. >> i teach at lawrence university and proud to say i was a graduate student. mic went off. i'll talk louder. jimmy question for you is if a college senior came and said i want to be an american historian, what would be your voice for him? >> or her. >> or her. >> my advice would be to go to one of the universities where my distinguished colleagues teach and study wthathey want to purs. in recent years i think one of the more exciting developments as been a new scholarship in the history of the american revolution in the early republic. people like david fisher, gordon wood and brown and sko l scholars have been doing forthe american revolution and the early republic what i and others have tried to do for the civil war and reconstruction period. that's only one area. i always tell college seniors at princeton when they were tried to find a subject for their senior thesis or graduate students looki ining for a topi the first requirement is something you have to be interested in. i talked about the way in which i was going to do a dissertation on alabama reconstruction but gre

. >> i teach at lawrence university and am proud to say that i was a graduate student of jim mcpherson. jim, my question for you is if a college steenior came to you toy and said i want to be an american historian, what would be your advice for >> my advice would be to go to one of the universities where my distinguished colleagues teach and study whatever interests they want to pursue. in recent years, i think one of the more exciting developments has been a new scholarship in the history of the american revolution in the early republic. many scholars have been doing for the american rough ligs and early history-of will -- early republic what i and others have tried to do. but that's only one area. i always tell college seniors at princeton when they were trying to find a subject for the senior thesis or graduate students looking for a topic for dissertation, it has to a topic that you have a real interest in. i talked about the way i was originally going to give a dissertation on alabama construction but grew cool for a variety of reasons about that. and moved into another subject. w

to get bad enough but i don't see that coming anytime soon all right professor lawrence davidson from westchester university in pennsylvania thanks for your insights my pleasure. remember you can tell us all your thoughts on the latest clashes in egypt dot com and today we're asking why do you think that calm has failed to return to the country after egypt's revolution last year so far most responses think it's because it's the same officials who are in power under mubarak that are now running the country a little less than a quarter think that continuing on arrest plays into the interests of radical groups seventeen percent say the otherwise continue because of high unemployment persis and if you were then that believe that every revolution creates its own downfall those are the figures right now you can log on cast your vote at r.t. dot com. russian diplomats refuse to accept a security council draft resolution on syria saying that it calls quote to facilitate a political transition and moscow opposes any language inside the resolution that could be seen as backing a regime change in damascus artie's mari

are regularly seeping into syria and more fuel to the violence lawrence davidson professor of middle east history at westchester universitywho leaves the voice of peaceful protesters in syria has been lost amidst the bloody uprising of some activists. i think that the the people who picked up the gun in syria are largely foreign funded and some of them are in fact foreigners and some of them are in fact deserved earners from the syrian army who have no real option of going back now so i don't think that there is going to be much room for negotiation between that group and the government what the constitutional document is an attempt to do is to satisfy the really large numbers of nonviolent protesters which seem to been co-opted now who are displaced by these armed groups so the syrian government wants to essentially get those raucous streets and accepting of their of the government's scenario where the solution to this but the others are they're going to have to be hunted down and killed or captured because they're not going to surrender. measures to help the syrian opposition will be discussed at the first meeting of th

along the area which has become a sign of turf for arms smugglers lawrence davidson professor of middle east history at west chester university says this fits with the fairies uprising is driven from the outside. i think that the the people who picked up the gun in syria are largely foreign funded and some of them are in fact foreigners and some of them are in the back desert errors from the syrian army who have no real option of going back now so i don't think that there is going to be much room for negotiation between that group and the government so the syrian government wants to essentially get nonviolent protesters who are displaced by these armed groups off the streets to foreign journalists have been killed in serious flash point city of homes they opposition claims the american and french citizens died when an army shell hit a makeshift media center the same accusations were leveled against the regime just over a month ago when a french cameraman was killed in a similar incident but later it turned out the anti-government rebels were behind the attack homes has been the scene of fierce fighting between the army and th

security along the area which has become a center for arms smugglers lawrence davidson professor of middle east history at west chester university says this fits with the theories that the uprising is driven from the outside. i think that the the people were picked up to go and syria are largely foreign funded and some of them are in fact foreigners and some of them are in fact deserve errors from the syrian army who have no real option of going back now so i don't think that there is going to be much room for negotiation between that group. and the government what the constitution or what the document is an attempt to do is to satisfy the really large numbers of nonviolent protesters which seem to be co-opted or were just placed by these armed groups so the syrian government wants to essentially get those people off the streets and accept their government's scenario where a solution to this but the other is they're going to have to be hunted down and killed or captured because they're not going to surrender to foreign journalists have been killed in syria's flashpoint city of homes the opposition claims the american and french

another author with heaven regime and sticking with the story lawrence davidson a professor of middle eastern history at west chester university in the u.s. says this latest outbreak of violence could spark further insurrection. i think they lock the gates of the stadium which is never a good idea. but it seems to have been a routine kind of procedure. that the police didn't intervene against crafters probably is an indication that the police were afraid. to get in the middle of this but it serves as a pretty good excuse to read in bigger and. the protests against the military council and i think the key here is what the muslim brothers are going to do i don't think it can be another call to a full scale uprising unless the muslim brothers and their numbers as far as the military council is concerned. you don't know what their regular troops are going to do if you put them in the streets against against those centrally their cousins or the you know are members of their family so i don't see the army. coming in and being becoming involved in this. maybe it will fractionalized elements of the army perhaps to exert leadership bei

with us is harvard university professor lawrence summers, who was secretary of treasury under president here. we're just getting these numbers. looks like 8.3%. what does that mean? i know you haven't had a chance to look at the data, but trending is important. >> well, improvements in the unemployment rate, job creation, these are all positive things. there is a fair amount of evidence that the pace has picked up over the last few months. whether that will continue, whether we'll have another disappointment, thouno one can . but it's certainly better when numbers are coming in ahead of expectation than when the numbers are disappointing. that's something that should gratify observers of this economy. but make no mistake, charlie, we still have a real jobs deficit in this country. we have a growth deficit in this country. we are still millions of jobs short of where we should be. the level of incomes in the country are probably $1 trillion short of where they should be. so we're going to have to pay a lot of attention to growth, to demand, to keeping this economy going and growing for s

university. i think that's very exciting. lawrence, let's talk about startups first, because this is your bread and butter. you say they're making an impact on changing existing businesses. where are you seeing the most startups right now? >> all over the city. when you look back, when i started in this business 15 years ago, it was about developing technology, now it's now about applying technology. if you change business, you don't do it out on sand hill road, you'll do it here. it's here because this is where the expertise is. changing retail, changing publishing, changing media, look how many media dollars are exchanged here. that's why this city is booming. >> do we have the skills and expertise? yes, you are seeing a lot of startups, but at the same time, increasingly ceos tells me we can't find the people to actually give those jobs to, because they don't have the skill-sets that are required. >> that's not a new york problem. >> ha is a u.s. problem, right? >> that's a big national problem. we're seeing more and more engineers

after 3:00 this afternoon with the defense attorney francis lawrence calling for the stand of toxicologies from virginia commonwealth university who testified what he thought would have been yeardley love's blood alcohol level at the time of the death. he believes that it was about 16 to 18 that his point, that 0.18, i should say and thought it could be that high, although the state said in the autopsy report her blood alcohol content was .14. there is a doctor on the stand, one of six, we believe, we're going to be seeing in the defense case. shawn? >> thank you for the update tonight. >>> jury selection began in the day trial of five men accused of several deadly shootings in the district. onland on, carter, jeffrey best, lamar williams and boast on trial right now. prosecutors claim four of men shot a man and led to a retaliation killing the next day and later killed a 17-year- old and opened fire on south capitol street with a assault weapon, a semi automatic pistol killing three teenagers. >> attempt a culpeper police officer shot and po- year-old -- 40-year-old woman. the unidentified officer claims she shot patricia coo

of the advocacy group "policylink"; lawrence mead, professor of politics and public policy at new york university; and barbara perry, a senior fellow in the presidential oral history program at the university of virginia's miller center. angela glover blackwell, start with you. a general question first: how serious a problem is poverty in america today? >> poverty is a huge problem. it's a problem for the people who are in it and it's a problem for the nation. 15% of americans live below the poverty level. highest number since 1993. and 44% of those live below halve of the poverty level. that means for a woman with two children, that's less than $9,000 a year. on top of that, we have millions and millions of americans-- 127 million-- who in three months of no job would live in poverty. poverty is a huge issue, it's getting worse and it should be very troubling to all of the american people, not just those who are living in poverty. >> brown: lawrence meade, you were an opponent of the real fair reform in the '90s. you don't hear much about poverty in our politics today. how would you frame the pr

in two thousand and eight he was named a lawrence as rockefeller a visiting fellow and a fellow in the program and ethics and public affairs at princeton university currently he's an associate professor of political science at brooklyn college in the city university of new york graduate center and the author of multiple books including his most recent the reactionary mind conservatism from edmund burke to sarah pail. dr corey robin thanks for joining us from our new york city studios tonight thanks for having me i appreciate it what is what is conservatism in your opinion how would you define that as both as a as an abstraction as a word and also as a movement. it's a movement of reaction against democratic movements from these are movements like abolitionist movement the french revolution the labor movement the women's movement and what conservatism is is a politics of reaction against these movements that tries to come up with a defense of hierarchy. that in the face of those movements what william f. buckley rather famously said conservatives stand athwart the arc of history with their hand out shouting stop it sounds to me like you're saying

state of virginia, where a quinnipiac university poll finds president obama would beat romney 47% to 43. >> and i think romney has a problem. >> reporter: jill on lawrence said that santorum's three-by win raises lingering questions about romney's support among conservative republicans. >> and i think it should. obviously, they said the republican electorate is not comfortable with him and proved that again last night in the three states. >> reporter: and romney, likely, won't see a smaller field of opponents any time soon. ron paul continues to run -- . >> and when that dust settles -- sells. >> reporter: and newt gingrich is focusing on ohio and supertuesday. >> for us to get back on the right track, we have to have leadership that is committed to new solutions. >> reporter: and so while the republican race continues its back-and-forth swings, so far the only constant continues to be uncertainty. and it's important to remember there are 1144 delegates needed to be nominated b.200 have been awarded and even though it may seem like the race drailinged on for awhile, in fact, delegate woes is a long way to go. >> and if this stays the same way, what is t

lawrence summers has one of the most impressive economic resumes you will ever see. director of the council of economic advisers, chief economist at the world president and president emeritus of harvard university. he is a university professor at harvard and he is joining us right now. thank you for joining us. >> good to be back with you maria. >> let's start with the job numbers on friday. 243,000 jobs created for the month. the unemployment rate falling to 8-1/3%. what do you think it says about the economy today? >> these were good numbers. the unemployment rate down, the job numbers you mentioned, the household survey, which has been showing relatively weak performance showed more than 600,000 jobs created. strength in the private sector across almost every sector of the private sector. these numbers suggest that the economy's got some momentum. it doesn't have as much momentum as we'd like but it has more momentum than it had six months ago by a significant margin. that's attributed to the policies we have put in place. it's very fortunate that president obama, a year ago, was able to persevere, insisting to have a payroll tax cut which made a big difference for middle-income families. we

universe can't allow it. and it can't. or what happens if it does happen? >> oh, lawrence, he's carpet bombing the state with $2 million worth of negative ads, where santorum's spending $42,000. romney believes in that old saying, it's the money, honey. and i think he believes what he did with gingrich will work with santorum. michigan is blue-collar. you have auto workers, romney's position in 2008 on the auto bailout. you have rick santorum who appeals to blue-collar, working class voters, and is much more authentic in the minds of the american public. >> i think the killer argument that santorum has against mitt romney is not just that he wrote the famous -- the now-famous op-ed, let detroit go bankrupt. he opposed the auto deal, but he supported t.a.r.p. and santorum, there's a clip of that basically saying, this guy wanted the $800 billion to bailout the banks -- >> wall street. >> he wants to bailout wall street, but when this entire region, the entire economy and ecosystem and interlaced network of human lives wrapped around that was on the alter, he said, just brin

university of california systems. we have a wet start to the workweek. lawrence throughout the day. let's get you out there right now. not too bad looking toward the pleasanton area but we are going to see these scattered showers on and off throughout the day. occasionally you will see the rain moving on by and then drying up and more showers moving on through. continuing to see that into the peninsula and south bay even a wintry mix over the south bay mountains. temperatures this afternoon, expected to be cool. highs only in the low 50s toward the coastline. you will see some mid-50s inside the bay. over the mountaintops probably only in the 40s. chilly temperatures indeed today, warmer tomorrow and dry a few more clouds on wednesday. next best chance of rain possibly next weekend. all right. we'll check out your "timesaver traffic" camera coming up next. ,,,, >>> good morning. well, looks like we're drying out a bit right now across the san mateo bridge. but the roads are still slick and obviously it's still windy out there. cameras still shaking back and forth

lawrence berkeley national lab. u.s. secretary of energy steven chu was on hand. there he is on the right. he was joined by universityicials as well as the uc president. they were helping kick off and shoveling for the construction of the research and theory facility. it's a 140 square foot area. >> played an incredible role of pushing back the frontiers of science. further than that, i see the future as being a key element in helping further the innovation and the industrial competitiveness of the united states. >> it is a big deal. the facility will be completed in 2014. it's expected to be the most energy efficient high performance super-computing center in the entire department of energy. >>> still ahead here at 6:00, an important recall tonight. a birth control mixup you want to hear about. >>> also ahead, it takes a minute to sign up, but it could have lasting health benefits. the unique prescription program at a south bay school district. >>> and a dramatic scene unfolding in egypt. violence erupting after a soccer match. dozens are left dead. we'll have the latest and other stories making international headli

the university briefly considered ending that policy to reduce enrollment because of millions of dollars in budget cuts. >>> all right. it was warm, now it's cold and windy. and we blame lawrence>> can you say the word, precipitation? >> are you going to blame me for that, too? >> i haven't forgotten. >> i can't say that, that early this morning. we may see rain. i think for most of the day we're looking okay. cloudy and breezy at the coastline, freezing in napa at 32. 42 in livermore, 39 san jose. here's your system sliding through. out ahead of it clouds rolling through. those will pass by this morning. but the main cold front still diving down from the gulf of alaska. that will pay a visit to the bay area later on this evening. then overnight tonight, it looks like it's going to get wet into tomorrow morning. we'll be staying cool. average temperatures usually in the 60s at this time of year. but we are running well below the average temperatures. 6 to 8 degrees below formal for this i am too of the year and it will be cool. rain to return tonight into tomorrow. going to be a messy commute tomorrow morning. and then a chance of showers continuing into thursday. much warmer

lawrence, i think there's no question they would be eager to strike down the bollinger case. as you mentioned from 2003, which said that race could be one of many factors used in college universityin that case, that case drew the most amount of amicus briefs in history in the supreme court from fortune 500 companies to the military who all agree that diversity is an important national -- it's an important national interest to advance diversity, especially when it comes to leadership. >> and sandra day o'connor was the decisive vote in that case. she's been replaced by a much more conservative republican justice on the court, alito, who i don't think there's much doubt about which way he's going to go on this. the thing i think gets lost in any affirmative discussion is the understanding of what makes for the dynamism in education that produces the net result of what we might call the educated man, the educated woman. i know that in college, the student body was educating me as much as the faculty was. >> yes. >> all due respect, professor. but it's those conversations at 2:00 in the morning. and the fact that i got to know bobby sims from mississippi, whose father grew up a shar

lawrence berkeley national laboratory. he was a professor of mechanical engineering and material sciences and engineering at the university of california-berkeley. he holds a dozen patents. he's authored close to 200 j.f.k. jr. papers. he has served as an advisor to both the national sciences foundation and the president's council of advisors on science and technology as well as start-up companies and venture capital firms in silicon valley. he holds a doctorate from u.c.-berkeley and he is a member of the national academy of engineering. so it's clear to anyone who looks at his qualifications that he is an i am gently qualified scientist and, frankly, we're very fortunate to have someone of his caliber willing to serve as the under secretary of energy. the second nomination i want to talk about is for the general counsel's position at the department. this is, of course, the department's top legal officer. this position has been vacant since last march, nearly a year. the president has nominated gregory woods to be the general counsel. mr. woods is currently the deputy general counsel in the department of transportation.