the residential area, not for from the american university, was built on a dumping ground for chemical weapons. i'm talking about mustard glass, blastering agents and who knows whatever else. named after the greek god of the dead was discovered 20 years ago, but the clean up continues to this day. lisa stark has the story. >> reporter: inside this gait the hunt is on -- gate the hunt is on for the remnants of deadly weapons. >> we are standing rite about here. standing in d.c.'s spring valley nibure hood, filled with expensive homes and ambassador's resident and american university. part of the campus and farmland was leased by the arm. 660 acres. here, the military developed and tested poison gases. for world war i trench warfare. >> that history was virtually forgotten until it was literally unearthed on the street. it was in 1993. they were building homes, workers dug up what looked like rusted bombs. >> that was just the beginning. >> we found four disposal pits, a major surface disposal area, and we found pieces of munitions around the site. >> it turns out when the war ended the

stephen vladeck is a lawyer and constitutional law professor at american university in washington. thanks for being with us. and steven groves, the international lawsenior fellow at the heritage foundation. i'll begin with you, steve groves. should the report have been released in the first place? guest: my conclusion is that it should not have been released, primarily because we really did not learn anything particularly new about it. with the notable exception of some procedure called rectal rehydration, these are procedures that were used and we know who they were used on for about 10 years. so you wonder what was actually gained by releasing the report at this time, other than possibly handing propaganda victories to our enemies if the host: should it have been made public? guest: i think i disagree with steve about what we learned. we learned a lot that we did not know before tuesday. we learned the full extent of the cia's interrogation program. we learned about some of the methods that were used . but most importantly, we learned about the extent to which the cia affirmative

joining me for that conversation, assistant professor of government at american university . professor of american politics at the university of chicago. and research fellow at the kay toe institute studies institution. let's look at the near end case of the president's announcement that he would stop sending home people who met certain specific requirements and profile? was he just making up powers that he didn't have? >> i don't think so. i think its debatable. but he made a case that he may pursue on statutory security that are much more questionable, but this is really overblown in the context of immigration action. >> the deapartments that enforce immigration law are under his purview as the head of the executive branch, isn't it? >> that's true. the key point hire is he could have claimed, as you suggest, some kind of article two constitutional authority act. he's claiming and there are statutory language to support that, that congress pass the law. the president has discretion to set priorities, and that's what he's doing. it's not a slam dunk case but there is a plausi

the residential area not far from american university was built on a dumping ground for chemical weapons. we're talking mustard gas blistering agents and who knows what else. the site in northwest d.c. was accidentally discovered 20 years ago but the cleanup continues to this very day. lisa stark has the story. >> inside this gate the hunt is on for the remnant of deadly chemical weapons. >> we are standing right about here. >> reporter: standing in d.c.'s spring valley neighborhood filled with expensive homes, an ambassador's residence and american university. but back in 1917, part of the campus and what was then farmland was leased by the army. 660 acres. here the military developed and tested poison gas. for world war i trench warfare. that history was virtually forgotten until it was unearthed literally for new homes. when the workers discovered rued bombs. >> we found four disposal pits, pieces of munitions sword of around the site. >> it turns out when the war ended the army closed up shop and simply buried all its materials. the cleanup led by the army corps of engineers, has bee

>> i did all my work at american university. i started out in howard university and came here to go to howard. transfers to american university and did my undergraduate at america. >> will pull do over there? >> several. roger brown was a colonial and historian. who was a 19th-century historian. what brought over was a woman named dorothy. she was a historian who had written much, i remember asking her about history. i was so impressed. she spent two hours talking about books, what i liked to read. i went to go someplace that when cares about what i want to read and not what they want me to read. >> why were you attracted to them? >> one is an embarrassing reason. when you are 19, that is a consideration. second, i really wanted to make sure i understood all of american history. i realized that african-american history was american history. i wanted to know it all. >> how did you afford to go to american? >> my parents were both teachers. they worked very hard. that you areu know going to continue with your education, we will be

have joined us, and we appreciate their participation and deeply appreciate the partnership of american universityonal conference on citizenship, is a congressionally-chartered organization. through au's center for community p engagement and service, the university helps over 2,000 undergraduate students volunteer every year. we learn by doing. we learn by doing. the freshman class alone provides more than 7,000 hours through the freshman service experience. i assume also studying for midterms, but that's just a guess on my part. au's many programs connects students with the diverse communities of the d.c. metro area, strengthening both in the process. please join me in thanking au for hosting this conference. [applause] i also want to thank our conference title sponsors, cisco and the lumina foundation. their generous support allows us to host this engaging event and develop world class programming through the year. in addition, i'd like to recognize kpmg, apollo education group, sprint, ge foundation, nrg, isl and paycom who have all contributed to the success of this conference. please join me

. >> mike from the center for american studies at american university. significance is the political three prisoners from the u. s. to cuba? >> why do we turn to our speakers for final comments. i think we should also talk about what we can expect from the summit. i think this was a forcing event to bring this decision about. but also, on april 10, we will castro together with president obama and havana, what should we expect? >> i do not know the summit a significant influence. of the , the timing summit was important in the timing of the announcement. somebody mentioned human rights rights are important, violated in are cuba, it is critical and the entire hat nation puts human rights at the forefront. i think we can do with human rights better when we are engaged, then disengage. is why the issues and needs to be put on the table. the entire community of nations has come together to understand and give cuba the opportunity to -- this is critical. this is critical for the hemisphere. however, if you need to be clear that while cuba is has a soft landing

the house and senate in the july of 2010 when he gave that speech on immigration at american university. i went up there and listened to it. i think he's done a lousy job to. call him deporter in chief was so insulting. he was president of the united states. i couldn't get past the interview. i thought he was insulting the president. one thing to ask tough questions, it's insulting. >> it's insulting if you think he had to do this and he's following the law. >> deporter in chief? >> it's a point if obama is saying i didn't have the power to deport these people i should be held accountable. the house and 60 democrats in the senate. they had an overwhelming majority in the house. now they're blaming house republicans for not holding a vote? >> i'm not disagreeing with holding the president's feet to the fire and being tough on immigration the fact he did nothing in the house and senate after that speech. the president of the united states, you've got some person in the media saying deporter in chief. >> this isn't the first person that said that. people in the president's own party have c

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and law professor at the american university washington school of law. to begin with, i'm going to break this down into two sets of questions because i think there is a good debate had whether they can be charged and whether they should be charged. that's really two different questions. steve, under your reading of the established law, and what's contained in the report, can the people who carry these acts out be charged? >> i think the answer is yes. that is to say if you look at the anti-torture statute, section 2348, the warm crime acts, criminal law prohibitions on these kinds of assaults and batteries i think a clever prosecutor who wanted to bring the case against the perpetrators of these abuses could do so. is there authority? is there a possible, and the answer has to be yes. >> sebastian, same question. >> i'm no lawyer, but i have experience in training people to interview terrorist suspects. i would say a clever prosecutor could do it? yes, maybe, but general hayden said this was not a rogue operation from a loose band of ne'er-do-wells insid

carl leven from the american university in washington says there's a number of reasons where the military is failing to keep nigeria safe. >> what we have seen is the hollowing out of the military, if you will. the budgets have gone up, but the capacity and the will to provide security have gone down. this is an alarming state of affairs, even without boko haram. i think that for a long time, several years after the democratic transition in 1999, i think part of the civilian political strategy has been to keep the military happy, and since nigeria hasn't had serious external security threat, then that deal seemed to have some sort of appeal. but now that nigeria faces a serious security threat, and one that has some external dimension, the military doesn't seem to be up to task. >> six former detainees from the guantanamo bay detention center are starting new lives in uruguay. four syrians, a tunisian and a palestinian were never charged. from the uruguayan capital daniel schweimler reports. >> reporter: uruguay is so far from the six men's homes which for now they cannot return to. it's

carl levin from the american university if washington says there's a number of reasons why the military is failing to keep nigeria safe. >> what we have seen over the last several years is a hollowing out of the military, if you will. the budgets have gone up, the capacity and the will to provide security have gone down. so this is an alarming state of affairs, even without boko haram. i think that for a long time, for several years after the democratic transition in 1999, i think part of the civilian political strategy has been to keep the military happy. since nigeria for many years hasn't had serious external security threat, then that deal seemed to have some sort of appeal. but now that nigeria does face a serious security threat, and one that has some external dimensions, the military doesn't seem to be up to task >>> india's prime minister narendra modi addressed a rally in the indian-administered part of the kashmir. security is tight because a few days ago an indian army camp was attacked near the border, leaving 21 dead, and was one of self attacks on indian targets in the las

former israeli diplomat to the united nations and currently a scholar in residence at american university. dan always good to have you on the show. this violence around abu ait's death, immediate consequences, the palestinian authority has stopped all security coordination with israel, hamas and islamic jihad. >> antonio glad to be here. i hope we're not led to an escalation, i hope the escalation can be contained. this death is very regretful and there is an investigation underway and this investigation should bring is are results and results and point to whether there was any wrongdoing in the death of this palestinian minister. understandably tensions are high tonight around the palestinian territories. but i hope that at the end of the day, the palestinian authority contains the situation, does not let this escalate. i hope that this temporary suspension is indeed of the cooperation is indeed temporary and that soon israeli and palestinian security officials and agencies will return to fool cooperation. >> what about the international consequences? because the palestinian authority ha

ncoc is honored to partner with american university for this year's conference.ld all of the claude eagles in the room please stand up. people from american university in the room, please stand up. [applause] thank you for being here. a.u.is a fall break for and faculty and most of the administration is at a retreat. there are some students on campus. a number have joined us as we appreciate their participation and deeply appreciate the partnership of american university, which, like the national conference on citizenship, is a congressionally-chartered organization. center, they help undergraduates volunteer every year. we learn by doing. we learn by doing. their freshman class alone provides more than 7000 hours of freshman service experience. i assume also studying for midterms, but that is just a guess on my part. there many programs connect students with the diverse communities of the d.c. metro area, strengthening both in the process. please join me in thanking a.u. for hosting this conference. [applause] i also want to thank our conference title sponsors,

like so many people you meet here, he's chinese but was educated in american universities and has taught>> so you forgive me, economics are not my area of expertise. i wallow in ignorance. but china looks different every time i come. it's changing so, so, so quickly. how did that happen? >> china enjoy this long period of peace. no serious enemy. no major wars. >> right. >> so the manufacturing industry really took off. internally, it's reform and open-door policy. every country willing to trade with china. >> there's certainly no doubt that at this point we -- our destinies are inextricably bound up, we are hopelessly -- our economies are hopelessly intermingled. if one fails, the effect would be disastrous. >> global impact. >> to say the least. >> it's certainly -- >> [ speaking in chinese ] >> this is what i was waiting for. >> xiaolongbao, literally small steaming basket buns. but i translate them in my head to pillows of happiness that will scald your tongue and throat if you don't know what you're doing. look, there are a lot of reasons to come to china and to shanghai in particul

i've studied acting in lebanon at the lebanese american university, i had the acting bug even growing up as a kid, i watched star wars to hamlet to whatever you want to say. and you don't realize growing up how influential hollywood is and the movie industry is and the world, and... and there was something really magical about going into the theater and just escaping for two hours, and just... you know what i mean? there's... i loved that, and then on top of it was just intriguing to me, because when i started doing it, it was like putting a mirror and looking at all your flaws, and it was frightening, and it was like i didn't want to do it, and that's what made me want to do it. i thought it was like, intriguing to go into that. it became therapeutic for me, and i have to say, it made me a better person. i mean, that sounds like, you know... >> hinojosa: so now, you did this movie the visitor-- extraordinary-- and i hope that a lot of people get a chance to see it, because it really is about challenging how you percept... your perception of certain stereotypes.. >> mm-hmm. >> hinojos

so in '60s we had about a quarter the and students in american university.his was a new thing for america to have that many muslims in american universities. to have that many muslims in america praying and fasting it would deny the islamic centers and mosques that we have today. so it was the christian churches that opened their doors to these muslims to pray here. so it was unprecedented. so it was new for muslims also, because they had been to europe to their colonial masters, indeed and the indians and pakistanis. the relation between the whole society and incoming students was quite unequal. the colonial masters colonized. but it was for the first time that muslim students in america sought a new reality, a pluralist democracy where they were treated as equals, and religion itself was encouraged. the practice of religion was very much encouraged. so it was very new part for both sides. so that was the time when muslims students association a just and canada was born in 1963. that's why last year we were celebrating our 15th anniversary. so i also came t

she is a graduate of american university and washington, d.c., and she now enjoys traveling to exotic locations around the world with her husband, jeff. she lives in maryland with her husband, son, and two rescued cats. her hobbies include vegetable gardens, sewing, and home decorating. of 2012, she was diagnosed with stage four cancer following a craniotomy. my privilege to share with you. they have -- others have said there message to you -- their message to you via videotape. other representatives from the research community. it is a privilege to be able to introduce to you congressman robert c scott. he is currently serving his 11th term in congress. prior to that he served in the house of representatives in 70ginia as a delegate from until 88. the senate of virginia from 1983 until 1995. he has distinguished himself in his career with a passion for health care initiatives, but he on the subcommittee for civil rights and civil liberties of all americans. as part of his commitment to the developing of universal health care for all and previous congresses, representative scott intro

>> american university law school.er father was a longtime state a member of the state assembly from lexington. they have long-standing roots in kentucky democratic politics. that is how he got close to bill clinton. when he was governor in arkansas they came up with a friendship. with bill clinton ran for president, he was very helpful in those two campaigns for president, and he also ran hillary clinton's kentucky campaign. this is a long-standing relationship, and they lean on the clintons hard. they played a large, outside role in alison grimes's campaign. he helped and a lot of the key decision-making. >> staffing. >> he was involved in almost every single decision. >> what about the backtalk on the difference -- she seems to be in touch with harry reid. the political operatives here in town -- explain how that works. >> there were a lot of questions about whether -- who was going to be the opponent for mcconnell. themselves, did not have her initially on the upper tier. they respected her but she was not an issue

a lecturer at to the american university of iraq. politics in the political economies of petroleum he has been on an extended winter break in the united states since october. much.e and thank you very >> i'm surprised that always takes a war for iraq to be on washington d.c.'s radar. it's very unfortunate. ofanted to comment on some what was said earlier by my andnd and colleagues here then make talk a little more about the vantage point from kurdistan. in iraq we have political representations, you know, sunnies are represented in the federal government, kurds are represented in the federal government. missing, however, is power sharing. look at the kurdish representation in baghdad for example. government cut, you know, earlier this year, cut the budget of the kurdish government. kurdistan gets 17% of the national budget. revenue sharing agreement that has been in place since 2005. and then without going to the parliament it was an executive formerthat was done by maliki and the budget was crippled overnight not being able to pay t

she is a graduate of american university and washington, d.c., and she now enjoys traveling to exotic locations around the world with her husband, jeff. she lives in maryland with her husband, son, and two rescued cats. her hobbies include vegetable gardens, sewing, and home decorating. in the spring of 2012, she was diagnosed with stage four cancer following a craniotomy. her story is compelling. you will certainly enjoy all that she has to share with you. it is my privilege to also share, you will be addressed today by several biomedical researchers and clinicians who while not in this room, has sent their message to you via videotape. you will and today session with the message as well from dr. janet woodcock of the food and drug administration another representatives from the research community. it is a privilege not to be able to introduce to you formally commerce men robert c scott. he is currently serving his 11th term in congress. prior to that, he served in the house of representatives in virginia as a delegate from 1978 to 1988. in the senate of virginia from 1983 until 1995

. >>> american universities are losing appeal for foreign students. in 2012, 16% of students looking for education abroad, picked a college in the united states. that is down from 23% in 2000. the u.s. attracts the most students, but not the obvious choice anymore. there's competition. u.k., germany, france all gaining ground. u.s. always was the number one destination. >> i would rather come here. i'm from here anyway. >>> 18 minutes after the hour. what will the weather hold for the day? indra petersons is starting our forecast. >> happy december. >> that is crazy. seeing things change. we felt it for a while. it feels like it has been december thanks to the storms. another one is out there today. this one generally bringing some light rain. the northeast back down through texas. some of you will be looking at snow and some freezing rain will be out there today. as far as that wintry mix, illinois and from through missouri as the system makes its way through. by tomorrow, d.c. during commute time, you could start to see some snow flakes out there. t

. >> major american university has a lot to answer for tonight, the claims of a particularly shocking been made public. >> an extraordinary move on one of america's most prestigious campuses. shutting down all fraternity as the university of virginia looked at disturbing sexual assault claims. >> now that story is falling apart amid mounting criticism of the author. >> i thought that it was important to tell the story in as graphic a way that jackie, the main story in my character tells it. when we start talking about sexual assault, we call it sexual assault, sexual misconduct. what does that mean? i thought it was important to show not some form of misconduct, but there is a violent crime. >> interesting that she calls jack rolling stone apologized, but this morning, there has been no apology, dropping language about misplaced trust in jackie admitting to, quote, mistakes. we should not have made this agreement with jackie and we should have convinced her that the truth would have been better serve by getting the other side of the story. >> it matters. i cannot think of a straight n

. >> the following june, kennedy gives the famous peace speech at american university in which he talksour attitudes toward the soviet union. >> for in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. we all breathe the same air. we all cherish our children's future. and we are all mortal. >> kennedy and his people waited for any reaction from moscow at all. and then, they got the teletype saying that for the first and only time a speech of an american president covered a complete page of pravda, the party newspaper. >> khrushchev decided to change his world policy. the strategy of creating tension all around the american empire was dropped. and he said to his colleagues, you know what? let's give him the test ban treaty. >> the united states, the soviet union and great britain promise to end all nuclear test explosions in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater. >> big deal soviet union, the same as united states. and khrushchev was very proud that they stopped testing and poisoned atmosphere. >> man's long hopeful quest for peace will cease t

s spring valley neighborhood, filled with expensive homes, ambassador's residence and american universityn 1917, part of the campuses, and what was then farmland was leased by the army. 660 acres. here the military developed and tested poison gas for world war i trench warfare. that history was virtually forgotten until it was literally unearthed. it was in 1993, and they were building new homes, workers dug up what looked like rusted bombs. that was just the beginning. >> we found four disposal pits, a major surface disposal area, and then we had found pieces of munitions sort of around the site. >> reporter: it turns out when the war ended the army closed up shop and simply buried all of its materials. the cleanup has now been underway for two decades. costing hundreds of millions of dollars. tom smith is a long-time resident and represents the neighborhood on a city advisory council. >> it has been a lot of foot dragging and because of the aggressive efforts of the community that we are where we are today. >> reporter: today the work is focused on what may have been ground zero. >> tha

energy lives here >>> a major american university tonight has a lot to answer for now that claims of sexual assault have been made public. >> an extraordinary move on one of america's most prestigious campus campuses, the university of virginia shutting down all fraternities as it investigates sexual assault claims. >> we move to the crisis on campus. sexual assault allegation at one of america's most prominent colleges. >> shocking allegations of sexual assault. they were exposed in a rolling stone article. >> those are just some of the network tv headlines when rolling stone magazine published a bombshell piece on an alleged rape, gang rape, at the university of virginia. as we learned today even rolling stone now has serious doubts about its own reporting, seems like an apt time to look at how this story got where it is. host of media buzz on sundays, howie, good to see you tonight. how did we get to this point where rolling stone, a single source, publishes this lengthy piece and you've got the mainstream media jumping all over it? >> megyn, i've done a lot of investigative report

university. in 2005 she was inducted into the american volleyball coaches hall of fame and currently teaches a graduate class at the university of louisville entitled "the business of division one college athletics." tom mcmill sentence a former rhodes scholar, professional basketball player and member of congress. he's the founder of the national foundation on fitness, sports, and nutrition and a former co-chairman of the president's council on physical fitness and sports. chris plonsky is a 38-year veteran of the college sports world. she currently serves as the women's athletic director at the university of texas. she's a former board member. and shayian zhanger is the director of athletics at the university of kansas. he's a one-time assistant on coach bill snyder's staff at kansas state which he started when he was just 23 years old. all right. let's cut right to the heart of the matter here. should student athletes be paid? who wants to take that one? it's an easy one. >> well, i'll start. >> ladies first. >> sure. thanks. and great to be with you. and great to be with everyone up here. absolutel

. >> a major american university tonight has a lot to answer for now that claims of a particularly shocking sexual assault have been made public. >> an extraordinary move on one of america's most prestigious campuses, the university of virginia, shutting down all fraternities as it investigates sexual assault claims. >> reporter: after the "washington post" blew several holes in the accuser's accounts, they said there were discrepancy 's in what happened. one of those discrepancies, a friend of jackie's told the "washington post" that she had been forced to perform oral sex on several men, but that they did not as rolling stone claims, see her in a bloody dress or debate whether she would pay a social price if they took it to the hospital. such details raising the question, what really happened, whether jackie embellished the account and why rolling stone would approve this piece based on a single source. >> here is another question for you. why did the rest of the media run with the story as well? >> an excellent question. we live in a world where everything goes viral in ten seconds, very

knowledge of this stuff, the gradesy stuff is a lot of hackers that go back got education in american universities. >> a lot more to talk about on this one. thank you. >> president obama now the first president to write computer code. "wired" magazine said he kicked off computer science week by writing a simple program. president obama and the vice president were talking technology with middle school student from newark, new jersey >>> when it launched pluto was a planet. tonight n.a.s.a.'s new hozon spacecraft -- horizon is awake of and is about to become the first craft to visit pluto. jacob ward has more from san francisco. >> it's been an exciting year for space exploration, the u.s. space agency handed on an asteroid and a japanese satellite taking a bike from one. and now an 8-foot nasa spacecraft. the size and shape of a baby piano, about to rip past pluto, which is strange, hostile, something that we have not visited before. we are not going there to get it ready for human habitation. the light of the sun looks like a dim, distant flashlight. it takes four hours to reach the surface, makin

winkler obtained his phd in 1998 from american university. his phd dissertation, "the cold war at sea," was published in 2000 by the naval institute and is currently awaiting a vocation in chinese -- awaiting publication in chinese. he has also written a book published by the naval institute press in 2007 and is the managing editor of "the navy," an illustrated coffee table book published by the foundation. his latest book covers the naval reserve and is due out later this month. dr. winkler is also the director of programs with the naval historical foundation. dave is a commission sailor as well. he was commissioned as an ensign in 1980 through the rmt -- rotc program at penn state where he earned his ba in political science and him they -- ma in international affairs at washington university. he is a retired navy commander with the navy reserves. ladies and gentlemen, welcome our panel, david winkler, john warner, bob dunn. [applause] >> ♪ >> in the fall of 1941, america began to challenge the growing terming u-boat menace in the atlantic w

constitutional lawyer from american university has written extensively on the potential for prosecutionvarious u.s. officials in conjunction with possible human rights violations on the war on terror. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> let's back up for a second. before we start pointing fingers and asking about prosecuting, how do we even know who was in on all of this? from what i can tell, we don't know who gave orders or the people who carried them all out. >> i think that's right. we learn more and more about the time line and we're learning more and more about which official reported to and which official at which point. the torture report all we got yesterday was 480-page executive summary. there are thousands and thousands of pages that presumably have more details about the actual identities of some of the folks who were involved. >> how high up could this go? >> it's hard to say. the reality is we're not going to see prosecution. president obama doesn't want to look at the past. he wants to look to the future. the executive summary we saw yesterday suggests this goes as high

we have cut back over the years, a lot of iranians have graduate degrees from prestigious american universitiess important not to forget that. but i think what iran wants with this is a capability to act against our forces in what what i call the persian gulf and against the arab states on the other side of the gulf as well potentially against israeli, using not just conventional weapons but biological and chemical weapons as well. >> they claim they've captured three eagles, those are our potential drones. remember back in may? they had this drone. they trotted it out, claimed they had a fancy drone and you are right, they say it was a fake balsa wood and some elmers glue and spit and band aids put together. i mean should we be afraid of them? you got the nuclear program going full tilt the nuclear talks have been delayed until june. it seems nothing is stopping them from potentially building a real nuclear bomb? >> no i think they're well on the way to that in terms of the drone technology stealth technology it may be they're not exploiting it all themselves, if american drones have gone down

so i pursued those themes in seminary and then went on from wesley, right up to american university, i said hey i want to pursue these even further through american economics, you get the city all around you, you get to interesting talks about world class people all across the board. and so pursued that through my phd and then i was lucky enough to apply and find a great job down in richmond, virginia, i have been there for the past 19 years. this would have been my 19th year teaching economics and ethics. i was the chair of the econ and business department, but i also chaired the ethics minor for a new years. john allen over at kato helped me build a program and the moral foundations of capitalism so that kind of puts the two together in the same way, then i got a chance to work in a general assembly for about the last eight or nine years in virginia politics, got to know a lot of how the political system works and then just wasn't happy with some of the things that were going down in my area, in the seventh district, so i approximate put my hat in and the people thought it was good

in economics from american university.n 1996 he began teaching economics and ethics at randolph macon college where he chaired the economics department for six years. he served the commonwealth of virginia in a number of capacities also. he served two governors on the joint advisory board of economists and also served on the richmond metropolitan authority. his peers elected him as president of virginia association economists and the governor appointed him to virginia board of accountancy. a man of deep faith, dave attends st. mary's catholic church with his wife laura and two children. please join me in welcoming congressman david bratt. >> thank you very much. >> thank you all for having me. nice introduction. you saved my throat a little bit. you know we've had an exciting week. do you know that? you've been following the news? i'll get to that after i frame some of my biography and some of the background to how i got where i am. i'll break it up into a few pieces. my biography and then kind of my run for office and whe

>> they keep accepting more and more phd students at american universities, because they need to keep their own classes full. >> reporter: i put the question to college spokesman terry hartle. >> reporter: are universities arguably being irresponsible by turning out as many phd's into a job market where some people wind up going on food stamps? >> people who get phd's 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 phd does not oblige you to take on a life of tenure. >> reporter: nicole beth wallenbrock says she cant give up teaching, and doesn't want to. >> i don't know what other place in society there is for me. i love teaching, and i love researching and writing, so i haven't given up on this dream yet. >> reporter: and considering all the resources she and o

discrepancies in the woman's account and john watson is associate professor of journalism ethics at the american university tonight and jamie floyd is al jazeera america legal contributor in our studio. i want to start with you, john, for one second. obviously the "rolling stones" sort of in between a rock and a hard place tonight and haven't so far they have not said their story was completely wrong but they have raised questions about it. what's next? >> well, i think full disclosure and admission that they did not follow proper ethical procedures in vetting and publishing the story. >> reporter: what procedures are you talking about? >> first and foremost was the decision to not fully identify a principal party in story. it seemed that they did not recognize the fact that a fundamental ethical directive says identify every person who is principal to a news story. >> reporter: right but most people and most journalist don't name a sexual assault victim in their stories, it's just practice. in fact, in some states it's not allowed. >> well, the first amendment has been tested on this point in the supreme