ben franklin did two very important things. the mark zuckerberg of the 18th century. he constructed a platform for social discourse. he was newspaper publisher, among many other things, of course, and he was also one of his many jobs was to be postmaster general for the american colonies so he improved the efficiency. ... in the run-up to the american revolution. just spread the idea that america should be coming from great britain. it's also one of the things that's recommended. but it's also newspapers and learn about what tom paine has to say. he was able to ripple throughout the colonies had become extremely widely known. and franklin prepares the ground for it in tom paine and other writers of evolutionary. richie used his sister to spread the idea that it's a way forward >> let's move forward in history. let's talk about the 1900s, 1920s, the rights of ham radio. amateur radio. >> guest: the interesting thing about radio is initially it was a social media. if you look at the rise of the 20th century, they were to build radio centers. with both the transmitter an

ben franklin constructed a platform for social discourse. he was a publisher and one of the many jobs was postmaster general for the american colony. he improved the efficiency of the postal service. and he made a rule that newspaper publishers could use the service for me and collaborate with other papers. it is mostly letters from scribers or speeches or reports of funny happenings or stuff copied from other newspapers. there are not professional journalist writing reports. this is a social, local platform. and ben franklin built the system, and didn't realize it, but he is encouraging the spread of information. and his is what tom pane was able to use to spread the idea america should be independent from great britain. and he writes the pamphle pamphlet "common sense" and it is printed in the newspaper and they spread to other towns and people learn across the environment what tom pane has to say. many papers printed it in full. it was able to ripple throughout and become wide-known quickly. ben franklin prepared to ground and tom pane wa

benjamin franklin bought ben franklin's grandson published the war of war as i recall it was called whatever the newspaper was who had written because the because bloch had written and a trial in which he called president john adams. toothless and balding i mean that literally that got him thrown in jail and got his newspaper taken away eighteen newspapers were shut down by john adams during that time and from then on and yeah we talk about very straight from then until the new york times where there are major any milestones or was this really a presidential case well no i mean this you know if it had never it had never happened before in a federal court there are some state courts maybe five or six over the period of time that you describe the did try to censor the press through prior restraints but in each case the newspapers disobey them so you know it really was the first time in history now you talk about putting all those papers in jail. you know lawyers like to say things are different there's probably a difference between stopping the press and then after you print something

when ben franklin. it was recognized by all. chief among these is that listening to the demand for new fall does. isn't it. where do you a spokesman for the amount of time that willful such as duncan would scientists in japan as a kid tells us more now about what's been happening at skype. update on that at sixty four at the next few days ago in st sunday the fifteenth of december. it was to be the funeral of nelson mandela they have various events being pounds it's a festival it's more a sunday that will be a national day of prep and defections that sets its mosques and synagogues across south africa. it will be thrown to the pool remembering that that that that on tuesday we will have that events of the national stadium or the main sports stadium there and to honest but with some of the design expense it says has had various things and that the cells of gatsby fresh doubts on that one but then on wednesday posts that is what the will by the state's name. it's so rare in fact it will be will be high rates of ten schools through

>> ben franklin gave that to us. >> reporter: the congressional roomies take the easy route, cold cereal, they buy it in bulk. >> you're the raisin bran. >> i like the mini wheat. >> reporter: the fick 'tis residents have breakfast together, not so much here. >> i usually come in midnight. >> and we leave while he sleeps. >> reporter: an opening scene shows a bowl of flag pins on the center. this is what they have on their counter. >> screws and a random pill, and a pen in case you need one. >> it's modern art. >> it's hard to believe such prominent politicians leave in this conditions. >> when my wife comes, she will not stay in here. >> but they're only in washington about three nights a week. >> what makes it work? >> we're friends. >> we love it. it's home. >> dana bash, cnn, at the real alpha house near capitol hill. >>> how old are those spices above the stove, right? well ahead, canine combat vet who used to sniff out bombs, he's now patrolling the pentagon. we're aig. and we're here. to help secure retirements and protect financial futures. to help communities recover and rebuild

>> ben franklin gave that to us. >> reporter: since this is not a kitchen fit for cooking, the congressional roomies take the easy route. cold cereal. they buy it in bulk. >> senator what's your favorite? >> i prefer raisin bran but i like mini wheats. >> i come in about midnight from my office, usually. >> and we leave while he's sleeping. >> you do it by design. >> reporter: an opening scene in "alpha house" shows a bowl of flag pins on the counter. this what is they have on their counter. >> screws and a random pill and a pen in case you need one. >> it's modern art. >> reporter: it's hard to believe such prominent politicians live in these conditions. >> when my wife comes she will not stay here. >> reporter: but they're only in washington about three nights a week. >> what makes it work? >> your friends. your friends. >> we love it. it's home. >> reporter: dana bash, cnn, at the real alpha house near capitol hill. >> dana bash, you are a brave woman, my friend, going in there. i'll be back with a final picture i want to show you. stick around. people don't have to think about where thei

ben franklin kind of looks like the gross. >> tom does not smile very much. there it is. >> spongebob could help. >> a bunch of guys from russia. >> where did you get that umbrella? that is not an official bloomberg umbrella. >> where in the world is carmen san diego? >> i know you have been threatening to grow a playoff eared. -- beard. >> i can't being to no end. growing strong. spring became a summer. who'd believe you come along. sweet caroline ? ♪ >> happy new year's eve. in just a few hours about one million pounds of confetti will rain down on times square. we spoke to the president of the times square alliance. he told us how the ball dropping business got started. >> it has only spent a mixture of business and technology. the cutting edge technology was 25,000 iridescent labels. it is always a mix of old and new innovation and cutting-edge technology. >> what happens to the ball after it is dropped? >> it used to hide in the basement and get taken apart. it stays up on the pole year- long. >> this is just part of the ceremony. supreme court justice

franklin because she came in seventh grade and not sixth grade with the rest of us. but she was quiet, she kept to herself, but she had a beautiful smile and she was always really sweet. and she's still a great person and her dad was a great person. it was clear that he was a great person because he had great kids and he was a loving, caring person who actually spent 39 years working for the city at the department of human services. mr. holmes had a collection of over 365 art pieces, of over 100 different african-american artists, including some of my favorites. [speaker not understood] and [speaker not understood] and sergeant johnson. and not only did he collect this amazing art, he shared it with museums. he shared it with the african-american art and culture complex. although we could barely afford the insurance to exhibit the work. he was just such a giving person, such an amazing person. he he passed away in his home in alamo square not too far from the african-american art ask culture complex, where he he was married and raised his two daughters and he will be

and what ben franklin does by allowing newspapers to exchange copies with each other freely is he built a system -- he doesn't realize he's doing this. this is the system that tom paine and others are able to use in the runup to the american revolution, just spread the idea that america should become independent from great britain. and, obviously, he writes "common sense," and it's distributed as a pamphlet, and it's passed from person to person and recommended and copied just like happened with luther's pamphlets, but it's also printed and excerpted in the newspapers, and those newspapers spread to oh towns, and people learn across this whole media environment about what tom paine has to say. many papers actually printed "common sense" in full, so it was able to ripple throughout the entire colonies and become extremely widely known very, very quickly. so ben franklin kind of prepared the ground for it, and tom paine and other writer in the revolutionary period were able to use this system to spread the idea that independence was the way forward for america and, of course, that's what

>> ben franklin gave that to us. >> since this is not a kitchen fit for cooking, they take the easy route, cold cereal. >> they have breakfast together, watch sports at night. >> i come in about midnight from my office usually. and then -- >> you know by design. >> this is what they have on their counter -- >> screws and a random pill. and a pen in case you need one. >> yes, it's modern art. >> it's hard to bieve so much prominent politicians live in these conditions. >> they're only in washington about three nights a week. >> what makes it work? >> your friends. we love it, it's home. >>> so dana, i did this story about six years ago for abc, and i don't think they have changed anything. miller's room is okay. >> i didn't go up there. >> but i think people would be very surprised to see how they live, particularly schumer. >> the flip side is that a lot of pe look at politicians and think they live like kings. some do, but they don't. that is an understatement. >> so when i did it, durbin killed a rat and he said it on tv and he got an angry letter from peta. >> that doesn't surprise me.

. >> yeah, ben franklin. [ laughter ] and then i flew the kite. [ laughter ] i lost my key. that's where it was. at the end of the kite. >> jimmy: -- typewriter. >> sometimes we just rip. sometimes something happened with friends, it would be a funny little thing. i would write it down and do it. it became this book. and then there was a really funny chapter about getting older. and i decided one morning to write the book. i got up, jimmy. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and when i walked to the bathroom, i realized i was kicking my testicles in front of me. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. that's a problem right there. >> so i should write a book. >> jimmy: you should write a book right there. >> now, the audio book is great. i did it in front of a live audience. you know like the comedy albums that we grew up on? >> jimmy: oh, i love it. >> so it is a different kind of thing. so check it out. >> jimmy: absolutely. i would love to do that. we were saying like "what's on the best seller list besides your book?" i was looking at -- and right by you, is "si-cology." >> yes. >> jimmy: which is

. >> i think ben franklin said watch it when you're giving up freedoms -- liberties for your freedoms. i want to bring in our analysts on this. legal analysts paul callan and danny sevales. collateral surveillance is effectively what the government is saying. we're not targeting the americans here. if they happen to get swept up in the mix, so be it. my question for you, does that protect them from the fourth amendment? you can't do unreasonable search and seizures in this country. >> no, but it does protect them in the sense that you, individually, don't know you're. only congress can protect american citizens from this. this is a staggering amount of information that's being saved. literally, everybody who has a cell phone could theoretically be in the nsa computers. we're storing the information but we're not looking at it. if they did look at it, they would not only know who you called but where you made the call from, by tracking cell phone towers. the level of detail is amazing here. >> what's annoying, among other things, is that you can encrypt your e-mail. you can encrypt you

the yellow lab named ben after ben franklin. he joined the kerry family by way of a breeder in maine. ben is a good looking pup. see you back tomorrow at 11:00 eastern time. "now" with alex wagner coming up next. alex. you owe me a yogurt, i hear. >> you heard about that. >> i heard about that. >> america found you had your own refrigerator stocked with yogurt. >> the only way to go. >> i have stolen yogurt. >> you are free to take a yogurt any time you want as is anybody who finds one that is not expired. >> thanks, thomas. the first black president of south africa honored by the first black president of america. we will discuss president obama's historic eulogy from johannesburg with josh barrow, richard wolfe, curt anderson. plus top chef tom colicchio scoring lawmakers on how good they are on the subject of hunger. we will find out who is winning and who is losing. just in time for christmas, a new coloring book about senator ted cruz. you can file it under endoctrination text. all that when "now" starts right after this. af

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>> ben franklin gave that to us. >> reporter: since this is not a kitchen fit for cooking, they take the easy route. cold cereal, they buy it in bulk. >> raisin bran. which one are you? >> i like the mini wheat. >> i come in about midnight from my office. >> and we leave while he's sleeping. >> we do it by design. >> an opening scene of "alpha house" has a bowl of flag pins. this is what they have on counter. >> screws and a random pill and a pen. >> it's modern -- >> hard to believe such prominent politician -- >> when my wife comes, she will not stay here. >> but they're only in washington about three nights a week. >> reporter: what makes it work? >> your friends. >> we love it. it's home. >> dana bash, cnn at the real alpha house near capitol hill. >>> and joining us mark consuelos, a real-life actor. is thanks so much for joining us. did you actually go visit that real alpha house? >> no, we didn't get a chance to visit it. i've got to say. i'm shocked that senator schumer let you guys in. that's quite shocking. and it is messy, i would have to say. >> it's a disaster in there.

well, i was reading ben franklin's published paper which are bound in 40 something volumes. you go any library and pull them off the shelves. one after another. it's such good company. he's so sneaky and charming. but every other letter he wrote was to his sister, jane. and i never heard of her. i was just mystified. how can anybody possibly understand this man who ran away from home when she he was young. the last letter he wrote on his death bed was to his sister. she's clearly important to his life. when i first read about her i was interested in understanding him. then i realized she's far more interesting. we know so little about the lives ever ordinary people. >> how ordinary was her life? >> franklin story. he -- her life was rags to rags nap is an allegory too for everybody's else life. it was unusual to climb up the social ladder the way frack lynn -- franklin did. >> flrp any portraits of jane franklin. did she get any of her brother's money. did anything come her way? >> he had many kinds of joy in her life. she was never wealthy. franklin took good care of her. i

he writes -- ben franklin admonished those who would sacrifice liberty for security thomas a yang sooner than not they would find they have neither security nor liberty. are we running the list -- the risk of the slippery slope? at some point, we run into a situation where they are tracking things they just simply should not be tracking. isi think the united states going through a rebalancing act. the united states put a task force together to look at the laws we have made since 9/11. do not forget, the laws we have made today have been pushed through by congress, who was .lected by the people and the president of the united states, saved -- elected by the people. >> even president clinton thinks we have done damage in the ?nternational community >> i would not call the president wrong in his beliefs. i think he had a great term. i think he had different challenges. i think we have serious international perception problems and trust issues we will have to rebuild. >> i recently sat down with the nsa director. talked about what the nsa could and could not do. he spoke a little bit about t

then the author of ben franklin's youngest sister and jasmine ward with her book about growing up in poverty in rule mississippi. >> i have been involved in politics for four years in one way or another. i worked in the administration and i have never seen so many people quoting and waving around the declaration of independence and the constitution. many of you never gave it a second thought and i bet not it is at the front of your mind and it is with tens of millions of us. and the fact of the matter is that tens of millions of us love this country and we don't have fundamentally transformed and we have to get to as many people as we can and wake them up and educate them. and i am not trying to pat myself on the back. consider part of the program which is why we are under attack. >> on sunday. this best-selling author will take your calls and questions in depth. live life for three hours starting at noon, it eastern time. first sunday of every month on c-span2. >> you're watching c-span2 featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. every week and the latest nonfiction authors and boo

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franklin's comment, it's a republic if you can keep it, if we want to keep it it's time to rise up, not do violence, but just stop rewarding those who persecute christianity. those who burn churches. those who kill christians. quit rewarding them. uit providing them arms. because if we don't, we will slide of history into the dust bin of history and people will only be able to look back and say, what an amazing country that once was. i'm here in congress because i believe we have the chance to salvage this great country and get back our international leadership we once had and stand for freedom of religion in the world and in america. but, god help us if we don't. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. gohmert: at this time i would move that we do now hereby adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands adjourned until noon on monday n

i'm talking about republic as ben franklin when the lady asked, what have you given us, and he said a republic, madam, if you can keep it. well, it was clear that morsi was not going to allow the egyptian people to keep their republic. the people rose up and demanded that they be able to keep their republic by having military remove morsi. he did remove them. in ll can't find anyone the media that is reporting what general alseesy said to me in the presence of our acting u.s. ambassador to egypt, in the presence of democrat and republican members of congress that, yes, they had evidence that morsi was trying to the general ve murdered before he was rrested. and this administration was not only very supportive of muslim brother morsi but when he was removed, they threatened to cut off aid if they didn't get him back. and after they refused to get him back, then this president cuts off all aid to egypt. and it's amazing because as this article points out, it was not until morsi was arrested that the muslim brotherhood started staging these violent acts, burning churches, killing christi