. >> who is being court-martialed because -- >> reporter: history professor barton bernstein here teaching a seminar on nuclear war was a young antiwashing faculty who was active in demonstrations against rotc and is still fighting against it. >> the faculty would presumably be chosen by the pentagon and not the university. i have moral doubts about the presence of rotc. it's primarily teaching people how not to lead but how to fight and kill. >> reporter: education professor calan is part of the faculty formed to consider these arguments. he wonders if it impinges on academic freedom. >> suppose have you an instructor teaching a course in international relations and decides that as the class assignment they will invite students to analyze some documents that have been made available through wikileaks. they're still classified documents. a student in rotc might jeopardize their future security clearance if they are required to examine one of those documents as a course requirement. >> reporter: but william perry is more concerned that the military be able to include in its ranks well-educa

i just survived a very successful run here, a musical which bernstein continuously revise because he couldn't quite figure out what voltaire was trying to say. but that's my basic question, is do you explore address this relationship with the french and what was going on in france at that time? especially between 1750 and 1770 you have to help me out here, there was a movement, physiocrats. yet and this idea that you can guarantee individual liberty but you can't guarantee the results. and there's this delightful numbers in the musical, you know, the best of all possible worlds, but he makes outrageous fun of both the beliefs, to him, retake his belief that came out of the indictment. this is the best of all possible worlds where there's an earthquake in lisbon, people are in dire poverty, and what's the use if you, of all this dishonest endeavor at being so clever if you just have to pass it along, pass it along, pass it along. you just pass it along? >> well, i must say i wish i had seen this version. there was another version approved by bernstein himself, in scotland a few years

past few days so i think i heard from sources that works on capitol hill he said they were having a bernstein meetings and they're basically saying that the shutdown is probably going to happen well it does seem like all the sides of sort of dug in their heels on this it's as much of a political fight as a financial one but let's start with the most egregious example example of who could be affected by the shutdown and you've written a piece about the potential impact on our troops can it really be that our men and women are abroad could fight without getting paid because of this political game right if there's a shutdown that's exactly what's going to happen because. in this in the event of a shutdown all essential federal employees will have to go to work and that includes our men and women fighting abroad but also includes f.b.i. agents who are you know maybe undercover or anything like that so they're going to be working without pay and what that means is there was a lot of discussion about whether or not they would actually be earning their pay and they will earn their pay but they're no

. >> i'm sad that howard bernstein isn't with us anymore. april fools! [ laughter ] >> he's freaking out right now. >> he's calling me right now. >> he's already called anny early this morning to talk about what he saw outside his window. >> he saw the rain turning to some light snow this morning. he's in clarksburg, maryland. so, good morning to you, howard and everyone else out there. as you're waking up on this friday morning, most areas seeing some light rain at this hour. it is a chilly, cold rain. we're starting to see the rain turning to some snow. here is a look at live doppler 9000 hd. we're getting some reports of snow basically north central and northeastern maryland through 6:00 this morning. you know, the snow could coat the ground in some areas but you know, really, it is not going to be a whole lot of accumulations that we're expecting because we're basically on the southern end of the storm. and if i can zoom in on the doppler radar here, i'm going to show you where basically, some of it is -- basically around the mason-dixon line, freder

. >> david bernstein. one thing you pointed out the will schools have become the reverse which i agree with the last 15 years or so. that hasn't happened in college history, political science, sociology, anthropology and so forth, and nine theory is this is in part because we have a supreme court and judges appointed by republicans and they are taking these ideas seriously the difficulties often than not but if you have some other and would be interested in why the law has had a shift whereas other disciplines seem to be used for the money will chuckle diversity. >> it's an interesting question and on the tendency of all schools to might be as ideologically extreme that's pretty well borne out in the surveys done. the two disciplines and some others are even more lopsided which takes some doing. the law has been the most influential and i think you pose a very interesting first cut at y professors who particularly if they intend to specialize and the deutsch in the constitutional law, if they can't predict

howard bernstein is off today. anny hong is in. she has our all-important friday and weekend forecast but it is a little dreary, isn't it? >> it is. definitely. you're feeling that chill in the air. we're talking about some light rain to start off your friday morning. that rain also turning to some light snow in some locations. especially north of the d.c. area. here is a look at your bus planning forecast. bus stop forecast as you're planning your day here. as you're getting the kids ready for school. here's what they could be encountering, light rain as you step out the door. maybe a little bit of snow north and west of d.c. temperatures will be around mid- 30s and sunrise at 7:31 this morning. all right. we're talking about the light rain and the light snow. most of d.c. metro seeing the light rain. but to the north, you're going to also encounter some areas of light snow. most locations, not sticking but places around 83 around north of baltimore, they had half an inch on some roadways. we're on the southern edge of what is rea

. >> david bernstein, george mason, the famous george mason.[laughter] one thing, you pointed out that law schools have become at least somewhat more ideologically diverse which i agree with in the last 15 years or so which is about how long i've been teaching. that has not happened, from what i can tell, in history, political science, sociology, anthropology and so forth, and my textbook theory is that this is in part because we have a supreme court and judges who are appointed by republicans, and they're taking these ideas seriously, faculties can't just write you off as a nut. i'd be interested why law has actually had a little bit of the shift where other discipline seem immune to any kind of ideological diversity. >> that's an interesting question, and on the tendency of law schools to not be as ideologically extreme as anthropology or sociology, that's pretty well borne out in the surveys that have been done. those two disciplines and some others are even more lopsided than law which takes some doing. the law has been the most influential

my dear friend peter bernstein was probably the last. he died in his 90s. >> rose: (laughs) >> that's true. don't forget most of the traders are under 30. >> rose: exactly. and very rich. maybe less so than they were but... >> above all they want to get rich before it falls down. so they have a different time horizon from the rest of us. >> rose: you sit on a commission in the united king come that is making judgments. raise the question so we can understand what the debate is. >> the u.k. is the home of very, very large global banks. their balance sheets, the total balance sheets of these banks are roughly five times our g.d.p. and there are only very few of them. so imagine the five biggest banks of the u.s. and you know roughly who they are, j.p. morgan and so forth had a total balance sheet of about $70 trillion. that's the equivalent. and the concern is if these institutions get into trouble the british government couldn't support them, it would be too much to bear. so we are considering structural solutions to this which make... wh

. >> what did you admire about woodward and bernstein who you shadowed for a long time and you playedard? >> i'm not looking for a fight. >> i'm not looking for a fight either. >> the fact you've been here for only nine months. >> what's that got to do with anything? >> i've been in the business for 16. >> what attracted me there was there was one guy is a jew, the other guy is a wasp. one guy is a republican and the other one is a radical liberal. they don't get along very well. one guy claimed to be a better writer than the other one. they don't particularly like each other, but they have to work together. and that got me. i said, that chemistry, that alchemy really fascinated me, what was it like? what was it like to do what they did that no one was watching? >> from this great state of california -- >> you made "the candidate" about a sort of bobby kennedyesque candidate. >> i felt the political system was producing candidates that were more by cosmetic rather than substance. >> change ties. >> why? >> afterwards, ellele kennedy, his widow, told you she didn't like it. >> keep you

back in 1994, richard bernstein and i argued that the book called the bell curve, that the nation was in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of its elites. three trains had gathered force after world war ii and were in full cry as we wrote the increasing market by for brains, a college system that got almost all of the town attribute in college and did a really good job of sorting the very smartest ones into a handful of elite colleges. and, finally, the increasing degree to which the most able married and the most able and passed on the other financial success to their children, but their abilities as well. we also saw an increasing isolation of the elites from the rest of the country as they developed a distinctive culture of their own. in the new book, i take a look at the situation 16 years later. i'm able to add new evidence about all three of those trends and add some new evidence about new trends as well. after all the abuse the bell curve took, mostly for completely irrelevant reasons i try hard to avoid saying we told you so, i don't think i'm entirely successful

when leonard bernstein would introduce young people to classical music on the air.emains committed to the arts. including new artists like jan mulder. your contribution makes that possible. please make an investment in the arts with your contribution. just call the number on your screen. >> scott sauer back with jan. now jan the first part of the program we had compositions from some of the great masters, mozart and verde but you performed some of your own original compositions. you compose, you arrange, you conduct. you play piano. is there a favorite that you do? >> i think composing is one of my favorites because i have that musical thoughts coming in and active to write them down. and to arrange them for big orchestra and singers and of course the piano. but what i really like, too, is performing on stage. so that makes me really happy. that's what i'm good in. so i like to rehearse with the, all those musicians and singers. most of the time we rehearse only three hours for a show. and i have to make every, everybody happy. so i have to -- yeah, i like working o