and they ll live in a different world. i m confident about this future for maggie and robert because i ve written three novels on george washington and know what he went through for us to become a country. i ve written four novels on the civil war and know what we went through as a people to preserve this country. the keiser was convinced in world war i we were a weak, happyless country and didn t matter. the germans and japanese underestimated us and thought we could never mobilize and didn t know how to fight. the soviets said they would bury us. the japanese in the 1980 s were going to be the next super power until their system collapsed in 1989. currently the chinese are the latest example of somebody else imaginely will appear who is going to take on 305 million free people and somehow be more
world. i am confident about this future and because i read three novels on george washington and i know what he went through for us to become a country. written four novels on the civil war and i know what we went through as a people to preserve this country. you know, kaiser was con convinced when we entered world war i we were a weak and helpless country and didn t matter much. they grotesquely under estimated under the circumstances and thought we could never mobilize and didn t know how to fight. the soviets said as crush chof said publicly they will bury us. the japanese in the 80s were going to be the next super power until the system collapsed in 1989. currently the chinese are the latest example of somebody else whose magically going to appear, who is going to take on 305 million free people and somehow
cannot be contained. [ clang ] the all-new 2013 lexus gs. there s no going back. see your lexus dealer. in tonight s big finish, i guess we could call it a mega finish. what would you do with $640 million. the number will be drawn. it s a world record pay out. the prize will be $462 million. the feds get 25%. state taxes vary around the country. if the winner is here in new york, the lucky person would clear $305 million after taxes. that s a lot of money. you could easily afford a $12 million california beach front mansion. no doubt about it.
virtual tie for the lead. what happened to newt gingrich nice guy? he vowed not to go negative in response to the other candidates attack ads, but that didn t stop gingrich from blasting ron paul. in an interview with cnn s wolf blitzer he said he wouldn t vote for paul. gingrich pointed to incendiary newsletters distributed under paul s name in the 80s and 90s. you look at his newsletters and then you look at his ads, his ads are about as accurate as his newsletters. now if he were to get the republican nomination. he won t. let s say he were. could you vote for him? no. amateur video out of syria is said to show defectors trying to ambush security forces in daraa. cnn cannot independently confirm this claim. observers from the arab league are now in the country for a second day to determine if the government has kept its promise to stop the bloody crackdown on its citizens. a league official tells cnn they have postponed trips to three cities today due to l
discovery ended a last-minute deal to sell part of mf global to a rival company. a deal the company needed to stay afloat. instead of making that deal the firm headed by former new jersey governor and goldman sachs chief jon corzine filed for chapter 11 protection yesterday. now the investigation centers on whether mf global diverted customer funds to support its own trades. the new york times notes that neither mf global nor mr. corzine have been accused of any wrongdoing. but that is not holding opinion writers from writing about corzine this morning including the wall street journal which we ll get to in just a moment. but first the new york times. corzine crashes like it s 2008. when goldman sachs went public on may 4th, 1999 jon corzine who was then the firm s chief executive held a stake that was suddenly valued at $305 million. perhaps it is uncharitable to complain about the pid ling $12 million severance he was poised