records showing him when you contrast showing him a plant in columbia university here. on the if are on from september one thousand eight hundred two until may of one thousand nine hundred thirty have been out there verification same dates september one thousand eight hundred two until may of one thousand nine hundred thirty in all the bomb us papers in speeches he's stating that he ran to columbia university and for two years why is he lying about that. he's alive and well and if you want to act out of time but i but i get to that you're not satisfied you've been very very aware and you have said we have not got hearings and i suspect that he will broadcast i'm sorry we're out of time to thank you for the hearings thank you for joining us tonight i appreciate it as we just saw president obama made a mistake thinking that actual evidence would stop the burghers it won't go to great lengths to prove the barack obama is an illegitimate president at least a claim the berserker have it is fake part of a conspiracy or that move on to something else like saying that his brain

>> my dad went to columbia university. a lot of my aunts and uncles went to university of buffalo, but my dad had the big dreams and the family. he was able to study at columbia and live with his older sister who had settled down in queens. he would commute from a story all the way up to columbia university every single day, and back. -- from astoria all the way up to columbia university. he studied computer science. that was back in the day when you used a punched card to program mainframe computers. that was at the cusp of the computer age. he worked there for some time, but later in years he lost touch with the computer until fairly recently. he still does not know how to operate a mouse. he just saw that everything was on the internet and he wanted to be able to find information. my dad was a very smart man. he loved to learn. he was constantly reading papers and stock newsletters. he watched nbc all day. he had a thirst for knowledge. he always wanted to know where were the best places to go eat, wear to travel. >> wh

and i also provide it and when you have one more close up here is those columbia records columbia university records showing him. by the contrast showing him i don't think university. on the a from from september one thousand eight hundred two until may of one thousand nine hundred thirty eight i have been out there verification same dates september of one thousand eight hundred two until may of one thousand eight hundred fifty in all of obama's faith personal speeches his stating that he went to columbia university and for two years writes he lying about that why is he lying about his wives and what if you. were out of time but i but i get it that this that you're not satisfied you've been very very aware of so we have a lot of hearings and i suspect that. you will draw this out i'm sorry we're out of time of the thank you for the hearings thank you for joining us tonight i appreciate it as we just saw president obama made a mistake thinking that actual evidence would stop the brothers it won't go to great lengths to prove that barack obama is an illegitimate president at least a claim to p

in barnard's case, the other school is right across the street, columbia university. e are columbia students taking courses at barnard, and barnard students taking courses at columbia. >> reporter: back in 1889 when barnard was founded, women were not allowed to attend columbia. they weren't allowed to vote, either. nowadays most schools are co-ed, meaning they accept both male and female students. but even though many doors have opened for women, barnard is here to open more. >> well, i think that barnard has just a very long history of providing leadership opportunities for women, and really pushing women out there in the working world. and that's true i think for a number of the women's colleges. >> reporter: and here's the proof. only 2% of all college grads come from women's colleges, but listen to this. 20% of the women in congress came from single-sex colleges. graduates from women's colleges are twice as likely to earn ph.d.s. and they are more likely to go to medical school. of the 50 top-ranking women in business, an amazing 30% came from, you guessed it, wom

albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the new school in columbia universityd is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line teacher. a teacher, educators, researchers, writers, consultant, speaker. she is like a mother, auntie, big sister, all in one, for me. she has taught in canada, the caribbean, and the u.s. and has been involved in the development of teachers for two decades. she consults on anti-racist inclusion very and equitable education. she assists school districts and schools to continually restructure themselves for equitable outcomes for all students. the initiative put that puts race -- she designed the initiative that puts race on the table. she is the virtual scholar for teaching for change. she is the author of "reality check," a major report

. >> he owns columbia university a lot. you have a good issue.e important professional cakes and write up a student loan death if it's a carriage we'll be sitting her in for at least 14 months. >> i had no concept what it would mean. and what i would end up playing when it is over. >> on the high end of the red ink, but student loan debt in this country is now greater than credit card debt. casey rasmussen is the senior of the university of illinois who is afraid to calculate what she owes. >> will it force you to make certain life challenges? >> probably. probably going to have to work a job that i don't necessarily want to. >> getting married, having kids, saving for retirement. >> there's no question that many students are racking up large amounts of debt. but many economists call that good dike. they liken it to a smart informs. you exeffect he would stop that. >> you can have a much higher income if you borrow and go to and will and repay those loans. >> the numbers don't lib. in 2008, the american january earnings for almost $22,000 more pe

footage and reporting from "nightline" won the overseas press club award and a dupont award from columbia university seemed almost embarrassed to accept an award that documented the heroism of others. dismissing those who called him a hero too. >> he worked in the world where people risk their lives and died regularly and i don't think it even crossed his mind that he was brave. you know? but he was an image maker and he was dedicated to that calling. it was something he felt had to be done by somebody and he knew he was good at it. he was really good at it. >> reporter: major dan kerney was a company commander at the time as a captain. he talked tonight with abc news. >> what he saw through the lens, i don't think too many other people have the gift for seeing. tim wasn't just a friend, i mean, tim was my brother and i'd do anything for that man. >> reporter: the footage was later edited into a documentary called "restrepo," the name battle company gave the makeshift base from which they fought. >> really can't come down. you can't top that. >> reporter: an academy award nominee this year. >> "rest

. >> reporter: diana berkovitz owes columbia university a lot.ot a good education, made important professional contacts and ran up a student loan debt there and at ithaca college that will keep her in hock for at least 20 years. >> what i realize now is when i was 18, i had no concept of what it would mean to go to a school that cost more. and what i would end up paying when i graduated. >> reporter: her $80,000 in loans from her undergraduate and graduate school days are on the high end of the red ink, but student loan debt in this country is now greater than credit card debt. casey rasmussen is a senior at the university of illinois who is afraid to even calculate what she owes. will it force you to make certain life choices that if you didn't carry around debt like that that you wouldn't have to make? >> probably. probably going to have to work a job that i don't necessarily want to. >> reporter: and that's not all. >> it can affect a lot of choices like when to buy a home or whether to buy a home. getting married. having kids, saving for reti

joseph stiglitz is a nobel prize winning economist in columbia university professor and he's pushing for a rethinking of the global economic framework in the wake of a financial crisis i want to thank you so much for joining us professor now you've written recently about the increasing disparity between rich and poor in the united states and you've even compared these conditions to what led to the other us we've seen in the middle east so what do you think are the factors that led to this and what do you think the consequences will be the point i raised was that the increase in the concentration of the income in wealth in the united states has been enormous . would happen in the last couple of decades is almost a quarter of all the income goes to the upper one percent. around forty percent but now you measure it in the wealth goes to the upper one percent of americans used to think of themselves as a land of opportunity that everybody else thinks of themselves as a land of opportunity and they think of old europe is ossified the data. show that meanwhile we see protests taking to the

here's glenn hubbard, dean at columbia university's graduate school of business and former chairman of the council of economic advisers under president george w. bush. >> the president and congress are arguing over near-term budget cuts to improve our fiscal outlook. a key ball in play? more like taking our eye off the ball. the long-term budget woes present the real challenge: the unsustainable footing of social security, medicare and medicaid. this isn't just about dollars and cents. if we don't get our budget focus right, we won't be able to afford our goals for defense, education and the safety net we need. a new assignment for the president and congress: can't we clear up the long-term fiscal outlook without large tax increases that would discourage growth, and without reducing promises to current beneficiaries? we can strengthen our entitlement programs to augment and focus their support on lower-income americans. doing so gives the budget room to restore fiscal balance. the alternative-- don't act, don't tell-- weakens the future of our safety net and our living standards. the t

sort soon from professor joseph stiglitz sees a claimed economist at columbia university he told us the u.s. financial problems lie with the fact that money and power is in the hands of the few. weeks happen in the last couple decades is. twenty two most a quarter of all the income goes to the upper one percent around forty percent to twenty are you measure of the wealth goes to the upper one percent if you have a very split society. they're going to be very different views about what's important if the rich can buy their own parts they don't need to have public parks if the rich can buy their own education we don't have to public education if the rich can buy their own health care we don't have to have good health care for most americans and that's where we're winding up today so the people at the top that one percent are using their political power to try to preserve their wealth and meanwhile making sure that the government doesn't do what is necessary for the prosperity the functioning of our entire society. i did watch the full interview with economist joseph stiglitz here on r.t.

this new book, the exhaustive work of columbia university professor manning marable, outlines why theinvestigation should be open. marable died last week, just before publication. why is it important that all these years later the investigation be reopened? >> it is important because professor marable believed in justice and his killers were never served justice. >> reporter: february 21, 1965, malcolm x was speaking to several hundred people at a ballroom in harlem when suddenly three men stood up in the front rows and opened fire. thomas hagen was caught at the scene and confessed to being one of the gunmen. 12 years later, he signed affidavits claiming two other men who both served long prison sentences had nothing to do with the shooting. >> as marable's quite powerful book details, four of the actual assassins never were pursued and at least one of them still lives openly in the metro new york area. >> reporter: the book claims the n.y.p.d. knew malcolm x's life was in danger but turned the other way in the face of threats. by almost any standard, the investigation here at the mu

. >> reporter: diana berkovitz owes columbia university a lot.ation, made important professional contacts and ran up a student loan debt there and at ithaca college that will keep her in hock for at least 20 years. >> what i realize now is when i was 18 i had no concept of what it would mean to go to a school that cost more and what i would end up paying when i graduated. >> reporter: her $80,000 in loans from her undergraduate and graduate school days are on the high end of the red ink. but student loan debt in this country is now greater than credit card debt. cayce rasmussen is a senior at the university of illinois, whose afraid to calculate what she owes. will it force you to make certain life choices that if you didn't carry around debt like that you would haven't to make? >> probably. i'll probably have to work a job i don't necessarily want to. >> reporter: that's not all. >> it can affect a lot of choices like when or whether to buy a home, getting married, having kids, saving for retirement and saving for their own kids' education. >> r

he's saying that he wants proof of obama's grades to make sure they really deserve to go to columbia university and really deserved to go to harvard what do you think is the bottom of all these. well trump is trying to imply that the only reason why obama got into columbia or harvard harvard is because of affirmative action and that he didn't really deserve it and you know why didn't he deserve it because he's black you know are you questioning that he was an achiever because of his skin color i mean some people are saying that birthdays are racist and i think that's a blanket statement but when it comes to trump and not all these you bring up the birth or issue he's also bringing up the fact that he was that obama went to an ivy league college or ivy league colleges and he's trying to question whether or not he deserved that i think that's definitely racist where was donald trump when bush became president where was donald trump when bill clinton became president how come he didn't question any of them because they're right so i think it reality what's at the bottom of this is donald trump is

a columbia university finds suicide attempts are more prevalent in areas that are more conservative. >>> a daily pill that helps prevent a.i.d.s. has hit a stumbling block. the drug is marketed as a method of h.i.v. prevention for gay men. researchers are now halting one study being done in africa. they say african women who took the drug were just as likely to get h.i.v. as women taking a placebo. despite the setback, the drug is still not being pulled from the market. >>> it was no joyride. the trip down the strength of road that knocked a 6-year-old boy face to fate with police. >>> a high court battle over high tech. the claim a small firm says. >>> if microsoft wins, i think it will be highly destructive to the entire generation of innovators that. >> the lower court found that the microsoft infringed on a patent and the software giant was forced to stop selling the product and was fined. >> the healthy patten tent system requires that we both have the ability to protect patents that deserve protection and we have the ability to weed out those that do not. >> the supreme court t

[laughter] the professor of the south asia institute at columbia university.tice is this more and over coffee and i blue duck i apologize. but there's a long-standing -- there's a lot of columbia university ties you and i have today, i am an alumni of columbia university so it's nice to be present among former and later classmates. and, finally, the resident south asian advisor of the niceties institute of peace, moeed yusuf, who is with us and we'll speak last, our cleanup hitter. i want to thank him personally for all of the support that he is given to make this program possible. so without further introduction, let's get started. >> thank you, bob. >> come up to the podium. >> okay. thank you very much, bob. it's a pleasure and an honor to be here. this is the first public event i've been to at the new building, and i must say it's quite spectacular. i can understand why you are distracted from your daily work with this magnificent light coming in all the time. well, i was asked to shed some light on this topic, and let me start off with a little bit of a d

letters from the gibbons family and was sent with a hot tip by one historian who said go look at columbia university. i went up there and found a record of fugitives 1855 by sidney howard k. that sent me off on to a real search because i found the most extraordinary thing. zero more was married to her husband jacob in the previous zero marcos and now i try to find zero more. [laughter] i did find your list and in new haven connecticut but that has taken me two years to find that. >> i will go back to the schomburg but there is one staff member who terrified me and was so mean. we'll get my courage to go back. >> i have had experience with that two. [laughter] i will talk to later. [laughter] and give you the name of somebody who is really, really wonderful and who will help you and i just saw her a couple of nights ago. >> i just bought your book. [laughter] >> lets me tell you there is the vigilance society so you can look around for that, david ruggles is one name to research we do have a question. >> have you heard of louis napoleon? and i am trying to find him to he helped to rescue and was work

and from the university i went to columbia college of physicians and surgeons which was, basically, aum leap from a small teachers' college to an ivy league university that was the first medical school to award the md degree in the colonies. so here i am, a physician. and that brings me to a point where i wrote the second book, "something to prove." i want to read some excerpts out of the second book because you think you've got the brass ring, you know? you're a doctor. i'm a doctor. i have an md from columbia. so what do you do? the again, i just wanted to read to you what doctors do. and this is from the first chapter, first page of "something to prove." chapter one, the subbasement and the glass ceiling. new york hospital cornell medical center, early 1980s. quote, i knew in medicine, right, you'd always with respected -- be respected. when a man is sick, he doesn't look to see what color you are, he wants to be made well. unquote, donald thornton. come to the hospital if your water breaks or if anything else goes wrong, i always told my patients, we'll take good care of you. even

[laughter] the quaid-i-azam professor at the south asian institute at columbia university. we rehearsed this over coffee this morning, and i knew i was going to blow it, and i apologize. but there's a long-standing, there's a lot of columbia university types here and i have to that, i'm an alumni of columbia university so it's nice to be present among former and later classmates. and, finally, the resident of south asia adviser of the united states institute of peace, moeed yusuf, who is with us and will speak last, our cleanup hitter. and i want to thank them personally for all of the support that he has given to make this program possible. so without further introductions, let's get started. >> thank you, bob. thank you very much, bob. it's a pleasure and an honor to be your. this is the first public event i've been to add the new building, and i must say it's quite spectacular, and i can understand why you are distracted from your daily work with this magnificent light coming in all the time. well, i was asked to shed some light on this topic, and let me start off with a

[applause] >> siddhartha mukherjee is a staff physician at columbia university medical center. author of "the emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer" and winner of the 2011 pulitzer prize in general nonfiction. to find out more and other pulitzer prize winners go to pulitzer.org. you are watching booktv on c-span2. here is a look at our prime time lineup tonight. it 7:00 eastern robert hurst discusses success and criticism of the autobiography of mark twain volume 1. at 8:30 politics and pasta, prosecuted mobsters rebuild a dying city. 5 years in a federally funded gated community and lived to tell the tale. at 10:00 eastern afterwards, the author of inventing george washington is interviewed by peter. up next on booktv, recounting julie and paul child's careers in world war ii. the cookbook author and television personality began her service as a file clerk in 1942 and later stationed in india and china. the author recalls the couple's travels as part of the clandestine office as well as the interrogation of paul child on allegations of communist sympathies. [applause]

. >> your inner room over here at columbia university? >> yes. >> how long do you want to be deputy mayor, and do you intend to go back to harvard? >> i have to get the near term figure out. i like harvard, but i love new york city a lot and i am excited about the fact that my wife is moving here. i will be able to get out of my dorm room at columbia and be able to see and enjoy a great city. i have an opportunity to serve. the only reason to take this job is to serve. there is no other real reason. i like new york city and want to see if i can make a difference. i know i want to do this job longer than two years. in the meantime, we will see what happens. >> do you want to run for mayor here? >> i don't think so. i have had a chance to be mayor. i am now here as deputy mayor. i wish the next mayor of new york city well, but it is not going to be me. >> has there been any time when you said your wife or anybody, this was a mistake? >> i would say it is a little more arduous than i had thought. i realize the scale and complexity of it. i c

joe lash was a jewish man, graduate of columbia university, intellectual who was very involved in the left student movement in the late 1930s. somehow he became one of her closest after her relationship with hicock waned in the late 1930s. now as a representative of the press because of her "my day" column, she attended hearings of the house un-american activities committee at which lash who played a leading and controversial role in his leftist youth organizations testifyied. lash first was a communist, or communist sympathizer. then he broke. lash said the two of them had a moral affinity. he introduced her to the nations of communist within social movements. and eleanor benefited from hiss political savvy as he discussed the way in which communist operated was in these movements. and years later, as the united nations, she said she didn't have that much trouble dealing with the russians because she had learned about the communist when she had been first lady. she learned a lot, i think, from joe lash. by now accustomed to making the role of first lady one of really significance as

i'm getting a matters of the public health at columbia university. in my life where i can contribute in a meaningful way to this issue and i have been and i felt the sort of satisfaction of being able to contribute and i see how hungry people are for the tool that i made in the film and how useful it is in those different dialogues that happen at so many different levels. and it gives me so much, i don't know, encouragement to do more, to continue to do what i can and to try to inspire others to try to join in this movement. >> charlie: what's everymothercounts.com. >> i was finishing up the film and editing process last year for tribeca. i didn't want people not just to feel or be awe but i wanted to give them things to do for this information. so i created everymothercounts campaign and website so people could go there and get the next level of information and education and also some options that they could take actions. i think it's people when they feel they want to do something and it makes you feel overwhelmed and you don't have that ability to

eisenhower was a columbia university -- after the war very much interest in big business and sort of traditional east coast republican party. it is a much different tradition and one that didn't really have a kind of national architect. it wasn't so much that warned changed in years to chief justice is eisenhower misapprehended his politics at the outset. as warren's own political development, scott polk who is the best scholar, we had a dinner leon and he pointed out that warren is a rare person who got better in every job he did. that is true. warren started his public life and was concerned with one issue, law enforcement in one area, then he ran for attorney general and as attorney general didn't broaden his range of issues so much as broad a beaten put upon which he practiced and egos to become governor and forced to deal with social issues that go far beyond law-enforcement and finally the chief justice where he has a national template and infinite range of issues. as he passed through each of those stages he became a bigger, fuller -- >> the first president to have nuclear-wea

letters of the gibbon's family and i was sent by a hot tip from a historian who said go look at columbia university. i went there and found a record of fugitives, 1855, by sydney howard gai, and that sent me off on to a real search because i found the most extraordinary thing, sarah moore, married to her husband jacob in the gibbon's previous home. now i'm trying to find sarah moore. i found here listed in new haven, connecticut, but it's been -- that's taken me two years to find that. >> thanks. >> i'm going to go back to the schaumberg, but i shouldn't say on the record, but there's one staff member who terrified me. he was so mean and so i'm going to get my courage and go back. >> yeah, i had experience with that too. >> oh, good. >> but, i'll talk to you later. [laughter] >> okay. [laughter] >> i'll talk to you later and give you the names of somebody -- >> thank you so much. >> of somebody who is really, really wonderful and will help you. i just saw her a couple nights ago, and she's lovely. >> oh, great, and i just bought your book. [laughter] >> thank you. let me tell you, there was the ind

according to a columbia university study, children whose families routinely eat together are less likelymoke, and less likely to smoke marijuana. ♪ the same study showed children whose families channel the old days of "leave it to beaver" style family dinners also tend to do better academically. so we issued a challenge to the freemans, could they make it through 2 weeks, 14 straight days eating dinner together? >> hey. today is the first day we're eating dinner together. >> reporter: armed with a video camera, the family of five said they were up to the task. day one, spencer worked to rearrange his work schedule to to get home to sit down and have dinner with the kids. it was a struggle, but he did it. >> you're so late getting here. >> oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. >> you were late, dad. >> reporter: day two, he was exhausted, but he managed to do it again. >> i'm coming home by 3:00 and i'm cooking dinner. >> reporter: by the end of week one, the hardest part, the freemans were finding, was waiting for spencer to get home. >> what did your mom cook for dinner? >> reporter: which was someti

according to a columbia university study, children's whose families routinely eat dinner together areto smoke and less likely to smoke marijuana. the same study showed children's whose family channelled the days of "leave it to beaver" style dinners did better academically. we issued a challenge, could they make it through two weeks of eating dinner together? >> today is the first day we're eating dinner together. >> reporter: armed with a video camera, the family of five said they were up to the task. day one, spencer worked to rearrange his work schedule to sit down and have dinner with the kids. it was a struggle, but he did it. >> you're late getting here. >> oh, oh, oh, oh. >> you are late, dad. >> reporter: day two, he was exhausted but he managed to do it again. >> coming home like 3:00. and i'm cooking dinner. >> reporter: by the end of week one, the hardest part was waiting for spencer to get home. >> what did your mom cook for dinner? >> reporter: which was sometimes later than any of them liked. >> waiting on spence to get here was the hardest part. >> reporter: spencer may

"the new york times" was taken during the first gulf war, and there's vonnegut out there at columbia university, you know? i'm sure it was a large crowd because even to his dying day, vonnegut would attract a large crowd. it was -- i have been told he was like a rock star coming into his different speeches in large auditoriums, always filling the auditoriums. so here we are in the art gallery portion of our library. i'd like to take you over here and show you a vonnegut quote that's signed that was given to us by his around the u.s.ic collaborator -- by his artistic collaborator. it says, "i don't know what it is about hoosiers, but wherever you go there is always a hoosier doing something very important there." this quote was in the book, "cat's cradle," and it's a very funny exchange the main character has with a fellow traveler on a plane. and that fellow traveler gives this quote. so next we have possibly his most famous piece of artwork, the sphinter. vonnegut, in his humor, he associated the asterisk with this anatomical feature. and we, we actually have used this asterisk in other pieces

he's university professor of art history and history at columbia university. as a student at cambridge his former teacher taught him to be unapologetic about the gift of communication and that he has. as an academic and journalist his work has encompassed everything from history and politics to film and food. his new book is called "script, scribble, scribble" writings on politics, ice cream, churchill and my mother. i'm pleased to have simon schama back at that table. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: another damn square thick book. >> charlie... >> rose: "cibl, scribble, scribble." >> well, you know, it's not quite shape up the, the rise and fall of the roman empire, alas. >> rose: give me context. that's what the duke of gloucester said to getman. it was another thick damn square book. >> yes, that's right. the year was 1776. i had a kind of face to face-- i can't remember if i told you this-- moment with the queen as i was getting a minor gong as we say in britain around the neck. and it's alarms because when you have to bend your head very closely.

and presentation, from joseph stiglitz is a nobel-prize winning economist and professor at columbia universityiness school. and matthew slaughter, who served on the council of economic advisors under george w. bush. he's now associate dean at the tuck school of business at dartmouth. matthew slaughter, since this was so unusual i'll reverse the normal newshour approach and reduce appearances first. why is bernanke doing a press conference and who do you see him speaking to? >> i think the chairman connected to the press conference for two reasons. one is historically if you look at his academic work a lot of research had shown the value of transparency for central banks and the second is in the wake of the financial crisis and the ongoing sluggish recovery, i think he feel it is need to try to speak to different audiences that are concerned about how u.s. monetary policy is being conducted so today he was speak to business and finance leaders. he was speaking to policymakers, but at least as importantly, i think the third group he was speaking to american workers and their families to talk abo

fried is an award-winning investigative journalist and essayist and wr adjunct professor at columbia university graduate school of journalism. his first biography inspired tha movie, "gia." the new rabbi and husbandry. he's won the national magazine award twice, lives in philadelphia with his wife, diane, and the book we'll be talking about today is called "appetite for america: how visionary businessman fred harvey built a railroad orbusi hospitality empire that civilized the wild west." itpi is out in paperback in may. in a review by hampton sides, a great writer himself -- he wrote "blood and thunder" -- hampton sides wrote, this book makes me. hungry. [laughter]ine i like that line.ou would you welcome stephen friedn [applause] >> thank you. >> michael milt sic has worked as -- hiltzik began at the l.a. times as a financial writer in 1931. he now -- 1981. he now writes a column about business. in 2004 he won an award for distinguished business andd financial reporting. with the l.a. times in '99 he shared a pulitzer prize for beaw reporting for co-writing an expose of corruption in the musi