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Illusion. your brain takes what you see on the surface of the water and makes you think that the object youre seeing has been compressed. my goldfish dont have any thickness. people automatically imagine the depth and feel. a depth of field. >> perfecting this intricate illusion takes years of painstaking trial and error. >> translator: there would be pieces where i had spent months to make and just as i put in the last layer, it would get destroyed. for each layer of resin, my heart is contract...

Man behind the mystery, what was their reaction? >> well, its been very -- i told you yesterday and youve experienced this, nothing has really changed in their view. theres an anger thats buried underneath particularly among the national security folks at him personally because of all of the harm that theyve experienced as far as the reputation of the united states in europe when they are doing deals back and forth. as far as the -- as far as what they want to see, nothing has changed their opin...

Power. that badge is only an illusion of power. that power can be stripped and taken away in a moments notice. >> mr. steele was accused of throwing a cup full of urine on the correctional officer. >> i decided to be my own lawyer. i wanted to act pro se. i wanted to ask my own questions. i wanted to do my own jury selection. i wanted to file my own motions. the judge granted it. a couple months before, a month before, i knew he was the one that was going to be gone. >> on one occasion, i did vi...

>> you have overstepped your authority. what an awesome sight. bow down and acknowledge my heights. by magical words, i shall give the illusion of spirit with much nerve. >> as the actors were performing, i looked over my shoulder and i noticed iris was silently reciting every word of the play. so i focused my camera on him and i thought it was pretty cool that he was getting to see his own words coming to life and enjoying it so much. >> all hes known in belief, he shall bury it. i tell you, ha...

>> right. wealth is this thing that theres stability to t one of the things we see is this unbelievable gap in household wealth between white people and black people, even -- even when you normalize for income. even people with masters degrees or law degrees, you normalize across these things. we see this persistent racial wealth gap. >> this is the thing, again, just to bang on this. you know, inequality is a very big problem in america than wealth. something that obviously believe in the fight...

What we aim to do. >> are our actions in poland proper? >> i think they are. i think the people in poland and a lot of our eastern european allies wonder about our resolve and whether we would abide by our commitments under alliance agreements. so i think the military exercise is involving poland and baltic states, an important signal. late in this process, but important. it doesnt directly say what we aim to do in ukraine and how. but it may be sending a signal of were not going to allow the li...

700-page book about the economic future and history of inequality, written by this guy. >> i think theres been some illusion, including in france and maybe in the united states, as to how much growth in itself can bring the more equal distribution of wealth. >> thomas pikettys "capital in the 21st century," has skyrocketed in the top of the best seller list, improbable as it might seem, because people want to understand an economy that seems inexplicable to them. and its that desire thats create...

Well the focus at the very top are doing and how poorly the middle class is doing thats becoming a defining political issue of our time. and its created an undying bottomless thirst among americans for someone to speak to this truth, to say what is obvious, that our economic system is broken, that the rich are getting richer, and everyone else is getting left behind, and that the game is rigged and getting more rigged every day. the demand for some sort of public errant of the increasingly unequ...

Yashine. the director of russian culture at american university. first, if i could ask you about what the ukrainian prime minister said today. we saw russian action in crimea succeeded effectively annexing that place. now you see activity in eastern ukraine, activity by russian separatists. do you believe that president putin is trying to reclaim territory lost after the collapse of the soviet union? >> i dont think, jim, i dont think this is what president putin is trying to do, although there ...

Hi. >> actually reporting from oxford, mississippi, today. lots of good stuff coming up at the top of the hour. all the top stories. we found this one. it turns out liking certain companies on facebook or downloading their coupons might prevent you from ever suing them. general mills, the maker of cheerios and lots of other companies have slipped it into their privacy policy. may give up your right to sue just by eating cheerios. the things they take away. thats coming up at the top of the hour,...