and then, finally, the cia sent a private jet in with a trauma surgeon from johns hopkins university hospital. and they flew him off to a secret site. >> when do you first hear about the program, as i believe they called it in the agency? am i right about that? they called it program? >> i went back to headquarters in may or june of 2002 and i heard about it i think it was probably the middle of august when i first heard it. from a colleague who i had served in pakistan with. >> and you hear about it as sort of water cooler chat as a formal briefing as -- >> water cooler chat in the hall. yeah. that zubaydah had recovered from his wounds he was not cooperative, and that they were going to waterboard him. >> what is your feeling at the time about the program? like what is the feeling in the halls? like do people know this thing's existing. do they know that you're hearing it thirdhand? >> 99% of the people in the agency had no idea that this was

. >> host: professor lester spence of johns hopkins university is the author of "stare in the darkness: the limits of hip-hop and black politics". university of minnesota press publisher. >> every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2. keep watching for more television for serious readers. >> from time to time the washington post will publish e-book on topics their reporters cover. here is a collection of some of those books. in the case against bill cosby the coast interviewed five women who accuse bill cosby of assaulting them. it looks that court records from a previous case against the comedian. next up profile of the 36th president, lyndon johnson, and a look at his legacy in the great society. also on the list is a collection of pulitzer prize winning articles on the impact of food stamps on a small town's economy. >> to see what other e-book squashing compose has published a visit washingtonpost.com/e-book s. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and doctors every weekend. booktv television for serious readers. >>

spent booktv is on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore, maryland where we are talking with professors are also office. now joining us is a professor of the history of medicine here at johns hopkins, daniel todes. or faster togas, when you teach the history of medicine, to whom do you teach that and why is it important? >> guest: i'm fortunate this year at hopkins to be able to teach it personal to undergraduates. secondly to our wonderful group, graduate students. and thirdly, to medical students. why is it important? i think it's important because science and medicine are so important in a culture today and science and medicine are the products of human beings and human activities and so if we understand science and medicine and now it's really produced by real human beings, not textbook definitions of scientific medicine, then we understand as the product and we understand the things they it can do for us and its frailties. so it's an opportunity to reflect on the nature that is really important part of our culture. >> host: do you come from a historic history background

to corpus christi, texas to bring you the area's literary scene as well as a visit to johns hopkins university to talk with professors for our college series. on "after words," journalist toby around done recalls his time embedded in afghanistan. stephen brill and dr. ezekiel emanuel discuss the health care system and mark krotov of melville house talks about the book publisher's decision to release the senate intelligence committee report on torture. for a complete television schedule booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfunction books and authors. television for serious readers. >> and now on "in depth" on booktv walter isaacson. the best selling author of several books including biographies of albert einstein benjamin franklin, steve jobs and henry kissinger took viewer questions for three hours. mr. isaacson is a former chairman and ceo of cnn chairman of the broadcasting board of governors and was the editor of "time." he currently serves as president and ceo of the aspen institute. >> host: so, walter isaacson what is theat link between avril hourlyman, ben franklin, steve jobs henry kissi

we are on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore talking with professors who are authors and joining us now is andrew cherlin. professor cherlin would you do at the university? >> guest: i'm a professor of sociology. i teach courses on the family, demography poverty children's welfare. >> host: and you are chair of the sociology department? what does that mean? >> guest: that means i get to toss around a lot of people who have lifetime tenure and tell them what to do. >> host: we want to talk to you about your book "labor's love lost" the rise and fall of the working-class family in america. how do you define a working-class family? >> guest: it's pretty hard. it's a family with a guy who was working a factory or a construction job in the wife staying home many working part-time in a couple of kids. that is what the working class was like in the 1950s and 60s at its peak. you can't define it these days because it has fallen apart. that's the issue here. what we have seen over the last few decades is the decline in the deterioration of a distinctive kind of american family, th

. >> benjamin ginsberg, author is johns hopkins university political science perez are and we have beenking to him about his most recent book. he has written about 20. "the worth of war". you are watching "book tv" on c-span2 >> the administration was working on a bill and negotiated with the senate, but he wasn't prepared to send the bill to congress yet. he was scared in january of 65. if he did that too soon that this bill would fall apart and part with the movement did and part of what became the legislative strategist is to build up pressure through the protest, through the images, through the confrontation to create an atmosphere in congress are waiting was no longer permissible. to get across the fierce urgency of now. liberals also did other organizational thinks. during the civil rights act of 64 one of the big beers was that southerners and other parliamentary tricks were going to kill the bill. so, the salad-- senate filibustered they had corm calls to force the senators to come back at all hours back to take the quorum call and so there is one story on april 13 1964 and the

fred reeka bipedy, senior fellow from the school of advanced international studies of johns hopkins university. the last time you were here you argued against giving defensive weapons to the ukranian army. has what has transpired given idea? >> not yet, i'm afraid. i support the idea that petro porashenko laid down, having international peacekeeping forces in ukraine. that would be an excellent idea. more so, developmental context, mistake. >> here we are, arms continue to pour in over the russian frontier, even though russia doesn't acknowledge that they are russian weapons, giving an venge to separatist forces. they outgun the national army of a country maintaining borders and territorial integrity. >> it's clear that the rebels, took the last chance to connect the two. this would be their last chance it's also true that the ceasefire was not only one. it is holding everywhere, but in this particular city. it's true that both parties are starting to withdraw heavy weapons, it's not a completely dark picture. petro porashenko has not pictured that that bad. we need more time, but we need inte

. >> reducing gun violence in america is the name of the book to a johns hopkins university professor daniel webster is coeditor. foreword by former new york city mayor, michael bloomberg. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> here's the look at books being published this week. >> jonathan horn is next on booktv's. he recounts robert relieved decision to join the confederate army after being sought by the north and the south. it is about an hour. >> now it is my pleasure to introduce john up in warren. he is an author and former white house presidential speechmaker who spent years researching and writing this new robert e. lee biography. the man who would not be washington published in january of this year. jonathan has appeared as a commentator on msnbc and bbc radio. ..

procedure, materials list, time line, and budget and i sent that to 200 professors at johns hopkins university and the national institutes of health. one person finally said yes, and then i go into his office. big interview, and i finally get through this hour-long interview. i answered all the questions, and finally i got the answer. >> when he finally got his lab, i just drove him there, and i would just sit out there hour after hour until my poor little ipod and iphone would run out of batteries. >> after seven months of like trials and tribulations, i finally got through it all, and i ended up with that one small paper sensor. >> it was really exciting that one day in late winter when he came out late at night and it had worked. >> jack's new method of cancer detection uses strips to test blood for high levels of a protein protein protein. >> i get my official reading and record it and i take my sample and disperse it in it. then i apply 6 microliters and it's right between the two electrodes electrodes. i actually take resistant measurements, and it forms a fwraf. at the end i subtract th

. >> and now joining us on booktv from johns hopkins university is benjamin ginsburg, a professor of political science here. his book is called "the worth of war." we'll show you the cover in just a minute. but, dr. ginsburg, you write in here that the unpleasant fact is that although war is terrible and brutal, we should not assume that all its consequences are abhorrent. what does that mean? >> guest: well, you know, this is a book that i wrote in response to a bumper sticker. you know the bumper sticker we all see "war is not the answer"? well, it depends on the question. and there are a lot of questions that unfortunately, have to be answered via war and violence. it's the nature of the world. war is a major force in building modern society. it has answered three of the main questions of politics; statehood, territoriality and power. every state that exists, including especially the united states of america, is the product of war. and we don't like to remember in this. kids are taught about the american revolution in terms of philosophical issues. while they didn't exactly debate

mark: john this is senior fellow of the johns hopkins university, former first deputy of the -- and managing director of the imf. good to have you on. let's get you top stories is monday. we are getting word on some breaking news, standard & poor's ratings services made a call of saudi arabia, the outlook going from stable to negative. falling oil prices there for the first time since june and we are paying more for gas. the average price of regular gas rose almost $.13 in the past two weeks to $2.20 per gallon. prices are still more than a dollar lower than they were a year ago. a startling study about the price of oil according to citigroup, crude prices may fall more than 50% in the next two weeks to $20 range. the reason, oversupply of oil is putting oil things for storage to capacity. and there has been a slowdown in drilling. oil supply will roll only half as fast as it did last year. more on opec and oil coming up later on "bottom line." as we been discussing, greece is on a collision course with its creditors with the rejection of the international bailout. >> the new contract betwee

two of the nations top doctor of fill defendantia and john's hopkins university believe they may be ableff the phone and tried. >> reporter: the problem is getting truet to fill geflia. he has to fly on a specially equipped plane and that's where much of the expense comes from the family needs a plain to transport the oxygen trut needs to survive. they need it by the end of march. a facebook page called trut's voice has been set up to help and a go funds me page. >> i'm being strong for my children. >> reporter: to make a difference for a son who's brought so much joy to their heart. >> the gofunds me -- almost 8s thousand dollars have been raised to help little trut. >>> a teen age shopper has gone viral. the teenager was looking for a clip on ties but the store doesn't sell any. the target teen bought a real tie and prepped td for the #234r9 view. he told him to look the employer in the eye and give him a firm hajdz shake. another shopper saw it and snapped a photo. >> i heard him giving this coming advice about nrltd view and handle shakes. first i thought he must be a neighbor or a c

a neurosurgeon at johns hopkins university. documentary filmmaker jonathan goodman leavitt, talking about his film caller --, follow the leader. you can watch them at www.c-span.org. >> with the fcc focusing on that neutrality, we spoke with2 industry executives at the consumer electronics show. chris riley with mozilla and hank holquist. >> we believe that the internet needs a strong, enforceable, effective rules to protect met neutrality for users and developers. those need to include nondiscrimination, subject to reasonable management. and they need to be effectively enforceable. >> the problem we have now with where new net trolley -- the neutrality has gone is it is not focused on the substance of the rules. it is focused on the fcc to adopt rules and what a jurisdictional area initiatives. our concern is that they are going to undo, potentially, a regulatory status that has existed for over a decade. >> monday night at 8:00 eastern on the communicators on c-span2. >> up next, prime minister david cameron takes questions f

. >> joining us on booktv from johns hopkins university is benjamin ginsberg, prof. of political science. .. statehood territoriality and power. every state that exists including especially the united states of america is a product of war. we don't like to remember that. kids are taught about the american revolution in terms of the topical issues and they didn't exactly debate with the british. they bought. it was one of the bloodiest revolutions in history. they determined it would be the united states of america. i would think virtually every state in the world was greeted by war with very few exceptions.

my time as a white house and i went to go see a mentor of mine former president at johns hopkins university and asked me what a you doing next. i told him of going back into the world of finance and he said, really? and thus it is not the answer i was expecting you to give me. just tell me why. why did you choose to do this? and i told him i feel like it's an important skill set and i was good at it. rejecting and supporting my family in ways i had never been able to support them before. he said, listen i'm never going to judge you on this decision, particularly things that you think are best. but i just ask the moment you feel like that you can leave leave because every day you do something that you are not passionate about the become extraordinarily ordinary. >> well said. >> and that hit me like a ton of bricks because we all are striving to do something special. we strive to make a mark on this world so the long after we are gone our impact is still around and it is impossible to do that if you find yourself becoming extraordinarily ordinary because you don't care. >> passion turns into

fellow and i went to see a mentor of mine named bill brody was the former president of johns hopkins university. he asked me what are you doing next and i told him i'm going back into the world of finance and he said really? that's how the answer i was expecting. he said just tell me why did you choose to do this after that experience and i told him i feel like it's an important skill set i wanted to learn and i felt like i was good at it and i was protecting and supporting my families in ways that i've never been able to support them before. and he said to me with him i'm never going to judge you on the decisions that you make professionally doing things best for your family. but he says the moment you feel like you can leave leave because every day you do something that you're not passionate about coming you become extraordinarily ordinary. and that hits me like a ton of bricks because we all are striving to do something special. we strive to make a long on this world so that laughter we are gone or impact is still around and it's impossible to do that if you find yourself becoming extraordin

an adjunct professor at johns hopkins university and a special in egyptian politics. he joins us from virginia. thanks for speaking to us. what are your thoughts about this leaked recording, and what are the possible implications of this leak for egypt? >> i think, first of all, this leak shows how much sisi des pieses and respects those who supported him since he made his coup in july 2013 and it seems to me this can be a major blow to his attempt to cover the egyptian economy. it's asking for more help from the gulf countries. it's a very difficult time from sisi right now, because egypt is planning to have economic conference in march. this leak might affect the chances of getting money and investments for egypt. >> but there have been other leaks before and hasn't the egyptian government denied that these looks -- leaks are real? >> no one denied this before and it seems to be that these leaks are real. they're not fake actions of the government over the last i would say two months of an internal investigation to find out who is behind it. sometimes these leaks re

by the government they found that she had lied and said she had a dock rat degree from john hopkins universityand they hired her anyway and she became a senior analyst with the department of defense. imagine what the information what she was doing was skewing information. imagine what skewing the information to the department of defense could do to whatever we were trying to do. the other part of the plan was drug dealing. there were at the time agreements made between castro and the immediate lean cartel, and the agreements were to use the cuban air space and the cuban water space to deliver drugs. and there's an estimate that at one point as a matter of fact noring a tkpwa was involved. noring a tkpwa paid $10 million to use the cuban air space. while the mariel boatlift was going on which was once again part of castro's plan, while we were watching everybody coming to key west other boats were going beyond this island, a little island up between cuba and the bahamas and the boats were going and they would fly the cuban flag to know they were friendlies and the mother boat would meet boats f

. >> reporter: as i discovered at the johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory, researchersde a lot of progress engineering a near human arm, ability decipher muscle contractions in my stump, i was able to turn that into fine motor control with relative ease. >> century is a different game, more complex because you stimulate, but then it goes to the brain and complex ideas of perception like what do you feel and how do you feel it is a much more complicated process. >> reporter: the problem is twofold -- touch sensors for prosthetics need improvement but the bigger challenge is making sensory information understand bible and useful to an amputee. >> what we're looking at is the x-ray of his arm probably a couple of weeks after surgery. >> reporter: in 2011, surgeons implanted electrodes that encircle the three main sensory nerve bundles in igor's injured arm. >> you're looking at the three different electrodes, so you can see the points and the device itself, this is on the you will nare nerve. there is another one on the median nerve. news another one on the radial nerve. >

we're on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore talking with professors who are also authors and joining us now is andrew cherlin. what do you do here at the university? >> i'm a professor of sociology in the school of arts and sciences. >> host: and what do you teach? >> guest: i teach courses on the family children's welfare. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: that means i get to boss around a number of people who have lifetime tenure, and i can't tell them what to do. [laughter] >> host: so we want to talk to you about your book, "labor's lost love: the rise and fall of the working class family in america." how do you define a working class family? >> guest: it's pretty hard. used to be easy. it was that family where the guy was working in factory or maybe a construction job, the wife staying home maybe working part-time with a couple of kids. that was what the working class was like in the 1950s and '60s at its peak. what i've found is you almost can't define can it these days, because it's really kind of fallen apart. that's the issue here. what we've seen over the

from pakistan, he was sent to a secret location and the cia sent a trauma surgeon from johns hopkins universitycal center to the secret location to give him medical assistance. he underwent surgery. for some reason, he even had an eye removed. i'm not sure why that happened. over the next several months, he recovered from his gunshot ones. >> talk about how you met him. >> sure. when we first captured him, we took him to a hospital, a military hospital in pakistan. he had lost so much blood, we needed to transfuse him. he was initially in a coma. he came out of the coma a couple of times and we were at first able to exchange an initial comment and in the next couple of days, to have short conversations. for example, when he first came out of his coma, he asked me for a glass of red wine. he was delirious. later in the evening, he asked me if i would take a pillow and smother him. the next day, we talked about poetry islam, the fact that he had never supported the attacks on the united states. he wanted to attack israel. >> and talk about what you learned happened to him from there. >> well, he

researchers at johns hopkins university pinpointed a region in the human genome that deals with peanut allergies. other molecular mechanisms may ntribute to whether those genetically predisposed to an allergy actually lyly lyly develop one. >> a controversial plan to redistrict middle schools in the stafford school district is expected to be voted on by the school board tonight. this proposal affects students from fifth to eighth grades. some residents feel that the board hasn't received enough input from the public to vote. tonight's board meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. at the stafford county schools administrative building. >> one of the biggest flaws of the automobile industry is the veil of secrecy related to the problems with cars. >> just last week we told you that the maker of those faulty air bags in millions of vehicles appeared willing to pay $14,000 a day in fines rather than hand over documents that could leave it facing even more fines. >> "7 on your side" investigator joce sterman explains the state law being proposed by a montgomery county lawmaker to give dealers the prote

" and i went to see a mentor of mine a guy named bill brody who is a former president johns hopkins university. he asked me me what are you doing that; i'm going back into the world of finance. he said really? i said that's not the answer that i was expecting to hear. he said just tell me why. why did you choose to do this? i told them i felt like was an important skill set and i felt like i was good at it and i was protecting and supporting my family in ways that i had never been able to support them before. he said listen wes i'm never going to judge you particularly things you think that are best for your family but he said i just ask this. the moment you feel like you can leave, leave because every day you do something that you are not passionate about you become extraordinarily ordinary. >> host: well said. >> guest: that hit me like a ton of bricks because we all are striving to do something special. we strive to make a mark on this world so long after we are gone or impact is still around. it's impossible to do that if you find yourself becoming extraordinarily ordinary because you don'

. >> benjamin ginsberg was an author, john hopkins university political science professor. we have been talking about his most recent book reviews written about 20. "the worth of war." you are watching booktv on c-span2. >> next ai-jen poo some occur caregiver system can handle it. [applause] >> good evening. you can do better than that. good evening. i think we should start with all of you giving your son's a round of applause for coming out on a cold winter evening to talk about aging and caregiving. give yourselves a round of applause please. and we are really just so thrilled to be with you tonight to celebrate the official publication date of "the age of dignity." today is the official publication date. [cheers and applause] we are kicking off a book tour carrying across america. you will be the first to help us kick off at bookstore right here in the capital. and it is really fitting that we are doing this right here in the capital because four years ago in july sarita and i and many of you and mr. launched a campaign with caring across generations. from around the co

. >> let's talk about madison's avenue with david quisenberrys with johns hopkins university. and i want to talk about the ad with brian gumble and katie couric. >> i wasn't prepared for that remark. the a with the round thing about it. >> katie said she thought it was about. >> what is internet any way? do you write to it like? >> see, that is what i said. >> what do you mean there is nothing under the hood? katie said she thought this was a car. and it is built using wind? >> or a fan or a turbine or a fan-bine. >> a little background from the folks at home. >> the man who produces this was producing the "today" show when they had the conversation about what internet is and he still doesn't know what internet is. but why were the ads this year kindler and gentler? >> i think in the past marketers have tried stunts with sex appeal or doing something controversial and in the end it doesn't pay for for long-term view ability and sharing on social media and i think people love good stories. >> i love my mom but i loved her that much more when she took me through the mcdonald's d

as i discovered not far from my home in washington at the johns hopkins university applied physics laboratorynowledge gained building compactics complex systems like spacecraft and missile warheads to push the envelope in upper limb prosthetics. this is the modular prosthetic limb. this has been designed to have most to have the functionality of the human limb. >> chief engineer mike introduced me to the modular prosthetic limb the mpl the mostly sophisticated modular limb in the world. >> the arm has 26 joints controlled by 17 different motors. so it can do just about everything that you can do with a natural limb. one of the few things it can't do, if you're a star trek fan, you uh won't be able to do this, but other than that, we can pretty much do everything. >> star trek isn't my thing anyway even though many people think i stole my name from chief miles o'brien. like every other advancement in technology the imus the for innovation was war. a generation ago, soldiers were coming home from iraq and afghanistan alive but more seriously maimed. meanwhile, upper limb prosthetic technology w

spent booktv is on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore, maryland where we are talking with professors are also office. now joining us is a professor of the history of medicine here at johns hopkins, daniel todes. or faster togas, when you teach the history of medicine, to whom

you met kathy edin the distinguished professor at johns hopkins university. can't say enough about the book that you undergo authors have recently published. it's not like i'm poor. i know you're not going to pocket, i think he should. seated at the next table is chye-ching huang senior tax policy analyst at a d.c.-based think tank center on budget and policy priorities. welcome, chye-ching. at the end of the table there is barbara mantegani past president and current board member of the kennedy tax age which runs these critical vita sites throughout the d.c. area. so let's get right to it. i'm going to start with laurie piccolo background information about you laura, first that you have shared with me that folks here would be interested in. you face the prospect of being a single mother without a high school diploma, but you graduate high school on time. you went on to earn a ba in public health at the university of maryland, college park. i am a melander myself. he went on to earn a masters in public administration with honors i believe at the university of

alfredo quinones-hinojosa neuro surgeon at john hopkins university and documentary film maker jonathan goodman levitt talking about his film "follow the leader." watch them all at c-span.org. host:[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> yet cece focusing on net neutrality in february, we spoke with two industry executives at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. >> we believe at the end of the day, the internet need strong and forcible effective rules to protect the users and developers. that needs to include nondiscrimination, subject to reasonable management and they need to be effectively enforceable. >> the problem we have now with where the net neutrality issue is is that they are not focused on certain areas. i think there is a lot of consensus around this. it's focused on the fcc legal authority. the fear is that they will undo a regulatory status that has existed for over a decade. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on "the c

alfredo quinones-hinojosa neuro surgeon at john hopkins university and documentary film maker jonathan goodman levitt talking about his film "follow the leader." watch them all at c-span.org. on the next "washington journal" we'll focus on president obama's 2016 budget request which is being released tomorrow. we'll hear from democratic maryland representative john delaney, a member of the financial services and joint economic committees. republican south carolina congressman tom rice, a member of the budget committee and william hogueland, senior vice president of the bipartisan policy center. as always, we'll take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> with the sec focusing on net neutrality, we spoke with two industry executives. chris riley and hank hultquist. >> at the end of the day, the internet needs strong, enforceable, effective rules. those need to include non-determination and resource management and they need to be effectively enforceable. >> the problem we have now with where the n

to corpus christi, texas to bring you the area's literary scene as well as a visit to johns hopkins university to talk with professors for our college series. on "after words" journalist toby harnden recalls his time embedded in afghanistan. stephen brill and dr. ezekiel emanuel discuss the health care system and mark krotov of melville house talks about the decision to release the senate intelligence committee report on torture. for a complete television schedule booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. television for serious readers. >> barack obama is the first, probably not the last african-american president that you will cover. [laughter] but his grade on race relations isn't as high in your book as bill clinton's. >> because of first term. because of the first term. the -- i'm not going to say inaction, but because he did not come out. his second term there are two different barack obamas first term, second term. we see a more as i say african-american president who is african-american versus i'm president who happens to be african-american. he's comfortable in his

an ma from johns hopkins university, a student of the late great for water jambi. a keen understanding regard to energy policy and i'll add the festival. so we have with us someone who understands the importance of harmonious proportion in the musical sphere as well. i want to welcome them and have them speak to you on the economic consequences of this historic oil price drop [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. i'm hear to talk to you today >> >> pretty much to consistently since 2011 when the boom of u.s. oil production commenced. with a 1 billion barrels per day oil over the last three years 20 million only incremental barrels per day this upsets the order of global crude prices but that our rich rice has grown to the point rand has become extreme. most believe this meant the united states would have an oil price advantage for the foreseeable future with a natural-gas price advantage. but no one thought precipitously on international oil prices. but what occurred over the last six or seven months was an increase of u.s. production and so what change? the f

we're on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore talking with professors who are also authors and joining us now is andrew cherlin. what do you do here at the university? >> i'm a professor of sociology in the school of arts and sciences. >> host: and what do you teach? >> guest: i teach courses on the family children's welfare. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: that means i get to boss around a number of people who have lifetime tenure, and i can't tell them what to do. [laughter] >> host: so we want to talk to you about your book, "labor's lost love: the rise and fall of the working class family in america." how do you define a working class family? >> guest: it's pretty hard. used to be easy. it was that family where the guy was working in factory or maybe a construction job, the wife staying home maybe working part-time with a couple of kids. that was what the working class was like in the 1950s and '60s at its peak. what i've found is you almost can't define can it these days, because it's really kind of fallen apart. that's the issue here. what we've seen over the

from johns hopkins university a student of the late great so dov is someone who has a keen understanding of the relationship between financial markets and the larger gio political issues that are involved, particularly in the middle east with regard to energy policy as energy markets. and i'll also add dov is also vase chair of the montreal bach fest festival. we have someone who understands hair moan yous. i want to well come dov and have him speak to you on the economic consequences of the historic oil price drop. dov? >> good morning. ie here to talk to you about about the disharmonious nature of the global oil market and some recent developments which you're all aware of which brought us here today the decline in oil prices and the questions i'm going to try to answer is how we got here whether or not we the ska here what theic economic impact will be and give us some thoughts on the regime we're going to find ourselves in with in the next 9 to 24 month. 0 what brought it us here? the north american market has been oversupplied with crude oil for the better part of the last three yea

world heading the whole global effort at hopkins and he was one of my professors at the johns hopkins university. this is another one sitting right there. and we eradicated smallpox in the world because of vaccination. today polio is also on the verge of eradication. we have three countries in the world that still have an active polio transmission. nigeria is one of those, but nigeria is doing very well now with polio. pakistan, somalia, india they worked a few years to eradicate polio and this is because of vaccination. in our program on immunization we have nine different antigens, and the reason i'm giving this history is for us to have the confidence for the randomized clinical trial for ebola vaccine on the way right now in liberia to go ahead and for us to be hopeful that we can have a vaccine this year, a promising vaccine for ebola. so we have a site at one of our hospitals that's ongoing. before i left liberia on sunday we had about 80% already in the trial. it's expected by the first of march we have the first 600 enrolled in this vaccine trial and monitor the situation before we can e

you met the distinguished bloomberg professor in the department of sociology at john hopkins universitycannot say enough about the book that you and your co-authors have recently published. seated at the next table senior tax policy analyst. welcome. and at the end of the table is barb montague honey current board member of the committee tax aid. let's get right to it. i will start with lori. a little background information. you face the prospect of being a single mother without a high school diploma, but you graduated high school on time went on to earn a a ba in public health at the university of maryland college park and went on to earn a masters in public administration with honors, i believe. the university the university of baltimore, all while working full-time and raising her daughter. last year not only did you get married but you are a candidate for delegate to the maryland general assembly at the same time. came up a little a little short and we are rooting for you. you have quite a story. but you said that family and various government programs were essential to your success

the ing theing the who global effort at hopkins and he was one of my professors at the johns hopkins university. this is another one sitting right there. and we eradicated smallpox in the world because of vaccination. today polio is also on the verge of eradication. we have three countries in the world that still have an active polio transmission. nigeria is one of those but nigeria is doing very well now with polio. pakistan somalia india they worked a few yearsing too eradicate polio and this is because of vaccination. in our program on immunization we have nine different antigens and the reason i'm giving this history is for us to have the confidence for the randomized clinical trial for ebola vaccine on the way right now in liberia to go ahead and for us to be hopeful that we can have a vaccine this year a promising van vaccine for ebola. so we have a site at one of our hospitals that's ongoing. before i left liberia on sunday we had about 80% already in the trial. it's expected by the first of march we have the first 600 enrolled in this vaccine trial and monitor the situation before we ca

edin, the distinguished bloomberg professor, and the department of univers sociology at johns hopkins university. can't say enough about the book that you and your co-authors have recently published. it is not like i'm poor. i know you're not going to hawk e it. but i will. i think you should buy it. seated at the next table is chye-ching huang senior tax policy analyst at the d.c. based think tank center on budget and policy priorities. welcome, chye-ching. at the end of the table there is barb mantegani, past president and current board member of the community tax aid, which runs these critical vitia sites throughout the d.c. area. so let's get right to it. i'm going to start with laurie.ation. a little background information about you, laurie, first that you had shared with me that people -- folks here would be interested in. you face the prospect of being a mot single mother without a high oma, b school utdiploma. o but youn graduated high school on time. you went on to earn a ba in public health at university of maryland college park, go terps. i'm a marylander myself. you went on to earn a