george mason beats la salle, 59-57.high school city title, roosevelt, the hero of the game, schuyler. roosevelt on the break. they take the lead. schuyler steps up a good, the biggest game. the steel, the bucket. roosevelt wins the city championship and the title is headed to northwest. 57-53 the final. st. john's, the lady cadets dominated from long range. carter was the hero from beyond the arc, knocking down threes. the final, st. john's college high school the city champs again. jordan zimmermann threw three scoreless innings today. he gave up a walk and two hits, the braves beat the nets. do you know this guy? .hat is robert griffin iii he is modeling the new baylor basketball uniform. he said he was channeling his inner dr. j. that is a picture you don't see often. the acc women's basketball tournament, georgia tech wins. golf fans, tiger woods five shots off the lead. the cadillac championship at doral. >> that is what tiger needs, he needs the 'fro. >> tough to get a helmet over that. >> this will make our lover

there was another threat at george mason's fairfax campus last week but it's still too early to tell whether the two threats are related. >>> a mid-morning house fire in hyattsville injures three people plus one of the responding firefighters. two men and a 5-year-old got out of that burning home on 38th avenue before prince george's county firefighters arrived. but they did suffer some injuries and were taken to the hospital. a firefighter was also burned as he helped to put out the flames. >> the wind certainly contributed to this fire and the fact it accelerated the fire flow through the house. >> all the injuries to the firefighter and those people inside the home are believed to be minor. cleanup crews remained at the scene as officials look into what sparked the fire. >>> a mayday call went out early this morning for a firefighter in mitchellville, maryland. the firefighter was battling a fire when he fell to the floor in the baism. other firefighters were able to -- basement. other firefighters were able to get to him before he suffered serious injuries. no one else was hurt.

we now know the identity of the man police say pepper sprayed a george mason university professor.onathan pendleton is accused of walking into a classroom and attacking professor cowen. he yelled, " citizens arrest." he tried to handcuff the professor. pendleton is charged with assault and is being held pending a hearing next month. >> the following new developments in the search for malaysian airlines flight 470. crews are shifting the search area closer to australia. the plane was flying faster than originally thought. area tofts the search a new part of the indian ocean. another high-tech u.s. sub will join the search. naval ships also are towing a device that listen to black ox sounds. >> a woman that survived the mudslide in washington state is mourning the loss of her sister. her sister was found hours after the mudslide hit. the families dog, who was believed to be killed, was found alive. >> oh! saved because he was going to help us get through this. seeing that dog, it's like life still is good. >> buddy had been buried under rubble for a day and a half, but he appears to

they take a opportunity lead, but a former george mason

george mason going against george washington.down two in the final minutes before the break. maurice only shot he made in the first half gave gw the lead. second half, creek going off. that's a good thing. hits from behind the ark. 18 points in the second half and finished with 2 2. mason trailing by four in transition corey edwards to jenkins. makes it look so easy. the lead down to two. gw responds big time. nobody panicking. they crashed the board. the rebound and put back part of a 14-3 run and the colonials win. here is creek after the game on his big second half. >> i didn't have the best first half and i knew that, and went in there and prayed and coach just told me to keep shooting the ball. >> not everybody got my joke. this pitcher is on a milk carten, been missing for awhile. i was praying, too. i went to mass early this morning. i told him to keep shooting. we're such a different team when we knock down shots. >>> next, bryce harper on a fresh healthy start. >> getting my knee going and see what you can do and not do.

. >>> some real basketball, george mason at la salle. let's set the scene. 20 seconds left.arco says i'm like a good may matrede. i got the tip. george mason holds on 59-57. >>> maryland plays its final basketball game on saturday, terps versus the cavs. you can watch the game here on wusa9 at noon. >>> finally tonight, gang, can't count how many times i've sat here in this chair, running a soundbite from an athlete like alex ovechkin and the anchors here say say what? what did he say and then i have to interpret. not easy. in fact, tonight i'm putting derek, jan and topper to the test. it's something we like to call what the heck? can they decipher this? >> garvey he has to thank a lot of staff and for the pitchers the same thing. you have to think what do you throw and garvey have to put it close to the pen and pitching is the same thing. >> first of all, what is up with that dude's nose? i couldn't take my eyes off it. i couldn't decipher it. >> something about pitchers and pitching. >> you have to do something and something and something and pitching. >> someone help me

>> guest: what i do full-time is i teach at george mason university. i'm visiting associate professor there. and at the same time, i also lecture at the smithsonian institution at their campus on the mall. and i am--organized their western heritage program there, bringing on teachers and setting up courses and so on for--for the large audiences that we get--that we get over at the smithsonian's ripley center. c-span: how would you describe your own political views? >> guest: i guess i would describe my own political views as conservative of a--of a sort that is someone who grew up as a progressive, who in graduate school had been of the left, but then became disillusioned with it as a result of what had happened in vietnam and in cambodia after the american withdrawal there. and--and of really kind of reassessing your own deeply held beliefs and beginning to think that perhaps there's a different way to sort of see, a different perspective on all these other kinds of things. it's been a slow, long march for me to the kinds of views and issues that--tha

professor button of george mason university, the black box system, how old is that technology?uest: old. it's dated around 30 years. it gets updated periodically. the problem is on the plane. it sits on the plane -- the moment there is difficulty because it sends out a message for location reasons, that lasts for 2.5 weeks depending on conditions and circumstances. this plane is down in the south indian ocean down 9000 feet. use winter waterthis is like swimming through molasses. it's an old technology. you need to get planes equipped with it and to move forward. host: we are concerned about the black box battery life running out. we have about 13 days left. has there been efforts to expand the battery life beyond that? guest: it's longer than it used to be. they have extended it. it canwhen air france went down, it took two years to find the plane itself. it was not bound by any communication with the black box. host: with the black box technology, there is breakaways as a possible option. are any airlines including breakaway black boxes? guest: not that i know of. host: he is

. >> george mason university public policy professor kenneth discusses the disappearance of malaysian airlines flight 370 and if it could prompt changes in aviation safety. then the president and ceo of women's policy research talks about the gender pay gap. --discussesfrom the the impact of drought on food prices. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. host: good morning. on today's washington journal program, we will be taking a look at aviation tracking and safety issues in the wake of that missing malaysian jet. we are talking about public libraries. reporthe research showed how people engage with the libraries across the country.

they take a opportunity lead, but a former george mason patriot leads beautiful back. that's luke hancock, who transferred from mason to the cardinals. knocking down three. and then there was one, one team from this area, still standing. uva fans, they may have had a heart attack last night. the team is still live after scaring the heck out of us last night. they survived a late scare, tony bennett was freaking out on the inside. you just know it. we're showing you the come back, though, anthony gill, he had 27 points off the bench. joe harris stepped up for the cavs. harris, he was money from the outside in the second half. clutch threes down the stretch. finished with 11 points, virginia advances after a tale of two halves in their win against coastal carolina. >> we weren't playing together. everybody was pointing fingers at halftime. but we decided just play like we have been playing the whole year, it wiloff. >> we definitely worried about the seeding and stuff like that. we came into halftime, we're like, look, it's 0-0. let's go out there and play our game. i fe

and every time, they won't go for it. >> and we know that the about george mason. >> that was really. and now, the only way to move forward is putting the past behind you and the only way to change is the things behind you and the hoyas have let go of the disappointment to not go to the tournament, but if you lose out, at least a shot at the n.i.t. and you know what, right now sh, we have no sound on that right now, but they are going to be facing west virginia at mcdonough arena tonight. i was trying to figure out why they are not at the verizon center tonight, but the circus is in town. >> oh. >> and they are taking a priority over the hoyas in the n.i.t., but they are going to be play playing tonight. >> and you have michigan >>> on our broadcast tonight, turning point. new information about the moment that missing airliner went offcourse, raising new questions about the pilot's intent and whether this disappearance was planned. >>> out of the sky. an awful tragedy in the heart of seattle. a local news helicopter comes crashing down, exploding in flames on the streets below. >>> o

george mason falls to duquesne, 81-69. virginia tech lost to georgia tech 62-a51.h now, d.c. united played their season opener against columbus. united not loving the crew tonight. fans making the trip to d.c. to see this one. they would leave happy. columbus on the attack. working the ball around. josh williams, sliding pass. booting that past bill hami. columbus 1-0 lead. it's 2-0. and this, beautiful shot. won this one 3-0. [ male announcer ] something amazing happens when you combine the coverage and reliability of verizon's 4g lte network with the speed and hd picture quality of 100% fiber-optic fios. you enjoy the best networks in america and now, you also get an incredible deal. sign up for a verizon wireless smartphone and fios quantum triple play before april 19th and save $20 a month for 2 years with no annual contracts required. that's $480 in savings! so hurry, double up & save today. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities getting the best networks for less. at 800.974.6006 tty/v. that's powerful.

whenever george washington plays george mason at home, the outcome has always been one sided. the patriots ever. charles smith is the place to be. joshua morgan in the house taking in the game. gw led by two at halftime. second half they start to pull away. thanks to maurice creek, the senior. knocking down the three bl there. that capped off a 12-0 colonials run. a few minutes later, off the gw miss. one more time. he had a game high 22 points. later in the half the patriots coming back. corey edwards. giving it up to jalen jenkins for the layup. gw, they close this one strong. the backwards tip. he had 13 points. gw topped the patriots 66-58. >> i didn't have the best first half. i knew that. and i went in there and prayed and coach just told me to keep shooting the ball. >> i said his picture on the milk carton has been missing for a while. i prayed too. he is one of the best shatters i ever coached. we were such a good team when we knock down some shots. >> dez wells and maryland taking on clemson. pick it up in the final seconds of regulation. wells going for the game win

our respond is tyler cowen from george mason university and the mercator center. you might know him from his blog, marginal revolution and his recent book the great stagnation and averages over a couple quick comments about the program before we begin. if you have a cell phone just turned it off. feel free if you want to do twittering stuff about this, to do that. we just don't want phones ringing. that we -- who will be time for questions but it will be a formal question and answer. we will intersperse it and we'll have something of the conversation. if you have a question try to spend some time thinking of how to make it as concise as possible because we will break up at about 6:30 for wine and cheese, and we are selling copies of the book outside. megan will scientific if you like what you hear, i recommend you buy them. i'm in favor of people buying books they find interesting. this is a very important economic -- >> me, too. >> so again, thank you for coming. megan, i read the book. i love the book. i thought there were a dozen interesting things in here more

. >>> george mason hosting la salt. don't change that channel.ing stuff from the patriots and explorers. late in the second half, mason nursing a one-point lead. time-out. inbounds passed. ends up in the hands of tyrone garland. spin move. he tags a d for two. lasalle up one. on the next mason possession, byron allen, his jumper no good. but marco with the rebound and putback. had to do on that one. was practicing. 15 for the patriots. they hold on for the win, 59-57 the final. >>> to the verizon center to the d.c. state championship game. boys final featured theodore rose vel. moret, now to the other end of the floor, roosevelt working the inside game. rakim off the glass for two. and roosevelt holds on, 57-53. could use some net sounds. make some crowd sounds. the championship game featuring georgetown visitation and st. john's. st. john's the top seed never trailed. they started to pull away. the forward stepping outside, nailing a three-pointer. st. john's goes on a run, finishes with a 58-42 victory. they're the 2014 state b-ball champs. the

we have the cu, richmond, george washington and george mason. we have st. louis and state.e have saint bonaventure and umass. two of our teams are in philadelphia, st. joe's and lasalle. >> tell us about the brand. graphically it is quite a range. you are no longer in the atlantic. how do you describe the brand? >> our brand is about our people and our places and/or opportunities. we have fabulous people all over. from our president to our high-profile head coaches. we are in 30% of the media markets we cover the eastern seaboard. then the opportunities. we are a national brand. we are a basketball centric league. we want to win national championships. >> talk to me about football. you guys do not have football in your conference. it is an expensive sport to include. what is the thinking beside having football? >> we are basketball-centric. we harbor the thought of football, but when you sponsor football, it is at the highest level. you have other conferences. it can be tremendous. media contracts have been skyrocketing. we want to focus on what we are good at. it is sporti

. >> joining us is a fellow from george mason university. good to have you back on the show. sellers make claims on how good they are for you. ridding your bodies of tox jips. >> is that the case. >> they'll do certain things. they will not relieve you of any toxins, i don't believe. but they will relieve you of money from your wallet. there's no evidence of these kinds of therapies. in many cases some of the juicing diets colonics, procedures that are proposed they can have health impacts. it's a bit of a - i think a con job. i hate to be so blunt. >> let's talk about what you said. toxins. are there tox jips in the muman body. you read about merc uary. can we get rid of those things by switching over to juicing for weeks. >> it's a great question. it's a little misunderstood. people think there's a list of toxins and you can look at the toxins and the body takes them in, through food and the environment. the fact is that almost any substances can be toxic, it's how much you cake of it and how long you are exposed to it. a tiny bit of a chemical is harmless. we injest chemic

larry white from george mason. he's professor of economics at george mason. for those of you who don't know he specializes in monetary theory and is one of the world eschars on the theory of history and money and banking. he's the author "the clash of economic ideas and free banking in britain." in 2008 professor white received a distinguish scholar award at the association for private enterprise education and he's also an adjunct scholar at cato as well as a member of the academic advisory council. very happy to have him here and i'll turn it over to him. >> thank you norbert. i'm going to try to give you kind of a world wind tour through federal reserve history so we have the track record in front of us that we want to evaluate. if you go back to the foundation of the fed, you'll find out that federal reserve doesn't say anything about monetary policy. this issue came up when alan greenspan was visiting the daily show. i believe the title was the crises wasn't my fault. somebody wrote a very good question to john stewart which is to ask alan greenspan, if y

a respondent is tyler how one from george mason university.you might know him from his blog marginal revolution and his recent look that great stagnation and averages over. a quick comment about the program before we begin. if you have a cell phone just turn it off. feel free if you want to do twittering stuff about this to do that and we don't want phones ringing during this. there will be time for audience question. we will and just% and we will have something of a conversation there. if you have a question try to spend some time thinking about how to make it as concise as possible. we will break up at six break up that six-time the 30 for wine and cheese and we we are selling copies of the book outside. megan will sign them. if you like what you hear i recommend you buy them. i'm very much in favor of people buying books that they find interesting. >> me too. >> again thank you for coming. megan i read the book. i loved the book. i thought there were a dozen interesting things, more than that, stories about from all search of things ranging

. >> on the next washington journal, george mason university and eugene stirling talk about the call to expand the earned income tax credit to include childless workers. and the latest on the situation in the ukraine. on washington journal. live at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. >> we do not have a criminal investigation role. we have a vast enforcement role. one of the most critical things, to make sure wall street abides by the rules. have the criminal authority. we have the power to bring the approval of our commission civil actions and civil fraud actions against those who violate the federal securities laws. penalties.ss civil our level of penalties isn't as high as we would like it to be. there is legislation in congress to set higher penalties. you can require those who commit -- and we have the power to bar somebody from the securities industry so they cannot live another day to defraud again. >> mary jo white sunday night at 8:00 on c-span q&a. >> president obama urged congress to raise the federal minimum wage to didn't dollars and $.10 an hour. in the republican address, rob portman

>> from george mason university i appreciate what you are trying to do and the importance. but the problems of policy making the other is a planning problem. could you talk about the role of your organizations so come from the outset we know there was more in the '90s that did a pretty good job to anticipate those problems and secondly with the planning process itself. >> from the retired state department i want to ask about president bush and his commitment to south korea and obama and the vietnam. to maintain 60 or 70 year occupation. is there a parallel strategic rationale for this 60 or 70 year old occupation of iraq? >> we will be kept -- began with the theory to have gone more smoothly we did not have the right people in charge in 2003 but we also didn't have the right organization. with an organization to conduct a theater responsibility and not until the spring of 2004 side by side it was too much for any one person to handle with of budding insurgency you could have the best person you could imagine. but in terms of ambassador crocker in 2003 could things have gone

and randolph may is a professor of law at george mason university who is president and founder of thee state foundation, a free-market oriented think tank. so, vint cerf, let me start with you. how do you explain to the public who doesn't understand it, how much oversight is there right now of the internet? >> well, agia has provided very light oversight, in fact. >> woodruff: what is that. national telecommunications and information agency a portion of the department of commerce. you may have a contract with the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers to manage the domain names of the internet everyone is familiar with and the you merricle internet are ones that people know nothing about but they're like telephone numbers that let you get to destination points in the net. it's functioned since 1998 since the creation of icann has been to oversee the practices by which changes are made to the way in which internet addresses are allocated and domain names assigned, specifically root zones which points to the d ot come and all the things you're familiar. with they've never m

but the question is if you provide counterparts what would you would buy is from the lessons >> george mason university analyst and coordinator. i darr appreciate very much what you are trying to do it and the importance of it i think it underscores to problems one is the policy-making problem the other is the planning can you talk about the role of your organization to better form the policy decisions made at the outset because we do know in the '90s they did a pretty good job to anticipate the problems that arise in iraq and secondly, the process itself >> a.m. from the retired state department. i want to ask about the map president bush and his commitment to south korea and obama and vietnam with the rationale of hitting a 60 or 70 year occupation is there a parallel strategic rationale to maintain the 70 year-old occupation of iraq? >> so if we just had better people in place it would have gone more smoothly? i reject that notion. we did not have the right people in charge 2003 at a political level also not the right organization. with an organization not designed to conduct the irrespon

george mason went to the final four. he picked them thinking they were george washington and he was a truck driver. he still won. florida, florida, right, beats duke in the final. florida is your national champion. >> wow. okay. guys, when we come back, doing business in ireland. it is time for a second look at the emerald isle. first, we'll look at the market reaction to the vote in crimea. believe it or not, stocks are up in moscow. u.s. futures are sharply higher. you are looking at gains close to triple digits from the last time we took a look. heading to break, look at yesterday's winners or losers. this would be friday's. about business internet? ok, how about thirty seconds? at comcast business our internet is fast. up to 5x faster than slow dsl from the phone company. and our phone's better too. sign up for internet and voice and find out how to get four weeks of internet for free. time to make the call. 800-501-6000 comcast business. built for business. they're the days to take care of business.. when possibiliti

george mason defense chose striver involved it from rising to narcotics to come dealing monday honoringeys. >> : if the charges read like something out of a big cry movie. but when you learn the facts and really separate to what's important. usually turns out to be something less dramatic >> : all 26 defendants and a long trial. so these people charged could end up as government witnesses there's no way to know for sure. cooperating could mean shorter sentences for some. becoming a government witness carries with that many issues >> : government has be worry less security in this case the man it becomes known that someone's talking and frankly the men it some players are even charge their some security concerns the government's corn to deal. they're gonna have to worry about security for 45 people willing will be in court on monday and discuss the terms. >> : those being detained will argue for their release that also happen early next week >> : and this mutt page still very much active well behind bars. he or someone on his behalf has been posting. is it does pose came. and you to all

for one thing, todd zwicki who's a scholar at george mason disagreed about the 2005 reform, i was against it precisely because of that, he was for it. he had said you'll see the rate of bankruptcy drop, and he was right and i was wrong. i think we can infer there were people who didn't need to declare bankruptcy who were, and yet most people could use it. by far. percentages -- many more people don't use it when they could than do use it when they shouldn't. in general, we focus a lot on abuse. we focus a lot on moral hazard because it really ticks off a teach -- and correctly, right? bernie madoff, we should be really angry at him. he did something really terrible. but the optimal level of abuse is not zero. you tend to think, you talk to banks, right? well, they don't really say this, but it is sort of widely known in the banking industry that they just tolerate some level of embezzlement because the optimal amount of reduction is not 100%. getting that last 10% is so much more expensive than getting the first 90%. it's like your immune system, you don't want an immune system that attac

buckley or the federalist society or the institution for humane studies at george mason university provide internships and seminars for budding conservative academics and future jurists, and the list goes on with the support of foundations with many familiar names. while this movement to build a core of young ideological, dependable lawyers, journalists, congressional staff and voters has been a central priority of right, very few social scientists have studied the effort to mobilize these students or to examine just how these students experience their undergraduate lives in the first place. and this has left us in the odd situation of not knowing if the accusations leveled against universities resonate with the students on whose behalf they're made, nor do we know much of anything else about these students, sup as when and how -- such as when and how do they become conservative, what are their political turning points before end during college? what are the issues that they care about, and how do these differ from their elders be they do? who do conservative students know in the world of

i am a crimean scholar at george mason. i want to address some issues. i spoke with the leader of the crimea movement. he spoke with president putin this month. putin wanted to talk to him and he invited him to meet in moscow. they spoke on the phone. putin asked him his support on annexation. he told them that they always supported ukrainian territory. this annexation was against the budapest agreement of 1994. when he came back, he said everything was planned. this is just my opinion. you guys are talking about the soldiers. there were 25,000 soldiers together in sevastopol. those green men are not my worries. my worries are that i have been in crimea for the last will be years -- 12 years and i have seen those people who are called russian unity and other groups. they have been training against the enemy for the last when 20 years. the pro-russian guys are also my friends. these guys are local people. those are the scariest ones. they just tortured and killed crimean tartare. kidnap someone else. they killed a member of the opposition party. iny're wa

>> from george mason university i appreciate what you are trying to do and the importance. but the problems of policy making the other is a planning problem. could you talk about the role of your organizations so come from the outset we know there was more in the '90s that did a pretty good job to anticipate those problems and secondly with the planning process itself. >> from the retired state department i want to ask about president bush and his commitment to south korea and obama and the vietnam. to maintain 60 or 70 year occupation. is there a parallel strategic rationale for this 60 or 70 year old occupation of iraq? >> we will be kept -- began with the theory to have gone more smoothly we did not have the right people in charge in 2003 but we also didn't have the right organization. with an organization to conduct a theater responsibility and not until the spring of 2004 side by side it was too much for any one person to handle with of budding insurgency you could have the best person you could imagine. but in terms of ambassador crocker in 2003 could things have gone

jon: with more on the search for the missing jetliner, let's bring in kenneth button, george mason university center for emergency operations and logistics. you have testified before congress about air transportation issues. you like so many of us are vitally interested in this case. based, on what we know now, no sign of this plane has, has turned up yet, what is the working theory? >> i don't think there is a working theory. i think of a number of theories. some more possible than others but at the moment we really have no idea where this plane is. this is almost a unique situation. to lose an aircraft of this size with its technology on a normal commercial flight it is extremely unusual. as i say, almost unique and i think it is going to be very challenging finding it. jon: there have been cockpit fires before that have brought down airliners. the swissair crash off newfoundland is one example. certainly possible that the pilot said good night. all of sudden, finds smoke in the cockpit or some kind averaging fire, turns left to try to find a friendly airport and is just over come by smoke

and george mason they were down in washington and won the right to go to regionals and that was sort. what is it about march madness, though, that it's a different kind of animal when you get into this tournament? >> i think it's a renaissance. you start over. it's a rebirth. refreshing. you fight all year to get to that position, to be off the bubble and be this the tournament. and now everybody's watching and i think every kid who starts dribbling in the backyard or school yard. some day he wants to be in a position where he takes that shot or makes that free-throw. >> there's always a cinderella team who you didn't expect to be there and you say, why not. >> yeah. even if they're names to know, baylor comes to mind. they struggle and all of a sudden they're feeling pretty good. connecticut was one of those that had gotten a run late. >> a lot of people who love march madness don't necessarily watch the nba. what is it that makes it special? there seems to be like a unique passion that they bring to the game. >> my thing is they have a connection. they have family or friends that w

i'm crimea jamestown foundation and scholar school for conflict resolution at george mason. i just wanted to address -- [inaudible] i apologize for that my voice. i spoke with the leader of the crimean national movement in crimea and he spoke with president putin on the 12th of this month because putin wanted to talk to him and he invited him to to moscow and they spoke on the phone putin asked him his support for the annexation and everything and he told him that they always supported ukrainian territorial integrity and this, annexation that he was planning was against budapest agreement of 1994. he came back and he told the crimean tatar people that everything was planned and this is my opinion now, not his but mine. you are talking about the soldiers. first of all, there were like 25,000 soldiers in, together in sevanstapol you but those green men are not my worries. my worry is i have been in crimea last 12 years and interviewing not only crimean tatars, who are called the russian unity and other groups like that. they have been training for this physician mythical enemy

first is helen, it refers of law at george mason university where she researches and writes about family law and the intersection of family law and religion. --a practicing lawyer, she she drafted a speech in many leading supreme court cases on behalf of the general counsel for the u.s. conference of catholic bishops and later worked for the fcb's secretary for pro-life activities. she chaired a commission and the archdiocese and is an advisor to the 16th pontifical council and has served as a consultant. title duncan until recently -- workduncan, his included representing hobby lobby and the green family. he is now in private practice pursuing these sorts of cases. previously, duncan served as louisiana solicitor general. he argued numerous appeals in state and federal courts including the u.s. of print court. he was an assistant professor at the diverse of mississippi school of law where he taught courts on constitutional law and free speech. he was assistant solicitor general and the texas attorney -- from 1992. of the eleanor davis professor of law emeritus at the george washington u

. >> i am from george mason university.one of the implications of the arab spring is the de-evolution of what we called al qaeda to local interest. that is not necessarily a good thing. there are wars and sectarianism. the way we frame the issue is quite complex. my question is, we tend to use a shorthand with respect to al qaeda. calling every group with a similar agenda al qaeda. does that undercut our own interests? what exactly is al qaeda? groups thatolent are not al qaeda? >> you're absolutely right. there is al qaeda court, bin laden. those that are around the core of al qaeda in south asia. there are those crews in the arabian peninsula that are clearly affiliated. there are other elements in syria taking orders from al qaeda core. a lot of other groups throughout the region that may have an ideological affinity, but have not sworn -- do not follow the directional guidance. it is a loose confederation of groups. it has metastasized. which makes it all the more challenging. a lot of these groups have local agendas an

george's. how about mason now? the bank is open on sunday as allen says i think so.mason up in this thing and then we had a lot of gw3s here and they all came from this player, putting g-mason up the creek. down the stretch with a couple of them as gw holds on to win66-58. >>> 87-48 over virginia tech for the women's game. 20 points, 12 boards after she had her jersey retired, finishing second all time in points and rebounds behind crystal langhorn. >>> here is a good omen. no nat's starting pitcher has given up a run this spring. that's important. i know it's spring and i know these games don't really count, but starting pitching is where the nats are better than most and to see them hurling this well already, that's a positive sign. let's get out to the era today. matt williams undefeated. do you think that he will go 165-0 as a manager? i don't think so. wilson ramos showed up. he had a nice day with two hits on the day. doug fister won 14 games a year ago, two innings pitched. first run by a starter all spring long. adam laroach, well the baseball bats, they come

paul hewitt is the men's basketball coach at george mason university. paul, good to see you, sir. upheld and this decision stands. what would that ruling potentially mean for college athletics in this country? >> well, first, let me congratulate you on the birth of your son. and hopefully he'll be a student athlete someplace. >> thank you, paul. >> there are a lot of steps to go before we really get to the bottom of what it would mean. i have some concerns about what would happen to the consequences of this. i'm a fan of the athletic scholarship and a fan of the ncaa. but i think there are some steps that the ncaa needs to take moving forward to really make people understand, yes, there needs to be some things done to improve the conditions of the student athletes. but i think you'd be surprised if you really got down to it, it's really not much to do. just have to stop being stubborn and make some concessions. >> this is how the ncaa responded in part to that ruling. they say, quote, while improvements need to be made, we do not need to completely throw away a system that has hel

. >> on the next washington journal, after the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370 george mason university professor kenneth button will talk about modernizing aircraft tracking systems. then the inconstitute for wimp's policy rye search president will talk about the report about the wage gap between men and women. and later a look at food prices and the impact of droughts like the one in california. we'll be joined by richard volp with the usda economic research service. washington journal with your calls, tweets and facebook comments every morning on c-span. >> at the end of the day the economy is going to continue to need enormous monetary stimulus, and i think the fed will not be raising rates for quite some time. i'm optimistic the u.s. economy is going to accelerate. one of the core dimensions is the fact that last year the u.s. economy grew 1.9% with fiscal drags from higher taxes and government spending cuts reducing growth by 1.3 percentage points. so without that fiscal tightening the u.s. economy would have been growing over 3%. as you know, cbos do not make policy re

i'm from george mason university. one of the applications of the arab spring is a devolution of what we used to call al-qaeda to local interest. and that's not necessarily a good thing. there's a lot of civil war, sectarianism. the way we frame the kind of concept going on in the region is quite complex. so my question is, we tend to use the shorthand with respect to al-qaeda calling every group that has a salafist agenda al-qaeda. doesn't that undercut our own interests? what exactly is al-qaeda? and aren't there violent solipsistic groups, many of them go back hundreds of years that are not al-qaeda -- salafist. >> you are absolutely right. there's al-qaeda core, bin laden and it's a weary. and those that around the core of al-qaeda in south asia. there are those groups like al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula better clarity affiliated, the head of al-qaeda in the reagan peninsula is the number two al-qaeda core in al-qaeda central. there are other elements like al-nusra that is in serious that is taking their orders

we have a senior research fellow from the george mason university. mr.ing, if i could begin with you, what is the earned income tax credit? what does president obama want to do? >> it is a wage subsidy for most individuals. it is a certain percentage of income earned in a job that the government will refund to people . it is actually a cash payment, and for others it can be a tax reduction. the president's proposal tries to expand a part of the earned that goes toedit single workers. those with the largest number of earned income tax credits have wage subsidies. >> this is what the president would like to do according to whitehouse.gov, increase the credit to 1000. talk about that little bit. guest: the married person, the single head of household, it is up to $7,000 -- several thousand dollars. host: for childless adults? guest: there are issues of low income, males and females, some who do not have access to these special systems and often live with the families who do have access. host: a bit more detail -- increased income level making credit availab

george mason university had a study where they actually interviewed the -- several hundred of the tv meteorological people. 63% of them said that if global warming is taking place, it's from national -- natural causes, not from global warming. polar bears -- now, everyone's concerns about polar bears. i know my good friend and -- from california gave me a polar bear. it's my favorite coffee cup. i use it all the time. but between the 1950's and 1960's, the number of polar bears that were wandering around out there was between 5,000 and 10,000. today it's between 15,000 and 25,000. the threats, a lot of times when people can't win an argument, then they threat. pass this's james hansen said this is high crimes - -- snas na scientist james hansen said this is high crimes. and others said this is high treason. in 2006, the echo magazine called for nuremberg-style trials for skeptics. september 27 of 2007, virginia tech scientist skeptical of global warming loses his job after a clash with the governor. quote -- "i was told i could not speak in public." the weather channel, heidi cullen

>> how about mary barra and general motors this morning not to be confused with george mason other gmis morning. >> charitable trust owns gm. it has a lot of headline risk that will be forgotten one day. but it's no a-10. it is no amber road. it is a company that makes car. wow, is that boring. >> there are the bells and you are watching them and the s&p 500 at the cnbc real time exchange as we mentioned here at the big board a-10 networks an application networking company celebrating its ipo today. and up at the nasdaq also celebrating its ipo as we mentioned border free that's a company that lets u.s. retailers sell to customers overseas. we can talk a little bit of retail. >> i am not being facetious, they all have good stories, okay? a lot of them are not profitable. i'm saying that fireeye which was the best security play could not withstand that unlocking of shares. we careful. >> small floats, too, to worry about. you get the secondaries coming down. >> these are slimmer deals. they are slimmer deals. we saw slimmer deals in 2000. no one wants to hear 2000. no one ever wants to

. >> so that reporter you saw there, kayla bottom going out there to george mason university and he saidied otherwise and our generation, he says, are getting hit with the don't bully and be bossy and all that and all of on these scandals are bullying. and what about obamacare celebrating its fourth birthday today? this is what he thinks about that. >> students took a look at that board and said they were very disappointed with what's going on, that seeing all of those scandals laid out brings into light the fact that the hope and change that was promised to my generation really has been, you know, anything but that. they're seeing the talking points. they're seeing the reality that this is not a good plan for our generation. that this is something that we are very concerned about. >> interesting there from caleb. when you hit the campus, it's interesting, take a look at this. we were shocked to see this. john caught this and i agree. look at those side burns. >> whew. >> and this is what's going on in america, 1969 all over again. >> no, it's like 1865. >> it's the same thing if you hea