. >>> the rubik's cube turns 40 this year. a new exhibit is proving time is only adding to the mystique of the cultural icon. jeffrey brown reports. >> reporter: i couldn't be simpler, or for most of us more difficult. 26 cubes designed to interlock and rotate around an axis that can be shuffled 42 quintillion ways. yet a rubik's cube can be solved in 20 or fewer moves. it's puzzle delighted millions from young children to this robot. the robot is part of a new exhibit cald beyond rubik's cube. it happened in new jersey to celebrate the 40th birthday of the cube. in a rare public appearance, inventor rubik was on hand to meet fans and talk about the impact of his work. rubik was a 29-year-old architectural professor in budde pe -- budapest when he created the tool in 1964. what began as a spatial tool for students grew by his own account into something less practical. >> there's no practical use. >> no practical use for this. >> it's -- you can do it freely. it depends on you, for fun, spend some time if you have free time. it

it is -- a rubik's cube inside jell-o. [ laughter ] [ laughter and applause ] [ laughter ] >> jimmy:nd applause ] >> jimmy: which one? [ crowd yelling ] >> nine! [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yelling nine. we already did nine. ♪ hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm ♪ ♪ sound will just not tell you what it is like sound ♪ ♪ i'm going to make a sound like a drum sound so you don't know what it is ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ and you can't see it ha ha ha ♪ >> so it's something that makes noise? >> jimmy: maybe it is something that makes noise and maybe it isn't. [ laughter ] do you want to know what it is? >> yeah. >> jimmy: i'll tell you what it is. >> okay. hit me with it. come on. >> jimmy: did you ever hear of a boy band, called back street boys? >> yeah. oh my god. >> jimmy: this is an action figure of one of the back street boys. >> oh you're just -- is that it? >> jimmy: and a -- no. in a coffee can. and also inside the box is a a bunch of hershey kisses. >> i feel like that's -- if it's not the truth, you're a a sociopath. [ laughter and applause ] if i'm gonna lose, i'm gonna made make you feel ba

it's a rubik's cube. what's important is you need to have a leadership in iraq that can transcend these things i what the president needs to do and hasn't done yet is how he assembles layers of responsible leadership higher than iraq. borders don't matter right now. what matters is a sunni/shi'a contest and that means you have to bring in the saudis, the iranians and you probably should bring in the turks to discuss what sort of regional deal might look like to get their support. >> steve clemens from the "atlantic." joining us for a discussion on next steps in iraq. the number is 202-585-3881 for republicans. 202-585-3880 for democrats. and 202-585-3882 for independents. twitter and e-mail available to us as well. mike rodgers on "face the nation" talking about concerns of what happens in the state overall if things continue as they are. >> this is what happened in afghanistan. they train, recruit, plan operations that led to 9/11 the killing of 3,000 americans. they have already expressed -- this is wha

a real rubik's cubist, if you will.suspected that this 1901 masterpiece by the great pablo picasso, the blue room, may have been a do-over of sorts for the genius. now with the help of technological tricks we know what picasso has been hiding all these years. our athena jones has been -- >> picasso's paintings go for millions and millions of dollars these days, but it was the artist's early struggles when he was a poor bohemian that may have led to this great art mystery. ♪ >> there's more to this early masterpiece by pablo picasso than meets the eye. >> it's something that every curator in the back of their mind they think oh, maybe during my career i might have something spectacular happen like this. >> reporter: the blue room is considered one of the first of his so-called blue period worth tens of millions of dollars and if you turn it sideways and use an infrared camera to see underneath the acclaimed painting you will find a hidden surprise, a portrait of an unknown man wearing a jacket and bow tie painted a few m

snowden, ad to be carrying a rubik's cube, and last week general alexander said your journalism will result in the death of independent -- innocent people. do you worry about the blood on your hands? so i'm sure those two questions will not be part of the questions so it will be infinitely better than the television interviews i do. i want to talk about what i did in first two chapters of the book, which is tell the story of how i came to meet and then work with edward snowden, along with my long-time friend and journalistic collaborator in hong kong, and the reason that i really wanted to write a book and tell the story is because so much has been said about all of those events and much of what has been said has been wildly false. and one of the really interesting things is that if you're somebody who really likes to bash the american media, and i'm definitely somebody who likes to do that -- it's one of my most favorite pastimes, it doesn't really come as a price to learn that much of what the media churns out is misleading in all sorts of ways. but when you're actually at the cent

this rubik's cube of complexity is such that you need some governing protocols. so that's where i believe we should go. >> right here. >> i just had a followup on that comment that you just made. isn't the structure of alliances that's developing or does exist now in east asia actually complicate the situation which would arise if there were a very serious incident of the type that you were just imagining. i was struck by that comment of a chinese analyst who said, well, one thing chinese don't really understand is how to deal with these alliances. i mean, we have japan america alliance, philippines america alliance. we can deal with a country one at a time but we're note so familiar here. and isn't the worry about the way the appliances play into a serious incident of sort of pulling everybody in what's led to the recent books for example by hugh white and malcolm frasier questioning what might happen here. >> a lot disagree with the work by hugh white for a range of reasons which i won't go into. let me go to the question of alliances. what do all these allianc

acknowledge that any one of these particular context, the exact solution in figuring out the particular rubiks cube of that particular circumstance can be very difficult. >> you have to keep in mind that there has been a substantial evolution of tf i sent 9/11, really. initiativehe tf i -- that was taken to shore up the financial system after the financial crisis. frankly, we are at a place where -- and the devil is in the details. you are right, it is hard to talk about this conceptually. at we have to take stock of lot of rules and regulations out there and look at, given the , and it isexperience still a work in progress with dodd frank and the regulations, etc. -- but to look at what is working and what is not. and they could cut both ways. announcements could cut off activity to so-called -- what is it, the acronym? the question is, from a policy standpoint, is it better to have them do that or to work with these certified that actors in ways that you have some transparency, visibility, what have you? that is not to say it is right or wrong, or even to know what they did, but there is a l

that in any one of these particular contexts, the exact solution, the way to sort of figure out the rubik's cube of that circumstance can be difficult. >> i think you have to keep in mind that there's been a substantial evolution of tfi since 9/11 really. the first actions immediately after 9/11 and the tfi initiative. then it gets a little bit -- some of the initiatives get conflated with dodd-frank and additional regulatory measures taken to shore up, protect the global financial system post the financial crisis. going through the evolutionary phase, and the devil is in the details. neil is absolutely right here. it's hard to talk about this conceptually. we have to take stock of the whole of a lot of rules, regulations, that are out there, and look at given the benefit of experience, what's still a work in progress, et cetera. of what's working, what's not, what are the cost and benefits, et cetera. another example, announcements it's going to cut off activity to so-called politically exposed persons. what's that all about? and the question from a policy standpoint, is it better to have

and our challenge is that this whole process feels like a rubik's cube. every time we think we've got a peace and order and we think we understand what the problem is, is it not enough physicians, then we offer to help on that, but maybe that's not the problem, it's a space problem. if it's not a space problem, it's the support staff and the list goes on and on. i'm very fortunate to have experience with the d.a. in new hampshire. my father-in-law got very excellent care within that system, but obviously the concern that we have is that that be replicated for every veteran around the country. so the focus of my comments is, how do we ensure access to high quality care at a cost that the taxpayers can afford for every veteran? i spent 25 years in the private sector on policy issues. i know this isn't easy, this conundrum of high quality care, access and cost. sometimes a wobbly three-legged stool. but in your case, it seems that the problems of scheduling and wait time data has called into question the whole basis for your staffing and capacity calculation