with aol cofounder steve case, housing secretary, shaun donovan, and educator, geoffrey canada, and finance expert, suze orman, and and entrepreneur russell simmons. but first john mccain spending the 4th with the troops in afghanistan. i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." >>> minutes ago we were joined from kabul by the ranking republican on the armed forces committee, john mccain. you have been fearful that withdrawing the troops by september of next year is risky to the troops and advances made on the ground. have you seen or heard anything that causes you to rethink that? >> no, basically what i have seen and heard here, both from afghans as well as a number of americans is that it's an unnecessary risk, and it's not recommended by any of the military, and i hope it will work out, but it certainly deprives us of the troops that we need for the second fighting season. >> lieutenant general john allen, as you know, is the nominee to be the u.s. commander in afghanistan. he was testifying on capitol hill this week, and i want to play you part of what he said and basically hi

i said, "well, geoffrey farris." next name that popped into my head was rick pauley. and because they popped into my head and i uttered their names, they were arrested. >> narrator: by then, four men were in jail-- danial, joe, eric and derek. then, with pauley and farris, there were six. and there was still no dna match. so the police went back to derek. >> they decided to give me a plea agreement as long as i named the dna match. >> interviewer: how would you know the dna match? >> i wouldn't. but, you know, at that time, i was like, "well, i don't know who the dna match is but, you know, i'll give it a shot." >> narrator: ford seemed interested in a former navy man named john danser. >> he wants me to put john danser into the story," so it was like, "okay, well, you want him there, john was there." >> narrator: the problem was that danser had an alibi. the day of the crime happened to have been his birthday. >> my client's alibi was that he was living in warminster, pennsylvania, at the time, which is right outside of philadelphia. he was working with an hvac compa

like to mention that the question answer portion of the program will be moderated by a professor geoffrey hazard, a distinguished professor of law at uc hastings. the professor is a leading expert in the field of civil procedure of legal ethics and is good at asking questions. it is my pleasure to introduce our very special guest, stephen zack, president of the american bar association. with nearly 400,000 members, it is the largest volunteer professional membership organization in the world. mr. zack is the first hispanic american to serve as the president and the second to be born abroad. he was only 14 when his family emigrated from cuba under harrowing circumstances, including last minute detention by the secret police. he made it here. in two lines -- and two lines come to mind when i think of him. "this is my country, land of my choice. this is my country, here i found voice." what a voice it is. he earned his aba at the university of florida and he is now in their hall of fame. he is a partner in the miami office of the national law firm. his clients range from former vice presiden

i've heard geoffrey nice the right hand man of color del ponte in the middle sharif trial he said several appearances here in london. louise arbor has spoken here the b.b.c. c.n.n. represent end of a case for the prosecution if you are a prosecution justice and basically you have a lynch and it is very clear that they have to basically to present here foreign policy i'm sorry but that is that is the issue mr nearly as i said. if we had if we have jet is not as easy which is and i think ok mr master go ahead. i think the point here is that you're confusing the serve people with milosz of h h carriage which if that's the road that you take then you are in effect condemning the sir people to be associated with individuals who are guilty of some of the worst crimes since world war two i do not associate those people with the serb people bet as a do not associate those individuals those individuals are being held accountable before the international war crimes tribunal for what they did as individuals and for what their regime did to what extent the serve people want to in fact confirm those c

ek: when geoffrey holder called me . he flew to los angeles and he came to my house in beverly hills and asked me if i would do celine lalong in his production of "timbuktu," which is "kismet," as everyone knows. and it's the number five character. she's not number one, two, three or four. but i never worried about whether you are the lead character or not. the audience knows that. the audience always knows who is the star, and therefore i don't have any arguments with that. so when he asked me . naturally, i said, it was wonderful. so i came back to do "timbuktu. " and i was brought in on the stage in the hands of tony carroll, who is the . the opposite, or i suppose the same kind of person as schwarzenegger. they were in competition with one another at one time. and he brought me in onto the stage and i had one foot on his body like that. the other foot was in his hand. and my derriere was in his hand. (laughter) ek: i've always wanted a man like that. i haven't found one yet. but when i walked up . when i came on the stage, before i could take my body and my feet down, the audienc

these charters and their leaders like the harlem children's zone led by geoffrey canada, like the chip academy or the success charter schools cannot replace all of the public schools but they are a right now educationally option for students and families who need and deserve a better education not someday, but right now. they are also great education laboratories where innovative approaches to learning can be tried, tested and refined before taken to scale in the public-school system. and because they are choice options for students who believe they are ill served by the system school they attend, they are a competitive force pushing system schools to get better. not some day but right away. that choice and that competition are absolutely vital forces in making our schools better. absolutely vital. our families need to be able to make the choice and they need to have competitive options to choose from and in giving our children the education they need to prosper here in harlem or wherever they make their homes, that must be our goal. charter schools are not the only force for public sc

. >> yeah, the person who was called was my old supervisor -- i worked for geoffrey goldberg & associates for a while and she was my supervisor. so she came as a character witness. and when she -- she's the nicest and sweetest lady in the world. i mean, she really is. and she was put on the stand, and the state's attorney was asking her questions about my character, how i was when i worked at the law firm. and she said that i was pleasant and -- she had one particular word. i can't remember it right now. i can't recall -- she had one word and the state's attorney -- peaceful. >> peaceful. the state's attorney used that word to beat her up, basically. he asked her peaceful, how is he peaceful? could you tell me how he was peaceful? was he peaceful every day? really cross-examined her like she was me. and -- i mean, she was like, peaceful. he was a nice person and broke her down on the stand. >> so then -- and then jovan starts crying, cathy's is elbowing don't cry because she already said tears can be interpreted, you know, two different ways. and meanwhile i had put her on direct so it's

i also want to just take this moment to thank my colleague geoffrey goldstein who's sitting behind me, i believe, who is undersecretary of defense and he's certainly played a role to restore a measure of stability and confidence to the american financial system and in helping build this institution for cooperation we call the financial stability council, and i have the greatest admiration and appreciation for his hard work and for the fact that he was willing to come work for his country at a time of crisis. i want to give my colleagues a chance to say a few things at the beginning before we get to our formal agenda and i'm going to go in the following order. i'm going to go to my right in order and then come back and then go to my left and that means chairman bernanke, you go first. >> thank you, mr. secretary. on this anniversary of the dodd-frank act, i think it's very important to remember why we're here in the first place. it's only been about 2.5 years since the worst financial crisis -- or certainly one of the worst financial crisis in world history brought many global financia