david rubenstein, honored guests. i am jeffrey rosen. i'm the president of this institution, the national center, the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u.s. constitution on a nonpartisan basis. it is hard to imagine a more exciting milestone in the fulfillment of that inspiring mission than the one we celebrate tonight. 1789,ars ago, october george washington sent to the states 13 copies of the bill of rights and one to the federal government. 12 of those copies survived. today, one of them is returning to philadelphia. it will be displayed in the george h.w. bush gallery, which we are unveiling and previewing today in a beautiful exhibit. it will open to the public later this year. this display is made possible thanks to a historic agreement between the commonwealth of pennsylvania and the new york public library. is here corbett tonight. the exhibit, which he will see after, is rolling. it includes a stone declaration of independence, and the first public printing of the cots to -- c

please join me in welcoming david rubenstein. [applause] >> last weekend i had the honor at the smithsonian to interview a man named jim lovell. many of you may know of him. he was the pilot on apollo 13. you have seen the movie. i asked him, did nasa know 13 is an unlucky number? i went through the apollo 13. you have seen the movie. i will not go through that. but i really asked him about apollo eight. apollo eight was the first time that any human had ever left the orbit of the earth and had gone into another planet's or being's orbit. they orbited the moon. some of you may remember this. it happened in 1968, at the end of 1968, a difficult year. for doing this, he and his two copilots became the man of the year for time magazine. as they went around the dark side of the moon, they came around and saw an earthrise. no one had ever seen earthrise before. and they saw the earth in its beauty, it's blue and white. no human had ever seen the earth in that picture before. 240,000 miles away. and he put his thumb up and he realized

please join me in welcoming david rubenstein. [applause] >> last week and i have the honor at the smithsonian to interview a man named jim buckle. you may know of him. he was the pilot on apollo 13. you have seen the movie. i asked him, did nasa know 13 is an unlucky number? i went through the apollo 13. you have seen the movie. i asked him about apollo eight. apollo eight was the first time that any human had ever left the orbit of the earth and had gone into another being's orbit. some of you may remember this. at the end of 1968, a difficult year. he and his copilot became the man of the year for time magazine. as they went around the dark side of the moon, they came around and saw an earthrise. no one had ever seen earthrise before. they saw the earth in its beauty, it's blue and white. no human had ever seen the earth in that picture before. 240,000 miles away. he put his thumb up and realized that the sum was able to block the entire earth. he realized, how small and insignificant the earth really is. what is the likelihood

but carlisle's co-ceo david rubenstein is feeling the beat this festive season after investing in dr.ve beats. i do like dre. he was inspired to perform a rap to say merry christmas to investors. take a look at this. >> hello? is this thing on. dr. dre inspired me to write my own rap. >> let's hear it. ♪ ♪ takes a lot of brains to do what we do ♪ ♪ looking for a way to make some dough for you ♪ ♪ energy, commodity, we do it all ♪ ♪ pick up the phone and give us a call ♪ ♪ carlyle group is the place to be ♪ ♪ we're global, we're mobile, we're aim to go please ♪ ♪ >> go online, lps, pl, lps, server lps. ♪ >> haven't done anything like this, really, since my bar mitzvah. >> that was epic coming from a private equity head. we wanted to ask all of you, can you picture your boss doing that? can you picture our boss here at cnbc doing that? >> i think so. i think we shall challenge them. >> yeah, why not. let's see if they get innovative this holiday season. we've been asking you, how would you like your ceo or your boss to wish you a merry christmas this holiday season. if you want to join

tdd# 1-800-345-2550 ♪ >>> that's david rubenstein.od his firm's investment in beats electronics, which was later acquired by apple. and there he is. >> love a guy with a sense of humor. we appreciate it. that does it for us today, folks. make sure you join us tomorrow. right now it's sometime for "squawk on the street." >>> good tuesday morning. welcome to "squawk on the stree street". time carl quintanilla with jim cramer and david faber. dow, 18,000 once again in sight. a whopping 5%, the strongest back-to-back quarters in five years. oil's up as well. and wait until you hear what boone pickens had to say about prices earlier this morning on "squawk box." ten years, right around 2.18, we are still awaiting new home sales in a bit.

supreme court justice stephen breyer is interviewed by david rubenstein about the importance of the magna carta on its 800th anniversary. they also discuss the documents influence on american law. they spoke at the library of congress. king john originally signed the documentf+vñ under pressure fros barrons, american revolutionaries looked to the rights guaranteed by the magna carta as they rebelled against the english crown. this is 40 minutes. >> justice brier, thank you very much for taking the time to do this. >> thank you. >> we're going to talk about the magna carta, but before we do so, i would like to talk about a few other things, because you rarely get a chance to interview a justice of the supreme court. so since i rarely get this opportunity, let me take advantage of it now and say that, when you grew up, u you grew up in california and went to stanford and then harvard lou school, did you always want to be a professor or to be a judge? how did that come about to be a judge. >> i wanted to go into law, my father was a lawyer. you may not remember this, you're not old enough. b

please join me in welcoming david rubenstein. [applause] [applause] >> last weekend i have the honor at the smithsonian to interview a man named jim buckle. you may know of him. he was the pilot on apollo 13. you have seen the movie. i asked him, did nasa know 13 is an unlucky number? i went through the apollo 13. you have seen the movie. i asked him about apollo eight. apollo eight was the first time that any human had ever left the orbit of the earth and had gone into another being's orbit. they orbited the moon. some of you may remember this. at the end of 1968, a difficult year. he and his copilot became the man of the year for time magazine. as they went around the dark side of the moon, they came around and saw an earthrise. no one had ever seen earthrise before. they saw the earth in its beauty, it's blue and white. no human had ever seen the earth in that picture before. from 240,000 miles away. he put his thumb up and realized that the thumb was able to block the entire earth. he realized how small and insignificant the

david rubenstein, honored guests.

david rubenstein recorded a holiday video for his investors.not talking about their biggest deals of the year. he took a page from dr. dre. carlisle was one of the top investors of beads headphones before -- beats headphones. pick up the phone and give us a call. carlyle group is the place to be. we are global, mobile, we aim to please. ♪ i have not done anything like this since my bar mitzvah. >> i had the pleasure of seeing this already. >> i'm glad to see he is putting his duke education to work. >> i think that was pretty impressive. there is not too many hip-hop songs with mezzanine in there. >> i think he should keep his day job. he does it well. that was humorous -- >> when you are this successful, you can do whatever you want. i am pretty sure everyone who works for you is going to tell you you are the smartest, funniest guy at the party. >> i do not know how to answer to that. >> when we come back, we will go 18,000,the dow, hitting even higher at this point. we will find out how far the walls have to run. stay with us. ♪ >> live from

whether they will buy back into energy stocks could we did a story about how steve schwarzman and david rubenstein chops looking to buy energy stocks. i know you like colfax is an oil services play. tell us why you think investing in these fracking services companies -- you said they are like manufacturers, not like oil companies. what do you mean by that? >> the business of fracking. historically, exploring for oil was let's go out and try to find a giant hole and stick to it and hope something comes out. million and if nothing comes out, oh, well. >> i love that. that is fracking in a nutshell to >. >> no, no, that is not fracking. >> that is vertical oil drilling. 60, 70%decline rates of in the first year, you do things over and over again on a small you can turnmeans up the stated or turn it down quickly, but also it means there is more room for technological improvement. if things are not working well in well a, you will be drilling f quickly to, and improve your abilities. we are seeing different techniques on horizontal well drilling, getting better recovery rates. that is because we have t

we have a great micro-site where only theee not gallery, the template for david rubenstein has lent us and have written that tells the story of these rights. you can check out the rights and are active and watch the spread of liberty across the globe and experience the incredible town hall debate. the national constitution center not only a debate or the people mandate from congress to disseminate information about the u.s. constitution on a nonpartisan basis. the only place in the country that brings together all sides in the constitutional debate to talk about not political questions but constitutional questions. so we have an advisory board cochaired by the federalist , leading conservative group and the american constitutional society. those advisers recommend to us who every week and every day debate constitutional issues and viewers can check those out on the website and our podcast, which are getting $200,000 per week. i will just call out the top political conservative constitutional scholar on the question. they will debate the issue and go back and forth and viewers can make

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as law professor david rubenstein has written. the more broadly or generally a systematic policy applies, the more it takes on the hue of law. rather than working constructively with the new men and women americans elected to represent them in congress, the president is making his relationship with congress increasingly toxic by unconstitutionally acting on his own. tragically, president obama's shortsighted actions have further set back congressional efforts to enact legislation to reform our broken immigration system. i look forward to today's hearing and the testimony of our imminent witnesses. now i yield to mr. conyers for his opening statement. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen -- >> in the hearing room, members of the audience must behave in an orderly way or they will be removed from the audience immediately. [ inaudible ] >> remove the members of the audience from the hearing room. [ inaudible ] >> stop deportation! >> stop deportation! [ cheering and applause ] >> the gentleman from michigan for the interruption, but he

david rubenstein, and have a year-long celebration of the 105th anniversary, and the 14th amendment, which says the privileges for immunity in the united states citizenship shall not be infringed, and you talk about how this clause, which the framers thought would find the states, was eviscerated and amazingly it was just the lawyer from the louisiana was actually courtme as the supreme justice who had written decisions denying liberty before the civil war. so you make a strong case the abolitionists thought there were basically implicit natural rights being violated by slavery, but they still thought it took a constitutional amendment to explicitly protect those rights. what is your basis for concluding that john and the other framers thought the 14th amendment included not only the rights enumerated in the bill of rights, and a common-law rights listed in a case, the right to the right not to make and enforce contract, why do you think that also enabled judges to decide what they thought was arbitrary and which deprivations of liberty were unjustified? >> this is i think one of the

res. 45, providing for the reappointment of david m. rubenstein as citizen regent of the board of regents of the smithsonian institution. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceed be to the measure? without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the joint resolution be read a third time, passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there be no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent the senate proceed to h.j. res. 105. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.j. res. 105, conferring honorary citizenship of the united states on bernardo valdez count of galvez. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? withouwithout objection, the see will proceed. mr. reid: i ask consent the joint resolution be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i a