eugene robinson, david korn. >>> coming up ten years after the 9/11 attacks, that is this weekend, we're still learning what did and didn't happen behind the scenes. we're going behind the scenes in the cheney white house, bush white house. we're going to talk to two guests that were there with president bush and vice president cheney when we were under attack. you're watching "hardball" only releases armies of snowmen masseuse, o cuddle up with your soreness and give out polar bear hugs. technology. [ male announcer ] new bengay cold therapy. the same technology used by physical therapists. go to bengay.com for a 5-dollar coupon.

here to talk about who's going to save the date here, eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winning columnist and msnbc political analyst. good to see you tonight, gene. >> good to see you tonight, melissa. >> wow, have you ever heard of a refusal of a request like this from the president of the united states? >> not publicly, no. we haven't heard of it. if you think about it, there must have been times when presidents wanted to come and do a joint session on a certain day and either the speaker of the house or the senate majority leader or both or somebody thought that was the wrong day and they worked it out, but i have never seen this sort of public dissing of a presidential request, nor, frankly, have i seen a presidential request that so clearly was designed to big foot the other party. >> yeah. clearly there's politics going on here, and, you know, clearly part of that politics is about the president, you know, stepping into this moment, but the fact is that boehner, as speaker of the house, is not actually part of the gop presidential primaries here, so is he just protecting these fell

host: that's eugene robinson's column this morning in the wash post, and here is the "new york post" spread on chris christy in a picture with his wife. g.o.p.ers give the nrge governor a shove, is what he says and talks about how henry kissinger and george with. bush have been calling. this is also contained within the article. romney campaign, slowdown. mitt romney's campaign is not quite as in the money as it was. they will report raising between $11 million and $13 million, a dropoff from the $18 million he reported last quarter. next call comes from jeffersonville, indiana. roy, what do you think about the effectiveness of the presidential primary system? >> well, i'm not happy with it. think i it ought to be done in may. caller: that way it gives everybody a lot of time. but when you start moving states ahead of other states in the primary, it gives people saying i got to vote for so and so because they did. but the whole thing amounts -- how many states have republican governors that have changed the districts and everything for their congress and senate seats, and flees one o

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more, bring in the next guy, then that's all good for the president. >> msnbc political analyst, eugene robinsonthank you for joining me tonight. >> good to be here, lawrence. >>> coming up, why evangelicals, some evangelicals believe president obama is the antichrist and why they believe in the antichrist at all. >>> and protests on wall street result in violent behavior from some of those who are supposed to serve and protect. why do we have aflac... aflac... and major medical? major medical, boyyyy! [ beatboxing ] ♪ i help pay the doctor ♪ ain't that enough for you? ♪ there are things major medical doesn't do. aflac! pays cash so we don't have to fret. [ together ] ♪ something families should get ♪ ♪ like a safety net ♪ even helps pay deductibles, so cover your back, get... ♪ a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aflac! [ male announcer ] help protect your family at aflac.com. [ beatboxing ] i thought i was invincible. i'm on an aspirin regimen now because i never want to feel that helplessness again. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. talk to your doctor, and take

welcome, eugene robinson ,and executive editor at politico. i guess the point you're making.they're thrilled to have them back. >> great. i'm not sure that independents are thrilled to have them back. i think democrats probably are thrilled to have them back. look, one figure that's been pretty consistent in polls is if you ask people about the bush administration, who's responsible for sinking the economy, for example, they say it was george bush. they don't say it was barack obama. so from the democrats' point of view, the bush administration coming back, i think, is all for the good. >> jim does that get tired between now and 14 months now on election day? does what gene just said, will that remain true through november of 2012? >> it could remain true. i don't know if it's that relevant to elections right now. i think president obama's issue youiess are his own standing. that's what he has to deal with. when you think about cheney and bush you have to put them in two different categories. cheney certainly re-emerged. he has a book and the same fighting spirit of a year ag

eugene robinson has been our guest.is latest book is "disintegration: the splintering of black america". thank you. coming up we have just begun our live coverage on booktv of the national book festival. coming -- coming up in half an hour columbia university professor and historian eric foner will talk about his latest book "the fiery trial: abraham lincoln and american slavery" about abraham lincoln and slavery. after his presentation he will be here to take your calls and e-mails and tweets but coming up next sarah vowell. this is her latest book. it is "unfamiliar fishes". it is a history of hawaii. she is the author of assassination nation and the wordy shipmate. she will be out here and we will talk about this book and you can tweak your questions or call in your questions but first our colleague rob hardest and is out and about at the national book festival. let's check in with him. >> at the poetry and prose pavilion we are talking to jonathan yardley, offer of second reading, notable and neglected book revisite

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eugene robinson, thank you, as well. good to see you. >> thank you, guys. this is all about bennett having been like the third string first baseman on the baseball team. >> i know. >> and feeling exploited and feeling like he wasn't treated fairly. that's what this whole thing -- motivations here are very personal. >> he would have started at princeton. >> i have one piece of great sports trivia. do i have a second? john heilmann as a young man -- >> the answer is go. go ahead. >> gave up a towering home run to none other than darryl strawberry. >> i knew that. >> really? >> high school. >> yeah. >> still haunts me. >> well, where was the pitch? what was it, fastball, straight down the middle? >> it was a really good pitch. >> was it? >> it was a really good pitch. you know, 4 inches below -- >> did your hand hurt? >> and he had had taken the first one for a strike and they looked at the second one and i thought i could sneak another one by, and about 590 feet. i think the ball is still orbiting the earth. >> did the team move when he hit it? >> we'll be ri

conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> that was eugene robinson, "washington post" columnist and author of disintegration of the splintering of black america. mr. robinson will be joining this year the national book festival life to take your calls, e-mails and tweets. the numbers are on the screen. independent phone co. 202-0002 for those in the mountain and pacific time zone. our twitter address, tauter.com/book tv, or e-mail book tv@c-span.org. you can contact mr. robinson and ask your question that way. it will be just a minute. after mr. robinson we will be talking with sarah, best-selling author of the history of why and she will also be taking your calls. but not only is this the national book festival weekend on book tv library of congress sponsors the national book festival on the mall in washington, d.c.. but it is also a book tv's look at the literary life of charlotte north carolina. recently our local content of vehicles were down in charlotte looking at different aspects of the literary life of charlotte. we want to show you this fro

i can't see tv this i'm not sure if you have read eugene robinson's book from coulter creamed.he had experts also in brazil and came up with i guess we might describe as a melanin spectrum including coffee and call and bronze and butternut and care at all kinds of wonderful terms for people's skin tones. a few years ago i wrote a piece, and the babies for our local paper where my thesis was we really can't get very far beyond our dichotomous thought about race, as long as we continue to use the very words black and white which are polarizing and from my point of view, an actor, my mother was in the population known as milan jehan, in southwestern virginia. which is a blend of scottish irish, native american or she always had dark skin. people thought of her as italian for that regard. that my piece as i said went on to say, i think we are locked into this dichotomous thought by virtue of the two words that we use, wrongly in my estimatio >> host: okay, jim, we're going : we from mr. cose. thanks for calling in. >> guest: yes, i am familiar with eugene robinson's book, a lot of

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me now to discuss what sarah palin is really up to, the man who can read sarah palin's mind, eugene robinsoneeps playing this game and playing it well enough to fool, i don't know, the critical number that allows "the new york times" today to say "ms. palin did not say whether she would run." come on. gene, help me here. >> lawrence, i'm with you. i've been with you. she's not running for anything. she's not running for office. she doesn't like holding office, she held office, remember, she was governor of alaska. she quit, it was too much of a hassle. she's not running for president, yet she continues this -- this, you know, dangling the possibility and there's always a gullible few, i think, who are willing to believe, who kind of buy into the fantasy that palin, palin for president. i don't see it now, i never see it. >> gene, roger ailes has helped us greatly with this, he instituted the policy at fox news that if you're thinking about running for president, even before declaring, you have to get off my payroll. she and mike huckabee stayed on the payroll. therefore, telling all of us, w

like the top of the tel and i think there have been three big odd beds written by henry blodgett eugene robinson michael kinsley just in the past by day or two everyone is discussing whether or not chris christie can really be president because he's that issue or non issue with you guys that don't understand how people get so indignant over this weight issue we live in a country where the highest paid baseball pitcher we're talking your professional athlete here is c.c. sebastien who i think is three hundred pounds so the idea that you can't be president while you're overweight i mean is just absurd and we actually think really if you think that if you can be president it's not what you just said i'm saying if you could be a professional athlete one player because you. know i mean i agree with you actually i think it's crazy that we have a country full of fat people who can relate to fat people better than a fat person nobody likes a skinny person being like lose weight you're fat when i could think you're right because you could say that sure the country has an obesity epidemic going on some pe

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in a minute you will hear from eugene robinson who has a new book out this year entitled disintegrationhe splintering of back america. after he finishes speaking he will join us on our booktv set for a call in program. best-selling author sarah vowell will take your calls about her book "disintegration: the splintering of black america" -- "unfamiliar fishes". then we will hear columbia university professor and lincoln scholar "unfamiliar fishes" -- eric foner talk 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 t

joining me now to discuss how this newly energized barack obama is really doing among his base is eugene robinson, associate editor and columnist for "washington post" and msnbc political analyst. thanks for joining me tonight, jean. >> great to be here, lawrence. >> gene, it looked like he went off script there and maybe got a little carried away. i can understand how that happens. i get maxine water's reaction, too. what exactly did he mean? >> well, i'm not sure. he clearly veered off course with bedroom slippers, okay? he's got to drop that line from the next time he speaks to that audience. the rest of the speech, though, really i think was basically what he has to say. he needs to fire up african-american voters. it's not that they're going to defect no matter who the democratic candidate is. that candidate will be able to count on 80%, 85%, whatever, of the african-american vote. the question for the president is maximizing that african-american vote, getting as many black voters to the polls as possible which will make all the difference in a city like philadelphia, for example, which wil

we also have columnist and associate editor of the "washington post" eugene robinson.e away from the debate last night? >> well, you saw santorum and huntsman still kind of the second tier of this debate even though i think huntsman continues to perform well. i think the big issue is perry getting stronger or weaker? how does he fit into the driving force of the tea party and the republican party right now, which is the economy and the president's handling of it? i think romney's still in a better position to make the claim he can seize the energy from the tea party about obama, about the role of government, and also drive an argument of electability. i mean, if this was the best shot the republicans are going to have, the chance to deny president obama a second term, republican primary voters have to take a hard look at who they think can carry that ball all the way. i think that's what the fight is about between perry and romney. and i think romney looks aggressive, looks strong. he's taking advantage of this challenge early on. >> not to get sidetracked. you're talk

a smart guy. >> eugene robinson, final thoughts. >> i'm voting for tom friedman i think. >> there you, are you announcing a candidacy now? >> you know what? i'm just sitting here hawking coffee for education. that's all i'm doing. >> there you go. >> let's go back to the debate quickly because we have chuck. i want chuck's final thoughts as well as yours. chuck, obviously it was a romney versus perry battle last night but michele bachmann seemed to come back a little bit, focusing again on rick perry. >> we did. and she did it using social issues. we've been wondering when would some of the social conservative issues pop up and with perry in particular, both -- he was hit from the right. you know, that was the other part of it. last night the crowd played an interesting role in this. they were very raucous in many cases, newt gingrich was very effective for instance playing to the crowd. got a lot of good applause lines. jon huntsman tried. they fell incredibly flat. >> yes. >> jokingly so. the curt cobain reference. >> good lord. >> i don't know if anybody even had that on their ipod

. >> eugene robinson, thank you for joining us, and you're joining us tomorrow in studio for the debate coverage. >> five more minutes she still hasn't announced for president. >> there you go, you can have the last word on our blog online, follow my tweets @lawrence. up next, "the rachel maddow show." >> 20 seconds since then and still no announcement. thanks to you at home for staying with us. in the decade since 9/11, if you were looking for the single point in which america deviated the most from the way we have always been before, if you were looking for the one point at which washington took the most radical departure from american history and american tradition and american political values, if you were looking for the one point when u.s. policy completely divorced itself from our national interest after 9/11, i would argue that point happened in may 2003, may 2003. when george w. bush had been inaugurated, we had a surplus of more than $100 billion. however torn up bush was, the clinton presidency had left the country in an enviable position, no debt at all within ten years. in

he says bipartisan proposal, do you think this is not the long ball speech that, for example, eugene robinson had written about in "the washington post"? >> it's my understanding that it's going to be a lot of ideas of what the white house is describing as traditionally has been bipartisan. that doesn't mean that they can get through this republican house, but that in the recent past has had republican support, whether it's spending on transportation, specific infrastructure, some tax credit issues, but that it's a package of that. by asking to speak before a joint session of congress. my reporting of this is this has been sort of the plan all along, when they decided that they were going to do this, this is the venue that they wanted, because, you know, they feel as if this is their last moment to actually get some of this stuff done before the campaign completely takes over. that said, i've talked to multiple democrats this afternoon, who are questioning the white house's play here a little bit on the timing of it, whether it was on purpose or not, and i think jay carney was trying to say i

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. >> eugene robinson and davis corn, have a nice weekend, even though it's the 9/11 weekend. >>> still learning what did and didn't happen behind the scenes of 9/11. behind the scenes in the bush, cheney white house that day. talking to guests there with president bush and with vice president cheney when we were under attack. finding out what happened in those rooms. this is great tick tock, as we say. you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. pxpñpñ >>> report of a terror threat on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks stepped up concerns around the country. but our nbc news/"wall street journal" poll out this week findings the number of americans that say we're safer now is on the rise. 42% say we're safer than before 9/11. a hike from a year ago. one-third say as safe as we were before the attacks. one in five says we're less safe. >>> we'll be right back. >>> on september 11th this building was transformed. transformed into a battlefield. ten years later we are a stronger nation. and at the core of that strength, that generation of americans who have stepped forward to serve i

. >> eugene robinson and davis corn, have a nice weekend, even though it's the 9/11 weekend. >>> still learning what did and didn't happen behind the scenes of 9/11. behind the scenes in the bush, cheney white house that day. talking to guests there with president bush and with vice president cheney when we were under attack. finding out what happened in those rooms. this is great tick tock, as we say. you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] unlike some car companies, nissan is running at 100%, which means the most innovative cars are also the most available cars. nissan. innovation for today. innovation for all. ♪ >>> report of a terror threat on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks stepped up concerns around the country. but our nbc news/"wall street journal" poll out this week findings the number of americans that say we're safer now is on the rise. 42% say we're safer than before 9/11. a hike from a year ago. one-third say as safe as we were before the attacks. one in five says we're less safe. >>> we'll be right back. [ thinking ] i wonder what ot

. >> next, we're joined by eugene robinson, a more moderate fellow, msnbc political analyst. know, i have to tell you, sometimes i think the guy is really stuck in the '60s, but yet we're back to worst economic times, not as bad as the '30s. look at the numbers tonight we came out with, gene. they are unbelievable. 70% of the people are angry as hell, given up and scared. >> yeah, of course, why wouldn't they be scared? i mean, you know, the economy is going through a terrible time, and -- and income -- there's this polarization, this income polarization that's been happening in this country. didn't start three or four years ago. it didn't start with george bush. it's been happening for decades, and -- and this is the result. the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer, and we have one of our two big parties increasingly adopting this, you know, every man for himself. every woman for herself sort of philosophy which i think is -- i mean, let's just call it what it is. i think it's immoral. i think this is immoral philosophy on religious grounds, on humanistic

msnbc colleagues rachel maddow, ed schultz, the reverend al sharpton, lawrence o'donnell, and eugene robinson. we begin tonight with our coverage with david gregory, the moderator of nbc's "meet the press" here with me at the reagan library "the huffington post's" howard fineman also an msnbc political analyst and former ronald reagan speechwriter peggy noonan herself who is a columnist for "the wall street journal." and the number one reason to read "the wall street journal" each saturday morning. i want to go to my colleague david gregory because i think tonight is the next voice you hear. my old boss tip o'neill used to say ronald reagan's strength was not just that he spoke or what he looked like as a handsome fellow, rascal as clinton would say, but his voice had the timbre of self-confidence, common sense, middle america as well as being a conservative. it seems to me tonight rick perry's voice, everyone's going to be listening. does the man have it? your thoughts. by the way, he is a hard guy to get, isn't he, from the sunday shows? >> we're still trying. we're still trying. chris, i t

we'll talk to eugene robinson about his new column in "the washington post."bs report. first, let's go straight to todd santos with a check on the forecast. todd? >> thanks, mika. keeping a close eye on tropical depression 13, could be tropical storm by later today. here is a quick look on the radar, bringing showers into the northern gulf coast. that will be one of the biggest threats, rainfall from the system over the next couple days. not much motion, when you look at this from monday, tuesday, wednesday, some areas in through southern louisiana with over a foot of rain. friday's weather looking good for all your travellers. we'll have more coming up. you're watching "morning joe." (announcer) everything you need to stay balanced on long trips. residence inn. i know you're worried about making your savings last and having enough income when you retire. that's why i'm here -- to help come up with a plan and get you on the right path. i have more than a thousand fidelity experts working with me so that i can work one-on-one with you. it's your green line. but

. >> "the washington post's" eugene robinson on the show today. up next, a major shake-up in the bachmann campaign, did you hear about this? >> did. >> the top story in the politico playbook. but first, here's todd santos with a check on the forecast. todd? >>> good morning, guys. we're talking a bit of rainfall across the appalachians in some areas that have been saturated if you're a member. i know it seems like a distance history for some. we're bringing rain to some of the same areas. keep in mind, that's a 12-hour loop for rainfall. we're looking for severe weather today. some of that can come in the form of flooding. flash flood warnings had just expired. we could see some more of those today. tornado watch, 2:30 p.m. in north carolina extending over to eastern south carolina. that would be one of the areas to be ready to get shot. some of the latest warnings in the daytime, have the storm radio ready. checking in on hurricane katia. check out that path, lots more "morning joe" coming up after this. introducing the schwab mobile app. it's sc

saturday's highlights include eugene robinson on black america and isabel wilkerson. sunday douglas waller on wild bill don van. christy wilson on first ladies. look for our entire national book festival schedule including call-ins at book tv.org. >> the new america foundation recently held a series of discussions about the federal debt and deficit reduction. they are calling on the joint deficit reduction committee to go beyond their mandate to sign $1.5 trillion into deficit cuts. they looked at the politics of spending cuts and the reaction to the deficit committee's recommendations. this is an hour. >> put the lights down, we'll see the next video. >> aside from doing a deal, you have to do an excampaign. you to have a president in particular who is willing to go on tv with charts and show what the facts are. >> i do think american people would be behind us. i think they need to be educated. i think they need to be a part of the discussion. i think they need the know just how severe the problems are and why the super committee and the congress and the president ar

eugene robinson start by talking about mr. cain. with those thoughts in mind, you can add yours as well as far as the current crop of the gop presidential field. if you want to call us -- again, republicans only -- yes, you got also e-mail us and contact us by twitter. croft and, maryland. we will speak to ronald first. caller: i am very disappointed in the republican party. i have been voting republican -- i have voted for some democrats -- for quite a period of time. the tea party people who really hate the government, they hate people. at a time when the government really should be helping people, funding jobs and funding construction and funding america, sending $12 billion a month over to iraq and iran -- in afghanistan, while our country is crumbling. host: would you look at the current field, who is most in line with your philosophy? caller: the republican field? i don't like any of them. i don't like any of them dared all of them are kowtowing to the t ba'ath party. host: who did you vote for last time? caller: who did you v

saturday highlights include eugene robinson on black america, and isabelle wilkerson on african-americanigration. and sunday, american spy master wild bill donovan. david mccullough on the greater journey, americans in paris. look for our entire national book festival schedule and call- ins at booktv.org. >> of the joint chiefs of staff agreed to remove the record -- question regarding one's sexual orientation on future versions of the enlistment application and will not be asked in the engine room. >> this week marked the end of the policy that kept -- that kept of the league gay and lesbian personnel serving in the military. at service members can apply for reinstatement. follow the history of "don't ask, don't tell" online at the c-span video library. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joan goldwasser is a senior reporter at complete years -- kick earlier is the finest magazine. people will look of the credit scores, they want to make a purchase or are concerned about their credit. tell us about what they find out and how it could be different than what a company might find out?

saturday's highlights include eugene robinson, eric robin, and douglas waller.k for our entire national book festival schedule, including call-ins at booktv. org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back with congressman tim murphy, a member of the energy and commerce committee. that committee is looking into solyndra, the solar power company. here is the headline in the papers this morning. "the new york times" and all the papers. what happened here? what is the background story? they agree to testify and now they will invoke the fifth. guest: we know the fbi is investigating. the concern is that, with this $535 loan, which was given in segments, the law that was set up in the 2005 energy bill said a couple of things. in order for a company to qualify for a loan, there had to be reasonable expectation they could pay back the principal and interest. they had to be able to complete the project. on the loan, the taxpayers could not be subordinate to any other investors. if the company did go bankrupt, the taxpayers got paid back first. the question tha

. >> the column was written by eugene robinson. we should come forward and ignore what the republicans said to him. i think a lot of people, i think did, the president supporters want to hear him right now and put his foot down and say this is what we're doing. >> general petraeus is going to be refiring. >> that's a big story. >> what a time to retire. the man who, against all odds was the architect of the surge most politicians were against. retiring, as peter said, at the end of the month. not a single casualty in iraq. >> days before the anniversary of 9/11. >> wow. >>> a lot to talk about this morning. >> where you going? tell me what do you plan to do in the future when you are not here? >> what? what are you talking about? >> are you going to ihop? you get fried chicken and waffles. >> the former vice president dick cheney is here. i look forward to seeing him. i am going to be here. i say we take a vote. >> we also have jay carney. hap to jay carney later today to see what's going on there. a lot of strange questions lately

robinson's book. a lot of racial attitudes in brazil. in fact, i did blurt his book and eugeneh have a strong interest in brazil and how issues of politics and race have been dealt with. and one thing that you realize if you look at the situation there is that most people in brazil consider themselves, certainly don't consider themselves black but i guess definitions, a huge percentage of the country is black. and a huge portion of the population doesn't consider itself white. i mean, probably not the most recent one but some figures a few years back, they consider themselves the word in portuguese, consider themselves black, something like two or 3%. the% who consider themselves brown was over 40%. you had a large number of people who consider themselves white, and they smaller percentage again which is basically yellow. but you have this huge group, close to 50% who said they were brown. and that's just by census breakdowns. if you probe deeply into brazilian culture and society, what you find is a whole range of terms to describe a whole range of skin tones and hair textures

here is eugene robinson in "the washington post."t this point it's called on the prowl, at this point you have to wonder if the gop will fall in love with anybody. i'm trying to imagine the candidate who can maintain credibility with the party's establishment and tea party wings. if the ultra flexible romney isn't enough of a political contortionist to do it, who is? given the state of the economy, obama is going to have a tough re-election fight no matter what. but while the president flies around the country knitting the democratic party's various constituencies back together, republicans are still waiting for mr. or ms. right to ride over the horizon. i don't know if christie can ride a horse, but this movie is not over yet. >> you think it's over? i think the movie is over. >> is it? >> i think it's mitt perry. what do you say? >> i think there is still a chance chris christie gets in the race. we spend a lot of time talking to people in the republican world and i keep hearing from sources that christie is as tom cain the former

coverage of the national book festival this weekend on book tv, saturday's highlights include eugene robinson on black america, abraham lincoln and slavery, and isabel was in on african-american migration north and west and sunday douglas waller on americans wild bill donovan, christine miller on woodrow wilson's first ladies, and david mccullough on the credit journey americans in paris. live for our entire festival, including collins booktv.org. >> in my opinion i think that the, you know, the bounds of academic freedom have just been pushed too far. >> in the faculty lounges ten years job for life entitlement mentality needs to go. >> basically professors of cooking who now have, professors of the social studies who have tenure. when pressed someone at a up or a professor who is telling the party line we will say, oh, well, when the someone with tenure and security study said that they can talk about immigration, even though it is controversial, and someone in the tissue most of these cities to be able to say something controversial about obesity. >> that and other reasons why you won't ge