. >> gene simmons and shanon tweed have lived together for years. >> 21 years. >> you mention them in the book. >> i do. >> is it a salute to them? >> in a way it is. they have very unusual type of lifestyle. i don't think most people would be as toll rant with the activities of gene that shannon is. >> do they have children. >> two children. >> they are happily united. >> they have the perfect home life. if you look at their house, they have a beautiful home, beautiful kids. they go bowling on saturday nights. it is not what you would expect from the rock star of kiss. >> marriage being the cause of divorce aside. no marriage, there would be no divorce. what is the other dominant reason why people get divorced. >> without a doubt cheating. adultery. people have propensity to engage in extra marital relationships. not only the men today, the women as well. >> this is what you say about what adulter ri. >> it is. >> a legal term and also a religious term. >> it is. >> a difference between one night fling and a relationship. whatever the indiscreption the perpetrator has to carry it aro

worn tweed jackets and hair cuts that might have been sharp there months ago but now curled into collars of their blazers, no iron shirts. the women at the conference also wore their standard trial attire. the jacket that told them it was serious work though it came from marshals. the canvas book bags from barnes & noble. it was possible that shiny span dekz super powers. but it was a stretch. what die son was up to clearly was trying to rally the crowd to commitment to popular work. the losing cause, the rights of the indigent. this was a telling moment for me. indicative of a sense from every single person i spoke to at this national conference roughly 50 over the course of several days that good work was possible for public defenders across the nation but the greater context for which they labor order made it few in effort. attorneys left in a blaze of fury until they out after a few years. carol d -- is a public defenders office. 21 hardworking public defenders in new orleans are let go and greg bright, i'm going to read you an excerpt about his case. an attorney returned to england

. >> what's your is all about numbers. 140 characters in a tweed. 200 million active users. 500 million are cent per day. that is how much courter is worth. at least a that is what an investor falling from may 8th the says. that is up about 10% from a previous estimate. with the expansion into music, investors are speculating about an ipo of san francisco media giant. just last month, twitter founder and jack dorsey, told bloomberg news that would is not thinking about an ipo. the company's ceo told wall street journal recently that they are going public and that is not necessarily in ediblinevitable. >> am a federal judge has approved a $40 million class action settlement between sectors and customers who bought on issues. this comes after has made unfounded claims of the footwear would help people lose weight and strength and their muscles. the agreement covers more than 520,000 claims. that means that customers who bought the shoes would be ♪ ♪ all around the world ♪ everybody singing along ♪ everybody singing along ♪ never looking back ♪ it's a long, long way from my home ♪ [ male a

. >> probably with a tweed. >> bill, you made a good point when you said the eagles suck. >> thank you, thank you. if the giants fans and bears fans can agree on anything. >> eagles absolutely suck. kevin williams kicked out of a thee tear. you don't think we should treat him as a folk hero. is he the one got them deserves -- got them deserves, but doesn't need right now? >> i like the stuff. >> and also you said the woman wasn't talking on the phone and she was looking at text? >> that's my understanding. >> that's mine too. that's enough. >> it may be enough, but it was a game changer in the story. how much more annoying is it versus she is on her wikipedia thing. >> nobody in the theater would be on their phone. being on e-mail or texting in a theater or in a live theater is the equivalent of talking on a phone in a movie theater. does that make sense? >> i long called for the death penalty for those people who use cell phones in movie theaters. you know where i stand on this. >> he was just googling. >> i am saying that's enough. >> i think corporal punishment is better. >> i'm fin

. >> you wore tweed. >> it is cold outside.r. >> this is a lightweight poplin. >> we'll be right back with the world's worst bragger. i don't know where this is made. you like mouth breathing? can i guest host the news? >> no. >> this is the longest conversation i have had with anyone in like seven years. it's going to be on tv? >> not any of. this. >> back in the other room, we thought it was a good time to ask about his reputation as an inthuzist of what he appeared to light up on national television. >> what's the important of wooed weed in your life? [ laughter ] >> i'm not -- i'm not. i don't want to be known as that thing. >> i think that has left the barn. >> i'm not -- i don't think -- you know f someone were to say to me, you have a choice of picking two vices for your country. the choices are pot or alcohol. i would have to pick marijuana. because it doesn't cause the problems that alcohol causes. it's not to say that it doesn't have -- some negative effects. i'm not saying that. i'm not -- people think of marijuana,

for the suits he wore, his classmates called him tweed.ut his education at morehouse help support the intellect, discipline, compassion, the sole force that would transform america. it was here that he was introduced to the writings of gandhi and thoreau and the theory of civil disobedience. it was here that professors encouraged him to look past the world as it was and fight for the world as it should he. ,t was here that he later wrote "that i realized nobody was afraid, not even of some bad weather." i added on that part. i know that it's wet out there. but dr. wilson told me all had a choice and decided to do it out here anyway. .hat's a morehouse man talking inc. about it. for black men in the 40s and ,0s, the threat of violence the constant humiliations large and small, the uncertaintyhat t sut a family, the gnawing doubt of a dim -- of a jim crow culture that told you every day that somehow you are inferior, the temptation to shrink from the world, to accept your place, to avoid risk, to be temptation was necessarily strong. and yet

for the suits he wore his classmates called him tweed.the intellect, the discipline, the compassion, the sole force that would transform america. it was here that he was introduced to the writings of gandhi and thoreau and the theory of civil disobedience. it was here that professors encouraged him to look past the world that it was and fight for the world as it should be. and it was here at morehouse that dr. king later wrote where i realized that nobody was afraid, not even of some bad weather. i added on that part. i know it's wet out there. but dr. wilson told me you all had a choice and decided to do it out here anyway. that's a morehouse man talking. now think about it, for a black man in the 40s and the 50s, the threat of violence, the constant humiliations large and small, the uncertainty that you could support a family, the gnawing doubts born of a jim crow culture that told you every day that somehow you were inferior, the temptation to shrink from the world, to accept your place, to avoid risks, to be afraid, that temptation wa

in a tweed this morning, the police car and says only that three more suspects are in custody and moreartinez boy injured in the boston marathon bombings back home and will be celebrating his 12th birthday today. aaron hern is celebrating his 12th birthday. aaron hearn is back in the bay area he came back yesterday afternoon. his mother and father says he is tired but extremely happy to be back home. the family was in boston because katharine the mother was running the marathon and aaron, the dad and sister were there to cheer on when the bomb off. catherine says going forward she is concerned about the long road of recovery. >> this is one of the harder things to deal with. every day we realize how lucky we are and how much worse it could have been at it wasn't that much worse for some. >> he was right next to the little boy who died. the little boy and his sister. yes. he saw all that and he knew. >> the community in martinez held several fund raises will the family to help them out with the medical bills. you can see them holding a banner saying local home aaron. the family wanted e

not by saying if youon't ud don't understand digitizing and you can market.a you need this in your tweed's will not make sense.se. what is that? by this or else? read this or you are in trouble. that is the maximum. no. you don't need this. this is cool. you are allowed this. you're a human being livingn int the 21st century you are allowed to have time. and ironically the more time you take the more time you have it is the opposite.try the retry to catch up the less time you have.u answeh thee faster you answer e-mail's the faster they come in and the slower you people answer the males they solve the problems without you. [laughter] they really do so books are wo wonderful discipline to say no.i am readin i reading this book.if i can if i can create more excuses for people to say no, i am reading a book that i have done my job. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. fs there any aspect of youro assessment that can be conn connected to the employment rate? eld the uc any correlations?bsot >> absolutely. first of all, and this sounds awful but since whenwhen is unemployment of bad b

a member of npr tweeds that britain's prime minister david cameron sees a real breakthrough on syria.will hear more on this and other issues when the british leader joins president obama in a joint news conference at 11:15 a.m. eastern time today. here it on c-span radio or watch it on c-span. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. first first lady to earn a college degree, and during the civil war, soldiers serving under her husband called her the mother of the regiment. opposing slavery, she influences her husband to switch from the way party to the anti-slavery republican party. she held the first annual white house easter egg roll. wife of the 19th president rutherford b. hayes. we continue our series on first ladies with your questions and comments by phone, facebook, and twitter tonight live at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c- span three. also on c-span radio and c-span .org. "washington journal" continues. host: we continue our conversation about syria with aram nerguizian, a senior fellow at the center for strategic and international studies. thank you for b

he's the globe trotting symbolic known for his tweed jacket, mickey mouse watch and pendant for gettingle ask me about why do you write about a geeky professor. i feel like readers are smart people. they want to read about people who are like them, about people who use their intellects to get out of problems rather than guns and jiu-jitsu. that's why i write about a guy like that. >> one of the interests in the aspects of your books, like some series of books, you know, they tend to be cookie cutterish, these are not cookie cutter stories. these are all different. the tapestry of the story, the context, the details, they're all different. so, how do you do this? >> that's a defense mechanism to keep myself interested in every book. you know, these books the take a long time to write. so i always choose subject matter that keeps me fascinated. in this case, it's dante, the divine comedy, the inferno and some real cutting edge science. >> how long did it take you to write this book? >> this one was about three years. >> i'm feeling better. >> tell us about inferno. yeah, mike, really, you

unknown, undersized, unassuming young freshman who wasn't the coolest kid on classmates called him tweed. help support the intellect, discipline, compassion, the sole force that would transform america. gandhi and thoreau and the theory of civil disobedience. encouraged him to look past the world as it was and fight for the world as it should he. it was here that he later wrote, "that i realized nobody was afraid, not even of some bad weather." i added on that part. i know that it's wet out there. but dr. wilson told me all had a choice and decided to do it that's a morehouse man talking. 50s, the threat of violence, gnawing doubt of a dim -- of inferior, the temptation to necessarily strong. martin learned to be unafraid. he, in turn, taught others to beover time, he taught a nation over the last 50 years, thanks and the generation that their despair, barriers have come tumbling down. [applause] the history we share should give you hope. improving job market. communications put the world your generation is uniquely generation of african-americans that came before us. you have had here a