i happen to love ancient roman history. this book is all about the roman poet senate who was the artist in residence at the court of aero and sort of the odd juxtaposition between this awful man and his tyrant and how he tried to survive the night time. while being on the other hand the senior visor and it was a very tricky business. it's a great piece of roman history about a very controversial and 90s the relationship and a very easy and

ec and great read if you like ancient roman history as i do. that is my summer reading for now and i hope to be back next year with an equal number of recommendations. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. tweet as your answer at booktv war you composed on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> here are some books written by declared candidates for president. >> garland tucker iii talking about 14 meters to shaped conservative thinking in america is next on booktv. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everyone. good afternoon to you, welcome everyone. a special welcome to those watching us on c-span2 booktv

. >> i'm christine romans. it is thursday, august 6th, 2015. candidates are preparing for the republican debate in cleveland, ohio. a smaller debate set for 5:00 p.m. for the ones who did to the make the premiere event. let's go to dana bash for the latest in cleveland. >> reporter: john and christine, the locals here call it the q, behind me. it is the arena where lebron james plays basketball. it is the arena where the first republican debate takes place. it is nothing we have ever seen. we have never seen a billionaire star at center stage. the candidates have been in town. they have been prepping and have been going over policies and going over one liners trying to figure out how to break through because even though only 10 of the 17 are on the main debate stage, it is still hard to get your message across when you are one of ten, especially on the outside flanks. some of those campaigns, sources inside have been telling me they will try to maybe seize on the kind of thing that donald trump has done well. the outsider status. one campaign a

the crazy roman emperors.everything is documented day by day. the trojan horse was a brilliant illustrator who did a lot of the illustrations inside of this book. there is no story. it's probably a man but there is no specific day where they go come on in to the horse. so that was a little bit of the liberty we took the roman emperor, empire is about as early as we could get. there are a few stories about the chinese emperor that our prehistory that we have updates for. the one that was trying to live forever on mercury. it's actually the same member that has the terra-cotta warriors. he is buried near the terra-cotta warriors and nobody will do an archaeological digging around his tomb because apparently there's a mercury river flowing through it. there was some kind of idea that mercury was the it's celebration so without the severe danger of mercury poisoning they cannot dig him up and find his actual tombs of the terra-cotta warriors which we are for me with are all being uncovered, no mercury there. anyon

roman nos cuenta los detalles de la historia. >> realemente, de este ojo no podÍa ver nada.amente. roman: para esta madre dominicana en el lago de un parque de new jersey se convirtiÓ en un infierno para ella y su familia, por defender a su hijo golpeado por otro menor. >> todo empezÓ cuando mi hijo sale del agua llorando que el niÑo le dio en el ojo y yo fui donde la mamÁ y estabamos hablando normal. entonces, de una persona de parte de ella muy agresiva hacia mi a ofenderme y a meterme los dedos en la cara y a volarme encima. entonces fue donde trate de defender mi vino el paquete completo. roman: su hijo que cuenta con deficiencia de lenguaje dice que asunto con una lisina su izquierda. >> entre ellas habÍa una que tendrÍa que ser boxeadora. yo no creo que una mujer llevaba. hubo alguien que dijo que habÍa hombres colocados, pero de eso no tengo seguridad >> la cosa es que tuvieron que cogerle puntos en la cara. >> stoy muygustada e inconforme con el trabajo de la policÍa y con el trabajo de la seguridad del parque, porque a mi me pudieron haber matado y - ahÑi julio: gru

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans.e official says new wreckage has been found on reunion island. this is according to the french press agency afp. i want to get right to saima moshin near toulouse. saima, what are we learning about what may have been on the ground? >> reporter: good morning. breaking news here christine, from afp agency which is the french pressor. the malaysian transportation minister believes we have also found debris like window panes and seat cushions where the wreckage from mh-370 was found. the wreckage he is referring to is the flaperon being tested now. he added to afp that the wreckage they found, the new debris will be tested by french authorities. now we know from before the practice before has been it has left reunion island flown to paris and then brought down by road to toulouse. it is the french authorities, christine, that will have to determine what this is exactly. is it from an aircraft? is it from flight mh-370? it is the french authorities because reunion island is french territory

the famous campaign slogan against al smith who was a roman catholic himself was rome, romanism and ruined. the rome that he was opposed to prohibition and catholicism was ruined because he would obviously do things like raise taxes. bad elements of anti-catholicism is certainly a big piece of the story and the spanish-american war and partly untold story, part of the hidden history as i like to call it and the wonderful part of all of this i think is that when you hear these stories some of them can obviously make us angry. some of them can make a cynical but there are so much more interesting than the path that we are told is very young children. >> i really enjoyed what he wrote about the african-american soldiers in various battles and one of the things that is really interesting was most of the time they were discriminated against and were not given -- to there was an attempt to diminish their bravery but they were sent down to cuba for the spanish-american war and they were called indians. they were considered immune because of course you're going to be immune to all tropical disease

that the famous campaign against al smith who was a roman catholic was he would bring rum, romanism, and rheuming. that element of anti-catholicism is a bigpiece of the history in the spanish war and part of the hidden history as i like to call it. the wonderful part of all of this, i think, is when you hear these stories, some of them make us angry, some of them can make us cynical but there is more interesting than the path we are certainly told as very young children and some of us never get past. >> i really enjoyed what you wrote about the african-american soldiers in various battles. one of the interesting things was that most of the time they were discriminated against and there was an attempt to diminish their bravery, but they were sent to cuba for the spanish american war and called immune. they were considered immunes because they were immune to all tropical diseases because they were from africa. >> guest: that is right. these were the famous buffalo soldiers and i talk about the transition from the civil war and they are featured in the second chapter of the bock about t

i'm christine romans. it is friday, august 21st. 4:0 a.m. in the east. breaking news this morning. kim jun-unhas ordered his troops. turning now to kathy novak in south korea. kathy, what is the latest here? >> reporter: according to kcna, kim jun-uncalled his army to be prepared for operations from around now. south korea is on high alert. the president has been visiting a military base and update on the latest situation in the south korean defense ministry is promising to retaliate from north korea. it is preparing tomorrow. that is because north korea set a deadline to south korea. it said south korea must stop broadcasting propaganda messages using loud speakers on the dmz by 5:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. north korea will launch military action. >> kathy, thank you. keep us posted as tensions rise on the border. >>> jeb bush switching tactics this morning aiming his fire directly at donald trump who has been slamming him for weeks. both men on the campaign trail today. tens of thousands of people set t

and the romans imported navigation skills and education technology in all the wisdom of the romans and named great britain the mightiest nation on the earth. and it was because of colonialism. again, i'm not making the argument in favor of colonialism, but can't deny the fact. so slavery was a historical fact whereby i benefited from it. >> you have highlighted three things this afternoon. liberty, racial disparity and higher education fraud. what do concur that one of the principal reasons why we have contempt for liberty is a liberty is very underrepresented in all of the dimensions of popular culture and in movies and music and the things that influence one's actions is given that you work with a lot of movement and the individuals might take the opportunity to explain one of the reasons we have contempt. so i will ask you behind the previous event of yours if you are reconvening the conference and doing another one was using both be a good platform. there would be more from the public activity to the ecosystem would you also entertain the civil rights act of 1965 or 64, i'm sorry b

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. nice to be with you again. it is monday, august 3rd. the political world buzzing over a possible shake-up in the 2016 race. the new york times reporting vice president joe biden has begun actively ex-ploreing a white house run. the democrats close to biden said he has not made up his mind. a biden spokeswoman says the family is still grieving and the rumor is premature and inappropriate. he would face a daunting prospect taking on hillary clinton who has ramped up in a number of states. the clinton campaign is not worried. >> we will let him make a decision. however hard it is to secure a

i'm christine romans. it is thursday, august 20th. 5:00 a.m. in the east.ohn berman has the morning off. let's start off in new hampshire where the two republican contenders had duelling town hall events. donald trump and jeb bush getting their fair

. >> i'm christine romans. so nice to have you here. it is tuesday, august 25th. the dow, this is unbelievable, the dow down more than 1,000 points. this chart is unbelievable. ten minutes, it fell 1,000 points. stocks recovered some before closing down 600 points. investors in an absolute panic. selling risky assets. trading was the heaviest in four years and trading some of america's most widely held stocks was frenzy. bank of america, apple, microsoft and general electric saw the most action. u.s. stock futures are up significantly. european stocks are climbing. asia still looks like it is in trouble. look at shanghai's benchmark down 8%, alison, for the second day in a row. wiping out trillions of dollars in value. fears about china's weakness are sending investors into panic mode. i want to bring in andrew stevens in hong kong. the selloff, andrew, the futures are pointing to signs of life in the u.s., but not the story in china. >> reporter: absolutely. this is the key point that investors are now making the distinction with what is happening in china and th

after famous roman places so jenkins hill became capital hill. it was once called gooseberry creek and named tiber river that ran through washington. they wanted to give stature to the new government that would be the first major republic since the roman republic. this was a new city for a new government. it was mostly tobacco fields and empty spaces. they gave it grand names and planned out major streets. that was the style. it slowly built into the city. in the 1890s there was a major ex position in chicago, the white city they called it. it looked like a white marble roman forum in a sense. it was mostly made of paper mashe. it was a temporary area for the centennial. that inspired the construction of new buildings in washington. the union station for instance, a few blocks from here, is in that same style and same architects were involved in that. a lot of artisans that worked on chicago exposition came to washington immediately worked on the library of congress and other buildings. when they started planning for a new office building and hir

by the way, roman smokes like you. he smokes cigars, he is very sensitive and stubborn. >> those are amazing recordings. you had the moments in time before the tragedy struck of a happy family, of better times. >> was it what she had always dreamed of? >> she was living the life she wanted. >> a life that would end that august night. tate went out to dinner with friends in l.a. and his girlfriend, and celebrity hairstylist jay sebring. they all returned to tate's home. >> abigail spoke to her mother about flying out to san francisco for her birthday. wojciech frykowski spoke to a friend at midnight. >> those would be the last calls ever. sometime after midnight, intruders cut the telephone lines to the house. killed one man in the driveway. then ambushed the four people inside. tate begged for the life of her unborn baby. just let me have my unborn baby. then you can kill me any way you want. just let me have my baby. >> they didn't. tate was stabbed 16 times. three time to the heart. they hanged her before they killed

. >>> i'm christine romans. john berman has the day off. police in thailand on the hunt for a man they believe may be connected with a deadly attack in bangkok. officials say the man is seen on closed circuit tv but they cannot confirm his identity just yet. looking at footage going back as far as two weeks prior to the attack to see if they see anything suspicious. 22 people were killed. more than 100 other people hurt after a terrorist pipe bomb targeted a hindu shrine. an area popular with locals and tourists. the explosion shattering windows creating panic in the street. we're looking at frightening video captured at the moment of the blast. cnn's asia pacific editor andrew stevens on the phone for us. andrew, the pictures just devastating. >> reporter: absolutely, christine. the death toll currently standing at 22. that bomb was primed to detonate with maximum impact. meaning it was timed to go off when the shrine area was at its busiest. a lot of thais coming home from work going into that shrine to pay respects, to receive blessings.

. >> i-'m christine romans.e know who is on the main stage for the first republican presidential debate at 8:00 p.m. tomorrow. based on five recent mainstream polls, fox news has selected donald trump, jeb bush scott walker to take center stage. with other top pollers flanking them. that leaves seven republican hopefuls sharing i guess the consolation prize of 500 p.m. debate will draw far fewer tv viewers. the latest on the debate from dana bash in washington. >> reporter: this is the biggest republican field in modern history. 17 candidates. so it's really not easy for the gop or the networks to navigate such a crowded debate stage. never mind. candidates who have to face a front-runner reality tv star and that is why they sdied to have just ten people max on the stage and fox news announced which are going to make the cut and they determine that by the way, based on national polling. here they are. donald trump, he's going to be in the middle. next to him, former governor jeb bush. on the other side governor

christine romans here. >> this is rare.hen you see a 5% move in a market in a single day it's very rare to see it. it's a lot of selling coming from all around world. it brings you back to the level of your 401(k) to about a year and a half ago. a year, year and a half ago. that's perspective here. the stock market has gone straight up for about six years. we're down more than a thousand points here. incredibly rare to see a move that risk. this is something that spread around the world from currencies, emerging market currencies tanking, commodities tanking and the expectations that american stocks, u.s. stocks are inflated here. three ways you'll feel it. your 401(k) is worth a lot less today than yesterday. you're back to a year ago level, at least for the 401(k) but you're up a lot from the crisis. it gas prices are probably going to continue to tank. you know, $2 a gal is what guessing quickly. oil prices are crumbling. all the money is going into the bond market. what does it mean in layman's terms? lock in your refie

i happen to love ancient roman history. this book is all about the roman poet senate who was the artist in residence at the court of aero and sort of the odd juxtaposition between this awful man and his tyrant and how he tried to survive the night time. while being on the other hand the senior visor and it was a very tricky business. it's a great piece of roman history about a very controversial and 90s the relationship and a very easy and great read if you like ancient roman history as i do. that's my summer reading and i hope to be be next year with an equal number of recommendations. >> and now, lennard davis provides a history and examines the impact of the americans with disabilities act signed into law on july 26 night to 90. >> our guest author is lennard davis his first major impact of the ada "enabling acts: the hidden story of how the americans with disabilities act gave the largest u.s. minority its rights". lennard davis and south are missed in which arts and sciences and is currently teaching in english departm

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans.ll decide who makes it to the first republican debate. a poll shows who will make it into cleveland on thursday night. leading the pack is donald trump, jeb bush and scott walker. ted cruz and marco rubio. bloomberg is set to release a poll which could shake things up. overnight, voters have the first chance to see most of the republican field together. this was not a debate. this was one at a time candidate forum hosted by the new hampshire union leader. athena jones has the latest. >> reporter: this forum was a chance for you to be heard. there was no cut off, so any candidate could show up. new hampshire and south carolina and iowa aimed theat the voters. this were three no shows. one was donald trump who happens to be leading in the polls. also leading in the wmer poll here in the state of new hampshire. he skipped the forum. you did not hear the candidates blasting the donald. they held their fire for hillary clinton. >> i'm fluent in clinton speak. you want me to translate, jack?

. >> i'm christine romans. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. happening today, the cut off for polls that fox news will decide who makes it into the first presidential debate. the cnn poll shows who is most likely to make it on the stage thursday night in cleveland. donald trump has 22%. jeb bush at 13%. scott walker at 12%. behind them marco rubio and rand paul. bloomberg is set to release a poll today. that could shake things up at the bottom. voters across the country had their chance to see most of the republican field together. this was not a debate but one at a time candidate forum hosted by the new hampshire leader. cnn's athena jones as the latest. >> reporter: good morning, guys. this forum was a chance for voters to hear from all of the candidates who wanted to participate. any candidate who chose to show up could show up. this is about focusing on the voters in new hampshire, south carolina and iowa. aimed at the voters and airing on stations in those states. almost all of the candidates choose to come. three no shows. donald trump. h

this golf course is electric... >>> i'm christine romans. get an early start our money this morning. stocks are sinking around the world. asian, european stocks lower. so are u.s. stocks futures again because china devalid its currency the second day in a row. a move seen to boost chinese growth and chinese exports. investors around the world then running away from risky assets like stocks. rushing into safe havens like government debt. they are rushing out of commodities and sinking this morning. aluminum and copper at six-year lows and so is oil. crude oil trading around $43 a barrel now. look at that chart. oil output from opec climbed for a record in july and adding to a huge supply gut. it's great for drivers. average gallon of gas is $2.59. by some estimates you could see below $2 a gallon by halloween if this keeps up. >>> online dating side tinder having an emotional breakup with vanity fair this morning. it portrays dating in the digital age in less than flattering light. the company objected to a survey. she tweeted saying 30% of t

i'm christine romans. welcome to "early start." john berman has the morning off. >>> arrests in ferguson, missouri after demonstrators confronted police. a few throwing rocks and bottles. it was a rowdy end to the full day of protests marking the one-year anniversary of michael brown's death. the violence paled in comparison to sunday when multiple rounds of gunfire erupted and police shot at an 18-year-old. tyrone harrison is hospitalized. he faces five counts of armed criminal action. his aunt denies he fired on police. car even harris says he did not have a gun. we have more on the protests and arrests with nick valencia. >> reporter: police made a number of arrests on west florissant. a number of protesters gathered on one side of the street. you can still see a significant number of law enforcement standing by and waiting. you have members of the st. louis county police and state troopers out here. the demonstrators were primarily peaceful for the most part. then at one point, a number of protesters who stood in the middle of

i'm christine romans. it is 30 minutes past the hour. breaking overnight.nfire erupts in ferguson, missouri. one year after a police officer shot and killed michael brown. cnn reporters on the ground say there were at least three rounds of gunfire. officials in ferguson say two people were shot after officers came under heavy gunfire. cnn's sara sidner was interviewing the interim police chief when shots rang out. listen. >> we are trying to work with the community. explaining to them their rights. we just want to be as patient as possible. [ shots fired ] >> get down. gunfire. [ gunfire continues ] >> take cover! take cover! >> the police department says one officer was hurt by a hurled brick, but none was injured in the exchange of gunfire. joining us on the phone from ferguson is cnn's sara sidner. a long and tense night. i know the police chief, the st. louis county police chief, sara, saying these were criminals, not protesters. they were protesters doing what everyone expected them to do. these were criminal elements. what do we know? >> reporter: the

. >> palmyra is famous for its roman ruins, which include temples and an amphitheater. they date back about 2,000 years. the extremists seized palmyra earlier this year and reportedly smashed a number of roman statues. the militants have been destroying cultural relics elsewhere in syria and iraq. >>> russia's foreign minister has indicated that president vladimir putin may meet president barack obama next month. putin plans to visit new york for the u.n. general assembly. >> translator: -- is sending the signals that washington wants to maintain contact with leaders in moscow. >> he said putin would consider a meeting if there's a proposal for one. the two leaders have not spoken face to face since last november when they came into brief con tablth at the apeck summit. they remain at odds over the crisis in eastern ukraine. fighting continues there between government forces and pro-russian separatists. relations worsened after russia annexed crimea last year. both countries have imposed sanctions on each other. observers say the ties between the two nations are the wor

instead they set to detonating pre-roman sites.onth later, in july, they were using the roman amphitheater, not wrecking it, using it for mass public executions. >> ifill: joining me now to talk about khalid al-assad and his work is his former colleague, amr-al azm, a professor middle eastern history and anthropology at shawnee state university in ohio. he joins us tonight from prague via skype. thank you for joining us. tell us what you can about khalid alabout cal khalid al-assad. >> he was primary in terms of history and archeology in the site of palmyra itself. right from the very beginning, he was involved, going back to the '50s and '60s, involved in the excavations and restoration and later on became the director of the department of antiquities in palmyra, oversaw the management and administration of the site for many years until his retirement in 2003. it's this very rich source of information, i believe, that we have lost with his death. >death. >> ifill: how did the rise of i.s.i.s. affect his ability to do his work? he

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. the political world buzzing over a possible shakeup in the 2016 race. the new york times reporting that vice president joe biden has started actively exploring a run. his late son beau lobbied his father to run before his death. people close to biden said he has not made up his mind. a biden spokesperson says the bidens are still grieving and speculation about a white house run is premature and inappropriate inappropriate. the vice president would face a daunting task catching up to hillary clinton. the clinton campaign is not worrying a decision of joe biden. >> we will let him make his decision. however hard it is to secure the democratic nomination is however hard it is. we have no illusions. we never thought this was going to be to be easy. we will be prepared to handle. >> the clinton campaign rolled out the first set of tv ads with $1 million ad buys in iowa and new hampshire. in one ad, she tells the story of her mother dorothy. >> when she needed a champion someone was there.

i'm christine romans. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. up first, a feisty donald trump center of attention at the first republican debate. the billionaire stirring things up before anyone in the audience had time to sit down. refusing to rule out a third party candidacy. listen to this exchange with fox news moderator brett baier. >> you are standing on the stage, the place where the republican national convention will give the nominee the nod. >> i fully understand. >> and experts say an independent run would hand the race over to democrats and likely another clinton. you can't say tonight that you can make that pledge. >> i cannot say. i have to respect the person if it is not me, the person that wins, if i do win and i'm leading by quite a bit, that's what i want to do. i can make that pledge. if i'm the nominee, i will not run as an independent. i am discussing with it everybody. i'm talking about a lot of leverage. we want to win. we will win. i want to win as the republican. i want to run as the republican nominee. >> trump didn't s

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a 1980 a rare stradivarius violin was stolen from roman totenberg and he thought he knew who stole it, but he never had enough evidence to build the case, he said. until his death he believed his violin was gone forever. two months ago his daughter got a call from the fbi and the woman had it appraised. >> he described to me opening the case, and examining the violin for about a half an hour and saying to her. i have good news for you and bad news for you. the good news is this is a stradivarius. the bad news is it was stolen 35, 36 years ago from roman totenberg and she inherited the vilen from anthony johnson, the same man who he thought had stolen it according to his daughter. >>> new jobless numbers are out and cnbc's global headquarters. >> i had not heard that stradivarius story. that's fascinating. great story. sell-off on wall street. you can blame oil prices again which are continuing to drop. that's good for us buying gasoline and disney's sharply lower and it's all about jobs, as well. we get the big jobs number tomorrow and we also learned this morning that layoffs announc

i'm christine romans. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. let's begin now with the breaking news this morning. g kim jong-un is opening up a war time state after the exchange of fire with south korea over the demilitarized zone. kathy novak has the latest for us. tensions running high here. >> reporter: absolutely, christine. strong rhetoric. the couple try ntry is edging c the brink of war. kim jong-un ordered the army to be ready to launch attacks. this as the united states and south korea is in training missions here. what is happening is this is coming with the combination of the fact that south korea for the first team in more than a decade relaunched the program of psychological warfare. it has been broadcasting messages along the border. on the weekend, pyongyang was threatening to blow up the speakers and threatening indiscriminate strikes on south korea if it did not stop the campaign of psychological warfare. tensions ramped up on the border. north korea was targeting the speakers and pyongyang has issued an ultimatum. if south kor

i'm christine romans. frustrating night in ferguson.ors throwing rocks and bottles. a rowdy day after the day of protests and civil disobedience over the one-year anniversary of michael brown's death. the violence paled in comparison to sunday where police shot an 18-year-old who police say fired at them first. tyrone harris faces five counts of armed criminal action. his aunt denies he fired on police. karen harris said he did not have a gun and was quote running for his life in the midst of other people's gun battles. cnn's jason carroll is in ferguson with more on the protests and arrests. >> reporter: christine, police ended up making a number of arrests on west florissant. where we are right now, protesters are gathering on one side of the street. on the other side of the street, you see a significant number of law enforcement standing by and waiting. you have members of the st. louis county police and state troopers out here. the demonstrators were peaceful for the most part. then at one point, a number of protesters who stood in

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is monday august 3rd. >> the political world buzzing over the 2016 race. the times reporting that vice president joe biden has begun exploring a white house run. the vice president's late son beau lobbied his father to run in the months before he died. a biden spokeswoman says the family is still grieving and speculation about a white house run is quote premature and inappropriate. the 72-year-old vice president would face a daunting prospect catching up with hillary clinton who raised millions. she has staffed a field operation in early primary states. the clinton campaign is not worrying about a decision by biden. >> we will let him make his decision. however hard it is to secure the democratic nomination is however hard it is. we have no illusions. we never thought this was going to be easy. there's a lot of views in the democratic party. you know we'll be prepared to handle whatever comes our way. >> the clinton campaign rolled out the first set of tv ads overnight with a $1 mi

i'm christine romans. it is thursday, august 20th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. john berman has the morning off. let's start off in new hampshire where the two republican contenders had duelling town hall events. donald trump and jeb bush getting their fair share of questions. both getting the chance to take shots at each other. did they do anything to gain support in their republican party? we have cnn's sara murray with more. >> reporter: good morning, christine. donald trump had the first town hall in derry, new hampshire since becoming a candidate. hundreds of others in an overflow room. the questions ran the gamut. from illegal gun use and immigration. on top of donald trump's agenda was slamming his rival jeb bush. he went after him for being a low energy candidate and on common core. >> have i gotten under jeb bush's skin? i tell you this, he said the other day one of the dumber things i heard in politics when talking about iraq. that we, the united states, he said, have to show them that we have skin in the game in order to go into iraq. we lost $2 trilli

they preach their religions, mostly roman catholic or jewish, and read their own newspapers. polyglotannot come a country can survive. the immigration issue was one of klan seizedhat the on in order to recruit people at that time. it is a little surprising, but one of the places where they had the most success was in supporting the labor unions in kansas. in july 1922, the railroad workers went on strike threat the country. the klan saw that as an opportunity to recruit new members and they jumped in on the side of the unit, which is surprising considering the things that they avowed about the working class. one of the theories about that the labor union did not include the black and mexican workers at that time, so a lot of the blacks and mexican workers did not go out on strike when the union went out on strike. that made it a racial issue also. kl jumped inan plan events supporting the start, particularly in kansas city. that was one of the strongest chapters in the state. allen.s when henry allen got involved. in reality, sometimes the only way to document a speech that w

i'm christine romans. breaking overnight. gunfire in ferguson, missouri.fficer shot and killed michael brown. cnn reporters on the ground say there were at least three rounds of gunfire. officials in ferguson say two people were shot after officers came under heavy gunfire. cnn's sara sidner was interviewing the interim police chief andre anderson when shots rang out. listen. >> we are trying to work with the community. we are explaining to them their rights. we just want to be as patient as possible. [ gunshots ] >> get down. >> take cover. >> so you heard the shots fired there. the police department says one of its officers was hurt by a hurled brick, but none was injured in the exchange of gunfire. joining us now from ferguson is cnn's sara sidner who has been in the middle of it all. sara, tell us what happened. >> reporter: basically i was actually on my way somewhere down that road after going to an event tonight that was calm. there were dozens of people who went to listen to speakers from the civil rights movement. i made my way through the city an

i have a love of ancient roman history.ok by james romm is all about roman poet seneca it was sort of the artist-in-residence in the court of narrow. sort of the odd juxtaposition between this thoughtful man senator and his tyrant nero, and how he tried to survive in the time period while being on the other hand, a very senior advisor to nero. and it was a very tricky business. so it's a great piece of roman history about a very controversial and not easy relationship and a very easy and great read if you like ancient roman history as i do. so that's my summer reading for now, and hope to be back next with an equal number of recommendations. >> and booktv wants to know what you reading this summer. tweet us your answer @booktv or post it on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> presidential candidates often these books to introduce themselves to voters and to promote their views on issues. here's a look at some books written by declared candidates for president. >> after the cuban missile crisis, the lines between the t

i'm christine romans. breaking news in thailand. in monday's deadly bomb attack in bangkok. officials on the hunt for this man. he's seen on closed circuit tv but official alzheimer's cannot c -- officials cannot confirm his identity. he's seen with jeans, a backpack. it's going back two weeks prior to the attack to see if they spot anything suspicious. there is devastation in that city following a blast, a blast that killed 22 people, more than 100 others hurt. a pipe bomb targeted a hindu shrine in the heart of a bangkok shopping center pop pu lar with tourists. the explosion shattered windows and caused confusion in the street. we're also getting a look at the very moment of the blast. the explosion had a jarring impact on those in the area and those who rushed to respond. listen to how one paramedic described it. >> the people that seemed to survive were the ones that ended up underneath the dead people so i'm guessing that the person in front of the blast took the blast and the person behind was somehow saved. and so we had to

i'm christine romans. welcome to "early start." it is 5:00 a.m. let's starts with politics. donald trump finally filling in details on his plans for immigration reform. after weeks of talking about immigration, but avoiding specifics. now we have them. a six-page blueprint for how a president trump would fix immigration. garnish illegal wages from low wage workers, reform the h-1-b system. sunlen serfaty has lathe latest. >> reporter: christine, donald trump is off the campaign trail this morning. he has been called in for jury duty. he will report at the state court in manhattan today. trump says he thinks it will be fun and is looking forward to it. this is as trump is trying to put forward more substance. the campaign releasing the first policy document on his plan for immigration. the issue that ignited that initial burst of support he saw. for the first time, revealing how trump will propose to pay for the wall along the u.s. border. saying until mexico does, he will impound all remittance payments fr

. >>> when you turn [tense music] ♪ >> john: hey, roman.ust dropping off a case for hope i was working on. i'm gonna miss working with that girl. partnering with a cop that good really keeps you on your toes. >> roman: then why are you dumping her and going to work for the isa? >> john: well, first off, they wanted me back, and that made me feel good. secondly, working here made me realize just how much i miss working there. >> roman: know the feeling. been there, but those are still emotional reasons to go back to a very dangerous job. john, i hope to hell you know what you're doing. >> ben: maybe we should go back to the bookstore. >> abigail: why? >> ben: i'm just not sure you bought every single book that has to do with being pregnant. >> abigail: hey, i did not get that many. i also got a couple on newborns, and, you know, i got few for the baby. >> ben: mm-hmm.

that is, or the conquest of the romans when they took over england, people in england were barbarians. and the romans, they imported navigation, skills and they imported education technology and all the importation of the wisdom of the romans ultimately make great britain the mightiest nation on the face of the earth. and it was because of colonialism. again, i'm not making an argument in favor of colonialism but you can't deny the historical facts. so slavery was a historical fact that i benefit from it. >> thank you dr. williams. you highlighted three things this afternoon, liberty, racial disparity and higher education front. would you concur that one of the principles, principle reasons why we have contempt for liberty is that liberty is very underrepresented and all the dimensions of popular culture and movies and music and the things that influence one's actions? and the question behind that is, given that you can assess with a lot of movement, individuals, might you take the opportunity to explained in one of the reasons why we have contempt, one of places that it's learned is

christine romans is still here with me. one of the reasons, lack of demand for commodities, china doesn't need it or want it as much as before. >> and we're producing a lot of it around the world. producing something at the same time, less demand from china, and that means the price declines. you're seeing below $40 oil, and many are seeing $30, and we even had a call from cnn money, the top analysts say $15. that's really good for gas prices and for consumer spending, it's terrible for companies in your 401(k) in the oil business, it's also bad for thinks cunning and economies who deal in oil, produce oil and need to sell into the global market. the oil crash is good for me, not so good in terms of stability for the economy. >> anything that goes down this far tend to work. i'm joined by cnn's financial analyst, rana, first of all, what a day. >> well, you know, i'm not surprised in some ways. we haven't even had a 10% correction since 2011, i think the markets knew this was coming for some time. i think the jitters you've

i'm christine romans. >> i'm george howell in for john berman. it is monday, august 24th. we start this monday morning with the three american citizens who are honored for shutting down a possible massacre. this played out on a high speed train from amsterdam to paris. the americans, alek skarlatos and spencer stone and anthony sadler. they subdued the gunman who french authorities say has ties to radical islam. >> i feel our training mostly kicked in after this assailant was already subdued, frankly. when it came to medical care and things like that and providing security making sure there wasn't another shooter. in the beginning, it was mostly gut instinct. one of survival. >> our senior international correspondent nic robertson joins us in paris. nic, good to have you with us. nic, tell us about today. i'm sure this is a day these men will never forget. >> reporter: i'm sure it won't be. they went in to the presidential palace here just behind me. spencer stone led them with his arm still heavily bandaged in a sling from where the attacker used a box cutter to attack hi

>> first of all, he's not a roman candle. he's a very smart guy. he is media savvy in ways that some of the other candidates aren't. and he's a lot more substantive than you realize. i know donald 25 years. meaning, he understands a lot of the world issues with a lot more depth than you probably realize. so we might have a little bit of a ronald reagan here, a guy they underestimate. in my particular case, i'm personal friends with five or six of them. and i have a hard time deciding who i'd like to see be president and i'm probably going to take a little while. but i expect donald trump is going to do pretty darn well tomorrow night. >> is he or is he not afraid of megan kelly? i need to know. >> i have to tell you, that story was so false. never talked to roger about it. never talked to donald about it. somebody made it up. i talked to him about it afterwards, after i got the call. but he did not call me to ask me anything like that. and i would never call roger to ask him anything like that. >> how about the other roger? >> which roger? >> roger

i'm christine romans. john berman hat morning off.up first this morning, hillary clinton defending herself as questions mount about her private e-mail server. she took questions from reporters after a town hall event in nevada. clinton repeating her stance. she never sent, she never received anything marked classified from that priest e-mail account. but she also says she does not know if her private server was ever wiped clean. this following an nbc news report that an attempt was made to clear the server before it was turned over to the fbi and the bureau is looking to recover any data. clinton now becoming testing with reporters over this repeated questioning about the server. >> my personal e-mails are my personal business, right? so that is all i can say. >> you wiped the server? >> i'm not -- you know, i have no idea. that's why we turned it over. >> you said you were in charge of it. you were the official in charge. did you wipe the server? >> like, with a cloth or something? >> i don't know. you know how it works digitally. >>