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sacco is expected to make a statement very soon. she hasn't said a thing publicly since sending out that tweet, dan and bianna, clearly a lot of people want to hear from her. >> she allegedly had some questionable tweets in the past, as well. gio, our thanks to her. >>> we're going to turn to president obama who's enjoying the sun, sand and surf of hawaii on his annual winter vacation with his family there. >> before leaving the white house, the president was really grilled by reporters about his fifth year in office, which he insisted wasn't the worst of his presidency. let's bring in the host of "this week," george stephanopoulos. so, was it the worst year of his presidency and what does he do to make 2014 less horrible? >> i think it's safe to say it was the worst year of his presidency. but also a tough year for everybody in washington, they had the least productive congress in memory. the president has to do a few things to start to turn this around. number one, get back to basics. fix the health care website. make sure people

justine sacco now apologizing after this offensive tweet went viral. "going to africa. hope i don't get aids. just kidding. i'm white." in a statement, sacco now tells abc news, "words cannot express how sorry i am and now necessary it is for me to apologize to the people of south africa." she was fired saturday from her top pr job at internet giant iac, where she repped some of the biggest names online, like match.com, the daily beast and about.com. >> this is one of the fastest responses and crash and burns i've ever seen from a tweet. >> reporter: sacco posted the tweet friday, just before a nearly 12-hour flight from london to cape town, south africa. while she was apparently offline in midair, millions were online, anxiously waiting for her to land and see the uproar her tweet caused. the hash tag "has justine landed yet" became an instant trend. her former bosses calling the tweet outrageous and offensive. >> there are so many teachable moments here. think before you tweet. and never, never put out something that can be perceived as racist. >> reporter: this photo

her name is justine sacco. she says her decision to accepted out this tweet on friday was in her words, careless. here's the tweet. going to africa, hope i don't get aids, just kidding. i'm white. sacco sent that tweet out just before she began a 12-hour flight to south africa and over the weekend, she was fired. this was not the first time sacco said aid something controversial. our cnn's pamela brown has the story. >> suzanne, and michael, it's highly unusual that a publicist would be at the center of a publicity firestorm but that happened to justine sacco. 53 characters is all it took for her to lose her job. in fact, it's not the only controversial tweet. it's one of several tasteless tweets on her now disabled twitter account. >> social media is calling it the tweet heard around the world. going to africa, hope i don't get aids. just kidding. i'm white. now three days after an a pr exec justine sacco sent out that tweet she is out of a job and apologizing. on sunday she issued this statement saying "words

. >> reporter:on sunday, sacco issued this statement saying: "words cannot express how sorry i am, and how necessary it is for me to apologize to the people of south africa, who i have offended due to a needless and careless tweet. for being insensitive to this the millions of people living with the virus, i am ashamed." >> reporter:sacco was head of p-r for i-a-c, the media company owned by barry diller, that operates websites like the daily beast, college humor and match-dot-com. >> reporter:but, on saturday, the company said sacco's no longer a good match -- firing her. >> reporter:the former p-r exec found herself the target of a social media mob on friday-- sending out that tweet right before logging offline while on her 12-hour flight from london to her native south africa. >> "not only is this a publicists' worst nightmare, it's any public figure's worst nightmare. to send out a tweet, it's kind of like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. you can't take it back." >> reporter:her twitter page immediately filled with hateful comments, the hashtag: "#hasjustinelandedyet" tre

you have sacco. you then have steve martin. someone asks him how he is doing, like grammar things with his twitter followers. he makes a joke on how to spell le sonia, are you in an arkin american or italian restaurant. he deletes it, says this was insurance e insensitive, i'm an italian american, i didn't think he was insensitive. he did, people did. the reaction is harsh. we have the father with a 4-year-old running next to him. he is chideing his child, run fast ever, you are going to be a football player. in each of these instances the reactions are so vicious. it makes me wonder what's going on, because that's new to me, brian, your take. >> maybe it's we have higher standards, steve mart isn't a celebrity. we expect some humor from him. we are sensitive to people that seem to be getting themselves in hot water. i think he was careful to delete that tweet and quickly apologize. he followed with a playbook so to speak. justine sacco couldn't. she was on a plane. she finally apologized yesterday after a day-and-a-half passed

. >> justine sacco wrote letter that she was ashamed for the pain she caused. she said it was stupid and offensive, but then she was practically burned at the stake while she was on a plane unable to respond. >> yeah. she was ready, waiting for the plane to land. has it landed yet. >> i haven't gotten a satisfactory explanation for what the joke was and what -- i mean -- >> it made no sense. >> it didn't make sense and it seemed very insensitive and you have to wonder do you want somebody to be your spokesperson if they're going to do things like this. >> you have tens of thousands of people using this #hasjustinelandedyet. and it seems like it was virtually a forum over a woman who virtually no one had heard of before. >> part of it is there is a competition to be short, to be fast, to be witty. so if you put all of those things together, it's an explosion. and it leads to pushing the envelope to people in a way they normally wouldn't do. >> on that point, jeff of forbes magazine, who knew justine sacco, he said that she had noticed in a lunch he had with her

sacco worked for iac. the company runs sites like match.com and the daily beast. iac condemned the message and today parted ways with her. >>> a colorado teenager shot by a classmate last week has died. 17-year-old claire davis had been in critical condition since the shooting on december 13th. police say another student karl pierson shot her at point-blank range at arapahoe high school outside denver. they say he was targeting a librarian who managed to escape unharmed. pierson later killed himself. >>> a terrorist attack that killed 270 people was remembered around the world today. 25 years ago, pan am flight 1013 headed from london to new york exploded over lockerbie, scotland. all of the passengers and 11 people on the ground were killed. libyan leader muammar gadhafi later claimed responsibility for the attack. >>> hundreds of the service at the arlington national cemetery today beside a memorial to victims of the attack. family members recited names of those who were killed and attorney general eric holder told family members they should take comfort in thei

we don't want to just pick on sacco. steve martin is in hot water after he stopped a twitter follower that asked, is this how you spell ed lasonia? >> it depends. are you in an african-american restaurant or an italian restaurant, or neighborhood, there it is. african-american neighborhood or italian restaurant. it's on your screen. later he apologized and twedele the tweet. >> not smart. >> to his credit, he quickly apologized. that's something sacco didn't do. at least steve martin got ahead of it. there are different standards for people. if you're a comedian you'll get away with more, for better or worse than if you're a pr executive. >> it shows the danger of impulsively tweeting. you should always think twice before sending it out. >> let's go to another topic that's been a talker. everyone is talking about. the duck dynasty star, fill robertson has been suspended after he made inappropriate comments calling homosexuality illogical and sinful and said black people were happy before the civil rights movement. do you

justine sacco said insensitive things but a mob scene is not right. tell me if i'm wrong. you can say media did her in. i think it was normal ordinary twitter users who got this thing lit up. >> that's when people took notice is number of retweets and number of followers she had. i guess the question is what's the standard for giving pitch forks out and going after someone like this. on one hand, i think most people had never heard of who this person was. in some sense she's not a major public official. the other side of the argument, people would say she represents and speaks for a major corporation and a public relations official and should know better and in that sense she's fair game. >> that's why i was interested in it for today. a public relations person. >> that is crazy. this is just another reminder though we don't need it that the mike is always on. >> you do need it. >> you represent the company that you work for. no line between your private life and public life. she tweeted that i can't be responsible for what i say when i'm drunk. yes, you can. >> that's the

sacco also tells us she was born in south africa, calling it her father's country. sparking more criticism that she should have known better. >> gio, thank you very much. >>> we turn now to a lawsuit from u.s. navy sailors called to action after the tsunami in japan back in 2010. dozens of them are seriously ill. they claim the meltdown of the fukushima reactor is to blame. >> reporter: 24-year-old single mom lindsey cooper struggles with fear every day. >> my biggest fear is -- uh -- not knowing what's going to happen afterwards and not being able to take care of myself and my daughter afterwards. >> reporter: this former navy sailor says she suffers from a thyroid condition and fights issues related to overwhelming stress. she believes her health issues are a result of radiation poisoning from the fukushima nuclear plant. she's one of dozens of members of the u.s. military who said they became sick from radiation during their rescue attempts in the 2011 fukushima nuclear disaster. 51 in all are part of a lawsuit filed earlier this year against the tokyo electric p

justine sacco apologizing after this tweet went viral. "going to africa. hope i don't get aids. just kidding. i'm white!" in a statement, she tells abc news, "words cannot express how sorry i am and how necessary it is for me to apologize to the people of south africa." she was fired on saturday from her top pr job at internet giant iac where she represented some of the biggest names on line like match.com, "daily beast" and about.com. >> this is one of the fastest responses in crash and burns i've ever seen from a tweet. >> reporter: she posted the tweet on friday just before a nearly 12-hour flight from london to capetown, south africa. while she was apparently off line in midair, millions were on line, anxiously waiting for her to land and see the uproar her tweet caused. the hash tag #hasjustinelandedyet became an instant trend. her former bosses at iac call the tweet outrageous and offensive. >> there are so many teachable moments here. think before you tweet and never, never put out something that could be perceived as racist. >> reporter: this photo shows sacco at the sou

someone created the website justine sacco dotcom, linking to african charities. we haven't got an update on her employment status. the company said the tweet was offensive and outrageous. we're still waiting to hear from justine sacco herself. >> or perhaps her publicist. >> or her new employee. you can hear them laughing in the studio. talking about this and support for the suspended star of "duck dynasty," it is growing. the reality tv show network, a&e is still staying quiet, though. >> more than 200,000 people signed petitions demanding that a&e end phil robertson's suspension. a executive said they are not suspending -- going back on the suspension. they are intending to run re-runs featuring robertson. >> he was suspended indefinitely after "gq" published an interview in which he called homosexuality sinful and black people were happy before the civil rights movement. joining us to talk about this, from radio star 94 and david johnson, strategic vision, branding and public relations agency. good to have you both. >> good to be here. >> good to be here. >> l

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. >> do you think he is naÏve about capitalism and economic sacco -- economics? >> i had to look at john paul ii from a -- direction. it was a learning curve for him. when i think of experiences in argentina and other places in latin america, what he says is true. there is almost no movement for the poor. there is not the upward mobility that my family experienced come that comest americans out of poor beginnings. that does not happen it argentina. >> why have so many conservatives in america and so harsh about him or so skeptical or worried? what --of it has to do with what he had to do about economics. >> that was the weakest part of his address and he seemed surprised by that. trained to dot economic analysis. he kept saying that is not what i was doing. it is not extemporized them, but i wish he did not say something to simple things he said. the main thing is that he has his focus right. the main job for christians today in the next 20 years, the raise the massis of people out of poverty. we have made tremendous progress over the last 20 years, over one bill

. >>> number five, media pr justine sacco has explaining to do. listen to this. look at the tweet that appeared on her account. going to africa, hope i don't get aids. just kidding. i'm white. >> hmm. >> the tweet has now disappeared, so has the account, but there's a lot of outrage, as you'd imagine. we're still waiting to hear from sacco, herself. >> maybe tweets in response to this have been pretty entertaining, i guess you could say. >> entertaining, but also people -- people have also been hurt by that. >> upset by that. >> millions of people on the continent are dying of aids. >> right. serious. >> and they believe she made light of it. let's talk domestically now. president and mrs. obama with kids in tow arrived in hawaii early this morning for vacation. the president will take a breather from what most agree has been a very difficult year for him in washington. >> yeah. brand-new cnn/orc poll reflects that sentiment. the president's approval rating remains at 41%, an all-time low reached last month, down from 55% approval last january. before he left tow

once she landed, her company announced they, quote, parted ways with sacco. he was the communications director for the company that owns daily beast, match.com and other websites. she released a statement this morning apologizing for that tweet. >>> vin diesel saying "fast & furious 7" will be released in april. he made the announcement on his facebook page posting a scene he did with paul walker. he ended the post saying, quote, he'd want you to know first, allowedi alluding to walker. walker died in a car accident. universal has not said how the production will go forward without walker. >>> will sticker shock turn young people away from obamacare. representative hakeem jeffries weighs in after the break. ♪ don't disguise bad odors in your trash. neutralize them and freshen. with glad odorshield with febreze. "stubborn love" by the lumineers did you i did. email? so what did you think of the house? did you see the school ratings? oh, you're right. hey babe, i got to go. bye daddy! have a good day at school, ok? ...but what about when my parents visit? ok.

sacco was head of p.r. for iac, the media company owned by barry diller that operates websites like the daily beast, college humor and match.com, but on saturday, the company said sacco is no longer a good match, firing her. the now former p.r. exec found herself the target of a social media mob on friday, sending out that tweet right before logging offline while on her 12 hour flight from london to her native south africa. >> not only is this a publicist's worst nightmare, it's any public figure's worst nightmare. to send out a tweet, it's kind of like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. you can't take it back. >> reporter: her twitter page immediately filled with hateful comments, the hash tag has justine landed yet trending worldwide. one guy following the hash tag, even awaiting her arrival at the capetown airport. a trial by twitter, as many are calling it. according to her linkedin page, she was also formerly a publicist for the wwe. on her now disabled twitter page, she has a cache of vulgar t

i am ashamed. >> sacco was ahead of corporate communications for iac. our whole job were bobrun communicating with reporters which, according to her critics, made her twitter come about after all the more shocking. a washington state lawmaker is in the hot seat for a tweet that he sent out yesterday after the seattle seahawks lost to the arizona cardinals. >> here's a live at the big board check. >> jos a bank is rejected a takeover offer from competitor men's warehouse. jos a bank says that $1.- 1834574848 bid is too low. jos a bank offered to buy its in september for $2.3 billion or for $48 per share. men's warehouse turn down that offer an offer to buy them for $1.50 $4 billion or $55 per share. a combination could create a men's warehouse powerhouse of more than a 1700 outlets. avo: the volkswagen "sign then drive" sales event is back. which means it's never been easier to get a new 2014 jetta. it gets an impressive 34 highway mpg and comes with no charge scheduled maintenance. and right now you can drive one home for practically just your signature

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on book tv, joe sacco with an illustrated account of the great war. that is at 5:00. on c-span3's "american history tv a from 1967, follow bob hope as he travels for his annual uso tour of southeast asia including stops in south vietnam. back scottto welcome snyder with the council on foreign relations. his area of expertise, u.s. and korea policy. i want to begin why -- by asking you about the kim jong-un family and the implications on the north korean government. what is happening? guest: it is a confiscated situation. he found his uncle guilty of state crimes and has had him executed. is the son of kim jong-il, the previous leader and the grandson of the founder of north korea. he actually has three brothers, two older brothers. one is in exile essentially. he goes back and forth. is presumablyther in north korea but we really haven't heard much about him. kim jong-un also has an aunt who is reported to be very ill. i think the concern about the execution of the uncle and the onus of the aunt is that they were two of the three main mentors that had been expected to

as justine sacco learned to her pea peril. one moment of thoughtlessness can spiral out of control and impact your whole life. and that's what happened here. but the idea that she's up in the air unable to explain herself and there's this mob that's spinning into this global movement with a hashtag, meaning everybody's sitting around waiting for her plane to land so they can watch her be ripped to pieces, essentially in the public square, which we do now digitally today. >> it creeped me out how millions of people enjoyed it. i get the fact that legitimately people can be really angry about that tweet. i'm not even sure what the tweet meant. i thought she was trying to do this white privilege ironic thing. >> i think it was a joke. i have no idea. i haven't talked to her. you know, i know her professionally, kind of peripherally. she was the pr spokeswoman for iac which owns expedia, the daily beast and companies we cover. . but she's never explained herself. she did apologize when she recovered from her shock, i think. >> yea

but on saturday, the company said sacco is no longer a good match and firing her. she now found herself a target of a social media mob on friday. sending out that tweet right before logging off line. >> not only is this a publicly sift's worst nightmare, it's any public figure's worst nightmare. to send out a tweet. it's like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube. >> reporter: the #has justine landed yet, trending worldwide. a trial by twitter as many are calling it. according to her linkedin page, she was also a columnist for the wwe. she has a cache of questionable now deleted tweets about, i had a sex dream about an autistic kid last. and, i can't be fired about saying things while intoxicated, right? >> i don't think people like her realize the immediacy of twitter. one tweet, one statement is all it takeness the world of twitter and social media to cost somebody their career. >> yeah. learning that the hard way. if there is any good to come out of this controversy, it seems that her tweet brought a lot of attention to a.i.d.s. relief charities. someone reg

joe sacco with an illustrated account of the great war. that is at 5:00. tv,-span3 american history from 1967, follow bob hope as he travels across the specific including stops in vietnam. >> president obama was sworn in for his second term. airing his inaugural address he talked about changing immigration law. he talks about it a great deal on the campaign trail over 2012. over the next hour we will bring you more comments. we will get underway with the conversation. he has been reporting on the immigration issue for usa today. >> you wrote earlier this year about the senate gang of eight. is it fair to say the senator the lead earlier this year? absolutely. the senate came together and decided they wanted to tackle the issue. but romney got 27% of the hispanic vote. you saw senators get together of -- ended up being a gang eight senators. a lottainly seem to have of energy early on. they ran through it. the climate we have seen in congress. regular --omehow somehow able to have regular committee votes. >> they seem to have a lot going in their favor. you

he deleted the tweet, issues an apology statement, and then justine sacco. the twitter faux pas took the internet by storm this weekend. the now former pr executive tweeted before hopping on a flight, going to africa. hope i don't get aids. just kidding, i'm white. yep, she tweeted that. she worked in pr. by the time she had landed in johannesbu johannesburg, twitter was on fire by people outraged by the tweet. many calling for her to be fired. later, she was dismissed by her company, iac, and issued this emotional policy. joining me, brian stelter, and clinical psychologist dr. jeff gardere. gentlemen, welcome. this is so much bigger than this one tweet, because yes, justine's tweet, yes, it was offensive and wrong, but if you were on twitter friday, and you saw the hash tag, #has justine' landedyet. twitter was ready to pounce, wanted to see the chaos that ensu ensued. i want to turn this around on us. why do we care so much? >> these story, let's take justine sacco. they're like fireworks. they light up the sky. everyone is attracted to them. everyone wan

and what justine sacco her safe is saying this morning. >>> mission delayed. nasa forced to postpone its next

justine sacco sent this tweet joking about aids. the hash tag started lending to see what action her company would take against her. on saturday the company interactive corp said why she was let go saying her offensive comment does not reflect htheir views and values. >> not much to say to that. your jaw draws open. >> you're curious what her reaction would be. did she not feel that would be the result? >> it's about an 11-hour flight between thereon done and capetown. this thing took off while she took off. imagine when she landed and saw -- >> the firestorm she was facing. >> not exactly what she was expecting. and the fact that she's a public relations -- was a public relations executive makes it even more mind-boggling. >>> dylan is outside enjoying these record breaking temperatures. 67. does it feel nice out there? >> it's warmer out here than it is inside right now. >> where is everybody's jacket. >> do you expect this kind of weather in new york city? it doesn't feel like christmas, but it will. by the time we get to christm

. >>> joe sacco presents an illustrated account of the first day of the world war i conflict the battle of the somme in which close to 20 dress and british soldiers were killed and approximately 40,000 wounded as 124-foot long panorama. this is a little under an hour. >> thank you for coming out. can you hear me okay? no? deride do that here or turn up the volume here or elsewhere? >> [inaudible] >> get friendlier with the microphone, is that friendly? [laughter] as far as full and that your shares that sounds like unpaid labour to meet. can we turn down or turn off the lights? i will just start. what i'm going to do is run you through the first day of the battle of the somme and talk about it. this is lord kitchner who was the equivalent of the minister of great britain in the first part of world war i. he was quite precipice. he predicted that the war would go on for years. many people thought it was going to be over bye christmas. you have heard that line but he knew that what it could require was a lot of manpower. so he built up in a volunteer army and he started this recruitment p

justin sacco going to africa hope i don't get aids. just kidding. i'm white. and this person was in communications, michele? >> where do you begin? >> yeah. >> i mean, it's just -- it's shocking that somebody could be so dumb considering the industry she's in. it's unbelievable. >> yeah. >> i value -- look i value snarkiness and ir reverence. i like to think i'm like that. this was just plain shockingly stupid. i notice on her profile she says troublemaker on the side. when i first saw it i said somebody must have hacked into her account. she can't be that dumb to say something so insensitive. yet apparently she's made other remarks. >> you hit on something, bob, when you said snarky. twitter does give the ability like that quick little snarky comment that maybe you might say to your neighbor, now you broadcast it to everyone else. we see this over and over again. people get dinged because of it. >> really shameful stuff. thanks very much. we appreciate it. >> three of the winners on wall street this hour plus love of cup cakes disdain for the cube. >> coming

justin sacco sent a twitter message that said, quote, going to africa, hope i don't get aids. just kidding. i'm white. who says that? onlien about 500 people received that original tweet but it went viral around the world. and her employer parted ways with her. she apologized, saying, i am ashamed. protesters continue to target tech workers in the bay area. >>> that was the most recent one back on friday. demonstrators surrounded a bus here and then at another site, protesters knocked out a window of a google bus in west oakland. they are angry about the perceived arrogance of the tech industry and sky-rocketing rent. >> is it reasonable or effective for people to target tech workers, and what is the recent history between the tech industry and politicians, both locally and nationally? we're joined by political consultant eric jay. you have been at the forefront of these boom busts as far as politics go, from the dot-com to this. what is it with the tech industry and politicians? >> well, phil, you know, it's money. it's power. it's access. and the tech industry has all of tho

it's, again, after iac's former pr executive justine sacco tweeted, i have to say this, quote, going to africa. hope i don't get aids. just kidding. i'm white. the tweet sparked a firestorm on twitter, which eventually led to her and the company, quote/unquote, parting ways. guys, this is a pr exec, right? >> former, former. >> but somebody who should know a little more about, perhaps, what to say? public. >> i couldn't believe when i read the tweet. i thought, i must be misreading that because she could not have written that. she did. she was on a flight for 12 hours so this all erupted while she was flying to south africa for holiday. >> and thousands and thousands of replies, some very harsh. some also defended her and said, look, wait, guys, because she can't defend herself with no internet access on the flight. >> how do you defend this? this is indefensible. given she's a pretive, it's tough. >> we also got the statement. the offensive comment doesn't reflect the views and values of iac. we take this issue very seriously and we have parted ways with the employee in question. fi

justin sacco an executive with iac interactive and i'm quoting here going to africa, hope i don't get aids. don't kidding, i'm white. the negative reaction to those words set the twitterverse on fire and it continues up through this hour. cnn's senior media correspondent brian stelter joins me by phone, what's the latest on this? >> iacc said she's no longer with the company and they've parted ways. i'll read the statement to you. i think it will be on screen as well. the offensive comments do not reflect the views and values of iac. we take this issue very seriously and we have parted ways with the employee in question. they continued by saying, there's no excuse for the hateful statements that have been made and we condemn them unequivocally. we hope, however, the time and action and the forgiving human spirit will not result in the wholesale condemnation of an individual who we have otherwise known to be a decent person at core. that's the statement from iac. i think what we're trying to say is they know this was terrible and inappropriate, but she is a human being and some of the

on friday justine sacco wrote, "going to africa. hope i don't get aids. just kidding. i'm white." >> her words sparked global outrage before her flight even landed. she was terminated as communications director on saturday. sunday she said words cannot express how sorry i am and how necessary it is for me to apologize to the people of south africa who i have offended due to a needless and careless tweet. >>> cracker barrel customers can buy "duck dynasty" merchandise again. they reversed their decision two days after yanking items from the shelves. on friday the tennessee-based company removed the products from the store after an interview with phil robertson. >>> a giant christmas lottery in spain is spreading cheer this morning. the drawing for the el gordo contest brought a massive jackpot with thousands of winners. mark phillips has the latest from london. >>> good morning. in spain where recession and government austerity lingers like a winter cold that won't go away there's a unique christmas ritual that offers a little relief for a while. the spanish santa doesn

on c-span2's booktv, joe sacco with an illustrated account of the great war, july 1, 1916. that's at 5. of and on c-span3's american history tv, from 1967 follow bob hope as he travels across the pacific for his annual uso tour of southeast asia including stops in vietnam just past 8. >> well, booktv is on location at the smithsonian museum of american history in washington d.c. we're joined by the undersecretary of the smithsonian, richard kurin, who has a new book out "the smithsonian's view of america in 101 objects."a ..reat question, peter. well, my day job is helping take care of the smithsonian and the legacy that the american people give us. you know, we host over 30 million people to the museum. my job is to help make the museums work, help the directors do their job. i have to take care of budgets and politics and public relations and things, but also the content of the work, what we do, what we show, the kind of ways in which we want to help americans and people around the world understand the american experience. >> how long have you been with the smithsonian? >

joe sacco with an illustrated account of the great war at 5:00. fromerican history tv, 1967 follow bob hope as he travels across for his uso tour of southeast asian includes stops in vietnam. "washington journal" continues. host: we are back opening of the question to you. we want to know your political hero of 2013. who would you nominate and why? our phone lines are open. democrats can call -- republicans -- independence -- u.s. --re outside the the conversation on this topic which we asked our viewers has been continuing on our facebook page. i will review a few of those. oaquim writes in a bernie sanders. working elected official in washington. above that, her political hero our activist who are relentless in exposing political corruption. are youat, hero? serious? people who speak of hero and politics in the same breath are the reason why our country continue to flounder. we will read your comments and tweets as we talk about your political hero for 2013. one tweak from eugene says my political hero is a senator ted cruz for trying to stop ob