right here and right now. >> narrator: history offers no evidence that jesus was influenced by the essenes, but their apocalyptic challenge struck chords that reverberatedd throughout the homeland and echoed through the message of a prophet known as john the baptist. >> ( dramatized ): in those days, john the baptist appeared in the wilderness of judea, proclaiming "repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near." >> john the baptist was a renowned kind of eccentric, it appears, from the way that josephus describes him. but he seems to have had this quality of a kind of prophetic figure, one who was calling for change. so he is usually thought of as being off in the desert wearing unusual clothes-- a kind of ascetic almost. >> john is taking people out into the desert, crossing the jordan. he is recapitulating the exodus, and he is planting little, ticking time bombs of apocalyptic expectation all over the jewish homeland, waiting for god to strike, as it were. >> narrator: it was as john's disciple, the gospels say, that jesus submitted to the ancient jewish rite of baptism. >> the evide

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one such sect, the essenes, were apocalyptic jews who lived in the desert by the dead sea.scovered in the caves of kumron in 1948, we suddenly gained startling new clues about jesus' own spiritual roots. >> we have from kumron just a small bit of a manuscript that shows us that there were other jews, just before the time of jesus, who were waiting for a messiah who would exert miraculous and healing power, and who would also have the power to raise the dead. jesus embraces that messianic expectation. >> and it began with a baptism, as the gospels tell us, performed by the man who tradition and scholarship say was jesus' cousin and boyhood friend. john the baptist lived in the wilderness wearing camel skins, eating locusts and wild honey, and baptizing people in the jordan river to cleanse them of their sins. this was a radical new spin on the jewish purification bath. john was turning an ancient ritual into a new sacrament. >> john the baptist. he recognized jesus at the baptism. and he said, this is the man i've been waiting for, this is the person i'm preparing the way fo

course, he was talking about a series of votes on nominees that he himself has set up since he is the -- in essen essence, the traffic cop for the senate and he gets to set the agenda unilaterally. but we know that while the majority leader has set up this series of votes on nominations, none of which are urgent and couldn't be done in january, none of which -- and all of which are controversial, the majority leader is refusing to allow any vote on restoring pension benefits to the men and women of the united states armed services. as we've talked about repeatedly over the last couple of days, the recent budget deal cuts their pension benefits by some $6 billion over 10 years. and we've learned that this agreement slashes the pension benefits of some of our wounded warriors, people who are medically retired. senator murray, the senator from washington, the distinguished chairman of the senate budget committee, has called this a technical error. a technical error. and she says it needs to be fixed but we'll do this next year. merry christmas, to our wounded warriors whose pensions are by virtue of

bare bones, catastrophic plan that, of course paul was previously restricted to those under the age of 30. in essenns of americans is on their insurance plans canceled because there were deemed inadequate under obamacare are now allowed to replace those canceled plans with something even more inadequate and more bare bones. by some accounts the obama administration making its 23rd change to obamacare, to the law, the affordae care act without a congressional vote on a single amendment. this comes as and other top federal technologg official warns that a high security risks have been discored on the obamacare website in just recent weeks. chief information's security officer at cms telling congressional investitors thaa she recommended against launching the website because of high risks and exposure to cyber attacks. the warnings came just ten days before the launch and challenged hhs secretary kathleen sibila as to has insisted throughout that senior officials did not advise a delay at all despite security concerns. the final work day of the year on capitol hill marked by a health care for the sena

anne and sister, no, you are not allowed to do this tonight we going to fall back on essen's, blood and biology in the it we no longer believe that. we believe, the weak and that raises a social construction. we don't believe that raises blood of biology orisons. and ms. -- miss anne said, if greece is a social construction because this is the 1920's when an idea is being developed, she pushed the limits. she said, if race is a social construction, and i'm black. hyland said, of. [laughter] your mess. we weren't ready for that. and i think we are still struggling with that question today which is not to say she is in cringe ready, but it is to say, what is our answer back meant what we say to someone who says that? >> i think that's a good place to bring the audience into the discussion. questions? i think there is a microphone coming around. >> yes. the blood being asked to use a microphone for c-span. >> my approach to new york university. my question is exactly to your last point. and thinking of. >> i am not the host from new york university. my question goes exactly to the point that, was just ma

the stand always a drastimeasure. you say th have a plausible defense. at's essenallyas nervous she would be misunderstood for what happened there, they wouldn't think it was an accident. sunny, you think this is more of a slam-dunk in this case. however, no one saw it happen. there's noideo camera footage of her pushing him off the mountain. is that tough for the prosecution? >> it isn't. i never like to say a case ace slam-dunk and i know geragos is going to come back at me and say i'm being crazy. but thiss the kind of case where you argue who does that? who behaves this way? when the jury looks at the kind of behavior she exhibited, she pushes her husband off the cliff with both hands she says and then just leaves him there. he could have been suffering, anything. leaves him there, drives home and then starts lying. starts making all ofhese things up and then leads her friends to his body but yet still lies about what happened. the argument that it's an accident is just so unbelievable, so incomprehensible that i can't imagine that a jury is goi to get her get away