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than watergate, which is a phrase thats usually reserved by people like john dean to sell his latest book, he went out over his scheme so badly that every buddy had to make fun of him, and then 70% of it turns out to be plausible. >> how about that. who would have guessed? >> andy: lets get away from that dull story. this is much more exciting, sexism is making a comeback, congrats jimmy. a new study from the university of maryland shows that young people want less gender equality in the hous...

Plus size. new research claims that realistic models like one seen here in the dove soap ad -- >> ew. >> -- may be making obesity epidemic worse. they say ad campaigns that use plus sized women are having a debt pro mental affect on the publics lifestyle and eating behavior. the lead author says people see reassuring slogan like real and normal next to plus sized model. one modeling exec took issue saying, quote, skinny mad dels dels -- models encourage anorexia and using real model encourage ob...

Oh well. luck is in the air. um... td ameritrade. you got this. next "red eye" anthony and betsy woodruff and camille foster. >> a new stud -- study claims men consume 93% more pizza when dining with women they want to impress. researchers observed 150 diners at all you can eat italian buffet for two weeks. a great use of their time. the lead author of the cornell university study explains men tend to over eat to show off. you can see the tendency in eating competitions which always has male par...

Ground but looks like it is political. cut it in half and off we go. >> i think what the president is doing now is enough to contain the damage at least until he leaves office. but i still dont see how a small number like this, whether it is 9,000 or 5,000, is going to be enough to defend. >> im glad he stopped the drawdown. it is not a sufficient number. >> joining me now is former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan james cunningham, now with the atlantic council. ambassador cunningham was the lead...

Ourselves are responsible for. >> that was pope francis on tuesday praying in front of a group of more than 60 mayors from around the world who had come to the vatican to talk about climate change. his prayers may have been answered. a controversial paper released this week claims to bring new understanding to just how much damage weve done and says it may be worse than previously believed predicting much faster polar melting and potentially catastrophic sea level rises much faster than we ever ...

A controversial paper released this week claims to bring new understanding to just how much damage weve done and says it may be worse than previously believed, predicting much faster polar melting and potentially catastrophic sea level rises, much faster than we ever believed possible, as much as ten feet within just 50 years. the papers lead author is the name you may know, "the washington post" calls him the worlds most famous climate scientist, james hansen is the former director of the insti...

Jump across the entire system. and you have massive violence. >> okay. that is crazy, one phone call could do that. larry levine, thank you. >> certainly. now to this new report out today, shedding even more light on sexual violence on college campuses. in the new report 19% of freshmen women at a large unnamed private university in upstate new york say they were the victims of rain or attempted rain during their first year of school. that is 1 in 5 women. it outlines the prevalence of rain on...

Me wondering would these proposed changes make it more difficult for a woman to come forward? its tough enough, right, but would this make it more difficult for a woman to come forward if in fact shes telling the truth that she was absolutely raped? >> brooke, these regulations are being put in place on the back of studies. we heard the one in five number. some people heard the -- >> the president uses one in five number. >> one in five young women will be sexually assaulted by the time they gra...

>> was i a nerd? the nerds rule the world and i am not ruling the world. i was a popular kid. let me just read something from the study so you all know. the lead author behind this study recruited 357 young adults between may and july of 2012. en route to bars in downtown ontario with their friends she gave them free drinks to do the study jie. and ontario, is that canada? >> it is a canadian study. >> they can drink at 18. >> they have been drinking for six years. >> it is a flawed study. >> li...

Have led to fraud convictions. voter fraud is a flat out myth. the laws are a solution to a problem that simply does not exist. and we cant and wont let them roll back our rights. joining me now is wendy wiser of the brennan center, the lead author of that new report the state of voting in 2014. and democratic strategist jamal simmons. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> wendy, your report found seven states where african-american turnout was highest in 2008 are rolling back voting rights. w...