justice ginsburg was top among the women in her class at cornell university before attending harvard law school, where she was only one of nine women in the class of 1959 before she transferred in graduated from columbia law school. upon graduation, she clerked for the southern district of new york. she became the second woman to join the faculty at rutgers university school of law. later at columbia, she became the first tenured woman on the faculty. she founded the women's rights project and is director of the project, she argued many court cases, including many before the u.s. supreme court, which challenged sexual stereotypes and pave the way for better opportunities for women. during her time at columbia, she served on our city bar executive committee from 1974-1978. prior to the supreme court, she served on the u.s. court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit. it is my privilege to invite justice ginsburg to the podium to introduce our distinguished speaker justice kagan. after that, i will come back up and we will have a q&a following justice kagan's remarks. people in the audi

justice ginsburg was top among the women in her class at cornell university before attending harvard law school, where she was only one of nine 1959 in the class of before she transferred in graduated from columbia law school. upon graduation, she clerked for the southern district of new york. she became the second woman to join the faculty at rutgers university school of law. jeter at columbia, she became the first tenured woman on the faculty. she founded the women's rights project and is director of the project, she argued many court cases, including many before the u.s. supreme court, which challenged sexual stereotypes and pave the way for better opportunities for women. during her time at columbia, she served on our city bar executive from 1974-1978. prior to her -- to the supreme on the u.s.erved court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit. it is my privilege to invite justice ginsburg to the podium to introduce our distinguished speaker justice kagan. after that, i will come back up the cuts we will have a q&a following justice kagan's remarks. people in the audience will be a

she was lying about the level of difficulty of getting from where she was to harvard law school. easier when you have somebody paying for your law school tuition and raising your kids. >> claire mccaskill says if she were campaigning she would not campaign with obama, how effective would the campaigning be, and do you think senators, and if you like your plan you can keep your plan how effective do you think it will be? >> i think it is the most important issue and can't see anything changing that. obviously, the obama-friendly media will try to change the subject to anything else. but it is going to be hard with people who are getting their premium notices in the mail. and oh, great, now they put it off, the requirement for the smaller employees. unconstitutionally i might add. but there is now a caveat to the constitution. you can't impeach a president if he is our first black president. but this idea that obama can just switch the implementation of the law in order to avoid the mid-term election, i still think enough people are being hurt. you know, i have talked about on fox n

that amount joined by elizabeth bartholet buckle to director of the child advocacy program at harvard law school. i really appreciate you being on the show i think it's a very sensitive issue and we are all for a very very interesting discussion thanks for having me now i know that you are one of the most vocal advocates in your country for international adoption but after growing steadily for almost six decades did number of children being adopted into the united states has been. falling sharply recently if i'm not mistaken number drawn by a hospital in two thousand and four in two thousand and ten and russia just recently became yet another country in these growing least of countries banning or restricting adoption into your country how do you explain that well i don't think it has anything to do with any diminishing need for homes for children i think it's because the forces. or hostile to international adoption notice the numbers going out and set out to turn that around so i think it's very deliberate political action both by governments and by n.g.o.s and why would be those hostile forces

yes, matthew martoma, a successful harvard law school student applied ironically for clerkships to a judges around the country. was in the process of going through those interviews and selection processes and actually was on the verge of being offered a job by a judge, but falsified his harvard law school transcript. falsified it to make his grades look lightly better. irony, getting b pluses, a minuses and wanted them up a notch to the a minus or a level when he was ultimately caught. he said it was a joke. something he had done just to please his parents, very hard driving and demanding. and wanted to show a better effort for them and also went through the motions of cancels hi interview processes. his applications for these federal clerkships, but was discovered to have done this and the judges received false transcripts in cases and a whole administrative proceeding at harvard resulted in him being expelled. as you said. he and other family members changed their last name to martoma. not all that happened after the harvard situation, but his personal name change did. >> certainly

you knew someone at an early age, barack obama, as a student at harvard law school.s is ane say, among future president? >> no one said among us is a future president, but many people said among us is a future public figure. you could see it. >> what could you see? >> you could see his effect on people. it was very different than other people. harvard law school is a very competitive place, bright individuals, ambitious individuals, individuals with large personalities, but there was something different about obama, and everybody could see it. >> but could you define what was different about him? >> people listened to him. >> he listened to them. >> he listened to them, and he had a way of restating their own views and restating the views of their opponents and bringing people together, but he also had a way of seeming i think wiser than others. >> wiser but not necessarily smarter? >> yes, both, but more wise than smart. >> and he was older, at least the impression was that he was older. >> the impression was, because he was only two years older than i was and most

narrative. >> sure. >> her story, the actual story, somebody went from community college to harvard law schools pretty impressive story. >> pretty good, yeah. >> this tale of sort of how -- and this is -- this happened to a lot of candidates where one person 20 years ago said, hey, when you run for the city council, say this. >> right. >> shorthand your life story to this. and then, everybody is copying it through. is that what happened? >> and stipulate at the same time, chuck, that the picking apart of her narrative, the focus on choices that she made as a mother juggling school and raising her kids, very, very gender-specific, the kind of thing that -- >> no male politician would be given -- he'd be praised, hey, went from community college to boston. >> that's right. >> and a supportive wife at home who raised two kids while he did it. >> that's exactly right. >> end of story. it doesn't happen for a woman politician. >> it doesn't. having said that, having led with a very personal account, it would only -- i mean, it's an open-ended invitation, examine my narrative. that's what the press

law school past were easier . when justice ginsburg started out at harvard law school in 1956, she was part of only the seventh class to admit women and not 500 person class had eight people. did you say nine? i do not know. one of us is right. [laughter] >> could we settle on a .5? alle on-campus dorms were four men -- the on-campus dorms were all ferment and half of the classroom buildings, so were the restrooms. you had to make a mad dash across campus when the need struck. the dean that the time had a tradition formous the few women students who were there. every year, he would invite all of the women in the first-year class for a lovely dinner at his house. , of all sit at one table course. when dinner finished, the dean would assure everyone into the living room, where you would ask them one by one to explain what they were doing at the law school occupying a seat that could've been held by a man. predecessor,o my who has gotten a lot of grief for this practice, i recently heard justice ginsburg give the story a charitable interpretation. apparently, years later, the dean told her he did not -- he had not mean

the producer at that time, wonderful guy, very bright, harvard law school graduate, everybody contributed. i could tell you some funny stories about it. we had a great time. >> michelle, your father wrote for johnny. politics is always -- there's so much fodder for jokes there. he like to right about politics, too, or the other stf? >> yeah, my father was a huge conservative. he wrote for carson along with ray siller. my father was a big conservative. that was never a problem because with carson, it was just whether or not you were funny. that's all he cared about. he would poke fun at both sides. now it's so much different. hollywood writers feel like they need to protect this president and they can only take shots at republicans. i think that's why we saw leno, he had great ratings but he was kicked off the air. and i think the reason why is because he wasilling to poke fun at this president that made the republicans and middle america laugh. >> siller, who wrote this piece we're talking about, he was a former head writer for johnny carson. he said, maybe ty're protecting president oba

people are shocked when i tell them you could go to harvard law school for $12,000 a year in the early 1970s, in terms of 2013 dollars. >> what's interesting about that the elite schools, walter, the harvardharvards are pretty much unscathed. the schools that leave the students with the most debt are second and third tier schools. if i pay $175,000 for my education i'm going to get something out of it, isn't there a responsibility on the part of the schools? >> well, schools saw a good thing and they went with it. because it's a strange, strange market where you can be a third or fourth tier law school and milk people for as much money as if you were a first tier law school. it took a lot of effort through paul campos and others, how poor the placements were at the expensive or low rated schools. that was a type of misleading consumer advertising that was overly corrected. >> inflating high price with -- conflating high prices with quality. >> the law business is so, trying to imitate the high price law schools. even the students going to a lower rated law school don't want the same ty

people are shocked when i tell them that you could go to harvard law school for $12,000 a year in the early 1970s and tuition in terms of $2,013. in terms of inning changes -- >> what's interesting about that is the elite schools the harvards, yales being stanford are unscathed pretty much. by what was interesting in reading the research is that the schools that leave students with the highest amount of debt for the most part are second and third tier schools. so what is going on that these students are going there thinking if i pay, you know, $175,000 for mean indication i will get something out of it. is there a responsibilities on the part of the schools? >> well, the schools saw a good thing and went with it. because it's a strange, strange market where you can be third or fourth tier law school and milk people for as much money as if you were a top tier law school and yet things have been set up that way, it took quite a while before through the efforts of paul and others word got around to just how poor the placement rates were at some of the expensive but low-rated schools. tha

you said graduates from the university of pennsylvania, one attended harvard law school and they dropped out to start zoom, zip style car service in india. >> the size is staggering. >> urban density is the biggest predictor of car sharing success. if you're looking at large, dense cities where people don't own cars, the fact that car sharing that not been done in india already is shocking. >> it's estimated there will be 68 cities in india with a million people or more by 2030. that's compared to nine today in the united states. since launching almost a year ago zoom has sold out every week and the company is hoping to expand to mumbai and new delhi. >> aside from the business you made personal sacrifices to be here. you could be making money possibly on wall street, in the u.s. is it a risk worth taking? >> there's no question that it's worth taking. sure, wooeld we'd be making much higher salary in the u.s. being separated from our parents. for me, being separate freddie my girlfriend for a year and a half. that's the opportunity cost. it's worth it. the scale of the opportunity, this

from harvard law school. james dempsey is vice president of public policy at the center for democracy and technology, a nonprofit focused on privacy, surveillance and other internet issues. mr. dempsey previously served as deputy director of the nonprofit center for national security studies and special counsel to the national security archive. prior to that, he was assistant counsel to the house judiciary committee subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights and an associate at arnold and porter. he, too, was a law clerk. in his instance for judge robert broucher of the massachusetts supreme judicial court. he served on -- as a member of several bodies addressing these issues, including the industry advisory board for the national counterterrorism center and the transportation, security administration scurep flight working group, among others. he has a b.a. from yale university and a j.d. from harvard law school. and finally but certainly not least, i'm particularly proud and pleased to welcome a native

cchiu, the member of the harvard law school said that i don't think that we are going to allow the public comment for the next speaker, so basically what we are saying is that the members of a commission, if they don't like your tone or a word that you use or your voice or something that you say and in this particular case i had sent copies of what i intended to talk about to all members of the board supervisors and i can simply strip of you your constitutional rights. and the same thing there the members of the board of supervisors sat there and they did nothing at all. and i think that you have to remind yourselves that you take an oath to support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic and someone who violates the first amendment rights of a citizen is violate thating oath and someone pro-sits back and does not do anything is also violating that oath. >> next speaker? >> hello, my name is michael petrelus and i am a gay blogger and a transparency activist and i am here about a couple of things and i am here about a couple of things toni

from harvard law school. james dempsey is vice president of public policy at the center for democracy and technology, a nonprofit focused on privacy, surveillance and other internet issues. mr. dempsey previously served as deputy director of the nonprofit center for national security studies and special counsel to the national security archive. prior to that, he was assistant counsel to the house judiciary committee subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights and an associate at arnold and porter. he, too, was a law clerk. in his instance for judge robert broucher of the massachusetts supreme judicial court. he served on -- as a member of several bodies addressing these issues, including the industry advisory board for the national counterterrorism center and the transportation, security administration scurep flight working group, among others. he has a b.a. from yale university and a j.d. from harvard law school. and finally but certainly not least, i'm particularly proud and pleased to welcome a native

international adoption of a elisabet bartha lab buchalter director of the child advocacy program at harvard law school ms bartha lab before the break. the investigation that was done by a reuters news agency a couple of months ago into this whole real homing phenomenon and. i think. when you look at this issue the issue of international adoption and countries who recently moved to ban or restrict american adoption those issues are very very much politicized but. in the u.s. media those cases of abuse or neglect that they hands of american families are usually treated as as isolated cases but that's reuters investigation. seems to point to the fact that the problem is far more systematic than previously thought well you used the word systematic actually the number of really honed internationally adopted children was infinitesimal compared to the number of international adoptions in the last couple of decades an aide to senator landrieu who introduced the bill i just talked about that's been introduced in our congress can't calculated that number of something like point zero eight percent but you know t

that amount joined by elizabeth bartholet faculty director of the child advocacy program at harvard law school. i really appreciate you being on the show i think it's a very sensitive issue and we are all for a very very interesting discussion thanks for having me now i know that you are one of the most vocal advocates in your country for international adoption.

but i'm sure when she entered the college in texas that she didn't think she was ready for harvard law school don't know. i find -- >> i will say her biography and we are stuck on trailers in 1921. her going to harvard law school with two kids. >> it's the american dream. >> exactly. >> what everybody wants for their kids. >> it's breath taking and how smart she is, she graduated with honors. i don't think she has a path forward in texas right now. maybe five, ten years from now. i could see if she were in a swing state, michigan, or heck, even kentucky talk about her on the short list next five years being a leader in the republican party. what do you see her path forward in texas? >> i don't see it. she is coming out in a red state. the one issue that gave her national and statewide brand is abortion, that's not something to run statewide on in texas. i thought draper did a very good job of showing that they are struggling with figuring out, well, they got rid of one pollster because giving too much advice they should run a more negative campaign. i feel like she was rushed into this, pushe

had a very hard time during her adult life getting college degree and eventually making it to harvard law school degree. you can't take that away from her. >> i'm staying focused on the issues that matter to texans. because this race isn't about a distorted version of what happened to my family 30 years ago. >> so the real question is, can she go from this trailer park in fort worth to the governor's mansion in austin? >> greg abbot is the clear frontrunner, is he going to win the race. >> she is a dead loser on the issues that matter most to texans. >> a lot of people will try to stir up something to just to get a story going. >> we like strong independent women. i mean, remember ann richards. >> after all, ginger rogers did everything that fred astair did. she just did it backwards and in high heels. >> texas is a place where we dream big, we work hard, and we never quit. [cheers] >> more gun slinging politics in texas actually literally. tonight new trouble for gubernatorial candidate wendy davis. she was just given former texas governor ann richard's shotgun. supposed to be a sign of support