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Actually a rip-off of a british book and bbc series. >> i do hate confrontations. somebody always ends up getting hurt. time for a visit to the house of wounded feelings. we have to keep our options open. >> and now the three books that inspired all are being rereleased in paperback. joining us now is the author, the former chief of staff for margaret thatcher and a current member of the house of lords. michael dobbs at the table in the guest spot. thank you so much for joining us. >> its alread...

Contract worth more than $1 billion showing signs of a massive taxpayer rip-off. weve been telling you about obamacare workers who are getting paid using your taxpayer dollars to sit around and basically do nothing. now some are being asked to work overtime coming up this holiday weekend, even though theres little or no work to be done. chris broke the story about an obamacare processing office in missouri and he joins me live from st. louis. chris, what happens when these people show up for wor...

Called same love. ♪ it turns out the grammy winner isnt the poster boy for tolerance. he posted an apology on his website, said he didnt mean to mock jewish people with a costume that he wore during a performance of his hit song thrift song. >> im just so happy that its now finally okay to hate this untalented rip-off artist whose

They claim its a ripoff from their 1968 song "tourist" listen to that. ♪ ♪ >> now 43 years after "stairway to heaven" was released the trust for spirits late guitarist randy california is suing led zeppelin for copyright infringement and a writing credit. it comes weeks before led zeppelins planned rerelease of its first three albums. >> rolling stone magazine says spirit and its family waited to file the lawsuit because they did not have the money to actually pay for the lawyers until now. ...

>> they rarely crack down on march hadness. >> they dont actually come in and call you an illegal book making operation if you are doing that. not yet at least. but then within the space of lotteries the government profits from all of these horrible deals where desperate and boor people -- poor people go with the lottery. >> you are playing games with odds that are incredible. 1 in 175 million. >> you win so much. >> thats the way the government sells you on it. it is a bad deal. if it was a cas...

Madness. >> to their defense they dont call the illegal bookmaking operation. john: not yet. >> within the space of lotteries the government profits from all the horrible deals were desperate and four people got to by lotteries. it is a horrible deal because you play games with pods that are incredible with the one in 175 million chance. >> that is the way the government sells you but it is a bad deal if there was of a casino where you had a $175 million chance you typically would not go to that...

Thats according to the white house and a bold move by any definition. it says president obama spoke on the phone today with president karzai to discuss these plans. so far, hamid karzai has refused to sign the agreement. it would in theory keep some u.s. troops in afghanistan beyond this year to help provide security and so much more. the white house says the president told karzai he is open to the possibility of finalizing the agreement later this year. more than 2,000 americans have died in af...

Mario brothers and angry birds at the same time. theres speculation he may have gotten a letter saying to stop using it. >> he released a bench of tweets over the weekend saying i cant take this anymore, im taking it down. >> and he was a man of his word. >> is this like "family guy" when they killed brian? >> thats what i told you, hes coming back. >> so is this coming back? >> i think it will. >> another gamer stepped forward about a week ago who said this is a rip-off of my game from 2007. i ...

American public is the piston in the shock that takes the losses and no wonder the insurance industry is . if they write good policies and lose money, taxpayers eat 80 percent. and it is a rip off. >> that medicine will not be swallowed easily. >> i know you are saying emily, that fingers crossed things are going in the right trend, but can you imagine a bail out? >> it is a reinsurance and this happens across the board. it was reinsurance with medicare. it is shared by the insurance industry an...

Hes black. the show was a blatant rip-off of "diffrent strokes." >> wolf: oh, people were trying to have their own gary coleman. they were trying to have--to repeat that dynamic. television is nothing if not imitative. but, you know, its also magic, and you--you couldnt quite re-create what happened, and even the people on their own show couldnt keep re-creating it as the kids grew. >> narrator: emmanuel lewis didnt come close to coleman in the talent department. however, he began winning in the...