he got away to harvard.highest hopes for him as one of the harvard coaches was quoted in the "new york times" saying, if i told any of the guys on the team, this is the harvard team, if i told any of the guys on the team that jeremy will someday play in the nba none of them would have believed that and he was great harvard. >> the thing is i first met him and first saw him up close and personal in 2008. he didn't have a jumper but what he did have is that will, the drive to want to be the best. you would see him dive on the court. he went after it. he had the entire mentality whether he wanted to be the best. he would play any pickup game. he asked if i wanted to go to the gym to shoot hoops if you have someone who is willing to put their heart and soul in to it and go through everything he has had racist remarks while playing in the ivy league and have that inner strength and deflect all of that it is a great story. >> bryan chu, thank you very much for your invaluable insight tonight and bill wolff who had

for instance, randall kennedy black professor at harvard law school. what did my raise have to do with that? sometimes it does. fine. explained that i don't think it should be randall kennedy, a black%, professor at harvard law school. if it is relevant, say why it is relevant. if you are not prepared to say why it is relevant then they should not mention the fact that i am black. >> host: one of your colleagues just died u.s. the professor 21 derek bell. the first black member of the harvard law school. >> host: is that fair to say the first black professor at? >> guest: it is if you are writing a story and you talk about his place in the legal academia or harvard law school, then the fact he was the first member of harvard law school faculty is relevant. but on the other hand, if we simply talk about a subject of affirmative action and/or the war on drugs or anything else and talk about the view of derek bell, then it is just derek bell and he has a few like anybody else. i don't think a racial identity should in the unexplained way be part of the st

-- he went to harvard. >> how many allstar basketball players come out of harvard? for that he deserves a medal. i hate the race stuff. i love how he says, "i was propping black americans." no you weren't. you were ripping into an asian-american. let's be honest about what you were doing. >> joe, you have been following this story as close as anybody i have known. it has touched you. does race have anything to do with the hype over lin. >> you know, i am conflicted by this story. i did find maywether's comments to be racist, but i also believe asians should not be allowed to play basketball. >> that's terrible! >> it is a joke. >> let him finish. i am interested. i'm interested. >> i'm obviously kidding. >> you truly are an edgy comedian. >> i walk that line, man. >> my inspirations, bill hicks, thank you very much, lenny bruce. hello. no, i thought the comments -- look, i understand where maywether is coming from saying, look, you know, it is the m and m pho phenomenon. he is getting -- the eminem phenomenon because he is blown up because he is a white rapper. but

first black professor at harvard law? >> i think it is if what you're trying -- if you're writing a story and you're talking about his place in the history of legal academia or his place in history of our law school then, yakima the fact that he was the first black tenured member of our black harvard law school>>ut faculty, then it's significant.w on the other hand, if we simplya were talking about a subject, let's say affirmative action ori let's say the war on drugs or let's say anything else, we are talking about the dues of derekw bell, well, it's just derekerek bell.lse. i don't think that the raciali identity should in antity unexplained way be part of the story.. >> host: next call comes fromoma john in chicago. thank you for holding. you're on book tv. >> caller: i just for your information, like stock in racial terms all the time. that's all racial constantly. so you know, so as far as race comes in the conversation, everything that they do workou talk about is based on race.as a but my question for the ou profes

there was an absolute reaction from harvard law school. they said this is the most horrible book that has ever been published. how did this guy get into harvard law school? [laughing] there is some mistake. you know, there were people who wanted to take my diploma away. anyway, in the last 35 years, though, they've mellod out. you know? they've had me back. they've given me awards. it's incredible. and why is that? is that because they've changed in mir heart? no. it's because the television program gave them so much publicity. i don't mean to be cynical. i do like harvard law school. but come on, guys. >> ok. tony, you dedicated your life to the law and to justice. and you're known to take on the most impossible cases. do you think the justice system works? do you think it has value, at least the value that we seek to attribute to it? where we say in justice for all? >> nothing meaningful from an attorney comes from the seeded posture. it doesn't mean that anything meaningful comes from an attorney when he rises. let me share in respect t

coy teach at harvard. right? >> yes, could i take your class. >> stephen: you sure could.ing my class right now, mister. >> i can sense that (cheers and applause) >> stephen: my favorite decision is citizens united. okay, i love that. >> i can see that okay. >> stephen: because as we know santaa collar lasouthern pacific railroad corporations are people. >> whether corporations are persons are or not t doesn't necessarily decide the case. the supreme court said that whoever is talking whether it's a corporation or something else. >> stephen: right. >> people have a right to hear what it is saying. and so even if we said in the constitution corporations are not persons, the law wouldn't change. the only way to change it is to get the court to recognize that democracy is threatened by the flood of money. one of the things that we certainly should do is make sure that who they are gets disclosed. it's not transparent so we don't know if it's viacom talking or if it's general motors talking or if it's chrysler talking it ought to be transparent. >> stephen: but then the voters

well, they both went to harvard. where lin might have accomplished his most unlikely feat. turning his brand, into an underdog. maybe his father. he taught him how to play basketball by showing him tapes of kareem abdul-jabbar. maybe it's his smile. the enjoyment he gets from the game. maybe the humility. >> thank you for the energy, as always. we love playing here. >> reporter: in the end, the fact of the matter might be this. if you can't root for jeremy lin, that's simply lin-sane. i'm john berman, for

and that, i mean, it was a dating site for harvard.eed to help them out with it--to help them, right? i mean, it wasn't a job. they weren't paying me. i wasn't hired by them or anything like that. and then, the idea that i would then go work on something completely different, like facebook, and that they would be upset about this all these years later is kinda mind-boggling for me. now, i mean, this is another thing that i think the movie really missed is, i mean, they make it seem like this whole lawsuit is such a huge part of facebook's history. i've probably spent less than two weeks of my time worried about this lawsuit at all, right? >> maybe you should've worried about it a little more. [laughs] >> maybe i should have early on, right? but i guess the point that i'm trying to make is, this has never been a big deal to facebook or its evolution. >> do you feel any, any remorse at all about the twins or anything that happened with them? >> i mean, after all this time, i feel bad that they still feel bad about it. >> kara swisher, ed

jeremy lin, an unheralded, undrafted, unheard of player from harvard. you heard that right, harvard. >> knicks will win it linsanity continues here. >> reporter: as the knicks on a two-week winning streak, darling dazzling all who behold with his brilliant passes, gorgeous shots -- and dogged determination. the sports world has been spellbound as day by day the lin legend grows. last night with seconds winding down and the score tied -- >> lin puts it up -- in! >> reporter: the winning shot. no one told lin he is not supposed to be able to do that. that the spot he suddenly occupies is reserved for superstars with super salaries. not even lin is sure this is real. >> can you believe this is happening to you? >> no. >> jeremy lin with a clutch three-pointer. >> reporter: jeremy lin embodies all our folks told us and all we tell our kids. work hard, be a team player, be ready when the coach says it's your turn. it's the stuff we teach, and now we have reason to believe it. harry smith, nbc news, new york. >>> that's our broadcast on a wednesday night. tha

seen in the history of the harvard program?d you can guess what the history of the harvard program looks like the not a lot of arnold schwarzeneggers in the history of that. jeremy was coming in without a lot of opportunities. when he visited cal berkeley on his way out of the recruiting interview, they called him ron. they didn't get his name right. he teammate was the guy they chose several spots ahead of him. so this storm, jeremy, you know, was a commodity, but people just passed on him. they did not know what to think of this kid that looked like this, played like this. they wondered who to compare him to, and there really wasn't anybody in nba history. >> charles, does he tack up against other guards? >> he has a talent, a skill. he's a point guard and can make people better. when you can do consistently what you have done in the six games, you have a chance to show people he's a true point guard, and the knicks need a point guard. my thing is i think he can stack up last night he showed another big shot. he just has to w

>> he was dean of harvard college, and some people felt he was the de facto president of harvard college because he was very smart, he brought lots of impressive people to the harvard faculty. he was surprisingly popular among the faculty for a person of that position, and kennedy had gotten to know him because kennedy was on the harvard board of overseers. kennedy was a harvard grad, and he had, and he was, of course, senator from massachusetts. so kennedy saw george bundy operate with the overseers, and he was impressed with that. so that made him -- so that's where he came from. and he wasn't, he had -- he had previous hi written a -- previously co-written the them memoirs of henry stimson, a very important figure in world war ii and before that. he had not done major work inside government before, but people sometimes thought correctly that if he could manage a bunch of ordinary, independent harvard professors, he could probably manage in government, too, which turned out to be the case. >> host: did president john soften have a national -- johnson have a national security adviser? >

but i'm so proud of what they're doing up there at harvard and jeremy lin, as armen said, harvard is to the nba. yes, the kid is the first asian american, but he's flat-out a basketball player. we have a small sample size, only six games, but a phenomenal sample size and when stoudemire and anthony carmello are back together, his numbers may come down only because lin is smart enough to know get the ball to the big and he has enough to create game himself. >>> thank you both. >> you're welcome. >>> prosecutors asking a disturbing question at the university of virginia murder trial. could yeardley love, in fact, have survived if someone had just called for help? we'll hear what doctors say when we return. >>> tomorrow, ryan reynolds will be here. we'll ask him about sharing the big screen with denzel washington. you're watching "cbs this morning." [ female announcer ] today is the day you make a change with best foods. make parmesan crusted chicken surprisingly crispier, juicier, mmmm yummy-er. best foods. make it real: make it different. [ female announcer ] kleenex brand tissues are

(laughter) folks, you know things are rough when a harvard economics grad has an easier time getting a job as an n.b.a. point guard than a wall street bond trader. (laughter) folks, i'm not some fair-weather fan. i've been behind my boy lin since day one of some time last week. (laughter) folks, there is a name for what we're feeling. >> lin-sanity continues. >> it's become lin-sanity new york. >> new york basketball fans have a ranging raging case of lin-sanity. >> stephen: yes, i've had a raging case of lin-sanity. i have been declared legally lin-sane. my symptoms? lin somnia. rest lest lin syndrome and lin-testinal blockage. (laughter) folks, it's an exciting time. fans have not come down with a basketball-born disease this intense since the mid-'70s outbreak of kareem abdul ja-botulism. (laughter) but lin-sanity, it caught the n.b.a. off guard. all the jeremy lin jerseys that were on the shelves sold out-- because there weren't any. (laughter) best of all, jeremy lin here is currently without a corporate sponsor which means he's in the market for endorsement deals. so, mr. lin,

school and became dean of harvard law school where he meantoned lawyers in the civil rights movement. charles hamilton houston was clearly a brilliant legal thinker and was a tremendous law student at harvard. to give you a clue as to how much of a pioneer and how brilliant this man was, in 1935 he gave a speech that we recently found at the library of congress where he laid out the entire desegregation cases. that's 1935. this was not a man to be trifled with. i mention thatta background because of the context of the court system that president eisenhower did so much to change. charles hamilton houston went before the supreme court in 1938 and offered a case called gaines versus missouri to get a gentleman admitted into missouri law school. rather justice mcreynolds turned his chair around. if you think about that sort of behavior from a federal judge on the highest court of our land and then you uks that pose that with the quality of the people that eisenhower put on the bench, it's remarkable to me, and i think that it bears noting that these are not one-off flukes and there was a

your brother played a tan at harvard. did you ever meet him? >> yes.'ve played against him here in san francisco, it is amazing to watch him and what he's doing out there. fern >> do you have "lin-sanity"? >> i do not know about that, but it is great to see him doing so great. >>vern: if you met him in your brother played with him in college, can you believe what has happened? >> it is crazy. he was the opening skit of saturday night live. that is pretty cool! obviously it is awesome any time you see some latino or someone you that on television. >>vern: everyone is just riding the wave. jeremy lin. >>host: it is senior night for him and his brother at harvard. >>pam: we will be back at 8:00 p.m.. carthage man: we need a good night's sleep. woman: which means a little heat to keep us warm. and a good dose of support for my back. some over-the-top comfort couldn't hurt. and our perfect dream factory's been built. you're feeling sleepy already? nighty-night. [giggling]