you were the first harvard president without a harvard degree.to the university of pennsylvania after graduating from bryn mawr with a history degree, then you became a history professor. drew: i was a student activist in college, very involved in politics, civil rights issues, vietnam war protests, and cared a lot about changing the world and having an impact on the world. when i graduated from college i worked in the department of housing and urban development, and i hoped in an idealistic way to move into maybe urban planning or some area that would enable me to carry on my concerns about public service and changing the world. but i so missed intellectual life and ideas and the kind of debate that is at the heart of a university, so i applied to graduate school and went back and got a phd at penn, which eventually led me to a faculty position at penn that i held for 25 years. emily: you wrote six books. tell me about that. drew: i became a historian of the american south. i began to explore questions, not all that distant from questions that i

harvard is one, right? no, no, no i'm sorry, arizona state is first, harvard is second. i mean, can you do that or would you get -- >> no, i think it's yale number one. >> of course it is. yes. then arizona state. >> arizona state. >> texas and then was it missouri? >> missouri. >> iowa state would be in there i think as well. and then like princeton, brown. >> i think iowa state has like 75,000 students. it's one of the most top attended colleges. it's a commuter school, but go sun devils. >> chris, thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you for having me here. >>> welcome back to "press: here." i'm scott mcgrew with john schwartz and troy wilburton of "business insider." john, you are working on a piece for "barron's," so tell me what it is. >> i'm looking at employee empowerments, especially at google. recall back in november, 20,000 of their employees walked out of work, one-fifth of their workforce, and earlier this -- well, on tuesday, they had a social media protest over forced arbitration around sexual harassment. >> right. >> google has a problem with t

also the harvard bookstore for inviting me. the last time i was supposed to be here i canceled because there was an illness in the family and i could not make it. they said don't worry we will reschedule. now i'm here three years later. [laughter] it is a real pleasure most of you know, me better for my fiction but this was a book rolling around inside my head for a long time in a sense talking backward so with a historical moment, take yourself back to new york of the 1930s there was a big war in which harlem was wiped out or subjugated to a coalition of white ethnic gangs. harlem mattered because it was the most lucrative territory in the country for organized crime because the numbers game was played by more people of harlem also between ten and 20000 so it was a big deal. but the mob had taken over the numbers game and now there is a cry from reformers and newspapers it was time to get serious about the mob and investigate. the problem was the district attorney at the time was in the pocket of the mob and had no intention o

at harvard. he was a white house fellow in the administration helpedded with with memoir with and hopely went back to teach at harvard and for last number of years been writing extraordinarily lywell received terrific, biographies and histories, and won pulitzer prize for one with of your books as well. so you're going to be writing a new book that's coming out september the 18th it is on leadership. and it's's about a book on the leadership skills of four people you've written about. one is abraham lincoln teddy roosevelt one is franklin roosevelt other is lyndon johnson so we're going to talk to you about that today and why did you decide to write a book about four different people you'veym already written books about them and why not somebody new? >> each time i finished writing one of the books, and i have to take all of that books out of my study to make room for the next guy i felt like i was betraying the person who was there before. it's like having an old boyfriend and moving to a new bo

communicators is next, author and harvard law professor susan crawford discusses her book, fiber the coming tech revolution and why america might miss it. at 8:30 speeches from the senate floor on the government shutdown and attend a forum on recent political events in venezuela. >> i am working to ensure the deal has been negotiated by the uk government with the european union is voted positively by this prominent because it's good deal and it protects job security and delivers in full on the referendum result which is key issue, i believe we owe it to people to deliver which was controlled money, borders and loss and that is what the deal does. >> tuesday, british house of commons both on brexit. watcher coverage on c-span2 and 9:00 p.m. eastern and wednesday morning, watch live coverage of prime ministers question time at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> harvard law professor and tech scholar susan crawford is the author of this new book called fiber, coming tech revolution and why america might miss it. professor crawford, what is the definition of fiber that you use here in the

good luck. >> warren takes a leave of absence from harvard.cy, there continues to be strong opposition to it and to her. especially from conservatives like then fox news host, glbeck >> i can't believe i believe in a country where that agency and practically every other agency is being run by someone, in this case it is elizabeth warren who, hates the free market system. wants to destroy it. and in some cases what a marxist or communist socialist utopia. >> many republicans in congress are also critical. >> we're pretty unenthusiastic about the possibility of elizabeth warren. >> to bam administration decides it is too polarizing. we can't nominate her. >> obama. this is early in his presidency. he wanted to avoid a fight if he could. >> instead, president obama nominates warren's colleague in july 2011. >> i asked elizabeth to find the best possible choice for director of the bureau. and that is who we found in richard porter. >> the hard part was then going back and telling the people i'd hired that i wasn't going to be able to stay. but you

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david: you met at harvard medical school paul farmer. dr. kim: we were talking about, what is the nature of your responsibility to the rest of the world? david: you lead a protest against the world bank and said it should maybe be shut down. do you have any regrets? dr. kim: i want to say to everyone here, know that i am very glad we lost that argument. [laughter] >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? you became the president of dartmouth, i think, in 2009. you were there for a couple of years. and you are trained as a medical doctor and as a social anthropologist. you have no finance background. all of a sudden, somebody says, would you like to be the president of t

david: you met at harvard medical school paul farmer. dr.im: we began talking about what is the nature of your responsibility to the rest of the world. david: you lead a protest against the world bank and said it should be shut down. do you have any regrets? dr. kim: i want to say to everyone here i am very glad we lost that argument. [laughter] >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? you became the president of dartmouth, i think, in 2009. you were there for a couple of years. and you are trained as a medical doctor and as a social anthropologist. you have no finance background. all of a sudden somebody says would you like to be the president of the world bank. what w

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questioner: harvard extension. you talked a little bit about the impact of turnover on the implementation of policy goals. i was interested, whether and to what extent that spreads out to the agencies. because policy stalling might or might not be a bad thing. in terms of the running of the country and the running of those agencies, is there a -- e of legalness [inaudible] -- about them? >> i hope you have the chance to talk to somebody who has worked for them for many years. some will tell you it doesn't matter who is president. that my job doesn't change. that i keep doing what i do day after day after day, year after year, and sometimes there will be small policy changes at the top but generally speaking it doesn't. but where it matters is programmatically. if you think about what a president can do, it's hard to make dramatic changes in this country. we're very much prone to the status quo. it's a very conservative type of government. all the president can really do is sort of shift the -- and steer the ship of

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i came to harvard as the mother of a 14-month-old child.rd as i can in a very concentrated way. i didn't waste any time. 4:00 in the afternoon, our babysitter left, and that was my child's hours till she went to sleep. playing with my daughter gave me a respite from the kind of work i was doing at law school and i think made me more sane. >> we knew that marty was ill. we just knew he had his own battle, and ruth is now caring for both marty and janie. >> marty, in his third year of law school, had a virulent cancer and days when there was no chemotherapy. there was only massive radiation. he'd go for the radiation, wake up about midnight when the only food that he ate for the day, he could manage, and then i started typing the notes that his classmates had given me from his classes, reading whatever cases i would read for the next day, and maybe i got two hours' sleep. >> she did her own work, helped her husband with his work, organized his friends so they could help him with his work, and took care of her 2-year-old child. fortunately mar

he earned his undergraduate degree in american government from harvard university. he also played fullback for the crimson football team. he was brawny and had a big build. in fact, he was even drafted to the nfl. but john punted a career on the gridiron and answered the call to a different vocation, and that was to public service. first, he served for three years in the united states marine corps. then after earning his law degree from harvard law school, he returned home to iowa and ran for public office. when senator culver was serving in the u.s. house of representatives, i was serving in the iowa statehouse. although we shared a passion for public service, we didn't share the same space on the political spectrum. but our constituents expected their elected officeholders to bring iowa integrity to that job. in politics, family is often a uniting factor. senator culver's son chet, served as governor of iowa from 2007 to 2011. in fact, the last time that i saw john was at governor culver's inaugural ball. i had the chance to tell senator culver, i know how proud y

she went to harvard, graduated magna cum laude, and was supervising editor of the law review. she clerked on the d.c. circuit and then for justice marshall on this court. she then went to actual work at williams and connelly, great law firm, for a couple of years, before teaching at the university of chicago in the early 1990's. she became associate counsel to president clinton in 1995 and later became deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. and this was at a time when as a matter of domestic policy, we were actually burning through our budget deficit and going towards a balanced budget. she was actually nominated for the d.c. circuit by president clinton. politics caused that nomination to lapse, and that has been known to happen to others from time to time. a young appellate litigator known as john roberts got that seat. so as a consolation prize, she went to harvard in 1999 where she began teaching and in what can only be described as a meteoric rise, became dean of that formidable institution in four years. six years after that, in 2009, she was nominated by

a site that let students rate each other's looks harvard almost expelled him over it his next projecttronic version of facebooks. >> the idea was a single place where people would say this is who i am, this is what i'm interested in, this is what i'm up to and see what their friends were doing at the same time. >> february 4th, 2004 they sent out invites asking harvard students to join. >> it exploded people were signing up left and right. >> when we first launched we were hoping for maybe 400, 500 people. >> over the course of the first three weeks we had 6,000 accounts started just at harvard. and the entire undergraduate student body at 6400. >> david kirkpatrick who wrote "a history of facebook". >> you had privacy on facebook. >> says users have always shared a lot about themselves on the site but they felt safe doing it. >> people put their photo, their cell phone number. their e-mail address and a lot of personal information on the service because the only people who could see it were their friends. it was the first service that worked that way. >> there was nothing else on the

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harvard used her and she used harvard. >> juan: biden is 76 or something. elizabeth warren, 69.they are all white. i don't get what you are saying. the problem is that they are white. >> emily: to respond to the last point, for the democrats championing the fact that the g.o.p. and trump is full of racism and that it's the party of white men, then to offer only a white man for example for biden, saying i'm the most qualified person to represent this entire party in all these people of color in all these other colorful people that he's supposed to represent. to me, that's a huge disconnect. who does he think he is to do that? >> juan: he was vice president twice and he was in the senate forever. >> emily: why should that experience automatically lend himself and his failed prior campaigns as well to represent all these people whose voices now recently have become louder. people are saying give me a seat at the table too. i think there is a certain hubris associated and he rubs me the wrong way. >> greg: he rubs a lot of people. >> emily: the most unrelatable person in that video.

. >> harvard extension. you talked about the impact of turnover on implementation of policy goals.i was interested to what extent that spreads to the agencies because policy storing might -- in terms of running of the country and those agencies is there a sense -- do they function autonomously? >> i hope you have a chance to talk to somebody, some of them will tell you it doesn't matter who is president, my job doesn't change. i can do what i do day after day, year after year and sometimes there will be small policy changes at the top but generally it doesn't but where it matters is programmatically. if you think of what a president can do it's hard to make dramatic changes in this country, we are prone to the status quo, very conservative type government so all the president can do is shift, steer the ship in a slightly different direction. that's what the secretaries and under secretaries and political appointees are charged with doing but there's not a lot of them. there are lots of vacancies in the realm of ambassadors. i think there are some jobs that would not change a lot wi

. >> harvard extension. >> everybody is from harvard extension or drake so far? i don't think so. >> if terms of overturn are areas or positions more or less attrition? i'd say no. and lower levels have had turnover. those are the one that's popped out to me. said, there seemed to be patterns that emerged and people leaving because they had a personal reason for leaving opposed being fired. >> thank you. >> thank you to everybody. it's nice. asking good questions. >> thank you. minutes andbout six then our next panel will be with us. do your thing and come pack. i think we're still on

. >> harvard extension. >> everybody is from harvard extension or drake so far? i don't think so. >> if terms of overturn are areas or positions more or less prone to attrition? >> i'd say no. and lower levels have had turnover. those are the one that's popped out to me. and like i said there seemed to be patterns that emerged and people leaving because they had a personal reason for leaving opposed being fired. >> thank you. >> thank you to everybody. it's nice. thank you for asking good questions. >> thank you. >> we have about six minutes and then our next panel will be with us. do your thing and come pack. i think we're still on their observations of the first two weeks of the 116th congress. they also discuss the government shutdown which has now become the longest in u.s. history. this is about an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. i think we're ready to start. we h

as a native of new york city, he graduated summa cum laude from tufts and was a scholar at harvard business school where he attended to get his mba. he began his career at american express and later became president and ceo of travelers. he moved on to help build citigroup where he was named president to become chairman and ceo of banc one. ceo of banc one. . . . .

i know he also dropped out of harvard.e he founded that there, though, which would have been in massachusetts and not in albuquerque. you know, i think... where am i at right now? >> $10,000. >> $10,000. >> going for $20,000. >> i could double it or i could lose $5,000. >> exactly. double it or lose half. still have two lifelines, 50/50 and the plus one. >> i think i'd like to use my 50/50 here. >> okay, final? >> final answer. >> okay. let's take two incorrect answers off the board. either apple or microsoft. >> so what do i know about apple versus what do i know about microsoft? uh, wow. both of those seem...st g a feee

. >> hi my name is justin i'm a grad student from harvard extension school. i have a question about staffing journal, not necessarily hiring and firing process areas i know on the hill we have this thing called ledger storm where we keep track of all the staffers, you know their salary and how much we were making, which offices we are working for and so on. is that something that the white house could potentially have maybe in the future, maybe not this president, but maybe in the future? because i think transparency is very important and also the other part of it is is that on the hill there's this huge movement to increase diversity on their staff. is that something that any of our past presidents have done? i think the i know the answer for this president. but you think that something we should focus on going forward? >> okay let me take the first question first year that's a really good question. there is something on the hill called the congressional management foundation. it's a tremendous job of collecting all sorts of statistics, demographics about th

she is doing the same legal standard my harvard background comes in i apologize, work.ow you have to look at that and say we have an explanation. >> when you have a large firm, computers come in. your ai can flag and say why is jenny being paid less than jim because although there's lots of data forms, artificial intelligence is saying, those are the same jobs? >> exactly. and that is something that is very helpful. by the way, none of our clients i believe intentionally pays people unequally for equal work. we define equal work properly, performs reviews, et cetera. no one says, i set out to pay th biases, things like i mentioned like temporary, leaving the work companies want to fix mification. responsibilities for most of their employees. making theven you wanted to. you don't know that scott does these six specific things. you know that people with the title anchor or whatever do these things, but what does he do specifically, like the example you game. now the software can track that and make those comparisons for you automatically. >> so how does the push for sala

i don't know if you know billy koehn but he is from houston., a harvard trained, baylor trained, harvard trained and unalso magician and plays trombone in a band and -- i don't think the guy sleeps and then billy -- he is also a spectacular inventor but one day he was in his office, waiting to -- every week he would see people with inventions just to tell them, yes, no, maybe this will work, and there was some kid coming in from australia and he could barely bring himself to meet with the guy, and this kid comes in with this backpack and takes a device out of that's wrapped in rags and says, i think this will work as an art artificial heart, and because billy is an inventer he looked at the thing and, excuse me, he said, holy shit, this is it. so the latest iteration in the heart that i write about predominantfully in my book has one moving part and that's about this big. but they saw from a prototype this would do it. and they're all crazy. every one of them. >> i was just going to say to be in the field you have to have a daredevil side to you. so you have plenty of anecdotes about the

she was a law professor at harvard university. don't think she wants to up-end the constitution, but she has radical ideas i disagree with. trish: do you think they believe it or are they trying to exploit the politics of the moment. i have a sense the middle class is really getting squeeze. they are frustrated, and many in desperation some people are turning to the idea of socialism. but socialism ultimately won't help them. the middle class, the people doing things right, are going to get squeeze. why are politicians playing this card? >> the energy is on the left. activists on the left have the loudest voice in the democratic party, and the media plays up to it. the mainstream media is sympathetic to left-wing sometimes radical ideas. i think that explains it. those who vote in presidential primaries tend to be more liberal left-wing. all of that explains why the party is moving as i agree with you, dangerously in a left-wing direction. trish: if they put forward a socialist nominee, will they beat trump in 2020? >> we won't if

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doctorate of film maker and hoover institution fellow and mark kramer, co- program director at hope harvard university. first, here's a look back at the apollo 8 mission. >> december 21, 1968. the shortest day of the year. insignificant but perhaps the longest in the flow of history. >> this is apollo 8. t-minus 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, nine, we have ignition sequence. the engines are on. four, three, two, one, zero. we have connect, we have lift off. left off at 7:50 1 am eastern standard time. we have cleared. >> we are clear, 13 seconds. the united states was undertaking the most distant voyage ever attempted by man. for the first time, three americans will travel by moon rocket. >> roger,. >> we hear you loud and clear. >> it smoother. >> apollo 8 using, your trajectory is go. >> thank you. >> frank gorman, gene level, the landers were about to leave the fabled earth and face the infinite frontier. >> apollo 8 houston, go ahead. >> you are go for tli. >> roger, tli. >> tli. translator insertion. this was the commitment. foreman, lovell and anders were ready for the maneuver that would se

this all culminates in the blessing that your father offers you wheeven newer at harvard and declined the blessing. we do not have a lot of time. will you talk twill you talk toe about that the first stage was not by my choice. i was ostracized for about ten monthmonths and then i was doina fellowship at harvard and my father came to visit me with my mother which was surprising because my account hates traveling and hates liberals, not an ideal place for him. he came and he did not fit in. i realized they had come to ask back into the family and what that looks like if they had been telling people and they believed i was possessed and that's why i said these things that i said and they were going to offer me this blessing if i could just go along with it i could say i haven't read an sent any of thes that i said and trade their memories for mine and there was a period at harvard pretending to be a happy family when i kind of thought i could make a bargain becausthebargain becausa pretty good deal i was trying to convince myself that it wa was maybmaybe justified somehow in surrenderin

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. >> harvard law professor and crawford is susan the author of this new book "fiber: the coming tech revolution and why america might miss it." professor crawford, what is the definition of fiber you use in the book? of fiber, definition we are talking about fiber-optic technology. it is not new. it has been around for decades. basically, the idea is a very in strand of glass -- thin strand allows unlimited amounts of information to be pumped through it by lasers. it is used around the world undersea to carry communications and more and more countries are ensuring that every one of their citizens has access to a fiber-optic connection for internet data. that is what the book is about. a scrappy cities in america making sure that their citizens have access to competitive, cheap, ubiquitous fiber connections. host: how are you and i using fiber optics today? it's present all over the place in the form of the connections running around the country and the world carrying data. the problem is, there is a bottleneck between your house and my house and let's say, the neighborhood node or ce

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>> well, i would really like to go to harvard law school. if i can make that a reality. dean: jump from graduating high school and harvard at 16 to maybe jumping into law school at 17? >> ideally, yeah. rachel: have you been on the campus already? >> yeah. guy up there each summer. i went up last summer and the summer before that so i have gotten to experience it. rachel: everything else electronically over the internet or whatever? >> um-huh. dean: you are remarkable. >> thank you. dean: we look forward to seeing and hearing more from you in the future, my friend. >> thank you. rachel: super proud of you. make our kids under achievers. dean: i'm going to go shake my kid. great job. rachel: great job and happy new year. >> thank you. rachel: your parents did a great job. ivanka trump has big plans for women in 2019. coming up a sneak peek how she wants to change lives. dean: plus, you saw the ball drop in times square, what about a 400-pound marshmallow peep? we will show you what else is being dropped across the country. rachel: the celebra

. >> author and harvard law professor susan crawford discusses her book, fiber, the coming tech revolutionand why america might miss it. >> there will be no wire better than fiber that will emerge over the next few decades and we are right now leaving behind a lot of the country when it comes to great communications capacity and as a nation we're falling behind in the global race to be the places where new ideas come from. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> the senate confirmation hearings for william barr to be next attorney general of the united states begin on tuesday at 9:30 a.m. eastern. president trump nominated him to replace jeff sessions. william barr is now of counsel at the law firm of kirk lynn

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