>> england, cambridge. i loved tolstoy and all the great russian classics. i loved ancient greek tragedies. somehow, the blood got me. the really big question to answer about one of these amazing inventions of the 20th century, the one-party state, totalitarianism. how did it develop? what were its strengths to give it endurance and what were its weaknesses? what were its terrorist? >> what years were you at cambridge? >> in the mid-60s. >> what were you studying? >> version literature. -- russian literature. i did not come at this as a historian. i became a historian. >> if i read correctly, the lennon book was in 2000 and the stolen boat was in 2004 and the trotsky book was in 2009? >> yes. they were gigantic figures of the staff of the soviet regime. they are the towering figures. they are all different. they have different talents. they have different dangers. one of the unifying themes of my work is that, different as they are, they shared more than they held apart from each other. that was communism. this extraordinary invention that the russians obtai

that's how it came of it. >> what years were you at the university of cambridge? >> in the late '60s. >> and what were you studying? >> i was studying russian literature and ancient greek literature. i started as a linguist. so i didn't come in at this topic. i was a historian. i became a historian. >> and if i read correctly, the "lenin" book was 2000 by harvard, the "stalin" book was 2004 and the "trotsky" book was late last year, 2009. >> that's right. and one of the interests of doing all three of them is that they are the gigantic figures. the start of the soviet regime. they were the towering figures. and they are all different. they have their different talents. they have their different dangers. but one of the -- one of the unifying themes of my work is that different as they are, they shared more than they held apart from each other. and that was communism. really existing communism. this extraordinary invention that the russians attained after 1917. >> define communism according to what they thought it was supposed to be. >> well communism as they saw it

amazing company an where it might go if you understand how it all got started in a dormatory in cambridge, massachusetts as a brain child. >>> good to be here. >> i have to say when i first started reading this. i thought, oh, i don't know if i really want to read this. i'll read this, because i have to read it but it is a fascinating story. there is a kid, he is a sophomore at harvard >>> he wants to connect to everybody. part is to check out which girls in whatever class. >> a big part at the beginning. >> college being what it is. and now he is up to 500 million users on this thing. >> yes. >> and it is worth somewhere between i have red 15, now i heard $36 billion. >> people are buying shares at $27 billion values rate now. >> if anyone saw diane sawyer, he looks like a kid still. he is 26 years old. >> he looks old now compared to when i met him. >> he is a computer genius. there are a lot of those out there. why do you think this took off? >> for a few reasons. for one thing, he was doing it in the right place which was a college and not once didn'tly harvard so the status of starti

if he were in cambridge. he wouldn't be biracial.in new york they don't care what percentage is white, they see a black person. it is so permanent and lingering. >> white supremacy? >> there is white supremacy in the united states. >> we have a biracial, black, whatever we want to call him, a man who is the first black president of the united states. and we had, we had millions of people who came to washington, celebrating that. i mean that was amazing for our country. that was, was that not amazing? was that not a hurdle we cleared? >> that is a hurdle. if joe lieberman. >> it's not a nonsequitur. it is a fact. >> if joe lieberman were to become president we wouldn't say there is no longer anti-semitism. if hillary clinton. >> i don't think anyone is saying there is no world is not >> i didn't say there is no racism. >> laura, you just -- >> we have -- >> larry: one at a time. mark? one at a time. >> laura, you pointed -- laura pointed to the election of a black president as white supremacy no longer lingers. >> i never said that. >

beer diplomacy began brewing last summer, after a confrontation between a harvard professor and a cambridgeatened to boil over into a racial controversy. the president intervened, hosting what was quickly dubbed the beer summit. the idea, sheer a cold one to show no hard feelings. last june, the usa/england showdown at the world cup, prompted a bet over, what else? beer. the president and the prime minister each promising to drink an ale of the other's choosing. the game was a draw. so, as a compromise, the two swapped beers. >> yes, i did enjoy drinking the 3-1-2 beer cold. >> reporter: it is no surprise that beer was front and center in our relations with britain. back when george washington was president, it played a starring role in our fight for indianapolis. washington's new york office, is right here at the bull's head tavern. in 1853, he stopped by for a porter on his way to watch the british troops play. the first president had his own beer recipe. thomas jefferson petitioned congress to grant a brewer american citizenship, in hopes beer became more popular. and fdr mayo his presid

. >> reporter: 24-year-old cambridge brocksterman flew to this convention to take part in this debaptism she finishes the ceremony -- >> i've been about solved of absolutely nothing. >> reporter: she expresses no qualms about how it might be presteved. >> people are going to see this and they're going to see, well, look at them there, they're making fun of the church, and it's just like a religion. well, no, it's not. see, the difference is, we're having fun and you guys take it seriously. that's the difference. >> i deny god, jesus and the holy spirit. >> reporter: they are part of a new brand of in your face atheists who do things like deny the existence of god on youtube -- >> my name is chandler and i deny the existence of the holy spirit. >> see everybody in hell. >> reporter: and put up billboards like these in places like charlotte, north carolina. a few days after this one went up, it was defaced. kagan seeps no problem in gleefully mocking what many people find sacred. let me press you on this a little bit. >> sure. all you want. >> reporter: religion is the source for strength,

. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly. >> reporter: and recall, that led to a week-long media firestorm and the so-called beer summit at the white house, the kind of circus the president would certainly like to avoid this time around. chip reid, cbs news, the white house. >>> a long-time new york congressman charlie rangel says he's going to fight ethics charges being brought by the house ethics committee. rangel has been charged with multiple ethics violations that are expected to include failure to disclose financial information. rangel had an opportunity to avoid an ethics trial but was unwilling to accept enough of the charges to satisfy the committee. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch" asian stocks were looking up this morning. ashley morrison is here in new york with the latest on that. good morning, ashley. >> good morning to you, betty. asian markets rallied this morning. japan's nikkei added more than 2%, snapping a five-day losing streak while hong kong's hang seng gained just about 1%. today wall street gets another wave of corporate earnings with ford, mcdonald's and verizon among

. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly. >> reporter: and remember that led to a week-long media firestorm and culminated in the so-called beer summit at the white house. certainly president would like to avoid that kind of circus this time around. katie? >> couric: chip reid at the white house. chip, thank you. the sherrod case has put a spotlight on the u.s.d.a.'s long history of discrimination against black farmers. more about that now from national correspondent dean reynolds. >> reporter: willie adams 60- acre georgia farm has been in his family since 1938 and he wants to hold on to its red clay and green pastures for generations to come. but the fight to keep it is increasingly stressful. >> high blood pressure, almost a heart attack. ( laughs ) oh, yeah. a lot of stress. >> reporter: adams is one of a dwindling number of african american farmers, some 33,000 in all. >> we want equal justice! >> reporter: they're hoping congress will at last end decades of discrimination against them and appropriate the $1.25 billion they and their ancestors won in a settlement with the department of

number two, that the cambridge police acted stupidly.g somebody when there was already proof they were in their own home. >> reporter: and then later expressed regret for a poor choice of words, he said, and for ratcheting up the controversy. then there was a summit over a beer. what now? change comes slowly, observers say, and only if moments like this are used to teach. >> we measure race relations in baby steps, not giant tepz. that's why it's taken us 300 years of salavery and 100 years of jim crow to get to where we are. >> reporter: back in 200 senator obama was humble about how his election might impact race in america. but he was adamant about one thing. >> but race is one issue i believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. >> yet, if we're not ignoring it, the question s are we talking about it in a way that anyone would think is actually constructive. i'm going to pose that question to the roundtable. joining me now to discuss all the angles of this, as well as the entire political landscape, former obama white house

. >> charlie: so the choice was between oxford and cambridge and yale and columbia and stanford and - i think that the kids turned down, i'm not using these as rankings but kids turned down eight of 10 top colleges in this country -- >> charlie: suppose i would poll them. >> yeah. >> charlie: have a q&a with them. >> i've done that. >> charlie: why did they do it? why did they choose this new thing over the old thing? >> bethenny: and why did they forego ivy-laden campuses or universities with hundreds and hundreds of years of excellent -- >> charlie: and which have been a guaranteed -- or as much as it can be -- >> ticket to the club. >> charlie: ticket to the club. >> ticket to the ub, and they did that and we brought the finalists -- before we admitted kids, we had 9,000 applications. we chose about 300 finalists. they weren't admitted yet. we brought them in five groups of 60, roughly, to abu dhabi for three days because we wanted them to see the campus that is ultimately going to be built for us won't be built until the end of their senior year. essentially, we're in a glorious s

number two, that the cambridge police acted stupidly. >> reporter: that offhand remark ignited anotherassionate debate and was within days followed by this remark. >> i could have calibrated those words differently. >> reporter: the hope here at the whousz is that this firestorm has mostly been doused and can get back focusing on the president's agenda. erica? >> chip reid, thanks. whether or not the firestorm has been doused is open for interpretation. joining us now conservative author and commentator ann coulter and analyst tanya acker. good to have you with us this morning. it is open for interpretation. there was so much talk after president obama was elected we were now in this post-racial america which clearly this past week shows that's not the case. ann, why does this keep happening? >> i don't think it has been post-racial for us. with this administration, mean, as your package shows, you had the president calling sergeant crowley saying he was acting stupidly. up to now, you have this -- you know, prosecutors the new black panthers on the ground they won't prosecute. sonia s

this week that president obama added fuel to the fire of another racial controversy, involving the cambridgeolice officer, arresting the harvard professor for trespassing in his own home. that prompted the so-called bill summit. ironically, it may have been a desire to avoid that kind of racial controversy that caused the white house to react too quickly. >> thanks, jake. we know you will have all the top stories, plus treasury secretary, tim geithner, this sunday morning on "this week." thanks, jake. >> one of the things that jake will talk about is the financial reform legislation the president signed. >>> elisabeth leamy had a chance to sit down with the president yesterday to talk about it all. elisabeth, this was your first interview with the president. and he wanted to talk to you because of your expertise, consumers. >> reporter: that's right, george. president obama is trying to get the word out on what the new wall street reform and consumer protection act means to ordinary americans. it is the most sweeping overhaul of our financial system since the great depression. and yet, peopl

. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. >> reporter: after that episode the president ended up hosting a beer summit at the white house to resolve tensions between gates and the cambridge officer. as for sherrod, she said this experience has not made her cynical about the president. >> i told him right away you are my president. you've always been my president, and i've always wanted to do whatever i could to support you. before he hung up, i did tell him i need to get you down to south georgia. >> do you think the president is coming? >> i don't know. i certainly told him -- and i said, bring michelle. >> reporter: well, the white house is upset about the story for a number of reasons t. overshadowed everything this week. he signed two major bills into law. his choice for the supreme court is on her way to confirmation. that said, the white house believes among the lessons to be learned here for themselves not to be overreactive to what's going on in the media and for the media not to be -- to doubl

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the first live that got everything started was the police in cambridge. when they found out they had lied about it, another word was not spoken about it. no. 2, this man from the tea party made up, made his own tape that was a lie. everyone jumped to a conclusion. i know about black farmers who have lost their land. this woman was part of that. his -- her father was killed by the klan. she was saying that she was for giving them. she did not see this low white man as a part of the klan. someone should have the integrity to stand up to the fox news people and stop lying. host: "usa today," "usa -- usda employees says that she was forced out, saying that the remarks were part of a story of racial reconciliation, not racism. this morning be agriculture secretary says that he will reconsider that consideration to oust a black employee after racially tinge remarks." jamie, anderson, indiana. good morning. caller: as far as my comment goes on this, the armada -- the obama administration got snookered. they should not have. we saw the continuous loop of what the

from cambridge university in 1965. she's been the science director of the gandhi stream research center since 1967. 1984, dr. goodall received the j.p. wall getty wildlife conservation prize for helping millions of people understand the importance of wildlife conservation for life on this planet. her other awards and international recognitions filled pages. her scientific articles have appeared in many issues of "national geograph" magazine. she's written scores of magazines of known scientists. dr. goodall has writtenwo books "wild chimpanzees" and "in the shadow of man." dr. goodall has expanded her global outreach with the founding of the drjane goodall institute in connecticut. e now teaches and encourages young people to appreciate the conversation of chimpanzees and of all creatures, great and small. she lectures, writes, teaches and continues her mission in many inventiveays including the chimpanzee guardian projects. today, we honor dr. jane goodall for the significant role that her resear has played in recogni