and teaching a lecture class, digitizing america, 1980 to the presence. it is looking at some of the key developments of 1980 through the lens of the intermission revolution. >> you are teaching contemporary american history, you're writing about 19 century the. >> enclave where. as set out to write an introduction to a book about the 20th century. our member, a fellow at the woodrow wilson center. they had a number if of illustrious scholars. i was not one of them. gordon would call wonderful historian. i said to i'm writing this book about the 20 century to let and a real injection about the role of governments in the 19th century and i was wondering if you could recommend a few bucks for me. he said those during rut the 19th century, you'll never get to the charges century. proved prophetic. this book and never did get to the 20th century, but if they buy the book, then they open the pages cover his ears and remains to address the very real the dates that we're having today over the proper role of government and trying to put that in historical perspec

history, and he chain a lecture class called digitize saying america and it looks at the key developments 1983 the lens of the information revolution. >> host: teaching contemporary but right about 19th century? >> i set out to write an introduction to a book and i remember i was a fellow at the woodrow wilson center. i was not a scholar but courted would an early historian was there i called him professor would. i am writing a book about the 20th century and introduction of the role of government of the 19th century. could you recommend a few books? he said don't start of the 19th century. you never get to the 20th century. it is true. if their readers barrault or by the book and open the pages they will see it is written to address the real debates we have today over the proper role of government to put into historical perspective. >> host: brian balogh and the author of "a government out of sight" the mystery of national authority in nineteenth-century america" this is booked tv on c-span2 >> joining us now with the director of education for the intercollegiate studies institute. what

digits. now, into the americas. the rough weather in the plains has been the story all week. once this system starts to push off to the east, that's currently affecting the western great lakes, behind it yet another one coming out of the rockies. this is bringing the threat of more severe weather. heavy rainfall, damaging winds, up to 100 kilometers per hour at times. and large hail, greater than golf ball size could occur here. and plus the possibility of tornadoes. some of these could get strong, especially going into your wednesday afternoon and evening hours. now, towards the south, though, you are seeing very warm temperatures. houston at 30. oklahoma city a little warmer at 31. and into the east, washington, d.c., you're also sharing in this heat with a high of 28. in miami, some rainfall will be falling there, accompanied by temperatures into the high 20s. now, into europe. a messy situation in the west. we continue to watch areas of low pressure push through france, and now this is going to start to work its way off to the southern portions of the uk. it will be a lit

you know this is just for you to see what we face in ecuador in latin america yeah we believe my digitally and so the only things that should be protected against information sharing of freedom of speech and the comments are those set in the international treaties that are in the into american convention on human rights the honor and the reputation of people and the safety of people and the state naca the rest the more people find out about it the better model but you have voiced your fear recurrent in journalists of good faith but these are stereotypical fears that the state may restrict freedom of speech. this is hardly ever seen in latin america. these are just myths please bear in mind that here the media power was and it probably is in the greater than the political power. in fact it usually has self-serving political economic social power and above all the informative power this political moment. and it is the big voters the powerful legislators see the mighty judges the have set the media agenda this this way they have subdued governments presidents and courts. let's stop a train th

things like cloud services, which interesting enough are most being taken up in latin america and asia, access to the digital trade routes, the benefits of direct ip-to-ip interconnection, not forced to go through gate ways at the border and it will eliminate the current handshake the network of networks that is the internet. it will eliminate that as a way that it functions. they'll keep them at high principals, training, standards development in some areas and i hope this will be part of the rest of the conversation, i think it will be with gigi, to preseverity multi-stake holder models for different organizations and ways of doing things that are out there. we believe that this is possible. we think it's challenging and it's a multi- -- developing other allies across what multi stake holder grouping and that that is very possible we need to do a lot of actual addressing of real concerns, talking about how the economic and technical issues really work and by applying ourselves, and that's one of the reasons i'm so pleased to see a full room, ourselves here, ourselves globally that it will be possible to ge

that perception here, but both markets have put up this quarter put up double-digit increases, both the u.s., north america european business. >> your licensed revenues have held up, despite the weakness at warnico. should we worry or monitor wornico. >> they have two big categories for us, jeans and underwear. their business is very brand focussed in spain and italy. 65, 70% of the business is there where tommy it's just the exact inverse of that. so our exposure with the calvin brand is very limited since we're a royalty model there. for the balance of this years, we're planning the jeans royalties at contractual minimums. so there's very little exposure. we've really tried to capture whatever risk is in the numbers. >> unlike most stock players, i don't want to bury the lead. you gave it to us. double-digit gains in the united states. we're seeing a big turn in this country, aren't we? >> yeah, we're definitely seeing a good trend to business. the tone here has continued to be strong. we started the year off very strong in general as the industry. from what i'm seeing in may, my business, we've seen the

things like cloud services which interestingly enough are most being taken up in latin america and asia, access to the digital trade routes, the benefits of direct ip to ip connection, not forced to go through gateways at the border, another idea out there. and will eliminate the current handshake agreements that make the network of networks that is the internet, will eliminate that as a way that the system functions. so what would be a successful outcome and how do we get there? couple of themes that you'll hear that i think are important, that is to keep the treaty to high level principals. second, to strengthen the itu's key role, training, standard development, and i hope this will be part of the rest of the conversation, i think it will be, in the meantime preserve the multistake holder models for different organizations in ways of doing things that are out there. we believe that this is possible, we think it's challenging and it's a multi-year process, but by working together with existing allies, developing other allies across that multi-stake holder grouping, and that that is very possible, we need to

digital poliliteracy. has already helped connect virtually every library and classroom in america, last year we adopted several -- limited school's ability to strike the best deals for broad band and remain comitted to this important program. public safety communications is a core mission of the fcc and we're on schedule implementing the fcc helping first net deliver on the promise of nationwide broad band communication for our first responders, we have also worked on improving 911 and we're working on next generation 911, that americans will be able to send texts or photos to 911. and the process culminating in isp concerning 19% of u.s. subscribers to commit to significant steps to commit to our country's cyber security. in the international yuan sit, we're proposing policies to countries the -- that has enabled the internet to flourish, consumer protection and empowerment is at the core -- smart phone etheft and cramming and the latter, i appreciate the excellent committee staff report on the subject. i want to highlight how we conduct our work. the fcc is committed to smart and workable government. we have

. >> i understand boy scouts of america are trying to boost membership. >> we are in the digital age.y are going high-tech. we're talking about tablets and apps and boy scouts getting with the times. >> very interesting. >> thank you. 5:23. an annual tradition in annapolis. >> we will take a loo >> thousand freshmen try to climb the large statue at the naval academy in annapolis. i can believe it it is this time of year. the goal is to replace a dixie cup. michael crank reached the top in minutes, 1310 seconds. it signifies the beginning of summer. >> we have talked about some java plans already. need to keep an eye on two things -- traffic and gas prices. seven hundred 50,000 marylanders -- 750,000 marylanders are expected to be traveling this memorial day weekend. where are the cheapest gas prices? >> if you're heading towards the beaches, the cheapest gas in the state is $3.52 a gallon on the eastern shore. if you travel to ocean city, get your guess what you're down there. >> good to know. air travel is on the decline largely because airline fees are on the rise. >> totally worth

to the sport known as america's pastime, baseball fans can be found filling the stands adjourned on their favorite teams. just how are those songs collected? in this digital age, one organist is turning to twitter. he recently gave us his first hand accounts. >> my name is matthew, i am the organ player. i get suggestions on twitter. i get wheat about what i should play during the game. >> some are really obvious. --e played cat town races camp town races. the stands have caught onto that, start singing along. for example, there is another guy playing today whose last name as presley, so i will plan of the presley song for him. -- play an elvis presley song for him. a lot of times, right before the game and during the game, i am learning a new set of songs from the tweets that people have given me about what they want to apply -- to hear. i'll listen to the song. it is possible for me to play its two or three minutes later. it gives me satisfaction when someone says, i can't believe you played the song i requested. it totally made my year. i have always been interested in different types of music. everything from classical music, rock bands, salsa bands,

digital. so take a look at this turns out that almost thirteen million facebook users in america don't who is or aren't even aware of facebook's privacy settings that's kind of well it is totally insane and it's crazy for someone like me who's a little older but but so many people on facebook are middle school high school age they have always lived their lives with everything status updates several times a day you know i even thought when i was in college and people would do the a.o.l. status updates away at the gym in class i thought i was crazy and now we have facebook but i think it's a different generation i think that's part of it they don't feel the need for security they feel like their entire lives and i wonder if some of the older generation it also goes that way ray because now i have certain people like my parents friends that are friends of me on facebook and my parents think really don't have facebook but that i just i mean maybe some of these people don't really realize how much information is it is only you guys think that a lot of people don't aren't aware of privacy settings

digital media. npr host robert see gal moderates a discussion with panelists from reuters, voice of america, google, and the academic world. this is an hour and a half. >> good morning, everyone. i'm jim duff here at the museum and it's my distinct pleasure to welcome you all here. it's an hon fornor for us to host such a wonderful event, the 50th anniversary celebration that you're all participating in at the columbia journalism review. and it just gives us all the more credibility in what we're doing here to host wonderful events like this. it's also my great honor to introduce to you victor, you all know him so very well. he's had such a distinguished career. if i went through the list of his accomplishments i'd consume all the time you have for more interesting things than a recitation of everything that he's done. but obviously, as you know, he's a publisher emeritus of "the nation," the magazine's editor from 1978 to 1995. he was a publisher and editorial director from '95 to 2005. he was an editor at the "new york times" magazine. he's been an author, he's been a lecturer and visiting scholar

worth in this nation, when unemployment has skyrocketed to nearly 14%, a 15%, 16% in black america and double digit in most urban centers, economic equality is under attack. in 2012, the right to vote is under attack. democracy is under attack. why is democracy under attack? let us walk back to 89 mi. taxes,1890's, poll literacy tests, and comprehension tests were introduced in an effort to stop the rise of newly freed slaves from participating fully in the elections process. the grandfather clause, when these were taken together in my own case -- homestake by 1910, a state that in the 1880's had had a black governor and two black lieutenant governors. there were only 750 black man on the voting rolls indeed, i spoke to my mother. in 1953, she returned to new orleans a graduate of boston university, where she had been a classmate of dr. martin luther king. she went down to the voter registration office -- [noise] mother? [applause] she went down to the voter registration office to present herself to register to vote. the voter registrar looked at her voter registration card and said, "what color ar

digital age in a global age. and i think we have quite an extraordinary panel that's been assembled to address these questions and others. starting from the far end, david ensor is director of voice of america. before that, he had an illustrious career as a television correspondent for abc and cnn. before that, i should remind him he was a reporter for npr for a while as well. and a very good one. he took time out to run communications for the u.s. embassy in kabul. and now he is running the voice, a job that was held by john chancellor whose name has been mentioned as well as edward r. murrow. >> christy freeland is now the global editor at large for reuters which is a highly -- the highly respected news agency. originally british. they were at it when the new technology of the day was carrier pigeons. an extraordinary thing. she was a former deputy editor of the financial times in london and editor of the u.s. financial times which is the paper that i alluded to. and began as a stringer in ukraine working for everyone from what i can gather covering -- >> a lot of people there. >> a lot of people to cover. and eventually writing a terrific book called "sale of a century, the inside story

america's retirement leader. >>> this is the cnbc market wrap. a digitt, the nasdaq falls by 31. world market drop is certain as egregious financial future stretches into another week. and cio ina drew is retiring from her post following last week's disclosure of a $2 billion trading loss. meanwhile, groupon is rallying after a better than last quarter sales report. now we return back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." when president obama stood in favor of gay marriage last week, he stood in enthusiastic support from much of the democratic base. but one group had serious reservations and it's the most loyal democratic group of all, african-american voters. the president convened a conference call with eight or so african-american ministers just an hour or so after he made that announcement to explain his position and we wanted to gauge the reaction. reverend al sharpton was one of them on the call. i want to start with you, reverend, what your thoughts were before, during and after the president took this position. >> i've always been a supp

digital scanners to all conductors by late summer. >>> this morning the spotlight on competitors after bank of america offers a break to hundreds of thousands homeowners. >> jane king joins us live from the new york stock exchange. >>> hello. bank of america starting to send out letters to more than 2 -- 200,000 homeowners letting them know they may be eligible for big loan modifications. this is part of the bank's agreement ag's from california and other states. there are four other large financial institutions involved, wells fargo, chase, citigroup and allied financial. wells fargo says the justice department may seek damages against it in a fair lending probe. the bank is working to convince regulators it is in compliance with regulations. we are on the defensive again here today, a lot of confusion about greece, having trouble forming a government there calling into question future of the bailouts. even greece's role in the eurozone. bloomberg index trading to the downside. a company tries to transform business to keep up with rivals like zynga. the maker says it is delaying release of what it calls an important unidentified game title

america's pastime. every night baseball fans can be found cheering on their favorite team. for decades, the ball park has been adding to that experienced. how were these songs selected? in the digitalge, they turn to twitter. >> i am the organ player for the atlanta braves. about 70% to 80% of what i play comes from and suggestions on twitter. now i get fifth the-- 50 to 100 tweets about what i should play. some of them are really obvious. there was one guy who said "can sound racist." -- "camptown races." do-da, do-da. they all start singing along. there is one guy today, his name is presley. of course i am going to sing an elvis presley song for him. a lot of times before the game and during the game i am learning a new set of songs from the tapes people have given me about what they want me to play. i will go on youtube, and i will listen to the song's. some of the requests that come out during the game, it is possible to play it two or three minutes later. i love when someone tweets me and says "i cannot believe you played the song i requested. is totally made my year." i love classical music. i have played in rock bands, blues bands. i also play in a polka band. i like to play

digital games, and customer support are all translated today in over 500 major language pairs. the outsource language services industry represented 15.5 billion of activity and 190,000 jobs in north america last year. this does not account for the vastly larger pool of part-time and freelance linguists in the u.s., let alone the jobs that the language industry has indirectly created such as for the american people who have marketed, sell, deliver, and support u.s.-made products worldwide. languages and the business that they enable may be the most powerful force in job creation in the united states today. without languages, u.s. businesses would be missing $2.1 trillion in gross income. as u.s. companies target multilingual audiences at home and abroad, they create a rapidly growing need for language services and a workforce that can deliver in settings. if you sell products in germany, your customers support team needs to be ready. to stay relevant and to continue to successfully compete in the global marketplace, u.s. companies must build language capabilities. acquiring language skills takes time, repeated exposure, and practice to develop. not acting immediately on these development

expression in a digital and globalized age and we have an extraordinary panel to address these questions and others, starting from the far end, david ensor ex-director of "voice of america." doctor that a career in television, with abc and cnn and a reporter for mpr for a while and a very good one. he took time out to run communications for the u.s. embassy in kabul. and now he is running the voice. a job held by john chancellor whose name has been mentioned as well as edward r. murrow. and krista freeland is now -- let me get the title correct. global editor at large for reuters. which is a highly, the

digit sales growth of its key prostate drug provenge. that's its only commercial product and can cost $93,000 per patient. a huge player in the mexican mobile communications market wants to expand into europe. america movil has made a play for 28% of dutch telecommunications firm kpn. it's a $4.2 billion offer that the dutch target calls "too cheap." america movil has stock traded in the u.s. those shares fell almost 10%. they were at a 52-week high just yesterday. if successful, this would be his company's first big investment in europe. despite concerns returning about europe, we did not see investors flock to the perceived safety of gold. prices settled just above $1,600 an ounce, falling to a five- month low. the u.s. dollar was stronger due to the european concerns, which put some pressure on gold as a rising dollar makes gold more expensive since it is priced in dollars. gold mining stocks took a hit. gold-corp fell 4.5%. barrick gold and newmont mining shed at least 3% each. in our exchange traded fund market flash, all the most active traded funds fell today, led by the emerging markets fund, down more than 1.5%. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: despite worries about european co

america. it tends to happen every four years. >> which candidate is more likeable? the president leads by double digits. one in four romney supporters even say the president is more likeable. basically this doesn't boil down to a popularity contest of who people like the more. it's who do they think can lead the best vision and call people to rise up to that vision. does this say more about the president or more about mitt romney? >> you know, it's interesting. ever since 1980 the candidate that has been more likeable has won. so i think romney wants it to be about obama's record. he wants it to be about that. and keep it focused on policy rather than, you know, likability. there's a reason for that. because it's been tougher for mitt romney. so i think you'll see a lot of this. you know, as a defining part of this campaign. >> all right. so, chris, i want you to listen to this. all of you take a listen to this. it was secretary of education arne duncan appearing on "morning joe" today echoing the sentiments made by the vice president over the weekend and those sentiments in support of marriage equality

. >> down triple digits on the dow jones industrial average, about 170 points. all 30 stocks are down. cisco and bank of americaleading the declines. the trading action down here, bob pisani is here on the floor to kind of handicap it. and i also noticed, bob, the volume is starting to pick up as the selling is increasing, which is not necessarily a good sign going into the close. >> not on a down day and a lot of uncertainty over the weekend. i think you've got a good point. you want to watch volume on a day like today. put up the etfs, the big ones, the qqq, the eem, the xlf, the volume here is heavier than normal. and even on the floor i think we're trending just slightly towards the heavier side. we could potentially do $850 million to $950 million. look at the energy stocks. >> you were worried about this yesterday. >> several days ago. again, the energy complex is underperforming. big energy names are on the downside. look at these declines here. these are big names here. transocean now 4%. a lot of these names are almost down double digits so far this week. dramatically underperforming the s&p once again

america near you. ♪ i'm michael bazinet, president of creative digital imaging of bangor, maine.ited states. we rely on the postal service for everything that we do. the eastern maine processing facility is vital to our operation and our success. if we lose this processing facility we could lose clientele because of increased mailing times. we would have to consider layoffs as a result of that. closure of this plant will affect all of us. ♪ >>> welcome back, everybody. a threat this morning from that new jersey father who secretly recorded his son's teachers bullying his son in the classroom. he announced yesterday that the school has assured him that a full investigation is under way. he says he's going to hold off on releasing more of the tapes, but with a catch. >> however, and this is critical, if at any time i feel the district is not following through in a responsible manner, then i reserve the right to release further information to the media. i doubt anyone who has seen my video would think i would do otherwise. >> it was back in february when he bugged his 10-year-old so

digit millions that he's earned but he's just sitting there like causing financial havoc again with another company then there's a man named mike nuremberg he's the head of mortgages no bank of america he's a sitting there making money and there's first eliza who we knew went out and it's been maybe a million dollars renting out this aspen hotel for his daughter's bar mitzvah he's just like go in crazy with his money they're doing all fine. now the new york a.g. which i reported last year is investing in them and he and he has told. him they were you know he some attorneys that i've talked to believe that he's going to charge him with the martin act but again you know i don't know when that's going to happen that's a fifty fifty chance so terrible you are primarily covering the fraud the financial fraud from your perch out there in connecticut grants connecticut new canaan connecticut and certainly in greenwich is where probably the greatest concentration of hedge funds resides in the world and interesting that when the desk in london was fired by jamie diamond the desk that oversaw this two billion dollars now three billion possibly twenty billion dollars gap or all their balance s

america's beverage companies are delivering. but now it can make you more connected to your doctor through e-mail. test results from home. check records. change appointments. now doctors, nurses, techs, pharmacists are all digitallynected to each other. and ultimately connected to you. at kaiser permanente, we believe that if knowledge is power, shared knowledge is even more powerful. kaiser permanente. thrive. >>pam: california is one step closer to becoming one of the first states to ban companies from asking job applicants for their user names and passwords on social networking sites. kiberlee sakamoto is here with details. >>kimberlee: today the california assembly unanimously approved the social media privacy bill. it will now move to the senate. it is authored from the north campus in san jose. the bill would make anything that workers and job-seekers designates as private off- limits to of lawyers. campbell's says there are too few social media privacy laws to protect employees citing a recent report that employers are using social media to get questions said they cannot ask on job applicants is a curious case but has somehow in support. california is not a long, several other states are considering simila