harvard had no right to get around it. and they should comply even before the supreme court issued a ruling and they had to contact the university's counsel and the president, mr. larry summers, onthey -- mr. summers agreed that the military should have full and equal access before even the supreme court ruled. but after you had denied equal access. isn't that right? >> senator sessions, we had gone back and done exactly what the department of defense had asked us to do prior to the time that the supreme court ruled. we had done it -- >> wait a minute. you asked them what they asked you to do, after the third circuit ruled, you denied them access, they had to insist and demand that they have equal access because the law was still in effect, you did not agree to that, you had reversed that policy and the president of the university overruled your decision, according to the internal dod documents. they say that president summers agreed to reverse the policy, the dean remains opposed. >> senator sessions, larry summers and i

at harvard while she was dean of the harvard law school of limiting the access that military recruiters had to law students. how far did he get? >> well, i think he may have scored some points just partly because he was so persistent in trying to make it clear that he believes that she actually violated a congressional statute. the solomon amendment . after a federal appellate court had made a ruling finding that the statute was unconstitutional, elena kagan went and returned to harvard's prior policy of not granting the military equal access. she tried to explain that she really wasn't violating the statute, that she returned to a policy that she believed the department of defense had okayed basically for a number of years before that court challenge. >> woodruff: it came down to, in part, it came down to deference to a circuit court, an appellate court ruling, that said was the reason she changed. why are they spending time on that issue? we've heard a number of different issues brought up: gun rights cases is another. we've heard several of the republican senators bring those up. why

any former soldiers that can testify to what she did at harvard? >> there will be, i spose, some outside witnesses. there always are. you've cord a lot of these things over the years. can you name a half a dozen of the people who showed up as outside witnesses? and identify sat through every one of those and i was scratching my head thinking who were some of the outside witnesses we've had? i guess both sides have to feel like they have to have -- and i applaud them for taking the time to do it. but most people don't listen. if you can't make up your mind based on what you've read, based on what you've heard, based on what your questions and answers are, you don't decide to be on the senate judiciary committee. and i've urged senators, ignore single issue groups of either the right or the left. you're the one elected, not them. make up your mind. you vote for or vote against but make up your mind not based on some political action group. >> what have you learned about elena kagen sibssh process started? she's been through a conif i rememberation pr

i teach at harvard. >> how long have you been at harvard? >> 20 years. >> where were you born? >> i was born in manila three months before the war began. i spent my toddler years in a japanese internment camp. my father was a missionary. they went back after the war. i recently read an excellent biography about a missionary's son. we had some things in common. we left the philippines and came back when i was about nine. my family lived mostly in maine after that. i went to prep school in connecticut. i am kind of a rootless person. after my education was over, i taught at university of virginia here in college park. then i went to harvard. >> the three schools you went to? >> undergraduate, yale. two graduate years at cambridge. then i finished at princeton. >> how many years were you in the internment camp? >> the better part of the three. i was three when there was a brilliant rescue. they dropped paratroopers into our camp which was a perilous situation. the americans had landed. the guards were panicking. we might not have lived. they got us all out alive -- many of them in

the military is able to recruit on the harvard campus all the time when she was the dean. it was under one condition prior to the supreme court decision, under another one afterwards, but they were always able to recruit. of what i found about her attitude was every day is giving she would have a dinner for veterans on campus -- every the thanksgiving she would have a even if they were excluded or.%- were not, if somebody wants to join in the military, they are going to be able to find a recruiter's office. my youngest son, after he got out of high school, he was able to find a recruiter for the united states marine corps and join the marine corps and proudly served in the marine corps. he did not need to have the recruiter brought to his classroom. he found them. usually if you're motivated, you can find them. >> if we can look back to before her services as dean at harvard, she spent quite a bit of time in the clinton administration. there are quite a bit of documents detailing her service as white house counsel. what if anything have you learned about what kind of legal

>> in that way, but on the other hand, this may be more true of harvard. we have quite a few big, lecture courses were one-on-one contact is with the graduate teaching assistant. what they want from the professor is a kind of talking head. when i began my career at the university of virginia, that was in the 1970's. it was partly that time of protests. everything was dialogue and exchange. you expected the students to quarrel and argue with you. a good teacher would be persuaded to hit the ball back over the net. now, it is as if they want to be told, partly because they think you probably know better than they do, but also because they want to get an a, and i think that if they write down what you think, they are likely to get back what they want -- and miss the 1970's -- i missed the 1970's. -- i miss the 1970's. >> you of course available on the indictment -- have a course available on the enlightenment? >> i decided to create a course to surround rousseau with the kinds of things they ought to know more about. it was primarily to teach myself. it ended

in 1999, she returned to massachusetts to join the fact of harvard law school. where she would become later dean in charles hamilton houston professor of law. while at harvard, her article "presidential administration" was named the year's top scholar little article by the american bar association section on administrate i be law ann regulatory practice. she was nominatenated on 2009 to be solicitor general. i'm proud our nation's woman deep solicitor general has such deep roots in massachusetts. if confirmed, she would be the first in the history of our court. as solicitor general, she frequently represents the united states before the supreme court and she's argued several high profile cases before the court and was recently victoriorious in the holder versus humanitarian law project case which held that congress's prohibition of material support and resources to foreign terrorist organizations is constitutional. she's undown thely a brilliant woman whom has served her country in a variety of capacities and has made significant contributions to massachusetts a

>> so miguel and i were classmates at harvard law school, but we were more than classmates at harvard law school. harvard law school has a w of -- has required seating in the first year, and miguel and i were -- >> trust me, i don't know, because i never could have gotten there but i trust you. >> miguel and i were required to sit next to each other in every single class in the first year, and can i tell you miguel takes extraordinary notes, so it's great. every time you missed something in class, you could just kind of look over, but that's how i know miguel and we've been good friends ever since. >> what's your general opinion of his legal abilities and his character? >> i think shea great lawyer and a great human being. >> he wrote a letter on your behalf. have you had a cnce to read it? >> i did. >> can i read part of it? >> i write in support of elena kagan's confirmation as associate justice of the supreme court of the united states. i've known elena for 27 years. we met as first-year law students at harvard where were assigned seats next to each other. see, your consistent for

they all have a harvard degree. of course she has a harvard degree. >> larry: aren't all the democrats going to vote for her? >> i would hope so. >> larry: are you concerned about dana pointing out this non-paper trail. >> i'm thrilled to pieces to agree with james completely. there shouldn't even be confirmation hearings. it's a new thing just created for television. most of the justices we have had never had confirmation hearings. i disagree with her on a lot of stuff. i don't like how weak she is on freedom of speech and has given speeches about how the government can do work around on freedom of speech. i disagree with her on a lot. it doesn't matter what i think. the president appoints them and they should say okay and put them on the supreme court. there shouldn't be a confirmation hearing where everybody goes on tv and makes their stupid little speeches. put her in. it's fine. it's his choice. >> larry: do you think they're going to make a big deal, james, of the fact she approved the barring of military recr

rts harvard commencement 2010 celebrating its newest graduates. and casting a critical eye on those graduates harvard economist bench men friedman, they're more able than ever, he says. and for that reason it's all the more troubling when i think that after they leave us so many of them go into activities that are not economically productive for the country, for society, even just narrowly for the economy. >> reporter: friedman bemoans the fact that three years into the financial crisis, top institutes continue to flock to wall street. at harvard as at other top schools about one out of every four graduates entering the workforce take a financial sector job. >> and in light of how skewed some of the rewards are, today the greatest incentives, ironically, seem to be for institutes to go into those activities in which at least the apparent economic function being served is harder and harder and harder to understand what it is. you don't see any value, you think it is a waste of human resources? >> consider nanotrading very high speed trading in whic

you are the first woman an of harvard law school. there you developed a reputation as a leader who brought all sides to the table. you're a legal advis to president clinton, served as associate white house council, deputy director of the domestic policy council, and you covered some tough issues. tobacco reform, importation of rapid fire assault weapons, campaign finance, women's health, abortion. what comes across in reviewing your writings is that you were a valuable adviser. smart, reasonable, highly respected, principled. you also served as a special counsel to this committee during the ginsburg confirmation hearings. the biggest criticism i've seen out there is you've never been a judge. frankly, i find this refreshing. the roberts court is the first supreme court in history to be comprised entirelyf former federal courts of appeals judges. throughout the history of the court over 1/3 of the justices, 38 out of 111 have had no prior judicial experience. they include chief justice william rehnquist who was a law clerk for the sup

why is there a problem with this beautiful woman that graduated from harvard school.hy is the question on gun control when i believe guns need to be regulated, and taken out of individual's homes. kids are killing one another. all over the world. - and why does she have to have so much of a background pertaining to her college education and what she stands for? why does she have to be treated like sotomayer? the former appointed by president barack obama. host: start with gun control. sylvia thinks gun control is appropriate or gun recreation. you write in the editorial. we know she's hostile to gun rights. guest: yes, her memos and other comments show she does not believe the second amendment provides an individual right. i would assume a majority of americans think that just like every other right in the bill of rights this is an individual right. the right to actually own and bear firearms and she has said, she is not sympathetic to that argument even though it's mostly the accepted argument among the american people. host: think she was going toward the nomination

in terms of her - the military recruiting issue at harvard law school. we'll indeed hear a lot about that this week. she'll be asked to explain what happened. it's true the legal professional in law schooled had a non-discriminatory policy they required all to accept to use career services facilities. military under don't ask, don't tell law could not comply so the question was, was a federal law requiring that military recruiters get equal access to other employers being complied with? and if it wasn't was the law itself constitutionle. elena kagan was quite opposed and called that law a moral in justice of the first order and expressed her and the schools in legal professions opposition to that form of legal discrimination. whether it was legitimate disagreement or cross the line as a matter of opinion. believe it crossed the line for some. democrats say did it not only cross the line, but his t histo that is vindicated that policy. we'll see that issue rematched in some detail this week. host: "wall street journal". thank you for helping us preview th

>> so miguel and i were classmates at harvard law school, but we were more than clasates at harvard law school. harvard law school has a way of -- has required seating in the first year, and miguel and i were -- >> trust me, i don't know, because i never could have gotten there but i trust you. >> miguel and i were required to sit next to each other in every single class in the first year, and can i tell youiguel takes extraordinary notes, so it's great. every time you missed something in class, you could just kind of look over, but that's how i know miguel and we've been good friends ever since. >> what's your general opinion of his legal abilities and his character? >> i think shea great lawyer and a great human being. >> he wrote a letter on your behalf. have you had a chance to read it? >> i did. >> can i read part of it? >> i write in support of elena kagan's confirmation as associate justice of the supreme court of the united states. i've known elena for 27 years. we met as first-year law students at harvard where were assigned seats next to each other. see, your consistent for al

>> harvard. >> walling ford connecticut. andy, hi. >> i had a question or comment.the republicans talk about the supreme court should file the constitution. wh if the constitution says the supreme court decides who's president in bush verses gore? >> the constitution ys the judicial you her will be held by a supreme court and the judicial power resolved disputes and that was a dispute. there's no question under the constitution the supreme court could exercise the authority and the other branches recognize it even the their unhappy. certainlyome although i'd say probably half the member of congress were unhappy they decide to intervene. perhaps the other with this were pleased. >> in his column the bush and do you think anyone will ask that question? guest: iraqi think i think it . i don't think you'll hear republican senators recite it and ion't think she'll say much about it other than the fact that the court issueed the decision and it stressed that it was limited the facts at and that happen to be that election as apposed to spreading a broader constitution. >>

one of the classmates from harvard kennedy school who is a dual degree canada it over at mit. he is a child oo the mountains, going and raised in the west virginia, whose goal in life is not only to see the end of mountaintop removal, but also to be governor of the state and perhaps serve in many capacities also here or is a woman who was a long time mountaintop removal, activist. she uses her talents as an artist to make documentaries and she generously allows them to be shown without cost. her producer is also here. one of my friends is also heree. i understand there is a university of columnar it -- a university of kentucky alumni association that is also represented. no one does this work alone. although i stand at this podium, ostensibly by myself, and flanked and surrounded by an embedded with an extraordinary group of people. i know someone from appalachian voices is also here. it represents organizations who are doing the day in and day out work opposing this environmental tragedy. everyone appear was a little bit panicked because i did not have a hard copy of my speec

this is a friend of mine's from harvard. he is actually from mit.he was born and raised in west virginia. he wants to start a clean energy company in west virginia. i think he will be governor of that stake and perhaps serve in many capacities beyond. also here is ms. evans, a long time mountaintop removal coal mining activist. chooses her talents as an artist. she is made a powerful documentary called "coal country," which she generously allow us to be shown without cost. her producer is also here. i understand there are university of kentucky alumni represented. i want to say thank you. no one does any of this work alone. although i stand at the podium ostensibly by myself, i am surrounded by an extra regroup. i am surrounded by people doing work to help the environment. everyone was panicked because i do not have a hard copy of my speech. . . >> being and eastern kentucky and is the simple fact that brings me the most honored and greatest sense of self. i love and am proud of being a hillbilly. [applause] i trace my family in the mountains of eas

i two-part question related to yesterday's memorial that three as a graduate of harvard and harvard law school, the president has never protested -- >> he graduated from harvard law school but he graduated from columbia. >> i will correct that. he has never conducted a moral to harvard's board said i world's warm ii war including those -- >> i obviously do not have any knowledge of that. >> you'd think is right for harvard to have morals to these three gerran enemies, but no memorials to those who died in the confederate army? [laughter] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> a live video of underwater operations in the gulf of mexico with bp attempting to cut the video -- the pipe. attorney general eric holder told reporters that federal authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the oil spill without saying that companies or individuals that might be targeted. and the associated press reporting that oil is making its first appearance in alabama, three weeks after tar balls were found there

if you look at justice souter retired last year and spoke at harvard law school -- actually at harvard university commencement, he did not say he was following the line of the constitution. he said the constitution is an inconsistent document and we have to pick and choose which parts we follow. that is not the philosophy of a strict constructionist. we have competing values with the constitution. this is because the founders who wrote the constitution felt they were riding it to help balance things and not write an internally consistent document. now that justice souter has spoken on this, we can see that his philosophy was not looking at the text of the constitution. host: let's get in one last

he wanted to nominate his new deal with tenant, a harvard law prof. felix.but the western states were without representation on the court since the resignation of joseph mckenna. ought ff, a native of austria, would be perfect. the geographic considerations were beginning to wane as a supreme court criteria. justice stones were among a host of the frankfurter enthusiast, telling him to ignore the geographic and focused on merit alone. he nominated frankfurter in early 1939. one month later, justice brandeis resigned. the two harvard-trained lawyers combined to support a plethora of the progressive policies, but they have fallen out over brandeis's opposition to the court packing scheme. in a personal visit, brandeis and recommended william douglas. douglas, along with hugo black, advocated the president a selection of wiley rutledge in 1942. roosevelt had packed the court by attrition rather than through his plan to add six seats to the bench. he made one bipartisan nomination. charles evans hughes, the courts leader over the new deal, announced that he was

as i noted, he was a professor at harvard, which we can see from his approach to helping us understandthe court. and before that, served from 1980 to 1990 as the chief of the circuit. over the years, in our quest to understand how the supreme court operates, since it is closed to cameras, we have turned again and again to reporters who cover it. i see my old friend, tony moyers, we have been calling on for 20 years to help us understand. pleased to have you here. i am sure in neglecting others. we thank you for that. we have invited to a vote of folks who participated in our documentary and -- we invited two people aboard is a bit in our documentary we have the dean of the supreme court press corps, which means he has been covering the court for longer than anyone else, 52 years now. that means he has covered one of every four of the 111 justices to serve the court. he worked at the "baltimore sun" before he had his blog, where he regularly report on the decisions of the court. would you join me? joan biskupic is a supreme court reporter for "usa today" and has been covering the court

from harvard, all of her previous academic work and all the letters, ele mails and press releases that went out during hr tenure as dean. from her work ithe clinton administration, over 170,00 pages of documents, including 80,000 pages of e-mails, which is more than twice the material received in connection with the nominations of chief justice roberts and justice alito. in fact, we even have this nominee's senior thesis, her graduate thesis, nearly 70 articles she aught foertd daily princetonian's as a college student, 200 speeches and another 200 interviews. the only thing, as far as i can tell, that we don't have is her kindergarten report card. but i respectfully submit to my colleagues that if they can't thoroughly evaluate general kagan on the record we have, there is no record nor nominee who could satisfy them. so we already have a clear idea of a record and what this hearing will be like, which brings know my second point, which is why this hearing is so crucially important. we need a justice who can create moderate majorities on this immoderate supreme court. i'm going to be

a couple of years and her time as dean at the harvard law school. to what extent, marcia, though is this criticism that she's inexperienced likely to stick? because as several of the senators pointed out a third of the justices who have ever sat on the supreme court had no judicial background? >> well, i think it will stick to a certain degree. i mean she is a very different kind of nominee for these senators. perhaps not for the senators who sat more than 50 years ago. she doesn't have the practical legal experience of actually being in the courtroom , handling trials, talking to juries that other non-judicial nominees to the court had. many of them though also had political experience . so in that sense, she has a thin record. but i think what we're going to learn is that she brings a different kind of experience and the public have to judge whether they feel that is sufficient. she was or has been for the past year solicitor general of the united states. many say that that is the best preparation for a lawyer to go on to the supreme court. we'll

he spent a year at harvard. he's in a position where he reports not just to the president but he's a nato commander. he has to deal with heads of state from all the nato countries. i mean, there is a very big political element in what he has to do. counterinsurgency is in many ways political fighting par excellence. so the issue here is judgment in dealing with the policy aspects, the political aspects of his job. i have no doubt that every guy working for him in afghanistan is very high on him. he's a warrior. but the political element of his job , i mean, this guy took on the president, the vice president, the national security advisor, ambassador holbrook, ambassador ikeen berry, everybody up and down the line. it doesn't show a lot of judgment. >> lehrer: is just going to be the key word, mark, when it's all said and done? >> i think so not only mcchrystal's judgment but the president's judgment in how he deals with it. some of mcchrystal's allies have said this guy has been in a tough job not only for the p

we heard an awful lot from the republicans about the recruiting of military at harvard law school and the law school's nondiscrimination policy. and i think senator sessions and senator graham came closest to actually questioning her honesty when she said that she was trying to juggle the solman amendment, which required equal access for military recruiting at the law school, and the law school's nondiscrimination policy . they felt that she was making a political statement when she did not allow the military to use the office of career services at the law school. so at that point, it's just who do you believe? the other things they had to look at, for example, they questioned memos she wrote when she was a law clerk. this was back when she was in her early 20s and was clerking for justice marshall. for a time there, it almost seemed as if justice marshall was before the committee being renominated for the supreme court because she was being held in a sense, they tried it say she was as activist as they believed he was. but you don'tue don't go far when you have the kind of support th

harvard is -- which lures would best tempt them east. fortunately, before she managed to hire the entire faculty, and she returned to washington. i think that being the solicitor general is the second best lawyer's job in the world, right after being a deputy solicitor general. [laughter] what is the difference, you may wonder? the deputy general spent 100% of his or her time doing interesting legal work, while the solicitor general is expected to give speeches. not as many as a dean at has to deliver, but quite a few. so, here she is doing to the speech thing. this audience has been treated to several of her predecessors. she is certainly going to add to the interest of this speech. i give you elena kagan, the solicitor general of the united states. [applause] >> thank you so much. thank you everybody. thank you for your hospitality here. thank you all for your hospitality here. when i was first asked it to come and speak at this event i thought, how terrific. i love chicago. i love the seventh circuit. it would be my honor to do so. i

why is there a problem with this beautiful woman that graduated from harvard school. why is the question on gun control when i believe guns need to be regulated, and taken out of individual's homes. kids are killing one another. all over the world. - and why does she have to have so much of a background pertaining to her college education and what she stands for? why does she have to be treated like sotomayer? e former appointed by president barack obama. host: start with gun control. sylvia thinks gun control is appropriate or gun recreation. you write in the editorial. we know she's hostile to gun rights. guest: yes, her memos and other comments show she does not believe the second amendment provides an individual right. i would assume a majority of americans think that just like every other right in the bill of rights this is an individual right. the right to actually own and bear firearms and she has said, she is not sympathetic to that argument even though it's mostly the accepted argument among the american people. host: think she was going toward the nomination

. >> right now eric is and the lottery for two schools besides harvard success academy.gets into the others, i would be happy but i want him in harlem. >> it's like waiting for the lotto. >> it is difficult because some of the best schools in the area, you want them to embrace. >> how many applied and how many slots? >> 3400 applicants and about 4 neared 75 spots. -- will hundred 75 spot. >> here is a democrat from new work -- what changes somebody who was a democrat from being totally for public schools and then also for charter schools? >> mayor booker has been a champion of education reform for a long time. he and eva were all democrats. and the chancellor in new york have been working tirelessly for many years, much longer than most people have even known that this was a problem. and i think what is at the heart of it is probably what attracted me to this issue, wis -- this sense of injustice and then it does not have to be that way. they can be traditional public schools or charter schools or private schools. it does not really matter. but when they are working, you

it started off as a harvard communication and a branch off to other schools in that area. we had in turn to were part of facebook but i was in college at the time. they got excited. they went through the facebook profiles and looked for political parties connected to profiles and brought them into the republican headquarters to volunteer. when it went public to just anyone, i wrote a memo to the state legislators, the republican state legislators in the state house and encouraged to them to get on facebook and told them how to use it. it was not just to update their status but to update with personal information. the only republican incumbent in the legislature to do that was scott brown at the time. his staff side opportunity there to reach out and touch people beyond his state district. we have 40 district in massachusetts so that means scott brown had a 1/40 of the state to communicate with. nssomebody said this was so col that a state senator just wished me a happy birthday. people did not look at someone as justice center but as a republican on beacon hill. he worked

he received a ba in economics in 1975 from harvard university summa cum laude, a ph.d. in economics in 1979 from the massachusetts institute of technology. he and his wife and i have two children. born in georgia, he grew up in south carolina. the format tonight is not for a speech by dr. bernanke, but he and eric inevitable president of the wilson council, a distinguished newsman sam donaldson, will provide the program. sam will interview the chairman. i would ask the two of them to come forward now and after the interview we will have questions from the audience. sam and chairman bernanke? [applause] >> hello? chairman bernanke, i am delighted that you would do this. by the way, what do you think of the great wall of china? >> can see it from the plane when you come down from beijing. very impressive. >> that matches mr. nixon's statement. let's get to substantive matters. we seem to be in a recovery from the great recession we have gone through, fragile but it may be. hull convinced are you that that recovery will continue at a reasonable pace? do you see troubling s

bill that on a residency training because we have a great example in the houston area of the denver harvard clinic with agreement in baylor college and medicine. greater accountability isn't a bad idea, though. and we need to debate exactly how we're going to go about doing that. because we don't want to hurt our hospitals or our resident programs. but we also like to make sure those positions, those medical students know they can make a good living by practicing and hopefully we'll grow them. but again i want to thank you like all the committee members for you being here today and the report. your testimony and the report discussed demonstration projects of c.m.s. and serp hurdles that these projects face, including low level of funds and constraints on c.m.s. and conducting these demo projects. i know many of us, i like having c.m.s. conducted demonstration before implementing a broad policy on everyone, simply because a test model will see how it works. and if it's successful, can you just address that? >> yeah. well, as you well know mr. green, the health perform law took a major step i

derek bok, the former president of harvard, and and sissela bok. sissela bok's book comes out this fall, and as the title suggests, takes the long view. >> i felt it was so important to look at everything that's been done for millennia, really, in religion, and literature, in philosophy. and to bring that together with all the new research, and what's been done, really, in the last three decades with the social sciences and last 15 years in brain research to try to bring all those things together. >> brown: derek bok's book, "thhe politics of happiness: what government can learn from the new researchh of well-being". was published this spring. >> i'd always been interested in heapness research. i noticed the one thing that wasn't written about very much was what implication did this have for public policy. and since the great champion of happiness jeremy bentham that happiness should be the sole objective of government, it seemed natural to take that forward and say now that we know something about happiness, what are the results for public policy

in 2006, when she was dean of harvard law school, ms. kagan praised as her judicial hero aaron bharat who served on the supreme court of israel for nearly 30 years. she called him -- quote -- "the judge or justice in my lifetime whom i think best represents and has best advanced the valves democracy and human -- and the values of democracies and human law." that is not simply high praise, but the highest praise possible, for she says that justice bahrat was literally the best judge anywhere during her lifetime in representing and advancing the rule of law enforcement who is this judge who for ms. kagan at least is literally the best representation of the rule of law? judge richard posener, one of the great intellects in the law has described justice bahrack one of the most prominent of the foreign judges who -- quote -- "without a secure constitutional basis, created a degree of judicial power undreamt of by our most aggressive supreme court justices." judge posener concluded that to justice barack -- quote -- "the judiciary is a law unt

. >> pelley: matthew bunn, of harvard's kennedy school of government, has studied the attack, and has classified report for the government on atomic security. bunn says highly enriched uranium is extremely difficult to make, and would be worth millions of dollars on the black market. and if terrorists get a hold of it, it would not be hard to build a crude atomic bomb. >> bunn: making a nuclear bomb with highly enriched uranium basically involves slamming two pieces together at high speed. that's really all there is to it. >> pelley: how much highly enriched uranium would a terrorist group need to build a weapon? >> bunn: just over a six pack's worth. >> pelley: what do you mean? >> bunn: the amount of highly enriched uranium metal would basically fit into the cans of a six pack. >> pelley: but isn't this highly radioactive? isn't it a problem handling this stuff? >> bunn: no, unfortunately not. highly enriched uranium is only very weakly radioactive. you can handle it with your hands. >> pelley: pelindaba holds more than a thousand pounds of h.e.u., and it uses some of it to make med

. >> kroft: with degrees from yale and harvard law, and the ego of a successful trial lawyer, dreier told friends he was going to become a billionaire. he started his own law firm that he said would revolutionize the business of law. he was going to hire the best attorneys, pay them top dollar, and keep all the profits for himself as the firm's only partner. >> dreier: the idea for the law firm was very viable. but it needed much more money to get it off the ground than i anticipated, much more. so that wasn't very well thought out. i had a good idea, but a very bad business plan. >> kroft: and the plan was about to get much worse. with his law firm a money pit and dreier tapped out, he began approaching hedge funds with a cockamamie scheme he thought might save his dream. dreier told the hedge funds that he was representing a billionaire real estate developer who was looking to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to embark on some new projects. the developer, dreier said, would issue short-term promissory notes, guaranteeing interest rates of between 7% and 12%, well above market

she has been a professor at harvard law school and has written extensively on terrorism.and fathali moghaddam, a professor of psychology at georgetown university. his latest book is called "the stern, il-- stern i will start with you. to what extent is this a growing phenomenon. what do you see happening? >> well, actually, i think it a growing phenomenon. since september 11th there have been about 50 incidents in the united states. somebody getting picked up either for an attack in the united states or abroad. about half of them in the united states. but 13 of them occurred in 2009. so we see a kind of blip. and it is quite distressing. >> brown: professor moghaddam what do we know about what drives these people? >> well, the most important aspect of this, i think, is the sort of cyberjihad, the extensive reach of the electronic media which is reaching the young people there. so that is the first aspect of it to focus on. >> brown: the internet. >> yes, the internet. and also the fact that these are most ly younger men. and we know that young men in all cultures are risk

he is a lecturer at a numbee of leading universities including princeton, stanford, and harvard. he graduated from the university of michigan and johns hopkins. a quick question from a viewer wondering if most of the people in iran is under the age of 25. guest: two-thirds are under the age of 32. on the 70% of the population was born after the 1979 revolution. we have no remembrance for enmity towards the shah government. there is no loyalty to a theocracy that has not been able to deliver to them the economic dignity and social and political freedoms. host: miles from georgia. go ahead. caller: the only way iran can keep itself from being invaded is to get the ball. they will get invaded just like iraq. american soldiers will never leave iraq. if they do not want that to happen to them, they will get the bomb. they will get blackwater coming in killing people at will. iran should get the bomb. guest: it is a fair point that is widelyyshared by many including many of the iranian leadership as they look back to 2003. one lesson they grew was that a country like north korea is imm

and as you heard, this whole issue of military recruitment and the harvard controversy and what that might say. i think we're going to hear a lot more from him about that and it may be a snrtpiece about what republicans try to do to try to highlight the hearings. i wouldn't be surprised from some military folks who have strong views about how it made them feel that the harvard made the decision that it made in that case and dean kagen did. >> you're the co author of a new biography. >> of justice william brennan, who senator leahy mentioned. it's coming out in october. and called justice brennan, liberal champion. >> thank you both for being here. >> president obama met with executives from bp on wednesday to discuss compensation for those affected by the gulf coast oil spill. following the meeting the president confirmed that bp will set aside $20 billion to pay damage claims. that fund will be administered by ken feinberg who previously managed the 9/11 victims funds and the tarp pay funds. bp has agreed to compensate oil workers affected by the oil workers moratorium. >> and in th

of the treasury under president clinton, as chief economist at the world bank, and as president of harvard university from 2001 till 2006, where he continues as a tenured professor. let me turn this over to you. [applause] >> thank you. i am glad to have this opportunity. the story of the subject that i'm going to talk about is that -- is one that should give inspiration to researchers and academia. this idea started, at least to my knowledge, with work that ronald did in the late 1950's. in the aftermath of his work suggesting that spectrum be auctioned or allocated by the market, two fcc commissioners declared that he was as likely to get his policies adopted as the easter bunny was to win the preakness. [laughter] hundreds of billions dollars later, around the world he is looking good and those two fcc commissioners are not looking so forward-looking. he was inspired by his work in this area to invent the theorum, which the nobel prize committee was inspired by and awarded him the nobel prize. those of you with ideas that have not caught fire, i implore you to persevere. [laughter] the