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Now, why history? you wrote a whole bunch of books on your own king tut, the african-american explorers and all that what is it about that that makes you -- >> -- you know i had a history minor in college. what bothered me is i love history. i love the characters in history. i think history is even larger in life than most fiction but most history books are written in a way that puts you to sleep. too many footnotes. really dry academic style. >> 800 pages you can't get through it? >> i think history should rise up off the page and be glee dimensional. >> you had research. come down. fourth, f...

Enabled, supported. i have seen her schools have a destructive impact on the schools are going into. that's the bottom line. whatever is happening in her classrooms, and i respect some children are being educated well in her classrooms -- what i detest is the notion it's at the expense of the schools she is -- where those children matter too. and it wouldn't happen, it wouldn't happen if she didn't have a lot of money and power and political privilege behind her and if doe didn't say, yes, ma'am, every single time and that is going to end when i'm mayor. >> i'm going to let you talk, but, firs...

She could recite entire books from memory after her first birthday. by the time she was 2 she was reading and taught herself to speak spanish using her parents' ipad. >> what? >> oh, my gosh that little voice. >> alexis already reads at a fifth grade level. she's 3. doctors who tested her say her iq is so off the charts they can't even assign a number to it. >> those are some proud parents. >> that's amazing. >> in a big way. look at her, she's like i just want to sit here and play. she's still a 3-year-old at heart. time for our weekly look at the good and bad of technology. >> if you use a...

This is the 42nd running of the race. last year's winner was the oldest ever at age 53. and one more that's happening on saturday justin beer bieber turns 20 years old. you have see this little girl, one of the smartest 3 year olds on the planet. she has an iq of over 160. the highest number possible. and just after her first birthday, alexis could already recite entire books from memory. by the time she was 2, she was reading and taught herself to speak spanish by using her parents' ipad. now, alexis reads at a fifth grade level. doctors who tested her say her iq is so off the charts, the...

We met alexis after her afternoon nap. a typical 3-year-old at first, smiling and shy, leaving dad to do the talking, telling us about when he first noticed. you would be driving around in the car and she would be able to recite the bedtime story from the night before? >> yeah. so dad would try to pitch in and be like, oh, yeah and then the elephant was the one that was sharing. she would correct me and say, no, next, dad, next was the kangaroo. and she would correct me and say, no dad, the kangaroo was the next one sharing. oh, sorry. so she would recite the bedtime stories verbatim which is ...