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Critical and certainly post 2008, a lot of financial journalists said we have to be more critical than we had been. but theres more of an ability to, say, think about the steve jobs apple coverage and celebrate and say, wow, these guys have come up with something great and new. >> i read a lot of stories about marissa mayer, yahoo! andtech t. but i guess i want to come and close on this. was it in part disillusionment with journalism that prompted you to leave what was a pretty nice job in new y...

Personalities, more on what business does, of course it needs to be critical and personal post 2008, a lot of financial journal is said we really have to be more critical than we have to be. but the steve job apple covers, to sort of celebrate, and say wow, these guys have come up with something great and new. >> it seems i read a lot associated with yahoo and various other tech titans. buzz it in part, disillusionment that prompted you to leave what was a pretty nice life in new york and go up ...

Doesnt necessarily undermine faith in politics but uncover political cover-ups and political match nations. >> as you know, one of the points i made in the piece is there is a fundamental disding turn sh you would call the job of the critic a and the job of the prosecutor and the job of the builder. and if youre in a critic role, you have to be a prosecutor, an investigator, uncover whats going wrong. but my argument was we also really need a space, and i would say particularly in the political ...

Thats discrimination; isnt it? >> steve, the difference is that if youre affirmatively asked as a seller of real estate whether theres any known condition that would affect your decision to purchase the home or not, then the law says that you are charged with the obligation to answer that question truthfully. and in this particular case, in this particular case ms. phoenix ask the builder what the issues were with the neighbor and they did not provide the full breadth of knowledge they had conce...

We filed harassment and stalking charges towards him. right after we did that, we hired a security service because we feared retaliation. we feared some kind of reprise. >> so it sound like shes pretty much, shes being tortured psychologically by the neighbor across the way. what do you say to the company who sold her the house owes her? >> we say they owed her an obligation to provide her with full disclosure of material information that would have enabled her to make an informed decision as to...

Began between myself and my neighbor -- the builder, the developer took it upon themselves to send the neighbor a letter. the letter was not sanctioned by me, by anyone in my family. and the letter basically made several demands to the neighbor which then prompted the hostility toward myself and my family. >> what kind of hostility? i read in one news account down there that he was pretty much menacing and harassing your family. >> definitely so. he would make inappropriate comments towards us. ...

This wasnt the luckiest piece of land. and since then, four decades ago, that land, those 16 acres that every builder in the state has salivated over, that land has sat vacant. that is until last year and thats because of mark sokolich a mayor who says he has no higher ambitious in life than to run his town and he has made the redevelopment of that site his defining mission as mayor. its what hes poured his efforts into, what he wants to be remembered for. it is his legacy. so what is it that he...

Caves and tunnels is known as solomons quarries. >> is this a natural cave? >> no, not at all. >> reporter: the quarry once provided building materials for some of the greatest construction projects in the city. >> so what is this great big gaping hole here? >> actually, what you see here is the shape of cut of a big stone that used it in the second temple. we can see today in the western wall. >> reporter: the secretive freemasons even believe the stones mined here were used to build something ...

Version of joseph. he was bailedder, he made things. someone who makes things, who creates something. >> its a mistranslation by people who thought that a builder always worked with wood because the king james bible but we have stone here. >> but, remember, we do romanticize about joseph in lots of ways. joseph and mary were never married. most people dont even realize that. >> didnt they get married later. >> no. never says they got married later. he is he never called anything except for her b...

Whose pyramid is that? >> this is the period of kufu. >> and that took 10,000 people. >> 10,000 workman actually lived here in this place. >> next to the ruins of the village where the workmen lived, theres an ancient cemetery. the tombs of the pyramid builders are a significant discovery thats answered many questions about who they were. were the builder of the pyramids israelites? >> at all, no. >> everybody thinks they are. >> this is not true. this is an idea that maybe you think about it be...