that's one point higher than steven hawking, bill gates, even albert einstein.0. i don't have to be a genius to do that math. the straight a student says she is a normal teenager. she is unsure if she'll continue on to college or pursue a career in entertainment. >> don't waste that knowledge. >> what are you saying it's not smart to be in entertainment? >> you are right. i shouldn't -- it's fine. >> the gentleman who was just in silver linings playbook, he went to georgetown. >> bradley cooper. >> he's not genius. >> but she's saying i might not go to college. you can do both is what i'm saying. >> i'm glad we decided for her. our local ed no rton he went to yale. >>> it's chilly outside and going to be a cool afternoon. rain showers moving in and see if we don't transition to snow later tonight. evening commute will be wet and see if we don't get snow later. tomorrow morning, the possibility of a couple slippery spots. below freezing for parts of the area. >> i'm still on the quvenzhane meet. i did hear everything you said. >> current oscar nominees. >> right

his father was a distinguished brain chemist, and his brother worked with albert einstein to split thedam. bonhoffer told the field of theology. and while doing post-graduate studies in new york, he was surprised by what he found, or, rather, what he didn't find. >> in new york they preach about virtually everything, but only one thing was not addressed or addressed so rarely, i've yet been able to hear it, namely the gospel of jesus christ, the cross, sin, forgiveness, death, and life. >> 80 years ago he wrote those words about the state of mainstream protestantism in new york city. >> reporter: while he didn't find sound theology in most of the churches in new york, he was inspired when he went to abissinian baptist church in harlem. >> everything about it touched his heart and moved him, so he went every single sunday not just to worship, but to teach sunday school. he got very involved. >> a white german in a black church beginning in the 1930s. >> it is amazing. he really was gripped by the whole idea of the racism and race relations in the u.s. there was nothing to compare this t

albert einstein changed all that when he put forth his theory of relativity. einstein said you can't talk about space without dealing with time. looks like maggie has an appointment at the dating service, which appears to be on the corner of x and y. she needs to go up to the mezzanine level and be there by 1:00. >> hi, i'm here for the speed dating. >> i'm sorry, it started at 1:00. >> but since maggie has arrived 30 minutes late, she's got the wrong coordinate in the time dimension. and her online dream date just walked out the door with someone who showed up on time. so the fourth dimension: time? i don't know, maybe. but in fact, as far as a mathematician's concerned, it could sort of be any kind of statistic, right? it could be height, weight, i mean, whatever you like. >> yeah. >> any parameter, so to speak. >> yeah, you're free to have 30 of them, 30 of these parameters. you're in some big 30-dimensional space where your coordinates and parameters -- >> which not even you can see. >> yes, and in some ways "see" is kind of the wrong thing, and part of th

coming in and the beneficiaries coming on, i say that it is not sustainable you don't have to the albert einsteino know that this math does not add up and cannot be sustained. but what does wall street do a year, two years, three years, what? >> well, i am a big believer that all the debt and problems we see in plain sight will eventually affect wall street and the markets, right now the,y market's love the printing of money. my big issue here is we hear 2,303, but when have they been right when they told us everything will be fine untiler then? the other part of the equationoc is just demographics. he used to be 30 barker's fort s every tyree.or it is now two or three and liv getting worse and worse as people live longer as it goes by don't do something it gets tougher down the road, you said, this is small things that can be done here. that would really shore it up for a good long time, we can't get that done because everyone is worried about getting yelled at and the scare tactics and getting reelectioned. >> thank you so much. neil: two airlines are merging it has one senator worrying, really

this is something albert einstein said american foreign-policy encountering just a mccarthy in the late940's, so it is time to, as lincoln would say, disenthrall ourselves in deal with the real world as it exists out there, and this will require a serious dialogue and serious change in the thinking of the people who occupy a very important positions in washington, and that is what the book is about. [applause] [inaudible] >> no. i took too much time. i'm glad you did. you should have cut me shorter. >> a lot of questions here. the defense budget. i think you touched upon this quite a bit. and a lot of people ask questions before you got to it. the question is, can we really reduce the defense budget? do you think it is too high? and the think there is any chance of doing so through congress? >> well, the chance of doing anything to congress's fraught with all sorts of peril. as i said at the outset, the defense budget is the third rail of american politics. hard to mention any real savings for real changes in the defense budget without antagonizing not only the republicans, but certain

turned out albert einstein explained that and that was one of the first contributions of einstein to prove the existence of atoms. he showed that the motion of those little particles of dust corresponded exactly to the motion of atoms at various temperatures. i asked you before, atoms big or small and you guys said... very small. small, right? okay, how small? small-small. small-small-small-small-small- small-small. how big is the sun? - big. - how big? very big. big-big-big-big-big-big. okay, let me tell you this, gang. the atom is small-small-small-small, as many times small than us as the sun and average-size stars are bigger than us. so do you want something for your poetry class? guess who stands between the atoms and the stars... in size? - us. - us. that's right, right in between. human beings are as many times bigger than the atom as the stars are many times bigger than us. so it will kind of give you a little bit of feeling. here's another one. i like things like this. apple, any atoms in an apple? i'm sure there's a few, couple of dozen. come on, honey. this scads, right? a

before you leave, the last thing i want to do is just quote albert einstein. he said a lot of memorable things. one of the things he said that i found especially memorable inappropriate -- in adversity lies opportunity. we've got plenty of adversity here, but also plenty of opportunity, and we are going to seize that opportunity. we seize the day. carpe diem. with that, carpe diem. we send you on your way. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> our second panel is comprised entirely of generals. postmaster general and a comptroller general, and neither are in uniform today. i guess they are in the uniforms they wear to work every day. we are happy to join us. our first witness will be patrick donahue, postmaster general and chief executive officer at the postal service. he has spent his entire career at the postal service, beginning as a clerk at the age of 12 -- all right, may be not 12, but a young clerk in his hometown of pittsburgh, spending years in top positions be

the expression about albert einstein, saying that if you keep doing the same thing over and over again, that's the definition of insanity. we keep doing it over and over again. is it time that we seriously look at the act and the power not just to tell people that there is huge waste, but take a more active role, an enforcement role and insisting those changes occur. isn't it essentially at the gal and ig that we recognize repeatedly hundreds of billions through republican and democratic administration. we have seen them come back, saying that they are going to do it, then we see the exact same things the next year. >> i absolutely think that there needs to be better options in terms of enforcement. that is something that we support. i think there are some agencies were we would be particularly happy to see that happen. of course, we have talked at length about this. the army corps of engineers, that is their department due to the scale of what they manage in both revenue and programs. so we definitely would support efforts to give the gal more authority. >> if there are no consequence

on the important issue together, and before you leave, the last thing i wanted to do was quote albert einstein. you said a lot of memorable things, and what's especially memorable and appropriate for today, "inadversity lies opportunity." that's what he used to say, "inadversity lies opportunity." we have adversity and opportunity. we'll see the opportunity and seize the day. with that, sending you on your way. god bless you. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. >> now, more on the financial issues facing the u.s. postal office. they heard from patrick donohue ending saturday delivery in effort to cut costs in the financial ailing constitution. this portion of the hearing is just over an hour. >> our second panel comprised of generals, a postmaster general and comptroller general. they are not in uniform today, but in uniform they wear every day. thank you for joining us. the first witness is don, the postmaster general. he's spent his entire career at the postal service beginning as a clerk at the age of 12. all right, maybe not 12. a young clerk in his hometown of pittsburgh spending many y

from alexander hamilton to andrew carnegie to albert einstein, we get our nation forged by immigrants. it is time we fully embrace that immigration is good for our country. it is time to do are tour part. thank you very much, mr. chairman. >> thank you. all other members opening statements will be made a part of the record. we will turn now to our distinguished panel. i will begin by introducing the first panel. our first witness on this panel is mr. vivek wadhwa, a visiting scholar at the university of california berkeley. a senior research associate at harvard law school. he is also a faculty member and adviser and writes a regular column for the washington post and bloomberg business week. last year, his book was named a book of the year by the economist magazine. he received his bachelor's degree from the university in australia and received his mba from new york university. our next witness is mr. michael teitelbaum who currently serves as the senior director of the alfred p. sloan foundation. from 1980-1990, he served as one of 12 commissioners for the study of international mig

on the important issue together, and before you leave, the last thing i wanted to do was quote albert einstein. you said a lot of memorable things, and what's especially memorable and appropriate for today, "inadversity lies opportunity." that's what he used to say, "inadversity lies opportunity." we have adversity and opportunity. we'll see the opportunity and seize the day. with that, sending you on your way. go hour. [inaudible conversations] while her witnesses are gathering for the third panel, let me just take a moment to express our appreciation for members to our staff on the democrat and republican side. one of the things we aspire to do is have differences from time to time, but i especially like the idea of members working together and staffs working together. we've got a lot of cooperation to put the panels to prepare for this hearing. thank you all for your work on that. panel number three, third and final panel. i like to say we are saving the best for last, but the other two were pretty good, so we will see. just very brief introductions for a third pml. and then we'll ask them