harvard is harvard. course,eason why is, of harvard is harvard, and when i was younger asking, what's the best lost all i can go to so i can really be the best at running this company, mom told me harvard, and i said, ok, that is the law school i had to go to. tavis: that is a very important question. to the extent you have to be successful, asking the right questions. what is the best out there? >> yes, i think that is really important. i do not want to say that the best in the number one ranked or being some abstract idea, but really the best. i think a lot of times, people do not ask that question. jimmy, going to rice undergrad, that was the best for me. there was family. it was a close, tight-knit campus. it was the best school for me. i think that was the question i also asked about going to harvard, is that the best school for me as well as the best so i can get to my goals. harvard is a wonderful school. they have a lot a great profrs things that sets them apart as they bring in some talented peo

the power there they were bragging we have twice as many harvard people as the kennedy administration there. ready to serve the most conservative regimes and the liberalism i often argue is not very liberal it's often it was very willing to cooperate with the cold war in the national security state and go along with that and many of them as accept most of the major assumptions of the. post nine eleven consensus that this war on terror is something that must continue on and on you know when you have the president of harvard at the three hundred seventy fifth anniversary welcomes henry kissinger back and there's just all these standing ovations in applause for this man you know harvard i think feels very comfortable with many of the leading architects of a foreign policy that's created this permanent war economy and this national security state and chomsky also said that propaganda is largely directed toward the privileged thank you so much for your time thank you. guys that's it for today's show as always thanks for watching thanks for your feedback always and i'll soon right back here

summers would go on to become the president of harvard university which boasted the largest and down that fine of any american university the fund was loaded with these very derivatives that he supported but an employee of the fund management company as ira smacked fired off a warning letter to summers about the positions and challenge of the competence of the fund managers for her trouble she was fired but she was eventually proven correct when harvard lost an astonishing twenty seven percent of his and down meant because of these a very derivative positions summers eventually resigned his post at harvard and two thousand and six after a speech he gave where he suggested women are biologically inferior to men in scientific reasoning but during his time at harvard he had begun supplementing his income through consulting and speaking engagements for financial institutions after he left in two thousand and eight he made one point seven million dollars from speaking engagements goldman sachs paid him a hundred thirty five thousand dollars for one speech and summers would eventually dona

no, no, listen, listen, you're the harvard guy, i'll give you that one. let me ask you this, as a kid, and howl are you? >> 43. >> stephen: yeah, as a kid, growing up, we're never going to get off our dependence on foreign oil, right, we'll be slaves and chains. they're going to own our women and their harems in saudi arabia because we'll need their oil. now we're fracking north dakota. we got more oil than we know what to do with in the future. there's plenty of oil out there. we can sell this to other people. is there anyway we can frack our economy and no longer be dependent on the chinese and we flip the script and china is dependent upon us for sales, but we don't need their cash, game over. >> it's a great plan. >> stephen: thank you. [cheering and applause] >> but what i think is that in the real world that would mean we would borrow even more of our own money. we would own even more of our own debt. >> stephen: who wins? look into your crystal ball. who wins this one? >> we don't know who wins. >> stephen: america wins. the answer is america wins.

richwine was a student at harvard supervised and approved by the committee of respected scholars. its finding do not reflect the position of the heritage foundation or the conclusions of our study. well said. that mike gonzalez sounds pretty smart. he's probably adopted. now heritage-- (applause) heritage here, heritage is saying they find no credence in richwine's dissertation. which they are careful to point out was supervised and approved by respected scholars at harvard. in other words, richwine's paper which says that today's hispanic immigrants have low iqs and will for several generations dooming them to failure is reprehensible. and had no influence on this paper cowritten by the same guy which says hispanic immigrants are a burdensome underclass and will be for several generations because they're doomed to failure. because this one is based on hard numbers unlike this one, which is an offensive screen with no credibility approved by harvard so it must be pretty good. (laughter) these two papers are totally different. it's like-- it's like apple pickers and orange pickers.

meaning the people from stanford, harvard and other places. and is deceptively bland looking physically slight with slender fingers and thinning hair. >> we've gone well pass that. >> i want to show a couple of your youtube moments where you are using the tom goldstein humor. >> i suppose. >> let's watch. [video clip] >> have you been victim of gross racial discrimination? >> the press victim of an outrageous lower court ruling taking your case to the supreme court is your constitutional right and i can help. you see, i'm a member of the supreme court bar. that's the select group of attorneys permitted by law to practice before the justices. filing brief and presenting moral argument. these folks include the briefs in all the case it's i file. in that time i argued 18 cases on a wide range of important federal law questions. i teach supreme court litigation. at stanford law school in california, as well as harvard law school in massachusetts. i've been called, the nation's premier supreme court advocate. i speak regularly at the nation's most

robert kaplan is an assistant dean professor at harvard business school. kaplan is the author of a new book "what you're really meant to do." i don't know if this p and g case will become a harvard business sool case study. but you thought it was the right thing to do to bring loufly back. >> he's one of the great ceos this country ever had and he was a great ceo at p and g. he articulates a very clear vision, how they add value, what their competencies are. in particular that vision is always driven by the needs of the customer. so he talked about the need to adapt, to change, to keep moving forward, and i think that takes real decisiveness. what he'll bring to this company, he'll finish the restructuring, the cost-cutting but you'll see him focus very haef heavily on the customer. >> this feels like phil jackson coming back to coach the lakers one more time. i wonder what it says, though, p and g always had this reputation of being a place that minted the next generation of business leaders. do you agree wh that and number two the fact they went back to

it is in the harvard environment it solidified. later, this is a story i tell in my book, and endowed with the the the most mathematician is literate i could no more pass the general exams now than i could fly and there is a reason. my father although he never knew what was responsible for this of a great irony. because when i went to harvard, a first term by took calculus and that was fine. not my most exciting but not my hardest either. i fully intended to go on to the next calculus class but harvard had a month between terms and i was walking down the hallway somewhere and i ran into the chairman of the mathematics department who was a well-known mathematician in his own right and published a paper with my father. i am sure he thought he was making small talk and he said marina i am so glad you have upheld the family honor by getting the grade of a in calculus and i thought oh my god what happens to the family honor if i get an a minus? [laughter] and from that day i have never taken another mass course. [laughter] -- math cours

i flashed back to when i was a sophomore at harvard. my sececond time in new york.igure out what in the world was going to do. i found it intimidating to look at the sea of opportunity and jobs. how do you find that potential? >> what i try to help people to and myhole ceer, when i managed people, it was to try to first with understand your strengths and weaknesses. understand your passions and then match them. do some homework and jobs out there and figure out which jobs are a good fit. that all sounds very simple, but most people struggle to do one or more of those things. lou: as you look at the road maps, reaching a potential, it is a very simple world in terms of a career, at least on wall street you're measured by money. and the feedback is pretty straightforward. isn't it? >> no. and so i used to give -- this book came out of the talk i used to give to young people of my firm. i still have not met a business person yetet who does not become successful overtime by adding value to a customer or client. you have got to add value. you have got to build distinctiv

there were laughs and tears during oprah's commencement speech on thursday at harvard university, but she also addressed gun control reform. >> we understand that the vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger background checks because they believe we can uphold the second amendment and also reduce the violence that is robbing us of our children. they don't have to be incompatible. >>> the "new york post" says president obama's half brother is trying to take his younger brother's celebrity all the way to the bank. malik obama is reportedly sell two of the president's handwritten letters for $15,000 a pop. >>> a measure to force a recall election of controversial arizona sheriff joe arpaio has failed. opponents needed 335,000 signatures but only gathered about 300,000. >>> the california state senate has approved a bill revoking the tax exempt status of the boy scouts of america. >>> texas senator ted cruz is not making many friends in washington after saying he doesn't trust members of his own republican party. former vermont governor howard dean tells msnbc's lawrenc

she serves on the boards of harvard and princeton and of the institute for advanced study at princeton, and she holds honorary degrees from more than 20 colleges and universities. quite a woman, ladies and gentlemen. it's my pleasure to welcome her now. please, marina von neumann whitman. [applause] so good to have you here. >> well done can. so good to be here. >> thank you very much. >> i should say, by the way, that i have served on the boards of harvard and princeton, but not smugglesly. >> ah, okay. [laughter] >> that would sort of be like serving on the boards of gimbles and macy's at the same time. >> that's true. [laughter] good point. well, welcome. >> it's wonderful to be here. and i must say this is a fabulous museum. i had a sort of mini tour. i think, actually, the full tour would take days and days, but it's pretty exciting. >> thank you. thank you very much. it was so much fun to take you around this morning and, of course, to look at what we call the johnnyac, but i know that was not your father's favorite phrase for that computer. >> well, he liked it, but the institut

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grandson or granddaughter interested in petroleum engineering, they will get out making more than a harvard graduate. so, again, what are you bringing into it? what is your focus? we try to do nuance, different

that is a like got involved. >> host: you're teaching at harvard in the '70s where people smoking in the classroom? >> they were. i remember they completely had a closed room and the professor was smoking klay cigarette. that is the ubiquitous. everybody said they knew it was bad for you but there was smoking everywhere. doctors, they recommended patients to smoke. our administrative assistants mother was a vice 1962 to take up smoking so it would ease the delivery and even now we have 400,000 babies born every year to mothers whose smoke all during pregnancy. there is in this noah smokes anymore and that is in this because reynolds say it is reserved for the pork in the black and the stupid. >> host: when did reynolds say that? >> in a photo shoot with the winston man in the 1980's quite a racist comment. but that is what happened it is also called project scum to sell to gays and the homeless in the semblances go area. projects subculture urban marketing. project some. the industry that treats its customers that way and realizes most consumers actually wished they did not use the p

today, to talk about true success, and finding your way. >> i'm at harvard!> if you're willing to listen, to be guided by that still-small voice that is the gps within yourself, to find out what makes you come alive, you will be more than okay. you will be happy. you will be successful. and you will make a difference in the world. >> oprah winfrey at harvard. >>> still ahead here on "world news," heading to the ballpark, a right of summer for the american family. but with skyrocketing prices, we'll show you how to save hundreds of dollars on your day at the old ball game. "real money" next. years ago, my doctor told me to take a centrum silver multivitamin every day. i told him, sure. can't hurt, right? and now today, i see this in the news. once again, centrum silver was chosen by researchers for another landmark study. this time looking at eye health. my doctor! he knows his stuff. [ male announcer ] centrum. the most studied. the most recommended. and the most preferred multivitamin brand. the choice is clear. whoa! hey, we got a weather alert for this loc

the world's top universities including harvard columbia, uc berkeley and princeton offering virtual learning to some 15 countries through nonprofit websites. like udacita and udemi. the founder is also a stanford professor and he believe hes the old model of education is being challenge. >> when you go to school for four years and the next 40 years is on what you learned the model doesn't make sense in the rapidly changing world. we are bringing adults back into the education system so that they can keep on, you know, getting booster shots of knowledge. >> already, millions are tapping in with an average of 15% of them finishing the entire course. the american council on education says some are worthy of college credit. >> interesting thing is because of the technology and because we can track what students.org and what they are learning, how they are performing on different exercises and examinations, we have the ability to be able to really determine the learning outcomes. >> still, educators threat that inter-- stress that interaction is critical and crucial to learning and there may be r

i'm at harvard! >> yes. she is. media mogul oprah winfrey's words of wisdom for the nation's elite graduates. >> cheating at the airport. what some travelers are doing to cut long lines and get in fron >>> animal planet under fire for a program got the network's highest ratings ever. more than three and a half million people watched the show called "mermaids" including a shot of a creature. the whole thing was a fake but animal planet never bothered to mention that except for a fast blink if you miss it disclaimer in the closing credits. >> we wanted foam approach the city stwri a sense of possibility and wonder. hopefully that is what they allowed them to do. to believe. >> the show drew the ire of noa because what producers claimed was an exclusive interview with a former noa scientist. that man was a actor. >> wait until they do the unicorn expose. >> charles ramsey gained cult hero status for the part in the rescue of three kidnapped women signed a deal to become a celebrity speaker could earn $10,000 per appear

daniel lieberman, is a harvard professor who studied long distance running, or as i call it, driving. a prison inmate is suing taco bell for stealing his doritos taco shell idea. and, also, for his doritos taco shiv idea. this is the the "colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcome to the report. thank you for joining us, ladies and gentlemen. >> stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. oh! make no mistake, the heroes are on fire. folks, i hope you know, for obama watchdogs like me, the last week of scandals has been like christmas morning. ( laughter ) and speaking of christmas, why are all the presents wrapped? what are they trying to hide? ( laughter ) now, of course, obama has been in full damage control trying to wiggle out of this one, just like me wiggled up on the of serving in vietnam. ( laughter ) sorry, mr. president, you can't escape this time by claiming to be eight years old. ( laughter ) and it's not just obama, folks. yesterday, the president