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Is young, beautiful, cultured, generally loved by everybody. >> herod's relationship with mariamne would have made really good reality television. on the one hand, herod deeply loved her and expressed his love in grandiose gestures. on the other hand, she constantly berated him about his lowly status, and he always felt a sense of inferiority around her. >> it's a very jerusalem story because it contains both love and hate, as jerusalem always does. you have this young, ruthless, self-made king. you have this princess of the grandest, royalest family. it's like a kardashian marrying a windsor....

And octavian says, i understand you backed the wrong horse. and herod the great, ever the shrewd politician, says something quite profound. >> he doesn't pretend he was anything other than a supporter of mark antony. >> he said as good of a friend as i was to antony, i will be an even better friend to you, octavian. >> and herod is so convincing that not only does octavian reconfirm herod as king of ju judaea, but he actually increases the size of his kingdom. >> when herod the great gets back to jerusalem, one would think that, wow, he's avoided this major disaster with

South eastern and western walls, which you can see today. >> so all that herod had worked for, the things that he wanted most, this physical legacy vanished. any time jerusalem has someone come along who wants everything to himself for some reason jerusalem says that's not the way the city of god is going to be. and that's because as history has shown us, the times when jerusalem is at peace is when this city is shared by its people. >> the jews emerge differently from the destruction of the temple of 70. instead of praying at the temple

Influence with mark antony to undermine herod whenever possible. she tells tales about herod's treatment of his wife, his treatment of the jews in jerusalem, his ruthlessness. but mark antony aspires to run the whole roman empire. his interest is not to have his client kings, even such a powerful monarch as cleopatra, his partner and mother of his children, fighting amongst themselves. >> so mark antony says, listen, you have to play nice. and so cleopatra, the cunning ruler that she is, she says, okay. i'll play nice. i'll go up and visit herod the great, and i'll show you how we can spend ti...

Sergeant army bowe bergdahl who left his base in eastern afghanistan. the obama administration insisted the threat to the taliban five would return to the battlefield is very low, but leland there are a lot of concerns from lawmakers and afghan officials who think that it is much much higher than the administration has led on and clearly with the effort to extend the talks there is backtracking going on right now by the white house. >> and still a lot of folks here in washington not very happy that the deal happened at all. connor powell following in very jerusalem, we'll see what comes out as...