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i count shakespeare and hobbs. let me play for you while you gather your thoughts, john dowd, someone you've reported on a lot. his gloss on all this, a clip from before these bombshell reports came out. take a look. >> do you believe the president will eventually sit down with bob mueller based on your experience with him, wanting to engage with counsel? >> well, there's no -- there's no reason for the president to answer questions from mueller. mueller has all the answers. we gave him all the answers. >> mueller has all the answers from the myriad of witnesses he's been interviewing around the president. i mean, just look at the list, it's george papadopoulos, michael flynn, don mcgahn, paul manafort, rick gates. i mean, i think that this is really the root of the fear that they have in allowing the president to sit down with mueller. it's not just because he has a loose relationship with the truth, to put it generously, but it's also just because there are so many -- there are so many things he's probably going

just like shakespeare, we will public in a way that shakespeare shape the way we think of julius caesar, richard the third or henry the fifth. i suspect most people will forever think about alexander hamilton as he is per trade in the musical. -- he is portrayed in the musical. truth he told, the musical portrays hamilton as we wish he had been, rather than the way he really was. miranda got his inspiration from a book on alexander hamilton. if you have ever seen that book it is a great weightlifting exercise. why don't we just picked this 950 page book to read. that is how he got interested in this subject. the show is based on solid historical fact and its overall portrayal as washington is excellent. it is really very important to remember that hamilton is a musical drama. it is entertainment. it should be viewed as such. if you go in there looking for historical errors, you will find plenty and it will mess up your enjoyment of the show. since we are focusing on washington and hamilton, a few examples, george washington never called hamilton's son, he did not appoint him his right-h

shakespeare is all then taken down by those who don't have the slightest clue about paraclete in athens or the renaissance or the enlightenment. columbia undergraduate said who is this mozart? >> the superior white men. the court upholds the premises of white supremacy and racism. no professor has ever defended our intellectual patrimony against such shameful outbreaks of know nothingism without adding qualification to respect diversity. academic identity politics are rapidly spreading throughout the culture at large every non- academic institution is now vulnerable and above all the stem the fields. exhibit a in the dissent to thought control is the firing of a computer engineer from google august 2017. writing a carefully reasoned fact-based memo the average career preferences of males and females may explain why there isn't a 5050 gender parity at google and other tech firms the language he used to fire him was a direct import from academic victim olla g-letter. google's employees were hurting he said because he dared to challenge the reigning feminist orthodoxy. to uphold google's a

sadly to paraphrase shakespeare, these violent delights had violent ends. picture the front staircase door to upstairs lounge opening and you turn expecting to greet a friend and flames suddenly shoot into the room as if launched from a fame lower to, leaving 44 feet in the backdraft that swallows the piano, chewing up wall paper and decorations and bushing hair, clothes, skin, trapping and eating way arm half of this in front of you and then visualize having 30 seconds to choose which way to run. as people screamed, bodies stampede, and perhaps being separated in the madness from a committed lover, or a longtime friend who doesn't yet realize this is an emergencies and isn't going to make it outside with you. try to fathom 29 friends, gone, extinguished, rendered into gruesome carbon mounds and a pile of bodies that some emergency workers describe as the worst thing they'd ever seen. and a fire that burned for less than 20 minutes with three more doomed to agonizing deaths in a hospital burn ward. and the mayor remaining out of town for more than two weeks

the memorial to william shakespeare. and the final resting place of geoffrey chaucer who wrote the canterbury tales. of george frederick county holding the score of the messiah. for the aristocratic elite of bygone centuries westminster abbey was the place to be buried . in vanity fair even in death. or of two great rivals queen elizabeth the first. and mary queen of scots. from william the conqueror on words all but two english kings and queens have been crowned at westminster abbey. a vital role in this solemn ceremony is played by the coronation chair made around thirteen hundred to contain the so-called stone of scone scottish kings were traditionally crowned on this stone and the english carried it off as a trophy of war. close up. the architectural jewel of westminster abbey is without a doubt the chapel of henry the seventh. it's spectacular vaulted ceiling is the undisputed masterpiece of english late gothic architecture the so-called perpendicular style. the chapter house of the abbey was the birthplace of engli

you are born with that t but he read great books he was reading horizontal books but poetry and shakespeare and would dive so deeply into them. whenever something you really want to read out, loud. and then write out the word and transfer them to paper and write them. it was like vertical learning and can hardly remember them. >> open to the state legislature serving as congress. there are a lot of competent leaders did in patty's day tested forde great roosevelt wrote about the importance of making your rate. if there was no war company with his name. they are wrong. all the people have seen the time even if he became the the presence of somebody special. how much he was trying to and in there to help him h village printer would keep the fire on late at night because the only place with light. they helped him with a sense of humor.w then to entertain father he had the one thing that he valued was to be a great storyteller and he is a fabulous storyteller with the humor matching his melancholy. he thought i would never reach those goals. and i doubt they could have thought that big. become

it was said when he got a copy of the king james' byele of shakespeare play they was so excited he couldn't eat or sleep and there was a sense in which books carried him to places he could never go through books he began to develop an alternative thought for what he might be in life. he was really smart and those few years when he was in school he was without peer and i think that's where some of this confidence came from. after a while he was teaching the other kids in this class rather than the teacher because he learned so much. but in a certain sense once he started reading but other people and other places he began to think, maybe i can have another life other than shucking corn or splitting rails, and he had to get away flown father who when he would see him reading would destroy his book. so he finally left the home. you couldn't leave until you were 21 and he finally left and went to new salem and that's where heir political career began leadership ran for office after being there only six months and writes this amazing, amazing hand bill that he gives out to the people explaining w

i had a brand new college degree and could tell you about shakespeare but couldn't make a phone call. a silly example of a bigger problem. hiring managers complain we aren't teaching college students the skills they need. i'm guessing you haven't used any trigonometry lately and film criticism courses don't help you in the corporate world. david is a long-time student of education and launched an on-line university and ed tech start-up and now the chairman at an on-line training company called degree. he's also the author of the expertise economy, how the smartest companies use learning to engage, compete and succeed, in book stores in mid-september. thanks for being with us this morning. what does industry want kids to learn? i'm guessing it's not latin? >> no. i think there's always been a little bit of a gap with what the purpose of higher education is and what the market needs from its graduates and incoming workers. that's widening. as the rate of acceleration is picking up in technology for these companies that gap is getting wider and wider. so it's really something we have to

. -- >> he's first one who comes up >> william shakespeare does not come up.t man i've been talking about him -- i think that on his travels to those other worlds he found the foup fountain of youth. what happened? >> you're right. shatner before shakespeare >> thank you for coming in >>> when we come back, there's more jobs than available workers in america if you're looking for an upgrade, we can help linkedin has a new list of the best startups to work for. we'll unveil that list next. >>> right now as we head to break, let's look at some of the biggest premarket winners and losers in the dow. apple is leading the way it's up by a half percentage point. this is no ordinary coffee. it's single-origin kenyan coffee from the nyeri highlands, 6,000 feet above sea level. but how do you really know that the beans journeyed to the port of mombasa and across the pacific? that you can trust they're 100% authentic? ibm blockchain. a smart way to track every step, ensuring this coffee did indeed come from 6,000 feet above sea level. and not a foot lower. ♪ ♪ this is m

in terms of corroboration, shakespeare and a woman in shakespeare's macbeth said kill fills itself forke those calendars that were made so much fun of on saturday night live. we nailed down july 1st as the date this happened. and in the year that it happened. and you may have noticed that when mitchell got that testimony, the republicans didn't want her asking any more questions. she had done her job too well. as for further corroboration, we had the book that judge wrote in which he identifies the summer in which he was working at that safeway which sets in their junior year. so when we had the crazed presentation by lindsey graham, i guess recruiting for the job at the head of the attorney general's office, he kept saying, well, we don't have the time and date. well, you know, we do. you know who we have it from? kavanaugh and from judge. now i would like to have just 20 minutes with judge. i don't care all this formal stuff. what did you write in your book? what did you mean, and how is it that she put you in the room with someone other than kavanaugh? she just made up your name and

>> reporter: the mega star actress known best for her oscar-winning performance in "shakespeare in lovel ends well. >> reporter: and her return aspener potts in the "iron man" series. >> welcome to our third installment. >> reporter: these days goop is her full-time job. the company had its third annual wellness summit this year where consumers could cruise goop's wellness products, learn from doctors and other healers. paltrow makes no efforts to hide the high-end lifestyle she's trying to market. this serum goes for $300. this trench coat almost $4,000. goop recommends this 24 karat gold vibrator, priced at $15,000. she's said the things she sells are beautiful, the life, aspirational. >> a lot of what is available in the health and wellness space is not formally studied or formally regulated. so i think what's needed is reputable medical advice from reputable and credible and credentialed medical sources. and usually those people should actually be health professionals. not celebrity du jour talented actresses, models, sports figures, people like that. >> perhaps the best practice wh

shakespeare once wrote, men are their kindness, we will adapt it, humans are and history reminds us toever be self-satisfied in present moment, okay, most do not consider that coincidence of births are biases and beliefs especially and bias i had to get over, common bias in lgbt-telling story, you probably heard this before, the history is long but bends toward justice, it's a beautiful statement from mlk. obama made a wonderful speech about this. there's nothing saturday scienty valid, society follow sideways, how about this one in relationship to the upstairs lounge, this is how i ended up trying to understand it. we carry all of human nature with us all of the time, and that's why it's fortunate occasionally take the temperature of a society and the dimensions of our own characters and to borrow from our brothers and sisters in recovery, right to be fierceless about the moral inventory, okay, this exercise of history isn't to shame you or me or denigrate species or great city that i come to love but hold up a mirror that enables us to really look human nature in the face as upstairs

depicted in shakespeare.o a great degree, violent situations, or the unusual is what most screen scenario is about. supposin' i don't tell you? then what? where is he? (yelling for help) where is he? drama needs violence because the audience sits there and they are experiencing things. and then, in order for it to take hold, the dramatist really needs this kind of pictorialness or creativity to express an emotion. the character goes through something an audience feel for. (woman screaming) (gunfire) (john sturges) violence is frightening. well, being frightened in the theatre is part of it. violent pictures will always be with us. people like to see westerns like they like to see a ballet. they like to see a thing they're familiar with. see it done in the way that they anticipate it, but meaningfully. it's a disciplined form. (gunfire) (climactic music playing) to me, the area of the west that's really interesting is when the west begins to turn sour. and the frontier, the space starts to run out. and ford wa

oh, he was great in shakespeare in love. ooh, we should watch that next girls' night. we could do a double feature with the leonardo dicaprio romeo + juliet. oh, i love me some leo. and it's gone. oh, hello, everyone. i am happy to report i'm feeling much better. good for you. (muttering) my fever is gone, my sinuses are pressure-free,

it was by the shapes shakespeare magazine and it said that he's a great shakes the actor and teach it so in fact owens is also the founder and artistic director of the brooklyn shakespeare company and according to his irons a page he still acts for the facts sorry thank you very much for that that's it for today's self remember to keep in touch on social media at all times the hash tag is great from neutrally back to when the whole team into watching do stay with us on al-jazeera. one of the best health care systems in the world most of easy never. trust with local doctors as the gatekeepers we have really good concepts you can never people while making about saddam but as the population ages what challenges does the u.k.'s national health service face that's a big problem of people in the interim a practice in drugs because of the stress of paperwork and financing the u.k.'s frontline on the people's health on al-jazeera as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group

allow me to paraphrase the best speech shakespeare gave king henry the fifth.she then outlives this day then will she strip the sleeve and show her scars and say these will that i have and the stories from this day to the ending of the world and shall be remembered we band of sisters for she who sheds her blood with me maybe she never be so vile and gentle women everywhere shall think they are cursed that they were not here. and anything that speaks with us. now i'm skipping the chapter growing up as a girl in america. the 1940s and 50s and 60s. unbelievable. i am going directly to the beginning of the action am i dreaming or am i awake rex i feminist paradise rising. it is impossible to convey how excited i was and how we all were at the brain research lab somehow i heard about a woman and i rushed out still wearing my white lab coat i was on the some of us were feathers and jewelry suede best and build bottoms and lots of makeup and we would put up with this and within the decades. nobody would understand this was a struggle. not the victory that reminded me

and that is how it is determined if it isn't worth reading shakespeare and plato have all been demonstrated by those who don't have the omslightest clue about pericles the renaissance or the enlightenment a columbia undergraduate talking about the core curriculum who is this mozart? >> the superior white men? >> she said a whole upholds the premises of white supremacy and racism no professor has ever defended our intellectual patrimony from the static know nothing without adding a qualification about respecting diversity. academic identity politics are rapidly spreading and every non- academic institution is now vulnerable and now the stem fields. exhibit a and thought control is the firing of computer engineer from google august 2017 writing a carefully reasoned memo suggesting the average career preferences of male versus females may explain why there is not a 5050 gender parity the language that the google ceo used was a direct import from academic victim all edgy. the employees were hurting because he dared to challenge the reigning orthodoxy but next was even scarier the nlrb upheld go

i can learn about the female experience by reading shakespeare.ey: plenty disagree with you but plenty do. what is your advice to those who agree with you as parents? what do you do? >> read your child, expose them to the children's classic, wind in the willows, winnie the pooh, develop an appreciation for great language. continue to monitor what they read when they go to school, steer them towards traditional history courses if any remain because most history now is taught from the perspective of victim allergy, the american founding was just one exercise of hatred, steer them away from gender studies and teach them to love the past. education is the process of transmission of inheritance and should be done with joy and gratitude. ainsley: the diversity delusion, thank you. coming up next, tucker carlson is back from "fox and friends" and turns out joe biden is running literally, seriously, look at that. we will explain. ♪ take us downtown, waze. waze integration- seamlessly connecting the world inside... with the world outside... making life a l

>> shakespeare famously wrotote, "the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves." astrophysicist dr. neil degrasse tyson joins me to explore the stars, science, and human conflict this week on "firing line." >> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible by... corporate funding is provided by... >> outer space was once seen as the final frontier, where we human beings could transcend our differences. science and technology were supposed to get us there. today, the picture doesn't look so rosy. think more "star wars" than "star trek." in fact, the vastness beyond may soon become just another contested space in which earthly conflict plays out. joining us to explore this challenge is everyone's favorite astrophysicist, dr. neil degrasse tyson. popular in every dimension, many of you will recognize dr. tyson as the former host of pbs' own "nova: sciencenow." his new book, "accessory to war: the unspoken alliance between astrophysics and the military," explores the intersection between science, politics, and public policy, familiar territory for my guest. under

was just widely ignored by the public and publication and most journalists you know this core the shakespeare trust in american institutions and most of the coverage leading up to the crash ignored the really central problems which was. pro-choice tactics were rife and they were really what drove the crash. oh i want to take your name. next they can't pay their bills. oh you. know critical we are a financial journalism mold so i wrote a system that was unsustainable that will. never forget that it was my reasons miscalculation a mis regulation that caused the problem. in the years leading up to the financial crash global stock markets hit new highs real estate was booming investment banks used ever more complicated financial instruments primarily collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps cd. yess but not only enabled riskier and riskier mortgages to be given but allowed banks to make more and more money off them when people started to default on mass the banks found themselves in too deep in a world in which banks relied on borrowing from each other for survival it set off a do

than white has been part of the english language for five hundred years since the era of william shakespeare and according to the oxford dictionary means morally beyond reproach well the well respected officer denies any wrongdoing has cooperated fully with the investigation but a complaint was made saying that the language used by the officer was allegedly intended to deliberately offend in a racist way jeannette murray from the playing english campaign thinks the phrase was used in the correct way without any offensive intent. just what the officers say it and the context and the intent he was talking to fellow officers he was talking about how policing should be damn and it should be morally beyond reproach i believe that he used the term white to them in the exact way the dictionary definition explains it and many dictionaries and that's the dictionary meaning so it seems ludicrous that the officer is that input under investigation and we have to ask ourselves are people having a pick up the language and political correctness going to touch too far now or people have also pointed to pote

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the day it comes out trump secretly works out and reads shakespeare and teaches kids how to code, thats when we can call tay bombshell, right? right now these [bleep] just need to break the glass. need to break the glass. we'll be right back. (thomas) nice choices! you see, now verizon lets you mix and match your family unlimited plans like you mix and match your flavors. so you get what you want, without paying for things you don't. number 6. i know. where do i put it? in my belly. (vo) one family. different unlimited plans. starting at $40 per line on the network you deserve. ♪ ♪♪ plawses (applause). >> trevor: welcome back to the daily show. so it is day two of our continuing coverage of the supreme court confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh which mains it is another time and another episode of so you think you can judge. today was day two of confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh and it had a lot to live up to. because day one was to use a legal term a sh it show, right. you had liberal protestors being kicked out, angry democratic senators demanding the hearings be cancele

we can hear him in shakespeare's words. but we, we shall be remembered.he was. though we are sad, we do celebrate the life of our friend, husband, father, senator, and warrior. because he did keep grace, christ playing in 10,000 places. he gave us an example of how to live, how to be the just man. with st. paul, john can now say i have fought the good fight. i have finished the race. i have kept the faith. good-bye, john mccain. [ "danny boy" playing ] ♪ ♪ oh danny boy ♪ the pipes the pipes are calling ♪ ♪ from glen to glen and down the mountainside ♪ ♪ the summer's gone and all the flowers are falling ♪ ♪ tis you tis you must go and i must bide ♪ ♪ but come ye back when summer's in the meadow ♪ ♪ and all the valley's hushed and white with snow ♪ ♪ 'tis i'll be here in sunshine or in shadow ♪ oh danny boy ♪ ♪ oh danny boy ♪ i love you so ♪ and if you come when all the flowers are dying ♪ ♪ and i am dead ♪ as dead i well may be ♪ please come and find the place where i am lie iying ♪ ♪ and kneel and say an "ave" there for me ♪ ♪ and i shall hear ♪ though so

shakespeare trust. hello i'm barbara sarah and you're of the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week the financial press didn't quite see the crash coming ten years ago are they better equipped to alert us to imminent economic disasters now another powerful media man is taken down by the me too movement on the trail of fake online accounts and bolts pushing an agenda of regime change in iran and the need for more make the vote for the ages just. what can a government do.

decided to encode in d.n.a. a photograph of their institute a text on genetics some shakespeare's sonnets and an audio file of martin luther king's famous i have a dream speech. there are where. the challenge was to move from a computer language consisting of zeros and ones to a much more complex genetic code that involves not just to put four components for d.n.a. molecule symbolized by the letters ac. these four elements came together at the bottom of the oceans millions of years ago to create the vocabulary of life. the famous d.n.a. double helix is certainly the first code that ever existed on planet earth. but with d.n.a. we have four that we could use and it's like a it's like looking at lego where i have four colors of blocks and i can put those together in any order to make a message and we devised a code that would use different it's like colors but letters of d.n.a. and each little block would represent one bite or one small part of the sink nope. and then we can put those together in any order to make the largest signal and we devised a code that would do this but would minimiz

just launched my account with hashtag swagger from behind-the-scenes and sent out this post saying shakespeareger, general patton had his swagger stick. at the state department we have swagger too. if you wonder what mike pompeo means, he described swagger as confident. no more leading from behind. heather: the time is 15 minutes until the top of the hour. donald trump could declassify bruce ohr and carter page documents. is this the right move? david bruno says no. explains why after the break. ♪ heather: donald trump could declassify documents related to bruce ohr and carter page. the document expected to prove bias and shattered the initial reason for starting the russia probe. david bruno is here to explain why it matters. >> there was a battle about the fisa applications, the data was released at that point. subsequently there was an open records request that requires disclosure. heather: there are pages of it on the entire page. >> there has always been a dispute about how much information was provided to the court. finally if something was declassified and open, we make our own decision

. >> i think even shakespeare is problematic as of today, we have to be open to subjective opinions about it. i might feel very strongly that the art and the artist cannot be separated but i feel like we have to be open around us who might not make that -- that connection and i think we have to look at the context in which it was created, what was the norms of the day, what was accepted during the day, we can think differently about the artist, that doesn't necessarily mean that we have to do away with all of those books knowing -- >> no. >> the context in which it was created and i think that that context can be a window into the context in which it was created. i come from the perspective that there's no work of art so great that it's not indispensable and to me personally i would like to see the works replaced by those whose voices were suppressed, when it comes to artist, i would like to see amendiaga, that's what i like to see, where can we find space for those voice who is were silenced during those times? >> well, i feel like -- i don't like when people start attacking works of art

everett has appeared in movies including shakespeare in love and my best friend's wedding.this new film is the first that he has directed. he also wrote the screenplay and he stars as the playwright oscar wilde who is imprisoned in england in 1895 for the crime of homosexual behavior. >>> in san jose a holiday tradition will see a big change this year. >> christmas in the park is going to end early as the city prepares for a sporting event. azimuth is here to tell us about why it's ending. >> reporter: the last day will be on christmas day cut short for the college football player championship. >> hidden away in this warehouse in san jose are all the lights for christmas in the park. >> all of our displays here there's over 40 animated sleighs. >> reporter: he is putting the last finishing touches on a new pet themed christmas display. local families flock here every year. >> because we don't charge admission, it's free to see santa claus, you see a lot of families where this is their christmas because it doesn't cost them an arm and a leg to go off and be in a family atmos

i'm not mark anthony and mister shakespeare's play. you hefner died september 27, 2017, and occurrence widely noted and commented on in the media around the united states. and regarding his achievements and his legacy, i think it's fair to say the reaction was mixed by the critics. in a few minutes you'll hear from a person whose assessment in the new york times was i think it's fair to say decidedly unmixed. he described hefner and these are his words as wicked and destructive, a grinning of sexual liberation, a pretentious huckster, a lecherous lowbrow and assess his impact on american society as terrible, as a kind of not besetting american values. one certainly knows where mister dowd stands on this issue. now, while i admire his work greatly and often find myself in agreement with him, speaking us hefner's biographer today, i would respectfully disagree on this issue and offer a different perspective. hefner, i argue, was one of the most influential figures in american culture in the last half of the 20th century . his ideas and d

and whether it was individual artists or institutions or shakespeare festival, they were the ones that really turned it into a really living artistic place as well. it is that reason that this place became the living memorial to john f. kennedy. when congress asked what should we do to recognize your husband, she asked that they name the national cultural center in his honor. and, in fact, that inspired the contributions that made it possible to build this building that we're in today. the kennedy center has three laments to the mission. obviously, world class art. but also powerful education and program that's reach across the country. and we're really well known almost in all 50 states and puerto rico and d.c. for our education program. it is the program that happen here all the time that really support and sustain the memorial to john f. kennedy. our work as we near the 50th anniversary is to strengthen that message and to really reaffirm and remind our patrons and visitors alike that it is what he stood for, what he believed in, how he lived his life that we really represent here.

if you type in shakespeare and company in our search you can watch that online. we have also interviewed can folic and you can watch both of those interviews online. were talking with novelist and thriller writer brad thor. 202408 in the pacific time zones. a reminder for this program first time colors to book to be only. we will cycle through our social media addresses. you can make a comment or ask a question as well. i'm going to read this facebook comment that we got from grego gregory. only because you have talked about this and the influence of the past, but he wants to know how the authors parenting influence the personality and character that you have now. what does mr. thor think his parents did right and wrong? >> what a great question. my parents instilled in us a sense of responsibility. and duty, patriotism and kindness, and also they were both entrepreneurs. there is a lot of entrepreneurship flashing around. my parents got divorced when i was nine years old. it's always interesting, my brother lived with my dad and i lived with my mom. they both ha

people love shakespeare's tragedies because you can go home and say i'm glad i'm not julius caesar.t made you welcome a humble life. no more. today we are all caesar, facing a mob armed with trespasses shaped like daggers and microphones. all right, jesse. we need to hear from her, don't we? >> jesse: we do. i don't think were going to. i think what happened was, they thought they were going to take it to a certain point and they realized this woman was going to have to testify monday, that was way too soon for the democrats because this was a delay tactic. this is a really dirty business. for that reason, today, i'm withdrawing from consideration from the supreme court. [laughter] it's ugly. they are destroying this guy's life, i wanted to give ford the benefit of the doubt. on monday and tuesday, i've been saying i believe she believe something happened. something may have happened her there was a polygraph involved. i don't want to cast any doubt on her allegations but the way they are dragging this out now it's become so political, greg, that it's gotten away from the actual all

. >>> michael cohen's personal jour nee has many elements of a shakespeare drama.lity. burning ambition. loyalty and betrayal. and retribution. the same man who told fox news this about donald trump. >> i'm going to do whatever it is that i can do to ensure that they leave him alone. he's a good man. >> would say this to abc news two years later. >> i will not be a punching bag part of anyone's defense strategy. i'm not a villain in any story. and won't allow others to depict me in that way. >> rudy giuliani the president's attorney had previously described him in glowing terms. >> lt man is an honest, honorable lawyer. >> after the secret tape leak. giuliani began singing a different tune about cohen on cnn. >> back against the wall he'll lie like crazy. he lied all his life. >> the dramatic and dangerous event in the saga of michael cohen so far. that day he glad handed his way into the federal courthouse in manhattan. not as a lawyer. but a defendant about to admit guilt. >> former private lawyer michael cohen accepted his own fate in a deal with prosecutors. pl

the most memorable speech shakespeare gave king henry v. she that outlives this day and comes safe home, then will she strip her sleeve and show her scars and say these wounds i had. this story shall the good woman teach her children, from this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered. we few, we happy few, we band of sisters, for she today that sheds her blood with me shall be my sister, this day shall gentle her condition and gentle woman everywhere shall sink themselves acursed they were not there, they were not here, and hold their humanity cheap while any speaks that fought with us. i'm skipping the chapter growing up as a girl in america. that was unbelievable. [laughter] >> 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, unbelievable. and i'm going directly to the beginning of the action. am i dreaming or am i awake? feminist paradise rising. it's impossible to convey how excited i was, how excited we all were. while at work at the brain research lab, i somehow heard about a woman's meeting. i rushed out, still wearing my white lab coat

it was said when he got a copy of the king james' byele of shakespeare play they was so excited he couldn't eat or sleep and there was a sense in which books carried him to places he could never go through books he began to develop an alternative thought for what he might be in life. he was really smart and those few years when he was in school he was without peer and i think that's where some of this confidence came from. after a while he was teaching the other kids in this class rather than the teacher because he learned so much. but in a certain sense once he started reading but other people and other places he began to think, maybe i can have another life other than shucking corn or splitting rails, and he had to get away flown father who when he would see him reading would destroy his book. so he finally left the home. you couldn't leave until you were 21 and he finally left and went to new salem and that's where heir political career began leadership ran for office after being there only six months and writes this amazing, amazing hand bill that he gives out to the people explaining w

that's why i'm confident at the end of what shakespeare would describe as a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing, i am confident that judge kavanaugh will be justice kavanaugh and confirm to the united states supreme court. thank you, mr. chairman. >> we are going to take a break now. and -- wait a minute! we are going take a break now and 30 minutes is what the democrats would like to have. we will return at 1:17. gorsuch returned about 10 minutes later than that. so be on time. >> okay. you heard the man. we will be back at 1:17 eastern time and in the interim, an opportunity for us to discuss what exactly it is we just witnessed. started out as a car accident of a hearing. i am joined here in new york by a former acting solicitor general of this country who argued 37 cases of his own before the supreme court and veteran of the southern district of new york. neal, to you, what did we just witness? >> i think we witnessed the frustration of the american people. the hearing began with protests and shouting stuff that i have never seen before. >> a big gambit by the democrats. >> the demo

borrowing from shakespeare, hell hath no fury like a regulator bored. people see the marketplace and think we have to have our finger in that pie. it could be for illicit reasons, we want our regulatory rents to be extracted. it could be for positive reasons, they really do believe okay the government has to regulate this otherwise consumers are going to be left to the mercy of market forces. when we talk to colleagues and other agencies when i speak to members of agencies. elected official who you'll hear from soon. is that consumers are better off when the government sets broad terms for competition to allow everyone to be able to compete on 0 a level playing field and lets the market take over. a great example is ronald coast, the famed economist who wrote a paper called the federal communications commission, not a very exciting title. the idea was profound, he said inhaving these unelected bureaucrats in washington have what are called beauty contests where people come in and say, i want to be able to get a license for this slice of spectrum, here's

language from the prayer book, the book of common prayer, which is one of the great achievements with shakespeare, with milton, it shaped the language for centuries, it will feel a little old-fashioned but that's the church that senator mccain grew up in. remember he went to boarding school in alexandria, virginia. as a prisoner in hanoi, he was the chaplain of his cell block and would repeat liturgy he remembered from the old boarding school days. the first hymn we will hear is one that will be familiar to most americans with familiarity of history which is the navy hymn, eternal father. it's a victorian hymn both adopted by the royal navy and by the united states navy. it's where the phrase restless wave came from which senator mccain used as the title of the last book. it was sung by winston churchill and franklin roosevelt in august of 1941 when they were meeting secretly at sea to plan how to defeat tyranny. it was was sung at president kennedy's services. i remember daniel patrick remembering that his central memory of those terrible days in november was that everyone in washington suddenly

>> there are always wonderful characters, bu trained.re they did shakespeare. i wasn't that girl. ither here nor there. i had seen gilda .radn bits of carol burnett. and lucille ball. we were behind them in england, but then we caught up now. i had this great admiration for hrthe way women coulde on american television. >> should there be anything that is off limits for comedy? i think we're in a national conversation right now on whas too far, political critique or about political correctness. >> it only goes too far when it's not based in good energy and it's observation, it becomes angry and partisanl.nd cr then it's not funny to me. >> are you intentional? or is it just to entertain when it comes to thinking abo what is that you are writing? are you -- if somebody looks at a sketch, this is her way of pushing back? >> no, i don think people see me that way. i've been very fair. i do a tbbc show t goes out prime time with all generations, allorts of age people watching it. i think we try and keep the show very fair. i said, i sick of the tribalism. >> can you reallyid a it? not