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this connection was unexpected because as she puts it, when viewed from afar, israel doesn't seem to be about people at all. what she means by that is the following, to read about israel she says in the international media's they to to me and this arpanet abstract discussions, some about politics, some about religion, palestinian history and palestinian rights about armed conflicts, terrorism, debates about grudges betrayals and injustices, descriptions of holy sites and the various meanings of innumerable religious text. in fact it too often amounts to little more than cool categorizations especially if israelis. labels that she says ken rob the smart, savvy and lively people which she came to know in their decency and humanity. all of these things provide little if any feel for the actual israeli way of life and it is that of all things i hope to portray in these pages. let me say at the outset that i think that lela has fulfilled this in particular in portraying the israeli people and their way of life. and that is important because i think she is right about what the world knows

are only up to 345 monday look at the cold air seeping into the plans we have been watching that from afar it will not be a long cold spell. we quickly moderate next week and again with another chance of snow late friday or saturday. the winds are common, it's this cloud cover at night that really has kept this month so warm because it prevents the cooling that goes on at night and keeps you close to the daytime high. that is where the bulk of the snow came out to you can see the driveway being plowed right there. 64 percent of the country is covered by snow. 33 tomorrow. 28 and partly sunny on sunday. windy and cold air with a high only in the low 20s may be 20 on tuesday and upper teens on wednesday. haven't seen that yet this winter. after two ugly losses some good news the fighting 9 friday night the anticipation building with the chicago bears. are you nervous? i am worried about that second game in minnesota. good news today it appears math for table be able to play on sunday in detroit. brian or lacquer is not listed as out for sunday's game. that means he will likely not play wheth

i'm just trying to get an eye from afar. >> reporter: the question now, could perkins' death and belcher's suicide have been prevented? at 3:00 a.m., officers had no grounds to arrest him. with no signs of alcohol and not breaking any laws. sleeping in his car. >> police believe josh brent is due in court tomorrow. bond will be set. his team is expected to play in cincinnati sunday. david? >> a troubling week in the nfl, john. thank you. >>> now to the backlash across the globe over that prank call to the london hospital wh kate middleton was staying fell for the prank, patching the tonight, we're learning more about the nurse and the new face-off between the hospital and the radio station. did they break the law? jeffrey kofman in londo- j >> reporter: ingbal deejaystion , am of the prank, joined in the condemnation. the radio deejays may have thought this was an innocent hoax. no one is laughing now. >> maye. my granddaughter. >> oh, yes, hold on, ma'am. >> reporter: we now know that was the nurse, jacintha saldanha. she really believed it was the que t the health cambridge. the motho, a

things but it is really my privilege not to introduce a lady to you who i have watched really from afar. i have really just had the pleasure of meeting ms. davis in the last few years. i can remember when i first saw her on tv and thought, here is a woman filled with dignity and compassion, so articulate, and she really helped us to understand what was happening in the world. you know, most of you know that ms. davis was the first black female journalist in the west. and she really did change the face and focus of news. she has recently written a book that is very important, both for her but for us, because it really tells the story of her life and all that has gone on in the world she has lived in. my angelo was quoted as saying "no people can say they understand the times in which they have lived unless they have read this book." the name of that book is "never in my wildest dreams." belva davis. [applause] [applause] >> listen, thank you very much for that generous round of applause. i am going to start out by boring you, telling you what my mourning has been like. because i am is no

i've got a sighting from afar. it looks like they're in the negotiation phase. i need a rifle asap. >> the officer moved forward to where police say belcher was talking with the general manager scott peoli and head coach romeo crennel. >> i'm on the south side at the main entrance. trying to sneak up on foot. i need a rifle. turn off the siren. i can hear one in the distance now. >> moments later, police say belcher took his own life. >> back here in baltimore, city police are investigating a murder in north baltimore. investigators say shortly before 3:00 p.m. saturday afternoon, they found the man shot near brooks lane near druid hill park. police continue their investigation into the murder of a man found shot in west baltimore friday night. officers were called to the 2300 block of westwood avenue near ruxton around 10:00 where they found a 22-year-old man with a gunshot wound. the victim was rushed to shock trauma where he died a half an hour later. police are still working to find a suspect. >> to washington now and the fiscal cliff budget talks. if lawmak

and it still hurts my heart as a parent to watch this from afar. i can't imagine what it's like for them there in newtown tonight. >> you know, the grief is palpable as you walk down the streets and this is a town that had one to two funerals a month and they looking at that and they started as two of the littlest victims, noah who just turned six years old and leaves behind a twin sister. another little boy named jack, six years old and say he was the biggest new york giants fan you could ever see and this is painful for awful of us who knew the children and those who didn't. as i step away here, you can see the street leads you to sandy hook elementary. y that moving furn tour and desks from there people were there volunteering their time all day and as we go here, you can see how many people are there at the memorial and it seems like they need to come here and to leave notes and flowers. i can tell you one nice thing was a number of handlers and therapy dogs started walking around and they wanted to offer comfort. and they are trying to find wa

i've watched this afar, because this is one of the great cities in america. last time i was there, almost every house is empty. and you see there's homes on the market for $1,000 everywhere over in detroit. do you want to buy an old house, a fixer-upper, you got your pick of them. >> sean, you're right. detroit has become a travesty. it's an embarrassment. we have over 50% of the adult populationiteral functionally. it is a blight on america. it is sort of exhibit a in liberal policies that have destroyed this country. you can look at it in terms of social justice. issues like education choice and freedom in the workplace, which are social justice issues that have damaged that city because they've been denied those accountants. the more that detroit is allowed to crumble, the bigger shame it is for all of us. it's not about politics. it's not about blaming others. it's about principle. >> sean: to me it is about failed institutional, unholy relationship, labor and democratic party. labor gives them money, labor goes out and gets them elected, they build up de

when i came to the senate, i admired john mccain from afar. once i got to know him, i admired him less, but that's -- no obviously, we've become very close. and i have the greatest admiration for him. but i remember going to see him and saying i'd like to work together with you -- i hope we can work together on something. and it turned out that the first thing we really worked together on was the war in the balkans because we were increasingly agitated by what turned out to be genocide really and worked with bob dole and joe biden to push the clinton administration to finally get into it. but there began a working relationship of friendship and really based on i think values that we all shared. this youngster came along in 2002, the kid, and basically we believe that america has a responsibility to be involved in the world in protection of our values and our strategic interests, all of which helps us be safer and freer here at home and it's just grown. >> senator graham, what is the secret to proper bipartisanship, do you think? >> well, in fa

at the risk and they take chances when they fail, but the mistake we made do in their struggle from afar as we think the story ends with their failure. even when they are failing, they're going back at reviving the notes. they're looking at what they did and say okay, what did we do wrong here? how we do it differently next time? it's that type of learning. my book is called "the dictator's learning curve." it could also be called democracies advocate warning rule. but it did are scarier that makes you want to buy the book him as we focus on that, but the struggle between both. >> you talked about russia and the books first chapters about russia and vladimir putin's regime. i found another silly fascinating. i don't follow russian affairs particularly closely know is regarded putin is an autocratic thug with unusual flair for the public gesture. the shortlist for his writing, but your book draws a portrait of him as a very canny, very subtle thinker who has earned a great deal from the fall of the soviet union. can you tell us what you learned in the design? >> putin is fascinating becau

. >> i look at it from afar, because i don't live there,ut 18.9% and it's been that way since 2008. it's been above that. like how long are you going to wait before something is going to be done detroit? i imagine the people there are running out of patience because this is desperate. >> it's a 30-day review cycle. we get outside experts to come in and make evaluation of the stat us and from there we can look to the emergency manager options or other options and move forward. but we need the mayor and the city council to work together and get things done and 23 not we will take actions to take care of our residents of the state. >>> the unthinkable. syrian president getting ready to release gas, deadly gas against his own people. they called it feckless. wasn't anyone listening are we wasn't anyone listening are we going to [ male announcer ] this december, remember -- ♪ you can stay in and like something... ♪ [ car alarm deactivates ] ♪ ...or you can get out there with your family and actual like something. ♪ the lexus december to remember sales event is on, offering some o

i was very excited to get to interview david westin, somebody i've admired from afar. and he has written "exit interview," a book i hope you all get. if you're watching this at your home or you are here in the audience, it's an extraordinary book about his time running abc news in 1997-2010. he was therefore all of the big moments of our recent history, and of all personalities and the broadcasting journalism business, so it's a delight and a real welcome. >> thank you very much. great to be with you. [applause] >> before i get into your book i just want to ask you about your own trajectory. did you ever plan on -- where we you brought up? did you every think about being in journalism as a teenager or college student? >> i'm a proud michigander, north of here. yeah, exactly, from flint, believe it or not. i was born in flint, michigan. i went to law school and became a lawyer and clerk for justice powell of the supreme court. was a lawyer and was planning to do that for my career in washington. was plucked to be general counsel of the parent company of abc back in 81.

and have to relive it time and time again because they were there, or because they look upon it from afar and realize that they are similarly vulnerable. unless we change the gun laws in this country where people have ready access to guns like this that end up, you know, wreaking havoc and devastation upon our culture, we're not going to be able to do anything. and to defend the second amendment as if that's the be-all and end-all without saying as you already pointed out in this program, layers to that. there are conditions to that. there are contingencies to that. we don't have to have an either we have a radical freedom on the one hand to accept the second amendment or on the other hand we curtail the law in order to defer to our common sense. i think we can have both, and we need to do that right now, or else this will be repeated. >> congressman, what does it take to get change in this country to address what we are seeing, the gun violence in america? >> well, it only takes us to make up our mind that change is going to have to happen now. i mean, this is such a horrific incident, s

. >> i look at it from afar, because i don't live there, but 18.9% and it's been that way since 2008. it's been above that. like how long are you going to wait before something is going to be done in detroit? i imagine the people there are running out of patience because this is desperate. >> it's a 30-day review cycle. we get outside experts to come in and make evaluation of the stat us and from there we can look to the emergency manager options or other options and move forward. but we need the mayor and the city council to work together and get things done and 23 not we will take actions to care of our residents of the state. >>> the unthinkable. syrian president getting ready to release gas, deadly gas against his own people. they called it feckless. wasn't anyone listening are we going to watch tens of thousands of people die? senator john mccain on the record next. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. n

as seen from afar are ugly, are brutally ugly. and -- >> rose: they wonder why america can't deal with its problems and has gridlock in washington? >> i think people look at that and say this is a country that's so admired. why can't we do -- why can't people just compromise and get along and things like that. i would go beyond that to say the dollar is the reserve currency. every american benefits from that. every american. 300 million plus of us all benefit from the fact that we're the reserve currency. now, you know yoshgs default on your debt or you lose your debt ratings a few times, that's not going to be the case. and you lose that in a minute. that isn't something that erodes over a decade. so we can't take that for granted. that is an important aspect. >> rose: what do you think they want us to do in terms of the exercise of american power? >> you know, geopolitics in military -- there are other people that you're going to interview that are smarter about that than i am. but let me make a point on job creation and economi

reborn in our souls ♪ silent night holy night ♪ sheppards quake at the sight ♪ glory stream have heaven afar ♪ heavenly hosts sing allejuah ♪ >> love is a among us ♪ i know my redeemer lives ♪ i know my redeemer lives ♪ let all creation testify that this life within me cries i know ♪ my redeemer he lives ♪ fall on your knees. oh hear the angels voices ♪ oh night devine ♪ oh night devine ♪ oh night devine ♪ [applause] >> merry christmas. >> along with the church service they also served up thousands of hot meals for the city's needy. will spoke with some of the volunteers. >> volunteers showed up bright and early. some as early as 5:00 in the morning carving up ham and turkey. by the time they're over they will serve 5,000 meals and of course there are new volunteers that want to help out but many of the people we spoke to today this is their tenth, 20th year, including this gentleman here. how many years. >> 20 years. >> what do you get out of it. >> satisfaction in knowing that i'm doing the right thing to help other people, you know, as we all know, many of us are for

it looks like i tumbled from near to afar. you're on earth santa said with a grip. i'm sorry you went into that awful spin. venic crossed his eyes and pulled on his ear and held in his hands a large purple tear. i come from the planet of the same magnitude, but it takes 11 hours to cover my brood. i'm only half done and have much to do. how can i travel when i lost my gazoo? gazoo said st. nick? much in surprise as laughter filled his merry old eyes. gazoo said venic, as he drew in the snow a walrus. what can they be? they are reindeer from space that go around and around in a very quick pace. they each have ten legs that tickle the air. and when you think they're here, they're already there. but they're gone and without my gazoo, my, oh my, what will i do? st. nicholas pulled on his beard and adjusted his sash. thought on the problem and said in a flash. have no fear, for when i'm through, i'll fly you to venus by reindeer express and we'll deliver your toys in much time less. hop into my sleigh and hold on to your hat. away, reindeer, onward and upward, how about

. >> paul not only set up christian communities, he also directed them from afar. writing letters or epistles to keep them on jesus message. paul's epistles to these various christian communities are the earliest surviving christian documents, older than the gospels. and he preached everywhere from small-town synagogues to athens, the center of world culture. convincing philosophers and slaves alike that god had sent his son, jesus, to die and rise again to save everyone. in his letter to the romans, written in 57 a.d., paul says that, "by god's will, i may somehow at last succeed in coming to you." nearly three decades after the death of jesus, paul would make his way to rome. but only after he was jailed in jerusalem, where he found himself threatened with death. >> i can picture him just trying to convert the entire praetorian guard. the early christians, particularly the evangelists, the apostles were politically problematic. they were claiming a son of god, a god from god, a savior. but those happened to be titles that the roman emperor abrogated to himself. >

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america has huge economic problems, heading for another fiscal cliff, everyone laughing at you from afar, the american public sick and tired of all the games going on and there are you, grover norquist, a very bright guy still resolutely saying a pledge is a pledge is a pledge, it cannot be broken when many of your own party are now saying you know, what it doesn't make sense to have this irresolute position anymore. >> two things, the pledge is not for life. but everybody who signed the pledge, including peter king, who tried to weasel out of it -- shame on him as the "new york sun" says tonight. i hope his wife understands commitments last a little longer than two years or something. >> whoa, hang on, hang on. that was a bit below the belt, grover. >> hey, if you think a commitment is not for as long as you make it for, the commitment for the pledge as peter king well knows when he signed it is as long as you're in congress you will rein in spending and reform government, not raise taxes. it's not for 500 years or two generations. it's only as long as you're in the house or the senate.

. >> i sense that body language from afar. >> it's going to happen anyway, right? >> well, i mean, that's what -- i know that's what a lot of people say, but there are people like me who just don't believe that raising taxes is a good idea any time, that if you raise taxes, you're going to slow economic growth, and what we really need, if you want to grow this economy, if you want more dollars coming into the federal government, you do that by creating more taxpayers and creating more jobs and getting people back to work. >> there's a new poll out -- >> and real quick. i'm sorry. but nobody's asking the question about, or asking what are we going to cut? >> i have been asking that all day. >> she's been asking everybody. now you have to answer that. >> no one actually answers that. >> now you just have to try. >> thank you, dear. well, i am the only one that has a plan in congress to balance the budget in five years. we take 1% of spending across the board. 1%. that's one penny out of everything. >> military? >> everything. >> food stamps? >> everything. 1% across

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i don't expect comfort to come from afar. i believe god enters the world through us, and even though i have the why questions, they are not so much why god questions. we are human and mortal. we will suffer and die, but how we are with one another in that suffering and dying makes all the difference as to whether god's presence is felt or not and whether we are comforted or not. >> it was an amazing column. i read the maureen dowd column christmas morning. that's when it appeared, and i was on my way to harlem to national action headquarters to feed the homeless and victims of violence. it really helped me to deal with that, because a mother there whose 4-year-old son was killed with gun violence, what do you tell people? why did this happen? and he's right. you can't explain it. one, we would be god if we could explain everything. secondly, the presence of god is there with good and bad, and faith is not what you can figure out. faith is not what you can easily he explain or calculate. faith is believing when you can't expla

and we started walking over, and as we got close to his room he saw us from afar and he started getting very violent. very violent just to see another human being coming towards him. the nurse said why don't you get a little bit closer father. i got another step to forward. when he saw my clerical outfit he got more violence. and he started really tp-rb la flailing. the nurse said let's get out of here. he was about 45 ears old. there were a lot of iv's. a lot of blood. it was not good he was so violent. i said i can't leave right now, this is the person that needs help. as i was there looking at him ands was getting madder and phaerd i was thinking back to preparing my sermon for christmas, i thought jesus came as a baby, someone that we could all accept. what could i do. i got down on my knees and he couldn't speak very well and i went like this to let him know i was praying for him. at that moment the anger subsided, he got so quiet and i said, jesus knows you. you are not alone, god loves you, and he's near you. he got so peace null, and he repeated after me, god is near, in the bes

some looked impressive from afar but i couldn't help but wonder if they were just for show. were there really people living inside? i couldn't get access to find out. we also went to the national library where they have a lot of less than state-of-the-art computers. folks can listen to their favorites. i was surprised by some of them. ♪ we're here at a library in pyongyang and it's kenny rogers playing how are you? >> i had some fun when i saw the north korea national ice hockey team jogging outside the national ice rink. all right. we're running. we're running. everybody is looking good. i couldn't help but join them with my handheld camera shooting away. wolf blitzer, pyongyang, north korea. >> that was exactly two years ago. i suspect a whole lot has not changed. we do know there is a new young leader getting ready to celebrate his first anniversary, kim jong-un. i was there with the former united states ambassador to the united states, bill richardson. so that interview coming up later. >>> as fiscal cliff talks here in washington are showing little movement towards a

i watched him from afar. i e young when he was working with kevin white. we knew who he was because even at that young age, he was very colorful and very able and recognized as being so extraordinarily bright. and always witty. as a state legislator as well, in here, we see it and heard about it over and over again. soon after getting here five years ago, maybe a little -- a year into it, we struggled with the collapse of wall street. and i remember thinking that we were so fortunate to have barney frank in a place where his expertise, his commitment to learning, brought such great value to what we sought to do in order to stop the free fall while protecting american citizens and the american economy. and it really was a moment where one was reminded that as much as we talk about term limits, and the need to be reinvigorated and bring new people in, there is tremendous value in people who have been here a while who have mastered the material and who know quickly thousand respond in an emergency, which at that -- which that moment most certainly was. it's s

they were joined by visitors from afar. they came with their guests to worship the child. from that day on he has inspired people to commit themselves to the best interests of others. of year will meme remember that god sent his only son to serve, not to be served. he restored love and service to the center of our lives by jesus christ. it is my prayer this christmas day that this will continue to bring people together to give the best of themselves in service of others. ♪ a carol "in theb leak midwinter" ends by asking the question of how god gave himself to us in humble service. what can i get them as far as i am? if i were a shepherd i would bring a lamb. if i were a wise man i would do my part. the carroll gives the answer. yet what i can i give him, i give my heart. i wish you all a very happy christmas. ♪ in the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan earth as hot as iron water like a stone now a fallen star snow on snow in the blreaeark midwinter -- bleak midwinter blow wind blow. [chorus joins in to sing "in the bleak midwinter"] >> tomorrow night interviews wit

i think she would move the country and she knows a lot about foreign afares, has been secretary of state, i think she'd be a good candidate. host: all right, thanks for calling in. where is troy ohio. caller: is there -- caller: there is up with question i want to ask, and i wish someone could answer it. what happened to that money they found when they went to iraq. cowl you please get me me an answer to that question. host: probably not in the next 30 seconds but that's a good question you have asked. we'll move on to ron in elizabeth, indiana. ron? caller: i'd like to say that in my opinion, hillary clinton or any other very rich person being in office would be probably the worst possible case scenario for this country. i think that it's about time that some normal person, woman or man, be elected to office so that instead of serving corporate interests as our presidents have up to now, we would have some interest for the people. host: ron in elizabeth, indiana. from facebook. host: and here's some twitter comments. host: robert, north carolina, republican line. robert? caller: after t

but you have to just look at it from afar. >> you can't touch any of the sculptures? >> no! don't even try. don't even think about trying. >> and they don't throw it off the cliff in the museum. >> they don't do a cliff dive. >> all right. so what can you leave us with? housing is good? >> fiscal cliff is bad. >> is that a net-net? >> i think the housing is good but the housing isn't great. everybody's talking about housing like it's going to carry us some place. it's just not going to drag. but it's not going to be a boost and i'm still very concerned about where the economy is going. >> is there any way that we've over -- sort of had too much anxiety and angst about the fiscal cliff or not? >> i don't think there's been much anxiety. and i talked to my brother and sister in suburban detroit. they're not in the financial world and they're always talking about the fiscal cliff. my wife has the same thing with her brothers and sisters, they're not in finance but it's what everybody's talking about. everybody's worried about it. but the experts tell us that we're not going to

so you have to understand about the consequences of the impact on those who are looking at it from afar as well as those who are immediately impacted. so, you first determine what the period of time would be that would establish them as people who have roots in the community. secondly i think you have to make sure that they haven't committed crimes of another nature. the crime of coming into this country, remaining in this country illegally, but not any other crimes. and people say, well, gee, it might be this crime or that crime, you know. well, you know, that's the consequence of your action. i think this would be for those people who have not committed other crimes in this country. secondly it seems to me there ought to be a requirement that they know english or are engaged in the study of english. why do i say that? i'm not opposed to foreign languages. i wish i knew some foreign languages. i have enough trouble with english. but if we are a country of immigrants, as we profess to be and as we are, i believe, you have to have some unifying, identifying characteristics that bring you

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the information we have coming into washington from afar -- the information is extraordinarily volatile. there are unknowns out there that we simply cannot know. one always has to bear that in mind as an analyst. we simply don't fully know. >> with that pessimistic and very honest opinion, thank you for a very stimulating discussion, and thank you, audience, for the questions. [applause] >> on tomorrow morning's "washington journal," we are asking business owners to call in and talk about the fiscal cliff and their plans for the next year. we will continue with the forecast of the coming years housing market with lawrence yun, followed by more discussion of the fiscal cliff negotiations as congress returns to washington. we are joined by steve forbes. later, a discussion on background checks, how they work, who gets them, and when they are required. our guest is matt denn it. washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> i just enjoy that it is straight forward, comprehensive, and you can really sense what is happening without a pundit interjecting, and that is what i reall

from behind and is retracting from afghanistan, from iraq, and they're now exerting their power from afar and from above. drones above, boots on the ground. i fear if nobody takes on the responsibility of organizing and maintaining, it will not be in the of -- will not be india. >> go ahead, minister. >> i was just boring to comments -- i was just going to comment, there are more threats brought in the world that are allowing the market sees -- that are allowed and democracies. think about this in general terms. is is really creating a problem for nation states in the sense that we have borders, we have constraints. we cannot go after all the problems that we find from drug- trafficking to counterfeiting of the mark explosives, weapons, movement, etc. i think that allows an opportunity for increasing cooperation. by the way, those nations that get isolated with a lack of international support easily can find their democracies at risk. in our case, what we're trying to do is understand that anything that happens to our neighbors, in the end, it can become a problem for us. what i think we'