chris chambers journalism professor at georgetown university. thank you for coming and enlightening and. thank you this is not the first time cnn has come under fire in recent months for editorial decision is the network mates meanwhile the news program continues to slip in the ratings are due care and barney was that those of slipping ratings and what cnn welcome to reverse the trend cnn of having their worst year ever. during an off election year. most news organizations will see their brains to creak a bit iffy in and are currently found the below with their ratings have dropped to forty eight percent since november of last year for the imported demographic of twenty five to fifty four year olds. these ratings have decreased fifty nine percent. taking a look at their competitors and as nbc has topped forty five percent since november two thousand twelveth and fifty two percent for the twenty five to fifty four year old demographic. the fox news channel always on eighteen percent drop in viewership since last november and twenty five to fifty

really the case and joining me now for more is christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university and christopher thank you so much for joining me now i want to get your opinion on this the case with of the tali churkin and your opinion was it simply an edit for time or a case of censorship it looks like censorship to me because yes when you're taping you do edit for time there are things that get trimmed every media outlet especially in visual media a visual medium like television cable television satellite does that but again it is for form it is to pare down excesses depair down repetitiveness you do not go to what might be the lead of the story and it looks like the meat the lead the thesis of the story was affected by this and you know i think that it shows you how sloppy c.n.n. has gotten in the last few years i mean since the beginning of the jeff zucker administration there at c.n.n. this is this is it's sloppiness to che's over to censorship i don't know if it was intentional but it's so sloppy that it seems that way now is something like this what you consider an isolate

really the case and joining me now for more is christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university and christopher thank you so much for joining me now i want to get your opinion on this the case with of the tali churkin and your opinion was it simply an edit for time or a case of censorship it looks like censorship to me because yes when you're taping you do edit for time there are things that get trimmed every media outlet especially in visual media a visual medium like television cable television satellite does that but again it is for form it is to pare down access is the pared down repetitiveness you do not go to what might be the lead of the story and it looks like the meat the lead the thesis of the story was affected by this and you know i think that it shows you how sloppy c.n.n. has gotten in the last few years i mean since the beginning of the jeff zucker administration there at c.n.n. this is this is sloppiness to che's over to censorship i don't know if it was intentional but it's so sloppy that it seems that way now it's something like this what you consider an isolat

kevin donovan, the director of the center for clinical bioethics for georgetown university.come. clearly a lot of controversy on this topic because some might question when you're sick and so stressed and you've just had this very traumatic injury, how objective can you really be in making a decision that you can never reverse? >> that's an extent question. there are two things that probably apply here. the first is the patient's autonomy. people have a right to decide about their own medical care. that's enshrined both in the law and bioethics, but at the same time informed consent is another concept equally important and for informed consent to occur you have to understand the complete facts of the case and the possible prognosis and how do you decide that in a matter of a few minutes when they wake you up from the deep 3 on the ventilator and ask you if you want -- deep sleep on the ventilator and ask you if you want to live that way? >> should the law be changed? >> it's not a matter of law as much as prudence. did this man have enough time to understand what was being a

treatment could be spending a lot of time traveling from her home in virginia to med star georgetown universityospital. >> you can't help what happens to you in life. dealing with the problem when it happens. >> fortunately for gentzler she was able to treat her breast cancer in just one visit to the hospital using a new procedure called intraoperative radiation therapy or iort. >> one dose of radiation therapy that are l replace six weeks of breast radiation. >> georgetown's chief of breast surgery says iort is given in the operating room right after the tumor is removed. a beam of radiation is centered specifically on the site where the tumor was found for 20 minutes. penetrating one centimeter deep into the tissue. >> people are working and busy in their lives and it is tiring to go to a radiation place every day for six weeks. so this actually replaces that six-week treatment so when they wake up they are all done and don't need any more radiation. >> but iort is not for all breast cancer patients. >> it is only available to patients with small tumors and tumors less than two centimeters in

an a -- she's on the 2012 hot shot directors emerging to watch, she's also graduated from georgetown university law center and practicing attorney and abc television networks before starting her television career and next is john. i met john about 10 years ago when he was starting off and had this crazy idea of operating a training center for public defenders and he did. he's no now the president and founder and one of the contributors to gideon's army, he's from john marshall law school where he teaches law and criminal procedure. he was in the post katrina and new orleans center. he trained people in the film. he received an advocacy fellowship and named a public interest fellow by harvard law school. next we have maurice call well. he was convicted in the housing project here in san francisco. there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime yet he was still convicted based on the false testimony of a single neighbor. he was sentence to life behind bars. in prison mr. colwell contacted the center for help and located two witnesses who saw the murder and said mr. colwell was not involv

mark is an orthopedic surgeon at med star georgetown university hospital.says that traditionally doctors operate through the back of the hip or the posterior. a method that requires them to cut through large muscles leading to more pain and a longer recovery time. but with the anterior approach, there is no cutting of muscle. >> it is not 100% pain-free. it is still a hip replacement. what we found is in early period it is much easier in terms of the ability to get in and out of bed and walk. >> studies show the benefits for a patient is significant. the doctor says he studied 150 cases. those who had surgeries with the anterior approach typically got out of the hospital a day sooner. >> i was walking the night of may surgery. >> elliott says that he was back on the playing field just a few weeks later. >> you don't feel that -- the pain from the arthritis, the bone on bone. you don't feel that, you are very happy. >> doreen gentzler, news4. >> coming up, a look at the new exhibit that just might put you >> welcome back. we are taking a look at prince georg

he's a director of the initiative on catholic social thought and public life at georgetown university. >> who talks about the poor? every year the census bureau comes out with the figures, and they are sad figures. we're doing worse. the silence is deafening. the white house doesn't talk about it, the congress doesn't talk about it. >> for over 20 years carr was a principle adviser on social justice for the u.s. conference of catholic bishops. he has worked, not always successfully, to encourage washington policymakers to consider traditional catholic social values in their decision making. >> washington has become a place driven by money and power. and the poor don't have money by definition, and they don't have a lot of power. the idea that if you have to cut $40 billion from the agriculture budget, you would cut all $40 billion for food stamps and nothing from affluent cotton farmers or rice farmers. cooperate they go without so mothers could feed their family? so it's not a close call. >> what is not a close call is the growing income gap separating the wealthy from the rest. >> t

first lady, laura bush and hillary clinton shared a meeting of american afghan women over at georgetown university. the women who were there were unanimous in wanting the united states there. they were unanimous in saying that over the last 12 years, afghanistan has made such an incredible amount of progress for young people, for women. it's no longer the country we went into three or or that was 3 or four years ago. the united states has a national responsibility to help those people who we have helped this far. if we leave now, we would be abandoning and leaving a security vacuum that would come back to haunt us. >> thanks. that brings us to the ends of "inside story." in washington, i am ray suarez.

he has taught at stanford law school, georgetown university law center, and george mason university law school. thank you all for joining us. your complete written testimony will be made part of the record. you each have five minutes. about five minutes for any opening remarks that you would like to make. mr. bankston, please go ahead. >> chairman franken, ranking member flake, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on behalf of the center for democracy and technology, a non-profit public interest organization dedicated to keeping the internet open, innovative, and free. i and the broad coalition of internet companies and advocates that cdp brought together this summer to press for greater surveillance transparency are grateful to chairman franken and senator heller for introducing the surveillance transparency act, a bill that would allow companies and require the government to publish basic statistics about how the government is using its national security surveillance authorities. particularly in the wake of recent revelations about the nsa's survei

first lady, laura bush and hillary clinton shared a meeting of american afghan women over at georgetown university. the women who were there were unanimous in wanting the united states there. they were unanimous in saying that over the last 12 years, afghanistan has made such an incredible amount of progress for young people, for women. it's no longer the country we went into three or or that was 3 or four years ago. the united states has a national responsibility to help those people who we have helped this far. if we leave now, we would be abandoning and leaving a security vacuum that would come back to haunt us. >> thanks. that brings us to the ends of "inside story." in washington, i am ray suarez. >>> welcome to al jazeera america, i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. >>> this only serves to increase tension in the region. >> the u.s. condemns china's claim of a defense zone in the islands around japan. >>> winter weather could make thanksgiving getting away dangerous. >>> by plane, train, or automobile, millions of americans were traveling

they also spoke at this event held at georgetown university last week. it's 35 minutes. >> well, it's my pleasure as well to be able to welcome secretary clinton and mrs. bush back to georgetown and hear for this conversation this morning. no one can question the commitment of either of you. i remember firsthand secretary clinton when you were first lady at the end of the '90s calling the world's attention to the abuses the taliban were perpetrating and how critical the afghan women were. and i remember so well, mrs. bush, when the military engagement called by your husband after 911 and you took the role of the radio address and told the world that the role of afghan women would be important to building their country. so you've heard a lot this morning. we're at a crossroads. the women have made enormous progress. they are very worried their progress may be reversed. there are important events

. >> reporter: the doctor from georgetown university hospital and his team lifted the retina and carefully placed the telescope inside. this will magnify whatever ann wants to see and that image will reflect to the back of the eye. >> so the idea of the telescope is to magnify the view so much that that blind spot becomes much smaller and they can make out the majority of someone's face or the majority of what's on the tv screen. that type of thing. >> you focus for about 20 seconds. now i see a b. and a t.. >> reporter: the surgery is just the beginning. for the next few months, ann has to train her eye muscles to use the bionic eye. learning how to focus on objects. she has these letters set up around the house to practice her new vision. >> it's not an ever night thing. -- an overnight thing. it's going to be difficult which i know but it's something that i wanted to do. >> reporter: and an avid golfer she still tries to hit the links but with much difficulty. as she walks the dogs with her daughter, ann keeps her main focus on her overall goal. >> i'll be able to see the golf ball clea

middle east institute at the national university of singapore and he's a professor emeritus at georgetown university also in washington we have gareth porter he's an investigative journalist and author of the upcoming book manufactured crisis and in paris we cross to emanuel to he is the president of the institute for perspective and security in europe originally cross-talk rose in fact i mean you can jump in anytime you want to go to you first weigh in on the blame game who's at fault here because we were told right at the weekend there's going to be an agreement and then i'll go to emmanuel and then we also are told the french you know threw in the monkey wrench what you're reading well i think we have two problems not just one clearly the government of france was involved in an effort to throw a monkey wrench into the talks on saturday apparently after the french foreign minister had signed off on a unified text for presentation to iran he then went on radio.

georgetown university law professor thomas l. krattenmaker. standard oil trust was formed in 1882, and that led to widespread public concern. and it was that public reaction to the trusts that led to the passage of the sherman act in 1890. the sherman act made it illegal for any one firm to obtain a monopoly. that is, to get complete control over the production of all the goods in one market. and secondly, the sherman act made it illegal for firms to get together and agree on the way in which they would compete. for example, by setting prices or dividing markets or determining which customers they would deal with. the sherman act was one of only several choices that could have been made in 1890. congress could have chosen to nationalize the trusts. it could have chosen to set up a large government department to oversee the behavior of the trusts or even to run the trusts in cooperation with private enterpre. and those are devices that are widely adopted in other countries around the world. instead, what they did is they harkened back to the am

middle east institute at the national university of singapore and he's a professor emeritus at georgetown university also in washington we have gareth porter he's an investigative journalist and author of the upcoming book manufactured crisis and in paris we cross to emanuel to he is the president of the institute for perspective and security in europe originally cross in fact i mean you can jump in anytime you want to go to you first weigh in on the blame game who is at fault here because we were told right at the weekend there's going to be an agreement and then i'll go to emanuel and then we also are told the french you know threw in the monkey wrench what you're reading. well i think we have two problems not just one clearly the government of france was involved in an effort to throw a monkey wrench into the talks on saturday apparently after the the french foreign minister had signed off on a unified text for presentation to iran he then went on radio and gave this interview in which he referred to a con game talked about these two issues and said that he was not. satisfied with the text in reg

middle east institute at the national university of singapore and he's a professor emeritus at georgetown university also in washington we have gareth porter he's an investigative journalist and author of the upcoming book manufactured crisis and in paris we cross to emanuel to he is the president of the institute for perspective and security in europe originally in fact i mean you can jump in anytime you want to go to you first weigh in on the blame game who is at fault here because we were told right at the weekend there's going to be an agreement and then i'll go to emanuel and then we all who are told the french you know threw in the monkey wrench what you're reading. well i think we have two problems not just one clearly the government of france was involved in an effort to throw a monkey wrench into the talks on saturday apparently after the the french foreign minister had signed off on a unified text for presentation to iran he then went on radio and gave this interview in which he referred to a con game talked about these two issues and said that he was not. satisfied with the text in regard

. >> reporter: the doctor of medstar georgetown university and his team lifted up the retina and carefully placed that telescope inside. this will magnify whatever she wants to see. and that image will reflect to the back of the eye. >> so the idea of the telescope is to magnify the view so much and that the blind spot will become much smaller as they could make out the majority of someone's face and the majority of the tv screen that type of thing. >> but you can focus on it, for about 20 seconds. now, i can see a b and a t. >> reporter: the surgery is just the beginning. for the next few months, she has to train her eye muscles to use the bionic eye, learning how to focus on the objects. she has these letters that are set up around the house to practice the new vision. >> it happens overnight. and it is going to be difficult, which i know. but it's something that i wanted to do. >> reporter: an avid golfer who still tries to hit the links, but with a much more difficulty as she walks the dogs with her daughter and keeps the main focus on the overall goal. >> and we will ever be able to s

professor you see shane who teaches international affairs at georgetown university explains that lieberman is just one example that easy. let's get the politicians are treated in modern society the politicians are under scrutiny. the very essence of politics has been one of my criminalize in some ways and so the last of the issues here pertaining to the legality of the system and the questions of ethics how much ethics in politics or suspicion can be brought to bear on the life of a politician. it's part and parcel of the discussion a more active society which deviates from the generally choose to do more to the most i would call a comment. no was common denominator. it's about debunking the political system. and it's about to force discreetly as you said politicians but everybody including the media which is in what they can get the toilet got to me don't select mexico will get whom this is like and it will go in the next doll will be the next eruption the nations and of course when you have said foreign minister michel of the crime is to be zero in august. looking into wild display syste

a georgetown university in washington dc and carrion boring rte the dancing phenomenon that miley cyrus could on the map or did she. parking was all anyone canalk about after the mtv made video music awards but the ninety s when cyrus is famous and mean that they missed is that of step with reality are due course on engineer david explains it was the shape that shook the world. miley cyrus performed at red's garnered twenty four hour news coverage. it was the raunchy performance that still has people shaking their heads on other body parts at twenty year old miley cyrus. working with student working tongue lashing scantily clad elephant. it was a provocative it was shocking it was so shock it encroached on the dvd shortly after the performance to maryland high school decided to clean air rules just a little bit more. taking students and their parents sign a contract in order to attend this year's homecoming dance. and britney named as the full breakdown of the aisle lined pants pants that list now including working. but god knows you're a spokesperson for the county school district says

have to pay for it the moment they walk on campus and in many cases even years after that georgetown university in washington d.c. and perry and boring. well it's a dancing phenomenon that miley cyrus put on the map or did she talking was all anyone could talk about after the m.t.v. video music awards but the idea that cyrus is famous and made that famous is out of step with reality archie correspondent david explains. it was the shake that shook the world the miley cyrus performance that for days garnered twenty four hour news coverage it was the wrong chief performance that still has people shaking their heads among other body parts twenty year old miley cyrus twerking the twisting torquing tongue flashing scantily clad elephant it was provocative it was shocking it was pro shocking pro shock it if indeed shortly after the performance to maryland high schools decided to tighten their rules just a little bit more making students and their parents sign a contract in order to attend this year's homecoming dance and written in ink is the full breakdown of the outlaw dance moves that list now incl

every year, we get a lot of help from the nurses at georgetown university hospital. rt to collect 7200 cans of food is going strong. in the lobby at med star georgetown hospital, these nurses are setting the table. >> running out of room. >> these are the final hours of their campaign to collect 7200 cans of food in 72 hours. >> i'm kind of impressed with how many healthy things we collected for thanksgiving. it's exciting. >> for three days, the donations have been pouring in. >> a lot of vegetables, things complete the meal for everyone. >> just about everything except the turkey. the cans are collected here. these came from the e.r. >> we see some of these families the food is going toward. this is a way for us to help them. >> this year, they use their own gift card from the hospital to buy food. >> it's a $75 gift card to giant and we took one and donated it back to the cause. >> this woman brought cans with her husband. >> we knew we had to come today for my husband's doctor appointment so we thought we would bring a few cans. >> they started the campaign more t

. >> but she also apparently spoke to a father confessor at georgetown university and mentioned she was having suicidal feelings about the assassination but decided that would not be the way to go. >> and with children? >> and with children. >> so we're going to close with jaclyn kennedy's years one last time. >> once in the white house, i felt i could get out. i can't tell you how oppressive with the strain of the white house can be. i could go out -- jack would see it was getting me down. he would send me away. he would say why don't you go to new york, go see your sister in italy, then he sent me to greece which was for a sad reason this year. but he thought i was getting depressed after losing patrick. he would say, i can go out, i can go to the restaurant in new york and walk down a street and look at an antique shot or go to a nightclub. i used to think -- inused to worry about going into the white house. but then you find out that it was really the happiest time in my life. >> i used to worry but then i find out they were the happiest years of my life. >> i think that was january

georgetown university philosophy professor regularly contributes to the site. why?ture the soulf libertarianism. what they caand should d is embrace the concept of social justice. john: what does the phrase even mean? i am for social justice. >> right. john: for a lot of people it does not mean anything. itust means socialism. there is a real meaning. course of institutions that you expect other people to live by. john: laws, property rights, family rules come anything like that, one of the tests of those institutions should be that you expect when people live and abide by them attend to produce good consequences for everybody. you can show whher you care about this by asking a queion like this. imagine that marxists were right. imagine there were a disaster, they lt the overall majority people destitute. would you still advocate markets? i think most libertarians would say i would at least have some reservations. the fact that they work matters in the justification. if you think that the new advocate whether you know not whathilosophers are calling the social justi

georgetown university philosophy professor regularly contributes to the site. why?ture the soul of libertarianism. what they can and should do is embrace theonceptf social justice. john: what does the phrase even mean? i am for social justice. >> right. john: for a lot of people it does not meannything. it just means socialism. there is a real meaning. course of institutions that you expect other people to live by. john: laws, property rights, family rules come anything like that, one of the tests of those institutions should be that you expect when people live and abide by them attend to produce goodonsequences for everybody. you can show whether you care about this by asking a question like this. imagine that marxists were right. imagine there were a disaster, they left the overall majority of people destitute. would you still advocate markets? i think most libertarians would say i would at least have some reservations. the fact that they work matters in the justification. if you think that the new advocate whether you know not what philosophers are calling the so

i'm will trainer, and it's my pleasure to welcome you to georgetown university law center.ay marks the second discussion of the law school's three-part series on the past, present and future of surveillance and foreign intelligence gathering in the united states. >> we're being monitored. [laughter] >> in october we convened former members and key staffers from the church committee hearings and looked at the origins of the foreign intelligence surveil answer act -- surveillance act. of today we're going to be focused on current intelligence-gathering practices. we'll be considering bills currently before congress that would reform the foreign intelligence surveillance court and alterations to the foreign intelligence surveillance act as well as cases currently working their way through the court. our purpose in convening the program today is to move the conversation forward and to think about what framework and principles should guide us as we look to the future. and we're now, i think, as all of us recognize at a critical juncture. technology is rapidly evolving, it promis

afghanistan are christine fair, assistant professor at the center for peace and security studies at georgetown universityshe served as a political officer to the united nations assistance mission to afghanistan in kabul. also joining us from washington, d.c. is pj clark former assistant secretary of state. great to have you both with us. the u.s. and the afghanistan government met on talks of what happens after 2014. and president obama agreed to apologize for mistakes made during the war as a condition for american troops to keep operating there over the next decade. but then we say susan rice say there was no apology. >> there is not a need for the united states to apologize to afghanistan. quite the contrary. that is not on the table. >> what is going on here, pj? >> i think it's the art of diplomacy, antonio. certainly as we move towards the [ inaudible ] later in the week that is set to potentially ratify the agreement and perhaps cite understandings, what the afghans are looking for are some expression that the united states appreciates the burden that the war of the last 12 years has meant on the

we are getting a lot of help, as usual, from the nurses of med star georgetown university hospital.y are collecting cans. if you would like to help, bring your donations to the verizon center on monday from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. or you can donate from the warmth of your home org on to www.nbcwashington.com. >> of course, pat is always down there before sun up. she's going to have to bundle up. we have training for that cold month, right, doug? >> that's right. temperatures are going to fall late in the afternoon. sunday, brutal cold. it's not the case out there tonight. the evening planner, if you are going out and about, cloudy. 55 at 7:00 dropping to 47 by 11:00. we'll call it cool. once again, the cold air waits until tomorrow afternoon. storm team 4 radar showing shower activity toward winchester. also, around the charlestown area and down toward the south. waldorf, reporting rain. it will move out. most of it is on the lighter side. le let's talk about tomorrow. if you have events, they should be nice. the st. jude's walk should be noon tomorrow. here we are, take a look at th

it's my pleasure to welcome you to georgetown university law center.ks the second discussion of the law schools three-part series on the past, present and future of surveillance and foreign intelligence gathering in the united states. in october we can being former members of key staffers from the church committee hearings and looked at the origins of the it surveillance intelligence act. today we are focusing on current bills currently before congress that would reform the foreign intelligence surveillance court and alterations for the foreign intelligence surveillance act as well as cases currently working their way through the courts. our purpose and meaning the program today's move the conversation forward and to think about what framework and principles should guide us as we look to the future. we are now as all of us recognize attic critical juncture. technology is rapidly evolving and it comes as tremendous benefits that makes us more efficient. it creates the opportunity for growth and new discoveries. it offers new ways of connecting people, t

a professor of government and public policy at georgetown university. >> thank you. >> and our election coverage is just getting started. voters aren't just choosing leaders later we will take a look at the issues on the ballot. and we will also find out the billionaire coke brothers have taken a burglar interest in a small town election in iowa. you can also find complete coverage at aljazeera.com, we also have a live blog and the very latest on the voting and the results as soon as they come in. hopes for peace in syria appear to be dashed or at least delayed for now. diplomats fail to agree to bring both sides to the table, still, u.n. envoy says he is striving to have a conference before the end of the year, meantime, in syria, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, a new report says nearly 9.5 million people living in the war torn country need help. that's 40% of the population, 6 1/2 million syrians are currently homeless. 2 million people have left the country, and 4 1/2 million more are internally displaced. ericawood has more. the refugees are seeking shelter else