richard smith comes up next as hi, are we still on for tomorrow? tomorrow. quick look at the weather. nice day, beautiful tomorrow. tomorrow is full of promise. we can come back tomorrrow. and we promise to keep it that way. driven to preserve the environment, csx moves a ton of freight nearly 450 miles on one gallon of fuel. what a day. can't wait til tomorrow. lou: fannie mae and freddie mac reaching an agreement with lenders to expand access to mortgages, don down payments as low as 3%. herewith the outlook on the housing industry and factors that are influencing the market we have richard smith, the chairman and ceo and president of his holdings corporation. some of the biggest names in real estate are represented, including coldwell banker and a lot more. let's start with the help of this industry and the housing industry. how would you judge it? >> we are continuing the recovery that essentially began in 2011 and 2012 or you are we in third or the sixth inning and let's hope that it doesn't go an extra inning. i think that we are probably in the third

lou: richard smith, as always it is good to see you. we wish you all the best. and it's time for a quick look at our online poll results print we asked whether you believe the central message of tuesday's quote, that it's for bipartisan legislative action as so many seem to insist with an urgent demand to halt the presidents agenda. 94% said that you had no problem at all discerning the message to halt the obama agenda. go to tonight's poll. you believe that president obama will alter his attitude? his demeanor and rhetoric to more effectively deal with what is now a republican-led congress? we would like to hear from you. cast your vote at loudobbs.com. coming up next, he helped republicans take the senate both in colorado and doing a lot for the average age of the u.s. senate. >> tonight we commit ourselves to building a government we can be proud of again. lou: kory gartner on the whether the republican-led congress and senate begins. and my commentary tonight on hope and change in washington dc coming up next. synchrony financial partners with over two hundr

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now, historian and newshour regular richard norton smith has written a new biography. n terms: a life of nelson rockefeller." i talked to him recently. richard norton smith, welcome back to the "newshour". >> thanks. good to be here. >> woodruff: you surely now know more about nelson rockefeller than any living person on the planet. you spent 14 years working on this book. why does he deserve so much of your time and talent? >> oh, gosh! well, he's an enormous figure, obviously, in the history of the republican party and in the history of the 20th century. i'll bet you very few of your viewers know he's the father of n.a.t.o. at the u.n. conference in 1945, a very young diplomat nelson rockefeller was responsible for mending the u.n. charter to allow for the creation of defensive military alliances. that's n.a.t.o. the history of the cold war and the 20th century would have been very different had it been otherwise. >> woodruff: and so much more. he came from this larger-than-life family. his graduate was a founder of standard oil. he was clearly shaped by his family bu

richard smith, thanks for joining us. the ceo of realogy holdings. >>> okay.oil market and breaking news at the new york merck with jackie deangelis. >> good morning. oil prices moving slightly lower here. we were up about $1. now about 70 cents after the department of energy announced a half a million barrel build for last month. that is less than traders were expecting. that's why we're down a little bit. peter is one of the floor traders here. i want to talk about the price action we've seen in crude since we hit 75 and change yesterday. we've bounced back up. this is less than we've seen over the last few weeks. where do you expect these prices to go? >> it was pretty close to what was expected. that's why we don't see the market trading wildly right now. in the beginning of the week, we had panic selling to the downside. that's the type of scenarios we had. we got the same old news we've had from the saudis that they want to attack north american production. i just keep thinking that a year from now, if you look at the long-term charts, might they get mor

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victoria smith was shot to death then set on fire inside of a vacant townhome in southeast d.c. richard reeve shows how smith's family is trying to find leads. >> yes, yes, yes. >> and emotional day for the family of latroia smith. >> we are not going anywhere. we need answers. >> firefighters responded to a call at the purported uptown house on langston place. >> she did not deserve this. no one deserves this. they found smith's body, shot several times. the family believes the killer then set her on fire. shot, way that she was beat, burned, in this abandoned place, loan to die. 26-he police suspect the year-old mother of three attended a party the night before. so far, no suspects. smith's family is putting up award posters, passing out flyers. >> someone is still roaming free, living their life every day, not being brought to justice for what happened. >> this family dealing with a heavy loss, hoping for healing and closure. >> somebody know some answers. she was a beautiful young woman. family suspects the killer or killers have used the same townhouse before. mpd saying there have

abraham lincoln library and museum opened in springfield, we took a tour of the library with richard norton smithhere is a clip of that where he is talking about the press. it is dark because that whole area is very dark. he will explain why. >> long before lincoln was on mount rushmore, you have to remember, he was one of the most controversial presidents in american history. , sort of ather eerie fun house without the fun. architecturally a country that is coming apart at the seams in 1861-1862. what you see on the wall are about 70 individual examples of contemporary journalism, cartoons, excerpts from newspapers. all of them harshly critical of the president, in some cases mrs. lincoln as well. it really does tend to put into perspective modern-day journalistic coverage of the presidency. today,think it is rough you ought to look at 19th-century newspapers. >> to compare today with back then and what it would feel like if you were president today and back then. >> i think we are approaching a period in government and journalism, broadcast role as him, not c-span certainly, where we are gettin

for the call.u richard or smith is out with a biography on former governor nelson rockefeller. morning, a review from the new york times by andrew nassau. . look at the life and career richard norton smith joined us on a q&a program. the program is available on www.c-span.org. another comment from our viewers saying that the media will force congress to new extremes. caller: my party is certainly ready to lead. i'm glad i came on after the last caller. the irony of him talking about republicans in the war, when obama just sent 1800 more troops -- 5100 -- my main concern about all this is not necessarily the willingness of republicans to lead or not, it is the knee-jerk reaction from democrats, playing the race card. give me a moment to explain my point -- so my point is well taking. i was almost 40 years old in january. for over 20 years, i was a democrat. voted democrat straight down the line. would not consider any alternatives. now, i voted for obama in 2008. i had some of my friends him.ign for what he asserted to do to the country, it was antithetical to what i viewed the d

first speakers will be richard johnson and michael smith. >> i've been involved with the bringing down of the central freeway, , and where my issues come with the stoplights at haight and webster and haight and buchanan and when i moved in in 24 years ago our quality of life issue was crime and violence now it's traffic and being hit by cars. recently this week i was almost hit at buchanan and page and the thing i see with the stoplights i look at them as a quick fix akin to adding another freeway lane. in the morning the intersection are blocked and you are creating pedestrian nightmares. a permanent fix is the issue with fell and oak and instead of letting the google buses you should be partnering with them to move more transit similar to like what the subway system does in new york express versus local and finding out how we can get more people from the avenues that's where most of the traffic is coming from and that's why you have the delay in the bus schedule. one other thing i'd have to say about the sfmta is their method i'd have to say i find it just it's a very difficult issue

first speakers will be richard johnson and michael smith. >> i've been involved with the bringing down of the

richard. >> hi, i'm smith.o was a fake. >> the 14-year-old and his 15-year-old cousin may look familiar -- it's because this isn't the first time they've tried to fake us out. the tablecloth trick gone wrong is a viral ad created for the gop vaudeville theater in germany. >> you could compare to cirque du soleil in america. >> the video is an internet juggernaut, gaining more than 31 million hits. >> the video's directors, norman krueger and dominic yunker, brainstorm another misadventure for the daring duo. >> had to be more extreme. it had to be bigger. and so i thought about this -- this car crash. >> before they create the big smash, the guys add legitimacy by filming a series of other trampoline stunts. >> jumping over a dog. jumping into a swimming pool. jumping over a cow. >> everything up to the car is real. >> like the long con. if the first three or four videos seem very real and are real, you have to believe that the last one is real, too. >> for the grand finale, the directors lock down the camera a

smith's biography of william bailey. i'd like to know more about what you thought about him and also kenny -- [inaudible] the late richard holbrooke's wife who has written about the hungarian revolution for all the obvious reasons. your family's mentioned quite a bit in some of her books. so those are the two people. >> guest: well, i don't believe i ever met william s. paley. he appears in the unfinished novel that truman capote was writing, "unanswered prayers," in a most unfortunate light, but i have no idea whether that's absolutely true or is something that truman ca capote invented. she included my uncle alex and

smith. >> first platoon 81. >> captain john campbell, bravo company. >> richard gilligan. >> lance corporal.cross talk] >> lance corporal. >> bravo company first platoon. i'm squad point man. i was at the front. no question about it, we are the best. >> my name is aj czubai. i grew up in fort worth and i'm united states marine. >> joining me now for a conversation about basetrack live is anne hamburger and edward bilous on the juilliard school and aj czubai a former marine who served in iraq and afghanistan. it is based on his story. i'm pleased to have them all at the table for the first time. welcome. what is basetrack live? >> it's a multimedia experience about the impact of war on veterans and their families derived from real-life interviews with a marine unit in afghanistan, marine unit 18 and their families, mothers, wives. there is an electroacoustic score composed by two other composers that runs throughout. it really centers on the impact of war not just on the guys who served but their families as well. >> how did it come about? >> a few years ago i went to see an exhibition that w

smith," national correspondent for "the new york times." and you have the best beat at the "times" whenever you have an article, it's always fascinating like this one. and richardhe revelations in laurie's piece. what i found so striking about it was these basic facts that were laid out in laurie's piece are such shocking news to some members of the mormon religion. >> well, it was a surprise to me that it was so shocking. but yeah, the fact of the matter is the church has not been discussing polygamy. it tried to put it in the past, sort of forget about it. and so church members could grow up without having any real understanding what joseph smith did have other wives than emma. >> laurie, this technique is common in religions. when i went through catholic school, i noticed that there was a really elementary version of this religion that was delivered to me in elementary school. in high school, the priests got more and more sophisticated. they pulled back more and more -- and made it a much more real discussion about what the faith involved. is that what mormonism is going through now? and is there a risk for mormonism? this? >> i think this is happening becau

smith's biography of william bailey. i'd like to know more about what you thought about him and also kenny -- [inaudible] the late richard written about the hungarian revolution for all the obvious reasons. your family's mentioned quite a bit in some of her books. so those are the two people. >> guest: well, i don't believe i ever met william s. paley. he appears in the unfinished novel that truman capote was writing, "unanswered prayers," in a most unfortunate light, but i have no idea whether that's absolutely true or is something that truman ca capote invented. she included my uncle alex and did him great justice, i thought. wonderful book. and she and i were both together awarded the order of merit of the republic of hung agy at the embassy in new york. so i think of her as a comrade in arms. >> host: michael korda, the next call is sam in houston. sam? >> caller: yes. >> host: hi. >> caller: yeah, hi. mr. korda, i'm very much enjoying the interview. and my question refers to a statement you made maybe half an hour ago that had to do with publishing industry has not really changed that much. and wouldn't you agree th