t-shirts, matches, mao is timeless. >> mao, the revoluntionary alarm clock, and the mao watch waving hello. i bet that watch doesn't go for 60 years, though. >> do people buy these? >> oh, yes. >> why? >> because it is mao. >> what would mao thought of today's china? >> it is hard to say, extremely hard. on one hand he wanted to see china emerge as a superpower that. was one of his dreams. on the other hand, he wanted to close the gaps between itch and poor and those gaps are widening. >> mao was said to be fascinated by contradiction. he once wrote that the world is contradiction and contradiction is the world. what could be more contradictory than a communist country led by a communist government and mao as its symbol of unity? >> coming up, the mainstream media takes on president obama over transparency, plus more from the supreme court. william howard taft, the only president to become a chief justice of the supreme court was the driving force behind moving the supreme court from the bottom of the capitol where it started to its own building. taft pushed congress to act and lawma

hu, wearing a mao-style senate. ordinary we're told to stay at home. this celebration was invitation only. but that did not spoil the enjoyment for him -- >> my heart is burning with pride and i am very moved and excited. our country has developed very quickly and hence our international standing as risen tremendously. i am very proud to be chinese. >> the might of this army -- nothing and no one can challenge it. mao's portrait lines the parade -- his leadership cost the lives of millions but there was no apology from the party. they are happy to look back but insist the nation only remembers the good times from 60 years of communist rule. bbc news, beijing them more now on the talks in geneva -- geneva between the five -- >> more now on the talks in geneva over iran. our guest joins me now. thank you for joining me. what you think is the best case results from his long-awaited meeting? >> i think the best case result is the fact that they are meeting, they are talking, that diplomacy has been given a chance to do its bit as opposed to threats and tal

sean: mao, the mass murderer? >> there are certain moments when i am on sean -- sean's show where i do not say anything. if your skin is that thin -- they have a right to be angry because you are bashing them every night. sean: when we talk about kevin jennings, here is the school bazaar, and he is -- here is the school czar -- and nambla. forced sterilization. nobody in the immediate talks about these questions. >> not only is there no vetting process -- nobody in the media talks about these questions. >> not only is there no vetting process, it is not just that we are making a radical leaps and trying to change our country to a completely different place. >> of course, with every network, with cnn.com using liberal bias by omission. the acorn story. they did not even covered -- with cnn, you have liberal bias by omission. the acorn story. they did not even cover it. sean: more of an audience for us. us. female valve: hahahaha...i am strong like the ox. i crush you like tiny clown car. because you are... ...clown

what did you discover with chairman mao getting a boost today? >> alive historians will tell you that he was brutal, responsible for the murders -- for the deaths of millions of chinese at one point during the cultural revolution. why is he being promoted by the communist party? there is a new movie that has been put out by the government of china that is an epic movie with 200 top stars. it is really to remind the chinese about where they came from. mao was the glue that keeps the country together. that is the symbol of why he is important. the chinese do not hear much about the 30% wrong. it seems that the communist party is struggling in a modern- day china to try to hold the country together. they are using old images to do that. bill: you can argue that communist china is the way that beijing keeps a lid on the entire country, as you point out. any ethnic tension that springs up is kept in check. at the same time, you have so many capitalistic tendencies that really fuels an economy that is growing 7 percent right now. there is an obvious co

just how much has china changed since mao, and where is it heading now? hello. 1100 dead and counting. that is the latest figures from the humanitarian chief of the united nations as emergency crews worked for the night through the rain trying to find survivors from the two us? of the indonesian island of sumatra. hospitals, offices, schools reduced to rubble, and the emergency team spirit hundreds may still be trapped. from sumatra, alice reports. >> it is a desperate race to pull the survivors out from under tons of rubble. no one has any idea just how many people are trapped. many are within reach, by as yet, beyond help. the machinery that is available is rescuing people, but there are so many buildings that have come down. so many people trapped, desperately waiting for help to come. this is where the injured would normally -- [inaudible] many of those pulled from the rubble are badly hurt. the scale of this disaster is overwhelming everyone. it is difficult to grasp the extent of the damage from the quake that had been predicted but that no one expe

mao found in a powerful china. he tied the country together, and now suddenly his image is that, because there is a lot of disunity in the country. a lot of the demonstrations have been put down bruni by the government, and he is perhaps being revived as a symbol of unity to keep the country together. there are a lot of contradictions between him and modern china. the jon: it is hard -- jon: it is hard to understand the country, being a communist and capitalist. >> a lot of people have been displaced in the past few years because of the economic downturn, and have had to go back into the rural areas. i think this resurgence of his image is an assurance that they will be taken care of. the economy is on fire over there, but the gap between the rich and poor is growing, and that is worrying the government. jon: please tell me you brought home that mao wristwatch we saw? >>

i don't think that we should emulate their human rights track record and mao, come on, he's a nightmare. the wife was a little better. but we can't ignore their economic policy track record. we can have china's job growth without any cultural revolutions, unless the culture revolutionists is toward live programming that cannot be tivoed, a la, "jay leno." like the chinese do but without threat of capital punishment from missing earnings per share projections. just look at the numbers. china is the model economy. the communist chose to spend massive amounts of money on real stimulus that works. and now they are seeing positive results. chinese got purchasing manages index like we do to pmi, it's been over 50 for six straight months. a reading over 50 means the manufacturing sector's expanding. pmi up slightly from august, ours slipped, but more important than, that in chin at economic employment sub index rose from 51.8 in august of 53 in september. their job creation highest level in 25 months. the chinese are having an infrastructure-led recovery that's anything but jobless. that's wha

. >> since it's all the trend now, i will quote chairman mao. it's a good thing, not a bad thing to be attacked by the enemy. >> sure that's not martha stewart? >> or mother teresa. >> what's the first reaction when you heard the white house was taking on fox news? >> i thought obama must be on vacation or something. i mean, it's so massively stupid. and now everybody's out there speculating on why he's doing it to try to get, you know, the other networks not to cover the stories of government corruption that fox is covering. which seems the most likely reason. >> which one? the a.c.o.r.n. story? >> a.c.o.r.n., nea, van jones, kevin jennings. but as mickey kouse points out, one of your fellow liberals, they weren't covering it anyway. i think they are thin-skinned and can't help themselves. >> let's listen to what the president said. he weighed in on fox news for the first time on nbc's "today" show. listen to this. >> what our advisers have said is that we are going to take the media as it comes. and if media is operating basically as a talk ra

if congress follows in the footsteps of china, and again only when it comes to fiscal post-mao policy. recognize that the drumbeat of health care has created a climate where if you're a businessperson, you're going to put all of your hiring on hold until you know the outcome. remember this is what i am saying the reason that we're down so much today. who could afford to hire new people? you know the big swing in the bottom line that comes to health care could go against you. congress has to get proactive about job creation. few companies have a reason to go back to hiring as their profits are being swelled by cost-savings from curtailing head count expenses. how are we making the numbers? firings. we know that retail, which is a huge percentage of the economy, is more profitable than expected. simply because the whole chain that brings you the product has been scaled back dramatically. including, again, head count. hey, didn't walmart say it all the other day when it described the u.s. economy as plain-out lethargic. believe me they have great monthly dat. they know more than we do. s

the presint made a speech in the ry spot where chairman mao declaredhe founding of the pele's republic. then ca folk dancing and fireworks. our world news editor wathere. >> it all felt distinctly retro. president hu for his jacket. china couldave emphasized how capitast it now is. shows north rea and stead. "we haveorked hard," she shouts, "and we serve e people." the iron rose,rmy volunteers not really maoist but defitely think. the ouds have been chas away china's whether changing technology -- weather-changing technology. the latest miiles are wheeled out. these coul hit washingt or london, but none of thiis really intend to scare the outside world. is to make china el good about itself at difficult time. the learship waall lined up, past, present, d future. the latest political bz word is harmony. ly socialism can save china, says thepresident, and only reform can ensure the development ofhina. another cmmunist tradition -- rading the leadership portraits. theres the last presidt, who established capitalism in the party oppose the cstitution. he thehanded oveto hu jintao, who seem

eternal pea, marching on to tiananmesqre, the same route the people's leration army took 60 years ago unr mao za dong's command. perfecy coordinated perfmances and a celbratory red splashed everywher there'seen much anticipation and curiosity ov the weapons ondisplay. the army'ssecond artillery w there, the strateg missile force that handles nucle and nventional balliic and cruise msiles. and main battle taks, armored fighting vehicle, self-propelled artillery and rocket launchers. upabove, the air force, including china's newest fighter, the j-10. but the show of for has not been seen just along the para. it has been se everywhere. onhe streets, a country at once swing confidence and concern if anying should go wrg. but most chinese didn't seem to mind the extra surity measures. they'rvery proud of their country. >> we have trsformed in 60 years. we're strongerndtronger. as chese, we have a songer future and our place in the world. >> with much of the fos on the military hardware, it's ea to forget the parade also involved civians of formers and floats. floats presenting each provin and majo

. >> since it's all the trend now, i will quote chairman mao, it's a good thing, not a bad thing to be attacked by the enemy. >> sure that's not martha stewart. >> or mother teresa. >> what's the first reaction when you heard the white house was taking on fox news? >> i thought obama must be on vacation or something. i mean, it's so massively stupid. and now everybody's out there speculating on why he's doing it to try to get, you know, the other networks not to cover the stories of government corruption that fox is covering. which seems the most likely reason. >> which one? the a.c.o.r.n. story? >> a.c.o.r.n., nea, van jones, mickey jennings. as one of your fellow liberals points out, they're not covering it anyway. how does that explain? i now sort of think it's because they can't help themselves. >> let's listen to what the president said. he weighed in on fox news for the first time on nbc's "today" show. listen to this. >> what our advisers have said is that we are going to take the media as it comes. and if media is operating basically as a talk radio format, that's one thing. an

i mean, really what it celebrates, is mao's revolution which brought a world of hurt on a lot of parts of asia and led to chiang kai-shek dictatorship and tens of thousands killed in the korean war and led to tens of millions of chinese people killed by ideologically driven economic and political policies. and, it is really the last 30 years of undoing the revolution, that have brought china the success it had today with which it can buy the military hardware. >> when we have parades here in the u.s., typically we don't bring out laying with the civilians and the ticker tape a bunch of tanks running down this street. you know, what is the suggestion now, that isn't something that is new to china. >> no, it is not new to china but china had a choice, what image it wanted to show the world with the celebration and over the last 30 years it put pragmatism over ideology and emphasized the economic and you -- >> explain that, pragmatism over ideology. >> well, in 1978, 1979, the leader of china at the time, decided to have a policy, reform and opening up to the outside world, and this is es

how much has china changed since mao, and where is it headed now? >>> hello. 1100 dead and counting, the latest figures from the humanitarian chief for the u.n. as emergency teams worked ththrough rain and through the night trying to find survivors from the two earthquakes that hit the indonesian island of sumatra. with hospitals and schools reduced to rubble, emergency teams fear that hundreds could be trapped. it from sumatra, here is our correspondent. >> it is a desperate race to pull the survivors from out from under tons of rubble. nobody has any idea how many people are trapped. many are within reach, but are as yet behind -- beyond help. the machinery that is available is rescuing people, but there are many buildings that have comeown. so many people trapped, desperately waiting for help to come. this is where the injured would normally be brought. but the main hospital collapsed, trapping many more inside. the tents set up are treating the injured. many of those pulled from the rubble are badly injured. the scale of this disaster is overwhe

marching on to tiananmen square, the same route the people's liberation army took 60 years ago under mao zedong's command. but with more color and fanfare than ever before. perfectly coordinated performances and the celebratory red splashed everywhere. there's been much anticipation and curiosity over the weapons on display. the army's second artillery was there, the strategic missile force that handles nuclear and conventional ballistic and cruise missiles. and main battle tanks, armored fighting vehicles, self-propelled artillery and rocket launchers. up above, the air force, including china's newest fighter, the j-10. but the show of force has not been seen just along the parade. it has been seen everywhere. on the streets, a country at once showing confidence and concern if anything should go wrong. but most chinese didn't seem to mind the extra security measures. they're very proud of their country. >> we have transformed in 60 years. we're stronger and stronger. as chinese, we hope only to have a stronger future and have a r?c place in the world. >> witmuch of the focus on the mili

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in 1949 mao tsedung stood here and declared china a people's republic. today's show a backdrop for hu to declare china "towers majestically in the east". the people who have their destiny in their own hands and are united, will overcome al difficulties and obstacles and will continuously make great historic achievements. intercontinental nuclear missiles, and ranks of armed female militia, all clearly pleasing the party secretary. this was authoritarianism saying it works. a day to ignore that china's economic miracle has both poor and rich. police and their civilian helpers swamping a city where everything from pigeons to kites were banned. pictures of the parade are being beamed live to people across beijing and the country, but the capital is in lockdown, intense security. a display heavily choreographed down to the last detail and obsessed with proving whatever pain china's people have seen in the last 60 years and continue to entour, the result has been worth it. >> lehrer: the anniversary also brought small demonstrations, in hong kong. 200 people

it was here that chairman mao tse-tung declared to the world the founding of the people's republic of china. at that moment, the chinese people stood up and the chinese nation with over 5000 years of civilization began a new page of development and progress in history. in the past 60 years, with the three generations of party leadership, as the court and with the leadership of the central committee formed after the)páional congress of the cbc with the hard work of ethnic groups of the country, the chinese people have joined hands to overcome great hardship and a "great contributions that have been recognized by the world. today, a socialist china is standing firm in the east. we're marching toward modernization and embracing the world and future. the 60 years of development of new china has proved that only socialism can say china and the only reform and opening up can develop china, develop socialism, and develop marxism. the chinese people are confident and capable of building our own country and make contributions to the world. [applause] >> next came the march past year the four

. >> since it's all the trend now, i will quote chairman mao -- it's a good thing, not a bad thing to be attacked by the enemy. >> sure that's not martha stewart. >> or mother teresa. >> what's the first reaction when you heard the white house was taking on fox news? >> i -- i'm not -- obama must be on vacation or something. i mean, it's so massively stupid. and now everybody's out there speculating on why he's doing it to try to get, you know, the other networks not to cover the stories of government corruption that fox is covering. which is the most likely reason. >> the acorn story? >> nea, van jones, kevin jennings. as one of your fellow liberals points out, they're not covering it anyway. how does that explain? i think it's because they can't help themselves. >> the president said -- he weighed in on fox news for the first time on nbc's "today requests show, listen to this. >> what our advisors said is we are going to take the media as it comes. and if media is operating basically as a talk radio format, that's one thing. and if it's operating as a news outlet, it's another. but

. >> since it's all the trend now, i will quote chairman mao -- it's a good thing, not a bad thing to be attacked by the enemy. >> sure that's not martha stewart. >> or mother teresa. >> what's the first reaction when you heard the white house was taking on fox news? >> i -- i'm not -- obama must be on vacation or something. i mean, it's so massively stupid. and now everybody's out there speculating on why he's doing it to try to get, you know, the other networks not to cover the stories of government corruption that fox is covering. which is the most likely reason. >> the acorn story? >> nea, van jones, kevin jennin jennings. as one of your fellow liberals points out, they're not covering it anyway. how does that explain? i think it's because they can't help themselves. >> the president said -- he weighed in on fox news for the first time on nbc's "today requests show, listen to this. >> what our advisors said is we are going to take the media as it comes. and if media is operating basically as a talk radio format, that's one thing. and if it's operating as a news outlet, it's anothe

. >> it was like mao inhibitors, and that lid mid. and i don't -- i don't know how i got out of it, except i think it was stand-up that saved my life. >> i want to talk about that in the next segment. don't go away. we'll be right back with susie. ♪ welcome to comcast local edition. i am donna richardson and my guest this hour is colonel george f. johnson iv superintendent of the maryland natural resources police. colonel, thank you for joining me. >> great to be here with you. >> in addition to being with the maryland natural resources you are president of the maryland police chief association, and who in addition to chief are your members? and who is working with you? >> it is comprised mostly of chief of police from all over the state and state government and law enforcement chiefs and county and municipalities that exist in all of the state of maryland. >> i know as a group i know there are several initiatives taking place. there is a new one. checkpoint strike force. >> yes, it is a research based-multi-state situation where we

. >> there are mao inhibitors. i don't know how i got out of it except i think it was stand-up that saved my life. >> i want to talk about that in the next segment. so, don't go away. we'll be right back with susie. >> i'm very hoarse tonight. i have to apologize, i have a very soar throat. jerry knows why, i know why. enough said. >> i remember that show. jerry didn't know what hit him. >> it's amazing how straight my hair was in that clip. >> i know, they can blow it out. >> i know. >> which do you like? >> i have come to terms with the curliness. you and both said if we didn't have curly hair, i think we wouldn't have been fun nny. >> yes. the roasts where larry found you, right? >> larry used to write on your show in 1987 on lifetime. we knew him from stand-up. it's another segment we could do another day. he saw me on the roast casting the part of part of jeff's wife. he wanted to have a certain facility with language. >> which you have. >> this character. he saw me and gave me the part. the interesting thing