so he's gone and convinced the british that there's going to be an attack on staten island. and then the eventual result is the fact that his army and the french army are able to move across new jersey without being attacked, and as i'm sure most of you are aware, they make it down to virginia and corn wallace surrenders at yorktown. okay? that gives you pretty much of a run-through on the spycraft that was used during the american revolution. there's many more codes and ciphers. they are in the book. and at this point, i would like to open it up to some questions. and hopefully i have some answers. we have one back there. wait for the mike, please. >> a comment on nathan haile? >> nathan haile was absolutely a very poor spy. i don't know if you're familiar with what's been found out. british general -- scottish general by the name of grant. his papers were found and just became recently available. in there he identifies that robert rodgers actually got haile to tell him that he was a spy and what his mission was. and haile should have kept his mouth shut. he thought rodgers

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your mother was born on staten island? >> my mom -- >> in new york? >> my mom was from originally -- yeah, she was born on staten island, but the family are virginians. >> but here's this paradox. many paradoxes in your story, in your life. your parents battlebattled. >> yes. >> over your ethnicity. your mother used to scream at you. what did she say? >> i can't repeat it on the air, but she would get so flustered, you know. she was a lady, you know? she was a junior league lady with those roots in virginia. but she was under siege by poverty and mexicans and spanish. she could not make me understand that i was something other than a border rat. so she would basically say, i'm so sick of your mexican, we shall say shenanigans. and she called me louis, or dear boy. she would always move her hand like this and say dear boy. she'd make me use a cup and all the fineries, and my mexican relatives thought, what is that? americans drink coffee out of doll cups. they didn't get it. >> and your father, what did he think about this? >> didn't like it. luis, lui

he needed to march across south jersey being attacked by the british located in new york and on staten island. you have to know the enemy's assumptions, and washington originally was planning to attack new york with the french. the british in new york believed that, and so what you have to do is, that once you know what the enemy believes, you then have to reinforce their belief that that is what you're going to do. so the next thing would be method selection. the options they used. one of the things that he did is, since they were using the french army. the french army, a bulk of their diet is bread, he had brick ovens being built, and they were built in chatham, new jersey. he issued orders for the preparations of building ovens at the highlands, right near sandy hook, and he also was issuing orders for supplies to be brought to the french ovens at the highlands. once the french troops arrived, and since the french troops were never going there, he could write as manyrd others as he wands, because none of these contracts would ever take place. the other thing that he did is, he had troops a

immediately and of the ten percent that were arrested some of them also did nothing wrong take staten island resident kendrick gray for example seen here with his lawyer he claims to have been tamed to claim to have been detained and arrested without probable cause by officer michael jodhi an officer who was later recorded using a racial slur to describe gray when federal investigators wiretapped him and an unrelated extortion probe well gray's going to have a chance to prove that and he hasn't followed all the laws like this one is claiming he's suing the department of federal court and the pardon is facing other legal challenges from civil rights activists and defense lawyers like those representing. ronnie is being charged with terrorism but his attorneys argue that he was targeted by new york police because he's mentally ill and an easy target for entrapment so tomorrow his court case is set to proceed and his attorneys will try to have the case dismissed on the grounds of the n.y.p.d. violated the constitution but are the legal maneuvers the sort the good one would describe as being pol

turned from a single island city into a five bu bureau city and the next part of westchester and staten island as well. here is a city in 1900 this city has 3.5 million people, a million and three quarters live in manhattan. about a million and a quarter live in brooklyn alone. by 1940 we're going to have 8 million people in the city. now, this means tremendous growth, and it also means that this city is on the verge of becoming a world capital and we knew it. this era is the era america is coming of age, becoming a world power, fight the spanish american war, get colonies, teddy roosevelt brokers the peace between russian and japan and the 19 zeros and we bypass europe in terms of being the greatest economic power on earth and you could say it is the beginning of the american century. now, i don't know if we're at the end of the american century but i know we're at the beginning in this lecture. i can't tell you about the end. and this era saw the new scale of these world capital cities and especially new york we were the capital of the country in every way but political and we saw a vision f

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. >> this lady came all the way from staten island. cuba gooding jr.body in a movie my husband stole as a football player in "jerry maguire." what team did his character play for? denver broncos, san diego chargers, arizona cardinals or san francisco 49ers. >> i'm going to say the 49ers because it's my father's favorite team. >> this is a really good one, this one. this one's so good. my mother loves this one. >> the correct answer here, the arizona cardinals. >> right. this is a tough one. now, he buffed up for this movie. at the casting call, they asked him, now, are you comfortable with some on-screen nudity? he just dropped his pants right there. >> i'm sure he did. i remember his acceptance speech for the oscar. won't forget that. >> show me the money. show me the abs. >> look at all these adorable ladies here today from illinois. for her oscar winning role in "million dollar baby" hilary swank spent three months boxing four hours a day, six days a week which helped her do which of the following? lose ten pounds? add 19 pounds of muscle? fit into

teacher from teach for america, young, idealistic, and she would get up at 6:00 not morning from staten islandleave at 6:00 or 8:00 at night each day. now, etchry teacher is from "teach for america," not from the unions and here is the thing, this is the most important investment getting rid of the victimization culture that exists among a lot of the kids and it ramps up there with high taxes and high debt. you want to talk about america, not going the way of greece you have to talk about education. >>neil: until now, governor romney has spoken about the economy and taxes and spending and now taking on a whole new area, education. if i am the white house i am worried. this is a punch that knocks you out. by the way you talk about touching different, this is in front of a latino organization, this goes, really, deep to the heart of a lot of people, and this cuts to the heart of people that the democrats are taking for granted. quickly, this morning, i wrote about education. and in 1895, in kansas they had an 8th grade final exam. here are some of the questions. nine rules not use of capital lea

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. >> president of staten island.i like what you said about people are always reaching out to something that they want without working for it. it's a change for the country of entitlement. we have 5% of the families in 1960 we have 41% now. as an example, and i'm going to be critical of both, republican and democratic parties. they keep feeding into the system. i come from the highest income in the city of new york on the south shore. i am speaking to the teachers down there, speaking to the two young ladies in high school and one is telling the other one and the officer says why? they will give me an apartment and i will give you $310 a month. if you ever do get married of course they will stop it. we need coverage. both sides have been encouraging it it just keeps increasing and increasing. >> d 12 lead that woman star on the streets? why not. i don't know what i want. >> expect the people around you to support you it's got to be loud and clear by both parties. i saw what happened in new york state on the budget ref

great company, they're going to bring a line from staten island into manhattan.en at least ten years since we've gotten a new line into manhattan. this is so important to us. >> why is it so important? isn't natural gas all over the place? >> there's natural gas all over the place. as you know, the price is down. customers are switching to natural gas for a couple of reasons. one, the city has said we don't want people burning as much dirty oil. number six oil and number four oil is a lot dirtier. that's what you see at the top of the chimneys. >> and trucks that block the street. >> and the trucks that block the street. the equivalent of getting the buildings in our service area, 7,000 buildings, if they would all convert, some have to go in the next couple years, others a longer period of time, if they all converted we would see our distribution peak for gas by 50%. >> that would be huge for your profits. >> that would be huge. we would have to invest a lot in our distribution system to be able to deliver that gas to the customers. >> this is gas coming from ma

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and i know that the seniors that live -- whether it's in brooklyn or staten island thinking how muchy sacrifice to build this country and they're going to friendship clubs to get $2 sandwiches because they really can't afford to live anymore to think we're going to build afghanistan, it's absurd. we don't have the money, we have to change our policies and invest in america but not with these current policies. we're borrowing and spending just as the senator said and it's a destructive path. and i do believe, like the senator said, that is our number one threat al qaeda right behind it. >> al qaeda behind it. general mccaffrey, a lot of people believe our number one threat in afghanistan besides the afghanistan government itself is pakistan. and the president did allude briefly to pakistan, but didn't say much about it. can i get your thoughts? are they the bad guys in this whole calculus? >> no, not at all. looking out for their own interests, they're a nuclear state, can barely keep themselves together. it's four separate nations. only the army which is also their intelligence can h

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. >> reporter: applebaum is a lawyer in staten island, n.y.d a student loan activist arguing for substantial debt forgiveness. >> what i initially proposed was full, across the board student loan forgiveness for all americans. >> reporter: applebaum has since moderated his position. but his efforts have begun to change student loan policy in america. but what is the policy right now? what's happening to it? and should we really contemplate forgiving debts legally and knowingly assumed? even some highly indebted grads have trouble with that concept. maryland teacher beth hansen, who also works three part time jobs to make ends meet, owes more than $60,000, on total income of about $45,000. >> as a member of society, i have certain rules and obligations. when you enter into a contract, you have to fulfill that contract. >> reporter: with a bachelors and law degrees, jack cazir is a $100,000 in the hole. >> i did take the money knowingly. like i knew it was a loan and... >> reporter: recent brandeis grad benjamin beutel, who did everything he cou