where the president said cambridge police departments and acted stupidly and immediately and the media came down on him as sort of siding with african-americans or quote on quote even showing his true colors meaning he was definitely a partisan -- he definitely was on the sock of black folks because remember then senator obama runs as somebody above the fray cross somebody who can be an honest are richer or in higher in terms of race matters even though he happens to be black and probably the great example of obama as umpire is the famous race speech in march of 2008 and that was the speech the president made while he was still the center to become senator when his association with trinity church, 24 association of trinity church in chicago and its pastor commager my right of jeremiah might basically harshly criticizing the u.s. domestic and foreign policy. and they said if this is obama's preacher than obama must share the same beliefs and so what obama did is it a very good speech on race that was perceived as being extraordinary , and he basically said he parsed very w he said on on

another example in terms of race was the gates incident in cambridge with the president said that the cambridge police department had acted stupidly, and immediately the media came down on him as sort of siding with african-americans or quote unquote even showing his true color. he was definitely a partisan. he definitely was on the side of black votes. then senator obama runs as somebody who is above the fray, somebody who can be an honest arbiter or umpire in terms of race matters. the great example of obama as umpire is the famous race speech in march of 2008, and that was the speech that the president made while he was solicitor while his association with the trinity church, his 20-year association with the trinity church in chicago and his pastor, jeremiah wright, threatened to derail his candidacy because lawyers had gotten videotape of jeremiah right basically harshly criticizing u.s. u.s. domestic d foreign policy. this is obama's preacher. obama gave a very good speech on race that was perceived as being extraordinary and basically said, he parced well. on one level he disagr

. >> he provides a different genealogy mayor richard sent who is the activists from cambridge merrill lynch that is called the ladies general who has the unprecedented struggle in 1963 and 642 help desegregate to sign a a peace accord but also goes to malcolm x leadership conference in detroit where the outcome delivers the famous message where he lays out the second revision of the national and international political revolution. >> host: you write malcolm x was nothing less than the civil-rights era invisible man. >> guest: of civility and the terms in way historians view malcolm x. they are not part of their heroic point*. he usually only pops up around 1963/64 and only serves as a foil to dr. kagan. he is characterized as a profit of rage he was not only a brilliant political strategist and not one of the most important figures of the postwar period. >> you know, back in the '50s the most important term -- important political organizer and holland. >> release from prison in 1952 after serving six years for burglary he transforms himself while in prison in massachusetts and comes o

people like william worthy, goya richardson who was the activist from cambridge, maryland, who really was called the lady general of the civil rights movement who waged an unprecedented struggle in 196 3 and '64 who met with attorney general robert kennedy to sign a peace accord in the early 1960s but also goes to malcolm x's november grassroots leadership conference in detroit where malcolm delivers his famous message to the grass roots where he really lays out a secular vision of a domestic, national but also an international, global political revolution. >> host: you write that malcolm can x was nothing less than the civil right's era's invisible man. >> guest: well, absolutely. in the terms of the way in which historians view malcolm x, malcolm is not part of that heroic period of the civil rights movement. he usually only pops up around 1963, '64, and he really only serves as a foil to dr. king. he's more characterized or caricaturized as this prophet of rage who's not a brilliant political strategist, who's not a local and national political organizer, and who's not really one o

chills, when you factor in those 25 miles per hour winds, they can feel like 14 in annapolis. 19 cambridgeat least everything is above zero, right? mechanic feels like 9 bill right now. they have -- the feels like 9 below right now. here is the storm, and you can feel a little to the south. we will see some clouds tonight, so it does not like we will see us no chance tonight. we have got this flow of air coming from the northwest, coming out of the arctic recent -- regions, where it has been very cold, so that is dragging that moisture into our area. the map this evening shows the potential for some snow showers in the mountains to the west and continued breezy conditions. scattered clouds overnight are breezy and cold. northwest 10 to 20, 17 to 21 is the overnight low, so these will mean those go down to 0 or so. even though the lows will not be a strong, it is still a factor. a wind warning in far western maryland, and you couple that with the snow on the ground -- it is pretty raw out there. monday morning, a slight chance of a flurry. the win will not be as strong, so instead of 29 to

off i went to cambridge to study theology.her indifferent a theology student and then spent most of my time with one of the reverent gentleman named henslowe hunting for beatles and other natural history specimens whatever i got a chance. but all of that changed one day when i got a letter. there was a captain named fitzroy he was about to take a five-year voyage of discovery of round the world on hms beagle. he was looking for an unofficial ships naturalist. henslowe recommended me. oh, my. i wanted to go so badly. to leave england's dull, gray skies for the tropics, the beautiful bright skies, the tropical birds and flowers. my mind was in a tropical glow. my father said you will never come back alive, and he had his point. many young adventuress man went out from england and never returned alive. oh, but i wanted so badly. finally my father relented and let me follow my heart. and so there i was. he hired and assistance to help me. i was seasick every single day for the entire five years. there i was, you know, a doctor who

mark is a harvard grad and a cambridge and received his phd from cambridge.his new book, "a question of command" which will be discussing today, counterinsurgency from the civil war in iraq. i can see that you guys are all very interested and we will get to it in just a bit. tom ricks who is near and dear to our hearts here at csis. tom as you may know is one of the great military journalists of all times. he's been with the "washington post," before that he was with "the wall street journal" for 17 years and he's been part of two pulitzer prize-winning teams. one with the journal, one with the "washington post." of course, tom wrote his seminal book, the seminal book on iraq, the asko. when he was a writer in residence. we've always been very grateful for his guidance and his policy expertise. tom is now at the center for a new american security, a fantastic think tank, based here in washington and he is also a contributing editor of foreign policy magazine where he writes one of just the best blogs anywhere. it's called the best defense. and i urge that you

medicine, healthcare and society executive director five years, board member three years and currently, cambridge insight meditation center, board member, 19 years and currently. mind and life institute, boulder, colorado, a group that organizes dialogues between the dalai lama, vis chair of the board and crefntly. just published, coming to our senses. healing ourselves and the world through mindfulness. also, earlier best sellers "wherever you go, there you are" "full catastrophe, living and every day blessings." >> hobbies,unning, inline skating, swimming, cosmology, string theory, high energy physics, backpacking and kayaking. name. >> -- jon kabat-zinn. >> dr. jon kabat-zinn. who is william james. >> he is spoken as of the father of american psychology. >> here's a quote from him. the facul of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention over and over again is the very root of judgment, character and will. that means the pow of voluntarily bringing back and focusing it. the wandering attention. no one is in possession of his faculties if he have it not. an education which should improv the

cambridge road was shut down hile crews worked to restore the power. for the latest weather conditions or any school closings or delays come a go to our web site, wjla.com and will have the latest web site and a group -- we will have the latest infoation. president obama returns to the white house tonight amid new concerns about the effectiveness of our fight against terrorism. the failed terror attempt on a flight to detroit raised new concerns about the response to the threat. >> when the president returns from why, he will come back to questions about who's to blame for the terrorist near miss on an airliner over detroit. even more questions about what is being done to keep the nation safe. >> the christmas day terror attempt is bringing flashbacks to post-911 for stations. -- post-9/11 frustrations. > the problem is the systems are not in place to connect the dots. this is the part of the transformation need to see in the intelligence community. >> there was no single smoking gun, if you will that said he was going to carry out this attack. >> alon

we have low 30s in southern maryland over to cambridge fredericksburg is the warm spot sitting at 35.e got temperatures around 32, another shot of arctic air coming into minneapolis, the chill goes down to new orleans where they are 42. we will be in the 20s. big picture. one storm on the west coast not much to worry about. then we have got the snowshowers in the great lakes. but did you see what is happening in the deep south? a little disturbance with snowshowers from south of memphis now to parts of central and southern alabama. this may sneak in to georgia here in the next little while. that's not amounting to much but it is a good topic of conversational stuff there for them. for us, we have got the cold northwesterly winds persisting that other cold blast. and you know there is another cold blast behind this. so by the time we get to friday and saturday, more cold air comes in but with this next batch of cold air, looks like a little wave will try to develop ahead of that. that could bring us a little light snow here. as we head into thursday night. and friday friday morning. le

. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly. >> but the award goes to the party crashers.ave two people looked so good making white house security look so bad. >>> it proved a remarkably good year for other political players. best power couple, returning champions, hillary and bill clinton. >> hillary clinton looks like a rock star, very bipartisan looking, very pro-american and very high marks from both republicans and democrats. >> and he played a pivotal role in getting the two journalists released from north korea. >> we express our gratitude to president clinton. >> sarah palin's resignation from the governorship of alaska. >> best counter attack? palin, again with a best-selling book. facts? who needs them. >> really brilliant because she invigorated the republican party in a way i've never seen it ever. it was like this revolution. >> a great visceral vitality about sarah palin. >> i think she's just an amazing populist. from a purely tv standpoint sarah palin is gold because she says whatever she wants to say and winds up blaming liberal media. >> she's a dynamic,

the last four years for cambridge, the year before the it was in beijing pennsylvania was the year before that. -- was in beijing, and sylvania was the year before that. the natural question is if they can build pathogens? the answer that usually give is that, yes, you should be worried, but there is nothing you can do about it. we also have to be paying attention to who is using and how they are using it. as is naturally the response in this town in particular, they want to regulate that technology. they will derive that by 2020. the world has changed and innovation has changed. the sickbed of biology, playing with these genes has created an incentive to design dna sequences from scratch. that is the world that we leave it -- that we live them. -- that we leap -- that we live in. >> i want to say that i am a great fan. i read a piece that said that was the city was the mother of invention. actually, it is the opposite. i want to ask the panel if you agree with that. has that equation shifted? >> you first. >> no, i want to prevent a gasbag answer. is the question is should we be focusing

but i was sent to this training course which ended up in cambridge university. it is rather like the courses that were taught in monterey. the absurd thing is that i spent almost the entire time of my national service studying russian. i never used it in any practical way, but it changed my life. i then went to university and got my first degree in russian. >> where? >> at nottingham university. >> you were born in britain? >> yes. after working in the former yugoslavia, i came to graduate school at columbia and studied russian at columbia. although i went back to the u.k. after four years, it planted a seed. i published papers on censorship and came here to get circulation and to raise money for foundations. after writing one of my books, it was such a huge success that i began to get job offers and so i moved. in fact, none of those original job offers materialized. i spent six months at the woodrow wilson institute and six months at harvard. i was offered a job at cornell university. that pretty much sealed my fate, except that i very much wanted to stay here

in cambridge, massachusetts we don't have a single golfer? all right. what's interesting here now, in the trial, a number of professional golfers, the golfing greats testified. arnold palmer, jack nicklaus, tom kite. they testified because the question came up, what is the essential nature of the game and would allowing him a cart change it? and what do you suppose they said? what do you think? >> [inaudible]. >> they did, to a person they said, this would fundamentally change the nature of the game. it's too bad but he should not be given a cart. what's interesting about, even the discussion, a little disagreement we've begun here, is, that it revolves around what is the essential nature of the game. you notice that? is the essential, is it essential to the game, walking the course, having the energy and strength, not to succumb to the fatigue on a hot day of walking 18 holes, is that part of the game, or is that just incidental? is the real essence of the game, the point of it, hitting the ball and getting it into the hole? and insofar the debate, i m

the president said acted stupidly during a confrontation with gates, actually said that about the cambridgeolice department in general. the president later backed off calling it a teachable moment. charles, what about the beer summit. >> class obama style. here he starts out by making a mistake, accusing cops of acting stupidly, sort of instinctive, sort of prejudice against the cops in favor of a professor. if you're a professor like him, if you live in academia like him, sort after instinct actual response, he realizes immediately it's a mistake and what he does is, he tries to act the philosopher king and rises above and says now we're going to teach the nation whereas he was the one who made the mistake. it's the same way with the philadelphia speech, discovered of course in the campaign that he'd had a gaff of 20 years by being in the church of a raving racist, jeremiah wright and gives a speech which essentially scolds everyone including his own grandmother of latent racism except himself and he rises above it and says a teachable amount and had the liberals throws up and comparing it

>> i'm a former fellow and a resident of cambridge, massachusetts. i first would like to ask you if there is there is a lot of fear about china from a lot of different quarters, western, eastern and neighbors and so on. and i also would like to point out the fact that when vietnam collapsed, there was an article in the "new york times" in which it said the western powers had no patience, which the chinese were very, very -- he didn't name the chinese. he said the other supporters of vietnam were ready to match. and it is still studying the work and the rest of the world is too quick to pass judgment on them. and you just now said confucius still guides. i don't believe that confucian taught is still the most prevalent because the chinese young people are much more in common with the young people across the globe that inside of china. and also, it is to say that confucian was probably the first theater is, is once again to exhibit the western inability to comprehend the world history and makes it as disconnected as ever. the contemporary areas of othe

politics of the moment, the president made nice at a beer summit with the harvard professor an the cambridge cop and won a nobel peace prize even though he didn't think he earned. it wasn't always about the president. >> only dead fish go with the flow. >> reporter: who could quit their job as colorfully as sarah palin who left the governor's office short of her first term. she promptly wrote a best-seller, slammed mccain aides for bungling the campaign and laughed all the way to the bank. not laughing -- >> i won't begin in any particular spot. >> reporter: two family value conservative republicans, south carolina governor mark sanford and nevada senator john ensign. they looked like presidential material in january, and toast by december. >> last year i had an affair. i violated the vows of my marriage. >> i've been unfaithful to my wife. >> reporter: despite diminished numbers and some boys behaving badly, it turns out the republican party did not die this year. the gop won governor seats in virginia and new jersey. and the president who enjoyed in february the approval of 3 out of 4 amer

cambridge, maryland at 28 degrees.u factor in the winds and it feels like it is 13 degrees here in the district. 15 in baltimore. 10 at dulles. so you got to bundle up this morning. don't forget kids are going back to school today. very cold conditions across the region. satellite-radar composite for the mid-atlantic. there is snow falling in western and central pennsylvania. extreme western maryland will see a little more snow during the course of the day and muh of that area got snow yesterday. hence the school delays out there. for us, for today, here is what we're looking at. i won't rule out snow for us today. a few flurries. nothing accumulating but a few flurries here and there. still windy at times. that will be your main story. cold with localities of clouds around. high only about 32 degrees. then, for your five-day forecast, here is what we're looki at. again, below normal temperatures for the next several days. we're going to see highs only in the 30s this week. thursday night into friday, the models are su

the harvard book store in cambridge, massachusetts hosts the 50 minute event. >> thanks very much everybody for coming out on actually quite pleasant winter afternoon and thanks very much for harvard bookstore for inviting me here. i have been thinking about writing a book on how markets fail for many years but my wife always put me off say nobody is going to buy a book with that negative of the title. [laughter] she may be right, we'll see but after the financial crisis a couple of years ago i thought i should sit down and write this book. aftra there are so many economic problems out there from inequality come up polity, repeated financial crises, global warming, urban blight, you name it and there are lots of problems which rarely get addressed and straightforward economics of the sort that i learned, economics at that i am sure some of you did so i thought there is definitely a market there for a more skeptical view of the economy and then it seemed to me the financial crisis itself provided a sort of historic example of markets failing. there have been various explanations put forth th

i wrote this in 2007 by cambridge university press so it is not completely turned with what is going on but basically if you look good systems of national health insurance which exist in all the affluent democracy is, we don't have one. we have a quasi system of medicare and medicaid, half of all government expenditures paid for by the government -- half of health care expenditures. to put it simply they involve massive subsidization of everybody and keep the prius below what they would pay in a market. what happens is is elementary. if you subsidize something you get more of it. once you get more to get big explosion in demand and eventually the government has to put a cap on that and then you get rid of rationing and when that happens you get lines and who is going to go to the top-of-the-line? i will tell you, we know this and have this, people like me with connections, people who are knowledgeable, the king gave the system. will go to the bottom? look at poor west virginians. so if you want to be fair this is not a curse system. now, to do this we would have to talk about what a

when i got to cambridge university to get my phd, i was told this was all wrong. but thinking back to my childhood teacher, i knew that scientists were wrong and i was right, because that was my dog. and you can't have some kind of animal share your life and not understand it. of course, they have personalities, mines in the spirit of course they develop. but even today, there are people who feel, and probably rightly, that if they start talking in these terms about their animal, they will be less eligible to get grants from certain organization because it's too fluffy. it's too sentimental. >> host: is not scientific. >> guest: it's not scientific. >> host: on the other hand, you might argue that getting an animal a name might be a way to get more people to invest in that and what. >> guest: of course. >> host: to care about the future. >> guest: of course, it is. sometimes writing this book, it was too confusing to write about all these numbers. i thought i'd lost. i've lost what is number 49 versus number 57. so i gave them temporary names, just for the purpose

i wrote this, this came out in 2007 by cambridge university press so it is not completely current abouthat is going on but basically if you look at systems of national health insurance which exist in almost all the effluent-- we don't have one. we have a quasisystem. we have medicare and medicaid. half of medicare expenditures, half of all health care expenditures. if you look to those programs basically to put it simply the involve massive subsidization of everybody. the government tries to subsidize everybody in keep the price below what they would pay in the market. what happens is, it is sort of elementary. if you subsidize something you get more of it. went to get more of it you get big explosive demands and eventually the government has to put a cap on that and then you get government rationing. when that happens to get lines and who is going to go to the top of the line? i will tell you who is going to get to the top of the line. we know this. people like me. people have connections, people who are knowledgeable, people who can gain the system. who is going to go to the bottom of

to love you when they see you all alone ♪ ♪ you've got a new face with the same old scar ♪ >> the cambridge way in north korea. >> good evening from the cbs news control center in new york. this is walter cronkite reporting. reporting from moscow. reporting from madrid. from the great wall of china. president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> i've been delighted that i've been able to be a journalist all my life. i think it all worked out pretty well. >> that's the way it is. that's the way it is. and that's the way it is. and that's the way it is. >> there's reason to hope for the 21st century. and that's the way it will be. do you want to try my crest extra white with scope outlast? i'm good. i bet your breath will still feel fresh when the movie's over. if i win, i'm going to vegas with the boys. ok. if i win, you're going to yoga with me. i love yoga. [ female announcer ] new crest extra white plus scope outlast. for a whiter smile and a fresh breath feeling that lasts up to 5 times longer than ordinary toothpaste. still fresh? yip. i want to be mad but it's tough with

i wrote this in 2007 by cambridge university press. it is not completely current but basically if you look at systems of national health insurance that is an almost every affluent democracy we have a cause i system with medicare and medicaid half of all expenditures of health care basically to put it simply they involve massive subsidization the government tries to subsidize everybody and keep a price below what they would pay in the market. if you subsidize something you get more of it. once you get more of that you have a big explosion of demand and eventually the government has to put a cap on it then you get a government rationing then you get lines. who will go to the top-of-the-line? i will tell you. we know this. people like me who have connections, knowledgeable, who can gain the system who goes to the bottom? for west virginia. if you want to be fair this is not a fair system. to do this we need to talk about what is a feasible alternative or a real market based insurance. we have to compare it to an alternative it is not fair

-media lab in cambridge massachusetts where work is underway on more than 300 inventions, everythingfrom stackable cars to socialable robots. in fact, e-books, car navigation systems, even the popular video game guitar hero sprang in part from research done right here. >> i think i am very fortunate to be in a place like the media lab where i mean we are brimming over with creativity. this is like the mecca, i think in many ways. >> reporter: cynthia brazil is in charge of personal robots research at the media lab. her creative vision, robots as helpers in the home. in 5 to 10 years. >> my name is mixy. i'm an mds robot. mds stands for mobile dexterous, social. >> reporter: the key she says is making them, well, as people like as possible. >> touch things or even pick them up. >> reporter: take this robot. >> i can communicate in many of the ways that people do. i can tell you that i'm sad. mad. confused. excited. or even bored. just by moving my face. but i hope you can see that i'm very happy to have met you. >> reporter: unbelievable. in terms of feeling like there's a connection,

in addition to teaching here professor childress has held professorships at trinity college, cambridge, smith college and swarthmore college and he's lectured in london, oxford, berlin, munich and other universities and is recognized as an authority on 20th century german and author of several highly acclaimed books on the third right in the second world war. we are honored to have both of these accomplished speakers tonight so help me in welcoming richard reeves and thomas childress. [applause] >> it's a pleasure and honor to be here at the national constitution center and to be able to have a conversation with richard. i will restrain having read so much of your work about the president's to ask you about this current president but instead to talk about this new book richards which is a remarkable book about an absolutely the astonishing series of events in 1948, 49. it is particularly important to me i lived several years in berlin but as a student and then teaching at the free university which was founded at precisely this period. one of the things -- one of the major defense every

the last four years for cambridge, the year before the it was in beijing pennsylvania was the year before that. -- was in beijing, and sylvania was the year before that. the natural question is if they can build pathogens? the answer that usually give is that, yes, you should be worried, but there is nothing you can do about it. we also have to be paying attention to who is using and how they are using it. as is naturally the response in this town in particular, they want to regulate that technology. they will derive that by 2020. the world has changed and innovation has changed. the sickbed of biology, playing with these genes has created an incentive to design dna sequences from scratch. that is the world that we leave it -- that we live them. -- that we leap -- that we live in. >> i want to say that i am a great fan. i read a piece that said that was the city was the mother of invention. actually, it is the opposite. i want to ask the panel if you agree with that. has that equation shifted? >> you first. >> no, i want to prevent a gasbag answer. is the question is should we be focusing

. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly. >> he hosted a beer summit over the arrest of a black harvard professor. and the gop attributes gubernatorial wins in virginia and new jersey to the president's flopping approval rating. democrats did pick up another senate seat after arlen specter switches parties and washington says good-bye to the lion of the senate, as ted kennedy is laid to rest in arlington cemetery. (taps played). >> a judge just threw out the charges in the case against blackwater security guards and blamed it on mistakes by prosecutors. could the same thing happen when accused 9-11 mastermind and his alleged co-conspirators have their day in court? we're going to take a close look at that.  >>> here is a look at your top stories of this hour. a somali man is charged with attempted murder in denmark after police say he tried to attack a controversial cartoonist. police shot the suspect after he broke into the artist's house. the cartoonist ignited a fire storm in the muslim world with a character coo during of the prophet, mohammed. in brazil, res

cambridge, ill., eric, you're on cambridge, ill., eric, you're on the line i have gotten addicted tor leans toward the right. -- it is called soda head. it kind of lean toward the right. i've heard lots of opinions from the aside. some are respectful, some kind of digging in and do not give an inch -- dig in and do not give an inch. but it is just another facet. since i have been on the other side, i think i have put an inordinate amount of time in it and i have not spent as muchvuñt more enlightened perspectivesm[ and for the moore's -- for the most part, it has been pretty combative. host: what are you there in the first place? caller: how was just randomly going there on the internet and i answered a poll on obama. through the poll they invited me to engage in this forum. host: has anything you have read, either at that site or elsewhere, and the other venues that have changed your mind on anything? caller: it has gotten me to be a little sharper, a bit more precise with the things that i have come to support my opinions with. the different sites on the internet that i can use to

we will hear from cambridge, mass., philip on the independent line.aller: i would like to give some credence to the ratio of 10 to one debated earlier on what it takes to take care of a guerrilla war. when i was a young officer in the french army in nigeria, we were facing about date-pacing about 50,000 -- we were facing about 50,000 had we did not have enough troops. we knew very well what was going on. and we lost. i am a u.s. citizen out and i'm extremely concerned that we are not putting enough power behind the war. and the possible outcome is total failure. guest: the point i made at the beginning of the show. that is the no. i watched for every day. how many bad guys are out there? there comes a point when you know the afghan army cannot grow to a point where -- to defend themselves, that it is pointless to say. -- tuesday. host: -- then it is pointless to stay. host: are all the generals that have been leaders over there, are they all vietnam veterans? guest: i do not know. host: with their command decisions in vietnam the commanders in afghani

interesting thing for those of you who are college students is the fact that marvin was actually in cambridge studying for a p.h.d. when he got an opportunity to go to moscow for the state department. and that -- a year later then, he was signed on by cbs, the last correspondent hired by edward r. murrow. so he went right from academe to the firing line and was a brilliant cbs correspondent for so many years. later on nbc, he was the moderator of "meet the press." two peabody awards, that's the biggest in broadcast journalism. dupont prize, overseas press club awards, too many to count and a bunch of emmys as well. he has written 10 books, two of them were novels. one of them was co-written with ted koppel. it was a great spy novel that i asked ted one time, what was the toughest thing about writing the book? he said the sex scenes. after i had read the book, i understood why. marvin is currently working on a book on the american experience in vietnam and we're delighted to have him here this morning as one of our speakers. marvin. [applause] >> thank you. let me start by telling you about th

cambridge, ill., eric, you're on the line for democrats, good morning. caller: the past year i've gotten kind of addicted to social networking. iskander leans toward the right. -- it is called soda head. it kind of lean toward the right. i've heard lots of opinions from the aside. some are respectful, some kind of digging in and do not give an inch -- dig in and do not give an inch. but it is just another facet. since i have been on the other side, i think i have put an inordinate amount of time in it and i have not spent as muchvuñt more enlightened perspectivesm[ and for the moore's -- for the most part, it has been pretty combative. host: what are you there in the first place? caller: how was just randomly going there on the internet and i answered a poll on obama. through the poll they invited me to engage in this forum. host: has anything you have read, either at that site or elsewhere, and the other venues that have changed your mind on anything? caller: it has gotten me to be a little sharper, a bit more precise with the things that i have come to

had been the moscow correspondent you whe college students is the fact that marvin was actually in cambridge studying for a ph.d. when he got an opportunity to go to moscow for the state department. and that a year later than he was signed on her by cbs, the last correspondent hired by edward r. murrow, and so he went right from academia to the firing line and was a brilliant cbs correspondent for so many years. later on in b.c. he was the moderator of meet the press. two peabody awards, that's the biggest in broadcast journalism, dupont prius overseas press club awards, too many to count, and a bunch of emmys as well. he has written 10 books. two of them were novels. one of them was co-written with ted koppel and it was a great spy novel, but i asked ted what time was the dumbest thing about writing the book and he said the sex scenes. after i had read the book i understood why. [laughter] marvin is currently working on a book on the american experience in vietnam and we're delighted to have him here this morning as one of our speakers. marvin. [applause] >> thank you. let me start by telli

interesting thing for those of you who are college students is the fact that marvin was actually in cambridge studying for a p.h.d. when he got an opportunity to go to moscow for the state department. and that -- a year later then, he was signed on by cbs, the last correspondent hired by edward r. murrow. so he went right from academe to the firing line and was a brilliant cbs correspondent for so many years. later on nbc, he was the moderator of "meet the press." two peabody awards, that's the biggest in broadcast journalism. dupont prize, overseas press club awards, too many to count and a bunch of emmys as well. he has written 10 books, two of them were novels. one of them was co-written with ted koppel. it was a great spy novel that i asked ted one time, what was the toughest thing about writing the book? he said the sex scenes. after i had read the book, i understood why. marvin is currently working on a book on the american experience in vietnam and we're delighted to have him here this morning as one of our speakers. marvin. [applause] >> thank you. let me start by telling you about th

we will hear next from cambridge, massachusetts, and philip. there you are on the independent line.ller: i would like to give some credence to the ratio of 10 to one debated earlier on what it takes to take care of the war. when i was a young officer in nigeria, we were facing the troops there. in spite of the colonial empire, dominance of algeria for decades, we knew very well what was going on, and we lost. as a u.s. citizen now, i am extremely concerned that we are not putting enough power behind the war, and the answer to the possible outcome is total failure. thank you. and the possible outcome is total failure. guest: the point i made at the beginning of the show. that is the no. i watched for every day. how many bad guys are out there? there comes a point when you know the afghan army cannot grow to a point where -- to defend themselves, that it is pointless to say. -- tuesday. host: -- then it is pointless to stay. host: are all the generals that have been leaders over there, are they all vietnam veterans? guest: i do not know. host: with their command decisions in vietnam t