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It just came out. >> we will quoue up the music next time. we are jumping back, april 30g9, 1789. george washington took office as the first president of the united states. he took his place in the nation's capital, new york. in 1803, a bargain with france, the louisiana purchase cost is around $15 million to get more than 800 square miles of territory. it stretched from the mouth of the mississippi river to the rocky mountains in canada. in 1859, it was the best of times. the worst of times. charles dickens class can novel, "a tale of two cities" first published. ♪

Giving "off the radar" much love. this is the stuff you can find that isn't out there otherwise, but this one our viewers will want to know about. >> this is my favorite website, i tune in every monday to see what the sky at a glance is. this week sky at a glance. "sky and telescope" magazine, you can buy a subdescription, but you can get to this point for free and you can go down and see what every night sky will look like and what the highlight is and tonight the highlight is a lyrid meteor shower, sometimes eight, ten, meteors at a time. but at 1803, 1,000 meteors per hour. we don't know wh...

>> the fever in america. >> he's drawing a parallel to the tea party movement and what we saw prior to the oklahoma city bombing. >> similar to the way other people have as well, congressmen saying this could be akin to domestic terrorism. it's not explicit but there was an implicit move to demonize and dismiss -- bill clinton would be happy with the tea party movement if it was infective. if it was not getting publicity, he wouldn't be talking about it. he would say this is great, we love these activists. >> i think the premise was that the national discourse is toxic. >> i don't buy that. i ...

In memphis, tennessee. that's your fox travel cast. >> brian: we grew up and we think we believe -- we think we can believe what we read in textbook is accurate. the truth however is more complex than that. joining us from washington, d.c. to explain, shannon breen. >> hi, brian. over the last few days, i've had a chance to talk to a lot of people within the publishing industry and those who keep an eye on the industry. i found out we're talking about a couple of different kinds of errors that could show up in your kids' books. flat out inaccuracies, factual errors like this one. one book said...

Don't have an iraq strategy. >> wow. obvious there's a lot of questions that still need to be answered. if you're investigating whether any laws were broken what probably crimes would apply in. >>? >> it's hard to imagine any. in 1803, and it's been subject to what the lawyers would decemberly attitude, that's a legal concept that says you can't resurrect a dead statute. there's no criminal activity here at all and there's a precedent to this. when ronald reagan was elected president he obviously established a back channel with iran that he didn't want the sitting president, jimmy carter to kn...