend miltion marks. today we will hear tributes and memories from those that knew milton in many aspects of his life and work, and i think together these memories and tributes will begin to form a mosaic of the multi-dimensional man he was. i use that word because i wrote it yesterday afternoon want thinking of the mosaic of words, and the word cloud that abbey and will and you collaborated on to express the many dimensions of milton markses and you can look at those expressions of milton and likely add your own. like i said you will be from a number of folks giving their thoughts and tributes to milton today and please

the most famous is probably woodward and burn stein after watergate. peter baker of the "new york times," he was there covering the monica lewinsky affair from beginning to end and ended up writing a book about that and went on, he's a distinguished reporter now at the "new york times." >> greg: yeah. even go back to the valerie plain. that was made into like a vanity fair large article, then a tv show. >> many books, several books about it. >> greg: did anybody die from that? did anybody die from watergate? you have four people die, yet this story is seen as a nonstory. journalists should realize that somebody famous could end up playing you in a movie. they're that shallow. maybe that would work. >> they have to play that game. they could send around who would play me in a movie. there was a so-called scandal during the bush administration towards the end when nine u.s. attorneys who served at the pleasure of the president, which means you can be fired for waking up in the morning and saying boo. they were asked to resign. they moved on. there were four he

watch the full version of the debate between third party candidates jill stein and gary johnson on our website at r t dot com now peter lindsay who is running for the u.s. presidency as a candidate for the party for socialism and that liberation says that her aim is to give voters an alternative that's not influenced by corporate finance who are running to expose the elections and to give voters an alternative to talk about how you know from our perspective changes never come from the elections never come from the politicians change comes from building the movement in the two party system is really just a form of class rule you know it's a way for the one percent to exercise their almost unlimited domination of the political and economic system in this country you know obama and romney are spending like two point five billion dollars which first off what a tremendous waste you know i've been in new york doing relief work for hurricane sandy you know there are forty thousand people who become homeless as a result of this hurricane what could those people do with a two point five billion dollars you know why are we usin

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>> my name is peter stein. i'm a lifelong friend of milton marks and his family at least going back a generation and it's really my honor today on behalf of milton's family, friends and his wife abbey and his sons and nathan and will and theo and you will be hearing from this afternoon. it's really my honor to welcome you to this commennation of the life and spirit of our irreplaceable friend miltion marks. today we will hear tributes and memories from those that knew milton in many aspects of his life and work, and i think together these memories and