for example when i was at colonial the average black student enrolled in corneil at that time scored in the 75th percentile in the s.a.t.'s. the average white student at cornell at that time scored in the 99th percentile. half of the students were on academic probation. you have kids who would have been on the dean's list that they were sent to colleges where they were virtually guaranteed not to make it. >> host: are there any affirmative action of them so you think are worthwhile? >> no. that's the easiest question of all. >> host: .or sowell i might've just asked you this but i've are you forgotten the answer. are you working on another book right now? >> guest: this is one of the few times in my life when i do not have another book underway at the moment. well, i'm always up dating so if you mean that i'm always doing that. but if you mean in my starting on a new venture in bookwriting not for the moment. >> host: you mentioned that at the beginning of this interview that intellectuals in your field should have your approval. >> guest: i didn't say they should have. if they all g

on on this film you have corneil us vanderbilt. they are clear eyed about persecution of the jews. which brought up in a way in this film that you wouldn't see in hollywood until year later. >> vanderbilt saw the up ragech he. >> grabbing the fil filmness fid to save and i crawled under the car and glued the cans to the bottom with tape. what happens next becomes a shock to the film maker hit letter the reign of terror screened in new york and clog and san francisco. but it was immediately panned. >> the influential film daily dismissed the notion that hitler would be any threat. and then vanderbilt's movie faced a kind of pressure that document tea air --mentry. documentary. in 1915 they 1915 they determined that films were a business. any state or any city could ban a film or demand that a film be cut before it played in their region. so a motion picture maker really had to go through a series of options or hurdles to getcontroversial films played in the 1930s. which is a main reason why the hollywood studios stayed away from that controversial content. in the in >> a san francis

a 80-year-old corneil us. gerlit oe>>ts . >> he was one of the sons of gathegerlit and he made acquisis of art at the end of the war. and ultimately interrogated and the focus of the monuments at the beginning was to return to the countries that have been victimized by the nazis and their works of art and in particular jewish collectors and libraries. >> and own recently did they wor belong to them. he is a curious figure and certainly someone that the documents show. we are talking about a guy that had a mattiace and picasso and renoir. how did he hold on to these pieces? how can nobody find out about it? >> can he be charged in germany for not giving these back. >> the zbe english german news conference has not given us any answers. it's been han handled as a tax matter there is a certain privacy right and they can't release the incelebrity tory. inventory. >> they found these paintings two years ago why did it take so long too giv to give everybody e information about it. the investigation was driven by tax

it's technically called corneil corneil.the ivy league school. i went to yale locksmithing school.[laughter] he actually pulled it out on tv. he dusted every night and puts it in the passenger seat of his car so he looks up and he goes oh -- how did that get there? >> one of the things you spend a lot of time writing about in this book and that you haven't written about in previous books is crime. crying. you spend a lot of time talking about crime. why is it that you wrote a lot about crime in this book lacks. >> i realized other than politics the one thing i write about more than anything else is crying. i think it's because that is the purpose of government. keep us safe whether safe from external enemies or in new york city as they are about to realize, oh boy it's going to be bad. i start off the book with that but that's part of life when the democrats win. they can change overnight. and liberals, i mean they have have -- also i am a lawyer so i'm interested in laws about death penalty and guns and crime so i begin that chapter going through the different ways liberals lie ab