breathe. those were eric garner s last words, of cork and lebron james of the cleveland cavaliers said his shirt was a specific message. it was a message to the family, you know, that i m sorry for their loss. sorry, you know, to his wife. and you know, that s what it s about. not to get caught up in everything. there s no larger message? ? how larger can it be? how larger can it be to pay respects to the family? can t get any larger than that. obviously we know our society needs to do better. but like i said before, violence is not the answer and retaliation isn t the solution. and you know, as a society, we know we have to get better, but it s not going to be done in one day. rome wasn t built in a day, and we all know that, but we all
i think everybody else gets ought up inside who s really feeling it and that s the family. there s no larger message how much larger can it be? how larger can it be to pay respects to the family? it doesn t get any larger than that. we know our society needs to do better. but like i said before, violence is not the answer and retaliation isn t the solution. as a society we know we have to get better but it won t be done in one day. rome wasn t built in a day and we know that but we have to do better. rachel nichols joins me now. you know lebron james well. what do you make of it? also max foster with me. he s been covering this because kate and william were at the game. to you, rachel, you know lebron james well. what do you make of this and the larger movement we re seeing among professional athletes?
rome wasn t burned in a day. i kept that in my mind and five, six, seven years later, i used it in the book. how is the republican party doing? then we will talk about your state and then you basketball team. wichita state? no, kansas. a party, is it finding its way back to where we need to be? i think so. you got a bunch of factions in it. instead of the tea party forming their own party they went inside the republican party. which is great. ross perot in that era say i will form something separate and he came in and now you have to shorter through all of that. i like fred thompson s comment. we need a big magnet party instead of a big tent so you attract people into it. exactly. you are having a fight out in kansas and you appear to be doing pretty well. yeah. we have had to change a lot of things. we were losing a lot of population and i got real tired of that. saying we got to change things here so we went after our tax policy and went to zero on all small busines
speaking to americans, sitting in their living rooms, watching on it have beens and got a sense watching the debate that nixon did not get that at all. i want to thank shirley franklin for joining us this morning. rome wasn t built in the day and neither was camelot. the creation of an american political dynasty. that s next. road closed? there s a guy. excuse me? glacier point? follow me! follow me! keep up, keep up, keep up. look he s right there! follow me! [ male announcer ] the nissan pathfinder. wow! follow me! [ male announcer ] nissan. innovation that excites. now get a $279 per month lease on a 2014 nissan pathfinder.
prosperous is not the natural state of things. in human history, it s rare. we now are starting to look a lot like rome and we ought to worry about that. steve: john stossel, the host of stossel on the fox business network joins us now. how are we becoming like rome? we re expanding government. rome wasn t ended by the barbarians. it collapsed of its own weight, of its own growing promises, big welfare state to keep the masses happy. they started raising taxes, giving out free grain and free olive oil to people to keep them happy. they had great spectacles. we don t quite kill animals and people in a coliseum. but currency was devalued. they got involved in foreign wars. government grew. leaders got arrogant. rome collapsed. we re a lot like that. steve: it does sound familiar. but there are a few differences.