. >> guest: lord acton, that's right. i edited his essays. c-span: so if you had gotten married around pearl harbor, where did you go to school? >> guest: what was i doing in between there? i went to undergraduate school at brooklyn college. as i said, my family was poor and this was a free college. then i did graduate work at the university of chicago. c-span: how about dr. kristol? where did he go? >> guest: he went into the army at that point. i was married in my last year at brooklyn college and then he was already out of college and he was working in the brooklyn navy yard, would you believe. this was, as i say, the very beginning of the war years and prepared to go into the army. at that point i then, when i was graduating, after spending a year in new york, decided to go to graduate school and i chose the university of chicago because it had the reputation of being the most intellectual of all of the universities. this was the great day of -- i don't know if the name means anything to you or to people today -- robe

lord acton, he said that in a letter to a historian, power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corruptsat men are almost always bad men. >> i was going to call him a great man, but now i won't do that. >> no, don't do that. >> congratulations on the book. it's called "unbalanced." go out and grab it from amazon today. >> i don't know how you avoid that? right? >> no, no. >> look at these guys, they're just drunk. >> get it, get it. steven, thank you. >>> when we come back, much more on the situation in ukraine. gunmen taking control of government offices, russia saber rattling, and u.s. trying to figure out how to handle everything that's happening there. we'll be right back. opportunities aren't always obvious. sometimes they just drop in. cme group can help you navigate risks and capture opportunities. we enable you to reach global markets and drive forward with broader possibilities. cme group: how the world advances. >>> welcome back. it's time for your "squawk box" planner this morning. in earnings central, best buy will be one stock to watch this morning. the retailer expected to