thank you for dropping in. >> i love this -- the kessler interview was great.show. >> you wouldn't give us a pick. but we had to ask him. >> it's a great show. >>> now, "first on cbnc," the results of a brand-new worldwide survey of ceos reveals the confidence of a key emerging market, asia, is down. that's right. the hottest market in the world may be cooling off. this survey takes the pulse of the organization. 19,000 executives in the ypo who run companies that generate $6 trillion in annual revenue. joining us from san jose, california, is alan zafron. alan, very surprising study. asia confidence down. the americas on the rise. africa booming. what can we glean from this? >> well, take it in context. recognize that monetary policies are being restricted in the first half of 2011 in asia. everyone was worried about inflation. so the consequence of slowing in the second half coupled with the european meltdown led all the ceos at asia to basically say, conditions don't look good, i'm going to pull back a little bit. meanwhile, in the u.s., we're sort of the cl

aaron kessler. he's got a $685 price target on priceline which he just raced last week by about 10%. aaron, when you first raised that price target a lot of people were scratching their heads. looks like tafs good move ahead of earnings. at these lofty levels, i want to go through the bear case on priceline. i think that would be helpful to a lot of people out there. which the company did site. a large percentage of total bookings come from european hotels. how are they offsetting the weakness? >> i think the key point is that penetration in europe. we estimate about 25% of european hotels are online today. we think over time that goes to over 50%. we think the hyper gross over the last few years continue. they grew 70% roughly in earnings in 2011. we're still modeling an proximate growth in 2012. a lot of coming from online penetration. not necessarily the overall markets growth. >> where can this stock go? obviously it's up huge in the aftermarket. where can it go from here? i think there are peop

one yesterday was about american biography and the cold war, biography of lillian helmand that alex kessler harris of columbia spoke about. later today there will be a session about interpreting the arab spring with juan cole of michigan, and then on american intervention with jeremy surry at ut austin. this morning our topic is publishing and the american century. our format is a little unusual for this annual conference. we will have a presenter, but then instead of cereal xhnts, we will have a more free willing informal conversation among everyone who is here. i'll introduce the members of the panel later on. right now i'd like to introduce our presenter. allan brinkley is the allan nef vince professor of american history at columbia. among his works are "voices of protest," huey long, father cobb lynn and the great depression which won the national book award for history. the "unfinished nation," "the end of reform" are two other of his works. the book we're focusing on today and though he didn't ask me to, i'm happy to hold up a hard-bound copy which is still available is the publisher

kessler, you've done a whole series of books along this line, correct? >> i've done a lot of fbi-related, intelligence-related books. i like to go after secrets, and can i even did a book on palm beach because there are a lot of secrets there in the society. i call that my midlife crisis. but, you know, i think people especially with the internet and tv want to get new information about important subjects, and that's what i try to do with these books. >> so what are two things that are revealed in this book that we should know about? >> well, one is how the fbi breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. of course, it's all court authorized, but it's incredible stories before they do a break-in, they will conduct surveillance of the premises, they figure out who goes in, who goes out. on the night of the break-in, they watch anybody at the home who might go back to premises, and if they do, they'll divert them. they'll stage a phony traffic accident, they'll give them a ticket, they'll even take a photo of any dog that might be on the premise

an afghani man, hired to protect rudy kessler and donald miller shot them dead.eur troops are in afghanistan to protect the afghans and american government. to protect the people they're fighting with and for undermines the entire operation and places our troops at an unacceptable level of risk. >> the defense department says the number of attacks on u.s. and coalition forces is rising. more than 40 in the last five years, killing 70 and wounding more than 100. >> military officials told the house armed services committee that the afghans often attack for personal reasons. >> one is a simple insult. another is combat stress that the individuals render. cultural miss understandings. religious and ideological frictions. >> reporter: in other cases, they are insurgents who infiltrate afghan security forces. they are improving the screening process to reduce threats, but admit there is no way to eliminate them. >> this is a thinking enemy we're dealing with here. a cunning enemy. and every now and then, the enemy is going to have success. >> reporter: they are also s

racials no prejudice is no longer a potentr force in american politics and political scientists michael kessler and david sears argue persuasively that the election of 2008 was anything but opposeu racial.ost instead, the racial hopes ande h fears evoked by -- by obama have the potential to be the country's first black president sharply divided in rachael -- racial and service from racial liberals. public defender -- public opinion in voting behavior were considerably more polarized by racial attitudes than at any other time on record. >> guest: yes, the race liney d is still the devil of american life. of course, the election of thecl first black president was a landmark that shows there has been tremendous change inent american racial attitude. rl had there not been that change you would have had no hope of prevailing. at the same time it is alsoime clear that he had to overcome his blackness in order to prevail. so race still matters. >> host: you have a chapter inat here, why can't they all be like him speak to that chapter is about barack obama'sat i interactions with white america. one of

my particular mentor alice kessler harris one of my mentors from grad school was a refugee from the holocaust and a lot of the women who started women's history had amazing stories to tell and they were also persons who knew very well what it's like for history to try to make a whole history invisible and i think that's an important side note. you couldn't really do a doctorate in women's history in too many places until the late '80s and when i started grad school at binghamton it was about one of four places in the u.s. and the big change has been that women studies programs have been offering degrees that range from a minor and a certificate to a master's and george washington university, where i also teach has the oldest m.a. program in women's studies in public policy in the country. and the focus here in dc, obviously, is more on women in government. but other programs in the u.s. you might find more of a focus on women and literature, women in psychology. and a lot of the programs bring together faculty students and administrators every year through something called the national women'

it was up because there was a report out of s&p which is kind of interesting, because scott kessler, is the head of the internet research there is a dubious sort. he can be very dubious. but he came out and was very table pounding on priceline talking about that they're bound to benefit from continuing gains, and key -- booking.com, which is their european subsidiary, good things coming their way in terms of the summer olympics. so that was pretty interesting. plus you had the william shatner commercial in the super bowl. >> no more shatner, right? no more negotiator. >> it's gone. that was such a great commercial. >> how about rack space? you were all over that one yesterday. did they surprise you? pretty good earnings. >> what they had was, no, what they had was very strong revenues, they said revenues a year from now will be about the same where i get on street signs in about an hour i'm going to be talking about the quality of the results. which i think is very -- is something you have to take a look at. >> let's look at the wall street of the stock move today. up 12% today, 22%

. >> the most recent book by ron kessler, "the secrets of the fbi." >> civil rights attorney connie be rice recounts her life and legal career next on booktv. ms. rice, second cousin of former secretary of state condoleezza rice, recalls her upbringing and education as well as her numerous court cases which include legal actions against the los angeles police department and the city's bus and school systems. this is a little over an hour. >> it is a great pleasure to be here and a privilege to address you tonight. thank you for coming out, and i've been on this odyssey in l.a. for about the last 20, 23 years. and i figured before i hit 60,: i'd better while i still haveá the memories, i'd better pullá some of them out and put them down there. i'm 55 now, and i wasn't sure that i'd be able to do it in another ten years. : á á : : : : >> she seemed more the barbie: doll mode of journalist, not th real investigative journalists that i grew up with, so i really didn't want to go to lunch with her, but i went. and i started talking about these kids who were live anything jordan downs housin

tragically kessler wasn't supposed to be in new york that day.ed to return home a week early. they say justice is blind, especially he when the judge has his eyes closed throughout the entire hearing. we're talking about a texas judge, larry craddock, caught sleeping and he was supposed to be listening to critical testimony and he's now resigning and says that medication he's taking makes him drowsy and blaming the lawyers in the case for not waking him up. and those are the headlines. >> clayton: is that the lawyer's job now, wake up the judge. >> alisyn: present a scintillating case. >> dave: remember this viral video, charlie bit my finger. it's still rocking the video and how much it's making charlie's family. >> clayton: plus, the president announcing a compromise on the birth control mandate and is the president messing with the wrong woman? >> and remember this woman, whitney houston singing one moment in time at the olympics. we're take ago look back at her golden career, her beautiful voice and her songs and troubled life as well. an upd