an award scholar and educator with multiple degrees from such schools as harvard stanford and yale including in law international relations media and religious studies she has become one of the most important voices. to emerge from the american sikh community and a highly influential leader on the national stage including as the- brown movement which considered america's largest multi faith online organizing network. a film and media maker with deep expertise in building story based campaigns to advance human rights movements she founded the yellow visual law project where she's taught students how to make films for social change and co founded faithful internet to build the movement for net neutrality. her many films included in every fall stigma about the impact of police stop and frisk policies alienation about immigration raids the worst of the worst about solitary confinement in prison and oak creek in memoriam about an infamous mass shooting at a sikh temple. in wisconsin. valerie's personal story helps explain her drive to remedy wrongs born and raised in clovis california where her f

there's more than enough evidence from the international energy agency from think tanks from harvard from stanford across the world that renewables can deliver. a 100 percent of our elders can be renewables. i'm from scotland. we currently have a 100 percent of rails just being generated from renewables. we're also operating to nuclear reactors, but they will be shut down relatively soon. so it can be done. germany is on track, maybe slower than it should have been because of the policies in the last few years . but by about 20302035, germany will be 100 percent renewable electricity. now as well. so this germany is the energy transition has failed. i lived in. busy worked in germany for years, i was directly involved. busy with chancellor merkel back in 2011, committing to the phaser. yes, there are massive problems. how do you d, carbon ice, the 4th largest industrial power on planet earth. that is not easy, but i'm far more confident about germany getting its energy policies right. as it does with industry policy, compared to the island i having to live on, or even the united states, that gambl

even though india has a talented work force, many of the top people that graduate from the harvard plus stanford and mierks but you're seeing more of the home talent stay in india, because salaries are starting to rise there that's a good sign another reason why i think you're starting to see more western companies see that's not becoming as big of an issue as in the past, the talent. >> it's not just apple that has diversified? >> yes air pods >> vietnam >> yes made in vietnam. again, the vast majority of apple products from phones to accessories are still made in china. but you're seeing them dip around to other places vietnam is one malaysia is another. the new max studio computer they announced last month is built in malaysia even a little bit in the u.s but just a drop in the bucket. the vast, vast majority of their production is still linked directly to china. >> does it raise the cost of doing business for them to move outside of china >> eventually, but if you listen to what tim cook said on the last call, he was asked about this everyone was talking about supply chains. it's not the cos

from harvard, yale, stanford, berkeley, cal ec, mit, then you were rewarded accordingly. and that was fine because we were trying to professionalize these fields. but the problem was that once you were staffed with that brand, we didn't have a continuing audit what you were being ought and how sensible you were. and so the best and the brightest of kennedy generation got us into vietnam. and the people who suggested maybe we not go into vietnam were not part of that the bipartisan establishment. and we could ditto that the with a lot of casts in american history -- disasters in american history. and when you look at the actual universities today and you ask yours is the level of -- ask yourself is the level of undergraduate education comparable with the reputation the, i just don't think it is. and you can see that the whether you look at people in the media or whether you look at people in business or whether you look at people in the military. i'm including in there the military academies. what they say and what they do and how they conduct themselves, i don't think, ne

so let's introduce walter star, graduate of stanford university and harvard law school. he practiced international law for 25 years. including five years with the securities and exchange commission. he's a two-time winner of the seward award for excellence in civil war biography. and this is one that i think will probably be up for other awards this year. it's that excellent. he's the author of jon jay, founding father, and two other books that have been on our broadcast, see war -- books, lincoln's indispensable man and stanton, lincoln cease secretary of war. his latest book is right here. lincoln's vital ride. 836 pages and illustrated. and it's $35. as i said, you'll get a book plate signed. and today if you're watching on our facebook, it's the release date. it's the day of release of that special book plate. otherwise, if you buy this later on from us, if you can, you're watching this on c-span, you'll get a beautiful bookplate just like this signed by walter himself. walter, we have talked about stanton and seward before, but chase, oh, my gosh, i learned so much.

walter starr graduate of stanford university and harvard law school he practiced international law for 25 years. including five years with the securities and exchange commission. he's a two-time winner the the seward award for excellence. for in civil war biography and this is one that i think will probably be up for other awards this year. it's that excellent. is the author of john jay founding father and two previous books that have been on our broadcast seward lincoln's indispensable man and stanton lincoln secretary of war. his latest book as i just shown you is in back of me. right here. his salmon p chase lincoln's vital rival? it's a simon and schuster publication. 836 pages and illustrated and is $35 and as i said, you will get a book late sign and today. if you're watching today on facebook, it's the release date the day of release you'll get the special bookplate. otherwise if you buy this later on from us, but you can you're watching this on c-span. you'll get a beautiful bookplate just like this signed by walter himself. well traders. you know, we we've talked about stanton

the harvard receives massive funding from several oil companies. stanford's energy department also gets millions from the oil industry. the university denies that sponsor's control its research, and on its website the university emphasizes its academic independence. but a few lines later, it's described who really decides what research to fund. the final decision about funding is made by the management committee, which includes one person from each of the sponsors and the main sponsor as a say in what research is funded, is exxon mobil berkeley birthplace of the one, $968.00 student uprising as an energy research center in which the oil company be p as invested millions, according to jeffrey superman. b. p has a say in what will be researched. exxonmobil said it funds universities to promote green technologies. and shell tells us that wants to help solve the serious climate challenge. why is this a problem? i mean, if they use their money for doing some research for good, what was the problem when the very people, the very institutions, the supposed to be solving the climate crisis, a f

for jobs in history, they want to hire the people that did a phd from harvard yale princeton, you know, sometimes a berkeley stanford slips and but so i've been all that as to say, i've been a big booster of the land grant schools like ohio state, i think they're great places purdue where you went, you know university of michigan minnesota, you know, i like a lot of those all of them. i was recently at university of arkansas fayetteville. great. because families can afford it. and you don't people grow at a different age. i mean, i was 17 when i was going to college growing up in rural, ohio. i didn't really have the tools to prepare for, you know to go to yale. you've got to like be driven for that or have contacts or you know, have you ever seen since you may come a professional on your in public forums and all that somebody discriminate against you because of ohio state georgetown versus the ivy leagues i think so on any. oh, yes anytime you do a job at a top market school. they look a little bit down even at georgetown compared to princeton harvard and yale, you know, it's just the way it is. i mean, it's there

one of only five woman in her class at stanford law, she served on the board of editors and graduated near the top of her class. she first attended harvard law school, one of nine woman in her class. she became the first female member while also caring for her husband who had been diagnosed with cancer and a young daughter. when her husband took a job in new york city, ginsberg graduated first in her class. despite the qualifications, they face barriers to employment after graduation as law firms were unwilling to hire women lawyers period they persevered and rose to prominence. o'connor became deputy attorney in california. when her husband was stated in journey, she was a civilian attorney. 1957 they settled in arizona or the race their three sons. in 1969, o'connor was promoted to the state senate where she was twice elected and became the first majority leader in any state. 1974 she was elected as a trial judge. she held that position until 1979 when she was appointed to the area court of appeals. the senate unanimously confirmed her appointment. in her nearly 25 years on the court, justice o'connor established yourself as a voice. o