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. >> susie: joining us now, kenneth rogoff, professor of economics at harvard university. hi, ken. nice to have you on the program tonight. >> hi, susie. thanks for having me. >> susie: so let's pick up with darren just left off and talk about the fed. i think it's kind of interesting that here we've got this group of policy-makers looking at the same day dark coming up with different on collusions on what it means and not being able to agree on what to do next. what's your take on what came out of the fed today? >> there's clearly a lot of disagreement at the fed, and ben bernanke has probably purred them as far as he can right now. i think he would like to be more proactive. he would like to cut off the risk of a deeper downturn, something worse happening, but those think we can't do that much. interest rates are almost at zero, and quantitative easing didn't seem to do that much, and we're nervous about inflation. there's a lot of disagreement within the board. so i don't think you can see anything quick happening, nothing big out of the fed. also with all the outside anger abou

parents work and the opportunities they gave me, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. it was intense. i stayed there for college, for law school, and i also have a master's in public policy there. those are subjects i decided to study in part because i was very interested in public service and public policy issues and government. i ran for office in part because i wanted to serve the city and really protect all that is so special about what san francisco is. >> we've been talking for years about how important it is to build new neighborhoods, to develop affordable housing, make sure we have transit-oriented sustainable green development that really is worthy of a 21st century san francisco. what we're doing today -- and, frankly, what we're doing this year will have impacts on the city for decades to come. thank you all for being part of this, and i look forward to that mid-cutting. i moved to san francisco 15 years ago for all the reasons that we all love our city. our cable cars. our hills. the diversity of our neighborhoods. and have loved every minute of being her

because of my parents, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university.hat is where i went to school. it was intense. i stayed there for law school and have a master's in public policy from there. those are subjects i decided to study because i was interested in public service and public policy issues and government. >> you grew up in the boston area. what made you want to make the transition and moved to san francisco? what motivated you to get involved in politics question marks before i ran for office, and worked in san francisco as a criminal prosecutor and civil rights attorney. i got to understand how much of a be in san francisco is to the rest of the world for social justice. i spent a number of years helping to grow a small business. i got to understand the innovative spirit in san francisco. at night, i volunteered as a neighborhood leader and as feature of an affordable housing organization. i learned so much about the challenges facing our neighborhoods and the special jewels that are the urban villages we live in. i ran for office because i w

of the harvard university for two free tickets. thank you. >> let me introduce myself. >> they thought they won tickets to a football classic. instead it was a trap to catch parents behind on child support. we begin with breaking news, though, out of afghanistan. a nato helicopter has crashed in wardak province in eastern afghanistan. afghan president hamid karzai says 31, 31 u.s. special forces troops are among the 38 killed in the incident. a recovery operation is under way. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. cnn's david aristo joins us from kabul. what are you hearing? >> well, in what seems to be one of the or probably not one of the, one of the largest losses of american life since the invasion began, this helicopter was traveling in an insurgent area and, according to a taliban spokesman are and some other locals we have spoken to, was shot down by a rocket-propelled grena grenade. this is the second time a helicopter sustained fire in the eastern section of this country. last week a helicopter was forced

chloe was born in london and received a master's degree with distinction in conjunction with harvard university and the moscow art theater school. she has worked as a staff reporter for the daily telegraph and is a freelance writer, her articles appearing on both sides of the atlantic. she is the chief theater critic for the san francisco weekly, theater commentator for klaw. chloe worked for several years in u.s. and uk theater companies and is the recipient of the allen wright award for arts journalism, the sundance institute arts fellowship and the nea fellowship of journalism. in 2006, she received a best columnist nomination at the annual san francisco media excellence awards and her first book on acting was published by farber and farber in the uk and farber, inc., in the united states. let's welcome phillip and chloe >> hi there, phillip. >> hi, chloe >> so, this play, it's been quite a journey. we're talking 3 1/2 years, maybe nearly 50 different drafts and 5 workshops? . >> five workshops, yes. >> so, looking back at the journey, how has it been for you and has it come out as you expec

word west i'm joined by i mean he's in cambridge he's the director of the humanity center at harvard university in chicago we go to richard lee he's a professor at the department of philosophy econd paul university and in washington we cross to william burns he's a professor at george washington university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want there are difference of opinion here and i'd like my viewers to see it if i go to holy bobby in cambridge first when the word west is used first of all do you like its usage its application and what does it mean to you. well i don't like the word west when it's used in a kind of simple polarity with something that is not the west because i think these geographical issues have really changed quite a lot but i think on the other hand one cannot ignore the fact that there are certain institutional political and financial arrangements which very much address to the interests of what we would call your america in a very general sense and i think that the entity that is often associated with the west whether i

he's a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the department of economics at harvard university he's also a senior fellow at the cattle institute and he's also the author of the book drug war crimes the consequences of prohibition and in san diego we cross the acer hutchinson he is a senior partner at the acer hutchinson law group all right gentlemen this is cross talk about means crosstalk rules in effect but before it let's have a look at a shell report about this forty year old war. a worldwide enterprise worth some four hundred billion dollars a year illegal drug trafficking has become one of the most ferociously lucrative businesses in the world alongside only the oil industry and the arms trade and single largest market the u.s. is also the world's biggest consumer of cocaine heroin and marijuana shipped from colombia and mexico although the u.s. government has been hard pressed to control and curtail democratic stray drug related violence has spread like wildfire across latin america and especially mexico our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade our in