a conversation with harvard kennedy school professor nolan bowie. i'm maria hinojosa. this is one-on-one. >> hinojosa: professor nolan bowie, welcome to one on one. you are, my gosh, you are one of those renaissance men, so i'm going to list a few of the things that you've done in your life. you are a lawyer, you're a professor at the kennedy school of government, you are a former member of the u.s. naval reserves... this one i just loved: former assistant special prosecutor in the watergate special prosecution force. oh my god. and you're an artist and a writer. i don't know how you do all these things. how do you do it all? >> it's usually one at a time. >> hinojosa: (laughs) so not multitasking? >> well, that too, on occasion. >> hinojosa: but fascinating, even though you devote your life to understanding communication, democracy, literacy, access, you are not one of those people who is on facebook, on twitter, communicating all the time with the masses. >> well, one of the reasons i have time to do the other things is that i'm not on facebook and communicating with

>> it's capital formation and growth at harvard's kennedy school of government. >> thank you for coming back on the show. jeff, you tell me, you know a lot about european politics, there's a tarp like setting going directly into recapitalizing banks. it's going to be hon tored by their bailout fund, but here is the thing that i like. they're setting up a bank board, a supervisory board to monitor this under the european central bank. there is structure, and when i saw that thought out structure, i figured as an exgovernment bureaucrat there might be something behind it, what's your take? >> just on the u.s. stock market rally for a second, i'm not sure why you and your guests are so sure that's not a positive move from obamacare. that's not what you want me to talk about. on europe, i agree with you, i think this is an important move that was decided overnight in brussels, and i share your view that it's the banking part of it, that the move in the direction of a banking union, is something that can help and is achievable. europe has been stuck on this idea of fiscal federal thasm won't

institute of peace, graduate of duke university at harvard's kennedy school of government and also aormer fulbright scholar who lived in syria in the mid 1980's. cliff is on the phone from baltimore. good morning. thanks for waiting. caller: good morning. thanks for having me on the show. again, this is just the latest instance where the american people are being hit over the head with lies and propaganda concerning what's actually going on in the middle east. the pictures of these women and children were actually pictures of dead women and children photographed in iraq. just from american crawford broming, ok? this is like the incubator story about the babies in iraq. been completely false. complete propaganda. and the so-called arab spring is completely western backed. host: thanks for the call. is this propaganda? guest: no, there are u.n. monitors on the ground that have in fact confirmed the deaths in syria at hula, there are also human rights orpganizations who have interviewed survivors of the massacre, it's very clear that this massacre did take place in syria. there are othe

from the kennedy school at harvard. the first one went to williams, the second one went to dartmouth. my daughter is a television reporter, anchor. she was doing that for cbs for a while and then after the upheaval there she left and she's now connected with msnbc or nbc. >> that's mika prison inski. >> that's right. increasingly people identify me as being the father of. >> now back in 1989 when we -- i haven't seen you or interviewed you since then. in '89 here's what you said a little bit about the media. >> what kind of a job do you think the mass media does in this town as it relates to foreign policy? >> mixed. mixed. i can't say frankly that it's topnotch. i don't think it's terrible. i think there are elements of both. there are some people, i don't want to mention names, obviously, who write very perceptive thoughtful analysis or focus their stories on significant truths. but there's always enormous number of people in mass media who are first of all devoid of any ideas of their own who just follow the pack. wh

attended law school, he is a successful attorney and partner, practicing law through the state of georgia. also honored to be the 21st century leader fellow at the harvard university, john f. kennedychool of government. ashley bell. [applause] >> you just change parties recently, right? okay. ruth c. jones, city manager, riviera beach from florida. she's producers as the cement for rivera beach, a city that has 7% african-americans, particular work as city manager in june 2009, she served as deputy counsel, county manager. also assistant county manager for seven years. she played a key role in the developing of the county's overall budget, was totaled nearly $1 million. this jones convinced that riviera beach is the right place at the right time but she says i think all of us together, even in these challenging times we can show strength and work to create long-term success. ruth c. jones. [applause] >> emily murphy, senior counsel small business committee. senior counsel to the committee on small business in the u.s. house of representatives, specializing and contracting and workforce issues. this is her second time with the committee. she worked in government contracting, lendin