the annual john glenn lecture supports museums effort. it is named for individual who played the role in aviation and space. the 2009 glenn lecture recognizes the 40th anniversary of apollo 11. the first human mission to land on the moon. we are privileged to have the entire crew, mission commander neil armstrong, command module pilot and founding director of this museum comical collins, and lunar module pilot buzz aldrin for the program here tonight. the fourth member of the panel is dr. christopher kraft who is known for creating mission control. tonight's program is being made possible through the generous support of the boeing company. in addition to providing support for the lecture since its inception, the company has partnered with the smithsonian on many important projects. construction of phase two of the museum's center in chantilly, va., is under way. in recognition of the boeing company's magnificent contribution, we have named the facility's central hangar the boeing aviation hangar. boston -- with us tonight is mr. timothy k

i stopped my lecture so that we could discuss this point. no he didn't, no he didn't, we know he didn't free the slaves. i'm reading when my students use to talk to me. no he didn't, no he didn't, we know he didn't free the slaves. other students were puzzled, saying he didn't free the slaves? this was a great starting point. not everyone agrees on what is the truth. every time even one hand went up by stopped my lecture and we discussed why we thought i told a lie or not. i recall one especially heated exchange where only a few hands went up, the remaining students look at the few hand razors and amazement. why are your hands up? everybody knows this was true. because the minority hand razors stood their ground we discussed the notion of minority opinion. just because a minority of people -- majority of people believe something and it is published in prestigious journals doesn't necessarily mean that it is the truth. as this lesson continued one girl finally protested the entire assignment in frustration, blurting out this is silly! we know

she spreads the word in lectures, gets the goodwill. a war chest so she doesn't have to worry about money in the future and is still in the media the media she will still be in when she has something to say. she will get tons more visibility than governor of alaska. she will build up personal finance and build up goodwill within the republican party and then she has got plenty of time to announce if she wants to run for president or not. where am i going wrong? >> you are right that she can go around creating chips by campaign for republican candidates. she can do that as governor. what she loses is control of her time. she does get the advantage of going out and being able to make a bunch of money paid speeches. probably limited under ethics laws doing that as governor. she could do the rest of that as governor and have the most important thing that a candidate at this point needs which is time to put together their own act, declare -- describe their own vision, educate themselves about the issues and get ready for a tough contest ahea

. >> reporter: some lucky people got tickets to attend this lecture series and it includes the apollo 11 crew here on the eve of man's first trip to the moon. when they landed on the 20th which is tomorrow. tonight the eve of it. those people will be arriving this evening. earlier today there were other people here. two members of the crew were here, the apollo 11 crew were on the scene signing their books. buzz and michael collins and also the fourth man to step onto the moon. they were all signing books this afternoon. we ran into a man who collects autographs and he has a couple of neil armstrong autographs. neil armstrong has been quite reclusive through the years and we understand at one point stopped giving autographs. this man tells me that one recent autograph of neil armstrong on a check was auctioned off for $27,000. the man i was talking to from houston, texas, showed me two or three autographs he has from neil armstrong through the years. so people gathering this evening for the lecture series getting to hear all three members of the apollo 11 crew together. how exciting.

without these sponsorships, these lectures would not be possible.we are deeply indebted to boings for this evening our audience tonight includes the who's who have aviation and space flight ludding the largest garthering of apollo streents in manyears. i'd like to acnone the crew of sts 12-25 who recently flew aboard the space shuttle "atlantis." you won't be able to see them because they're not in the theater. they're in milestones of flight so the folks out there, they will be able to see us though. be sure to respond. >> hey, you pa lucas are supposed to be out in the front row. let me apologize to those of you who -- those reserved seats in front row outside, you can go ahead and sit in them, folks, because they're available. well, that kind of messes up this little part. i'm not going to -- six of them are here. there had he are right over there. stand up. they had a very clever series i was going to do at that point. okay. thank you. this fall, we look forward to having here in the museum two of the astronomical instruments that the crew broug

he was a character actor, lecture in creative writing. he actually had a fund of memoirs. he and his brother were usually associated with a slightly quirky side of life. people were taken back from that is sheer misery of angeles ashes, and some contended he exaggerated and came over the top. not least over richard harris's original claims that he had given mccourt money to bring back his mother's remains but he had not used as intended. >> there are many people with similar stories. >> partially it was a combination of ireland emerging into a different era, looking to put it behind. limerick, an area that has enormous extremes between wealth and grinding poverty even to this day, so you were beginning to see the advent of the celts a tiger and people did not want to be reminded but so many deepa had similar backgrounds -- people died of tb in many families. the fact that he put one episode on top of another, he was accused of some extent of overdoing it, but then when it was so well received internationally and the film enjoyed such success, he went into a second stage. h

putin devoted nearly an hour to a lecture on the cold war and all that has gone wrong in u.s.-russian relations since. in the second hour, mr. obama talked about iran's nuclear ambitions, alternative energy and climate change. senior u.s. officials described putin's tone as cordial. this contrasts with khrushchev's hectoring in vienna of a young president john kennedy. after his session with putin, fox asked if the president still believes as he said five days ago that putin still has one foot stuck in the cold war. >> i think that he would admit that his formative years were shaped in the cold war, and that some of his continued grievances with respect to the west are still dated in some of the suspicions that came out of that period. i found him to be tough, smart, shrewd, very unsentimental, very pragmatic. >> and who wields more power? >> the prime minister, who i just met today, obviously still has enormous influence. interestingly, nothing putin said contradicted anything that dimitry medvedev has said. it was consistent. >> translation, mr. obama would not and could not

was a leading intellectual as a soap box or a door, as an actor for the board of education, as a lecturerfor the four rooms and has consciously mass educated. he was a pioneer of soap box oratorian harlem and was instrumental in developing a tradition that was carried on by a fellow brand of, the chancellor of when, marcus garvey, richard p. more, many others and later by malcolm x. and finally, and i will in here for now, he was a bibliophile who along with arthur schaumburg was principally responsible. they were to of the four founding officers for helping transform the committee that set up what is now the schomburg center and they helped transform the 135th street public library in to the internationally famous center which is the premier and amendment library in the world for research on culture. so that is an overview of harrison and i still have a second volume to write so i can't tell you how pleased and excited i am with the two speakers we have, the panelists because they have done tremendous work, they have rich history of both scholarship and activism and i think what ever we

senior lecturer at the university of liverpool, nicholson is the senior lecturer harvard university.uld consider this an essential volume for any reference collection. it's the second edition and it incorporates the most important discoveries in scholarship in the field since the first publication in 1995. the illustrations are lavish clear photographs that show art, artifacts and places, maps are extensive and large enough to read and photocopy. its encyclopedia of in scope. the entries to with big issues of course, mummies, the pharaohs, the gods but also fundamentally the mundane issues as well. what people ate, board and studied. for example of for alcoholic beverages, the year, the most common of alcoholic beverages, formed an important part of the egyptian by it. the entry then goes on to 300 words explaining the archaeological evidence how beer was brewed. it began with partly baked cakes of portly bride. it then goes on to talk about red and white why and where they winemaking areas were and and cultural views. the depiction of the banquet in the tomb of a female guest says i

is difficult to argue without seeming like we are lecturing. >> it is not a lecture about how people should live but a promise of better life. couching it in those terms makes the conservative movement a movement of optimism and reform and real change for america. right here. >> thank you. i am with the fund for american studies. governor daniels, you said we have to speak to young people, and arthur burks in his opening comments provided the polling data which was fairly depressing -- arthur c. brooks came out with the polling data that came out a month ago which was fairly depressing. could you tell us how we speak to the young people? >> first of all, i am not particularly surprised were ejected that some pollster -- or dejected that some pollster find some flirtation with socialism among the young. duke and the room does not remember how malleable your views were when you were young? mine were. i think it is still game on there. first of all, as a practical strategy, we cannot force that -- we cannot force it -- it -- forfiet the ability to speak to the next generation, and you a

i mean they're asking these long, detailed questions, serving it up for him so he can just give a lecture. look, maybe i'm a dumb guy, but i do this for a living. i don't know what the plan is. do you? >> well, i think the questions might be detailed, but the answers certainly aren't. we're hearing the same thing we've heard every day since he got back from overseas. bill: do you, sam youngman, a trained correspondent sitting there after listening to the president for an hour, watching him -- do you know what he said? do you know what the program is? >> well, i'm going to try and make some sense of it after i get done talking to you here, but i think -- bill: you just answered the question. you salt there and now you have to go home and try to make some sense of it. that's not the way you do it, miss stoddard. people just gave an hour of their lives to sit there and watch president obama go all over the place, say a million things, but i still don't know what he's going to do. miss stoddard. >> i agree with you, bill. although he gives a -- he makes a good case for his general principles

i mean they're asking these long, detailed questions, serving it up for him so he can just give a lecture. look, maybe i'm a dumb guy, but i do this for a living. i don't know what the plan is. do you? >> well, i think the questions might be detailed, but the answers certainly aren't. we're hearing the same thing we've heard every day since he got back from overseas. bill: do you, sam youngman, a trained correspondent sitting there after listening to the president for an hour, watching him -- do you know what he said? do you know what the program is? >> well, i'm going to try and make some sense of it after i get done talking to you here, but i think -- bill: you just answered the question. you salt there and now you have to go home and try to make some sense of it. that's not the way you do it, miss stoddard. people just gave an hour of their lives to sit there and watch president obama go all over the place, say a million things, but i still don't know what he's going to do. miss stoddard. >> i agree with you, bill. although he gives a -- he makes a good case for his general principles

i mean they're asking these long, detailed questions, serving it up for him so he can just give a lecture. look, maybe i'm a dumb guy, but i do this for a living. i don't know what the plan is. do you? >> well, i think the questions might be detailed, but the answers certainly aren't. we're hearing the same thing we've heard every day since he got back from overseas. bill: do you, sam youngman, a trained correspondent sitting there after listening to the president for an hour, watching him -- do you know what he said? do you know what the program is? >> well, i'm going to try and make some sense of it after i get done talking to you here, but i think -- bill: you just answered the question. you salt there and now you have to go home and try to make some sense of it. that's not the way you do it, miss stoddard. people just gave an hour of their lives to sit there and watch president obama go all over the place, say a million things, but i still don't know what he's going to do. miss stoddard. >> i agree with you, bill. although he gives a -- he makes a good case for his general principles

i don't really want to give a lecture. i usually talk overtime so people don't have a chance to ask questions. i have toyed with the idea starting off with the questions. and i could just ask people what they want to know about franklin roosevelt. but, just to make sure that it goes in the direction that i want, i think i will ask the first question. [laughter] because i know what the answer is. >> who is going to answer it? >> i'll try that one too, if i need help, i will let you know. the obvious question for anybody who has written recently about franklin roosevelt, why do we need another biography of franklin roosevelt? the answer we don't. we don't need another biography of franklin roosevelt. the he had better question, why would you want another biography of franklin roosevelt? there is really basic answer to this question. and i will ask it at the risk of appearing mercenary. how many of you biography if is one or more, biography of franklin roosevelt on your shelves at home? okay, all right. so the rest of you, yo

we need policing of covert ops, policing of lobbyists -- >> don't lecture me about what i should do, the nation does, 144 years. >> this is what i do on mediaite, i have a site that policesed the media, not the gossip sites but media like you. >> all power to you, dan. all i'm saying with the limited resources -- >> i understand. but i don't want to come on television to be lectured by you about what i should and shouldn't be doing. >> i didn't mean to lecture, what i bea live would be a valuable contribution to our country. >> bottom line, the final point, i think that what happens on the gossip world i think undermines faith in the mainstream media, meaning that i think the reason people sometimes don't trust the mainstream media on political issues is, in part, batesed on what happens in the gossip world. people say, you know what so many stories thought inaccurate this he don't believe the people doing the hard reporting every day on the most important stories of the day. time for more media accountability. >> that is partly -- if i could just say there has been an obliteration o

now we're going to get lectures from democrats that she's a quitter? that is a total crock! >> i said at the outset i thought the double standard on letterman -- sean: i heard that. >> the question about whether or not she's a quitter, clearly when you say barack obama was paid for doing nothing, she has not been working as governor of alaska since last august. sean: then why are you mad that she quit? she may have something completely unexpected in line. she came out of nowhere and in 20 minutes became the most pacemaker -- famous person in america. she did and who knows where she will end up. >> she's not qualified -- >> barack obama was not qualified either it >> certainly, certainly. much more quasm. you can't put them in the same sentence. in the same league. sean: right. i would take palin over obama any day. i would take lower taxes and tough national security -- >> would you feel comfortable with sarah palin in moscow right now negotiating the strategic arms talk? sean: i would. >> oh, no. you did not say that. sean: scr you -- have you ever met senators? how many do

only 96 months left, miller, and we're all going, according to prince charles at the dimbelldee lectured. i won't have to listen to this mindless crap anymore. good. incinerate me. prince charles has said the only reason this isn't completely up his ars is his ears are so big. what has this guy ever done? he lays around. the one time he had it in his life was when he was with princess diana. he decides to cheat on her with an even more beautiful woman, and all of the sudden he's an expert on this stuff. i know he has investments in this with the prince's trust. it's as incestuous as his family tree. do you want to get into dimbellbee? >> i saw "harry potter," and he's one of my favorite characters. bill: i know your heart is breaking that paula abdul may leave "american idol." >> she's a wise latina woman. she should leave and sonia sotomayor should join "american idol." she has prearranged ideas. you take our man harry alford and put him on the supreme court. bill: do you know paula abdul? why would she want to leave a program that has made her very famous and wealthy to go to exactly

[laughter] and he has a full page picture and drinks of tonight's lecture. so you are reaching many audiences. [applause] >> thank you. bill, thank you. >> are you okay? >>. [applause] >> got it? can we get the screen? thank you, bill. thank you so much for that very kind, kind introduction. i'm still, my mind is blown the fact i'm in this funeral home director thing. i'm glad that know about it [laughing] glad that i'm still alive but, thank you so much for coming out this evening and thank you for inviting me, mr. and mrs. cash. the i'm here. my really good friends. and they asked me if i would come. i've been to mount auburn cemetery a zillion times. i like to walk through there. but i had no idea, i literally, i knew that harriet jacobs buried there because that is a fame now story. until i got this marvelous brochure on african-american heritage trail at mount auburn cemetery i frankly had noed how many distinguished african-americans are there. harriet jacobs and her brother john. josephine saint peruffin. joshua bowen smith. william henry lewis. benja

there's a principle in play here, we get lectured how we need to help daycare and health care and baby bonds and everything else, but it's only going to be with other people's money. >> it's government dependency on the backs of the taxpayers. it's letting other people not the bill. that's what they're famous for. >> you're talking about accountability and responsibility, and we're moralizing, here you have people in this country who wrecked an entire economy out of this so far enterprise system. sean: stop it. >> you've got banks, bankers. sean: we just in a study -- >> you have people who wreck this economy. sean: government wrecked this economy. >> no, no. sean: george w. bush tried to fix fannie and freddie in the subprime mortgage cries which is forced banks to lower their standards, correct? >> correct, and it was barney frank and everybody else who were saying we don't need this. >> let's not forget about acorn who hammered the heck out of each of those agencies. >> the poor billionaires on wall street, i'm really crying crocodile tears for them. i'm shocked that you free market

there's a principle in play here, we get lectured how we need to help daycare and health care and baby bonds and everything else, but it's only going to be with other people's money. >> it's government dependency on the backs of the taxpayers. it's letting other people not the bill. that's what they're famous for. >> you're talking about accountability and responsibility, and we're moralizing, here you have people in this country who wrecked an entire economy out of this so far enterprise system. sean: stop it. >> you've got banks, bankers. sean: we just in a study -- >> you have people who wreck this economy. sean: government wrecked this economy. >> no, no. sean: george w. bush tried to fix fannie and freddie in the subprime mortgage cries which is forced banks to lower their standards, correct? >> correct, and it was barney frank and everybody else who were saying we don't need this. >> let's not forget about acorn who hammered the heck out of each of those agencies. >> the poor billionaires on wall street, i'm really crying crocodile tears for them. i'm shocked that you free market

30% live in poverty and most of african conditions are even worse, the fact that brought a stern lecture from the president directed at the entire african continent. >> no business wants to invest in a place where the government skills 20% off the top. no person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. >> reporter: he urged the young people of africa to build a new future where poverty, disease and corruption are conquered from the ground up. >> you can do that. yes, you can. because in this moment, history's on the move. >>erreportpo: in an emotional final stop, the president and his family visited the notorious cape coast castle where tens of thousands of africans kidnapped into slavery were kept in dungeons before being shipped to america. he says this is especially for his daughters that are growing up in such a blessed way. >> hopefully one of the things imparted to them during this trip is their sense of obligation to fight oppression and cruelty wherever it appears >> reporter: after the president's ten hour flight he'll turn

but instead he says this is a teachable moment, and then he lectures to the rest of society, that wem this. >> it is teachable. here's the lesson. shut up. you shut up. also, shut up when a cop like is asking you questions. how about you don't insult him, you don't yell, you don't scream? my father taught me that when i was very young. i grew up in brooklyn. it was a good lesson. not a bad lesson. colin powell said essentially the same thing. sean: so did bill cosby. >> keep your mouth shut. be nice to the comes. they have uniforms on. they're doing something i don't do and they put their lives at risk every night. you've got to respect that uniform. sean: i used to have a heavy foot and i got pulled over a few times in my life. and you know what i learned? when you say, yes, officer, no, officer, thank you -- >> it's the best way. sean: it got a lot -- >> it's the best way out of a ticket. and don't ever do this -- well, i wasn't peeding, officer. he knows you were. sean: exactly. >> immediately you're challenging his intelligence. the answer is i'm sorry, even if you know you're ri

the curriculum or lectures or for something else? we're realizing it is not about that you set and we talk but rather the interactive communications is a collaboration with the other students the one-on-one collaboration with the professors and the contacts that you make. it is a little of the accreditation you got in the door and got out the door but the content itself can be opened to all. it does not seem to hertz university or diminish the personal contacts broke my robotics company i was looking for my chief technical officer we're on an open source platform and i went to the boards and i saw one guy who was awful. he was clearly the world's expert he made an autonomous helicopter so i started to talk to him he agreed to a project with me we were together and we started this company together and i said i would like to know more about you. he told me he was a 19 year-old high-school student living in tiajuana. [laughter] he is now 21 years of who lives in l.a.. he has a google phd he has the initiative and intelligence to give hi

they can sit in on the lectures at harvard or stanford. there is no reason why and adults cannot use our technology of broadband and cable and internet to sit on courses that he or she may have always wanted to take 30 years ago, but did not have the time to. that is the power of technology. i am really excited. we are having a whole host of programs. but be president economic stimulus package includes several billions of dollars almost $5 billion for broadband. the money is not enough to serve the entire nation. this is a down payment on the vision the president has. broadband telecommunications. in the 1930's, we had a great depression. there were so many people out of work. there were a couple of things that move our country forward. if it was when electricity was brought to so many homes in the country. it moves economic development. the element of broadband, having cable. having tele-communications is the next great thing that will rival the electrification of rural america. it will enable students to take courses in any type of manne

we are joined by a lecturer in political science from the university. doctor, thank you for joining us. can you give us a sense of the scale of importance of this group? >> this islamic group just started a couple of months back, although their leaders have taken years, trained to organize in a follow-up. >> ridiculous or not, it seems to have a following, does it not? there is a level of strength of the they have come up against. >> yes. here you can have quite a large population of students. cast your mind back to the red mosque, that is the exact replica of what we have here. the ideology here is different. the teacher in the role cannot say anything unless it is ordained from god. there's a reason to follow the leader here, who has taught them how to organize and resist authority on these ideological inclinations. >> you see this as less of a religious issue and more perhaps about the reality of life in nigeria, perhaps? >> exactly. this has been brought into our face, because the 10 years of democracy in nigeria have given much. they have been sacr

the lecture that he delivered to our president. we are going live to moscow, next. bill: downtown los angeles, we should see the first of 17,000 18,000 people making their way inside. right now the family, we are being told, is on their way from the home in california. that is the live look. we believe that they are headed the forest lawn, where it is believed that he will be buried. he may be first taken to the staples center. megyn: can you imagine? they are going to take his $25,000 gold-plated casket into the staples center? out in front of these 25,000 people? bill: it will be a sight to see. check it out of line, foxnews.com. -- check it out of line, foxnews.com megyn: president obama, making a historic first visit to russia, sitting down with dimitri medvedev as well as the current prime minister. as well as vladimir putin, used to be a russian president. when they sat down to gather, did they talk about iraq? iran? north korea? now, instead prime minister vladimir putin had a lecture prepared for president obama. our senior white house correspondent, major g

maybe he's been lectured, don't talk about your involvement with the kids because that would probably be a bad thing to say he would be involved. >> joseph even in florida, your comment or question here? >> caller: yes, was the dna done to prove whether debbie rowe is the biological mother in the children doesn't look anything like her and we don't know if michael used her as a surrogate. >> kim, is that one on the table at all or the question of whether or not she's the biological mom? >> i don't think so. i'm not a legal expert but i believe she, because her name is on the birth certificate, she is the mother of these two kids. that's of prince and paris, not of blanket. that's another issue, that they don't want to split up these three kids. they have each other right now. they have their relationship with the jackson family and all of that goes into play, even though debbie rowe had said initially lortedly initially she would take on blanket too, that doesn't seem to be the case any more. but the three kids, keeping them together is very important. >> like, quick dna will prove if

and i think everybody paid attention to the, you know, safety lecture that everybody gets before theflight and everybody knew what to do. and there are a couple of people that were a little worried about their masks, but all in all, everybody was just calm and just wanting to get back on the ground. >> so explain what the pilot was doing during this time with the flight attendants were doing. >> well, i believe i've heard that we were at 34,000 feet, which is too high. so we got our masks on and the flight attendants got their masks on, and the pilot immediately started descending down to 10,000 feet, which is a safe altitude. so the flight attendants were going around making sure everybody had their stuff together and they were telling us -- motioning mainly because we couldn't hear in the back of the plane where i was because of the hole. they were motioning us this is how you're going to brace yourself for an impact if we have to go in hard. and we might have to use the inflatable slides in the back. they were informing us how to protect ourselves if things got a little bit worse.

luxury jets for their executives then they could afford, i don't think we should have the banks lecturing sacramento. >> susie: the securities and exchange commission is expected to decide those i.o.u.s should be treated as a form of municipal debt. that makes them subject to anti-fraud and other provisions of security blog. >> paul: one million. that's the number of americans who've caught the h1n1 virus since the flu swept the country in april. with infection still spreading, the government is aggressively working to get a vaccine out to the public. the administration also hosted a summit today at the national institutes of health to be sure americans are ready for a potential flu pandemic this fall. health and human services secretary katherine sebelius is urging the states and the public to stay vigilant and the feds are launching flu.gov, a website with tips and information on the virus. >> susie: sebelius and the obama administration are also pressuring congress to come up with healthcare reform bills before the august recess. earlier today i talked with sebelius about that. my firs

provide more luxury jets for theirxecutives then they could afford, i don't tnk we shoulhave the banks lecturing sacrento. >>ie: the securities and exchange commission is eected to decide ose i.o.u.s should be treated as a form o municipal debt. that makes tm subject to an-fraud and other ovisions of securit blog. >> paul: one milli. that's the numr of americans whve caught the h1n1 virus since the flu swept thcountry in april with infectiontill spreading, the government is aggressive working to get avaccine out to thpublic. the admistration also hosted a summit today at the natial initutes of health to be sure americans are ready foa potential flpandemic this fa. health anduman services seetary katherine sebelius is ging the states and the publico stay vigilant and the feds are launching flu.gov, website with tips and information on theirus. >> susie: sebelius and t obama administraon are also pressuring congrs to come up with healthce reform bills bere the august recess. earlietoday i talked with sebelius about that. my first questn: despite all e cost cutting concessions fromospitals insuranc

>>guest: it is a small group of publishers redo different types of media, dvd, audio lectures, music,fiction and nonfiction books for all of this stuff has ideas behind it that our political and the sense we want to have an open dialogue not only current events but how history has been interpreted, who makes history or defines what is important and how it can empower people to make the right decisions. >>host: this is your first year you have a lot of books coming out within the past year it do you want to talk about the series that you started? >>guest: what is new with pm press doing fiction because again what is important is to have ideas behind what we do friction is the place where stories can be pulled and interpreted in different ways we started the outspoken author series that combines of short fiction from "popular science" fiction writers where they talk about their personal politics, what they're trying to get across and demystify a bit of what the science fiction is about. for "the reader" it can be shocking as the author or personal ideas are often covered up by these fic

harvard and others are putting their lectures online.you know, it really asks the question what is the university for? is a university for the curriculum and the lectures or is the university for something else? what we're realizing is the university is not about, you know, the you sit, we talk sort of thing but it's rather about the interactive, you know, communications -- it's the collaborations with the other students, it's the one-on-one collaborations with the professors. it's the contact that you make. it's a little bit of the accreditation just the fact, you know, you got in the door and got out the door, you know, says something about you. but the content itself can be opened up to all. and it doesn't seem to hurt the universities and it doesn't seem to diminish the personal contacts. i'll give you one more example. >> uh-huh. >> my robot jics company i was looking for a cto and, you know, i went to our boards and i found this one guy who was just awesome. and he was clearly the world's expert. he made a helicopter with our equip

lecture topics include the "mcdonaldization" of the world. [ speaking foreign language ] but they are optimistic about president obama. "he is so young and energetic," says vagiz, "and he will give a new surge to our relationship." "i see obama as an innovator in your country," adds alexander. "new face, new relationship." not all russians are enamored with the new face of america's leadership. but many are at least curious. clarissa ward, abc news, seliger, russia. >>> next we turn to the memorial service set for tomorrow to honor michael jackson. today the jackson family announced who will participate in the program. security is going to be tight. crowds trying to get in without tickets could be large. jim avila is outside of the staples center in los angeles tonight. jim. >> reporter: determined to celebrate michael jackson as a music icon and downplay his controversial lifestyle, the massive memorial at the staples center tomorrow will be heavy on celebrity performances. ♪ mariah carey leads the list of performers. she's expected to sing michael's early hit "i'll be there." as she

influential streams1 of protestantism and calvin will be honored throughout the year with a series of lectures, conferences, and other events. that's our program for now. i'm bob abernethy. there's much more on our web site. audio and video podcasts are also available. join us at pbs.org. as we leave you this fourth of july weekend, the mormon tabernacle choir performs" america the beautiful." captioning sponsored by the lilly endowment captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org -m-m0l0l0l

freed of her day job here in alaska, palin is now likely to make millions with her book deal, on the lecture circuit, possibly even a talk show, especially if she keeps speculation going, keeps people guessing on whether she will run some day for president, but now major republican fund-raisers, including some of her own, say that is nearly imponl. lester? >> putting her political future aside for a moment, what practical problems does her sudden resignation create? >> reporter: well, it certainly creates problems for her because she has not proved herself, especially by quitting midstream. it could divide the party. she's so popular with the republican base, but the major leaders in the party, and you saw that with what karl rove had so say, really think she's signed her own warrant and that she's not going to be able to be a major player in the party. >> andrea mitchell in wasilla, alaska. thank you very much. >>> there was a death at disney world overnight when could monorail trains crashed on the final run of the day. the collision at the park in orlando killed the driver of one of the t

. >> two-hour lecture. i was so moved by it, i sought it was bigger and broader than anything i could handle. i took my whole company. i hired him to come back from colorado and train my entire staff. >> reporter: gary is building the net zero home in bethesda. >> it's a home that produces as much energy as it uses. >> reporter: how does it do that? >> through solar panels on this house. particular attention to the thermal envelope of the house. it begins at the footing level where the insulation is put under the base of the house, up the side of the house and then the whole exterior shell of house is heavily insulated and sealed. >> reporter: another unique feature of this net zero house is the fact that the crawl space is insulated, not just in the floor above us but the concrete floor below me. there are more financial costs to building this way. >> your mortgage is tax deduct i believe. your utilities are not. if you reduce the utility costs monthly, you can capitalize on a tax benefit through your mort

war, quick, few casualties, johnnie came marching home, schwarzkopf was the hero, six figures in lectureeries and parades under bush 41. we have this war, a different era and different president, won't be parades and warm welcoming of the troops because barack obama is opposed to the war, he's not able to credibly stage a celebration for the troops because he was against it. and the media was slammed for being overpatriotic. tom brokaw was criticized for not wearing the pin on his lapel on his suits. and the saddam hussein, never had in the fbi translated interviews with him, i never had the weapons of mass destruction, people want it to go away and i think the media is following that. >> one of the stories you brought to our attention, jim, this out of washington, i mean shall "the washington post" one of the major opinion leadners this country. and lo and behold in the days when the papers are struggling to buy new sources of re knew came word from the post may have found one or tried to. >> the post as of late in the week was caught redhanded trying to sell access to corporate fat cat

lecture and talk. which i think really it captured some of the energy that exists in this setting now since november 4th and a sense of hope since the obama election so i appreciate that very much. i am struck by the relationship between it lincoln and douglass and i want to ask you in terms of obama, obama the pragmatist, obama with a sense of vision, obama with a sense of moral imperative -- there is a constant tension in that when you are an office holder particularly of president so i'm not asking you to name but talk about the quality is that obama needs to reach out to to have his set of douglass'. >> it's a great question. [laughter] it is a great question. i think that the central strand of that point about being able to keep in this healthy tension, both a sense of moral imperative and a pragmatic willingness to compromise and to understand that those two aren't always intention and should always be intention and should be dependent upon specific contacts is absolutely crucial and i think obam

and obama got the treat of his life in getting a one-hour lecture from putin on all their interests and l criticisms and complaints. so i think there's no question about who's in -- also i was told the story once that when the two of them go to international meetings together, putin does all of the talking and medvedev is a notetaker. i think that tells you all. >> i want to ask you, this nina. after the collapse of the soviet union, it seemed that there was a great lovefest between the united states and russia. and especially between our peoples. all that seems to have gone to the wayside now. and that, i don't know, russians seem disenchanted with the u.s. is that an accurate perception? why is that? high think it is an accurate perception. and you know, remember that before '91 when the soviet union collapsed, it was a closed country. so the only way we the soviets knew about the united states and the west was from -- ready from europe. it was jammed by the soviets. so the whole idea in the soviet union was that if the state, if the authorities tell you that something's horrible, it

it hosts public lectures for the residents, and it set up a radio station broadcasting religious programs. all as it consolidates its grip in the heart of somalia's lawless southern coast. zeina awad, al jazeera. >>> we continue our coverage of the continent tonight with this week's series "a view from africa," and a big problem in neighboring kenya -- corruption. the country is called the most corrupt in east africa by transparency international, a group that monitors and tries to combat corruption around the worl it says 45% of kenyans pay bribes to gain access to the most basic public services. tonight, andrew simmons of al jazeera english takes us to a part of nairobi where corruption is a fact of life. >> reporter: this is life at its lowest. her only source of income is this maze she's trying to sell. her hopes now rest with her eldest song nelson. he's 17 and bright. but she says the only way of keeping him in school is to bribe to get a scholarship. so far she's living off favors, borrowing from friends and sometimes succeeding in persuading the school not to send him home. "i fee