a yale undergraduate, thank you for joining us. other news in egypt, the muslim brotherhood has warned to a return to revolution if the country's former spy chief succeeds in a bid to become president. suleiman was a key leader with mubarak. it was an insult to the egyptian people. the first round of the elections is scheduled for next month. in purru, nine miners have been trapped for five days now inside an illegal copper mine. rescuers are in contact with the workers and the government has appealed to mining companies for experts to help free them. it seems greece has come up with a novel and somewhat controversial way of raising money to battle its massive debts. police officers are available to rent along with patrol cars and police helicopters. in case you were tempted, a police officer can be hired for $40 an hour to be used for security. >> let's just take you to the scene live in tokyo in japan where the british prime minister david cameron is set to arrive. we believe that is the plane he is onboard alongside a number of

he is in his mid 40's and now teaching at yale. just got married to the woman that does the green design at yale. both programs are about a year old. the universities are finally trying to get this. amy on the right is the first chemist -- last year more women graduated than men. we have the technologies to figure this out. we need to get the billion dollar beauty companies supporting this research. of course the power of act vision, opi nail products. they are the largest seller of largest products worldwide, 70 countries. they are using -- why don't you take it out of your u.s. products. they weren't too keen on that. we think the europeans are crazy. opi has fun names like i am not really a waitress red. we decided to do a spoof and we came up with our own names, like i can't believe it is a carcinogen. we dressed up with sashes that said mistreatment. this all happened in may, by august the company announced they were taking out formaldehyde and now advertising all of their products are free of those chemicals. >> [applause]. >

david is the class of 1954 professor at yale university. excuse me, professor of american history at yale university and he's also the director of the gilder lehrman center for the study of slavery resistance in abolition. best known to civil war audiences as the author of the 2001 book "race and reunion, the civil war and american history." he has recently published for the civil war sesquicentennial a perceptive look at the civil war centennial entitled "american oracle." ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure to welcome back to the museum and to the confederacy, and to you today david blight. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, waite. good morning. >> good morning. >> i have one rule i always try to enforce whenever i'm speaking in the south. i can't quite do it every time but it's to have at least emory thomas on my flank. i never go anywhere in the south without emory if i can help it. just kidding. what a thrill it was last year to be in charleston for the 150th with emory on one side and bud robertson on the other. and i got away wit

journalism fellow at mit and temple from cambridge develop in science and religion is a graduate of yale university and the author of several books including his latest republican grain science of why they deny science and the reality is joins me now in the studio of course. the be here thanks for joining us. one of the most interesting things throughout my life i've noticed that. i mean all the way back to my dirty hippie days i've noticed with the republicans always seem clean cut and there are houses usually really really neat and the democrat. you know the old west yes people you know. they're going to be happy is exactly is there are like a brain wiring explanation for that it's a personality trait you're tapping into is one of the big personality traits that differ liberals from conservatives called conscientiousness and it doesn't mean you know just being ethical it means actually liking order and structure in your life and i think that goes all the way down to sort of being more clean cut versus being sort of. it's interesting one of the characteristics of children who have exper

quarterback conversations of great minds with chris mooney he's a graduate of yale university and the author of several books including his latest republican brain science why science and reality let's get back to it if we can bring this graphic back up here and in the plasma we started with this question of why is the republicans but the more well educated republican is. your estate the higher level education as a republican and many studies have found this the less likely you are to accept the science of global warming which is essentially scientific reality you're rejecting it so why and i call the people over here the educated republicans who reject it smart idiots because clearly it's not that they are not knowledgeable it's not they're not educated something else going on so what is that well it's probably many things right it's probably paying attention to conservative news and opinion fox news getting that kind of information that'll make you doubt it it's probably skepticism about. europe with a question that's that's a subset of the whole thing of selective sure data so i gi

up next, a yale university professor on president andrew jackson and the constitution. then, a panel of historians on teaching constitutional history. >> american history tv continues on cspan 3. each night the rest of the week. wednesday at 8:00 p.m. historians consider who time magazine might have picked to be person of the year in 1862 when the country was in the midst of the civil war. among the names discussed abolitionist leader frederick douglas, robert e. lee and george b. mclellan. >> this is cspan 3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week. every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our web sites. and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >>> every weekend, hear eyewitness accounts about american history and the people and events that shaped our nation. oral histories. saturday, 8:00 a.m. sunday afternoon at 3:00. and monday mornings at 4:00 eastern. only on american history tv on cspan 3. learn more about our programs and se

she was called a star at yale by a young fellow student called bill. hillary actually had to slow down a bit to be with bill, choosing to take an extra year to graduate. le hillary always cared deeply about public policy. when she was in the white house, she made her mark through the commitment on these issues that actually matter most, education, health care, children's welfare. she was right. it takes a village. after having remarkably served new york and the country at the senate, look at what vision, what inspiration, what incredible energy she brings to her job. her job? no. her mission as secretary of state. she has made usaid more effective around the world helping people everywhere. she has crossed many borders and built so many bridges. in pakistan, she shattered a few myths by meeting regularly with civil society organizations, youth leaders and a broad section of pakistani society. and who can forget the iconic photo of her and aung san suu kyi? a few months ago in myanmar, a moving testament to the power of leaders, to the power of movement

henry winters luce, his father, was a yale graduate drawn into the student volunteer movement of the late 19th century, which drew many educated men to the missionary life. hery winters luce sought to bring christianity to china. something the missionary movement failed to do. the senior henry luce was committed to bringing modern western education and knowledge to the chinese people. in that he was somewhat more successful. the younger harry luce became in many ways a missionary, too. a revolutionary figure who believed he could shape the world through journalism just as his father believed he could shape the world through faith. he was an unlikely revolutionary in many ways, he attended hotchkiss, became a skull and bones man at yale and eventually became one of the wealthiest men in america. he lived accordingly. he divorced his loyal and in his view dull first wife and married one of the most famous, ambitious and controversial women of the 20th century, claire booth luce. journalist, editor, playwright, ambassador to italy. their marriage was a romantic disaster but survived in

after that, a yale university professor on president andrew jackson and the constitution. american history tv continues on c-span 3 each night the rest of the week. wednesday at 8:00 p.m., historians consider who "time" magazine might have picked to be person of the year in 1862 when the country was in the midst of the civil war. among the names discussed, abolitionist leader frederick douglass, confederate general robert e. lee, and george b. mcclellan, the union general who commanded a failed 1862 campaign to take the confederate capital of richmond. this is c-span 3. with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. each weekend on american history tv learn more about the presidents, their policies and legacies, through their historic speeches and discussions with leading historians. every sunday morning at 8:30 eastern and again at 7:30 p.m.

more recent studies include yale researcher dr. william galo who released a study in 2006 and that found that results suggest that the true cost of late career unemployment exceed financial deprivation and include substantial health consequences. unemployment's health impact on children is also discussed in the report. the national center for health statistics has found that children in poor families were four times as likely to be in fair or poor health as children in families that were not poor. the research in the report speaks for itself. the concern about unemployment's impact on public health is a concern for at least one former obama white house official. as reported in "the new york times" on november 17th of last year, white house chief of staff william daley asked one interest group lobbying for stricter epa rules, an interest group lobbying the administration for mr. even stricter epa rules, mr. daley said, quote, what are the health impacts of unemployment?

. >> yale. steve brill, the professor. and he sent the one-page papers that these bright students had written, and then asked that i talk to the class on a speaker phone after. i got the papers on a sunday night, read them, and i think came as close as i have to having an aneurysm. because the students wrote that oh, you would just use the internet and you would go to nixon's -- >> wikipedia. >> you would google nixon's secret font and it would be there. >> this is yale. >> yes. that somehow the internet was a magic lantern that led up all events. they went on to say, and in fact, the political environment would be so different that nixon wouldn't be believed and all the bloggers and tweeters would be in the lather and nixon would resign in a week or two weeks after watergate. now, this is you know, i have attempted to apply some corrective information to them. but the basic point is, the truth of what goes on is not on the internet. it can supplement, it can help vastly, the truth resides with people. human sources. and t

he is a graduate of the yale university law school. thank you for being here mr. clegg, please proceed. if you would, turn your microphone on. it's in that box in front of you. >> thank you very much, senator durbin, for inviting me here today. i'm delighted to be here. let me just summarize briefly my written statement. the first point i make is that care has to be taken in defining the term "racial profiling." and in particular, i think that it's important to bear in mind that racial profiling is disparate treatment on the basis of race. good police activities that happen to have a disparate impact on race are not racial profiling. the second point i make is that the amount of racial profiling that occurs is frequently exaggerated and that care needs to be taken in analyzing the data in this area. all that said, racial profiling, as i define it, is a bad policy. and i oppose it for the reasons that a many of my co-panelists here are giving. there is one possible exception that i would make, and that is in the anti-terrorism context. in brief, i think that it is

because we both had gone to yale, we struck up this conversation and went on for a while and we had a very, very engaged conversation. he said i'm really interested in you possibly. i have some other candidates. one of them was married to richard nixon's daughter, tricia cox -- tricia nixon cox, a candidate for that job. i thought i have a zero chance, a great chance to go to the white house. this is a lark. it was very fun. i told him i said you ought to know i voted for humphrey. i'm actually a great admirer of richard nixon's foreign policy. i'm more liberal that this domestic policy. but i'm interested in talking to you. i know you're going to hire somebody else. i was in north carolina, was right on the verge of accepting a job there when the phone rang. they fished me out. it was the white house calling. it was ray price on the line. he said i interview everybody, i'd like you to come to work for me. i said i can't believe it. i said, i want to remind you. he said that's fine. he said why don't you come for a year, it's 1971. we won't have an election campaign. i'll try you out,

it turned out he had gone to yale ten years earlier than i had, been very involved in the political union, i think with the conservative party, had known bill buckley, had gone on from there to become editorial page editor for the new york "herald tribune," jack whitney's paper and had written the 1964 editorial endorsing lyndon johnson over barry goldwater, but also had become very close to richard nixon and was hired by knocks on to come in as one of three key speech writers. it was ray price, pat buchanan and bill safire. and jim khiel was the boss, the head of the speech writing team. ray was one of the three principal speech writers, very gifted writer, a lovely lilt to his writing. jim khiel moved out or retired from government and ray moved up to the number one job and he was looking for an administrative assistant. i went in to have this interview. because we both had gone to yale, we struck up this conversation and went on for a while and we had a very, very engaged conversation. he said i'm really interested in you possibly. i have some other candidates. one of them was married

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i remember, we all went back our office, the harvard and yale types, saying great we're going to get out of this. the other guys said, oh, they finally caught him. it was a very interesting, instructive lesson for me about both naivete and how working around in that environment, people who were seeing the same events could see them through a very different lens. >> was pat buchanan one of those who responded that way? >> i was trying to remember whether pat had left, when he left. i didn't think pat was there toward the bitter end. somehow i thought he had moved on. he remained loyal to nixon. i'm sure pat, you know, pat came up from a -- i'm a big pat buchanan admirer and i've always enjoyed his company. and, you know, because he went to gonzaga and a good catholic background, great family. more conservative than i am but so what? but i don't know where he was on that. i do think pat -- pat was a real skeptic about my coming in there at first because is this guy qualified? and he was probably right. but he became a good colleague. i enjoyed working with pat. but i do want to say thi

then another thing at yale the, attention is yale owns the revolutionary paintings of john trumbull. john trumbull was a connecticut artist, and he served in the revolution. he was a colonel, became a colonel to andy did some diplomatic errands. he was kind of politically quite a man. he became one of america's first great painters, then at the end of his life he was no longer popular because it tastes had gone away from history of painting. then someone on the yale faculty from new haven, someone got wind of this, so yale a person as to if you leave all your paintings too as we will give you an annuity. we will support you through the rest of your life. so he accepted that he made conditions. and he said all my paintings have to be hung together. it has to be called the trumbull gallery. i have to be buried in my standing portrait of george washington after the battle of trent, because i consider that my most important painting. and if any of these conditions are violated, harvard gets to paintings. >> host: so he knew how to force -- >> guest: and, indeed, there is a yale gallery i

back with me now, defense attorneys alan dershowitz, yale glantand, and shawn holley.a quite lengthy and contentious interview with robert zimmerman, george's younger brother, the only family member speaking at the moment. i thought it was very enlightening in one way, in that i interviewed him two weeks ago and there was much more detail from him this time about what is clearly the family view of what happened. and there were definitely some contradictions there. i mean, at one stage he said that you had trayvon martin on top of his brother, with his hand over his mouth, but didn't explain how, if that's the case, how was his brother screaming out? and there were other moments like that where i felt, this doesn't work out. what did you think of it? >> well, the major contraction, i think, was in the first interview, he basically said that martin confronted him and spoke to him and said, why are you following me? in the second interview, it was a sudden attack without any speaking at all. and so, you know, there are risks involved in having anybody speak to the media o

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. >> students at thomas jefferson high school and yale university are morning to night. >> they are in popular alumni who committed suicide while attending yale. >> traditionally, news media does not cover suicide, but in this case his own parents said the way their son died did not take away from the fact that he touched the lives of thousands. many here at thomas jefferson high school have immortalized him with his class from last year. they also said he did more in his 19 years than many of us will dream of doing. what does the -- what is a 19- year old curly headed kid from alabama doing here? >> he lived like on his terms. that's what makes this all harder to accept. >> hard to imagine that the kid who inspired friends and never met a stranger who kind of the world around him -- >> izhak with the kind of guy that when he walked to the room it brightened up. >> he would end his days after 19 years and astonishing accomplishments. >> so many kids have taught themselves how to live. >> he learned russian and was an elvis impersonator. he was called by teachers the brightest kid in al

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the reason, it will pay off over the long run >> i am just tell you, you need to be happy you are at yaled not here they would be throwing eggs at you. >> let me ask you real quick what prompted you to do this study, are you a real football fan. >> i am interested in stay it'sics, i am -- statistics >> i am trying to break into the nfl now and trying to get my name out there. >> as a player. >> more as a front office person. >> all right sam, we certainly wish you luck and hope that with a you were saying does not hold true for robert griffin the third here. thanks sam. >> thank you. >>> all right, gary mcgrey diwith a special -- mcgrey dee with a special helper. >> bring your kids to work day. >>> we are excited about the capitals. >> could you share who is visiting. >> cameron my youngest. >> he did your show tonight. >> he has probably been down on club penguin most of the afternoon. >> oh >> i think he said something about it is boring can we get something to eat. >> you said you were going to talk all of a sudden he got silent he asked for his own microphone. >> where do you go to el

it broke out at 9:30 this tonight at yale avenue. two of the damaged homes were vacant but one was occupied. everyone was able to get out safely. >> at the noon hour we have a sunny skies and temperatures are climbing rapidly. north wins are gusting to 17. temperatures will be rising today into the mid-sixties for hides. if you like that, because ideas about typical for this time of year, on saturday we are going farther. then we will keep going and another 10 degrees on sunday. pretty good forecast coming our way. >> "session 2012" -- it may be turning into a special session. gov. o'malley joined our studios this morning to talk about the budget. >> what we need to revisit is the framework of the compromise we thought we had on the final leg. there are some who say we ran out of time and others who say we veteran of trust -- we ran out of trust. we need to focus on a budget that is balanced, that protect our priorities and allows us to keep maryland moving forward so that we can put this recession in our review mirror. >> if lawmake

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(laughter) please, a yale man doesn't eat miniquiche.ass on the job, at least recommend someone else to fill it. >> you've got a lot of really talented people out there that mitt romney is going to get to pick from i think a lot of them, senator rob portman would be phenomenal choice for vice president. >> jon: that does t that is all right. marco rubbio says rob portman is your guy. i don't flow who that is. (laughter) >> let's see what he has to say about it. >> romney portman. >> i think rubio has a better ring. (laughter) >> jon: why does being romney's vice president now seems like a dare nobody wants to take. eat a plate of my own [bleep] blooep. >> no no you eat it. here comes the peer pressure. >> i think marco would be among many great candidate force vice president. i think marco's probably the best. >> jon: rubio passes to portman, portman back to rubio, bush also packs back to rubio, rubio in the lane he is driving, he is standing flex to the basket and -- >> that is very nice of jeb, i hope he'll say yes if the future presid

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david blight for the yale center of the study of slavery resistance and abolition nominated frederick douglass. david fair gut, and the former of choo of military history for the army john mount castle and robert e. lee nominated by professor thomas and we'll talk to him in a moment. in case you missed any of today's event we'll show the entire program beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern this afternoon and at 1:00 a.m. on sunday morning. we'll open up the phone lines and we'll have them open for your calls while they count the votes. here are the numbers for the eastern and central time zones. the number is 202-585-3885 and 202585-3886. we'll take your calls until they announce the winner. >> been getting a lot of tweets as well at twitter.com/c-span. our handle is @c-spanhistory just in case you want to favor that. the hash tag today is person of the year 1862. #poty1862. just want to read one tweet before we go back to professor thomas. here's one from wilhelm ii. he's not worthy of conversation. i nominate ben butler and that from our twitter folks. >> we'll go to professor thomas at th

were from robert krick, who is the chief historian of fredericksburg for 30 years, david blight of yale nominated frederick douglas who came in third, nominated by james macpherson came in first and he was dead last in the voting in virginia and we congratulate professor thomas and we'll open up the phone line again for our viewers. professor thomas, you earn a big trophy or a big prize? no, i got a handshake for the director of the museum of the confederacy. you talked a little bit about this in your nomination for robert e. lee. when with general lee was the command of the union army in the spring of 1861, did he have inkling that he would take over command of the southern army? >> i don't think so. i think he turned it down because there was some irony here because he really just did not like conflict. he doesn't respond well to conflict and he does so because he can't handle conflict, what kind of conflict, you ask. he would have had war on his neighbors and relatives and he's going to do that. he would have spent the rest of his life explaining to the people he cared about and love