each string at ithaca we give out an annual award for outstanding achievement. named after izzy stone, the izzy award. in 12 days we will do so the izzy award on the fifth annual winner, the nonprofit news outlet mother jones. it rogues story after story last year, including the now mitt romney, 47% of american voters are moochers undercover video. [applause] some of you know, i spent years as a political pundit on mainstream television, cnn, fox, e. i was outnumbered, out shouted and finally terminated. now i am free. since we are not constrained within the mainstream media, we can freely discuss the elephant in the room. the issue that explains why other countries can have free college education, universal health care, but our country can't afford it. the problem that may be bigger than all other problems in our country because it so exacerbates all those other problems. it is a problem that martin luther king focused on before he was assassinated 45 years ago this week. it has only gotten worse since. that was the height of the vietnam war.

each string at ithaca we give out an annual award for outstanding achievement. , the after izzy stone izzy award. in 12 days we will do so the izzy award on the fifth annual winner, the nonprofit news outlet mother jones. it rogues story after story last year, including the now , 47% of mitt romney american voters are moochers undercover video. [applause] some of you know, i spent years as a political pundit on mainstream television, cnn, fox, e. i was outnumbered, out shouted

i'm jeff cohen with the park center as it got ithaca college. the freelike to thank press for organizing this conference on media reform. [applause] > >> in his weekly address, president obama talked about the economy and the middle class. then maryland congressman andy harris gave the republican address on repealing the affordable care act. >> hi, everybody. over the past few months i have laid out a series of common sense ideas to reignite the true engine of our ech -- our rising, thriving middle class. the way i see it, there are three areas where we need to look as -- one, making america a magnet for good jobs, too,-- two, making sure our workers have the education and skills they need to do those jobs, and three, making sure your hard work leads to a decent living. i've also been visiting cities across the country doing some interesting and creative things along these lines. on friday i stopped by a factory in baltimore creating good jobs here at home by exporting dredging equipment abroad. i read with young kids at a pre- k program where k

i love my trips up to ithaca love going through the course of cornell. >> ithaca college. >> best school dan henning here we are so especially pleased to welcome welcome into the studio at this time sten yale lair is a professor of immigration law. one of the things that's been going on this week we have been so consumed in the media in talking about the big three skavenlingdzs, about benghazi about the irs, about the department of justice and the associated press. we have given very little -- no attention at all to the fact that the senate judiciary committee -- i know because i have a friend who works on that committee. they have been hard at work marking up -- not cutting up but mark ing up the immigration bill. you are in town as an expert on immigration. are we going to get a bill out of the senate? >> we will get a bill out of the senate this year. it's unclear if we will get it all the way to the president's desk. i want a comprehensive, complex piece of legislation that affects every person in the united states whether they hire a person from another country whether they are a fo

i'm jeff cohen with the park center as it got ithaca college.elike to thank press for organizing this conference on media reform. [applause] ... >> when i woke up this morning and started writing my speech, i was thinking about my first month on campus in september when i was a freshman. the football team went into that season ranked number one in the nation. i remember that september when i got here. there was all this excitement on campus. our first game was at wisconsin. ourent out there and lost first game 21-14. there was this crushing disappointment afterward. i would like you to think of that soaring expectation followed by crushing disappointment as a metaphor for your next 20 minutes with me. >> advice for graduates. friday night at 8:00 eastern. including fbi director and florida governor rick scott. apple cofounder steve wozniak. five more features online. clarence thomas recently sat down for a conversation about his life and career. he talked about his childhood , his politics, and the work of the court. this is just over an hour. [

i'm jeff cohen with the park center at ithaca college. i would like to thank the free press for organizing this onference on media reform. ? next a look at the i.r.s. tax exempt unit and the tar getting of groups. . after that a discussion about .s. laws and standards for overseas workers. >> on news makers congressman viss van hollen talks about congressional strategies for dealing with the debt, the different budget plans in the house and senate and future budget cuts related to sequestration. ews makers sunday on c-span. >> as we look around we have to ask how long have there been chinese in the united states. it's a trick question. there were chinese in what would become the united states before there was a united states. for our purposes everything begins in 1776. 13 col anies proposed to be their own country. they have a war and it last until 1783. right after the war was completed in 1783 the following year it was important, one of the first things they did was accepted out a ship out of new york harbor. it was the emporress of chi

each spring at ithaca we give out an annual award for outstanding achievement.ed after izzy stone, the izzy award. in 12 days we will do so the izzy award on the fifth annual winner, the nonprofit news outlet mother jones. it broke story after story last year, including the now infamous mitt romney, 47% of american voters are moochers undercover video. [applause] some of you know, i spent years as a political pundit on mainstream television, cnn, fox, msnbc. i was outnumbered, out shouted and finally terminated. now i am free. since we are not constrained within the mainstream media, we can freely discuss the elephant in the room. the issue that explains why other countries can have free college education, universal health care, but our country can't afford it. it's the problem that may be bigger than all other problems in our country because it so exacerbates all those other problems. it is a problem that martin luther king focused on before he was assassinated 45 years ago this week. it has only gotten worse since. that was the height of the vietnam war. i'm t

bath and beyond, target, kohl's or go to sodastream.com for a location here you. [ inaudible ] in ithaca three people accidentally with drones? i mean i know he is trying to change the policy. but one of them was a 16-year-old boy, and it still breaks my heart to think that we did that. to me it's not about party. it's about justice. and i think we still have a long way to go. and i'm glad the woman spoke to the president. she didn't call him a liar like the ass hats do but she did criticize his policy and i don't blame her. >> stephanie: as i think he said to her, though. these are tough issues. the guy we got in the strike was a really bad guy. and the other guy we got in the same strike was a really bad guy, and they called killing the 16-year-old a mistake, but i'm just saying -- really as compared to iraq or afghanistan the amount of people we have killed? >> it's not as bad as that so you can't criticize it. >> stephanie: right. but i'm just saying that probably saved a lot of american lives, that one strike and the problem is there is collateral damage in any war. and he made chan

jill in ithaca on the cleveland story. >> good morning, you are going to have to fight me for charlesutest. >> stephanie: yeah unbelievable. >> caller: when they make a movie about him. keenian thompson from "saturday night live." >> stephanie: we got to make a movie, there's more girls up in that bitch. >> caller: yeah, they did put off an execution yesterday in mississippi because they did not have enough dna testing, so they postponed it. they were going to execute a guy at 6:00 pm last night, and they didn't. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: so i was glad to hear about that. >> stephanie: okay. thank you, jill. all right is fighting over charles ramsey now. karl in nashville on the south carolina race as well. hey, karl. >> caller: hey, steph, it's one thing to forgive sanford as a good christian but don't give him back the reins of power again. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: and what is funny is that this is the party of family values. >> stephanie: yeah. >> uh-huh. >> caller: this is the party of family values and they keep putting these people back in power. how the hell can the

amy in ithaca, you are on the "stephanie miller show" with matthew on gay marriage as well. >> callerichele bachmann at a gay rally. not a good place to hide at a lesbian rally, just saying. >> caller: it depends. we have separation of church and state, right? >> in principle. >> caller: but you don't get married unless you have a license, which is issued by the government. you have all of these rely rely -- religious people are saying why do you have to call it marriage? they have to call it holy matrimony. >> that point speaks to a lot of what a lot of people are thinking about same-sex marriage in this country. why is the government interested in putting a religious term on a contract between two people. you could call it civil unions for everybody -- >> stephanie: yeah, if you don't give us a binky, we're going to take yours away. think about getting down on one knee and saying will you civil union me. matthew breen thank you honey. >> thank you very much. >> stephanie: back with more unpronounceable russian names on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ to the fire. are you encouraged b

jill in ithaca.y belated birthday, jim. >> oh thank you. >> caller: recently -- i don't know what date but representative from minnesota glenn groovenhobber he got up and spoke about that there's no climate change. so i looked up his number and called him. and asked him when he is going to go out to oklahoma to help those people. because what is his motivation? is he being paid by gas and oil companies? or is he just evil? i thought that republicans are about, you know, responsibility? where is the responsibility to your fellow citizens. >> stephanie: yeah and jill you heard what mike was saying about people don't like that when you seem like you are politicizing something right when it happens, but it is not politicizing talking about science. and we have talked about this obviously in the past we can't even have a conversation about what might be causing this. >> caller: right. i'm all for reaching out to the avenue person, but these politicians are not the average person, so i think i have -- they

each spring at ithaca we give out an annual award for outstanding achievement in infeint media named after izzie stone, it's called the izzie award. in 12 days we will bestow the izzie award on the fifth annual winner, that's the nonprofit news outlet mother jones. which broke story after story last year including the now- now-infamous mitt romney 47% of american voters are moochers undercover video. [applause] some of you know i spent years as a political pundit on mainstream television, on cnn, fox, msnbc. i was outnumbered, outshouted, red baited, finally terminated. but now i'm free, and since none of us here are constrained within the mainstream media, we can freely discuss the elephant in the room. the issue that largely explains why other countries can have free college education, universal health care, but we're told that our country can't afford it. it's the problem that may be bigger than all other problems in our country because it so exacerbates all those other problems. it's a problem that martin luther king focused on before he was assassinated 45 years ago this week, a

i'm jeff cohen with the park center at ithaca college. i would like to thank the free press for organizing this conference on media reform. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> as americans returned from the memorial day holiday, we will look at recommendations from the national transportation safety board that should reduce deaths from alcohol impaired driving. they want states to adopt lowering the legal blood alcohol limit 2.05. at 8:00rts tonight eastern on c-span and we will also take your calls and comments about the proposed drunk driving rules. and although this week, book tv and prime time, three books on american foreign-policy. first, david rohde on "beyond haass,nd then richard nasr on his vali book "the dispensable nation." be aere tends to denigration by the u.s. military by some historians that whenever one german battalion fought in american italian -- tended to the germans be tactically superior. the betterere military. i think this

station whether you are in chicago or ep denver or los angeles or seattle or portland or buffalo or ithacar asheville or wherever be grateful you have a good progressive talk radio station n santa fe and taos and support them and the people that are responsive that you are here on this program. i mentioned rhode island made history yesterday. rhode island became the last state in new england to finally get on board with marriage e quality the. governor lincoln chaffey yesterday said this is the time we have been waiting for. >> i know that you have been waiting for this day to come. i know that you have love ones who dreamed this would happen but did not t live to see t now at long last, you are free to marry the person you love. thank you. thank you. >> bill: unbelievable into the 21st century for just that very simple statement, shunts you are free to marry the person you love. why is that contested still? it was a pretty lop-sided vote. these are historic numbers. 51 to 19. tions 51 to 19 in that fairly conservative democratic state of rhode island, a state that i have learned to love s

jill in ithaca, you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi jill. >> caller: hi, steph.ore hal brought up guantanamo and yeah it is a national disgrace. the president does have a little more power to do something. those people that are there out of 166 have been cleared. they're languishing. now they're all on a hunger strike. we don't want people to die. they're force-feeding them. it is disgusting. and you know, if people want to call in, the white house comment line, they have the number. >> okay. >> stephanie: sure, go ahead. >> caller: 202-456-1111. i've already, of course, called it. but some of the people are there because it is a witch-hunt. >> stephanie: it is foie gras. the president is not surprised we're having these problems. it is morally ethically legally untenable to hold these people forever. jill, the thing i always said, when bush started this thing and then romney said he would double down on -- double the size of guantanamo is you're right. some of the people weren't terrorists. they didn't hate us when they got there. now they do. >> even the ones t

we are actually running some experiments, working with ithaca, the not-for-profit in new york, in partnership with the gatesfunding from foundation, running side-by-side comparisons, where classes are being taught in traditional ways but we are using the mooc in other sections of the same class. then we will compare the cost and the outcome. we have to answer that question. >> so let's be clear about this. teaching is not the same thing as learning and what we really care about is not what is taught, but what is learned. daphne, what is the potential for assessing learning via moocs? in other words, the front page ,f "the new york times" today it is very hard to wake up any morning and not see some article about moocs or on-line learning. story aboutge had a a new automated trading system that uses artificial intelligence. this is your field, daphne. artificial intelligence technology to instantly grade students assignments with no human input. moocs andure of higher education that students learn with no human input, other than the creation of the moocs themselves? how do we best push moocs f

hello, jill in ithaca. >> caller: good morning, steph and the co-anchors. >> stephanie: the panel. >>tephanie: get on the rides faster. >> caller: they're all liberals. sean hannity i had the unfortunate occasion -- sean hannity yesterday. and he's claiming all of those people are liberals because they live in new york city. >> stephanie: oh, i see. >> caller: yeah. we're all lovey and thurston howell and forgot one other guy who lives in new york city. mr. donald trump. >> stephanie: here is a news flash for you. >> there are a whole lot of people who work in the financial district that are not liberals. >> not remotely. >> exactly. >> stephanie: i did my commencement address and my friend was like can you not talk about politics. she said they're all republicans here. they're all on the board. new york. just sayin'. all right. brian in charlotte you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi brian. >> caller: good morning. holder does not need to resign. the republicans last year were all up in arms with their righteousnesses, indignation talking about how holder or obama was leaking stu

we're running experiments, working with ithaca, the partnership. the university of cicero.s in other class's . and then we are going to compar not the cost but the outcome. we have to answer that question. >> let's be clear about this. teaching is not the same thing is learning, and what we really care about is not what is taught , but what is learned. so what is the potential for assessing it learned viejo moocs ? in other words, you know, the front page of the new york time today. it is very hard to wake up in the morning now and not see som article about online learning. this morning and it is not coincidental, front page of the new york times have a story about a new automated on-line grading system that uses artificial intelligence. this is your field. it uses artificial intelligence technology to instantly grade students, assignments with no human input. is the future of moocs and higher education that students learned with no human inflexion except the creation of the mooc themselves? how do we best pushed moocs force that we know students -- high proportion of stude