at columbia university, dr. jeffrey sachs and financier and "morning joe" economic analyst steve ratner joins us as well. good to have you both onboard. they picked apart the word ponzi scheme to the point where he had to go there. >> yes. i don't know that ponzi scheme is his biggest problem. because you can always say something is a ponzi scheme but then you can go back and say let's fix it. >> it's that he didn't take it to the next level from the get-go and now we have to back track and try and take it to the next level. >> i don't know how many levels actually, watching him last night, i don't know how many levels. >> stop. >> no, i know. this is very legitimate. >> okay. >> after listening to him talk last night in detail i do not know how many levels there are to rick perry. but i do know this. let me finish my thought please. >> please. >> i do know this. the phrase "ponzi scheme" is not rick perry's biggest problem. the word that he's going to have to wrestle with during republican primaries let alone a

professor warren of columbia university, thank you for joining me. >> thanks. >>> on monday we showedou video of police brutality against peaceful protesters in the occupy wall street demonstration. one of those protesters will join me coming up. >>> last night, john stewart showed the emptiness of bill o'reilly's position on taxing the rich. that's ahead. >>> we've showed you the police brutality which occurred. coming up, i'll be joined by a witness to that brutality that broke out in new york over the weekend. we will be also coming up, the bill o'reilly return to the "rewrite". he worked himself back in with the nonsense he attempted to tell john stewart on "the daily show" last night. that's next. [ snoring ] [ thunder crashes ] [ snoring ] [ male announcer ] vicks nyquil cold and flu. the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep you ever got with a cold... medicine. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. i

empire site building, he shook hands with jackie robinson, he went down to city hall, went up to columbia university. having less fun in new york city were the policemen who were assigned to protect him. because there were all these assassination plots surrounding castro, and these were reported in the press every day. and none of these turned out to be real, but the police didn't know that. and castro was completely impossible to protect. he'd throw himself into crowds, hugging and kissing people with no concern for his safety. and one afternoon on a whim, he decided to go to the bronx zoo. the press followed, federal agents followed, the new york city police followed. and castro did what everybody does at the zoo; he ate a hot dog, he fed peanuts to the elephants, he rode a miniature electric train, and then before anybody could stop him, he climbed over a protective railing in front of the tiger cages and stuck his fingers through the cage and petted a bengal tiger on the head. these were the kind of things that made people think he was a little crazy. [laughter] americans spent much of his visit

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thank you ann temkin and olive sacks columbia university neurologist. i should note you're wearing this cap not because we want to promote anying but because you thought it would shield your sensitive eyes from the bright television lights we are thrilled to have you here without a hat. thank you very much. and eric kandel and i havebeen on a journey. it has been a journey that i have learned as much as i have on any series. it has opened up to enormous possibilities. i think ic and i could sit here tonight and say let's go do ten parts of creativit just the questions we have raed at this table show you the extraordinary thing we've been talking about which is that as we understand the complexity of the brain just a little bit it hop up and shows us the possibilities of understanding so much more and understanding who we are and understanding where what we thought o as in a sense didn't quite understand about behavior and how there was a connection to biology. and eric has helped us understand that he is my great friend and has been the guiding hand and

there's new research from the prestigious columbia university showing that putting the family back indinner can make all the difference in the success of a child. abc's dan harris explains. >> reporter: the tidy tableau of family dinner on "leave it to beav beaver," mom in pearls, dad in a tie, gathering for a calm, orderly meal, now feels, for many of us, hopelessly unattainable. >> beaver? anything happen in school today? >> reporter: in the 1950s, most families ate together five to seven nights a week. these days, with both parents working and the kids up to their ears in extra curriculars, it's more like one or two nights a week. but today's new study says family should make dinner together a priority. researchers found teenagers who don't sit down to frequent family dinners are four times more likely to use tobacco, twice as likely to drink alcohol and two and a half times as likely to smoke pot. tonight, dan gilbert is cooking dinner with his wife and three children. >> most important time of day for communicating. >> what's that, chicken? every night it's [ bleep ] chicken. hol

it's the distance between battery park and columbia university. and don't forget that the people who live in brooklyn and new jersey are considerably nicer than some of israel's neighbors. so how do you protect such a tiny country? surrounded by people sworn to its destruction and armed to by iran? obviously you can't defend it from within that narrow space alone. israel needs greater strategic depth. and that's exactly why security council resolution 242 didn't require israel to leave all the territory it captured in the six-day war. it talked about withdrawal from territories to secure a defensible boundry and to defend itself israel must therefore mabet a long-term israeli military presence in critical strategic areas in the west bank. i explained this to president abbas. he answered that if a palestinian state was to be a sovereign country, it could never accept such a way. why not? america has had troops in japan, germany, and south korea for more than half a century. britain has had an air base in sipe press. france has forces in three indep

of the pro-medical marijuana side, or the government, but more independent studies like the columbia university work. we need more data. we need more information. before we pull down the fence, we have to understand why the fence was put up to begin with. and we just do not have that information. and i cannot see selling the next generation of kids down the street because we think it is the right thing to do. >> let's open this up to the audience. this will be more like can the garden that law school. those with their hands just politely of will be called on for spiritless car with this general man in the center here. -- will be called on first. let's start with this gentleman in the center here. >> i am hispanic, from mexico, and very offended by that comment you made about are headed for it last month we had over 2 million mexicans peacefully protesting the atrocities happening in mexico over the drug war. the cartels to not get stronger because it inherited what ever you said, that spain treated as badly and therefore we're 5 for the cartels that strong for two recent united states stop immi

mukherjee who teaches at columbia university. what is that you teach, sir?>> guest: medicine and oncology. i've been interested many, many years in the field. it started as a cell biologist and gradually became interested in treating humans. >> host: washington d.c. you are first up with dr. mukherjee. please go ahead. >> caller: can you hear me? my question was on the future treatment. another said if they can learn the language of cells that can detect cancer cells early. i want to know if you know anything on that question of the possible treatments and mouse may not take allergy the idea 15, 20 years from now to eat the stuff. you know anything about the possible cures or treatments? >> guest: i tried to stay away from miracles and treatments because you have to be specific about the cancer were talking about. i'll tell you something going on that were doing another people are doing to an iris technology available that you can detect down to single cells. you can trap the cells in the blood and ask a question, arthur cancer cells they are? if do find, yo

and will some columbia university students be putting the dinner ahmadinejad?nd finally a man sues white castle because he is too fat to fit in the fast-food chain seats. we will go live to absolutely nowhere straight ahead. greg? >> thank you, andy. >> happy defy superstition and national cream filled donut day, greg. >> well, andy, i would definitely walk under a ladder for a cream-filled donut. >> that's the spirit. and fingers crossed that nothing bad happens on superstition day. >> join me later. i brought cream filled donuts for the staff. >> want to drop it for tonight? >> yeah, my heart is not into it. >> it is okay. we all have bad days. >> look, i don't want to let you down. >> it is too late for that, andy. it is too late for that. >> in that's how you feel. i thought you were the one whose heart wasn't in it. what else could it possibly be about? >> i said before i didn't know that was the conditioner. next time put your damn name on it. >> i thought sven left it. >> scen was bold. >> i never saw it without his leather hood. >> it is $120 a tube. >>

then we will hear columbia university professor and lincoln scholar "unfamiliar fishes" -- eric foneralk about "the fiery trial: abraham lincoln and american slavery". a former fbi agent who worked on terrorism in his career with the fbi. his new book just came out called the black banner:the inside story of 9/11 and the war against al qaeda. you will have a chance to talk with him during the call in show. candice millard has a book about the president james garfield's assassination. she will speak at the national book festival and join us to take your calls and e-mails and tweets. we will introduce you to the author of liberty's exiles about american citizens loyal to the british during the revolutionary war. if you have been to central park or visited the u.s. capitol, you have seen the work of frederick law olmsted. justin martin will join us to take your calls. sylvia nasar's newest bestsellers "grand pursuit: the story of economic genius". in six hours she will take your calls and we will wrap up coverage of the national book festival with pulitzer prize winner isabel wilkerson w

researchers at columbia university say teenagers who have dinner with their families less than three week are much more likely to dry drugs and cigarettes compared to teenagers who have family dinners at least five times per week. >>> a lot more to come tonight. a popular sold rock band calls [ cow mooing ] ♪ [ female announcer ] there's no need to produce foods yourself to be sure they're 100% natural. ♪ now there's open nature foods from safeway. no preservatives, no artificial anything. all within budget. a wide choice of natural foods that meet your high standards. ♪ open nature. only at safeway. why did you buy my husband a falcon? thanks for the falcon. i didn't buy anyone a falcon. sure, you did. you saved us a lot of money on auto insurance. i used that money to buy a falcon. ergo, you bought me a falcon. i should've got a falcon. most people who switch to state farm save on average about $480. what they do with it, well, that's their business. oh, that explains a lot, actually. [ chuckles ] [ male announcer ] another reason people switch to state farm. aw, i could've gotten

columbia university relevant for college students.ity did a study recent of college students, experts in privacy settings and so forth. and found that 100% of the people they surveyed were mistaken about how much they were sharing on facebook. some were sharing too much, too little, things they didn't expect they were sharing. it is so important to do a clear, deep audit of what is out there about you on that web and easily findable. >> uma: how do you cleanup past mistakes that are there, if you find one? >> apart from calling reputation.com. make sure that all the stuff that you published yourself that is still within your control is unpublished, cancelled, deleted, redacted. go to all of your postings, make sure there is nothing that in the cold light of day an employer who didn't know the inside joke, didn't know the finance any thing that you were thinking of at the time -- the funny thing that you were thinking of at the time, might see and make a bad decision about you. you will never know they made that negative decision. it w

rashid khalidi is an american historian who teaches at columbia university.the foreign affairs columnist for "the wall street journal." welcome. rashid, what is the strategy here that the palestinians hope to accomplish? because the u.s. is going to veto any kind of palestinian statehood in the security council, which is the only place where they can get it. so what's the point of going through this exercise? >> it's true that there will not be a palestinian state member of the united nations process at the end of this process because of the united states veto, if they go for that. i don't think it's clear what their strategy is. it may be changing. they are under enormous pressure not to go ahead. i should say that nothing they do will change the reality on the ground. the occupation will continue, settlement will continue. the united states will be an obstacle to any sound, peaceful, just resolution of the conflict. but it may change the diplomatic atmosphere. i think this may be the most important result. it's going to lead to severe sanctions against the

marc lamont hill who teaches at columbia university. we just got a statement from his offers saying he was taken out of context. i have been taken out of context myself thousands of times. be that as it may, what's the primary beef among african-americans vis-a-vis the white house. >> i can't speak for all african-americans one central criticism is that the president hasn't addressed a so-called black agenda the way other presidents would have to. >> bill: what does that mean? what is the black agenda? i do this for a living, i have no idea what that means. >> black agenda agenda for all sorts of folks. heal the middle class. job advancement. tax breaks sheessments are things we want to do for african-american people. >> bill: why can't we do it under one banner. why do veto separate out out. help the middle class help everybody. >> different groups have specific issues. >> bill: give me a specific african-american issue. >> you can look at any measure of social prosperity in america where the bottom and you measure social misery we are

and he is going to have some lunch with some students at columbia university. thinking about this, if i were a college student and this thug came, in i would have lunch with him but i would give him a hard time. >> forget giving him a hard time. have put a dusted off gun in the water closet. do a michael -- go into the whiz student union come out and blow his head off and get extra credit work. i would tell these columbia kids if either one of you, any of you have beenarried recently in new york under the new law, don't bring it up at lunch with ahmadinejad. because they know is he a world leader and this is going to be impressive and we are going to touch base with another guy. do not tell him that you and jimmy are married because is he not going to dig that. you are going to find your way on the business end of a semitar. >> bill: if you were a student, would you have lunch with this guy? >> bill: i would. i would give him all kinds of jazz. you know. i wouldn't yell at him and do something like that. i would say you know what? just as you said. you are trea

he, and he took leave of absence as president of columbia university to be the first military commanderf nato in paris because at the time it was recognized if there was one american we can send to europe who personifies the american commitment to nato, to the freedom of western europe, to america's continued responsibility in the world, it would be dwight d. eisenhower. and last but not least, eisenhower was over in, um -- the story of eisenhower's nomination is often forgotten. in 1948, for example, james roosevelt, franklin's son, had been one of many prominent democrats who tried to get general eisenhower to run for the presidency as a democrat. and eisenhower declined largely on the basis that he didn't think, he was a professional soldier, and he didn't think that it was appropriate for him to be involve inside politics. but by 1952 things had changed, and his great fear at that time was that the republican party, the likely nominee, was senator taft of ohio who was the most prominent isolationist in, in the republican party and, really, this country. and eisenhower felt that the

consisted of two students: john lichten, a non- muslim from new york, and janan delgado, a columbia university graduate from ecuador. the management was el-gamal and his business partner nour mousa. >> people still think that we are this massive thing that the media make us out to be. when, in reality, our organization is very small. vision, mission, strategy and tasks. it's stressful, it's hard, it doesn't please anybody. i don't know who's happy with this project at this point. >> and you're going to invite very specific people to partake in that. >> that's right. >> this idea today has no funds. i'm at a deficit. i'm running. it doesn't work. i don't even know how we've gotten this far. >> we need to raise $2 million in 16 weeks. takbir! >> allahu akbar. >> and we need all of your help. we can't do this on our own. this house and this mesgid and this community center is only going to be built insha'allah with your full involvement as well. >> narrator: the american muslim community at large had turned its back on el-gamal. >> we are a fabric of this society, and we need to be out there, and

have for high school and we worked with various counsellors and high schools, ranging from columbia universityw york to the university of kansas, to george mason to virginia tech. we adapted our curriculum to be a curriculum for the colleges as well. we think it is important that when they do these date rape kinds. things, that they incorporate this in. >> hopefully they will follow information or the guidelines that you and other organizations help provide for them to educate young women out there and young men. great work you're doing. >>> a new report blames bp for its catastrophic oil spill. that tops our look at stories around the news nation. today's report from a joint u.s. investigation team said british petroleum made a series of catastrophic mistakes and triggered the worst oil spill in america's history. it included poor judgment by everyone from bp executives and engineers to crew members on that rig. and casey anthony's attorney, jose baez, is going to now consult the defense of gary garrido. baez -- excuse me, baez was of course the lead attorney for casey anthony. he will be an

i was doing the movie malcolm x and we were shooting at columbia university. and between takes, i was-- we used students. and between takes we were talking about all the issues of the day, and oh, it's this, and the world is and this was 20 years ago. i can imagine what the conversation would be like now. and basically, i said, so what are you going to do? you're going to give up? and they're like, no, no, we're going to change things. that didn't even come into their mind. i said, oh, that's me, the older, cynical one that's thinking like that. so i enjoy working with young people and listening to young people because young people are positive. us older folk are the ones that- - oh, you know, it's all going to hell in a hand basket. that's the way we think. i don't think that's the way it is. >> ifill: denzel washington, thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> ifill: we'll report more on the drop-out problem in coming months. "american graduate" is a public media initiative funded by the corporation for public broadcasting. >> brown: again, the m

went to columbia university. having less than in the new york city, where the policemen were a sign the assassination and reporting to the press every day. none of these turned out to be real, but police didn't know that. castro is completely impossible to protect. one afternoon on a whim, he decided to go to the

>>catherine: his defense of public statements do you remember his visit to columbia university in 2007one that he was in it was " no gays in iran. >> we do not have homosexuals. it came up again and a news conference later in that visit. >> you said that there is no phenomenon could you elaborate on that? >> i know a few myself. >> seriously, i do not know of any. he has insisted that women have enjoyed the highest level of freedom and they love all people, all jewish people that despite 20 06, 2009 that the holocaust may have not happened. he is thinking that more investigation is needed. a wiser not sufficient research. >> last year he applied the the 911 attacks could have been an inside job. but the actions from iran putting himself in a dangerous world arthu---this isy similar to the 2009 revolution. coming out in droves protesting the election victory. hundreds of thousands took to the streets many were shot and others were put in jail and tortured. the nuclear ambitions have all reached the west. a constant source of anxiety. and what might be a very strange way the president of

associate professor at columbia university and host of "our world 37 gts mark good to see., what is your reaction? >> this is -- most horrific miscarriage of justice i ever heard of. first of all, just the brutality of having a 14-year-old boy, 95 pounds, as you mentioned, executed, having to stack books on a chair to reach street electric chair is disgusting. when you look at the actual evidence there is no physical evidence he committed this murder. there's no evidence at all he committed a murder. he was part of the search apart looking for the girls. and during that time where he was helping the town look for the girls he mentioned he had seen the girls earlier that day. just by saying he saw the girls earlier that day that justified at that time probable cause and reasonable suspicion. they then carried the boy into a police station without his parents and without an attorney and grilled him for hours and finally offered him an ice cream cone if he would just say he did it. and then he gave an oral confession, none written down. oral confession which the police used an

. >> rose: a university professor of art history and history at columbia university, a prolific writer, and keen observer of just about everything from a perfectly cooked egg to the politics of the moment. i'm pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: often some of the keenest observatioof us is from someone who is not always with us. >> well, you know, i feel moreith us, as it were than not that is truly the way i spend my time but it true to say pie passions are evenly divided. between the two but it does strike me with all my kind of american side of me, operating, we're an extraordinarily dangerous and difficult and worrying moment. because ver possly since the civil war, ctainly not since the new deal have two utterly and unreconcileable philosophies or ideologies of governmen really been, you know, in the boxing ring with each other. one of which, the one that gets the most press and the one which gets the headlines, e republican side. and certainly the most eloquent airing in right wing talk radio, wants to do nothing short of liquidating american g

it is said that the editor of the papers for the columbia university press and did an outstanding job, harold use today joke that he intended to dedicate the many volumes to aaron burr, quote, without whose cooperation this project would never have been completed. i thought often of that comment as i was writing the book. even as treasury secretary we find hamilton dabbling in anonymous journalism under a bewildering variety of pseudonyms. he launched one under the guise of camillas and then a simultaneous series that heeps praise on the brilliance of camillas. when hamilton publishes articles supporting washington's neutrality proclamation jefferson contacted james madison and pleaded with him to rebut hamilton in print. quote, for god's sake my dear sir, take up your pen, select the most striking heresies and cut hamilton to pieces. there is nobody else who can and will enter the list with him. there was nobody else in america who could enter the list with alexander hamilton and even james madison often shrank from the invitation. the cabinet feud became so vitriolic that poor, long