the asyrians, the romans, the greeks and going right up to the turks, the british and now the israelis. so in every way it's a fascinating place, it's a fascinating gateway, if you like, to see the history of the world. >> host: is jerusalem strategically located? how did it become so vital? >> guest: absolutely not. absolutely not. it's not strategically valuable at all. it became strategically valuable when it became a great city and a great fortress. but actually, it's far there the trade routes. when armies are invading up and down, are invading egypt or from egypt invading in towards syria, they march up the coast as napoleon did too. there's another one i didn't mention. and they don't go anywhere near jerusalem. so jerusalem is irrelevant. jerusalem is all about holiness. its value comes completely from the, it's a temple city. and its prestige as a capital and as a name in history really comes from that, for that reason, from its sanctity that's all about religion. >> host: when did it begin? as a city? >> guest: well, it began, you know, it began in sort of probably the second

now, as part of that, some churches, most roman catholic owned orthodox churches and many mainline protestant will follow a set of readings. how we're reading and what -- why we're reading it. i know that last week and it usually has an old testament prophecy, a psalm -- a song, something from the -- the letters of paul or so on and the gospel reading. so all of the churches don't use all four. but they're offered for that and you can print it out, you know -- you go to shrader common -- and they will tell you the -- and the advantage of that, of course, is that -- and the idea is that you can go to church anywhere in the world, any church and you're going to be hearing the same text and there's power in that. >> there's power. >> and it also tells the story -- it's a three-year revolving thing. i can't don't i hear the same stories all the time. so it's a balance reading what we like and don't. each one tells a different story. i'm sure you preached on isiah last week. >> i try to keep a balance. because there's so much emphasis on the new testament around this time. but it's a very famous p

now, if the founding fathers had been battling the roman empire i can assure you that the romans to matter how many battlefield deaths they would have -- the fact that this did not happen is because of what happened in the institution that the romans did not have to worry about at least not after the rise of the empire. the was the house of commons parliament. in 1782, a year after, the year after the battle of yorktown there was a close vote in the house of commons to discontinue offensive operations in north america. the vote was 234-215. it was a nail biter but because lord north who was the hard-line prime minister who wanted to prosecute the war against the american rebels he lost that vote and therefore he had to resign office. lord rocking him and his whigs who work committed to a policy of conciliation with their american brothers took office. that i would submit to you was truly where the american revolution was won in something the founding fathers were very well aware of. they tried hard to influence public opinion not only in the american colonies but also in great britain. whe

the un inspectors daily access it avoids emphasizing a key plank of the accord which recognizes the romans right to enrich the rain yet well the us has repeatedly said that their rounds as such and all the lights to name a few rainy and would not speak with balanced in an interim deal. the text says the comprehensive solution will info they need to be defined in richmond program with new to the agreed parameters. israel has repeatedly questioned the reasoning behind the accord between tehran the west with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu calling it a historic mistake hundreds of cars and taking part in a parade in dubai to celebrate the forty second national day at the united arab emirates the event was organized as an attempt to set a world record for the largest decorated car parade. the guy that pulled a muscle it. i do a bit mia this is just that no fool and think. i do it. everyone doesn't it. but citizens organizers failed to set the record as only one hundred seventy one year six hundred cards were eligible due to guidelines established by the guinness book of world records

piazza amphitheater was built around an ancient roman arena. while the arena's long gone, its oval shape is a reminder of the city's classical heritage. locals have been gathering here for 2,000 years. today's attraction -- a flower market. piazza san michele also has ancient roots. it's hosted a market since roman times, when it was the forum. today it's dominated by the church of san michele. towering above its fancy romanesque facade, the archangel michael stands ready to flap his wings, which, thanks to a crude mechanical contraption, he actually did on special occasions. in its heyday, lucca packed over 100 towers within its walls. each tower was the home and private fortress of a wealthy merchant family. towers were single rooms stacked atop each other -- shop, living room, and then the kitchen. this one, lucca's tallest surviving tower, is famous for being capped with a bushy little forest. those making the climb are rewarded with commanding city views, all in the shade of its amazing trees. nearby, the church of san giovanni hosts night

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on the other side of the world, in the ancient roman city of ostia, huge merchant ships were part of an economy much like our own. and today, the tanners of morocco still practice their ancient craft, living proof that economies have evolved out of the past. everyone who has ever lived has been part of an economic system. iel bote grande...mil pesos! economic systems are simply the ways people produce, distribute and consume things -- everything and anything, from tortillas to stocks and bonds. for 10,000, 10,000 an eighth. today, as in the past, economic systems lie at the heart of how a society is organized. archaeologists search for these systems because they believe economies hold the key to understanding ancient societies. archaeologist william sanders. the economy of any given human group, any culture, is a powerful factor that affects the rest of that culture -- the social organization, the political institutions, even the ideology, the religion of a people. from my perspective, the economy of a group is one of the most powerful determinants of human behavior. keach: to archae

suing obliging us you know who are roman catholic to behave in certain fashion and give certain type of counseling to people is very dangerous and i think in economics i think what will happen is that their debate will revert to us the lay expert the pontifical council not only has gary becker who is the free market champion from the university of chicago here they have people like george stiglitz who is the defender of the third way in the pontifical council of social science but the debate on this issue is i think corresponds to the best scientists said but i don't like the the government imposing their views down the throat of the catholic religion the jewish tradition or any other religion that respects human dignity ok scott what do you want to see from this pontificate ok he's off to a good start i think everyone would agree at least from what from again a p.r. perspective. right well one thing i'd like to see in this follows up on what. you know there's not going to be a change in in moral doctrine but what we need to do is to explain better to the world why those moral doctri

as roman catholics we have to address the holy spirit and i'm confident you know the holy spirit will guide the church. let's talk about the lower spirit here because it's people don't have a problem with the holy spirit they have a lot of problems with the catholic church doctrine that they have a problem with well you know here's the thing when you bring in a new head of the organization you do so to address the. fundamental issues that are that are a cancer in the organization and let's be very clear about this why while this pope pope francis has spoken out against. capitalism you know negative capitalism making money as a god and i am i am heavily paraphrasing there. let's be real jesus in the temple turned over the money changers tables that's doctrine that all christians can agree on that's nothing new and radical this pope has yet to address the major issues that are plaguing catholicism right now he has he has appointed a commission to look into the abuse of children but keep in mind this is a pope who a few years ago said that homosexuals adopting children is a form of child

you counciled the roman family. how is kaitlyn dealing -- how is the family doing? i understand she in an anti-bullying program. >> well, you know, she's trying to hold up under all of. this but she's a victim as well. you know, her face being plastered all over the world essentially, made to feel guilty for what she did when really she wasn't a part of the bullying. it's very sad. so rebecca's mother wants to blame everyone other than herself. rebecca herself had been in the hospital about a year before, less than a year before, for having tried to cut her wrists. and so they were warned at that time that rebecca needed to be in psychiatrist treatment. and her mother didn't follow-through with that. there were lots of problems that rebecca had, problems with her family, her father, you know, i'm not going to go into the details with. that but lots of family problems. and plus before that she had boyfriend problems. one boy in the school that guadalupe wanted. she wanted to get rid of rebecca so she could have her and so onment so those were bigger problems that any

the latest attempt to crack down on the islamist group comes days off to the roman bricks through placement courses in than oil filter valley killing sixteen people and wounding more than one hundred deputy prime minister hun sen advice that old egyptian tv the building not a return to the costs and that the its crimes grateful beyond tomorrow religious and human admits this in the light based militant group inspired by now predict claimed responsibility for the attack the muslim brotherhood condemned the bombing saying he was an attack on the unity of the egyptian people thousands attended the mass funeral of those killed in tuesday's attack one of the deadliest in recent months. the decision to ban the brotherhood was announced in response to the escalation of violence in egypt residency card ready to be reacting to that decision almost the middle but like doing is making me go to stevie g show people that we will therefore not participate in the referendum but the opposite is true we are now more determined to go out and folks favorite feel good to be pasted in times of the bike doing hi

they were under the back lonans and romans. >> they were not expecting a baby born into poverty. not one who would gain strength through weakness. that is the. norm that was started that morning. >> instead of the big boys bullying everybody, this is about someone who didn't come to be served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many. that is spiritually powerful, it is also politically dynamite. >> most of what is known about jesus is contained in only two books of the testament. but history books tell us more about the rise of political tensions in the middle east around that time. and in that way, not much has change in bethlehem. and the birth of a tiny baby is for many still bringing home for a new kind of world in new york, lauren green, fox news. >> thanks very much. you can catch more of her special tonight as she hosts the nativity, fact, fiction, and faith, right here at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> well, coming up, before i bid you goodbye, i'm going to show you what i'm missing right now. let check it out. are they there? they're not going to be there. see wh

but they have one thing in common with the roman catholics- - they elect a pope. the final choice is made by a boy who is blindfolded and led to a crystal chalice containing three names. the name on the piece of paper the boy picks becomes the next pope. the copts believe his choice is not a roll of the dice, but is inspired by the divine. ( cheers and applause ) >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm morley safer. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories tonight on "60 minutes." there's a saying around here, you stand behind what you say. around here you don't make excuses. you make commitments. and when you can't live up to them, you own up, and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it's needed most. but i know you'll still find it when you know where to look. anncr vo: introducing the schwab accountability guarantee. if you're not happy with one of our participating investment advisory services, we'll refund your program fee from the p

the holy see is awfully opinionated these days on everything from fracking to drones and it seems the roman catholic administration will not be slowing down any time soon just recently a representative of the holy see criticized some very controversial trade deals that are in the works those are of course the trans-pacific partnership where the t.v. and the transatlantic trade and investment partnership also known as the t.t. ip these are trade deals that have by and large remained secret from the public however the massive pacs are expected to affect jobs environment consumer safety and even the assess ability of medication in a statement the holy see said among the most damaging concessions developing countries make and regional and bilateral agreements are those enhancing the monopolies of lifesaving medicines which reduce access and affordability and those that provide excessive legal rights to foreign investors limiting the policy space for nations to promote sustainable and inclusive development and still ahead here on r t the world of birth control medicine may soon expand australian

. >> i'm christine romans. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. >>> the startling advice being given to the white house over the nsa spying programs. that advice -- stop it, at least stop doing it like you are. a panel of outside experts hand-picked by the white house is urging the president to rein in the nsa's wide ranging data dragnet and restructure how the nsa is collecting logs of phone calls. all told, 46 recommendations in their report. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto has a look at what the panel said and the potential impact. >> reporter: the headline here is one of the panel members told me is accountability and that is accountability for the nsa to congress, to the white house, and to the public. you see that reflected in these 46 recommendations. for instance, they recommend that congress pass legislation to move all of that phone data from the nsa's hands back to the phone companies to private hands where the nsa can access it when they need to, but they don't hold it all the time. in terms of the white

yes he said whose pictures on a caesar page is your letters with the right caesars that those had the roman empire at that time actually had welfare programs so yeah this was i say no no no taxes for the weather to be able to live it well for programs that is mount true but you know that was not the nancy christ said what he said was the question was presented to him as a tool to get the roman government to arrest him all right spot for him directions if he had said anything of them rinder interesting as are the things that are caesar's here and i would. god what is go and what is god his most important message was remember though render under god now now his most important message was it's going to be easier for hamill to get through i have no need to live now read everything about heaven is love look at how many people came to him and said what do i do and he said give everything away to the poor. the lord your god with all your heart soul and mind and love your neighbor as yourself now it's the first commit but if you let your government love your neighbor instead of you then then that i

then we have romans. >> because we have to say sicilians are big bastards. of course, we're being conquered by everybody. also our dialect. there are many words that are understood by other people. if i say sicilian dialect word, maybe an arab can understand me, and italian no. and the italian language comes from latin, something different. we are sicilians before italians, remember this. >> i'll never forget. >> look at this side of the meat. it's yellow, it's not white. when it's yellow, it means that the horse has been breed eating fresh grass. >> tear and go. >> yeah. >> you like the taste? >> it's good. >> it's a bit sweet. >> you don't need nothing. horse meat. basically it's loved by quite everybody here. you know. we have it for meat balls, and we can have a horse meat ball. >> as you wish. whatever. i'll try anything. >> make some different things, you know. >> bread, parmesan cheese, pecorino. >> right. >> parsley, eggs, and, of course, horse. >> horse. >> it is very tasty. let's put it this way, when my daughter asks me for a pony, i'm bringing he

who's the catholic according to the managing editor the pope changed the tone and perception of the roman catholic church this may be so but francis also be showing himself to be critical of the global economic order and capitalism is there hope for the church or is francis really a p.r. product. but. like joe did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy schtick albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked like handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built up my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america to find her job ready to join the movement then walk a little bit. wealthy british style. that's not tied to the tirelessly. markets why not come to. find o

. >>> i'm christine romans this monday morning. >> i'm john berman. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east and we begin in the northeast. what a way to start the week. knee-deep in snow and digging out this morning. more than a foot of snow falling in parts of new york and new england. hundreds of flights cancelled and if that is not enough fedex is warning the bad weather could mean delays for millions of holiday packages. >> you'll have to knit something now. >> a mess of the roads in pennsylvania. this tractor-trailer coming within inches sliding off an overpass. be careful over there. >> more in massachusetts. i-93 in wilmington, pspinouts ad accidents all over the state. >> let's look at boston area. concerns about the morning commute. all of that slush and rain freezing up as the temperatures fall. drivers being warned to take it slow this monday morning. >> in albany, they are breaking out snow blowers in that part of new york. buried under a foot of snow, the capital in new york. >> florida escaping the snow but still picking up the pieces from a brutal storm. seven hom

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movie with roman yeah moten the jungle is a. show that roman coppola and alex timbers who's a great new york playwright and director three of us wrote it it's a it's a show that we shot for amazon who are now making movies movies and shows and it's a it's based loosely based on a book called mozart the jungle sex drugs and classical music and it's a show that sort of is looks into the. underbelly of the world of classical music in new york and you know the symphony and the orchestra and all the different levels of. musicians and what it takes to sort of ascend in the world of classical music and and the highs and the lows you know because i think growing up i was fascinated you know you look at an orchestra and they're all in tuxedo they all look so nice and it has a sheen on it that looks like well this is very expensive luxury it's life and in fact it's not high paying for a lot of people and really difficult and you know and some of those tuxedoes are rented and but they're playing instruments that are worth you know a millio

they are tanking up before they go to mexico to romans. >> that's correct, romans and give birth. >> where there are this many whales there are whale watchers. >> they have a lot of locals and we get a lot of folks from germany, the netherlands, france, spain. >> this is a unique environment in the world. >> exactly right. >> california whale watching generates $20 million a year according to a u.c.l.a. study, part of a $2 billion industry. with this year's season running longer than usual, the figure will be higher. >> we take 30-35 people we are day. that's been going on pretty much since about june. >> wow. 30 to 35 people a day. >> sometimes more. >> it's not just tourists following the whales. packs of sea lions, dolphins and pelicans scramble in their wake. it's a frenzy of fins and flippers. suddenly the water goes still. bonnie brown, a biologist explains why. >> i noticed that the sea life goes crazy and disappears. what is happening there? >> what is happening is see lions and the whales dive down, working together to gather the anchovies here currently, they pop up arrange

yes he said whose pictures on a caesar page is your letters with the right caesars that those had the roman empire at that time actually had welfare programs so yeah this was i say no no no taxes for the weather to be able to live it well for programs that is mount true but you know that was not the nancy christ said what he said was the question was presented to him as a tool to get the roman government to arrest him all right spot for him if he had said anything of them rinder interesting as are the things that are caesar's here and i would. god what is good and what is god his most important message was remember though render under god now now his most important message was it's going to be easier for him to get through the eye of needle and now read everything about heaven is love look at how many people came to him and said what do i do and he said give everything away to the poor. the lord your god with all your heart soul and mind and love your neighbor as yourself now it's the first commit but if you let your government love your neighbor instead of you then then that isn't good eit

the catholic pontiff according to the managing editor the pope change the tone and perception of the roman catholic church this may be so but francis also be showing himself to be critical of the global economic order and capitalism is there hope for the church or is francis really a p.r. product. i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason we were so confident because we were going to get married officially after he came back how could he not come back because the mere thought of it never crossed our minds. when the militants decided to try and break through and i heard you get near screaming grenade. go forward they explode and blow them all round his back war. and it was all over all. we know that are calm raps on our commander won't leave us no matter how tough it gets we're a team. there who are both getting was a senior in his military trio. you know he knew that if he didn't smother that grenade with his body more of his comrades would die he gave his own life to save his friends. i play a street

this morning he asked roman catholics around the world to be peacemakers. the pope delivered the traditional christmas message only in italian. last year pope benedict offered greetings in 65 languages. other christian pilgrims are celebrating the holiday in bethleh bethlehem. crowds there were the largest in years. >>> troops celebrated christmas in afghanistan. some prayed, lit candles and sang hymns in kabul. >>> a cold christmas morning for a half million utility customers from maine, michigan and canada. they're still in the dark after this weekend's ice storm. it could be days before they get power. at least 24 deaths are blamed on the storm. >>> christmas is all about giving. this morning we see how a las vegas cabbie took the spirit of the season to a whole new level. >> christmas almost came early for gerardo gamboa. the las vegas taxi driver couldn't believe what he found in the back seat of his cab, several stacks of $100 bills. >> i called my dispatcher. listen, manny, in my cab, and she said how much is the money? i said $300,000. >> reporter:

it was a rural existence, governed by the rituals of jewish life, and by roman soldiers in the nearby city of sepphoris, a frequent target of jewish rebels. according to journalist lesley hazelton, author of "mary: a flesh and blood biography of the virgin mother," mary was not just an observer, but directly involved in the politics of her time. >> there's no doubt in my mind that she -- because she knew the ins and outs and all the side roads of the hills, where the caves were, where you could hide, where you could safely go and nobody could track you, even at night without a moon, especially on moonless nights -- she would have been used to, and she would have wanted to, guide rebels who were fleeing from the military to safety. rather like a kind of underground railroad. >> the virgin mary as the princess leia of her day, defending the rebels against the evil empire? perhaps. until the 13-year-old mary, who was not yet married to joseph, got some news from an angel that she was pregnant. and the father was god. >> imagine a jewish girl in this era going to their mother and father a

they were built by the romans but are still in use today. how technology is looking into the past to map italy's under ground aquaducts. and blasting off on a mission to the moon, what chinese scientists hope to learn when their rover makes an lunar landing. >> and this means falling temperatures and winter storm warnings that are spreading in the midwest, we will have the details. >>> these are live pictures right now coming in from tie land where protests calling for the prime minister to resign turned violent over the weekend and clashes with police continue today. >>> this is the scene right now in, ukraine and they are up set about the government's failure to sign trade agreements with the european union. ♪ >> and now, a techknow minute..Ñ welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm morgan ratford live from new york city, the high-tech tools archeologists are using to discover buried remnants of rome and let's look at the snow and rain across the country today with metrologist nicole mitchell. >> a lot of people are starting back today a

now this jeweler dates back many centuries and here you see pictured for example, a late he roman coin jewels you'll see in the british museum that dates to the late 19th century, 1970s that was created by the jewelers family jewelers in he rome. now this is just to show you that coins have long been used in jewelers for many centuries it was really bully that revived them in the 20 sit up. they range in ancient coins with the greek coins that dates to the fourth century b.c. to the wonderful broach dating to the 1970s set with a rare american dollar dating to 1926. so the range is extremely broad. possibly one of my favorite is this rather extreme example it is a incredibly large ca is a what it's a hundred and 40 centimeters long and weighs two pound and is set with 15 comes in and they're all british coins. silver british coins with the heads of the heads of state starting with henry the eight and finishing with johnson the third. so it's like a history lesson of british history. it was bought by a very extravagance clerk for his wife barney baron richie and it has a italian descend

this unspoiled wilderness of life romans in the primeval forest. in two thousand. school was designated unesco world heritage site. gino thirteen hundred meter put speaks for islam the spine of the peninsula from east to for years to reach grow creeping on its windy so fiercely. their trunks are horizontal. she did to potential of roasted on a one thousand six hundred sixty one meters. the roasted muscles beneath the mountain this is that a couple for expeditions into the local wilderness. our journey begins my car on the road that hugs the coastline the unholy his followers the small fishing port of ideal money. you're on. we must make their way down the coast on fall. it's about twenty kilometers from liability to the tip of the peninsula. urgent or just crashing surf and sheer cliffs mark the trail. along the shorelines and parts where fishermen live in the summer fishing season this journey follows and an improved trail with no shops or accommodations along the way. to cover as much distance as possible while that is like really vital money as soon as we gather

argue that there's a long rich tradition of social media that goes back to the era of cicero, the late roman republic that is the first century bc. the point is you don't need a digital network to social media. if you have wanted was faster but you could do it in the old days. cicero did it with messengers running to afro and other members of the elite and they all spoke to him and it was very much a social environment that there've been many other examples throughout history. martin luther and his use of poetry and thomas paine and the common sense and the way that they would use more broadly the run-up to the american and french revolution. ..

your remarks the other day on economic justice, to me, as a roman catholic is so relevant to what the holy father, pope francis is saying. we have a moral responsibility to look out for people who haven't made it in this country. >> there's no great religion that doesn't speak to this. at root, every great religion has some equivalent of the golden rule, some equivalent of i am my brother's keeper and my sister's keeper. i think pope francis is showing himself to be just an extraordinarily thoughtful and soulful messenger of peace and justice. i haven't had a chance to meet him yet, but everything that i have read and everything i have seen from him indicates the degree to which he is trying to remind us of those core obligations. >> but not even the universally popular pope is spared ugly attacks from the right wing, of course, jonathan capehart and opinion writer from "the washington post." gentlemen, this didn't come as a big surprise to you, gentlemen, was this a close call or was this the winner? >> no, it was actually a close call, down to two people for a while, edward snowden,

. ♪ >>> the roman >>> the roman catholic archbishop of new york had a ruling in their favor as a federal court granted an injunction blocking the obamacare mandate by making them provide contraceptive care to employees at nonprofit affiliates. so why is this decision so important for catholics and christians across america? joining me now is the national director of priest for life, father frank malone. father frank, good to see you here. >> good to be here. >> are you worried this will lead to similar judgments that will grant not just catholics but all people of faiths by having the government tell them how much faith they can practice. >> i am optimistic. our organization is one of them, a priest for life. we were recently told the opposite of what the new york case was told. but i think as time goes on and the cases go higher in the -- in the level of the courts, we'll see more victories. >> and i think the aclu said there has been 88 different lawsuits dpieled on -- filed on behalf of religious organizations to counter obamacare. is this going to end up in the supreme court and they

boy scouts led a procession that included a latin patriarch, the leader of the roman catholic church in jerusalem. in the decades old plastibban conflict, there was a call for a just and equitable solution. though view think an agreement is likely, but one hopes the message of peace will influence world leaders. >> you hear about division in this region of the world, but here are all of these people speaking different languages for a similar cause. and so that is very a very hopeful thing to see, which is very much the spirit of christmas. >> reporter: america started an effort to jump start the economy in bethlehem by pouring millions into the city, florida my -- particularly now during christmas. some tourists will come and visit for a few days, not just a few hours and it will anchor the future of a palestinian place. >> a home needs a family and not just the family of the bethlehem, all of the global citizens that believe in the message of bethlehem are welcome to come home for christmas. we cannot celebrate alone. >> reporter: and in the sign that anything is popular after more

roman city plans had arenas and forums that set them aside and the rest of the housing cuddled up to them and that was mostly smaller dwellings that -- the history -- it has to do with the pride. if you go to a city and you see the courthouse and the church and the cathedral. there is a sort of unimportance for us -- there is a sort of an importance for us to have those kinds of buildings. million.ll cost $207 at the same time that was built, there were $300 million. it does not have to cost more to do that. if you look at the blocks of medal andtook the tweaked it at the corners to make it look like there was a sense of movement. feelingying to give without resorting to his store coal motifs -- historical motives. >> i assume you have to be pleased a decade later with the way it has been received by visitors. i assume you have to be happy with the way it has changed the whole feel about downtown. >> i am very proud of it. they are putting a subway under it. when you build a structure like that and they want to put a subway underneath it, how do you process that? >> you freak out. sc

so let's bring in cnn's chief business correspondent christine romans. interesting. >> good morning, it is interesting, and it's so cool because this is the eighth company that google has bought in the robotics field and this one really interesting. you saw the. ic tours what it can to. what you're seeing a few years ago would have been sci-fi. they managed to get a raping of motion and movement and balance, which is key here, balance in some of these robotics that is incredible. what are we talking about here? we're talking about the supply chain, distribution channels, all kinds of places automated where you can put things like this and revolutionize what we're doing and how we do it. does this mean you're doing business with a row pot in the next couple of years, probably not. but there could be robotics in the economy and business we krnt' seen before and asked andrew mcafee at mit was this sci-fi we're seeing or what kind of technological innovation are we seeing and how important is it? i want to you listen to what he said, carol, it's interesting.

roman rose for taking that to heart and asking those folks to show up. with that, being said i know want to move the item and the motion to support the item >> been move forward and 1k9d any motion 80 to approve the grantees. any other discussion? >> i'm sorry was there any other public comment. all right. all in favor, say i. and moving forward. motion approved. thanks everyone (clapping.) you know, there's still about 50 or 60 folks here this is one of the things we've learning from we're losing our room but who knew there would be this level of interest. who's in charge if we can hear one last thing as we procedurally continue everything >> colleagues, can we get a motion to continue items 11, 12, 13, fourteen, 15, 16 which would leave us with

for example, gift-giving was don'ted from a roman festival. christmas trees came from the ancient egyptian custom worshipping the god ra with a palm rush and santa is based on a war lord cringe els the unjolly who laid waste to his enemies in coal fire. he nose like a cheree from the blood of the vanquished whose bodies he buried. so i say, we should stop these atheists by absorbing their festivus tradition like some sort of yuletide borg. it will be easy, after all, jesus was the original cheree. think about t he was a single guy, hanging out with a couple of guys. and one woman. and he's always foiled by his nemesis, hello, juddas. and folks, every time president obama goes overseas he embarrasses our country and he has done it again. this time at yesterday's memorial for nelson pan della. >> on his way to the podium the president shook hands with other world leaders including the cuban leader raul castro. >> our president did shake hands at one point with raul castro. >> it was the moment we all stopped and said whoa. >> yeah. >> and the ot

i keep talking about it as a modern-day fall of the roman day empire, a modern-day caligula. it was. the hedonism was rampant. it was a depiction of, you know, jordan's biography and how honest he was about his addiction to wealth and power and greed on wall street. all of that. absolutely. it was a wild shoot. it really was. >> we only finished the film a couple of weeks ago. seeing the trailer, i am tired all over again. no, it was, it was something -- you had brought it to me. you brought to the script to me. >> you had to beat out some people. brad pitt was interested. >> that all happens behind closed doors that i don't understand. i went after this book. >> there was competition. you want to do because it was a story you wanted to tell because >> this is a satire. it is a dark comedy. so is "dr. strangelove." we take a funny approach to this but what we're talking about is a serious subject and it represents something in our very culture. >> winners and losers in a lot of money. people get hurt and make money and all of that. people go to jail. >> i do not think of it a

and here with us business correspondent christine romans, and hln's legal analyst joey jackson. >> if you're a state, right, and you see someone say you're in new york andsying in their living room and they buy something or they drive amile away and they buy something online, you want the sales tax. now the supreme court is not going to not going to weigh into this debate where the web retailers say we don't think people should have to pay sales tax on the purchases that people make online. and this has been the basis of the love on online shopping from the beginning. this is some way you don't have to buy sales tax. that i think is going to be going away. >> that's great for the shopper. that stinks for macy's, the brick and mortar company. >> sure. >> and those with -- the loser here are consumers. the losers up until now have been the bricks and mortar stores. >> and the supreme court never has to comment. >> they're the supreme court. >> christine and i were talking about this issue. and i think what we're doing is forcing congress to act. it's the purview of congress. and what th