things that would make american universities. there been studies that suggest as many as 90% of the students are taking some kind of cutting of corners when they are applying to universities here. >> were colleges doing to try and make sure what they are getting in paper is what they are getting in person? >> it has become a lot heavier. they are doing a number of things. of studentsts coming to the u.s. might have somebody on the ground in the country to review the exams and say, this is indicative of the problems we have seen. others are trying to do things at the backend so that when students come here, they will do another english language exam so that they make sure what they saw as what they get. >> there are agents involved in this. this is the students themselves and the parents of the student who are so keen to get their children into an american university. >> we don't really think of it -- the pressures that the students are facing. the only children of families and it means the world to them. they spent a lot of money

to be a keynesian in 1937, 1938 was to be not able to get a job in an american university. uh... of my, uh, professors was talking at lunch, and we were talking about certain effects. and he said, "gee, that sounds very sensible. whose ideas are those?" and my friend said, "what do you mean? that's john maynard keynes. that's the general theory." the old professor said, "well, now, that's strange. "why is our department so against it if it's so sensible?" funeral by funeral, science makes progress. from cambridge to cambridge, the revolution marched and eventually conquered. keynesian economics swept american universities long before it became public policy in washington. roosevelt had a depression to fight. he had little time for theory. today, we can see that economics and the public policy it generates are fundamentally different because of john maynard keynes. professor gill, what was so revolutionary about keynesian economics? i think what excited academic economists was the idea i mentioned earlier. total demand, demand for consumers' goods plus business demand for investme

not recognised as actually being crimes because they are since then professor communications american university really appreciate it thank you coming up a break on the big business of world war two and its impact on survivors and corporations stay tuned. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioning the capacity. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our crafts image we've been hijacked why handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once will trust my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing to find a job ready to join the movement then walk in the big picture. live. during world war two the level of coordination and efficiency in an altercation of germany was unprecedented but the systematic extermination of people based on ra

paperclip well earlier i was joined by christopher since that professor of communications at american university and author of a low back the first full account of america's recruitment of nazis i first asked christopher why the u.s. would even implement such a horrific program in the first place. there's several different factors are involved number one to see emergence of the cold war and there was a relationship as far as a cold war is concerned in which recruitment of nazis or tolerance of former nazis in power in germany added to the then soviet union's worries about what were the post-war and post-war intentions of the western allies and some of those intent some of those questions went back to the war time period even earlier all right so then that again spurred more cold war or tension or its cold war tensions and so the group. meanwhile the soviets were also recruiting nazi criminals and there's a track record of that that can be clearly established so you have a a open market if you will in which the. the on the one hand there were prosecutions of nazis. on the other hand there was rec

somehow not recognised as actually being crimes because ever since then professor communications american university really appreciate it thank you coming up a break on the big business of world war two and its impact on survivors and corporations stay tuned. transit. you all best way to the heart of moscow. thanks. q pew kirkuk. cucumber . speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic. for the world talks to feel like peace. treaty story. arabic. visit arabic. during world war two the level of coordination and efficiency in the not speculation of germany was on precedented but the systematic extermination of people based on race and class may not have been possible or not for the many corporate interests that aided and abetted the nazis during the war for everything we learned about hitler in the second world war the war corporations late in the conflict is conveniently omitted from history books for example there's a world famous fashion designer hugo boss we can all thank for the infamous black uniforms worn by the german as us and the brown shirts worn by the hitler youth as well as a

the american university of way route is the most important institution in the arab world prior to the 1940s and 1950s. and it was a creation of these missionaries who identified with arab nationalism. there was this clear relationship between institutions like the american university of beirut, aub, and the creation of nationalist ideology in the arab world. so in addition to this british imperial tradition, the cia arabists are also drawing on this history of missionary, hearn missionary engagement -- american missionary engamement with the middle east which is transmitted to the young cia through a number of people of missionary stock who ran the u.s.' espionage effort in the middle east during world war ii. characters like william eddie and his biographer, thomas litman, is here tonight. so i think this really is the explanation of the puzzle that i started this research with, which is what was the cia doing funding an organization like the american friends of the middle east. and it also explains this sort of arabist element within the young cia, helps explain why it was that kerm

on monday, he will be at another predominantly african-american university. he has spoken at other african-american communities in the past. what can the republican party do, lorraine, to maybe break up that bedrock of support that the african-american community seems right now to have had for democrats? >> african-americans are about their issues. it seems that republicans have fought that. for instance, i mentioned earlier that the president had put forth a jobs bill at the beginning of the administration, and it was defeated. it had never had the kind of support in congress it should have. african-americans see this. it is clear, it is evident, so you vote for who support you. we have not seen a lot of support from the republican party. having said that, there are many members of the house and the senate, who are republican, who understand the issues in the african-american community. we just need to connect those dots. work together. i believe we can do this. we are willing, and the naacp and the urban league, we are willing to extend their hand in an effo

began at american university.ds computer information and he has lived within the security of the nsa and washington. you are the best guy on the planet to talk about this. do you have a confidence that theelites can get their hands around this issue so olivia and i feel safe when we snap chat? >> i never feel safe. >> i don't know what you guys are chatting about. >> will we feel safe? >> the challenge that these sites are having is people don't know whether they can fully trust these online sites to not sell their information or not move their information to the government. people don't have a problem sharing the information if they know what it will be used for. i have no problem giving facebook my extra information. i think it's a benefit that facebook can provide targeted advertising or show me things i might want to buy. >> this goes into what you are doing with social radar. developedcompany has an application that gives you real-time information about the people around you. people have to trust that we will

our next guest is a journalist, professor at american university and a best selling author. she's here to talk about her new book. this is her sixth book called "sex after." women share how intimacy changes as their life changes. pleasure to meet you. >> thank you for having me on. when you first look at the book, you talk about how it changes your life. i would glance at the book and say it must be a book about sex after menopause but it's a lot more than that. >> i'm a journalist, not a psychologist but i often feel like a psycho journalist because of the stories people tell me. i interviewed 150 women ages 20 through 90. and the book is called "sex after: intimacy changes as life changes." i take readers from sex after college, sex after a honey moon, sex after pregnancy -- honeymoon, sex after pregnancy, menopause, breast cancer, prostrate issues, weld doughhood. plus, i look at -- widowhood. plus, i look at stories that people don't talk about and wonder about. some of these soldiers are coming back from war missing limbs. i interviewed a young bride whose newly -- got

are there more black men in american prisons or american universities. one could even ask that question underscores the reality of being a black man in america. for every jobless white male 20 years and older there are two or more black men out of work. the unemployment rate for white men is .1%. for black men, it's 12%. if you answer there had are more plaque males in american prisons, you're wrong. there were far more black men in universities. in as recently as 2000 it was the other way around. the importance of the turn around while tackling the challenges that remain, two mayors equip city leaders with the right tools to help black men in the united states. we go to new orleans mayor mitc, there is still a lot of hopelessness and lack ever opportunity amongst young black males in america. >> ali, unfortunately for some that is absolutely the case. i want to thank again mayor landrew with mayors united. mayors focused on the issue of violence in our communities, and as it disproportionately effects black men and boys. even though things are moving in

can speak out to see out my shed two is an assistant professor of middle east studies at the american university of paris. thank you for speaking to ah say can you tell us why you think it was that the said this gentleman was targeted by the regime. the new presents to the center of the regret that the opposition division there seems so far has been arresting thousands of people from different local bars and restaurants. finger writers and intellectuals to come will spend just twenty years in jail. many of his brothers and sisters. missing from too close to spend the total seventeen years and also the day it's biased and has so far he's also send a message the local mines is accepted with any political stable position. as you want social. no voices of reason in the eighty s to the controls. voiced concern for the victims are shown for the future of studio executives concerned is exactly what the regime there is a bet on his side were concerned with meaning that the ball into the vocal sample of the kong license the division appears to be doing odd jobs to grow again gauze and on just the congreg

one of the great things about working at al jazeera is the >> did you know that american university is using adjuncts to replace tenured positions and drive down the quality of our education. i ask you, what's disgusting? you're disgusting. what is outrageous? adjunct wages. >> welcome those back. those are students here in d.c. that are outraged by the working conditions of adjunct professors many of whom are living at the poverty line. maria, let's get to the fix. you have been involved with organizing contracts. why is that a good solution? >> i have not been involved in organizing contracts. our organization is an advocacy that is trying to spread the word about the reality of these working conditions. also supporting adjuncts who are trying to organize in union contexts and outside of union connell text. and trying to work with a broad bates to figure out practical and ethical ways to solve the problem. >> john is unionizing the answer? >> it certainly is one answer. the evidence that we have showings that faculty part time faculty, other types of contingent faculty members earn m

in a bipartisan bill that would allow federal funding for american universities participating in a week on top israeli academic institutions is being considered by congress. if the legislation is because that would prohibit any institution that participates in a boycott of israeli academic institutions in this goal is to receiving federal funds under the higher education act. in a statement released does davis bonuses said the measure was designed to ensure that taxpayer dollars on multi use to fund the ttp attacks against israel on them on the fundamental principles of academic freedom the boycotts divestment and sanctions movement has received backing from various american academic organizations including the american studies association which instituted an academic boycott of israeli universities and institutions. commitment is based on the assumption that israel is occupying palestinian land as he can eat something which israel for family disagrees with. i just ate it go its way to keystone and government officials and taliban representatives have gone in islamabad security was tigh

that is one of the things that we are trying to do at american university with the conferences e are doing. hitting a lot of university students because these are at niversities. one nontraditional venue that we used this year at american university was a media campaign ith national park. i did trivia about first ladies in baseball and it was wildly popular and i hope we can do it again. who was the first lady of baseball? race coolidge. >> darcel, you are on the air. >> i've enjoyed the entire series the whole year long. i have a couple of questions about michelle obama. was wondering what do the ladies think that she may be doing after her life in the white house? do you think she will be involved in kind of a social sorority or anything like that and her role with children as well? >> they will be young and have young children when they leave the white house. what does history tell us about first families that have young children about decisions they make of where to live? >> i think they probably will stay close by while sasha is still in school. don't know what everybody taking

it is a grandson of world politics review and full of dog teaches at the american university harris accent and that's when a pickup on that point the stats team in the last member by the french foreign minister came just weeks before the invitation went out to defend present to come to watch in the state visit he was the sense that the french were saying to america hang on till. to withdraw from a from of an international policy and from hitting the major hot spots incompetence. and invitation from his income by surprise i spent it. it's also a way for the two countries to be accurate themselves on the united states to know that he still counts and in year out that it's been a major topic of being the most important one. infusing into teams of trading. and for fonts that on sunday and the trees to note that gets the us is standing and taunts age gap but not on me and that we know that we need to united states for example and aunt deanne the indian need to look good for you too salty and syrian and crisis tea. and the problems with sand which is around the house sign and sell the dea us it

s democratic primary for mayor and tonight the candidates squared off in a debate at the american university radio studios. mola lenghi was there and joins us live for a taste of what went down. >> reporter: with the april 1st primary closing in the candidates look to separate themselves. the embattled mayor vincent gray says he's confident that he still has time to pull ahead, but with several serious challenges closing in on his lead tonight at times he was their target. sparks never really flew in tonight's mayoral debate, but it did have its moments, mostly between council members muriel bowser and tommy wells. >> our campaign has gained the most ground including the mayor. what we alsoen from that poll is that two -- alsoen from that poll is two out of -- also know from that poll is that two out of three people don't want mayor gray elected. >> reporter: gray and wells butted heads on campaign finances. wells cow towed he's the only candidate not accepting corporate donations. >> we're following the law, mr. wells. it is the law. wait a minute. you choose to do what you choose, but ther

. >> 2012 study from american university confirms that me are more likely to run. do you think that's changing? >> i do think the next gerpation thinks about this differently. my daughter ran for office and succeeded. i know for a fact it's easier for the next generation. you can tell from the gender gap that a lot of women don't visualise themselves. they worry about children, family. when i ran 20 years ago, i'd go into a town hall meeting. my opponent was older. i'd look at him and say "he looks like a poll tirp", i won by 62% of the vote. i had to convince myself. >> you'd think that the 2008 candidacies of hillary clinton and sar apalin would have encouraged women. it discouraged women, we found, because of the amount of sexism that clintonon and palin faced. how bad is the problem? >> you saw it in the companes, and we see it in the media. women don't always get covered. there's a bias. favour. >> i had a debate with my opponent. my opponent had a business owner, he said, "you're not a business owner, you're an alice in wonder land." it backfired on him. it's

to think of harvard is a great american university. a lot of that goes back to charles elliott of what he did over the 40 years when he was president of the college. he went to harvard but at former wives to the heritage foundation you might say. he was president for 40 years longer than anybody before or since any radically rearrange the harvard educates young people. he introduced elective courses, start a professional schools, eliminated compulsory worship. he also hated team sports. what bothered him most as competition and how it debated players to conduct themselves in ways he considered unbecoming of gentlemen. if baseball and football were honorable pastimes, why did they require umpires and referees? again that needs to be watched is not fit for genuine sport. eliot thought that if baseball pitcher who throws a curveball engaged in the active deception, which was treacherous. football distress him even more. it is improper for a running back to attack part of an opponent at the opposing team's line. to protect the strongest pa

it is typical of many american universities and canadian universities may be worse. this is the place where the freedom of expression should rein. they used to call it academic freedom. that's why professors have tenure. they can say what they want. students are supposed to be encouraged. now you have thought police running around trying to make people shut up. i think everybody associated with the university should be extremely embarrassed. but it is not yous -- not just mcgill. >> constantine, you never went to school. do you think what he did was wrong or he felt it was wrong? >> how wrong can it be? it was on jay leno the week before. they do this all of the time where they swap in the curse words and all of this. it is pretty great. first of all, yes, i went to school. we didn't have a football team or anything like that. first of all, canadians, aren't they more laid back? it is surprising this would happen. >> you would think they are, but they are in the forefront of language control and speech codes and they prosecute people for the intent of words. even if

we are joined by a professor from the american university in paris.ounds like a good person to talk to. good morning. we are in a situation where domestically, hollande is very unpopular. he is trying to reinvent himself as being pro-business. when he goes to the united states, what is he going to want to achieve? bring a newto center of innovation here to france to try to take advantage of french high-tech capabilities and tremendous knowledge in engineering and other high-tech matters. he is going out to silicon valley to talk to the giants there, to see what he can try to arrange here in france. the problem is, he is already demanding some $1 billion in taxes from google, which he says google owes, something like $225 million from amazon. he has a bit of a contradiction. plus the taxes on millionaires. he has a bit of a contradiction to overcome. if he wants to attract investment which has gone down ,omething like 73% last year then he has got to do a hell of a lot to begin to attract american multinationals here. >> we are kind of portraying this

america built the universities in beirut, in cairo, american universities in turkey, through which american educators imparted american ideas. perhaps the most influential idea was the idea ofi encouraged george bush to challenge harry reid las vegas. he did not. the pro forma sessions do not change the fact that the senate was unavailable. it was on a planned 20-day no business break. it was gone. there was no forum to be had. the constitution, in my view exclusively grants the executive , both responsibility to determine senate availability and discretion to sign temporary commissions. clause three is intended to authorize the president singly alone, to make temporary of home at -- appointments. clause three, intended to authorize the president singly to make temporary appointments. only the executive has the institutional competence to know when such appointment action is required. for his article two, section three mandate he is required. he takes an oath. he takes an oath to god to take care that the laws be faithfully executed and commission all officers of the united states these are

n american university in beirut. american educators imparted american ideas. there was the idea of nationalism and independence. those ideas percolated through educated classes. first through middle eastern anditions -- christians then men military. there is a direct link between america's iphones and then that the arabdeas and awakening. there was the struggle for arab state independent. there is a huge impact on the arab-isreali situation. bristol turned to take ourselves out of it. america can be traced back to involvement in the middle east. i believe it is underappreciated. >> we had a fascinating conversation before we came in. i'm a great lover of historical anecdotes. you have to share to them with us if you would. impact of thethe civil war on the history of egypt. after that, perhaps that impact of egypt and the statue of liberty. [laughter] >> of the risk of sounding reductive, -- the american civil war, the north blockaded the south. that wasern cotton vital to the economy to britain and france was cut off. the only other place in the world that ha

his famous piece speech at american university in june of 1963 in which he said, we need to think anewbout the soviet union. he and chris show -- chris jeff schev had come out of the cuban missile crisis terrified by that experience. kennedy wantede, to move toward some kind of detente with the soviet union. kruschev was receptive to that. that is a you got the treaty signed in the summer of 1963. it happened very quickly. they had been hassling over that for years. suddenly it occurred. it was a spinoff i think from that cuban missile crisis, the terror they faced over that. i think if kennedy had lived, we would have seen a detente with the soviet union then it came about with richard nixon. >> you spend a lot of time talking about the individuals around him, people like mr. sorensen,. here was the view of jackie kennedy in march to june when they did these interviews with arthur schlesinger. in 1964, here is what she said. >> i know one thing about the legislative branch that larry o'brien told me. him. couldn't stand -- night he was telling me they were jealous of the sorenson's an

fine, important institutions like the american university of beirut. >> [inaudible] >> excuse me? >> [inaudible] a lot of good stuff. >> well, it's -- and i think, you know, it's worth remembering that moment. and i refer anybody here who isn't familiar with the work of medici to a historian of that relationship at rice university to his work. it's a really fascinating moment that is less known than it should. and on that somewhat e evasive response -- [laughter] i'll say thank you very much for your questions. [applause] >> for more information, visit the author's web site, america'sgreatgame.com. >>> booktv continues. marwan muasher, former jordanian foreign minister and ambassador to the u.s., takes a critical look at the arab spring and argues that for arab countries to prosper, they must embrace pluralism. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much. it's always a pleasure to be at the carnegie council. this book has a very simple message, you know? secondary wrap awakening and the -- arab awakening and the battle for pluralism. you think it should be self-eviden

>> and sure enough in 2012 study from american university confirms what you say, men are more likely to think about running for office, and when asked they think they're more qualified to run than women. do you think that's changing? >> i do think the next generation thinks about this a little differently. my daughter ran for office and succeeded and was one of the youngest speakers of the house in the state of maine. i know for a fact that it's easier for the next generation, but i can say that you can tell from the gender gap that women don't visualize themselves in office. they worry about children, family, they worry about whether they're adequate. when i first ran 20 years ago i would go no a town hall meeting. my opponent was considerably older than me. he walked in with a trench coat. i walked in with code roy pants and and say, he looks like a politician. that's what they are meant to look like. what am i doing here. i ended up winning by 62% of the vote in that race. people were ready to elect a woman. but i had to convince myself that i could do it. >> you would think that

so when i was in florence, a lot of american universities there. i hired an american professor to take me around the city one day a week and show me these things through her eyes. i want to see what, i want to learn about these things in a very, very hands-on way. and it was a great, great experience to understand how sculpture moves, why churches that both appear to be the same, one's more important than the other. and, of course, i'd say europe was my classroom, and florence was my school. and it really was an extraordinary opportunity. >> host: robert edsel, is there a dollar figure that you can put on the art that was stolen by the nazis? >> guest: it's as high as you want to make it. we really get into an exercise of futility trying to put numbers on it, you know? do we approach a trillion? we might when we think about paintings today, some paintings selling for $150 million, $200 million. we have to ask what would happen if a leonardo da vinci could be sold. i'm here we're in the $250-$300 million range. you start to think that in some of thes

let me introduce professor edelson who is an assistant professor in the department in american university before joining the faculty practice that employment discrimination law and was the director of the human rights campaign and it's a great book was published in the fall and is available in the museum stores. as the professor is responding, we have the world expert on presidential authority and the congress for role in constraining it. i have learned from the fisher many years who is viewed as the master of the field and he's a scholar in residence at the constitution. he worked for four decades at the library of congress as a senior specialist at separation of powers and constitutional law and he's testified before congress more than 50 times on issues such as for power, state privilege and so forth and has written more than 470 scholarly articles and several books. we have invited them separately to the forward on this great book so he wouldn't have to do any extra homework. it was excellent luck. so thank you so much for joining us. i want to jump right in and starting at the time o

his famous peace speech at american university in june of 1963 in which he said we need the soviet about union. he had come out of that cuban missile crisis. nuclear war, so much on the horizon. they were both, i think frightened, terrified by that experience. and as a consequence, kennedy wanted to move towards some datomp with the soviet union. that's how he got the treaty signed in 1963. happened very quickly because they had been hassled over there for years. it was a spin-off, i think from that cuban missile crisis and the terror they faced over that. i think we would have seen the talk with the soviet union more quickly than it came about with richard nixon. >> you spend a lot of time talking about the individuals around him and people like mr. sorensen and here was the view of jackie kennedy in march to june when they did these interviews with arthur sleshing ger. here's what she said about mr. sorensen. >> i know one thing about the legislative breakfast. larry couldn't stand ted sorensen until one night he was telling me, you know, they were obviously jealous. he said so many ti

he now teaches at american university. gordon adams, how significant are chuck hagel's proposal today and how necessary are they. >> i think they are certainly necessary. i call this 50% towards reality. they have recognized that the budget is not going to grow the way they projected it would last year when they looked at the future. this year they're saying well we'll come down a bit, but it's only 50% towards the reality because they still aren't quite prepared to budget at the level that's in the budget control as of august 20, 11. i think that's the best they're likely to do. so in a sense it's 50% towards the goal but they're not quite at the goal line yet in realistic budgeting terms. >> ifill: are they cutting too deeply, thomas. >> gordon's quite right about the numbers. they matched the numbers that were in the budget with the patty murray budget deal for this year but they bumped the numbers up for the subsequent years above levels indicated in the budget control legislation. so they've got about 120 billion doll

it's been a guy in a law student at american university.y question is in regards to this long war that you referred to. i would like to get your comment about what would you say to the people that have been moving the war for the last 13 years and as we continue down this path, we are never going to win. even if you capture one or two people, the al qaeda that you formulated is appearing everywhere around the world. and i would like to get your comment specifically about moving the war. >> i don't think there is much evidence that we are losing the war. the way that i understand is that we talked about the long-term problem that al qaeda is having two centers of gravity. and if you know that phrase he actually does the analysis in the center of gravity and we were able to narrow it down to one that became -- >> the one central gravity is the core operational capability that he fled that al-zawahiri is starting in a special jihad withal qaeda in 2001 before the attacks. and all of those third sort of operatives and personnel that very often

students at american universities because they need to keep their own classes full. >> reporter: i put the question to college spokesman terry hartle. are universities arguably being irresponsible by turning out as many ph.d.s into a job market where some people wind up going on food stamps? >> people who get ph.dds owe it to themselves to think long and hard about the labor market that they're entering. >> reporter: former george washington university president stephen trachtenberg goes further. >> i have counseled adjunct faculty at some point if they are not earning enough to support themselves to not do that and go do something else with their lives. merely because you've earned a ph.d. does not oblige you to take on a life of tenure. >> reporter: though he wasn't personally counseled by trachtenberg, adjunct joe fruscione is taking that advice after 14 years teaching english at george washington and elsewhere. >> all of the experience i have gained hasn't gotten me and won't get me any kind of meaningful tenure track position. i have decided that my way of fixing all that is leavi

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america built the universities in beirut, in cairo, american universities in turkey, through which americaneducators imparted american ideas. perhaps the most influential i encouraged george bush to las vegas.arry reid he did not. sessions do not change the fact that the senate was unavailable. planned 20-day no business break. it was gone. there was no forum to be had. the constitution, in my view exclusively grants the executive , both responsibility to determine senate availability and discretion to sign temporary commissions.

american-built the university of beirut and the american university of cairo and universities in turkeyhrough which american educators imparted american ideas and perhaps the most influential idea was the idea of nationalism and independence. those ideas percolated through educating classes first through middle eastern christians and into the military and to understand there is a direct link between america's educational moment and arab nationalist ideas. the arab awakening and the struggle for air arab state independence throughout the 20th century. nasrism which has a huge impact on the arab-israeli situation in the 1967 wars and we are still trying to get ourselves out of it so much can be traced back to america's involvement in the middle east and i believe it's unappreciated. >> we had a conversation before we came in here and because i'm a great lover of historical and it is you have to share two of them with this audience if you would. first of all the impact of the sobel war on the history of egypt and after that the history of egypt's impact on the statue of liberty. >> at the

they profiled and got quotes from a man identified as tom walker, a tenured professor at an american universityhoots up almost daily sometimes six times a day, a father with a ph.d., high row file job, as well. all of these people not the quote/up quote face of heroin.f well. all of these people not the quote/up quote face of heroin. >> it's important to note that heroin is an extremely dangerou. it does that know boundaries. it affects innercity, suburbs, rural, the rich and poor. so it is a substance where we have seen abused by all levels of american society. >> and that is certainly true. i think you might agree that there is a general conclusion that people make that somehow that poverty stricken and not a tenured professor who is on his job every day with a ph.d.. one quote from megan ralston on drug policy, she went on to say not everyone who uses drugs is committing a kril. it happens to good people, it happens to people with no intentions to ever, ever use it again. and with this professor, he says that he was coming from a place of tremendous privilege. he was able to build up a relat

so joining me now to look at this in a couple of different ways, dante, at american university, and co-author of "our patchwork nation" and doug, who recently launched a new health care think tank, the center for health and economy, and an advisor to the mccain campaign. hello to both of you. >> good morning. >> i want to focus, get to health care in a minute. i want to focus, to me -- doug, let me start with you -- the big story seems to be the demographic story, that the large -- what cbo is throwing out there, hello, we have an entitlement problem. not a political fight. >> we're headed straight for a minefield, and no one seems cognizant of this. i thought this was a relatively depressing report. what it says we can teeter along, stable deficits, stable debt relative to gdp, and then everything goes north, then deficits explode, driven by spending. and it's driven by the spending no one is willing to touch. >> because there's a great stat in here -- there's a great stat in here, if you eliminate social security and health care programs from government spending, the less -- we're actually

in books with such titles as freefall of the american university, and tenured radicals, critics chargehe american higher education has become the place a liberal if not radical faculties, and that in the classrooms of the politicized university, middle of the road students complacently consume their professors misinformation. moderate students are smug -- liberal students are smug and feeling that they're on the righteous side of politics, and conserve students have to decide whether to endorse their professors high rates while they are voiced their outrage corroding the risk of sacrificing their grades. to mitigate the effects of the leftist campus, while the conservatives organizations have been put in place at david horowitz has introduced the academic bill of rights to legally protect students from liberal orthodoxy while others like the young america's foundation sponsor conferences that -- celebrity in the movement. the clare boothe luce policy institute is targeted to college women while intellectual organizations like the intercollegiate studies institute started by william f.

. >> and sure enough a 2012 study from american university confirms what you say that men are more likelyrunning for office and that when asked they think they are more qualified to run than women. do you think that's change something. >> i do think the next generation thinks about it my daughter ran for house and was one of the young of the speakers in the house in maine. i think it's questions fore year for the next generation but you can tell from the just a minuter gap a lot of women don't visualize themselves in the office, they worry about family, children, and whether they are adequate. 20 years ago i would go in to a town hall meeting my opponent was considerably holder than me, had been in office before he would walk in in a trench coat you would walk in in order roy pants and i would walk in and say he looks look a poll jim what am i doing or think think i won by 62% of the vote in that race because people were ready to elect a woman but i had to convince myself i could do it. >> now, you would think that the 2008 candidacy of hillary clinton and sarah bay lynn would have encour