foundation education policy program, and also in new york, robert pondiccio, a senior fellow at the fordham institute. can we operate for the rest of this program on the assumption that starting school earlier is better and leads to better results? >> we can in so far as we're being careful. it does for many kids under many circumstances. we have studies that show programs for pre-k can have a really dramatic affect for many, many children. >> not all kids? >> i think the research is mixed for some kids. it does, and stephen barnett can speak to this in more details, but for middle and upper class families the research is a bit more mixed whether pre-k is as effective as not going to pre-k. it doesn't seem to have as much of an effect on them. here. should we throw open the doors and welcome all comers as early as we can manage it? >> absolutely we should. the vast majority of kids do benefit. left on their own most middle income and even higher-income families will find their kids in poor quality programs. so it's really a matter in the difference of quality that they'll get. it won't help

she also gets standing ovations from fordham, from georgetown, from a lot of catholic education speedis good to say, she really mapped out the catholic college and universities, i can or as part of her tour was she presented at that point as -- her catholicism commune, very important part of her political ideology, if you want to call it that. was she seen in that light, in 1963 in the united states? i assume to the extent that she was hitting, you know, places like fordham, georgetown, they were very much self-conscious that. was the part of her reception as well? >> i do think that part of the political closet of the south vietnamese government was based on something called personalism which is this philosophy that started in france in the '20s and it was a catholic closet, supposed be an alternative to pure capitalism and communism but it was kind of his third way. that was a cornerstone of their government. no one could quite understand how that translated to south vietnam, and so that was really the problem wasn't marketing. but the regime had bought all the property outside of r

she also gets standing ovations from fordham, from georgetown, from a lot of catholic education speed is good to say, she really mapped out the catholic college and universities, i can or as part of her tour was she presented at that point as -- her catholicism commune, very important part of her political ideology, if you want to call it that. was she seen in that light, in 1963 in the united states? i assume to the extent that she was hitting, you know, places like fordham, georgetown, they were very much self-conscious of that. was the part of her reception as well? >> i do think that part of the political closet of the south vietnamese government was based on something called personalism which is this philosophy that started in france in the '20s and it was a catholic closet, supposed be an alternative to pure capitalism and communism but it was kind of his third way. that was a cornerstone of their government. no one could quite understand how that translated to south vietnam, and so that was really the problem wasn't marketing. but the regime had bought all the property outside

she gets tomatoes thrown at her, eggs, but she gets standing ovations from fordham, a lot of catholic education -- >> she mapped out the catholic college and university itinerary as part of her tour. was she presented at that point as this -- her -- catholicism was you know, it was very important part of her political ideology if you want to call it that. was she seen in that light in 1963 in the united states? i assume that to the extent that she was hitting you know, places like fordham, georgetown, they were very much self conscious of that. was that part of her reception as well? >> i do think so. part of the political philosophy of the south vietnamese government was based on personalism, this philosophy that started in france in the 20s and was a catholic philosophy, alternative to pure capitalism and communism. this third way. so that really was a cornerstone of their government. no one could quite understand how that translated to south vietnam, and so that was really the problem wasn't the marketing. but the regime had bought all of this property outside of rome, and -- prope

i assume to the extent that she was hitting, you know, places like fordham, georgetown, they were verymuch self-conscious of that. was the part of her reception as well? >> i do think that part of the political closet of the south vietnamese government was based on something called personalism which is this philosophy that started in france in the '20s and it was a catholic closet, supposed be an alternative to pure capitalism and communism but it was kind of his third way. that was a cornerstone of their government. no one could quite understand how that translated to south vietnam, and so that was really the problem wasn't marketing. but the regime had bought all the property outside of rome, and property of course enormous pretty and expenses of the bought large tracts of them with the idea that they would send a south vietnamese functionaries over to rome to go get in doctor naked in their version of personalism. and then come back to south vietnam. that didn't work out so well for them but it was a place that madame nhu after her family was itself empowered, she go back to the lan

particularly in black studies departments and you had the opportunity to work with marc mason at fordham university. for those of you who don't know mark he says amazing historian of labor history but for those folks who don't know mark the historian they know him as the white guy that was on the dave chapelle skit. i know what black people think who do remember was described as a black studies professor. so what does it look like to be able to continue to work around the black arts movement in the academy and particularly around this idea, the folks who are doing the organic groundwork in the 50s and early 60s and what blossomed in terms of the black arts movement their idea was never that this stuff would go into places like duke or princeton to teach classes and students who come from families that are worth a quarter million dollars and things like that. how do we both do the work that is educational and still true to what the vision was of the black arts movement but also do that and spaces. that don't devalue doing network and to value the narratives represented in terms of the bla

he pointed to his son kevin who -- andrew who is a freshman at fordham and said it was andrew who invited you. 's reachinge andrew out to me. i want to think the institute and good to be with a lot of great friends. we had been in new hampshire over the years and i am feeling like i am here with friends who know me all too well. he was the guy who drove me around in 1996 with bob dole when i play the circuit. i remember him because at one point sliding down one of the exit ramps on the ice getting in the middle of i-89 traffic. my best recollection is one we were up somewhere in northern new hampshire doing these campaign debates. bob could not come say send me instead. he had his own motorhome. we had a fun time debating that. it is fantastic and it gives us the opportunity to see politics. i was asked this morning to talk about what is happening. that would the a short speech. happening. lot is i said to the audience 10% that means paid staff and family members. so they would be more reductive to talk about what is happening. i am hopeful about the future of our country but we are in tr

consalvo for inviting me and he pointed to who is a freshman at fordham and said actually it was andrew who invited you. so i appreciate andrew's great toout to me it's be here. i want to thank the institute. i have been athat new hampshire stumper over the years, and i'm feeling like i'm here with a lot of phones who know me all too well, because ins with comcast was the guy that drove me around in for bob dole when i played the surrogate. and i remember him because i point slidingn down one of the exit ramps on getting inentually the middle of traffic. but my best recollection was we were up somewhere in northern new hampshire doing debates.paign and bob dole couldn't come to this particular debate so he send me instead. and it was me and five candidates, none of whom you will remember, except maybe the the grizzly bear. remember him? going from alaska in around in a motor home. we had a fun time debating that night. presidentialst debate in a republican primary, with a bunch of folks who were that'sheir thing, and the wonderful thing about new hampshire. candidates come here and they

a senior fellow at fordham university who has made a a number of trips to africa to treat diseases there joins us. congressman of florida wants to ban all travel to the u.s. for citizens from liberia, seer leone and guinea and travel alert upped to level three. >> the congressman, this is low hanging fruit for him. his constituents don't think -- >> you think it's politics, not public health. >> i think he's going to look great if we have one case of ebola in the united states. it's very bad public health to do what he's recommending. but it's politically inexpensive. >> why are people so afraid of ebola and should they be? >> we're afraid of it because it's in movies and two people who have caught it wearing protective gear. the guy that discovered ebola who now runs the london school of tropical medicine said he would be confident sitting next to someone on a subway who had ebola. >> you have two doctors that have treated this, one now dead, the other in treatment. some argue if the doctors can't be protected, what about the public? >> the doctors can be protected, but are working unde

a senior fellow at the institute for international humanitarian affairs at fordham university, he hasers in public health are from harvard, has worked with the world health organization in humanitarian crises all around the word. and joining me is senior editor at box.com where she oversees health medication coverage. sarah, i want to start with you for just a moment because before some of this information started becoming clear there was a lot of conversation and vaccination and whether or not vhaving a vaccine would make a difference. what are the challenges relative to ebola? >> they are not necessarily science. we've done really well in testing ebola vaccines. the challenge is mostly economic that there's not really a pharmaceutical can company that sees a big payoff in creating an ebola vaccine. when they happen they happen in very low income parts of the world like west africa. they don't see a big payday. though we have the science put into testing and developing and experimenting with ebola vaccines there's not a company that wants to move it through phase two and three trials

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ambassador to syria, robert fordham. great to have you. >> you made pretty clear to the daily beast josh rogan in a piece that the warnings of the isis surge were there. and were made pretty plain -- plainly made to the white house. did you feel like you were ignored? >> the state department made clear to others in the united states government, in 2012, that there was an extremist element growing in syria. drawing help from iraq at the time. and that if there was a power vacuum, especially in eastern syria, we would have a huge problem. and, in fact, that he's what we said in 2012 and that's what has happened today. that's a matter of history and the record. the bigger question, i think, now is going forward, given what has happened in iraq, and what is going on in syria, what can the administration do to contain the islamic state, which is clearly a threat. >> well, what is your prescription if you will? what do you think the united states can and should do at this point to contain it? do you think at this point they're in a position of t