i know cornell. i haven't spoken to him aboutne his particular comments in thiss case. he is consistently a critic of obama along certain lines. and also physiologically thegicy airing quite different places, cornell and bra,. >> is this more than attention grabbing? >> well, i think it has alwaysws been a mistake to assume thatt any group is a monolith. it is always a mistake that some people will think the same way.a we never have -- no other group i am aware of ever has. there have been differences.ve n at think what has changed to some extent is the willingness to hear these differencesand publicly. and that think that clearly cornell made the decision thatit he was quite ready and quite eager to go public with anyn eae number ofr complaints aboutumbef barack obama, and i actually think -- i saw his complaintsomw having to do with thee inauguration tickets and things like that. like , but i think that is healthy that he feels free and other people are increasingly feeling free to criticize this president. e no president should be above criticism, even from my group

his name is cornell west -- his name is dr. cornel west. we will have some dialogue and see if we can have a good conversation. please welcome, professor west. [applause] >> let me say that i am blessed to be here. each one of you are precious and priceless. what that means is that you are the future, not just of china but also to the future of the world. the human family. the relationship between china and the u.s. is crucial because both are superpowers. the challenge for young people are around the world but especially around china and the u.s. is what, to be smart, encouraged to think, creative, also occurs to laugh. also putting yourself in the shoes of someone else so you have a sensitivity to them as you are very very smart. i will stop there. [applause] tavis: our conversation started with a simple question, is the criticism that the strict chinese system keeps even the smartest student thinking for themselves valid? should critical thinking be a more important part of the curriculum in china? >> i am totally for it. tavis: you thin

the first was in cornell. it was after their fight. they had a huge battle. he raped a woman.t of his acting out his fantasies. and it's like getting a taste. it's like unleashing. there was another big battle between the two of them, and he went out that night and raped and killed a cornell coed. >> ross confessed to this murder and one other in new york state after he was caught. >> i started following women home, and i would get a thrill by them knowing that i was following them, that they would be scared and, you know, that gave me a thrill. and then it got to the point where i actually raped someone at cornell, and then the next person i actually raped and killed. >> but surprisingly, ross never seriously injured any of the women he knew. >> if he knew somebody, he might fantasize killing them and he might be rough. but they were relatively safe. >> they say what it is is that i can't hurt the person that i'm with. it's called splitting. >> underneath it all, he's very dependent, needy and attached. >> i love that person. i need that person for my emotional wellbeing. so

went to cornell medical school and finished. what he was saying is son, i have given you to best of everything. what i expect of you now is to ensure that you have learned a trade. that you are self-sufficient and that you can make sure that continues for pesterity. but he is -- posterity. he is my hero. i think he was disappointed and hurt. i think on some level he was saying what did i do. he didn't do anything wrong. tavis: how did you choose china? >> it was literally me saying where is it that looks like it has been relatively untouched by western paradigms and western expectations about me. what we can and cannot do. that and the fact that i -- at that point, i think hip-hop to me was -- it is my release. and i was thinking to myself, i know it is in japan and korea. but our music probably hasn't really touched china yet. i used to just dream to myself where i was going. i wonder if they feel the same way when they hear common, joe scott. i wanted to share that. tavis: when you got here, when you arrived in china, how were

and so cornell accepted me, but then they want you to come if they accept you, right? but i hadn't decided yet. and they, little did i know, forwarded my application to carl sagan's office, and carl sagan wrote a personal letter to me. >> oh, my god. >> hand signed. >> hinojosa: you get it in the mail? >> in the mail. i said, "carl sagan? is that the same guy who's on the tonight show and the..." i said, "oh, couldn't be." and i looked, i rubbed my eyes, and there it was. and he invited me to cornell to help me decide whether i would ultimately attend there. and i said, "is he joking, is he serious?" and so i, you know, called to make arrangements, and yes, he met me out front of his building, out of his lab, invited me up, chatted about the universe. he reached back, pulled out one of his books. i thought that was the coolest thing. he didn't have to look. he pulled back the book, it was the book he wrote, signed it to me. and this is cornell university in the winter, so, like, it began to snow that afternoon. and he drove me back to the bus station, because i took th

tavis smiley and cornel west. you both very much. >> thank you. >> it's been a pleasure. >>> tomorrow, an

i don't think that is healthy and whether or not i agree with all of cornell's criticisms he has theright to criticize and i don't think there's anything bizarre about that and it is healthy. >> you do talk to a number of people in chicago from the left who do complain or say that barack obama can go to egypt and give a speech or give a speech on the middle east and the world talks about the middle east for the next week so why hasn't barack obama come to the west side of chicago or gone to d 4 and talk about urban america? he missed an opportunity to put those issues which it is fair to say -- >> george bush ignored on higher plane? >> barack obama has a set of issues a white president doesn't have. i don't know what he is going to do if he gets a second term. when he tried to make a point, a teacherable moment -- stepped outside by the police in cambridge, he said okay. this is clearly a case of a cop overreacting and whatever the good professor said to him he was not creating a public disturbance or danger to anybody. so let me say -- let me use this moment to make statements abou

whherr not i asall of cornell's criticism is beside the point. he certainly has a right to criticize them and there's nothing bizarre about that and i think it is something very healthy about it. >> i did talk to a number of people in chicago, black-and-white from the left who do complain and say that barack obama can go to egypt and give a speech or he can give a speech in the u.s. on the middle east and the world talks about the middle east for the next so why hasn't barack obama come to the west side of chicago oregon to detroit and talk about urban america? has he missed an opportunity to you think to put those issues which i think it's fair to say george bush ignored that on a higher plane? >> barack obama has a set of issues the white president doesn't have and i can't look into his mind. i don't know what he's going to do if he gets a second term when barack obama tried to make a point it was a teachable moment after skip gates got arrested at his house by well outside his house actually by the police in cambridge i think he said okay this

cornell, the president is meeting privately with the democrats. earlier in the day there might be a broad outline of a deal. labor union got mad, liberal interests got mad. what is the sense in the party the democratic president might in their view give up too much when it comes to cutting medicare and social security? >> well, look. you've got to bring the democrats along particularly in the house. because in the end -- this is important -- in the end i already talked about the tea party element. in the end the speaker's probably not going to have enough of his own caucus to get this done. so that puts nancy pelosi and a lot of the house democrats in play. so the president is going to have to reach out to them and work with them and bring them along on this deal. they're going to demand that there be balance in this. what 70% of american want, both revenues as well as cuts here. and the democrats, nancy pelosi and democrats are going to be in perfect position here because the speaker -- mark my words on this -- he is not going to have his caucus

about a critical issue of national importance. >> cornell? >> well, of course i'm going to push back on some of that. and then actually i want to sort of not play partisan politics and try to speak to something bigger. i don't think they've changed the conversation that much. typically especially with the american people. because the american people actually still think that we do need revenues along with cuts to get there on this. but you know, this is such a humongous debacle that it blows our minds. it would almost be comical if we were not headed for a cliff. the fact of the matter is, even if he passes this bill, it is dead on arrival in the senate. not only among democrats say they're not going to vote for it but you have a number of republicans who say they won't vote for it. so instead of the speaker being held hostage by a group of radical tea partiers, why doesn't he get bigger than a moment? not playing partisan politics here, why doesn't he take this moment, pick up the phone and call nancy pelosi or congressman hoyer and say, you

cornel belcher, democratic consultant who worked for the obama campaign back in 2008.ust heard mike lee, newly elected senator, tea party, knocked off an incumbent to come here to washington and i know the democrats are saying why are these tea party guys getting in the way, but they promised, cornel belcher, to do this. they promised to do this, to hold the line on spending. so they come here with an attitude that might be different than many members in washington. listen to john boehner. he did the conservative radio show the laura ingram show this morning and he's talking about how some of these guys simply don't think getting to default without a plan is a horrible thing. >> well, first, they want more. and my goodness, i want more, too. secondly, a lot of them believe that that if we get past august the 2 sxnd we have enough chaos we can force the senate and the white house to accept a balanced budget amendment. i'm not sure that that -- i don't think that strategy works because i think the closer we get to august the 2nd frankly the less leverage we have vis-a-vi

the president of cornell also told us that prohibition simply doesn't work.these fraternities? >> i think it should be banded, drinking and hazing. and the kids who did it, they have to face the consequences what they did >> four of the young men involved in this death have been charged with misdemeanors, misdemeanor counts of hazing. do you think those penalties are severe enough? >> no, it's not severe enough, no. >> it's true that it is not -- it is not true what cornell says about banning alcohol would be ineffective. in fact, the fraternity's own research indicates over a ten-year period for fraternities that have gone dry, the risk of injury and death is reduced by 98%. >> this is a $25 million lawsuit, marie, and you more than anyone know that that money will not bring george back. so what do you want the outcome of the lawsuit to be? >> i want hazing and alcohol to stop, and i want those kids to face -- to take responsibility of their action because i don't want other parents to go through what i'm going through right now. george was a good kid. it wa

he may not have to go over 140 characters. >> cornell? 62% of the electorate the first time around were under 30. this is a trend all politicians are going to get into. the twitter town halls. >> pete? >> if the teleprompter can fit 140 characters for the president to use. that was for dana. seriously, he's got a crowbar in the hashtag. >> david, cornell. >> good job, pete. >> he's got to crowbar trending objects in. >> david duke. >> i was going to say, did you get that? >> thanks guys. sax fifth avenue is named after fifth avenue in new york city. now, they are heading east. far east. allison from the new york stock change. an interesting location for sachs. >> i think you should think of luxury. sachs fifth avenue is opening next year in kazakhstan. they are going to include chanel, luxury apartment, a five-star hotel in the middle of the biggest city to get all the tourism money. >> is there a market for these high-end stores there? >> actually, there is. if you ask sachs, the population is growing. the country is doing well. low unem

we can focus on the economy. >> cornell?first, pete, i have the bess the head of hair on television. i agree with dana, i think when you are afraid, people are going to be more afraid of a banker with a foreclosure note than a couple. richard referred to him as the grand old colt in an op ed. he is a smart guy. he knows better. >> all right, guys your buzzer beater. ten seconds each. >> you didn't ask me. you never got to me, kyra. how dare you? >> i got caught up in the hair comment. okay, sit your dome down. that smooth dome. go ahead, pete. >> well, it needs to stop mattering whether home sexuality is a choice. someone should ask tim pawlenty when he chose to be straight. the real thing here we need to try to understand, kyra, whether or not that matters. homosexuality is more damaging that people that watch reality shows. i would think that that isn't damaging to society as i very well know. >> buzzer beater. >> we will continue on that in just a second, pete. hold on, michael bloomberg. he confesses, oh, no, that he put

then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer

now i have come back with doctor cornell west and more than 30 members of my staff.ome of the footage you'll see struck this week was shot by my young staffers. china's front-page news back in the state so we know little about the people in this country. we came to china with questions about the economic boom, who is benefiting. about human rights and government crackdowns. the people we talk with told us -- surprise does with their candor. no topic was off-limits. we knew that we could only scratch the surface. we were eager to find out as much as we could about the people behind the second largest economy in the world as a morris from communism and consumerism. >> i think china has accepted the market economy, starting some 32 years ago when the tschida was opened. he said it was good to get some people care rich furs. starting at moment, china is now lagering communist economy. tavis: uc proof of that in big cities like shanghai and beijing. people are making money. chinese officials have moved 300 million people live there -- out of poverty into the middle class.

cornell west, i spent some time at this school just outside shanghai where some 50,000 kids of migrant workers are at the vanguard of change. >> a dance studio. tavis: our diet lives part-time in shanghai. she is also a governor of the committee of 100, a nonprofit is asian of americans to work to promote understanding between our two countries. -- a nonprofit group of chinese americans who work to promote understanding. she is actively involved in education through the arts in china. how long have you been in the school? >> about two years. tavis: are you enjoying it? is this a typical school in china? >> yes. this goes from middle school to high school. tavis: this is the whole class? >> the whole class. tavis: are they learning a particular subject? >> there learning language. -- they are learning language. >> [chanting, reciting] tavis: it is it possible the some of these kids read better than their parents? in addition to academics, the school focuses on dance and music. we were treated to some remarkable performances. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ tavis: someone must have told and that it was dr. west

my friend cornell put it this way. when it comes to the president, we have to respect him, protect him, and correct him. i've always respected the president. there's been times i've had to protect him against birther attacks. but just as often i will correct him if i think he's wrong. this was a time where he president had to be protected from the vulgar attacks. >> is america more or less racist since barack obama became the first african-american president? >> more or less? that's a good question. i don't think it's more or less. this whole notion of a post racial america was nonsense from the beginning. a bad forulation when it was first raised. i think what it signifies is america may be less racist. but in no way are we post racial. >> in a funny way, it was a fantastic day for african-americans when he got into the white house. but at the same time it raised the whole issue, put it out there, exposed people. and i share your concern that the next election campaign, there will be subtle racism. a play here, i'm su

i traveled there with a camera crew and a group of colleagues including cornell west. over the first of four nights we will look at the issues and the challenges facing china and the ideas and people who will shape china for the rest of the century and beyond. on friday, we will have a high- profile panel of chinese americans for a conversation about china and its place in the world. our guests include john chan. we met and spoke with some extraordinary people but probably the most moving encounter was when we got a chance to meet my your workers and their kids. we hear a lot about the economic boom. everywhere you look you see evidence of that. china is not just a country of haves but also have-nots. we will show you a school that is accepting some of migrant workers as well. it gives us an insight into how these families live. the school also focuses on dance and music. we were treated to some remarkable performances. ♪ tavis: we wanted to see where the students lived. just a few years ago, the government would never have let us take the cameras to away workers' comp

it sounds just like it is from the cornell economic department. so the maples formed a union and demanded equal rights. the oaks are just too greedy. we will make them give us light. now there is no more oak oppression for they passed a noble law and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw. okay i'm going to argue on three grounds. for the rushing around. number one, on neuroscience. number two on economic history and number three on culture. from a neurological point of view, we have a fault to move forward, not stasis. we have in our brains as human beings today large frontal lobes. these are our windows to the future. the frontal lobe allows us to move in plan and decides to invent and try something new. number two we have neurotransmitters. dopamine for instance. dopamine is a neurotransmitter, chemical in your brain that gives you an extra burst of pleasure not when you win a game, but when you try. dopamine gives you that sense of pleasure when you are attempting something new, when you are taking a risk. it could be the teenage

neil flomenbaum is chair of emergency medicine at new york presbyterian hospital weil cornel medical he says it isn't just the strength but the length of the heat wave that's the problem. >> the longer the heat remains over 90 degrees, the more people will end up in emergency departments or worse. >> reporter: our bodies simply can't process this weather. if your body temperature rises above 100.4 degrees, you could suffer from heat exhaustion, nausea, headaches, confusion. above 104 degrees, you're at risk of heat stroke, seizures, heart failure and loss of consciousness. and this time one of the real changers isn't just the daytime sun but the relentless lack of relief at night. >> all the pavement, all the concrete, it just holds into the heat so you have the sultry nights. >> you just never get a chance to cool off at any point in the 24 hours. >> reporter: heading into today, july had seen 98 all-time overnight highs around the country. studies have shown that night after night of excessive heat can double the risk of death for the elderly and young children. some tips to stay c

entire country by collecting ladybug specimens, photographing them and e-mailing the pictures to cornell university. nobody has submitted more pictures than star and she's found quite a few rare species. >> we put them on ice for a minute to chill them, to try to calm them down a bit. otherwise they run and the pictures are blurred. >> cornell university's doctor is the lost ladybug director. he says in the late 70's and early 80's scientists began noticing that ladybug species were disappearing and that other species were taking over in some places. rosy says knowing why that's happening is important because ladybugs are predators that eat insects that attack food crops. >> without ladybugs out there doing their job, we could not grow the food and fiber that we need. they're absolutely essential for us to be able to practice agriculture in the way we do now. >> rosy says the decline was precipitous this ladybug hadn't been seen there in 15 years but they didn't have the manpower to find out why this was happening. >> there weren't enough scientists took out to all the different places w

. >> at the beginning you talk about emerging out of a conversation that you had with cornell west. >what does that friendship mean to you? it's a great question and thank you for acknowledging that and thank you for even noticing that because we don't do it for people to notice. we just love each other. >> right. >> in a deep bond and deep brotherhood. in that regard i'm honored to be on radio with him, honored to be his friend, and honored to be his little brother and honored to be on with him, but he's been search a rock for me. i am blessed without measure. i don't know what i've done in my life to be exposed to him, and it's a beautiful thing and i thank god for it every day. >> you've got 20 years of failures which have resulted in a whole bunch of good stuff. we know you're not going to be president. >> no, i'm not. i airnt rung. i don't want to be. i do know this, whatever i'm doing 20 years from now, i hope to be doing then what i am doing now, the best i can with whatever i have wherever i am. every day i wake up, the first thing i do is brush my teeth and wash my face. the

cornell is behind the software. >> what makes this interesting is at the end of the process you get toisten to some audio. where else would you have something so pleasing and interesting in many cases at the end. >> their latest trials involve a to being -- a talking doll. they brought the lab a miniature version of the cylinders. they put the rings into dolls. the only one known to survive is too damaged to be played back by any mechanical device. this team resurrected it. >> ashes, ashes, all fall down. >> an anonymous woman's 125-year-old recording. the lab's next step is a prototype of a machine destined around the world in the hope anyone can recover sound from any mechanical recording. richard hart, abc7 news. >> incredible. >>> hundreds of people enjoyed the sounds of an outdoor orchestra today. that is the san francisco symphony performing the annual stern grove festival this afternoon. the festival hosts a free concert series every summer at the outdoor amphitheater. the symphony played two works of bay toe common and chai cough ski's fourth symphony. >> and a little sunshine

>> cornell? >> two things. with that gay guy who is going to go to michelle bachman's clinic for counseling? that guy is kind of crazy. but here's the thing, 90% of the funding came from small donors under $250,000. no pack money, no lobbyist money. this is a grassroots that he built on in 2008 and continues today. >> pete? >> let's just get this story quickly. i have to go back to it now. the kid who went to michelle bachman's clinic, he brought a hidden camera to prove that they try to cure people. he was trying to prove something. he's an activist. >> they would have called them anti-gay. >> cash is king on campaigns. cash is king. it's all about the benjamins. president obama takes plenty of money from very wealthy people. $30,000 here in new york. that will do it. >> ten seconds each on this one. this is going to be fun, guys. we're going retro here. let's play a little "name that tune." ♪ ♪ i must tell jesus all of my trials ♪ >> all right, herman. none other than the golden-throated presidential candidat

there is little clue as to why there's quite cornell's russia and the north caucasus hide since you were full secret because it's hair that we find perhaps some of the strongest women in the country but they're hoping their arm wrestling talents will one day be shared with the world in the olympic arena. i've been on the cell of again wrestling in nine hundred ninety four but now she's clearly a super woman with town world and fourteen year old gold medals born in a small village in the mountains she says that she has achieved everything she wished for and now it's time for a younger generation to follow in her winning footsteps i've been as big as concerned though is that there's poor it doesn't get the recognition she feels it deserves sometimes we simply don't have money to go to the championships after training so hard young girls are losing the stimulus to continue when they hear that there is no chance for them to go unless they collect the money themselves one thing that might change that would be if the sport was made part of their lengthy games bringing one tension and financing

one of these so believers is princeton professor cornell west. >> i think he does have a predilection much more towards upper middle-class white brothers and jewish brothers and has a certain distancing from free black men who will tell him the truth, both with himself and what is going on in black communities, brown communities, red communes, and poor white and working class communities. >> west calls president obama a black mascot of wall street and a black puppet. also, professor west announced he and talk-show host tavis smiley will begin a national poverty tour next month to sharpen the nation's awareness on what they call the failings of the president. african-americans at large agree with west and smiley. the president has dropped by more an 20 points with african- americans, from 77% last yesr to just over 50% this year. why? jobs. by the way, in 2008, the black volt for president obama was history making. 96% of blacks voted in favor of the obama-biden ticket, , over the mccain-palin ticket. question, what explains the disparity between net wealth for whites and net wealth fo

finally it is bombings of tripoli thousands of libyans taking to the streets so voice their old for cornel because an ordinary mass is by design and self it just was the largest demonstrations since their lives began its campaign in the country he threatened to attack near prevents from nato air strikes it comes down to france confirmed it has applied weapons of the rebels criticized leaving her out of the way the un resolution on libya has been targeted for belgian a politician says nato is undergoing to control the region by using the security council's monday for its own interests ukrainian with real solutions they are not a legal expert in the sense as the laws in a country which basically the interpretation of resolutions is a matter of ideology and of color why does france interpret it this way because they can't there is no international agency and don't you cannot that's the program we teachers aleutians they want to take over control of this country in this very important strategic situation between tunisia egypt where things are going wrong way i mean for european union and and u

with us erick erickson, and cornell belcher, the democratic pollster and joining us is gloria borger. tim pawlenty, we talked about him last night, on the trail today he was rather aggressive. he doesn't name names, but he's telling republican voters be careful who you pick because -- >> we learned some other things along the way since president obama's been a candidate. you can't put somebody in the oval office who hasn't had executive experience leading a large enterprise and driving it to conclusion under difficult circumstances with a public component to it. he was a college professor. he was a community organizer. he was in the united states senate long enough to have a couple of coffee before it got cold. and then we put him in the oval office and made him the leader of our nation and we wonder why it didn't work. we don't want to make that mistake again. >> pop scquiz, governor pawlent is in iowa saying we can't have somebody who doesn't have executive experience, who is he talking about? >> oh, maybe the lady from minnesota who i think might be running for president, michele b

said it's only due to me to cornell thumping with some flair for chelsea's first robust we're going to need a manager. while chelsea are going to hong kong next class to the last where do you get ahead of the asia tracy twenty two also features fellow english premier league side but when rovers but militants will be using this event buy to try and finish their pre-season fitness and to get to know better than the manager alex mcleish the scot arrived at villa park from bitter rivals going to city last month and the move that has alienated some fun was apparently not the players. it was very hard so when you took the job but you know you kept the simple we desperately want you if you want to work you want to store in games invest with us was motto in football and you try to do that in the truck to make your job easier for me well matched united rallies to beat the chicago fire three won in a sixty one thousand strong sellout friendly match at soldier field as they continued their pre-season tour of the us it wasn't an especially stop one to go because there was the pair were allowed poo