he's highly educated, he's wishing maybe he didn't get the ph.d. and the mba. >> and keystone, canada is giving us the boot. and china is getting the-- that's money and speaking up in a fox business network poll. the results, they will stun you. [ male announcer ] you love the taste of 2% milk. but think about your heart. 2% has over half the saturated fat of whole milk. want to cut back on fat and not compromisen taste? try smart balance fat free milk. it's what you'd expect from the folks at smart balance. >> hi, everyone, live from america's news headquarters, i'm jamie colby. there is a major test to the republican presidential race, decided today, it's in maine, where this'll announce a winner of the week long caucus. and mitt romney and ron paul are the only two candidates campaigning today in the states, romney hoping to bounce back from what may have been the worst stretch on the trail. rick santorum swept missouri, minnesota and colorado. you want to keep it here. and a video of the crackdown in syria. and killed four more people in the reb

. >> reporter: san francisco political science professor knows about tuition inflation, the ph.d. earned cost $7,000 40 years ago. >> the president spoke to his constituents, students and made an plealt to them on the basis of trying to gather support for the fall el >> fees rising fees has been an issue in berkeley where price increases and program cuts have followed in line with the state's budget woes. >> ten times when i went to school. it sounds ridiculous but it is ridiculous. >> in california. issue is issue that our budget in california. >> specifics remain vague. he wants billion dollars and reform educational systems. for president college students which may begin their working lives in debt, those reforms would come too late. for frank luna, way too late. >> i hope to get into the honors program which would extend me one more semester. it will probably help me get in grad school. i'm going to have to take out another loan. >> we're going to begin because education is very spor. chief administrative law judge with the cpuc. it starts with the premise that getting a highe

in fact, i started in the md ph.d program with eric kandel. i never finished the ph.d part but it was very much an academic endeavor for me. >> rose: but then you itched to thinking that you wanted to deal with patients. and fact you wanted to be somehow a clinical physician. >> actually, that's true. that did partly happen. like i said, i might have blufd a little bit in my interviews but then-- . >> rose: but you came back to it. >> then once i was in the clinics, discovered that i actually really, really enjoyed it. >> rose: the patient stuff. >> the patient stuff, just being with patients,it's a completely different source of satisfaction. and it could be frustrating, you know, right now i still see patients half day a week. and i don't really have to. most of my salary comes from funded grants, i do mainly research but i would never stop seeing patients because it really is something very different t keeps me grounded. it keeps my science focused on the important questions. >> rose: tell me about the joy of medical researchthe act of disc

but you really need copper as the ph.d. in economics to really lead this market higher. would like to see that. but now we have to wait for the payroll numbers tomorrow. that's how the rest of the afternoon will go. >> you heard sheila bair say that she was worried about recession in the eurozone where there's been nothing but blue skies ahead, worrying about some type of closure coming out of greece. but if you're worried about that, then worry about here and then just starts that whole thing once again. >> beat tawe'll talk green mound big movers on the other side of the break. 20 pages. boom! the other office devices? they don't get me. they're all like, "hey, brother, doesn't it bother you that no one notices you?" and i'm like, "doesn't it bother you you're not reliable?" and they say, "shut up!" and i'm like, "you shut up." in business, it's all about reliability. 'cause these guys aren't just hitting "print." they're hitting "dream." so that's what i do. i print dreams, baby. [whispering] big dreams. >>> founder and ceo speaking at a charity that helps innercity ch

houston, what is your role at the university of houston? >> i'm a ph.d. student and a graduate student researchers. >> why are you here at the consumer electronics show? >> i am demonstrating the personal manipulation plan. >> where was this developed? >> back at the university of pittsburgh in conjunction with carnegie-mellon university. >> can you explain what this does? >> yes. one of the tasks i need it to do, i've dropped my pen, and i need to get it back to me. so i can have the hand come in and bring it to me. >> this is being operated robotically, correct? >> yes, it is. >> now, is this a product that could be on the market at some point? >> very much so. we are actually hoping it could be commercially available in the next couple years. >> it looks like it has cameras on the side here with the grippers? >> yeah, the cameras will allow someone to remotely operate this device for me. if i were not able to operate it myself via local controls. >> now, are you disabled? >> yes, i am. >> in what way? >> i have orthopedic impairments which require me to

houston, what's your role at the university of pittsburgh? >> guest: i'm a ph.d. student and a student researcher. >> host: and why are you hear at the consumer electronics show? >> guest: i'm hear demonstrating the personal ability manipulation appliance. >> host: where was this developed? >> guest: this was developed back at the university of pittsburgh in conjunction with cash dwi melon -- carnegie mellon university. >> host: could you demonstrate what this does and how it helps you? >> guest: i've dropped my pen, and it's picked it up, and now i need to get it back to me. i can have the hand come in and bring me the pen. can you swing it in? sorry. >> host: this is being operated robotically, is that correct? >> guest: open the gripper. yes, it is. >> host: now, is this a product that could be on the market at some point? >> guest: very much so. we're very much hoping that this can be actually commercially available within the next couple of years. >> host: what else does it do? it looks like it has cameras here on the side along with the grippers. >> guest: ye

the second speaker earned his masters degree and ph.d. at the university of illinois at chicago under the direction of richard freed. after completing his graduate work, the professor taught at various universities and colleges in chicago. he's now at the college of du page and he has written about the career of richard nixon, concentrating on his career in congress. his dissertation topic, nixon in the '50s. our next speaker is irv gelman. irv has written three monographs on the presidency of franklin d. roosevelt, roosevelt and batista published in 1973. secret affairs, franklin roosevelt, cordell hall, summer wells in '95. he's em parked on a mult time multivolume biography on the life and times of richard nixon. the first is the contender, richard nixon, and the apprenticeship, richard nixon, the vice presidential years. 1952 to 1961 and he expects it to be published this year. our final speaker will be perspective from someone within the nixon administration, frank gannon. frank received his doctor of philosophy from oxnard university

the u.s. department of labor. he holds a ph.d. in social welfare from columbia university. dr. matthew mitchell is senior research fellow for economics at the mercatus center. his primary interests include economic freedom, growth, fiscal policy, public choice, and institutional economics. dr. mitchell currently serves on the joint advisory board for the commonwealth of virginia. dr. mitchell received his ph.d. from george mason university. he received his undergraduate degrees from arizona state university and i have no idea what the school colors are so we'll move on. let me again explain our lining system. i think most of you were here before. it's a green, yellow, red system. green when you start, yellow when you have a minute left, and red when you're out of time. please try to wrap up your testimony when you see that red light. finish your thought. and then we'll have a chance to ask questions. so we'll start -- we'll go in the same direction. miss johnson, you're recognized. >> thank you, chairman cline and distinguished members of the committee. i greatly appreciate the

. >> the first african-american to receive a ph.d. from that particular meteorology program, which has been around for several decades. it is a bit shocking that in 1999 when i did receive my ph.d. that i was still the first. >> dr. shepherd's honors don't end there. for research on urban climates he received the presidential award, the highest nation for scientists and engineers under the age of 40. he made black enterprise magazine's 2005 hot list of top african-american professionals under 4o one of the other highlights of his career was when he got a job at nasa fulfilling a dream he had in high school. >> i graduated in 1987. in my valedictorian address, i mentioned i hoped to work for nasa one day, having no idea how that would happen. once i knew that one of my dreams was about to be realized, it was really a rewarding experience, a humbling experience. >> after 12 years as a scientist, he left nasa and continues research for the university at university of georgia in athens and advises graduate and undergraduate students. he s

you're too wordy, and i was wordy because i remember one victim of the trainings for my ph.d in history is don't leave things unside so i am wordy. i wanted the people that i interviewed to be completely known to the reader or listener of the tape. so will a complete early life history of richard nixon which is complex. the idea of black history, nixon and whittier college had black football players at that time before world war ii. there were very few colleges allowed and richard took the black historian whom i interviewed, by the way, he ended up in the merchant marine and had nothing, but praise for the nixon family. >> so let me -- >> i just want to clarify, "the l.a. times" made the error of saying that i was appointed and they announced it as the director of the project to interview friends and associates. don't believe it. i interviewed anti-nixon people. we tried to get jerry voorhies among others and he refused. those who knew -- he hated nixon's guts. the last thing i would do is try to gifz a biased interview collection on nixon. >> let me ask you to -- let me ask one of them

a message on the boston ph.d. nonymous attacks boston web site in retaliation for police brutality at occupy wall street. that's in reference to the occupy wall street movement. earlier anonymous posted online an intercepted phone conversation between fbi agents and counterparts at scotland yard and the united kingdom. it was quite embarrassing. there was an email that went along with it which anonymous also somehow got so they can see their emails. british police claim it poses no security risk. the security worker who police say snatched a thousand $ from a passenger's jacket during an airport screening at jfk has gone before a judge now. the queens county new york district attorney says it happened last night. one day after the suspected theft at jfk. cops say surveillance video shows the woman taking the cash as that jacket went through the x-ray screening there she now faces charges of grand larceny and could get up to seven years in the slammer. just a couple of days now until the giants and the pats battle a

and i was wordy because i remember one victim of the trainings for my ph.d. in history, if in doubt, take a note. don't leave things, you know, unsaid. so i am wordy. i wanted the people that i interviewed to be completely known to the reader or listener of the tapes. so when will a complete early life history of richard nixon, which is complex, the idea of black history, nixon and whittier college had black football players at that time before world war ii with very few colleges allowed. d historian whom i interviewed, by the way, he ended up in the merchant marine and had nothing but praise for the nixon family. >> so let me ask them to respond. >> i also want to clarify, "the l.a. times" made the error of saying that i was appointed, and they announced it as the director of the project to interview friends and associates. don't believe it. i interviewed anti-nixon people. we tried to get jeremy voorhees, among others. he refused. those who know whittier, we did interview judge merten ray who hated nixon's guts. the last thing i would do is try to give a bia

the vice president agnew, vice president spiro agnew, so we'll begin, going in alphabetical order. justin coffey is an associate professor of history at quincy university in quincy, illinois, and he earned his ph.d. at the university of illinois at chicago. and his specialty is recent american political history. recent american history with a concentration on the ideological battles of the 1960s. he's currently working on a biography of former vice president spiro agnew. after justin will be -- tim kisco will go. and he's an associate professor of communications at the university of michigan, dearborn, where he teaches journalism and journalism history. he joined the faculty there after working for more than three decades as a journalist first as the "detroit free press" from 1970 to '87 and then later at the detro"detroit news" he's the author in 2009 "a newscast for the masses, a history of detroit television journalism." kisco also worked as a producer and a reporter for a cbs owned all-news radio station wwj-am where he specializes in exit polls and election annalysinaly. finally, professor william rohrabach is a professor of history at the university of washington in seattle. professor rohr

the think tank's." tevi is a senior fellow at hudson. he has a ph.d. in american civilization from the university of texas at austin in the bush administration, he served -- texas at austin. in the bush administration, he served as deputy director and acting assistant to the president for domestic policy and head of the domestic policy council. towards the end of the administration, he was deputy secretary of health and human services. during his checkered career, he has been at the following think tanks -- aei claremont, the potomac institute heritage, and the institute for humane studies. after tevi speaks, we will hear from our three panelists. first, neera tanden, president of the center for american progress and counselor to their affiliates, the center for american progress action fund. she was among those who founded cap in 2003. she served as legislative director for senator hillary clinton and was a senior official on her senate campaign in 2000. for that -- before that, she served in the clinton white house. she was director of domestic policy

. >> reporter: but in the 18 years that followed, victor rios earned his high school diploma, finished college, earned a ph.d. from the university of california at berkeley, and wrote two books on his life and his research on juvenile delinquency. he now teaches sociology at u.c. santa barbara and helps at-risk youth navigate the perils of adolescence. rios is also a family man with a wife, rebecca, and three children: nina, maya and marco. life is constantly busy. >> to come this far, i feel like i've lived two lifetimes.

the over all numbers are astounding. and federal employees are getting more. benefits are 43 percent more and ph.d are a tiny fraction of the government employees. emac is a numbers person. spell it out. >> my dear friend rick unger is cherry picking the data. federal worker gets two percent higher benefits and master districts 36 higher and the real issue is benefits are driving 48 percent versus the private worker. why? federal worker gets pension and 401 and private workers only get 401 k's. that is driving the difference. what are you getting for your buck. 401 k money and that's why the numbers are much higher. >> i don't want to get too much in numbers. they get higher wages. >> rick go ahead. except they don't. if it is higher level educational. >> they are geting more in benefits. >> let me add something else. they robbery on a wage freeze. >> no, they are not on they are getting increase in their pay. >> get out of weeds for the moment. one thing that could end is the supplemental pay that goes to employees. if they retire before the age of 62 they get the pay outs. it is for the governme

the time. he was getting his ph.d. when i was born, my mother was working as administered assistant at washington university. -- administrative assistant at washington university. they were hippies and academics. >> your mother died early? >> yes. she died in 1981. >> went to a web school. >> yes. it is a boarding school. a private boarding school in claremont, california. they have a small number of days students and i was one of them. i was a scholarship kid there. it is a great place. it was great for me. it was a great place for me. it helped me to start to become who i was. >> why? >> why was it important? >> what happened there that made a difference? >> it is a small place. you know, my family did not have the means to send me there and i was lucky to get scholarships and stuff like that. small, private education, they tend -- there is more attention. they can give individual attention to students, especially those who are not cut from the typical mold. i was very interested in history and politics. not the poli

much. [ applause ] >> judith hunter is senior research scholar in history at the state university of new york. she did her ph.d in yale with david brian davis but was an undergraduate student of jim mcpherson's and was a member of the princeton class of 1983 and precepted his civil war class in 1989. so judith? 6 >> i'd actually appreciate some liepts on. -- some lights on. others will speak at length about professor mcpherson's scholarship. but i'd like to say a little about him as a teacher and a mentor to someone who wasn't even one of his grad students. he once remarked to me that he came to write about the civil war through his teaching, that he -- his research interests at first had been regarding the abolitionists and that the war itself was not his subject of study. but through teaching the civil war he realized how much there was to say and how important it was to say it. and i think we can all agree he's succeeded marvelously well on that. in 1982, i took jim's civil war and reconstructions class. and i bring that up to say that princeton students really hadn't clued in yet to what they had on their

as a journalist and commentator he has been writing about politics and culture in the united states for some time. ph.d. in history, university of chicago. the reputation is a articulate provocative voice of the left and a former opinion columnist for "the wall street journal" in by the way i was just informed we will soon be carrying the ba'ath lawyer magazine. [laughter] and since late 2010 he has been riding a column for "harper's" magazine and lives in the washington area and has appeared at politics and prose at least for the last two of his books. what's the matter with kansas? and the wrecking crew. this is his fifth book and has edited a couple of anthologies. in this book he argues the right has managed to resurrect itself by taking a vantage of public anger of the disastrous condition of the economy and have offered the appealing narrative about what went wrong not placing the blame on wall street bond government. and rather than a knowledge of the notions of laissez-faire economics free play are badly undercut from the realities of mismanagement, they have in his view, up the ante to become

the january jobs report unambiguously good. mark zandy is a pretty smart guy. he has a ph.d. from the ivy league school of pennsylvania, but rush thinks he knows better. rush wantses the president to fail at all costst aaccusing them of monkeying the numbers is desperate psychotalk. >> we're so grateful for the victory here today in a trial, and we look very soon to californians being able to wed again. >> a major victory for marriage equality in california. proposition 8 has been overturned, but there's a long way to go. gay rights activist lieutenant dan choi and harris perry are here with reaction. in wisconsin more bad news for scott walker isn't stopping the governor from raising cash. >> to counter the money from washington we need help from people in the wisconsin but across the country. >> john nicholls is here to fill us in. the komen controversy just gets bigger. >> karen did not have anything to do with this decision. >> i was asked to look at options. >> teri o'neal of the national organization of women is here. >>> this is the greatest opportunity i've seen in civ

the beginning. he went on to earn his ph.d. in engineering in 1964 and then began working at the u.s. naval research laboratory. he invented the far ultraviolet electrographic camera which was used in the 1972 apollo 16 mission. this invention revealed new features in the earth's far outer atmosphere and deep space objects. he recently taught at howard university. log on to wusa9.com for more in black history. >>> welcome back. 4:55. your weather first on this april-like morning. i know it's february but get ready for some warm temperatures. low 50s by 9:00. by noon 60-ish. we'll be in the mid if not upper 60s before the day is out with a 63-degree reading for the ride home. changes by the weekend. let's go to monika. >>> very light in the main and hov lanes to the 14th street bridge. a couple of accidents in maryland. i'll have that next for you at 5:01. >>> the ground was broken wednesday for the national museum of african-american history and culture. president obama and a lot of dignitaries and celebrities gathered in a tent on the national mall to mark the start of the constructi

capital, western tourists are markedly absent and many that sided with the opposition have lost their jobs. this woman has a ph.d. in economics and was fired because of her association with the protest movement. >> my husband came home for lunch and he left and he was ambushed and kidnapped from the car parked and he was gone for 10 months. i have a very little access to him and he was beaten up. >> with the anniversary coming on february 14th, it is possible that tension bubbles to the surface once more. there is a lot of anger in the poor districts of bahrain. >> back on the line from baltimore. tell us what you know about the situation? seven days of continual bombardment by syrian government forces. >> this is utterly direct. there has been a marked escalation of this crisis in the week since the russians and the chinese vetoed a draft resolution. this would have signaled some kind of international consensus on what to do about the crisis. the syrian security forces have mounted a major assault on the city of homs which has been the center of resistance. 400 people have been killed. one of the features of th

the new pakistan ambassador to pakistan a very articulate woman. my own daughter is one of them come a ph.d. from cambridge became the first ever director of the center in the world of cambridge. the of the one at georgetown, cities are muslim women, american, british, whatever, but they are still living in their own traditions and comfortably adjusting to the world. now the danger is conceptually if you remember the center the average reader who knows little about islam and has so much controversy and debate and discussion particularly in the united states the danger is that they may think that is only their offer that the muslim women are either completely extremist and want to block the west and kill people and so on and on the other hand, they want to reject islam, said you think that there is a danger of an effect pushing the reader into that trap on the intellectual trap of missing out the main street or the central? >> guest: i don't think so because i talk about that in the book as you know that one of the frustrations that muslim women have have had over the last decade is that wom

the development. it has described them as high. we report. >> mahmoud ahmadinejad has a ph.d. in traffic management. he likes to play the part of nuclear physicist. he inspected new homemade fuel rods for a research reactor, all made without any help from the west. >> they restrict scientific achievement to themselves, especially advanced science. they have used it to fight humanity. science should be invested in people's well-being and to organize relations. >> the most important of the announcements may be the installation of 3000 new centrifuges for uranium enrichment. this does not prove that iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. it puts the country in a better position to do so if it chooses. >> if it is true that they have been proved -- producing more centrifuges, that is significant. it means the time line for iran to be able to produce a nuclear weapon is significantly shorter. >> how much shorter is something that negotiators will try to work at. the last time that world powere ands and iran sat down a year ago, they achieved nothing. they now tell the west they are ready to have another go. th

cia, the director of operations and people who do the actual spying or cast aside and the director of intelligence, ph.ds were put in charge like telling the university of alabama football team they had to report to the english department at the school and we need to start undoing that and going back to having real intelligence agencies who don't just play domestic politics. >> christian is advising speaker gingrich in his run, but also a former senior advisor, thank you so much. >> thanks, rick. ♪ >> getting folks out to vote and there are some people who say that taking time off work to vote is a hassle. so they just don't. that's part of the argument behind moving election day from tuesday to saturday. casey stegall is live from the los angeles bureau. are there other arguments to moving a federal election, casey. >> reporter: it's fascinating, a growing movement from this organization called why tuesday.org. and also a new york lawmaker that points to an exhe treemly old law. first of all, a quick history lesson. congress picked tuesdays to hold general elections back in 1845, to accommodate the far

the development. we report. >> mock would have been done -- mahmoud ahmadinejad has a ph.d. in traffic management. he likes to play the part of a nuclear physicist. he inspected new fuel rods for a reactor. all made without any help from the rest. -- west. >> they restrict scientific achievement to themselves. they have used it to fight to humanity. science should be invested in people's well-being and to organize international relations based on friendship, respect, and justice. >> the most important of the announcements may be the installation of 3000 new centrifuges for uranium enrichment. in its self, this does not prove that iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. it puts the country in a position to do so if it chooses. >> they are introducing 3000 more centrifuges, that is significant. it means the time line for them being able to produce a nuclear weapon is significantly shorter. >> exactly how much shorter is something that negotiators will try to work out. the last time the world powers and iran set down for nuclear talks, they achieved nothing. iran has told the west they are ready to have ano

many that sided with the opposition have lost their jobs. this man has a ph.d. in economics -- this woman has a ph.d. in economics and was fired for her association with the protest movement. >> my husband came home for lunch and he left and he was ambushed and he did not come home. and he was gone for 10 months. he was sentenced to three years in a military point of -- in a military court. i had no access to him. he was tortured. >> with the one-year anniversary of the uprising, it is possible that tension baubles to the surface once more. there is still a lot of unaddressed anger in the port district of bahrain. >> now to the latest in our series on the super rich. despite the economic situations, many are still enjoying the high life. in china, the growing ranks of millionaires are looking to gain status. now sports are part of that quest. we went to the city that is the host of a most unusual polo tournament. new game.s polo's organizers hope that the men in horseback can capture the middle kingdom. out what the developers are building a huge office and resi

those that supported the opposition have lost their jobs. this woman has a ph.d. in economics and was fired for her association with the protest movement. our husband was jailed by the police. >> my husband came home for lunch and he left and he was ambushed and kidnapped from the car park. he was gone for 10 months. he was sentenced to three years in a military court. i had very little access to him. he was tortured severely. he still has his scars and wounds. >> with the anniversary coming, it is possible that the tension will come to the service once more. there is still a lot of unaddressed anchor in the poorer districts of bahrain. >> now, to the latest on our series on the super rich. despite the economic situation, many of the elite are in joining the high life. in china, a growing number of millionaires are looking to gain status and now sports are part of the quest. we went to the city that is the host of the most unusual polo tournament. >> of china is the new frontier. even in arctic conditions, there is an alert to the game. organizers hope that the man

>> we spent so much time and energy looking for the talent, and a lot of the talent we need are ph.d.-type talents. that's what we need across this nation. and it's very difficult to find those types of people. we need to open up immigration. >> tom: how much more open would you like it, for instance? >> well, you know, i think it's going to be driven in terms of technology innovation for us to get out of these cycles. we have to reinvent ourselveses and reinventing ourselves requires innovations and it comes out of these universities. >> tom: you also operate in health care, one of the most regulated and highly politically charged sectors, given this election, no doubt. we hear from c.e.o.s across industries about regulation, hurting growth, holding back growth. do you agree? >> i do. we are a $350 billion industry, and you look at-- we get two million jobs in the device industry here in the united states, and we have to become more friendly to industry. you know, we have an excise tax coming in 2013. i hear a lot of my peers talking about moving jobs to other nations, other countrie