. >> what is your position at johns hopkins? >> i'm a professor of health policy and management. i direct the center for gun policy and research there. i'm also deputy director for research for this and our prevention of youth violence. i've been there for almost 24 years now on the faculty devoting most of my time adding violence and ways to prevent it. >> how did you get interested in gun policy? >> actually when i was a doctoral student at the johns hopkins school of public health in the late 1980s and early 90s, i can't bear not to study violence. i was interested in other issues related to preventing injuries broadly and sort of looking for something that seemed to be important to the public south. at that time our country was in the mid-federal epidemic of gun violence mostly involving the use and in baltimore it was particularly acute. we had nearly 400 murders one year that i was doing my doctoral studies. it was apparent to me then that this was the issue. this was a leading -- leading killer of many groups and really a reason why we have -- at least men have a huge disp

i actually got a call from the president of johns hopkins after the new town shooting. he had an idea of doing precisely what we did that was brilliant based on experiences he had. like 9/11, katrina in those events that gripped the nation decisions that policy makers are faced with. and he had great success to bring people together to do this quickly to give a scholarship into the hands of policymakers. . .

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 or medical background? >> guest: i come from a history background. in fact, as a high school and even college student i shi

johns hopkins professor n.d.b. connolly with a real looking at? >> it was in the state archives, one of to three dozen telegrams sent to the governor from the residents of north miami it was concerned when a landlord would open his apartment building to the half black residents. carver village was considered to be a genuine threat but it was eventually bombed by white vigilantes' working together who tried to drive out black residents and the neighborhood was named little korea. that telegram connects the history of vigilante violence with property rights and property values. and acting in the interest of risk miami homeowners. >> host: did telegrams and other actions lead to legislation? >> but the greater problem was en 1951 as a way to alleviate to make it more attractive but a 1947 with african-americans who excelled to whites to the local county commission. >> in your book, "a world more concrete" real estate and the remaking of jim crow south florida" what is your goal? what you try to explain? >> there two big pieces to this story. one is t

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 going on. >> people literally had no idea. >> no idea. this was a very closely held

. >> 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. >>

we are at johns hopkins adversity.n the increased demand for long-term care for the elderly and a current caregiver system can handle it >> good evening. you can do better than that. good evening. we should start with all of you giving ourselves a round of applause for coming out on a cold winter evening to talk about aging and caregiving. give yourselves a round of applause. [applause] we are so thrilled to be with you tonight to celebrate the official publication date of the age of dignity. ..

trip to 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

the author is john hopkins professor n.d.b. connolly. professor, thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. >> daniel webster, how many illegal guns are in the united states today? >> very difficult to estimate. some have estimated in the range of 250 million guns. >> legal guns. >> legal guns. >> handguns, shotguns et cetera. >> and probably more than not. >> how many illegal guns? >> that is very difficult to determine honestly. anything an analyst at market by definition is difficult to measure. i think it also gets confusing about legal and illegal guns. most of our guns are legal, meaning that if the possessors not prohibit it, the gun is

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john lipsky is a senior fellow at the johns hopkins senior farm policy institute and a former first deputy managing director for the international monetary fund and he joins me in studio. dr. lipsey, welcome back to bottom line. john: good to be here. mark:, we were just talking about -- mark: we were just talking about the situation between ukraine and russia and world leaders trying to navigate that. they will hold talks in belarus beginning on wednesday. ahead of the negotiations, the european union decided today to does -- to hold off on imposing more sanctions. our diplomatic efforts working echoed are the sanctions working? -- are diplomatic efforts working? are the sanctions working? john: many believe it is keeping russia from obtaining funding from abroad. it is computing to the russian economy weakening. right now, russia is looking at a recession this year. mark: peter also mention that chancellor merkel was asking about greece -- was asked about greece, and perhaps she did not want to get into that. germany is the biggest european contributor to greece's bailout, so the germans

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

johns hopkins sociologist andrew cherlin is the author here's the cover. >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org, tweet us @booktv or post on our wall facebook.com/booktv. >> and while in corpus christi we spoke with norman delaney whose book "the maltby brothers' civil war" tells the story of two brothers who ended up on opposite sides of the civil war. >> in regards to the civil war it was a brothers' war. it was such a great tragedy in all, too that divided so many families. but as far as the personal relationships, they remained very very close as it had been before the war and would remain afterward. you know that cliche blood is thicker than water, and i think it really holds in the case of, well certainly the maltby brothers. my book then, "the maltby brothers' civil war," concerns three of these brothers. henry maltby, he was the second brother, second son of david maltby from ohio, and he he originally came to texas. he wanted to establish the newspaper "the ranchero," so that was when the younger broth

that is first and second degree attempted murder. >>> research from johns hopkins shows e-cigarettes can affect the lung's immune system and they also generate the same dangerous chemicals found in tradition a.m. cigarettes. this comes a week after health officials in california declared e-cigs a health threat. >>> we end with breaking news. the commissioner of the food and drug administration dr. margaret hamburg is expected to step down. "the new york times" says the white house will announce her resignation tomorrow. hamburg has been on the job for almost six years. the fda's chief scientist is expected to fill the position until a new commissioner is named. mike, andrea? >> thank you, nick. >>> whether it's the kids at the bus stop or if you happen to work outside today, cover exposed skin. don't let this morning fool you. it's warm now. this afternoon it's going to be much, mitch different. >> fur -- much, much different. >> north and west, the winds are starting to kick in. north and east, eight not bad. the cold is marching southeastward as we speak. day planner shows temperat

john hopkins doctors believe they may be able to help. >> i put my hands on face and sobbed. >> he's a fighter. i'm amazed every day by truitt. >> unfortunately he needs a especially equipped plane to make the journey cost of that combined with arrangements for two full time nurses could cost up to $30,000. a go fund me page is already set up to help make that trip possible. >> all right time to check tickets. winning numbers in for the 394 million dollar powerball jackpot million dollar powerball jackpot. this is sixth largest powerball of all time. by the way cash option for tonight's jackpot comes out to more than 256 million bucks get tickets ready here are numbers again melissa. five ten 1 34 58, and powerball is 33. melissa did not extreme. >> this is last weekend for philadelphia auto show. there's plenty of time to check out your dream car. future vehicle prototypes. thousands came through the pennsylvania convention september to check out the scene there. the auto show continues through tomorrow. check it out if you can. >> more than a dozen cadets ovlly joined wilmington fi

john hopkins from the clinic are his team. this well erases the -- the fact that he'll be a figure wet. there is a number three guys, and the son with a defence minister. >> as part of the transition, they have named a crown prince. we know, effect, who the next king will be. is it important? into well, it's important we know him. i think they make two announcements. first, the crown prince. the youngest son of king abdullah, and the end of the line of king abdullah. also they have designated the minister of interior as the deputy prince and the second deputy prime minister, so the number three position. not a guarantee of succession, but at the powerful signal that they are ready to move to the next generation. >> is it important to signal and unleash a fight among many sons. >> it's important that king salman sent a signal of stability at the top, over the next 30 years. prince mukran was a fighter pilot, training at cram well undergraduate. he went to montgomery. he served as the governor for 20 years. the governor of medin

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if it sounds in the year, that is because in the past year we have seen similar mixups at johns hopkins and m.i.t.. >> rapper vanilla ice is under arrest tonight. robert van winkle is accused of stealing from a florida home that was in foreclosure. he was renovating a home next furniture, a meter, bicycles all taken from the home during december and february. the police say some of the stolen items were recovered on vanilla ice's property. >> not nice, nice, baby. [laughter] there are 80 items inside of the oscar nominees' swag bags, worth $125,000. some of the items are unconventional. there is a three night vacation worth more than $11,000. also on the list, several expensive sex toys and luxury condoms. >> all righty. >> and we lead into the weather with that? [laughter] we have a lot of cold weather on the way -- tim brant, you better stay back there. [laughter] i'm going to get out of here quickly. >> good move. >> 48 the average this time of year. tim i will bring you in front of this wall one of these days and you will have fun. the temperatures right now, 18 degrees gaithersburg

. >> 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

leadership, and 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 w

learn a lot from. >> host: here's the cover of the book "ivan pavlov" a russian life in science johns hopkins professor daniel todes is the author. the publisher is oxford unity -- oxford press. you are watching booktv on c-span2. >> host: writers leader joan biskupic her recent book breaking in the politics of justice. joan biskupic what have we learned about sonia sotomayor? >> guest: we have learned what she's been doing while she's been on the court for the last five years. this is a political history that tells you how she got on the supreme court and what her life has been like since. it picks up where her memoir left off so you learn in the opening chapter how she persuaded her fellow justices to salsa with her. but then you also learn how she has been affected by mind the scenes on bob and sometimes she hasn't been so effective. if. >> host: you also read a biography of anton scalia. how are they different and how are they the same? >> guest: they are the same in some ways. they're both new yorkers, one from queens and one from the bomb -- bronx going through distinctive personalities

some of the president's proposed laws are meeting resistance in the tech community >>> at the johns hopkins computer science department fall is showing the professor the signs he's made. he's hacking into devices used in hospitals, and making them safe from other hackers. >> the medical devices are everywhere connected to networks now. nobody has really done much work looking at the security of devices, trying to prevent the legacy devices. >> it's not just medical devices. more and more of our lives are networked. all too often with safe disorders. under proposed hacking legislation, they could be prosecuted for exploring net work vulnerabilities. >> there was proposed legislation. there are many others - liable for prosecution for attempting to find weaknesses for those with bad intentions. they are proposing to make things that are already criminal more criminal. i don't think that will solve the problem. they are also sharing information with private companies. >> reporter: about all of us. >> about all of us. there are problems. they are collecting a lot of information. now there'll be

. >> before coming to philadelphia truett has an appointment at johns hopkins then he'll make his wayre to see a specialist at chop the first week of april. >>> if you had less than year to live how would you spend that time? high school student in detroit is spending it helping others specifically young children. fox's amy andrews shows us exactly by the young man is an angel on earth. >> my cancer i could die at any second and there's nothing anybody can do about it. >> reporter: doctors say 15 year old connor may not have much time left. >> i was diagnose with carcinoma of the nasal cavity and cranial cavity. it only happens to 60 to 80-year-old men. i'm the only in the united states with this. >> scared to go in the room to wake him up many not knowing if he's going to answer you or he'll be gone. >> reporter: the high school sophomore refuses to let stage four brain cancer slow him down despite the grim prognosis. >> just because you got cancer doesn't mean you can live your live to the fullest every single day. >> reporter: instead of focusing on how sickly chemo makes him or ho

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

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

. >> doctors at johns hopkins in baltimore have released one of the students. the others are in fair condition. >>> today prince george's county county police officers went to check on a woman at her apartment in the 9500 block of edwardsway and found her unresponsive inside. she had trauma to her body and was pronounced dead a short time later. police have not released any information. >>> another metro train is out of service after a smoke incident this afternoon. this is cell phone video inside the dupont circle station. you can see smoke between the platform and red line train. a problem with the brakes is to blame. no one was hurt. metro did not evacuate the station. firefighters stop people from entering the station for a short time. >>> a d.c. elementary schoolteacher out on his own recognizance tonight facing two counts of child sex abuse. special ed teacleroy ware admits he touched the genitals of one of his 4th graders. on his facebook page we found dozens of photos including several of him posing with d.c. politicians. the 9-year-old boy went to his

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like the 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

. >> reporter: at the johns hopkins computer science department paul is showing his professor the progresse has made. he has been hacking into desighses used in hospitals around the world, but then making them safe from other hackers. >> these devices are everywhere and contacted to networks and patients right now, and nobody has really done that much work on looking at the security of these devices and trying to prevent especially the legacy devices from being attacked. >> reporter: from cars to our home's power supplies and beyond, more and more of our lives are networked all too often with minimal safeguards. but under proposed anti-hacking legislation announced last month by the obama administration it is researchers like martin who would be arrested. martin's protess or thinks he would be safe from prosecution, but he is not sure. and he knows that other white hat hackers could be liable for prosecution for attempting to find weaknesses before those with bad intentions. >> they are proposing to make things that are credit card criminal even more criminal. they are proposing to share i

. >> doctors at johns hopkins in baltimore have released one of the students. the others are in fa

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

. >> 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

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

the year 2000, a man named bobby chen bought this property in baltimore north of johns hopkins hospitalt for $900. such a deal for a house. eight years later, though, there was, let's call it an accident. the headline, demolition overdone. the city was demolishing the house next to bobby chen's house, but in the process, they took out his house, as well. whoops. he sued baltimore, wouldn't you? but his lawsuit was dismissed because he missed the filing deadline. but he decided to petition the united states supreme court to hear his case. he did it by himself without a lawyer. he did a lot of it by hand, writing a 61-page document, listing his monthly expenses. he argued the supreme court should exempt him from the $300 fee because he showed he didn't have $300 to spend. thousands of people petition the supreme court every year, lots with legions of lawyers and lots of money to spend and the vast majority of those people don't get heard. but in november, the supreme court announced that they were going to hear bobby chen's hand written case. so come on down, bobby chen, make your case in

. >> 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.

>> and then behind. >> i'm from johns hopkins and we're very proud of you at hopkins. >> thank you. >> you mentioned and many people have mentioned the weak health system and, of course, there was a civil war and you mentioned also the capacity building initiative after the war, the basic package. i'm sure you reflected and it would be really interesting to hear your insights on digging down, on what were the most specific impacts of the war and the health care building initiative that gave the possibilities to respond as you have? what were the strengths that were built into the experience and conversely what were the weaknesses that were revealed from the civil war and then the health care building initiative? >> thank you. could you just hand the microphone right behind and next to you? we'll take the two of you. >> thank you for this presentation. i am with the international crisis group. i have two questions. the first one is regarding your role during the acute crisis phase. do you have any comments on the control measures such as the role of security forces and also how did the

researchers at johns hopkins found that people are increasing their cancer risk by drinking at least blames a coloring that could be a carcinogen. >>> a patch releases peanut protein into the skin with the goal of familiarizing the skin. hammed washing dishes can be healthy for your family. a study shows increasing evidence suggests that getting a little dirty does the immune system good. hand washing dishes doesn't get them as clean as a dishwasher, exposing children to bacteria and helping them develop a hearty immune system. >>> a minnesota man is seeing the world in a whole new way. >> yes! [ laughter ] >> oh! >> that was the big home. that's alan seeing his wife for the first time in ten years. this is video courtesy of the mayo clinic where the procedure was performed. the 68-year-old is the 15th person to receive a bionic eye to allow him to make out shapes and see his own reflection in a window. he has a retinitis pig mento sa. the bionic eye has been under development for more than 25 years. imagine the emotion there. >>> >>> and this is the news a texas family wanted to hea

he is a fellow with a foreign policy institute at johns hopkins school of advanced international studiesvid, we last spoke when you were expelled from russia, can you give us an update? have you been able to go back at all reign. >> no, not at all. the russian authorities made clear that i am persona non grata in russia, but i do hope to go back soon or in the near future unfortunately depends upon then because they are the ones that give the visa is. jenna: we will take it as a badge of honor for now. we appreciate this. your column was entitled a shaky hold on power. you list a few reasons why he has such a shaky hold in russia right now. what is the biggest? >> the biggest reason is that he has initiated a series of events that he cannot control. he decided that the best way to distract the attention of the russian people from the russian authorities is to launch a war. so the way in which it is going to proceed is something that no one can easily predict. we already see that vladimir putin has damaged with his actions the russian economy. and it is the russian economy and the fact th

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amon geren is a lecturer at john hopkins school of advanced international studies and he is my guest today. so let's talk about this very unusual way in which some other middle eastern countries are making fun of isis, what are they saying? >> i think what the media outlets are doing in the middle east are not june playing the threat, but poking fun at them as much as anything else. it's and an know gentz it dehumanizes and delegitimizes them and i think these are really useful tools to use against what is just a terrorist organization. they have had a lot of battlefield defeats. they like to try and control the media and we need to take that back. >> it's interesting that these countries are doing this in fighting back against isis especially in paris there was a big controversy on whether or not media outlets should produce and reproduce these types of cartoons. >> what the states in the middle east are very much more in tune with is not to make portrayals or they're not making fun of the profit of mohammad in any sense but they are making fun of these terrorists, who claim to be s

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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