law school and, harvard college.scription of them getting together? >> certainly, i did. the first days at harvard college were a lot more fun than the first days of harvard law school. i can assure you that. in fact, in the law school, it is quite terrifying. it if you have been to any law school, and those of us who've done harvard as well, can testify to that. but, it is with the strength of your friends, like you saw today, in this clip, that helped you get through it. >> joe motley, it is so great to see you, thank you very much for joining us tonight, with these memories of your mother. thank you very much. >> thank you lawrence. >> thank you. judge ketanji brown jackson, getting tonight's last word, next. last word, next swollen just doing the crossword... but i didn't wait. they told their doctors. and found out their symptoms... leg pain, swelling and redness - were deep vein thrombosis. a blood clot which could travel to the lungs and lead to a pulmonary embolism. which could cause chest pain or discomfort,

yeah, harvard has been incentivizing racial victim hood over objective merit. that's what you need to know at harvard university today, an asian american has to score 440 points higher on the s a t just to have the same chance of admission as a black person. and a 150 points higher to have the same chance with mission as a white person. so what harvard has been doing and what other colleges, of course, the entire united states been, has been doing as well, which is why the supreme court case exists is creating a racial hierarchy. that puts asians at the bottom. why? because they don't want to. many asians at the university because otherwise asian americans would make up 43 percent of their university. i mean that is it the whole thing that's going on and has been going on. it is scary and it's not getting better. it's getting worse let, but let's let, let's go and in order here and, and back in december, while the court was deciding whether or not to take this case the by the administration filed a brief urging them to let the lower court ruling stand and decli

harvard law. they were roommates and they all told me judge ketanji brown jackson is someone who really works hard, she studies hard, she was brilliant at harvard. she was someone who convened people around here, starting study groups to really have people talk and an intellectual process. they said, if you had to describe her as someone who was in a race, she would be the anchor of the race nape also called her the glue, the captain. they say that she is someone who has been training for this and dreaming of this moment her whole life. one of her friends, antoinette coakley, actually told me that in their harvard dorm room, she told judge jackson that she would be the first black woman on the supreme court. and why did she say that, and she told me, it's because she really saw the desire and the work ethic in her friend. another thing to note is that she's someone who really values her african-american heritage. i was told by lisa fairfax, who's going to be introducing her, that she wanted people

i think a mid-rated at harvard is now like three or four percent. nobody is entitled to these places and what counts as merit is is you know, they're trying to get a diverse class where they have people from all kinds of backgrounds and no one person because can say i i'm entitled to that spot nor can you really say realistically in a system where there's a very modest in reference to race as a plus factor in order to achieve a real racial diversity. you can't honestly say this person was excluded because that person was included. so i agree with you our analysis of the concurrence in powell, but i disagree with your analysis of the facts of what is going on in harvard. let's let's hear from cornelius and alexandria, louisiana cornelius. good afternoon to welcome to book tv. good afternoon, peter and i want to bring up to quick things first miss cash it i want to thank you for taking the questions. i haven't been african-american here from alexandria, louisiana and our lieutenant governor named billy nun. gessner has going on the civil war civil rig

estudiante de la universidad de harvard.servicio público. recordemos que fue defensora pública y ese fue uno los atribut quea administración joe biden vio en ella lo que hizo que su nominación fuese la final. también le habló a sus dos hijas diciendo que básicamente todo es posible y que ellas el ejemplo de que todo es posible con trabajo y compromiso, le agradeció también a los jueces con quién ha trabajado de cerca. y se comprometió a trabajar de cerca para proteger la constitución y las leyes ahí la vemos saliendo, tendremos la información en el noticiero nacional en el espacio público de esta confirmación de la jueza estos era en instantes a través del noticiero de telemundo. as que estaremos esperándolos muchasracias (música) dejaron el auto abandonado y se alejaron del sitio. dejamos atrás un fin de semana que ha resultado violento, un episodio más de la crónica negra que sacude el país. nos lo contará >> cuatro personas se recuperan de heridas de bala en la capital de texas. los disparos interrumpieron el festival el

assistant director is the assistant director of studies in an election on history and literature at harvard university. she's taught seminars in tutorials on museums in america museums and material culture and science exploration and empire. a research and teaching focus on 19th century american literature and culture with particular interest in material. culture museum studies and the history of science and technology she received her phd in english from boston university and her undergraduate degree from harvard. she will be joined by mhs's own sarah georgie who is probably a familiar face to any many of our regulars. she is a series editor for the papers of john adams part of the adams papers editorial project based at the massachusetts historical society. she is the author of household gods. the religious lives the addams family and frequently writes about early america early american thought and culture for the smithsonian. um similar to whichberg. she also receives her phd from boston university. so without further ado, please join me and welcoming miss kochberg well, great. thank you

in english from boston university and her undergraduate degree from harvard. she will be joined by sarah jor gene, who is probably a familiar face it our regulars. she is the author of the religious lives and frequently writes for the smithsonian. >> thank you so much, gavin, for that introduction. and thank you for being here. i'm grate tofl the historical society for hosting me and i'm really looking forward to my conversation with sarah and i also want to thank gavin and olivia for organizing this event. it's really just a pleasure to be here and have the chances to share the work on the history of museums with this community and i'm grateful to all of you for taking the time to listen in and join in this conversation. so i'm just going to share my screen i want to start out a strange and perhaps surprising story from the early history of american museums. so some of you might be familiar with the work of carl wilson who is a portrait painter in philadelphia and the late 18th century. they established one of the museums during the 1780s. he combined collect

and the writer and naturalist henry david thorau donated to harvard's natural history museum even as he recognized its value to scientific research. so the founders of museums often envisioned order, right, they pictured these collections neatly arranged in cases and cabinets, but the reality was much more disorderly process that sudden dynamic conversations within and beyond institutions. about what we choose to preserve and value, about whose knowledge and expertise is celebrated or erased, and about who has access to the knowledge and education represented by cultural institutions. these questions continue to resonate in discussions about these institutions today, and my hope is understanding the longer history of these issues can help us think creatively about how to interpret objects that were collected during this time and also can inform how we think about making cultural institutions more interdisciplinary, inclusive and community oriented spaces today. so some of the larger issues in mind i want to come back to an early example of how museums were defining and redefining the

and the fact that she would now not sit on that case potentially deprives harvard of one of the votes it would have had. but she says because she's on the board of overseers that has some policy oversight over harvard that she -- it's appropriate for her to recuse. i will say this, that judges in her position, on the lower courts, recuse much more often than the supreme court justices do for this simple reason. she's not the -- when she was on the district court, she was not the only one. and if she recused, another judge could take the case. same on the court of appeals. there are no spares on the supreme court. so when a justice of the supreme court recuses, it reduces the number of justices who are going to hear the case. so nonetheless, justices do recuse from time to time if they were involved in the case. elena kagan recused when the supreme court last revised -- took a look at this issue because she was solicitor general at the time the case was argued. it's understandable why she would say she was going to recuse. but you know, it's a big deal. >> garrett, let me turn to you b

those offar archibald cox, you can see them at harvard. in each of these four instances, in each of these four caches of documents, archibald cox, you can see them at harvard. in each of these four instances, in each of these four caches of documents, archibald cox, you cn see them at harvard. in each of these four instances, in each of these four caches of documents, i was the first to have access. they were to eager to nail nixon that they got carried away. what is just astonishing to me, not that they got carried away, you could predict that, but they wrote memos bragging about it, and i've got the memos. the third development is the filing of a complaint of attorney misconduct. and this is -- honestly, this is delicious. it's not in the book, but this is delicious. the department of justice established after watergate a special internal affairs unit whose only job is to investigate and report on allegations of misconduct by department of justice attorneys. they have incredible power. but this is an internal affairs unit whose job is to

and -- walker, dean and professor at harvard school of law. professor goodwin, let me begin with you in that lesson we just heard in person -- the perseverance we saw today in these hearings. i'm going to let you have the cory booker moment. that microphone is yours. >> well, these are lessons that all black women have had passed down to them over generations. that -- would bring that to her is something so familiar to so many black women, at airports. the people working in our institutions who may be the people who are doing sanitation and picking up the trash at night. the people who hear the whispers in the other rooms but to give you that look and say, hey, hang in there. it's so important that you are here. these are the lessons that have been passed down for generations. something that sometimes i say, lawrence, during speeches that i think we have never had to settle with in this country, which is, what is it that a black mother says the night before the slave auction? when she know she is never going to see her child again? in a countr

they went on to become classmates at harvard law. >> it was, we're going to make this together.re going to help each other. ketanji taught me that. >> reporter: jackson's writing and her analytical skills earned her as a spot on the harvard law review. but her feriends say she today south for more than just academics. >> she's hilarious. people are so blinded by her intellectual brilliance that they don't realize she has another stide to her. >> she has an amazing voice. we heard her sing and if she had wanted to pursue w have beenri space. >> reporter: but her true passion was always the law. >> she came to college knowing she wanted to be a lawyer. >> and not just a lawyer, right, she wanted to be a judge, didn't she? >> yes, she did. that makes sense by the way she talks and walks. >> she grew up in miami, florida. the oldest child of two educators. her father is also a lawyer. >> they were there for her. they said why not you? you belong here. you worked hard, you're smart. you can do this. >> reporter: jackson attended a predominantly white high school where she learned to

she is 51 years old, undergrad and law degree from harvard.he would be the first former federal public defender to serve on the supreme court. to the phones, elizabeth is calling from maryland, independent. you are up first in this segment, go ahead. caller: what do you think republican senators on the judiciary committee are going to drill her with? do think she will have a hard time with republicans or not? guest: we are hoping she will not. but both of us who are advocates and others will push back if what happens is unfair and challenging the public speak up, voters speak up. they do not use her as a political football, do your job. he ask her fair questions. you have a right to ask about her experience on the bench, a right to ask about the things she has done. do not make it personal. attacker character. that is where the concern lies. host: where you concerned about the series of tweets on her record on child poor cases? guest: sometimes it is hard to make delivery, what are you inferring about her, that is where we run into real proble

and serving in the harvard law review. >> justice breyer, the members of the senate will decide if iyour seat, but please know that i could never fill your shoes. >> reporter: she would bring fresh experience to the high court bench, having worked for three years as a federal public defender, something no justice has ever done before. >> the constitution guarantees that defendants will have fair and competent representation. and the fact that she's been in that role i think makes her a lot more well rounded than maybe the justices that we've seen before. >> reporter: her legal decisions have been measured. only 12 of her 600 opinions on the district court reversed on appeal. today's hearing is a departure from the past two supreme court confirmations. sexual assault allegations clouding now justice brett kavanaugh's confirmation in 2018, which he denied. and now justice amy coney barrett seemingly anti-abortion views under attack by democrats in 2020. republicans reframing the conversation. >> it is only one side of the aisle that with justice clarence thomas was so reprehensible. th

the justices will be deciding whether harvard's race-conscious admissions program as well as another one at the university of north carolina violates the constitution. notably during the confirmation proceedings, senator cruz was asking judge jackson about this very case because she happens to not only have gone to harvard undergrad and law, but she sat on the harvard board of overseers which has to do with actual governance of the school and senator cruz asked judge jackson, will you participate in this blockbuster case involving harvard next term and she said, in what was one of the fewer substantive answers when it came to specific cases, "i plan not to hear this case." she will be recusing, if confirmed, in one of the big affirmative-action cases next term which could change the dynamics of the debate when you have a court deciding a very thorny question of constitutional law. host: you think that was the right call, to recuse herself? jimmy: when you mentioned an episode we did on transparency at the soup import and our guest was the executive director of a judicial watchdog tha

school speech and debate team and she competed nationally successfully and visited the campus of harvard university, she loved it and she decided this was going to apply to go to school there were she went back to her high school in florida, she said out of the counselor to talk about that option and counselor discourage her, she was a big two by but she did it anyway and she was accepted and then went on to harvard law school she has clerked every level of the federal judiciary, not a lawyer that may not mean much but if your lawyer, that is a big deal. i think that she started off as they lowest federal district court level, clucking for ag judge, then she was accepted to move a political to the circuit judge position, serve as a clerk as well, and then finally, rob goldring, having a supreme court clerk if none other than justice stephen breyer, whose vacancy she is hoping to fill she worked in private practice as a lawyer, and she proved she was a consensus builder, all the way along on them and she served as a district judge now circuit court in the dc circuit has no surprise that s

she invested fully in me, including taking me to harvard. the first i had ever thought of it, to enter me into a speech. in the category of great mentors, it was also my great, good fortune to have the chance to have u.s. district judge, appeals judge and supreme court justice susan breyer. at extraordinary people were exceptional role models. justice breyer not only gave me the greatest job that any law -- any young lawyer could hope to have, but he also exemplifies what it means to be a supreme court justice of the highest judge of the skill, integrity and grace. it is extremely humbling to be considered for justice breyer seats. i know i could never fill his shoes, but if confirmed, i would hope to carry on his spirit. on the day of his supreme court nomination, justice breyer said, "what is law supposed to do, seen as a whole? it is supposed to allow all people to live together in a society where they have so many different views, so many different needs to live together in a way that is more harmonious , that is better. so that they can

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david: how did you think harvard business school was?re the people smarter than you thought or not as smart as you thought they would be? shouzi: i had a great time there. the most important moment, i met my wife in business school. to me, this was a great two years. david: you graduate from harvard business school in what year? shouzi: in 2010. david: what did you do then? shouzi: i joined an investment company called dst, which invests in internet companies. david: is this your company? shouzi: yes. david: what do you do for him? you look for internet related investments? how many years where you there? shouzi: i was there for about five years. it was during this time that i got to invest in bytedance. david: then what did you do? shouzi: i joined a company where i initially was the cfo, and then ran the global operations for the company. david: so you did that for a while and a headhunter called you up and said, sweat, we want you to come to bytedance, or was it? shouzi: it was not a headhunter. i stayed close with the people from byt

she finished mag in a couple laud at harvard, couple laud at harvard law school, she clerked for republicanlerked for justice breyer. this is the idea america. that anybody can work hard and become a member of the united states supreme court. she embodies that. she em bodies the american spirit. >> that's the report from the white house. and we're joined now as promised by barbara arnwine. she is a long time advocate for civil rights. will welcome back. >> great to be back on your show again, ari. thank you for having me. >> absolutely. the what do you see of the portrait we get there from the white house which obviously has a very vested interest in pushing judge jackson and some of what we just heard from her? we'll hear a lot more on monday. >> i can't wait for the nation to hear this woman. to hear her in her own voice and her own commitment. she is really unique in the sense that she has fought so hard to be a really stellar jurorist. nine years on the bench. she has really advocated strongly for, you know, to be a good judge. fair, consider rat, careful in her opinions. what i find am

his point was that now that we are at harvard medical school we need to own that. we need to use our harvard medical training and research skills for the poor and give them the best care always. and it was then that i understood the opportunity that i had to make a difference and serve those suffering from inequities with the care i would provide as a doctor. i spent many years under his wing, learning from him and training with him to provide humanitarian aid and care. it was in the classroom at harvard, in the rainforest of mexico, and in the aftermath of the earthquake in haiti that i learned from paul the powerful act of accompaniment. i admired his humility with the people, his fierce advocacy with the powerful, his selfless and the enormous respect that he showed to all he cared for, regardless of income or education. he treated everyone as equals. and worked to earn their respect. it is because of him that i stand before you all today both as a physician and as a representative of the people. dr. farmer was a great man. a humble servant, and a fierce warrior

because she's on the board of overseers for harvard. normally if you're sitting on the board of an entity even if you own stock in the entity, you can then sit on a case where they are a litigant. i think senators will want to know. i think an area she can talk about is broader issues that come before the court like court packing, that was someone she was brought up, something the liberal dark money groups who have been the strongest proponents of her nomination have advocated very firmly, one group from demand justice has said he would be happy with up to 40 members of the supreme court. he's also set some shocking things like the constitution should be scrapped. so i think she might be asked about things about that group. are you get a distance yourself. we know justices ginsburg and breyer also talked about court packing so justices can talk about those. i hope we have the opportunity to learn about the nominee because this is someone who could sit on the court for 30 years so we can just kind of breeze through this and go on a compl

and, if confirmed jackson would become the first black woman on the nation's highest court, a harvardchool graduate, jackson would replace retiring supreme court justice stephen breyer whom she clerked for, back in 1999. jackson's confirmation would be ground breaking in more ways than one. it would be the first time that four women would be on the court at the same time, with jackson, sonia sotomayer, elena kagan and amy coney barrette. cbs' jan crawford will start us off. >> reporter: we got a preview of what we can expect the senators to ask her over the next two days and then we heard from the nominee and she talked about hee promised if confirmed to be independent. >> do you affirm that the testimony you are about to give before the committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> reporter: promising to carefully follow the law, judge ketanji brown jackson told senators she would decide case without fear or favor. >> i have dedicated my career to ensuring that the words engraved on the front of the supreme court building "equal j

he did not go tlr harvard. he went -- he did not go to yale or harvard. he is a self-described hellraiser before he turned the corner and became a more serious person. he would have had a hard time. he does not meet the educational background and he would have been more controversial. ruth bader ginsburg would be controversial. they took stands along the way before they got there. the current route to the court encourages keeping your head down and working hard. like a silent version of jumping through all of these ever narrowing hoops. i do not think that is helpful. susan: you referenced how presidents use to appoint politicians. we pulled these numbers from your book. before 1980, 14 u.s. senators, 17 house members, five continental congress members, one president, or two in your telling, 10 governors, five mayors, and 40 state legislators, sandra day o'connor was the last appointee with political experience. why the change? prof. barton: it is a divided court and public opinion on it is divided. people think the court is already to political, so addin

that's why they got into harvard. they had to work their way. and they couldn't get him because they had family connections. so i think this is a great lesson for the way that black women have to over, over, over perform, just to get to where people who are far less intelligent and far less where they get for free. she's gonna get on that court and she's gonna be the smartest person on. it and it's gonna make lindsey graham and the rest of his friends just burn. i nominate joy reed to produce that documentary for msnbc films, of those four girls who get together as sophomores at harvard college, and where they are now. >> i would do that in a heartbeat, i would love. that >> -- if he does listening, senator murkowski before we go, i gotta ask you, what happened to the tough chairman? if anyone had ever dared to ask a witness in the senate finance committee, or in the public works committee before that, when i was sitting there behind chairman monahan, if anyone dared to ask a witness about religious affiliation, that senator would have been slim

i was a black student at harvard both in the harvard undergraduate black students association and theiation. >> do you remember going to a speech given by mr. jeffries? i think he's the uncle of the king jeffries. >> i did not go to his speech given by mr. jeffries. >> are you now familiar with the press reports about what mr. jeffries' views are? >> just in preparation for this. >> okay. and do you associate yourself with those views? >> i do not, senator. >> as a matter of fact, he's been called by many as very anti-semitic. he called you skunk who stink up the place. you don't agree with that, do you? >> i do not, senator. >> it would be wrong for me or anyone else to hold his statement against you because he spoke at some group you remember of, right? >> senator, i don't have, yes. >> it would be, that's right. that's the right answer. i thought that was the right answer with judge alito. when they made a big deal about some group he was in that had views that he didn't agree with and tried to call him basically a racist and found out senator kennedy, god rest his soul, would beat

i don't know that any of my friends from harvard law school are here, but if you note on the book, on the cover where my criminal law professor, alan dershowitz, said some very nice things about me. so, in addition to the above, as jim mentioned, i was deputy counsel on president nixon's wanted to break watergate defense team. and i was there throughout the scandal and it's unfolding. i transcribed the white house tapes. i ran the document rooms holding the seized the files of the watergate defendants, and i staffed nixon's counselors on watergate issues. as you all know, it ended rather badly. president nixon resigning in disgrace, and two dozen members of his administration going to jail. i pointed ever since what exactly went wrong in our response to that burgeoning scandal. without really coming up with a knee answers. that is until i learn some time ago that the watergate prosecutor's files, at least those that survived, are maintained at our national archives. the prosecutors were after all technically government employees. i spent a lot of my time ever since reviewing those fil

are now available at harvard's law library. they've declined to return them to the archives where they should be but you can see them at harvard. in each of these four instances in each of these four caches of documents. i was the first to have access treasure troves of new information. and when i've uncovered detail incredible wrongdoing by the prosecutors, they were so eager to nail nixon. and there was no supervision. from the department of justice that they got carried away. and what is just astonishing to me? not that they got carried away. you could predict that. but they wrote memos bragging about it. and i've got the memos. the third development is the filing of a complaint of attorney misconduct and this is honestly, this is delicious. it's not in the book. but this is delicious. the department of justice established after watergate a special internal affairs unit whose only job is to investigate and report on allegations of misconduct by department of justice attorneys. they have incredible power. but this is an inter

followed by degrees from harvard college and harvard law school. courtships as the federal district court, federal court of appeals in the united states supreme court. two years as a federal public defender. two years as a staff member of the united states sentencing commission. four years as its vice chair. you have been confirmed by the senate, not once, not twice, three times. each on a bipartisan basis, including two lifetime judicial appointments. you bring nearly a decade of judicial experience, which by the way is more than the combined total of the currently sitting justices at the time they were nominated. again, you are clearly more than qualified to serve as the justice of the supreme court of the united states. yes, you welcome other experiences and expectations to the court your including as a working mother and a black woman. i look forward to speak forward about your background, on and off the bench. and your approach to the law. based on our conversations already, and my review of your record, i believe that you have the expertise,

that's why they got into harvard. they had to work their way and they couldn't get hi because they had famil connections. so i think this is a great lesson for the way that blac women have to over, over, over perform, just to get to wher people who are far les intelligent and far less where they get for free. she's gonna get on that cour and she's gonna be the smartes person on. it and it's gonna make lindsey graham and the rest of his friends just burn. >> i nominate jewelry to produce that documentary for msnbc films, of those four girls who get together a sophomores at harvard colleg and where they are now >> i would do that in heartbeat, i would love. that >> - if he does listening, senato murkowski before we go, i gott ask you, what happened to th tough chairman if anyone had ever dared to as a witness in the senate financ committee, or in the publi works committee before that, when i was sitting there behin chairman monahan, if anyon dared to ask a witness about religious affiliation, tha senator would have been

i was a black student at harvard, both in the harvard undergraduate black students' association and thevard law school black students association. >> right. do you remember going to a speech given by mr. jeffries? i think he's the uncle of akeem jeffries? >> i did not go to a speech given by mr. jeffries? >> are you now familiar with the press reports about what mr. jeffrey's views are? >> just in preparation with this. >> and do you associate yourself with those views? >> i do not. >> he's been called by many very anti-semitic. he called jewss skunks who stink up the space sflp and it would be wrong for me to hold his views against you. >> yes, it would. >> i thought that was the right answer with judge alito, when they made a big deal about some group he was in that had views that he didn't agree with and tried to call him basically a racist. and found out that senator kennedy, god rest his soul, who beat the crap out of the guy for being part of some supper club that was actually in some organization called the owl, that didn't admit women. so i guess the reason i'm bringing all of t