in a one man show no stroll rather says and twain he wrote and directed it and stars it says in twain is that the douglas theater in los angeles from june twenty eighth to july twenty eighth and then moves to london's west end this fall now i have seen household broke to mark twain tonight many times in which everything he said was stuff that he between wrote or said he did it as if you do it differently right it's really differently explained well i years ago started writing a screenplay about mark twain i'm a baker eddy and founder of christian science write two. writers of the same period they were contemporaries and when i got the film far enough along which took quite a long time they were amazing characters both geniuses and self-made and i found a story that really reflects my. ideas about america. what's valuable and in this and in order to create the character i wrote this play and the play's really character study so it's more about his spirit and a bit more personal subjective ideas about his character than how many consider him the greatest american writer you yes he's cer

mark twain, during any one-man show. this is our tenth season and we continue to introduce you to some of the folks that make the show possible every single night. thomas friedman is a line producer that means he does everything to keep us on schedule and budget. you can't imagine how much i love him. >> it is an honor to be on your team after all these years. it is like going to school with a professor every day. you are the professor and i and the students. we are glad to have joined us, a conversation with a valid, coming up right now. >> there is a saying that dr. king had. he said, there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only about halfway to completely eliminate hunger and we have a lot of work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: any actor that decides to embod

being a sort of successful in business i just had very simple objectives as an actor taking on mark twain i'm just saying his breath in between tragedy and comedy safety in danger truth in that and his being with the beloved betty white seven uf awards their love for accolades says to go in there and manipulate the system all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king our special guest one of my favorite actors valid kilmer you know him for his unforgettable roles top gun batman forever the doors the saint among so many others now he's taking on the iconic character of mark twain in a one man show stroll around the citizen twain he wrote and directed it and stars and it says in twain is that the current douglas theater in los angeles from june twenty eighth to july twenty eighth and then moves to london's west end this fall now i have seen how the whole broke to mark twain tonight many times in which everything he said was stuff that he between wrote or said he did it as if you do it differently write explain it differently explain well i years ago started writing a screenplay about ma

for that was the day samuel clemens, better known by his pen name mark twain registered a copyright for the adventures of tom sawyer. though the book was not published until the next year. based broadly on his own experiences growing up in the real-life mississippi river town of hannibal, missouri, tom sawyer paints childhood as most of us would like to remember. his many deeds and stunts have become part of our folklore and culture depictedded in a number of movies over the years. >> look at him smiling. osgood: including the 1973 musical version in which tom, played by johnny whitaker, fast-talks the other boys into white washing his aunt polly's fence. there's even a tom sawyer ballet performed by the new jersey ballet among other companies. tom sawyer was not an immediate best seller. it won wide recognition only after the success of the adventures of huckleberry finn, the sequel published almost 10 years later in 1885. certainly in the century of the third since tom sawyer hardly has a lack for readers. >> the national fence painting competition. >> osgood: nor has tomlaked for emu

business-looking bohemians that oscar wild came across in san francisco and of course the cool summers which mark twain as the coldest winter that i ever saw was the summer that i sent in san francisco. coming from zurich we can certainly identify that. >> i am not here to adorn myself with borrowed plants, however the size difference between the two cities alone and the concerns that go along with it makes that impossible. but i would like to underline a few traits which are entirely not alien to us in zurich. the attractiveness of the tee is the economic location, the innovative spirit and the creative minds, the fact that the city is a renowned center for research and the home of a number of reputed universities or the fact that those cities are home to almost every language in the world. and where we are cap able of having both psycho paths and holding the super bowl. in your case, or building a brand new soccer stadium in ours, we hope so. one of the questions that we have all asked ourselves is how can a city emerge from the crisis? and another is, will the economic success of one part of the pop

so mark twain country. >> what was his life like before lincoln?raham >> he was a bright young boy. doctor.ever was a and he -- all of those around him noted his great intelligence and potential. e had an uncle, lawyer, who agreed to send him off to college. to brown, he went east university and providence. that transformed him. e was a brilliant student, one of the greatest translators of foreign languages he ever met. be the poet. he wanted to be the next edgar allan poe. he finished college at a young age, 19, they weren't in those days.en so his uncle, the one who sent well, why lege said, don't you come to springfield and read the law. reluctantly. office guy in the next candidate, k horse this long gangly lawyer running or president on something called the republican ticket. when this man, lincoln not only nomination, but then won the election, he needed letters.o help write hay was the gifted writer. as the second of the two secretaries and went off in the spring of 1861 with lincoln to lexingt lexington. >> small thing, a picture you in your book, john hay with a glove only

i learned the word from mark twain. i learned the word from english lit and that was so much more painful and damaging. >> but kids aren't running around quoting mark twain. >> but they are reading "to kill a mocking bird," they are reading "huckleberry fin." why do young kids do it? why does anybody with low self-esteem, low self-worth and in some parts of the black community, they don't expect to live past the age of 20. is it a shock that people with low life expectancy projections -- >> what are you saying? you think it's okay to use the word? >> it's not that it's okay. >> do you use it? >> i do use it, don. i use the word. it's one of those aa meetings or something. >> is that something that black people don't want to admit? >> no, we admit it. we'll say -- here's when i use it. when i'm listening to a rap song and trying to be popular and i'm trying to be, you know, cool. i use it when i am trying to insult somebody because to me it's the worst swear word. and i use it lastly to describe somebody who is a bad --

. >> the author that told the stories of the poor jews and was dubbed the jewish mark twain. >> he wanted to save her country. she was caught by the natzi's and killed. >> i am impressed. how many female paratroopers that suffered death in an attempt to free the country can you name? >> lexi and jay thank you so much for being here again. what we would like to say to you is go ahead and pick up the phone and make a date. call a friend and go to the jewish film festival and enjoy a film. thank you so much for joining us here on mosaic. ♪ [ music ]♪ ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ♪ [ music ]♪ >>> hi welcome do bay sunday and i am your host and we bebin with the weekly pitch. if you have a show idea, we would like to hear from you. we are getting a little stemmy out of the gait here. the 50 shades of gray has sold a lot of copies. those ladies take you on a wild ride. it's called 50 shades the musical and it's playing at the marines theater in san francisco. let's say how to the producer and writer emily. >> yes. >> you're

. >> mark twain was a very young man when he was here in carson city. he was worn in 1835 so he arrived in 1851. do the math, he was 26 or so. it was a forward period of his life and the experiences he has here all the things he does and the things that he writes and the notoriety beginning in san francisco and new york city, this laid the foundation for the man who would become one of the greatest writers in american history. i would argue that without the carson city experience the nevada territorial experience -- could never have been mark twain. what are you reading this summer? booktv want to know. see their three books on my summer reading list. the first is the humanity project by jean thompson, a novel about a philanthropist who starts writing big checks to bright people. another book on my list is adventures of the alimentary canal by mary roach. it's a book about how we eat. the last time i read a book about food, the american way of being about a different part of the culinary experience and the last book on my list is called thinking in life

and twain lived in several plays in and around the village to the late 1800s. whitman was also attracted not just by fellow writers and writers who are sure seemed like a stuffed them all the of the huge attraction for them, but because already by the 1850s the village has developed his reputation as a place where gay men can be, and they had to live closeted lives but at least they could breathe a little easier in greenwich village. they were very few places in the 1850s where you could do that. walt used to go there. after the civil war, it slowly begins to grow as an arty and bettina neighborhood. partly because institutions like nyu starts and immediately starts making its neighbors angry. [laughter] right away when they built the first village. so that's a long history there. the national academy of design was there and one of the founders of that was samuel fb in moore's that we know from the morse code. but he was, in fact, a portrait painted by well-known as a portrait painter. he was down in d.c. on a commission to paint a quarter when he heard that hi

. >> mark twain was a very young man when he was here in carson city.e was born in 1835 so he arrived in 1861. to the map, 26 or so. a very formative period in his life. it's the expenses he had here, all the things he does. then the things that he writes, then the notoriety he gets in san francisco and new york city. this late foundation to the man who, one of the greatest writers in american history. i would argue that without the carson city of experience, the nevada territorial experience come he never could've become a mark twain. >> booktv in american history tv look at the history and literary life of carson city, nevada, next weekend on c-span2 and three. >> next, science writer annalee newitz recounts the mass extinctions that have taken place on earth during its 4.5 billion year existence and presents her thoughts on how humans can survive a future catastrophic disaster. this program is a little over one hour. >> thanks so much for coming out to hear about the end of the

countries so there would be a british and a brazilian judge if they could not agree they would toss that twain to pick a third country to help decide the case. the u.s. initially was reluctant to participate for a variety of reasons like politics of the trio came before the hotly contested presidential election. and secretary of state had a lot of politics that there were concerns of their credit -- the british reusing this campaign as a cover to officiants their desire to control the ocean. that was a long sense of tension of one of the causes of the war of 1812 was the way the british navy was aboard american ships and say we don't thank you are really american you are british and we will draft to in to their british navies of this has long been the attention but it was not the securely popular to give the british the right to search the ships that they were participating in the slave trade. a different version would to the senate and it attached a bunch of changes including the provision the cases would be tried in american court rather than the international courts and change the geographi

- we met in washington, d.c., when a steve martin -- in 2005 or to adults and six, he won the mark twain award -- it thousand five or 2006. there was a big show. i was one of the presenters. alan was a waiter. no. [laughter] no, alan was a writer. >> i helped larry david wright his speech. >> when we were far away from larry david, he says he wrote his speech. anyway, we like each other. we became friends and saw each other off and on over the next few years at conferences and stuff like that. alan kept saying -- >> we should do something together. >> i did not know what he meant. [laughter] he was very vague. he is kind of in the film-tv world, and people always say they want to do something. i said, ok, let's do something together. but i do not think we would. then he had this idea. >> his daughter played soccer. she was 11 years old. i had three children, all of whom spate -- played sports, little league, whatever. but he was 1,600 miles away from me. i was in new jersey. he was in florida. i can give you his home number later if you wish. [laughter] i said, listen, why don't we make

so one of the quotes that one of my favorite quotes around the issue of language is by mark twain who says, "the difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." so i think what we all know about language and how language can heal, words can help, and words can also hurt and words can hurt deeply. >> yes. >> so we really just wanted to get the conversation going. we have many roles in our positions, but as a program coordinator to stigma-reduction program, we go around to the community and we do presentations and we just discussion what "stigma" is and each presenter presents the stories about their lives and idell is one of our fabulous peer educators and we talk about the experience, living with mental health challenges and conditions, stigmas we have experienced and the road to wellness. so we really have a lot of conversations about stigma and how stigmatizing language can be. as we all know the definition of "stigma," the one we use it's really a negative belief about a group of people. and i think in the ment

forecasters over the last few years so let's look at the evidence keeping in mind that clever line from mark twain about history rhyming not necessarily repeating you know when the fed stopped buying bonds and instead sold them in the summer of two thousand eight hundred markets seized up there was a mad dash for cash which precipitated the lehman disaster now we have talk of tapering another wind down of bond buying but so far it's just talk the fed announced it's requiring banks to hold more capital and reduce leverage all part of basel banking regulations and the word from our fred chairman above is that banks need to lower leverage later period and boring will break down hypothecation and explain where all this leverage comes from now we know the banks are borrowing on the cheap and so is uncle sam banks to them so what happens when the thirty year downtrend in interest rate reverses we'll be talking to karl denninger about this in just a bit heading east we see chinese short term funding markets are under incredible stress there yield curve is flashing recession if not depression justin under

being a sort of successful in business i just had a very simple objectives as an actor taking on mark twain i'm just saying his breath in between tragedy in common with the safety and danger truth and love and his being with the beloved betty white seven-up awards her love for accolades just to go in there and manipulate the system all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king our special.

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forecasters over the last few years so let's look at the evidence keeping in mind that clever line from mark twain about history rhyming not necessarily repeating you know when the fed stopped buying bonds and instead sold them in the summer of two thousand eight hundred markets seized up there was a mad dash for cash which precipitated the lehman disaster now we have talk of tapering another wind down of bond buying but so far it's just talk the fed announced it's requiring banks to hold more capital and reduce.

forecasters over the last few years so let's look at the evidence keeping in mind that clever line from mark twain about history rhyming not necessarily repeating now when the fed stops buying bonds and instead sold them in the summer of two thousand eight hundred markets seized up there was a mad dash for cash which precipitated the lehman disaster now we have talk of tapering another wind down of bond buying but so far it's just talk the fed announced it's requiring banks to hold more capital and reduce leverage all part of basel banking regulations and the word from our fred chairman above is that banks need to lower leverage later period and boring will break down hypothecation and explain where all this leverage comes from now we know the banks are borrowing on the cheap and so is uncle sam banks to them so what happens when the thirty year downtrend and interest rate reverses we'll be talking to karl denninger about this in just a bit heading east. we see chinese short term funding markets are under incredible stress their yield curve is flashing recession if not depression justin underhill

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reinstating their leader will be crushed i tell the supporters of morsi game over and if i may quote mark twain denial is not a river the transit in egypt the morsi supporters are living in a complete denial statements that came out of the presidency. indicates that the demonstrators are merely thirty seven thousand people. a muslim brotherhood which is an islamic fascist group. and motivating their followers in the name of religion throwing them into the heat of a civil war if the muslim brotherhood and those who support morsi hypothetically try to do anything to deep to the people demonstrating in all of egypt i think this will be the end of them and the elimination of the elements the egyptian people are peaceful people however all the killing that took place up to date has been done committed by the muslim brotherhood i urge president obama to stay away from meddling or trying to sell morsi to the egyptian people egyptian people who know what they want better than any foreign government whether in the usa or in the european union or elsewhere. meanwhile britain is trying to get the e.u. to

mark twain said it best, an oil well is a hole n the ground with a liar on top.ade the reits, you put your money in wait 7 to 10 years to get your money back, hoping you get income on the way, the deals have been infamous for blowing up a lot of investigation by investigators, stay away from free lunch and free dinner seminars where these product are touted. gerri: i buy what you say, don't invest in this, but we're doing it? >> it is called diversification. there is no place to hide -- i hate being a brrken record. gerri: you are. what about yield? don't say cd. >> high today paying stock -- high dividend paying stocks, a diversified portfolio, you can generate income you want, without taking the risk that is usually associated with it. gerri: i like that idea. it makes sense, any other worries of wisdom for people who own treasuries in bond market. >> shorter term maturity. go 3, 5, 7 year, that will give you the protection incase interest rates begin to rise again. >> thank you, rick, great to have you on set. >> thank you. gerri: well, that brings us to wall

mark twain country. >> what was his life like before he met abraham lincoln? >> he was a bright, young boy, his father was a doctor. all those around him noted his great intelligence and potential. he had an uncle, a lawyer, who agreed to send him off to college. at age 16 he went east to brown university and providence. him.y, that transformed he was a brilliant student. his professors said he was one of the greatest translators of foreign languages they had ever met. he wanted to be a poet, he wanted to be the next and for allan poe. but when he finished college at a young age, i think 19, they were not hiring poets, even back in those days. so his uncle said, well, why don't you come to springfield and read the law? he did, reluctantly, john hay did. the guy in the next office was dark horse candidate, this long, gangly lawyer who was running for president on something called the republican ticket. only won hisln not party's nomination, but then won the election, and he needed somebody to write letters. on was a gifted writer, came as the second of two secr

the twain was going almost twice the speed limit when it derailed. the conductor -- the conductor has been charged with negligent homicide. >>> the august 4th deadline for the b.a.r.t. stik is four days a -- strike is four days away. there's still hope the two sides can reach an agreement and keep b.a.r.t. trains rolling. both sides are due back at the negotiating table. in 30 minutes, in fact. tara moriarty has more on the obstacle b.a.r.t. unions say they are facing. good morning, tara. >> reporter: good morning. b.a.r.t. says they were making progress unless thomas hock rushed from his trip. they say the mood changedded and now the two -- changed and now the two are back to where they started. b.a.r.t. says it's made some concessions going from $140 million in take backs to employees to $34 million in givebacks. but union numbers say those numbers are inflated and they are frustrated by the general manager of b.a.r.t. and thomas hock. >> she's giving direction. the board has tired her to do the job to run this organization. and as such, she's givi

the twain twirls and smoke comes out. we talked to a man on united who said there was a lost confusion when flight 214 crashed. >> the people on the right side of the plane did not know anything happened and the people on the left heard a "boom" and some saw things go flying by. you look closer and you saw the tail of the plane lying separate and the smoke was coming out amid the wreckage. >> his flight came to a stop and spent three hours on the plane before it went back to the gate. he was able to rebook the trip to japan yesterday. >> several investigators and the san francisco police department are asking for any video taken of the crash as it happened. investigators say the ones they have seen are providing valuable clues of what happened. investigators are also asking media outlets for video. they want to see aerial footage of the accident scene. can you send us your pictures at kgo.com . >> we are reporting throughout the morning and on twitter. go to abc7 news come to see the photos of the crash scene that the nts

. >> one of mark twain's quotes, my death has been greatly exaggerated. >> i think a lot of people knows when you get a catalog, it's printed by you. get a phone book, good chance. a lot of people felt this business has to be challenged, but you've reinvented a lot of other things. >> we're 150 years old. next year. we've gone from the year 2000 from having seven products and 2013 and having 15 products. we've taken what was a long run business, magazines, catalogs, inserts, that was 80% of our revenue in 2000. now less than 2. the catalog is still driving people to purchase. and as you look at some of the great companies that we work with, that catalog is a sales channel for our customers and as you think about people that we work with, all of them are using every media possible to go ahead and communicate with our customers. >> this is, i actually have these. these are great headphones. you would make the box of it? >> there's a box, a label, material inside that. five years ago, that never existed, so everyone who's talked about the printed pieces going away. we've evolved. we've inn

these ideas were dangerous in the 17th and 18th century and these are clip jobs on voltaire and marc twain and robert ingersoll. it's prophetic. hitchens in particular, other than to say he was an utterly dishonest person i can't understand how he didn't know that and why he didn't feel responsible for providing it in his work. >> i knew then why can. >> you probably drank scotch with them, right? pie did. >> he could drink more of it than i did but he was a washington correspondent for harbor magazine, a brilliant polemicist. he was very good about making the argument where the money was, so as you say, that retreading of the discovery that "god is not great" which is old news, but it's sold. talk about -- no, you had a wonderful passage in the book where you talked about metaphor and you talk about your parents, and you say that parents don't do metaphor. now explain that and explain why human beings do metaphor, so that the human being is the only creature that can say what it's like to be a parent. >> this was a brief aside in the book in which i take issue with the philosophy of the f

and as mark twain never said said, the coldest winter i never spent was in san francisco.ing with gray skies and drizzle. the temperatures this morning, upper 50s, low 60s and there is that grape that ann was talking about. sixty degrees at concord and 59 in san jose. and heading to the nhra sonoma nationals, phil matier will tell us what nhra stands for. >> racing association. >> nationals? >> highway? >> no. >> hot hood error -- hot rod. 75 degrees and sunshine. i know phil appreciates being put on the spot. it's going to be nice out there in sonoma. nice inland, too and if you like the fog, you know where to go. lots of fog and drizzle. the coolest day is today, and warming up by wednesday and we have low pressure sitting off of the line. it will evaporate as it approaches the coast line. the second low is going to come down from the gulf and keep us cool through wednesday. if you're heading out tomorrow at sfo, fog could be a factor in the early going and partly cloudy skies in the statement 67 at the airport tomorrow, old mills field and lead tomorrow, 72 and thunders

. >>> mark twain once wrote, new orleans' food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.e our own attempt at lay say bon lay ton. ♪ when you experience something great, you want to share it. with everyone. that's why more customers recommend verizon, america's largest 4g lte network. so it was no surprise when he set out to give the world the hardest-working, best-smelling cleaners he could. like mr. clean with the scent of gain. that combines irresistible scent and powerful cleaning. and his lemon-scented anti-bacterial spray that kills 99.9% of bacteria. people sure loved having something that smelled as great as it cleaned. that's why when it comes to clean, there's only one mr. that smelled as great as it cleaned. southfork ranch in dallas for a cookout with world champion grill master brett galloway. he's serving his guests walmart choice premium steaks. but they don't know it yet. they will. it's a steak-over. steak was excellent. very tender. melts in your mouth. it was delicious. tonight you are eating walmart steak. what???!! good steak. two thumbs up? look, i at

mark twain was a young man when he was here in carson city.he arrives in 1861 and is going on 26 years old. here, experiences he has all the things he does and then things that the rights and the notoriety that he gets beginning in san francisco and new york city. foundation for the man who would become one of the greatest writers in american history. i would argue that without that experience, samuel clemens would never have become mark twain. life ofistory and carson city, nevada, saturday at 2.on eastern on c-span >> "washington journal" continues. of theephen kohn national whistleblowers center. provide advice for whistleblowers. i have represented whistleblowers for over 30 years. and a lot of people blow the whistle and make big mistakes and the key is to do it right so you can protect yourself. host: this is a headline, bradley manning just received his convictions yesterday. we saw him declared not guilty of aiding the enemy. he was found guilty of a number of other counts. what is your reaction to the verdict? guest: my reaction is ne

education but education is not just formal education and so life lessons, experience, into'' mark twainistling interfere with your education for. if that's the case i am happy. stuart: you are doing a very successfully. one sale a day.com with revenues of 60 million per year? >> would headed 60 million. stuart: i am sorry. that is a big company. what do do? >> we really empower affordable living for the consumer by offering everybody at prices they can afford we sold the gps at a local retail store at $400 but at $30. we have extremely talented buyers that focus on one item with a quantity to level the playing field between the manufacturer and the consumer. stuart: you could be labeled as a director yesterday oil traded above 106th and touched 107 briefly. still above $100. we will bring in iraq from vancouver who knows about the real market. why is it coming down a little today, rick? >> i would suspect because it has ben up to three days in a row. the markets fluctuate in the interest market it disguises a bigger trend that shows the tightness in the export markets as a consequence o

carson city of experience, the nevada territorial experience come he never could've become a mark twain. >> booktv in american history tv look at the history and literary life of carson city, nevada, next weekend on c-span2 and three. >> next, science writer annalee newitz recounts the mass extinctions that have taken place on earth during its 4.5 billion year existence and presents her thoughts on how humans can survive a future catastrophic disaster. this program is a little over one hour. >> thanks so much for coming out to hear about the end of the world. and thanks to the town hall for putting on this amazing secret it's so terrific that this public science education going on like this, especially in a time when funding is being cut by science at the national level. so we need to keep pushing for as much science education as possible. so i just finished writing an optimistic book about the apocalypse. and it didn't start out that way at all. it really did not realize this book is going to have a happy ending. and it acts was started because i have been really fascinated my whole li

being a sort of successful in business i just had very simple objectives as an actor taking on mark twain i'm just saying he has a branch in between tragedy and comedy safety in danger truth and love and his being with the beloved betty white seven uf awards her love her accolades just to go in there and manipulate the system all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king our special guest one of my.

twain was anti-racist and he was writing the context of his time.' and this dragged on for quite awhile, this--this brouhaha and charlie came home with a big smile one day and said, 'well, i'm starting off with a c in that class and working down from there.' so, you know, charlie i--i'm afraid will ca--take some lumps along the way, but i have great admiration for him. c-span: in your book, you have the titanic quiz... >> guest: right. c-span: ... or test you call it. >> guest: mm-hmm. c-span: and i'll show what it looks like. what is it? >> guest: well, what it was--i--i did a little section on the titanic. i was talking about the whole subject of honor and what has happened to honor in this culture. and i went back to some of the initial reporting at the time of the titanic disaster, and it was really quite extraordinary, much more so than was shown in the movie even; the nobility of--of the behavior of some of the people on that boat. there's one episode i--i talk about there where someone actually swam to a lifeboat and wanted--wanted to get in a

. >>> mark twain was a very young man when he was here in carson city. born in 1835 commesso he arrives in 1851. do the math in his life. the things that he writes and the notoriety that he gets in the beginning of san francisco and new york city. i would argue about the experience the virginia city experience, senator clemens could have never been mark twain to the estimate more about clemens as american history tv looks at the literary life of carson city nevada saturday and noon eastern on c-span2 and sunday at five on c-span3. >>> the senate foreign relations committee yesterday held a confirmation for the nominee to the inspector general for the state department. if confirmed, would be the first permanent state department inspector general since 2008. senator bob menendez chaired the hearing. >> moving to the nomination hearing, thank you for joining the business meeting. today as we approach the august recess, we have a plethora of well qualified nominees for the committees nomination. we welcome them to the senate as well as their family members j

[inaudible conversations] >> mark twain was a very young man when he was here in carson city.orn in 18 5. and arrives in 1861, duthe -- do the math. 26 years old. a very formative period in his life and it's the experience he has here, all the things he does, and then the things he writes and then the notoriety he gets beginning in san francisco and new york city. this laid the foundation for the man who would become one of the greatest writers in american history. i would argue that without the carson city experience, the virginia city experience, the nevada territorial experience, samuel clemens could have never been mark twain. >> looking at the history and literary life of car son city, nevada, next weekend on c-span 2 and 3. >> about every 40 years some foreign global power has tried to come in and dominate the afghan scene and control it and use it for its own purposes. there have been periods of afghan history when the rulers of afghanistan have taken advantage of the geographical position of afghanistan to play a sort of neutrality card using the favoritism towards one

. >> shania twain. she stayed in canada. keanu reeves. >> celine dion. >> she stayed there.ring. here we go. talking about is mr. carney's job getting easier? british manufacturing courting its strongest growth in more than two years this morning. pmi, 52.5. it was a revised 51.5 in may. the poll was 51.5, the highest since may 2011. positive signs in services, construction suggest at least 0.5% quarter-on-quarter gdp growth in q2. this is amazing, isn't it. mr. carney, he's been in office one morning. look at the impact he's had. >> i guess he could get lucky. >> is he going to get lucky? >> i suspect not. i think the pmi data is very welco welcome, obviously. it fits with what we've seen from the eurozone. i think the big question, just how poor the growth performance has been over the last few years. it's not about a couple of months of decent economic data. it's about a much more vibrant, sustainable recovery. >> new records, 54.7. that's all right for manufacturing. >> it's fine. it's good news. >> how many more months of this do we need before you change your tune, dar

to paraphrase mark twain, the reports of our demise are very premature.our businesses have created 7.2 million jobs since we've taken office. we've gone from losing more than 400,000 jobs a month, over 12 months in 2009, to creating over 200,000 jobs per month thus far this year. manufacturing is back -- the biggest increase in manufacturing in nearly 20 years. and an awful lot of high-tech companies are looking to come home. there's a reason for it. american workers are incredibly productive -- three times as productive as chinese workers, to give you one example. they can be assured their intellectual property will be protected. we have a transparent court system that will enforce contracts. our deficit is down more than 50 percent as a share of the economy since we took office. household wealth -- over $17 trillion in household wealth was lost in the great recession we inherited. it's all back. we're producing more energy from all sources. we now have over 100 years' supply of natural gas that would enable us to meet every single need we have in americ