he returned to harvard in 1991 to protest the hiring practices by harvard university. if you want to read more on this story, go to wgbh in boston and read the story online at thehill.com." we continue the conversation here on c-span

guy to hear harvard described as underdog in anything.clear, it will be an uphill battle against vanderbilt form. they have a big frontline, they shoot the ball well. it will be a tall order. you know what, it was a tall order to get harvard to the point that folks are talking about it after 66 years. >> tommy amaker is the head coach. >> excellent guy. >> as you pointed out in that piece at duke by the way. >> got to get that one. go ahead. >> the president said it's going to be you usc. >> i think kentucky. >> amaker is loved at harvard. >> yes. and the professorial staff loves him. there's a once a month meeting that he has with a number,, >> good morning everybody. let's get you caught up with some of the bay area headlines. we begin with crews that are monitoring the san lorenzo river next to the santa cruz boardwalk. the river has fallen from nearly 1 ft. of rain coming out of the mountains. the sentinel reports that flooding has already done thousands of dollars of damages. san jose apartment fire injured one firefighter this morni

guy to hear harvard described as underdog in anything.t will be an uphill battle against vanderbilt form. they have a big frontline, they shoot the ball well. it will be a tall order. you know what, it was a tall order to get harvard to the point that folks are talking about it after 66 years. >> tommy amaker is the head coach. >> excellent guy. >> as you pointed out in that piece at duke by the way. >> got to get that one. go ahead. >> the president said it's going to be you usc. >> i think kentucky. >> amaker is loved at harvard. >> yes. and the professorial staff loves him. there's a once a month meeting that he has with a number of the professors, including professor ogletree. >> thank you so much. >> good to be here. >> reminder shall cbs sports of ncaa men's basketball tournament begins at noon eastern time right here on cbs. that does it for us. mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback right now,

harvard law scale is kind of a drag is what i am saying. actually the tape in question on hannity's programs with promised to deliver evidence of obama's radical rooteds. >> now during that same year obama spoke at a protest in support of a controversial pov certificate named derrick bell. >> and i remember that the black law students had organized an orientation for the first year students. and one of the people that stock at that-- spoke at that or ten-- orientation was professor bell. i remember him stauntering up front and to the giving us a lecture but engaging us in a conversation, and speaking the truth. >> jon: okay, two things strike me, one that really doesn't seem that radical. and two, [bleep] the guy with the sandwich? (laughter) this guy, you know, on the one hand i was very much like to hear the speech about harvard faculty diversification, on the other hand i would very much like to enjoy an egg salad sandwich. wait, i have an idea. this is why i'm at law school, to learn how to balance competing interests. actually it turns

harvard law school had only three black tenured professors and five women professors.ted the lack of diversity by taking unpaid leave until the university hired a woman of color. students at the harve ar law review were among the most cautious grooming themselves then for senate confirmation hearings, attorney general or the supreme court. speeding away from controversy wherever it may erupt on campus, but the harvard law review never had a president quite like barack obama. knowing that prestigious law firms aren't eager to hire leaders of protests, he took the risky step of siding with professor bell. this posting of the young barack obama's taking a stand. >> and i remember that the black law students that organized an orientation for the first year students. and one of the persons who spoke at that orientation was professor bell. and i remember him sauntering up to the front and not giving us a lecture, but engaging us in a conversation and speaking the truth. now, how did this one man do all this? how has he accomplished all this? he hasn't done it simply by his g

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we have a preview from our own harvard man.dents with a harvard degree. his was for law. for a long time the basketball team at that great university was not so great. this afternoon harvard plays ncaa tournament for the first time since bill clinton and george w. bush were born. james brown used to play for the crimson. he says this year's team is ready to shed its underdog status. >> you mngs mention the name harvard, it moves you. i think that's something that is echoed across the globe with a lot of folks. >> in a school a sus comed to high achievement, tommy amaker accomplished something unique at harvard. led a once moribund basketball team to the ncaa tournament for the first time since 1946. what took so long? >> listen, as we know, these things aren't easy. to be able to make something happen at a school like harvard or ivy league program, you know, it takes work. >> amaker inherited a team that won eight games five years ago. this season the crimson won 26 games and set a new school record. >> this dream, a dream that

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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

but isn't harvard a hockey school?ing harvard, beating vandy. it's going to be a tough game there. getting to syracuse, coming down to the final four and you've got the sparties going all the way beating kansas for the big dance. >> all right. we'll do more trash talking later. my team, i'm telling you, all the way, baby. >> i'll watch it tonight. >> all right. going to take a break. today, we stand against the tyranny of meager travel cards. battle speech right? may i? capital one is issuing a venture double miles challenge. show us how much you spent last year and we'll give you 2 miles for every dollar spent on your travel reward card. up to 100,000 miles! hawaii, here we come. claim your miles at capitalone.com today! what's in your wallet? can you play games on that? not on the runway. no. can you play games on that? ♪ when your chain of supply goes from here to shanghai, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ chips from here, boards from there track it all through the air, that's logistics. ♪ ♪ clearing customs like that hurry up

i will be rooting for harvard, but it's just too much of a stretch. >> even harvard's book worms areratulations b with and these are people that you've never talked to before. >> that's what the coach was hoping for when the duke alum arrived in 2007. with a mission for his recruits. >> why not be a game changer? that's what our team has been known for in many ways, to think outside the box, to be different, to literally change the world. >> harvard has done that by producing eight u.s. presidents. but the future politicians and world leaders shared this ivy covered campus with a mediocre basketball team, until now. >> it's really humbling that we could, you know, achieve something here that has never been done before. when so many things have been done before. >> harvard students aren't used to all this march madness stuff and they got little chance to celebrate when the team finally made the tournament last week. that's because they were in the middle of doing what they are used to, studying for midterms. >> i heard bought it was talked about in the dining halls and everywhere on c

that people have when they get appointed as full professors at harvard law school. so his options were being a nobody among world famous intellectuals or to go off on his own shtick or try and be important. he chose the low road. fundamental problem was making him a professor at harvard law school when he himself he knew that was something he did not merited. >> sean: what about the comment, i accepted the motto i live to harass white folk. on another occasion, white boys. what does it say about him -- as we look at the por trat of president obama, right, olinski, resco, acorn and the way he is has governed. what does it tell you about the president? >> he, too, has turned his back on the ideal of a colorblind society. he is really for, i guess getting even society, a revenge society. i think the appointment of eric holder and his behavior as attorney general shows that same mindset. it's very ugly. particularly ironic in the case of bell because at one point in his career he fought against racism. now, he has gone into someone that thinks that racism should be put

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derrick bell was the first tenured african american professor at harvard law school. he wanted it and wanted it to mean something for others. >> i got hired after martin luther king was killed, after the riots and what have you, i applied a couple times before, and i came as a pioneer. i said it will be the first but i don't want to be the last. >> joining me tonight is janet dewart bell. great to have you with us. >> thank you. >> what is your reaction, are you angry? >> i'm angry and sad. i'm sad they could be so dishonest, and it's just really part of that radical right wing and the right wing media's patterns of distortion and misinformation. but you know, i'm smiling because i want to lift up the memory of derrick bell. derrick bell left a great legacy, not just to me and our family, but my husband was -- if he were here today, he would be standing up for sandra fluke, gloria steinem named him an honorary woman, because he was a feminist. that is the derrick bell i know. a man of courage, conviction, always standing up for justice, didn't matter who it was. he ac

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at harvard. nothing special. and his interest was the newspaper at harvard. he did not spend too much time studying. hughes studied law at columbia in new york city. at the top of his glass. the highest grade ever recorded on the new york bar. franklin flunked a couple of courses, never finished come up past the new york bar. hughes was a brilliant lawyer in private practice but also an investigator of corruption and mismanagement in the utilities and insurance field. a very cool and tough investigator. one ceo, when the question got tough, said, sir, we are missionaries serving the public interest. use said looking into exorbitant salaries, but the question is still the salaries of the missionaries [laughter] he made such a great impression on everybody it catapulted him into politics and elected governor of new york and reelected. franklin never cared for the practice of law. he did it for a short time. his talent was politics. you can see the contrast between the two of them as they went through their early careers. in then when franklin was assistant secr

he traveled to harvard university to talk about a prominent harvard professor, derek bell, who was protesting the issue of diversity or the lack of diversity at harvard university. professor bell was the first black tenured harvard law school professor and gained media attention for his fight against the university's hiring practices. he gave up his professorship in protest. in 1991. the activist passed away in 2011. so from 1991, a much younger without the grey hair, barack obama wearing khaki pants and a sweater, speaking to students at harvard university. >> i remember that the black law students had organized a orientation for the first-year students. and one of the persons that spoke at the orientation was professor bell

and that, i mean, it was a dating site for harvard. and i agreed 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 s

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. >> sean hannity's harvard conspiracy theory was a bust but smeared the good name of derrick bell. tonight the late professor's widow joins me to defend her husband's memory. >>> good to have you with us, thanks for watching. republicans have found their footing in their attacks on president obama. it looks like they are having an impact on the american people as well. it's all about gas. a new washington post abc new poll shows, 65% of americans disapprove of the way the president has handled gas prices. a new cbs news-new york times poll has president obama's approval rating at an all time low? it's only one poll. but that is a number and 54% of americans say gas prices are something that the president can do a lot about. really. president obama tried to get out in front of the problem today. he did television interviews with local newschannels from eight key election states. >> the single most important thing is reduce our dependence on foreign oil. the fact we reduced our dependence by a million barrels a day, that over time is going to have a big impact. >> republicans are hit

do any of you, when you applied to harvard expect to be doing this when you got here?>> reporter: brandon ortiz, ethan hardy and ben mosque perform in the show. matt whitaker doesn't but along with the other three wrote it. >> this is where i go to have fun, you know, dressing up in drag with my best friends and doing a very strenuous kick line. that's my fun time. then during the day is when i read henry james and, you know, talk about his views on the american identity. then that is done. at 7:00 i come to the theater >> reporter: and put on fake boobs. >> ...and put on fake boobs and paint my face. it's the best part of my day. >> reporter: ortiz, who is studying linguistics and speaks seven languages, plays eve-olution. >> i'm an evolved creature just like any other average joe. >> reporter: when you're standing there like this do you ever think this is really weird? >> i've never thought that before but now that i think about it, this is really weird that we're all doing this. >> reporter: weird perhaps. definitely silly. and very hard work. while maintaining majo