. >>> the only reason that stephen king has publish mord books than john prados, king makes stuff up. prados has written 17 books, the blood trail, about the ho chi minh trail, inside the pentagon papers and viet nam, the history of an unwinnable war. senior fellow with the national security archive and institution for historians and everyone interested in fighting needless government secrecy, prados heads the iraq doicumentation contrac. it's in his contract i should mention his book is the normandy crucible. ladies and gentlemen, a heavy weight historian, john prados. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, that was very gracious. also add my voice to all my colleagues, congratulating and thanking the people who brought us to this event here this weekend. we think it's a wonderful opportunity to bring these issues before the public eye. actually, we were talking about historeography, it shows you how the process goes of trying to read the tea leaves and interpret issues in history. so the phrase "decent interval" comes from an article henry kissinger wrote, which he published in the jo

the only reason that stephen king has published more books than john prados is that king gets to make stuff up. prad doze has written 17 nonfiction books including "the hidden history of vietnam," "the blood trail" about the ho chi minh trail. "vietnam: the history of an unwinnable war." prados heads the iraq documentation project and the vietnam project. it is in his contract that i should mention his most recent book "the normandy crucible," which is not about vietnam. john prados. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. that was very gracious. let me also add my voice to those of all my colleagues congratulating and thanking the people who brought us to this event here this weekend. we think it's a wonderful opportunity to bring these issues before the public eye. actually, we were just talking about his tor i don't gofy. let me open on a his tor graphical note. it shows you kind of how the process goes and a time to read the tea leaves. the phrase decent interval actually comes from an article that henry kissinger wrote, which he published in the journal foreign affairs in the month

the only reason why stephen king has published more books than john prados is that king gets to make stuff up. prados has written 17 non-fiction books including the hidden history of vietnam. "the blood trail" which is about the ho chi minh trail, and the pentagon papers and vietnam, the history of an unwinnable war. a senior fellow with the national security archive and indispensable institution for historians and everyone interested in fighting needless government secrecy. prados heads the iraq documentation project or the vietnam project. it is in his contract that he mentioned the normandy crucible which is not about vietnam. ladies and gentlemen, a relentless researcher and heavy weight historian john pradas. >> thank you very much. that was very gracious. we also add my troyes those of all my colleagues and congratulating and thanking the people who brought us to this event here this weekend. we think it's a wonderful opportunity to bring these issues before the public eye. actually, since we were just talking about historiography, let me open on a historical graphical note bec

, and every stage it got more the reader and more variety at a lower cost and got better to be stephen king who had an author to have access to better tribute shu eter distrib was worse is the shlub behind the cartons around and being a store manager is what happened. those kinds of forces are happening almost everywhere and you can't change them. and if you did try to change them, you'd be taking us back from the world cutting edge which is where we don't want to go and that is why a fair amount of it comes back to tax policy, and there are other things to be looking at. much more transparency in compensation. is clearly a helpful thing. where the government is in the business of conferring rents, more auctions and less giveaway and less responsiveness to political pressures. that's something that is helpful. i do think that we need to engage -- and the decision and we decided somehow in america that corporations have the free speech right of citizens. well, you know, it goes back to the framers that citizenship comes with privileges and obligations. and i think that we have to think very

looks like fog from a stephen king novel. warm in ocean city. 52 degrees. humidity near 100%.feels balmy out there. about 5 to 6 degrees warmer is how it will feel on the skin. as far as what we did yesterday, pretty much as far as the high temperatures are concerned, around normal. low temperatures a mixed bag. we topped out at 54. 51 at b.w.i. marshall. a half inch of rain at the airport. a quarter mch inch at the inner harbor. i wanted to point out, we had almost 5 inches of snow. mid to upper 40's. parkton at 45. warmest temperatures on the eastern shore when they are in the mid to upper 50's. way out west, they are still looking warm out there. 43. frostburg, 39 degrees. a mass of moisture here associated with the line of violent storms that moved through the midwest and portions of the south. unfortunately, fatal tornadoes along with it. you can see this is a well defined cold front with moisture ahead of it. but behind it, high pressure. that will catch up with us later in the week and bring us nice weather. temperatures nearing 70 degrees. as far as today and tomorrow,

. >> stephen king. you got nothing on rick santorum. the candidate's new ad says this grim horror will be reality if the president is reelected. >>> call this a susan boyle moment. only this fintime the voice bels to a 17-year-old boy. you don't have to look like a star to sound like one. ♪ he is so good. he took the smirk off simon cowell's face. >>> this morning we start with a monumental legal fight that gets under way at the u.s. supreme court in about an hour. the issue is president obama's health care law but, ultimately, the case could redefine the power of government, the freedom of your choices and even the presidential race. three days of arguments begin with the central question, is the individual mandate constitutional? it will require nearly every american to purchase some level of insurance or face a tax penalty. that part of the bill, that law, that part of the law rather is scheduled to take effect in 2014. the supreme court debate is considered one of the most important cases in years, and it's been years in the making.

and basically got better to be stephen king. be an author, because it access to much better distribution, and what got it worse was to be like a regular schlund card caring around are working on a cash register or being a store manager. that's basically what happened. those kinds of forces are happening almost everywhere. and you can't change. and if he did try to change them, you would be taking us back from the world cutting-edge which is where we don't want to go. that's what a fair amount of it comes back to tax policy, but there are other things to be looking at. much more transparency in compensation is clearly a helpful thing. where the government is in the business of confirming rent, more auctions and less give away, less responsiveness to political pressures. that's something that is, that is helpful. i do think we need to engage -- and this is a very difficult set of issues, and it is easy to this end into populist know nothingism in the area that i am about to mention. but, you know, with the citizens united decision

. >> you have to love it when you break out the deep voice and the ads, the scary stephen king trailerg s. this over the top from the campaign? right now, don't you think the money you should be spending, shouldn't you focus that on the gop front-runner, mitt romney? >> it's funny because when we talk about mitt romney, everyone says we should focus on obama. when we talk about obama, everyone says we should focus on mitt romney. we have to oust this president. that's the bottom line. that's been our goal from day one. we become the nominee and we have to oust this president. this ad points out the fact that after years of this president, we're a whole lot worse off than they were four years ago. gas prices are higher, iran's closer to a nuclear weapon. and that ad draws the contrast. some of these ads are fun, some are scary. that ad outlines a little bit of both. obamaville, small towns are being crushed by the energy regulations and obamacare, quite frankly. and so that was what the ad did. we just wanted to make that point very clear. this fight is about getting rid of president ob

our thanks to stephen king for creating those boys. [ coughs ] what is this shorty?h, tissues sir, i'm sick. you don't cough, you don't show defeat. give me your war face! raaah! [ male announcer ] halls. a pep talk in every drop. >>> president obama will hold his first press conference of the year at 1:15 eastern standard time tomorrow, just hours before the its focus on the ten states that will cast votes for the republican presidential nomination on super tuesday. new polls today are showing that the republican nominating process cannot end soon enough for most republicans in the republican party. according to a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, four in ten americans say the republican nominating process has made them feel less favorable toward the republican party. only 12% say the republican nominating process has made them feel more favorable toward the republican party. "new york post" conservative columnist john spoke for the republican establishment in his latest column. "maybe, just maybe, if romney does well, by which i mean he wins or all -- all bu

retirees whose 401(k)s read like stephen king novels because of the crisis wall street jumped on us. it is really everybody. even people who have done their due diligence as rick said. >> same thing with your victims. >> that is one of the challenges in trying to get the message out. we had a press conference not so much in the business opportunity realm but what was mentioned earlier. we were able to get seven folks come forward. one of the persons i worked with in the city of los angeles, college educated fell for it and so the challenge is getting people -- it can happen to anyone. we try to let people know that. >> in addition to law enforcement, there is educational component to all this. we want to talk about the educational efforts being made. >> first of all the federal trade commission web site is the place i would recommend consumers start. look on their website, ftc.gov at business opportunity fraud and check with the state attorney general. the maryland attorney general is here. you can find their address on your state websites. the national consumers league is here. they

. >> our thanks to stephen king for creating those boys. >> oh, my. >> the sport thing, while not completelyate, there's something about it. >> it's funny. we love shep, though. he's a great guy and as good as it gets. he's great at what he does. >> he is the best. that was bill hader doing shep smith. and he later brought out his james carville impersonation. >> do you think limbaugh will be canceled because of these comments? >> no, no, no, seth. rush will always be around sort of like that tv show "cops," you don't realize they're on the air and one saturday evening you're getting dressed and you hear bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do, and you're like, they're still doing that thing? >> now, james, while we have you here. what do you think of the republican candidates? >> oh. i think plenty about them. and i laugh. i laugh. i mean, look at the front runner, mitt romney. i know romney looks like a president, but we don't always get the job we look right for. if we did, i'd be the king of the snakes! >> you and i both agreed the best line was -- >> it came in the middle of the story tha

have been downsized, people whose spouses have been laid off, retirees whose 401(k)s read like stephen king novels because of the crisis wall street dumped on us. so it's really everybody and even people who have done the due diligence as rick said. >> are you seeing the same thing with your victims click >> absolutely. that's one of the challenges we have been trying to get victims to come forward. we breezily have a press conference not so much as a business opportunity realm, but the relative distress teams mentioned earlier. we were able to get seven folks to come forward. when you looked at them, one of the persons i worked with in the city of los angeles and my prior job, college-educated fell for it and so the challenge is getting people to come forward to feel that book you can happen to anyone and that is so we try to do is let people know that. >> so i am assuming in addition to law-enforcement, there's educational component to all of this. to want to talk about what kind of educational efforts he know or be made to teach consumers click >> briefly until you first about the federa

have been downsized and the people whose spouses have been laid off, retirees whose 401(k)s for x stephen kingnovels because of the crisis wall street dump on us. so it's really everybody. i see that people have done their due diligence as rich said. >> same thing with your victims click >> absolutely. one of the challenges we had in trying to get the big dems to come forward. we recently had a press conference, not so much in the business opportunity, but the relative in distress schemes mentioned earlier. we are able to get seven folks to come forward. when you looked at them, one of the persons i worked with the city of los angeles in my prayers chap was college-educated and the challenge i think is getting people to come forward and not feel that it could happen to anyone about that we try to do is let people know that. >> i am assuming in addition to law enforcement is educational components about this. you want to talk about what kind of educational efforts you know i've been made quite >> will briefly, i would tell you first of all i think the federal trade commission website is the pla

but stephen asked don king, arguably unanswerable questions like what is it that brief fire into the equations and makes the universe for them to describe? why is there something rather than nothing? why does the universe go to the bottom of existing? these stray into philosophy and religion. something that science seldom asks. they're irrelevant to the everyday perception of most science. the cover of the book the grand design promised that this book would tell us the ultimate answers, it doesn't actually and stephen goes on asking the questions. everson fbn he keeps saying i long to know these answers. also in that same book he writes with the answers he proposed or anyone else proposes at that level really represent reality. all of which causes his more dogmatic reductionist statement that he often makes to the media seem not quite stephen hawking. would you agree with him it seems too earthbound big remorse over and he usually is. it wouldn't be correct to stop with his science in trying to explain his appeal. he would probably wish it otherwise. but his disability and even more

it got better to be stephen king. because he had access to much better distribution.t got worse was to be working behind the cash register or be a store manager. that is basically what happened. those kinds of forces are happening almost everywhere. and you cannot change them. and if you did try to change them, you would be taking us that from the world's cutting edge, which is not where we want to go. that is why a fair amount comes back to tax policy. but there are other things to be looking at. much more transparency in compensation is clearly a helpful thing. where the government is in the business of conferring rents, more options and less give away. less responsiveness to political pressures. that is something that is helpful. i do think we need to engage the -- and this is a very difficult set of issues, and is easy to descend into populist known nothingism in this dimension, but with the citizens united decision, we decided somehow in america the corporations have a free-speech right of citizens. well, you know, it goes back to the framers that citizenship com

and that, my friends, means no 500-calorie king-size snickers or milky way bars. >> stephen: i wouldry, but my tear ducts are clogged with nougat. [ laughter ] according to the mars company, the change is to promote, quote "responsible snacking." oh, great. now, i need to snack responsibly. can i get that nestle crunch with brown rice? [ laughter ] could i get just the ikes, with the mikes on the side? and i'll have just an m. i'm driving. [ laughter ] i don't want a smaller bar. i want a bar so big, that while i'm eating one end, the other end is still rolling off the factory line. you don't buy it -- you get a subscription. [ laughter ] this is a sad day for america's mouths, ladies and gentlemen. i remember when we led the world in snacks-ploration. when the russkies hit us with sputnik, we hit 'em back with the top secret whatchamacallit program. [ laughter ] we still don't know what it's called. and america won the space race of taking up the most space! [ laughter ] america must not retreat. we must continue to dream of a future with fudge-covered treats so large, that by the e

retirees whose 401k's read like stephen king novels. >> ed, are we seeing the same thing with your victim's>> we are trying to get victims to come forward. we recently had a press conference. we were able to get folks to come forward. one of the people i worked with in the city of los angeles in my prior job as a -- he was a management analyst. it fell for it. the challenge is getting people to come forward and not to feel like it cannot happen to anyone. >> in addition to law enforcement, there is an educational component to all of this. ed, do you want to talk about what kind of educational efforts have been made? >> the federal trade commission website is the place consumers start. look on the web site at at business opportunity fraud. you should also check with your state's attorney general. you can find the address there or on your state website. the national consumers league is here. i would really advise people to not pay attention to the information from the people working possibly in fraud with the fraudster. consider talking to their friends, talking to local consumer groups. say,

(john stephens) we lived in the ruined palace of their kings, we went up to their desolate temples and fallen altars, and wherever we moved we saw the evidences of their taste, their skill in arts, their wealth, and power. in the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back to the past, cleared away the gloomy forest and fancied every building perfect, with its sculptured and painted ornaments, lofty and imposing. (narrator) the late 19th century brought new visitors with new technologies to palenque. the british photographer alfredaudslay arrived in palenque in 1890 and took some of the earliest surviving pictures of the ruins. the photographs and reports of explorers la gdwaudslay and his a diline maya studies. one of the first breakthroughs in understanding the ancient maya was the decoding of their calendar and complex records of planetary movements and eclipses. well, the maya calendar is one of the most complicated aspects about maya civilization. there actually are several kinds of calendars. there are ones that are a cycle of 260 days, there's a cycle of 365 days, which is like

(john stephens) we lived in the ruined palace of their kings, we went up to their desolate temples and fallen altars, and wherever we moved we saw the evidences of their taste, their skill in arts, their wealth, and power. in the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back to the past, cleared away the gloomy forest and fancied every building perfect, with its sculptured and painted ornaments, lofty and imposing. (narrator) the late 19th century brought new visitors with new technologies to palenque. the british photographer alfred maudslay arrived in palenque in 1890 and took some of the earliest surviving pictures of the ruins. the photographs and reports of explorers la gdwaudslay and his a w diline maya studies. one of the first breakthroughs in understanding the ancient maya was the decoding of their calendar and complex records of planetary movements and eclipses. well, the maya calendar is one of the most complicated aspects about maya civilization. there actually are several kinds of calendars. there are ones that are a cycle of 260 days, there's a cycle of 365 days, which is l

stephen de staebler made miniature sculptures. >> during the 1970's, he was inspired by the monuments of egypt. he assembled a large rocks of clay into figures that resembled the ancient kings and queens. he credited a weathered appearance by rubbing glazes' into the clay while still wet. the misfires from his killed were brought in his backyard in his berkeley home. he called it his boneyard. in the last year of his life, he dug up the artifacts from his own history, and the bones were rearranged, in the were slimmer figures with wings. >> even if you knew nothing about his life or career, you sensed there was an artist dealing with this fundamental issue of life and death, the cake, netting back together, and you feel there is an attempt to deal with mortality and immortality. there is a seeking of spiritual meaning in an existential stage. >> during his 50-year career, stephen de staebler worked to form and out of the clay of the ground and give it a breath of life. matter and spirit gathers the many expressions of his meditations. and gives the viewer and insight into the artist's life. learn more about the retrospective on line at >> sanrio famous for the designs for h