. >> a popular fratern is suspended. we'll tell you which one and why. dozens flocked. update news starts now. . >> thanks for joining us. the california faculty association has voted to go on strike. this biggest strike in california state university history involving 10s of thousands of faculty members. michelle rivera has details on what a strike would men. >> they have been at war trying to decide on a new contract and the union is tired of talking. >> with a commanding 95% of the vote the faculty association gave the green light to a vote. this comes after faculty and staff members finished voting. >> if it comes to a strike we're a union, we care about quality education. we are doing this for the students. >> and is in los angeles to continue meeting with the canler's meeting. union members have not received promised. they haven't been willing to give us anything we are asking for. >> it's a rolling strike of coursing two days of classs. >> the california faculty association has been good about trying to make their point but not impact students, not impact student

frank gale is the national second vice president and colorado state president of the fraternal order of police. he served for 23 years in the denver county sheriff's department where he had responsibility for the courts and jails. captain gale is currently the commander of the training academy and the community relations unit and the public information officer. he's received numerous awards and decorations from the fraternal order of police and the denver sheriff's department. captain gale, it's an honor to have you here today, and please proceed. >> thank you. good morning, mr. chairman and distinguished members of the subcommittee on constitution and civil rights and human rights. my name's frank gale. i'm a 23-year veteran of the sheriff's department and currently hold the rank of captain. i'm the national second vice president of the fraternal order of police, the largest law enforcement labor organization in the country representing more than 33,000 rank and file law enforcement officers in every region of the country. i'm here this morning to discuss our strong opposition to s.

you got luke skywalker, hans solo and another fraternity. let's say the rom you lus. the guys who don't fly with red five are going to be pissed for a while, they will also be mad, they will want to fly through the star gate on battle star galactica and take a vacation in cloud city but by the time the game time comes along the fighters forget t they don't care who sends prot ton torpedo down the thermal exhaust port as long as they save yafan four, they want to blow up the deathstar and they hate the dark side. or-- (cheers and applause) >> stephen: that works. or, of course, there's always the political analogy, republicans who didn't support mitt romney will come together because they want to beat barack obama. too complicated. let's stick with the football thing. go trojan irish. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: folks, as a player in the powerful and completely transparent world of super pacs, i pride myself on exercising the greatest possible influence, the details of by are none of your goddamn business. but recently a mysterious rival has appeared in florida t

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it was in the 80s. >> truly we were the bosoom buddies. >> i was not in a fraternity. the closest group i ever joined was called eagle. i covered it for my paper. i realized it was the alliance for gays, lesbians and everything else. and it was more than any fraternity put together. >> we sang songs, we puffy painted t-shirts and sweatshirts. it was the same group. >> the thing about the eating disorder, they had to replace the pluming in sororities at my college at berkeley because of the acid from the -- from the stomach acid. >> that's amazing. that's not true. >> it has to be true because everybody told me. >> everybody there was lactose intoll gent. >> what does that mean? you can't have pizza or anything good? >> or anything. we had melba toast and grape jelly. i mean, i lost weight. i looked amazing. >>> should we blame one side for a congress polarized? is the endless fight to the right? one man thinks so. it has to be true. the pair -- no pictures ? >> imagine. >> it was worth waiting for. >> they say in their year studying congress they have never seen them m

michael duffy tell a story in their new book "the president's club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." nancy gibbs, michael duffy, welcome. >> thank you. >> ifill: nancy, this started with hoover and truman. >> the most unlikely imaginable pair of presidents. they've got nothing in common except the fact that they were both worried about what was happening in europe after world war ii. so truman secretly mails a letter to hoover asking him to come to the white house like three weeks after truman first takes office and says "can you help me? you did this after world war i, we have a problem, i need your help." and that was the start of what turned out to be a beautiful friendship. >> ifill: it also became tradition over time but it wasn't really about party lineage here. we had john kennedy trying to court eisenhower. >> right. we found over and over that actually presidents from different parties get along better than presidents from the same party which is not what we expected. we thought they'd branch out. they actually seemed to bond

you've got luke skywalker, hans solo and another fraternity.o the guys, who don't fly with red phi are going to be pissed for awhile, they'll also be mad, want to fly you from through the stargate on battle star galactica and take a vacation in cloud city. by the time the game time comes along, they don't care who sends the proton for bead dough down the thermal exhaust port as long as they say they have four. they want to blow up the death star and they hate the dark side. or -- or -- or, of course, there's always the political analogy. republicans who didn't support mitt romney will come together because they want to beat barack obama. oh, it's too complicated. >>> makes total sense to me. that's the best part of that clip, though, were the cut aways to neil calf outo while the strategist was giving that analogy. way are you awake? already checked out for the weekend. tweets, texts and e-mails are next. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is your moment. this is zales. the diamond store. take an extra 10% off storewide now through sunday. with the bank

now appear on dozens of cta buses fell in a handful of el stations and on digital billboards the fraternalorder is trying to pressure mayor emanuel to make good on his promise to put more than 1000 new officers on the street state to into wgn for coverage of the nato summit our special reports kickoff saturday morning with the wgn morning news at 6:00 on sunday will have special editions of the morning news from six in the morning until 9 as well as a midday news from 11 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. and expanded edition of the wgn isspivanpaon lots of buzz at today's crosstown classic at wrigleycubs pitcher kerry wood is retiring. w-g-n's judy wang is live at wrigley, and spoke with fans. we have learned that no news conference is planned for today and that he will pitch sometime this weekend before retiring fans tell us they are sorry to hear the news but known health issues have no one's surprise too hear of this retirement ... he is best known for his play during his rookie of the year season ... he has played for the cleveland indians and for the new york yankees returning to the chicago cubs'

that's his signal phrase in the will regarding the peace prize, fraternity between nations. also he wants all the prizes to be awarded for work done during the preceding year. this was a surprise to me. i always thought the nobel prizes were lifetime achievement awards or golden handshakes at the end of an illustrious career. >> host: well, i think if i didn't want do the math, but i think probably no more than ten or a dozen of the winners as you write about them probably actually fulfill the specific criteria that nobel laid out. >> guest: one could easily account, and i did not, but i think that's true. >> host: well, pretty quickly, there's one other element i think you should talk about is there's a kind of norwegian --ness at the hart of the peace prize and the time when the peace prize was created. so can you talk about that a little bit? there is a very special quality from norway that, i think, informs the peace prize. all the nobels really. >> guest: yes. well, he has, alfred nobel has these five prizes, and he gives four of them to swieden, to swedish bodies to mi

duffy discuss their latest book entitled "the presidents club: inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." >> nancy gibbs, where did you get the idea for the "president's club?" >> it arose out of research for our last book where we came out of the back channel communications between presidents and president of different parties that we have not heard about. we were surprised by. we were taking mental notes about what is the deal between these men who have all been in this job, learned the lessons, and why are they talking to each other off camera? we got curious about that. >> we know each one of these men as individuals. we grew up with them. we watched them. we voted for and against them. what no one had done is look at them in pairs or relationships. we think of them as their own institutes. -- institutions. they existed by themselves. when you pair them up or put them in groups and see how they relate to each other and how they sometimes that each other -- stabbed to each other in the back, we thought this has the makings of a more interesting story, a club. >> when you started this

now you do a lot to be booted from the fraternal order of police but apparently expressing your first and then rights one uniform across that line while captain lewis may have lost is that if it's many say you gave a much needed credibility to a movement painted by the corporate media about as a bunch of so-called hippies and through it all he's still protesting in uniform to this day to talk further about what he experienced and more or less joined us earlier today i first asked him if he was prepared for the firestorm he received for protesting on uniform take a listen. abbi thanks for having me first of all and yes i was prepared for that and i realized it was going to happen and i want to head with it anyway but let me make one correction i think you said i was expelled from my union and that they are that has not been decided yet but that decision will be made surely whether to expel me or not all right well thank you for that clarification i wanted to just mention you know you asked multiple rhetorical questions in your hold legal proceedings one is one is which you know why do

well in philadelphia the fraternal order of police a lot of cops want to be the president of the union and they have elections and these elections are run just like any other political election they are based on money a lot of advertising goes into these elections and those cops don't pay for that advertising out of their back pockets this advertising is paid for by corporations banks financial institutions subsequently when you're elected you are beholden to those financial institutions and when i come out condemning these financial institutions if the president of the fop wants to get continuing contributions he better pay heed to the banks really were you surprised i know that you said you were expecting to encounter this on a small scale but i mean were you surprised that the very thing you were protesting about happened to you on a micro level where you saw this complete on accountability and you know any in your own force i mean the thing that you were out there protesting about happened to you in your own community yes i was taken aback a little by that especially when i got the

they are essentially not specifically related to fraternity between nations. they're sort of within nations and actually recognizing really prisoners of conscience, the term for want of a better one, simply for their moral stance and their forcefulness and views which is a popular way to win the peace prize but is different than nobel might have perceived it. >> guest: i wonder what he might have thought. i asked my questions these questions about what the peace prize should be. i think the committee should follow the will but that rules out some of the best prizes. that would rule out the prize to electric would lens a, and he told me in an interview without the nobel peace prize his solidarity cause in pole land could never have succeeded. he said there was no wind blowing in theel poland sails. >> host: they're aware that the peace prize at the right time to the right person can impact events. >> guest: yes. it can be a win. learned something from a book bat nicaragua. and the they give the 1987 nobel peace price to the president of costa rica and tell him

forgiving student loan debt; tweeting in the presidential campaign and going inside an exclusive fraternity but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: a federal appeals court today declared the "defense of marriage act" discriminates against gay married couples. a three-judge panel in boston found the 1996 law unconstitutionally bars same-sex couples from federal benefits granted to heterosexuals. the court did not address the law's definition of marriage, as restricted to one man and woman. the case is almost certainly bound for the u.s. supreme court. republicans in the u.s. house fell short today on a bill that would ban abortions based on gender. the bill carried prison terms of up to five years for doctors. supporters said some immigrant groups have brought to this country a tradition of targeting female fetuses for abortion. opponents argued the government should not intrude into such private matters. there were new warnings today about europe's currency system, as continuing debt troubles roiled nation after nation. the rising concerns also rippled across t

fraternity between nations and he wants them to be awarded for work done during proceeding years. this was a surprise i always thought the prices were kind of a cumulative awards lifetime achievement awards were golden handshakes at the end of an illustrious career. >> host: i didn't do the math, but i could probably no more than ten or a dozen of the winners you write about probably fulfills the specific criteria triet >> guest: you're right. one could account. i did not but i think that's true. >> host: very quickly there is another element you should talk about which is there's kind of a norwegian miffed at the heart of the peace prize and the time the peace prize was created. can you talk about that a little bit? there's a special quality in the peace prize. >> he has his life crisis and gives four of them to the swedish bodies to administer. he did most of his growing up in st. petersburg, recalls michael lowden perlo but he was swedish and a very much universal man if he gives the fifth to norway and asks the parliament to elect a committee of five to administer the peace pr

>> no, it is organized by the ancient order of harburnians, the fraternal group. by the time you get to the 1870s and the wake of the civil war, irish americans were quite convinced they could be legitimately irish and legitimately american at the same time and that the two things weren't incompatible and that remains the way things proceed through the rest of the 19th century for the most part. there is ups and downs. we read about the rise of the american protective association, the resurgence of nativism in the late 1880s and 1890s and there is always friction and debates and disagreements about schooling and catholics are quite suspicious of public schools which they see as essentially vehicles for converting people to protestant faith or protestant faiths i should say, so there is friction but the essential claim the irish make to being american citizens remains very powerful and persists into the 20th century. this is true for germans as well. if you did a similar kind of case study looking at the way the germans are integrated civically while retaining thei

>> no, it is organized by the ancient order of hibernians, the fraternal group. by the time you get to the 1870s and the wake of the civil war, irish americans were quite convinced they could be legitimately irish and legitimately american at the same time and that the two things weren't incompatible and that remains the way things proceed through the rest of the

it is my honor and privilege as the president of the fraternal order of police to welcome all of you,nt families, and distinguished guests to this 31st annual national peace officers' memorial service. i would like to begin this way by introducing our guests who have joined me on the day for this solemn event. beginning on my right, please welcome terry kain, the senate sergeant at arms and a longtime member of the fob. thank you. [applause] >> national president of concerns of police survivors, as was our good friend craig floyd, the chairman of the national law enforcement memorial fund. [applause] >> we are stuck with us today the vice president of governmental affairs, one of our most generous corporate sponsors for this event. thank you, tim. [applause] >> it's always a pleasure to introduce and welcome when the f.o.p.'s most stalwart champions on capitol hill, senator patrick leahy of vermont, chairman of the senate committee on the judiciary. mr. chairman, we thank you again this year. [applause] >> we are also very pleased that with is a very good friend of everyone in law enf

fraternity between nations. also he wants all of the prizes to be a word for work being done between the year. this is a surprise. i was at the prizes are kind of cumulative rewards are lifelong achievement words are golden handshakes at the end of an illustrious career. >> i think by doing the math and probably no more than 10 dozen of the winners as you write about them probably actually fulfill the specific criteria that nobel laid out. >> one easily could do an account, but i think that's true. >> pretty quickly there's another element you should talk about, which is kind of a norwegian man at the heart of the peace prize in a time in the peace prize was created. can you talk about that a little bit? there is a very special quality from norway that i think is important in the peace prize. all the nobels really. >> well, he has five prizes in case for them to sweden, two swedish bodies to administer. the bell himself a swedish. he did most of his growing up in st. petersburg. a very cosmopolitan fellow. very

each and every one of you are about to join a very distinguished fraternity. my dear friends and colleagues brandon scott off remind me that a degree from st. mary's is not your average degree. he actually says it's more than i'd like to hear that. a degree from st. mary's is a degree from md's public honors college that comes with the increased level of responsibility of caring for the tradition of excellence of those who have come before you and carried that degree into the real world. 50 days ago i had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with many of you at your celebration. and during my visit i had the pleasure of having dinner with your class president and opportunity trustee. i must say our future is in great hands. as i made my trip back it was very clear to me that you all are extremely well prepared to move on to the next chapt anywhere your lives whether bit the real world or furtherering your education. i was also very impressed with your collective awares in of the demrobal situations of today. i was told then and i completedly understand now tha

it is my honor and privilege as the president of the fraternal order of police to welcome all of you,fficers, our law enforcement families and distinguished guests to this 31st annual national peace officers' memorial service. i would like to begin this morning by introducing our guests who have joined me on the dais for this solemn event. beginning on my right, please welcome terry gainer, the senate sergeant at arms and a longtime member of the fot. thank you, terry. [applause] next to terry is linda gregory, national president of the concerned of police survivors as well as our good friend, craig floyd, the chairman of the law enforcement national memorial fund. [applause] we're very honored to have with us today tim scully, the vice president of governmental affairs, one of our most generous corporate sponsors for this event. thank you, tim. [applause] it's always a pleasure to introduce and welcome one of the fop's most stalwart champions on capitol hill, senator patrick leahy of vermont, chairman of the senate committee on the judiciary. mr. chairman, we thank you again this yea

. >> we as a fraternity of football players have got to rally around each other. >> there was no suicideote but he texted his children and ex-wife i love. two years ago he drove off a cliff saying he fell asleep, it happened after he was arrested on domestic violence charges. >>> a young oakland boy found a used siring this seven-year-old discovered a surgery needle. he showed it to his mother and she took the boy to the hospital after he said he picked his finger with it. after he made sure could be given shots to prevent for some other things could be in that needle. >> a spokesperson apologized for the incident and said there will be more thorough cleanings of the campus as well. >>> reform of the pepper spraying by police during an occupied demonstration in november and it because increased in campus emergency operation plan and a task force to review policies and they are secretaried to go into effect on thursday. >>> they will go on strike if they can't agree on a new employer. they will delay the start of school and yesterday teachers approved a two day strike. negotiations are st

each and everyone of you are about to join a very distinguished fraternity. my dear friends and colleagues -- my dear friend and colleague, councilman brandman scott, a 2006 graduate of st. mary's, often reminds me that a degree from st. mary's is not your average degree. a degree from st. mary's is a degree from maryland's public honors college that comes with the increased level of responsibility of caring for the tradition of excellence of those who have come to 42, and carry that degree into the real world. 50 days ago i had the pleasure of meeting in speaking with many of you and your 50-day celebration. during my visit i also had the pleasure of having dinner with her class president and student trustee. i must say that if they embody the spirit of the entire class, then our future is in great hands. as i made my trip back from baltimore that evening, it was clear to me that you all or an extremely well prepared to move on to the next chapter in your lives, whether it be the real world or furthering your education. i was also very impressed with your co

. >>> and in many colleges, joining a fraternity or sorority joining is a rite of passage.ool is banning all freshmen from joining the organizations and forbidding them from signing up with the fraternity's facebook page. princeton has a longstanding policy not to officially recognize the organizations and claiming they promote social exclusions and encourage drinking. >>> high school students are preparing to graduate now. every year, tens of thousands of the high school grad@s end up in graduates end up in remedial classes. why aren't high schools getting the job done? and sherri ly has more. >> reporter: it turns out there is a huge gap between earning a high school diploma and having the education necessary to take college-level classes. what happened? the students end up in remedial or classes earning -- and they're already behind. the studies show as many as 60% of the first-year college students need some remediation ands majority in math and they highest where it's open to anyone and even at four-year colleges, students are being schooled with remedial classes and t

you have to get into the band is like getting into a tough fraternity.how have a hazing tradition. 13 of them started hitting him and stomping him. this is one of the bizarre traditions. reminds me of lord of the flies. in the course of this hazing the young man the teenager died and now the 11 of the kids are charged with third-degree felony hazing. it is a really rarely used statute in florida. you can imagine why. but 11 of them are charged with a felony and two with miss demireps and they are really in searous -- misdemeanors. they are really in serious trouble. parents are trying to put pressure on the state to charge the kids with more serious crimes like murder two or manslaughter because robert did die in the -- under their boots and their punches. i think that is probably a bad move. i think the state is charge the appropriately. third-degree hazing is a serious felony. the parents want the band to be disbanded permanently. i don't think that is a good idea either. it is a tragic case and they have to crack down on hazing. >> doesn't this seem s

soim warned me since some fraternity guys had just been there but i did it anyway. and i did not join a group of speakers run across the pit into the ump l and then sing the alma mater. it has been a great morning and i haven't even play add few rounds of senior bar golf yet. so in any case i'm feeling almost prepared for today as you graduates are. you've made it. you've done it. you've earned it. and i'm sure this week has been spent reliving memories and retelling stories. and i know there will be more of that tonight. but right now, i want you to take a look roong you and think not about where everyone has been but where they are going. the guy in front of you could win an academy award some day. the girl behind you could be a future president of the united states or even better than that the mayor of new york city. the guy sitting to your right could be a future noble laur yet. ok, maybe not the guy to your right but certainly the one to your left. there is no telling what the future holds for you or for anyone else. this is an exciting time in your life and it

you have to get into the band is like getting into a tough fraternity.w have a hazing tradition. 13 of them started hitting him and stomping him. this is one of the bizarre traditions. reminds me of lord of the flies. in the course of this hazing the young man the teenager died and now the 11 of the kids are charged with third-degree felony hazing. it is a really rarely used statute in florida. you can imagine why. but 11 of them are charged with a felony and two with miss demireps and they are really in searous -- misdemeanors. they are really in serious trouble. parents are trying to put pressure on the state to charge the kids with more serious crimes like murder two or manslaughter because robert did die in the -- under their boots and their punches. i think that is probably a bad move. i think the state is charge the appropriately. third-degree hazing is a serious felony. the parents want the band to be disbanded permanently. i don't think that is a good idea either. it is a tragic case and they have to crack down on hazing. >> doesn't this seem so

and the other fraternities are going to rally around their guy because they're part of the team.'s part of the team now and they hate the other team. so those are two reasons to rally. >> neil: i understand that but it does -- no, i'm kidding. here's where i might differentiate. you're right. in the end there may are a hatred of usc that trumps the feelings you have about who is leading your team. but are you concerned that there -- you know, that comment was not efuse as i have and it's not a good under pinning. >> it's like before a game day, you've got to give him time to be upset that they lost. they got big egos and wanted to win and be team captain. >> neil: what did you think of newt gingerich today? >> he's not happy but he's trying and at least he wants to now be part of the team. >> neil: those loyalists of gingrich's, say what you will in south carolina he got out the vote, in georgia, but there are a lot of people passionate about him. a lot of people, rick santorum won ten primaries and are passionate about him. they're not necessarily going to run to barack obama bu

someone told me to be careful since some fraternity guys had just been there, but i went ahead anyway. finally, i joined a flash rave at the library. but i watched, and for the record, did not join a group of speakers run across the pit in to theul and then sing the alma mater. it has been a great morning, and i have not even played a few rounds of senior bar off yet. i am feeling almost as prepared for today as you graduates are. you have made it. you have done it. you have earned it. i am sure this week has been spent reliving memories and retelling stories. i know there will be more of that tonight. right now, i want you to take a look around you and i think not about where everyone has been, but where they are going. the guy in front you could win an academy award sunday. the girl behind you could be a future president of the united states, or even better than that, the mayor of new york city. the guy sitting to your right could be a future nobel laureate. ok, maybe not the guy to your right, but certainly the one to your left. there is no telling what the future holds for you or

within the fraternity of extreme frequent flyers it's controversial that any of these secrets are gettingbut rick started a blog called frugal travel guy for the common man and he's holding seminars like this one that drew more than 500 people. all sorts of people, people who will get on a plane and just fly around over the weekend to maximize their mileage and to raise their elite status with an airline. >> one day i flew austin, to dallas, to orange county, california, left the airport, spent five hours with my relatives, then got back on a plane, flew to o'hair, then frankfurt germany, sat in the lounge for an hour, and then back to austin. mileage runs those are called. or you could do a mattress run. lots of hotels offer points that can be converted into airline miles or free hotel nights. of course this can also get extreme when you hear about the hampton inn offering a bonus. >> i took my son to disney world, hopping from hotels every night. >> so you switched hotels 13 times? >> every night. >> reporter: next method, the rental carbone us, typically you get a few hundred points fo