i speak to law school students, just did it at nyu, or new york law, just two days ago, and do you know as part of their curriculum, they are taught how to be television pundits. they are taught how to conduct a news conference. they are taught -- >> don't teach them that. >> wait a minute. they are taught how to come up with those great little phrases like, if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. so, we may be looking at a whole new generation of grandstanding criminal defense attorneys. because of the o.j. simpson trial 15 years ago. >> all right. we have to get to this other huge issue, what we saw of the simpson murder trial was groundbreaking. a legal strategy where side issues were turned into central issues. we all remember lapd detective mark fuhrman. the defense alleged fuhrman planted evidence at the crime scene. they introduced the incendiary "n" word, audio tape where he used the word 41 times. this became the cornerstone of the defense's case, lisa. and the evidence sort of fell to the side. >> well, i didn't think that was a side issue. i thought it was the best issue the defe

i teach at nyu in the introduction of international relations. i'm always proud when they come into class after the president or some other foreign-policy leader makes an important statement and say, wow that was cheap talk. for example, they remember a few months ago the north koreans for change were poorly behaved and president obama maties each that there will be dire consequences for the north korean violation of our agreements. there will be economic heightened economic sanctions against north korea. and my students understood, this is just like saying blah blah law. we don't trade with north korea. what will we sanction them with economically when we don't do business with them? on the other hand, sometimes when a president says there'll be dire consequences, as when president obama has to attend sanctions against iran for its nuclear program, which i will come back to. that can have real effects. that's a costly signal. not just because it costs uranian something, if we cut back bank transactions and other activities that the iranians do.

i speak to law school students, just did it at nyu, or new york law, just two days ago, and do you know as part of their curriculum, they are taught how to be television pundits. they are taught how to conduct a news conference. they are taught -- >> don't teach them that. >> wait a minute. they are taught how to come up with those great little phrases like, if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. so, we may be looking at a whole new generation of grandstanding criminal defense attorneys. because of the o.j. simpson trial 15 years ago. >> all right. we have to get to this other huge issue, what we saw of the simpson murder trial was groundbreaking. a legal strategy where side issues were turned into central issues. we all remember lapd detective mark fuhrman. the defense alleged fuhrman planted evidence at the crime scene. they introduced the incendiary "n" word, audiotape where he used the word 41 times. this became the cornerstone of the defense's case, lisa. and the evidence sort of fell to the side. >> well, i didn't think that was a side issue. i thought it was the best issue the defen

. >> you are a journalism professor at nyu. what surprised you in your study of these letters? >> i guess one of the things that surprised me is the extent to which enslaved african americans continue to communicate with their loved ones or even that slaves wrote letters at all, but the extent to which they maintain bonds across plantations come across states, and of course this was an illegal act, but they somehow managed to stay in contact to the best they could with their loved ones. >> regular booktv viewers may recognize you because we shot a program of yours earlier in the year you can watch on book tv, go to the website and watch that program. what are you working on right now? >> right now i'm still here with this book. this is probably my 40 event since february. and we have also been doing a number of dramatic readings around the country. we did a reading recently but ruby dee, the incredible actor stand and the nature -- anthony qassam swa have been working on a production as well as the book. i have not gotten to my next writing project. >> between your teaching and

degree in history from nyu. he didn't get it but he was also obviously deranged. he actually wrote a personal manifesto saying god wanted to have him work justice on sinners. so give us an analysis of this guy, because he's all over the map and he's scary as all get out. >> well, he's definitely got what we would call an antisocial personality disorder. it's basically your every day sociopath and one of the major criteria for that diagnosis is having no remorse at all. so these are the people who are the mass murderers, serial killers, and they can do all their crimes and have zero feelings, zero remorse at all for their actions and they get off on it and they actually are proud of it, a lot of the times, like we're hearing in the tapes. just because they're a sociopath doesn't mean they're not smart, and sometimes some of the most brilliant minds can just snap, and they're probably, my guess would be there were signs leading up to this. i would venture to say it didn't just come out of the blue. i would be really curious to look back into his childhood records to

boren hanson is a professor at nyu's certainty for hospitality.s have become more creative in what he calls the surprise fee. >> the hotels in 2008 collected about $1.75 billion on fees and surcharges. some fees that surprise guests the most would be an early departure fee. a cancellation fee. mini bar restocking charges. luggage or baggage holding fees. >> reporter: some hotels go as far as charging resort amenity fees for towels and some urban hotels charge a daily fee for receiving faxes. surprise fees, hidden fees, it all adds up. back with us is john ulzheimer. from credit.com. you can the ask the total cost on what you are buying is going to be? right? >> i'm waiting for the day to walk up the aisle at 33,000 and put a dime into the bathroom to get in. the question is, what is your breaking point? that's a question we have to ask ourselves. am i willing to pay a buck for this, two bucks for this? 9 bucks for this if the answer is yes, fine they have you. if the answer is no, you have to do research. it's called fine print for a reason. they