l. wilson and brian greene and michio kaku. but given the size of that science frontier, we need many more. and so i'm disappointed that i'm sitting there alone with that kind of distinction. >> hinojosa: so when i was growing up, the most famous scientist was carl sagan. >> yeah. oh, yeah. >> hinojosa: and you actually got a chance to meet him, hang out with him, exchange ideas with him. >> totally. >> hinojosa: you we extraordinarily inspired by him. >> yeah, i already knew i wanted to be a scientist, so that's not the link that mattered there. there i was in high school, already knowing that when i grew up i wanted to be an astrophysicist, something i've known since age 11. and my application to cornell university, it was, like, dripping with the universe, because there's all... i had a telescope, i was in the club, i... you know. and so cornell accepted me, but then they want you to come if they accept you, right? but i hadn't decided yet. and they, little did i know, forwarded my application to carl sagan's office, and car

wilson's return to space science. oh a county town getting a green card to live in america but every year l. lucky few thousand randomly hit the jackpot or so he thought the courts ruled the latest lottery list just isn't arbitrary enough as tearing up the immigrants invites i just got to check out explains. hoping for a better life in america or from nigeria applied for the green card lottery he won or so it said in the letter that he received from the state department almost two weeks later the us voided the results of the lottery for some twenty two thousand people including a kuchuk war that i want to button for a force that i love. it's one for each year the u.s. state department grants green cards to some fifty thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jackpot is the right to leave and work in america is advertised this completely random the state department claims in this case there was a computer glitch and the results were not arbitrary and a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registrat

woodrow wilson, through the rest of the p pgressive moments set out to say the constitution was l very well once, but now we're a more complicated society with grand ambitions for the government. therefore what the founders did, which is put the government on the short leash has to be undone. we have to cut the leash on government. that's what the progressive project has been for a century. >> therein lies the organs of this particular impasse that we are in now. this is very old impasse. i think the sense of crisis is virtually exaggerated. we have a very adversarial journalistic world. in which we'll hear more about crisis than not. but the framing of that debate dates to the progressive era. there's a set of arguments made that the document is a piece of parchment and needs worships as such in the way we worship other documents that have different kinds of meaning to us. that idea goes much further back and i think indeed it can many ways be traced to the founders themselves. when jefferson said the constitution should nevevebe looked as the arc of the covenant, we find other kinds