payoff that is very unclear here to talk about how this is possible exactly is my next guest has boston university international relations professor and your base of it she is the author of this book washington rules and he's with us from boston massachusetts thanks for being on the show this afternoon now you've written about the spectacle of obama embracing and expanding bush's war on terror even if he's banished that phrase my question to you is how has this been possible despite his promises not to mention the cash problems of the u.s. . well i think despite the pictures of protests that you showed in your lead him the fact of the matter is that the american people continue to be fairly passive and deferential to washington and this is particularly the case with regard to anything to relates to military policy the montra of supporting the troops takes precedent over asking the most fundamental questions such as what are we getting for our money you are correct that estimates of the total cost of the afghanistan and iraq war probably are going to reach something like at least four trillion doll

even earlier i spoke with andrew bass of it cheese and international relations professor at boston university he's also author of this book washington rules have been written extensively about president obama embracing bush era foreign policy i asked him in his view how has obama been able to continue bush's war on terror despite his past promises not to mention economic struggles that america faces at home here's what he said. the fact of the matter is that the american people continue to be fairly passive and deferential. to washington and this is particularly the case with regard to anything that relates to military policy the mantra of supporting the troops takes precedent over asking the most fundamental questions such as what are we getting for our money what about the president's role the president of the united states has a lot of authority over foreign policy we saw obama pretty much single handedly greenlight a new war and libya and you've described its foreign policy as in some ways connected at the hip with bush what do you mean by that what i mean is that if you take a broad view

believe i've indicated how are they under both of it professor of international relations at boston university and author of the book washington rules now with the tough economic times it's hard to imagine who's got a lot of dough to spend i don't know every base of it says maybe some of it has to do with the military industrial complex but despite the tough times people are still poor. in a lot of cash into politics i want to show you some video from an obama fundraiser last night look at that people poured tons of cash into this fundraiser in l.a. now despite the tough economy supporters still shelled out for recent obama events from seattle to san diego over two days that likely raised upward of five million dollars with supporters paying up to the legal limit of close to thirty six grand to hear obama speak to some many americans right at the fundraisers doorstep could never envision affording take a listen. he's just turned you five thousand dollars for people who can be part of a. community you can make do you talk to dollars a year. to the community. and it's not just the community of t

. >> bill: if the doctor thinks i'm not a journalist, i will burn my degree from boston university if he wants and put on ebay and can you buy them. >> very journalist i can. >> why do you think i have to whack him for that. >> he is entitled to his opinion. you know that part of this is entertainment. there is an entertainment. >> you are now in the big chair here. what would you have said. >> nobody would ever sit in that chair, bill. it's all yours. >> put you back in the little chair. what would you say to paul? what would you have said if he did that to you? >> why do you want to hurt my feelings like that? healing thing. >> why are you haten? that's what i would say. that's not what you would say. >> bill: doesn't like me. i don't know if that's going to work. >> he kind of said that you were stupid. don't you think? yeah. >> bill: not basically. that's what he said. >> yeah, he did. he said i wouldn't understand economics. i wasn't a journalist and jesse watters was smartedder than i. what an insult. >> if i were jesse, i would have slapped him. >> bill: jesse was loving that b

for some time to come i believe as at your base of us professor at enter national relations at boston university and author of the book washington rolls now despite the record breaking inequality in poverty in this country that we've been talking about you wouldn't know it exists when you look at the free flow of cash and let's whoring into politics take a look at the donors going to a fundraiser for prez. and obama in l.a. it was last night now despite the tough economy supporters of still shelled out for recent obama events from seattle to san diego upward of five million bucks in two days with supporters paying up to the legal limit of close to thirty six grand to hear obama speak or eat dinner with them or whatever they do in there now it's a sum that many americans right at the fundraisers doorsteps could never even envision affording here's something that someone had to say out there you see that restaurant he's charging twenty five thousand dollars for people to. be part of the . community you can make do you talk thousand dollars a year. and it's not just the communities of those protest

researchers from boston university looked at 16,000 groupon and living social deals in 20 different cities and found in months after the deal, merchant's yelp ratings suffer. they dropped average rating scores from reviewer who's mentioned daily deals are 10% lower than scores of peers. and yelp pulled back n a daily deal visit saying offering deep discounts is uneconomic former chants but the real test for companies will be whether they can keep attracting merchants and generating long-term rev nu. it's looking like sometimes they can harm a business's long-term reputation. >> and sometimes they get overwhelmed. >> i got that whole foods deal today. >> you can't beat that. >> you can't. lovely weather out there. >> you can't beat the weather, things are warm inland today there. is a cool down coming later in the week. this starts tomorrow there. is a live view now from our heavenly camera. looking at thunderstorm clouds you may recall there are some intense storms there yesterday z there is a look in just a moment. first a look at current temperatures here in the bay area, it's warming in

let's go to boston university's warren towers. so, do you think i'll blend in? >> oh, yeah.> i'm rich besser from "good morning america." can i talk to you? >> these opportunities were quick to tell me their fears. >> really intimidating. >> i've heard horror stories of people hating their roommates. >> what if you wake up to this? does she snore? >> no. >> do i snore? >> jen snore? no? >>. >> reporter: the serious thing about dorm life, germs. dorms spread colds. and it loves freshmen and dorm life. but students are more worried about what's on the shower floor. would you ever use the shower without shower shoes? >> no. >> reporter: what about the freshman 15? on average, how many pounds does a freshman gain? >> 15. >> reporter: 15. it's three. that's right. the freshman 15 is a myth. endless buffet and new freedom. listen to what this freshman ate for lunch. >> pizza, and pasta. and before that, i had turkey and more pasta. and the broccoli. >> reporter: after this, will there be another? >> ice cream. >> reporter: that adds up to 2,000 calories. that's what an active 18-y

. >> he is the president of boston university. >> he has very strong opinions about the reform of higher education, but things we need to keep tenure. i think tenure has protected some very smart people who have said some dissenting things that needed to be said. i understand that my argument froze and number of them up. i interviewed a former assistant secretary of education who now works on education reform. he summed up what i eventually took as my position, which was saving the jobs of 400 conservatives is not worth saving the jobs of 400,000 liberals. he said the situation is so unbalanced now that the idea that we are going to keep the system because of the few conservative professors out there -- >> what is the cherry award? >> it is a teaching award. i think you get maybe $200,000 for being the best professor in america. a couple of years ago, i did a story about the three finalists. it is given out by baylor university. a student can nominate you. other professors can nominate you. basically, there is a committee that eventually judges the finalists and decides who will win this

but the cattle this money and it was an hundred dollar bills and in boston university hundred dollarbills. i don't know what it's like in dallas using them. >> thousands. [laughter] >> leal comer it? in boston university them because it is all college kids and i couldn't figure out why so i went over to his house and in his laundry was $250,000 in the stacks of 100 scum and i thought she was a drug dealer but he wasn't a drug dealer and the next day we flew to vegas and i ended up joining the team and then i said i want to write the story and so that was my first restore the so i kind of fell into nonfiction but i wrote like a thriller because that's what i had been writing so it wasn't like i'm just going to sit down and write non-fiction in this way. it's just i was writing fiction and then i ran into a true story and that's been the we accidental billionaires', same thing. sitting at home and i get an e-mail to the point in the morning and it is a harvard senior actually from houston and he said my best friend cofounder facebook and no one has ever heard of him and then in a box e

but the cattle this money and it was an hundred dollar bills and in boston university hundred dollarbills. i don't know what it's like in dallas using them. >> thousands. [laughter] >> leal comer it? in boston university them because it is all college kids and i couldn't figure out why so i went over to his house and in his laundry was $250,000 in the stacks of 100 scum and i thought she was a drug dealer but he wasn't a drug dealer and the next day we flew to vegas and i ended up joining the team and then i said i want to write the story and so that was my first restore the so i kind of fell into nonfiction but i wrote like a thriller because that's what i had been writing so it wasn't like i'm just going to sit down and write non-fiction in this way. it's just i was writing fiction and then i ran into a true story and that's been the we accidental billionaires', same thing. sitting at home and i get an e-mail to the point in the morning and it is a harvard senior actually from houston and he said my best friend cofounder facebook and no one has ever heard of him and then in a box e

but the cattle this money and it was an hundred dollar bills and in boston university hundred dollarbills. i don't know what it's like in dallas using them. >> thousands. [laughter] >> leal comer it? in boston university them because it is all college kids and i couldn't figure out why so i went over to his house and in his laundry was $250,000 in the stacks of 100 scum and i thought she was a drug dealer but he wasn't a drug dealer and the next day we flew to vegas and i ended up joining the team and then i said i want to write the story and so that was my first restore the so i kind of fell into nonfiction but i wrote like a thriller because that's what i had been writing so it wasn't like i'm just going to sit down and write non-fiction in this way. it's just i was writing fiction and then i ran into a true story and that's been the we accidental billionaires', same thing. sitting at home and i get an e-mail to the point in the morning and it is a harvard senior actually from houston and he said my best friend cofounder facebook and no one has ever heard of him and then in a box e

joining us to talk about the proposed changes, a professor of health law, bioethics at boston universitychool of health. charles alexander is also going to be with us. charles, why don't i ask you. why are the proposed new rules needed? >> -- are not new. by are just taking the opportunity to make sure that all institutions in terms of hospitals and organ recovery programs in this country are in line and in lock step with their policies to ensure the full most transparency of the yoorgan and tissue donation. >> michael, let me go to you. what's your biggest concern about these proposed changes? >> first of all, i'm concerned about the open and explicit and verifiable nature of this complicated, complicated protocol. the issue is that by eliminated the kind of uniformity, each transplant unit will have its own methodology for assessing deaths and the real concern is separating the line between the person who's die and declaring death and taking organs. standard way of doing this is with somebody who's dead by brain criteria so they're dead. but this is the whole process where the person i

citizen and a graduate of boston's northwestern university.ns in 2010. >>> the just department has filed an appeal with the u.s. supreme court challenging a judge's ruling that strikes down key parts of president obama's health care reform. >>> there's a his tieria outbreak attributed to tainted cantaloupe. he said dr. mural write told himsh that michael jackson had a bad reaction. but never called 911. i'm veronica de la cruz. now back to "hardball." you can spot an amateur from a mile away... while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle...and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. now this...will work. [ male announcer ] just like you, business pro. just like you. go national. go like a pro. i know you're worried about making your savings last and having enough income when you retire. that's why i'm here -- to help come up with a plan and get you on the right path. i have more than a thousand fidelity experts wor

she attended smith college, graduating with honors from boston university. miss sherman earned a master's degree in social work from the university of maryland, launching her on a career path of public service at the community, state, national, and international levels, including a stint right here on capitol hill having served as chief of staff for the seepor senator from maryland, senator mikulski. and i remember very well her as chief of staff and the way that she not only managed senator mikulski's senate office but the way she worked with all of us to make sure that we were all well informed. her responsibilities and seniors positions at the state department beginning in the early 1990's combined with her considerable experience in the private sector have prepared her well to assume the tasks associated with the undersecretary of state for political affairs. the position to which she has been nominated. i would note that miss sherman will be the first woman to serve in this position once she is confirmed. miss sherrman's past policy experience will be e

but once a week those two worlds intersect when students from harvard university and boston college comenmates earn their geds. >> for them to come in and do it for us as little convicts, i should say, that's a good thing. looking out for us. showing us, you know, there is a world out there. there is help out there. people want to help you. >> girard cohen has been teamed with alexander, a harvard sophomore. >> it's one of these things, you can do the answers in your head probably, just to be sure, because we all make mistakes and try do it in our head, just write it out. it will take five extra seconds, but it's totally worth it. if you are going to be taking the test, because each answer matters in the final score. people have a wall about what this whole community is like and that's just not true. if you work for somebody a while, you get to know them. that's one of the interesting parts of being here. >> you're very confident. >> i sure am. i know this stuff. >> i want to make you prove to me that you know this stuff on paper. >> smart. goes to harvard. he's extra smart. >> so what i

[applause] >> isabel wilkerson, a professor of journalism at boston university. >> yes. >> and the firstcan-american woman to win the pulitzer prize for journalism. she did that in 1994. [applause] >> thank you. >> ms. wilkerson, what is the photograph on the front of the book? >> the photograph is an image found by the publisher. it's magnificent. a lot of people want want cover and the picture. the picture is from new york, harlem in 1937, and what had happened was there is a parade that was going down one of the broad boulevards in harlem at that time, and people came out of the tenements in order to see it. they were on the decks of the grand buildings that had transferred from the italians and russians and finally to the african-americans who came up from the south. they all came out on the beautiful day in order to watch the plaices, and the paragrapher had the presence of mind to take pictures of the parade, but the presence of mind to turn the camera on the people who were watching the parade and came up with this gorgeous photograph where everybody single window has someone look

[applause] >> host: isabel wilkerson is a professor at boston university, and the first african-americanwoman to win the pulitzer prize for journalism. she did that in 1994. [applause] >> guest: thank you. >> host: ms. wilkerson, what is the photograph on the front of "the warmth of other suns"? >> guest: the photograph is an image that was found by the publisher, i think the cover is absolutely magnificent. a lot of people want to cover, they want that picture. the picture is actually from new york, from harlem in 1937. and what had happened was there was a parade of alto is going down one of the broad boulevards in harlem at that time. so people would come out of the tenements in order to see. they were sitting on the balconies of these grand buildings that had transferred from the italians and russians, and then finally to the african-americans, from the south they can all come out on this pitiful day in order to watch the parade. the photographer had the presence of mind to take pictures of the parade but the presence of mind to then turn the camera on the people who were watching th

>> i know he's from massachusetts and went to northeastern university in boston.living with his parents and decides he hates america because he's surfing jihaddist web sites and decides we're evil and the pentagon and the u.s. capitol need to be hit. he goes and buys these toy planes on-line which are six feet long had, four feet wide, can go up to 160 miles an hour. you can purge in the gps coordinates, note the applyboy bunny on the tail end of the plane. can plug in gps coordinates and make it hit his intended targets, like the capitol and pentagon. somehow the feds identify -- we believe that aside from being on the jihad insist web sites or he met a ex-con. >> bill: he also had explosives, correct? >> the feds gave him those. >> bill: so the feds set him up. this is how it probably went down. somebody made a call can, saying look, this guy, he's trying to do some bad things. the feds got him and said, all right. let's see. we'll set up a sting. >> yes. >> bill: so they went in and met him. they sold him explosives. >> right. all of the real business he did in

citizen born here, got a physics degree from northeastern university in boston.source that let the fbi on to him. then they did what they often do in these cases, people approached him claiming to be from terrorist organizations. he assumed they were al qaeda. they wereundercover fbi operatives. he had an extensive plot, he came down to washington and took pictures of the buildings he wanted to target then wrote up plans and gave them to what he thought were al qaeda computers on a enthusiathumb drive. the planes are 6 or 7 feet long. the plan was to fly one into the capital and two in the pentagon. he never had explosives, he had to borrow the money from the undercover operatives to buy the plane, cost $7,000. even had to borrow the money to come down here to washington to do his surveillance. there was no doubt he was a committed terrorist, made many statement about committing jihad. he made detonators from cell phones and give them to

berkeley, university of pittsburgh, for a year i was at the hebrew university at jerusalem and currently at boston unive >> you have? >> yes, indeed. >> i got my degree in '79. >> you're the professor of the appreciation of scripture, you've been doing that for what? >> since '90. >> for nine years. three books to your credit? >> that's true. >> i notice that you retreated from some of your statements from your first book, "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews." what changed in the 11 years between the publication of these two books. >> my first book was "from jesus to christ." and that was published in 1988. and "jesus of nazareth" was published a few months ago. what changed is time elapsed, i continued to work in the field and learned more. >> isn't it the all-important question of why jesus was killed, you now believe he represented a limited threat to public order during the festival of passover rather than a major threat to roman rule? >> i don't think anybody thinks he, including pileate that jesus represented a major threat to roman rule. >> well, then why was he crucified? >> because of th

martha: he graduated from northeast university in boston in 2008. physics degree is what he earned there. authorities say he started plotting all this in 2010 after being convinced america is evil through jihady web sites. bill: those are just some of the stories were watching this morning. also in a moment here. after that solyndra scandal, the feds approving a billion dollars in loans for two new solar energy companies. at least one lawmaker raising concerns. >> this is an incredible organization you work for. no one in the federal government is responsible for half a billion dollars of taxpayers' money. what do you do for a living? martha: rick perry backing off those controversial comments he made during the fox news debate. we'll tell you what he's saying about immigration now. bill: the scene inside michael jackson's bedroom. what dr. conrad murray did when he realized he wasn't breathele. >> prince was standing there with a shocked, slowly crying type of look on his face. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement

boston. "nightly news" begins now. 23478 stop captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. it may say a lot about health care for rich folks in america. michael jackson hired his personal physician for a flat fee, $150,000 a month to care for him. it's now pretty clear that as a celebrity patient he expected a certain kind of medical treatment. some contend that meant whatever he wanted. his former doctor is in trial in california following the death of michael jackson. and, today, jurors and viewers around the world heard from a man who was there in the room when michael jackson died, ending a life that was more troubled than we all first thought, if that's possible. nbc's jeff rossen starts us off from the courthouse in l.a. tonight. jeff, good evening. >> reporter: hey, brian. prosecutors in los angeles say dr. conrad murray was negligent by pumping michael jackson with drugs that ultimately killed him back on june 25, 2009. years later, dr. conrad murray is now on trial and prosecutors called their key witness to the stand, michael's own body guard who says after michae

boston. 60 years of age. husband, francis j cross um. one child. harvard university ratcliffe college. bampt a. tough university md. couple laddy. georgetown and tust universities school of medicine instructor in pediatrics, 3 years. the permanent medical group. multiple leadership roles including chief of pediatrics and associate executive director 29 years all together and currently. hobbies, hiking. sharon levine. >> sharon levine, we are got lick, senior policy attorney for the center of medicare advocacy. are thru? >> i am. good morning. >> vicki, do you have thoughts on what we've been saying so far about the cost implications of by lodgics versus traditional drugs or any aspects of the conversation thus far? >> i have a lot of conthoughts about your conversation. cost is a very important factor and cost very often will cause the population not to be able to afford the drugs. even if they have drug coverage for a biopharmaceutical, very often the copayments are so high that people can't afford the copayments. people are bankrupting themselves in order to get these needed medications and i

boston. because of my parents, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university.hat is where i went to school. it was intense. i stayed there for law school and have a master's in public policy from there. those are subjects i decided to study because i was interested in public service and public policy issues and government. >> you grew up in the boston area. what made you want to make the transition and moved to san francisco? what motivated you to get involved in politics question marks before i ran for office, and worked in san francisco as a criminal prosecutor and civil rights attorney. i got to understand how much of a be in san francisco is to the rest of the world for social justice. i spent a number of years helping to grow a small business. i got to understand the innovative spirit in san francisco. at night, i volunteered as a neighborhood leader and as feature of an affordable housing organization. i learned so much about the challenges facing our neighborhoods and the special jewels that are the urban villages we live in. i ran for office because i w

boston area. he has a physics degree from northeastern university. take a look at the pictures, the justice department releasing two photos of planes similar to ones they say he was planning to use. as you can see they're big enough to carry a serious load. the department of justice also believes he was planning a simultaneous ground attack involving six people armed with automatic weapons. brian todd is working the story and has more on who this guy is, what, if any, overseas connections he might have. joining us also fran townsend. so, brian, this was an fbi sting. what do we know about how it went down? it appears to have been a very elaborate string. authorities were tracking mr. ferdaus for the better part of this year. they do indicate that he began some of his various plotting last year but they have tracked him at least since january. they have used undercover agents and at least one cooperating witness who started taping conversations with him earlier this year. so this was a fairly elaborate sting operation that lasted until today when they

douglas besharov is a professor of public policy at the university of maryland. he joins us from boston. and isabel sawhill is a senior fellow at the brookings institution. her work focuses on poverty. isabel sawhill, another 2.5 million people fell into poverty in 2009. at the risk of asking the obvious, is it unemployment that's driving that number? >> it is definitely unemployment that's driving this increase in poverty rates and leading to the record numbers that you talked about in the lead-in. you know, the very best anti-poverty policy is to have a job. with so many people out of work or having part-time jobs when they'd like full-time work, it's inevitable that the poverty rate is going to go up. we've done some projections of what the poverty rate will be mid decade, a few years from now. if the unemployment projections that most economic forecasters are using hold true. it's a very dismal picture. >> suarez: this is a number, doug besharov, that has been rising since the economy began to suffer several years ago. is there a new poor? is is there a profile for who is joining th

boston area. he has a physics degree from northeastern university. take a look at the pictures, the justice department releasing two photos of planes similar to ones they say he was planning to use. as you can see they're big enough to carry a serious load. the department of justice also believes he was planning a simultaneous ground attack involving six people armed with automatic weapons. brian todd is working the story and has more on who this guy is, what, if any, overseas connections he might have. joining us also fran townsend. so, brian, this was an fbi sting. what do we know about how it went down? it appears to have been a very elaborate string. authorities were tracking mr. ferdaus for the better part of this year. they do indicate that he began some of his various plotting last year but they have tracked him at least since january. they have used undercover agents and at least one cooperating witness who started taping conversations with him earlier this year. so this was a fairly elaborate sting operation that lasted until today when they

gul then held talks with for the boston mayor, calling on all turkish people in germany to learn german. the president's speech at berlin pause to university also went ahead after delays due to a bomb scare. >> stay tuned. i will be back after a short break with the in depth look at this weekend's elections here in berlin. don't go away. >> welcome back. berlin's mehr has secured a third term in office following elections over the weekend here in the capital. berlin voters had a chance to express their feelings regarding the coalition of chancellor angela merkel, the social democrats' chances of taking the reins of national power in 2013, and how people feel about the so far in effective steps taken by politicians to end at the eurozone debt crisis. the berlin of elections also proved to the national prospect of a fairly new pirate party. it was just formed five years ago and it wants to put citizens in the seat of power, not professional politicians. it also wants to strictly curbed police surveillance on the internet and as party activists put it, make free-speech free again. >> a new party has stepped onto the political stage. a colorfu