but hopefully we'll have you back on the show that was and leave the economics professor at new york university and the author of the book what the u.s. can learn from china. well nowhere does the drumbeat to war ring louder than when it comes to the threat of iran the narrative at least in the mainstream networks to pick steve islamic republic as a major threat and the aggressor there must be contained at all costs for the sake of world peace and democracy runs behavior is taken as an act of aggression no matter what it does any sort of defiant statement is deemed as an open invitation to war it's a bit reminiscent of another scenario the buildup to the war with iraq there's a threat of met weapons of mass destruction al qaeda and iran pundits lawmakers warning that the time to act is now or else and u.s. opinion seems to be swaying to a recent poll in fact found that nearly half of all likely voters think the u.s. should be willing to use military force to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and while obama has called for a diplomatic resolution to the issue he has been just as clear

he has released two albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the school in columbia university, and is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line teacher. a teacher, educators, researchers, writers, consultant, speaker. she is like a mother, auntie, big sister, all in one, for me. she has taught in canada, the caribbean, and the u.s. and has been involved in the development of teachers for two decades. she consults on anti-racist inclusion very and equitable education. she assists school districts and schools to continually restructure themselves for equitable outcomes for all students. the initiative put that puts race -- she designed the initiative tt puts race on the table. she is the virtual scholar for teaching for change. she is the author of

on sunday, the 18th of march, i am going to new york university, and i am having another conversation about poverty in america, this one just about one in, children, and poverty, and the -- just women, children, and poverty, and the audience is just going to be women with their babies. it will be a conversation exclusively about women, children, and poverty. >> i am thinking about that. i want to be there. tavis: if you are around, i will hold a seat for you. i want to ask specifically what you are saying to men about their struggle and their babies, because if men are catching hell in this patriarchal society, and when men are really catching it. >> here is about women, when it comes to their children, they become these financial war years, like i have never seen before. they will not turn their back on the battlefield. they will get three, four, five jobs if they need to to make sure their baby is ok. that does not mean they are not in poverty, but they will not abandon their children on any level, and what women need to understand is you cannot save a child if you cannot save yours

john sarno, a professor of rehabilitation medicine at new york university medical center and practitioner at rusk institute of rehabilitative medicine. dr. sarno, the author of four books on pain will share his work with respect to treating chronic pain. so i thank all of you for coming here. your statements will be made a part of the record in their entirety. and i ask you if you could sum up in five or seven minutes. there is probably a little light down there. i don't get too nervous if it goes over, unless it guess over a long time. but if you're summing up, five, six, seven, eight minutes, that's fine with me. and like i said, your statements will all be made a part of the record in their entirety. dr. pizzo, again, welcome, and please proceed. >> thank you very much. >> punch the button. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. it's an honor to be here with you today, and i appreciate very much your interest in this important topic. today i'd like to share with you the results of our institute of medicine committee that i co-chaired with noreen clark from the university of minnesota. t

. >> representative degette, got her law degree at new york university, undergraduate colorado college. she's in her eighth term representing denver. bell ton, missouri, robert, independent line. you're on the air. >> caller: i'd like to ask the congresswoman do the insurance companies reduce the premiums for the catholic church or any other institution that does not want birth control or any of those kinds of things? do they get a lower premium? and if they do, i was going to say, if that is, in fact, the question, maybe we could get a lower premium for men who don't want any pregnancy coverage. >> well, actually what happened was the institute of medicine said that family planning and birth control is an es tenl part of women's health care services. it's part of really what women need to have to have good health care. they said since it's an essential part, it has to be covered under insurance policies. so as i just mentioned, some of the actuaries actually say not offering birth control would make the cost of insurance policies go up because there would be many more unplanned pregna

for lack of a better term or a loss of scene one garbage as the brennan center for justice at new york university pointed out in a study in titled the truth about voter fraud allegations of widespread voter fraud however often prove greatly exaggerated claims of voter fraud are frequently used to justify policies that do not solve the alleged wrongs but that well could disenfranchise legitimate voters and that's exactly what republicans are doing as in see acorn in reality voter fraud is virtually nonexistent back in two thousand and four george bush's justice department launched an investigation into voter fraud they were very worried about and convicted a mere eighty six people of some sort of fraud out of one hundred twenty two million voters in other words republicans are chasing a problem that at most exists in just point zero zero zero zero seven percent of the voting population. on the other hand unlike voter fraud alexion fraud is rampant like when about eighty thousand people in florida were barred from voting in the two thousand election bush v gore because republican stooge katherine h

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an adjunct professor of finance at new york university. thank you both for being here.mortgage rate question for you. regina from washington wrote in, i have a 30-year fixed mortgage at 5.6%. i am trying to refinance with my credit union. they insist on refinancing me for 30 years at 4% instead of 15 or 20 years that i want. their closing cost is almost $10,000. how can i get better terms? >> everyone wants to refinance because rates are so low, but not everyone is going to qualify for those low rates or short term loan. you need to have a credit rating of 76 or higher, and for a loan, your payments are going to go up. she should talk to the credit union and find out what's holding her back, but she can definitely shop around. those closing costs sound very steep. improve your debt, but shop around a little bit. >> david, question for you comes from james in south carolina. james wrote in, i'm retirement age. should i use my 401(k) to pay off my two cars and my house so i can retire debt free? i would have about $10,000 left over. >> if he has other money available, i w

i went out to la, i went to new york university for drama school, and then after that i decided to moveo la and i had no money and i would take cash advances on my credit card and, and i remember when i got out there, i had to rent a car but i didn't have any money, so i rented, i called this company called rent a wreck and i drove a junky car, you know, but basically my friend and i went out there, we thought we really want to do, develop a comedy show, and that's what we were going to do, a comedy show. so me and my friend gene pack went out together, and we didn't know anybody, we just got a, rented like a dumpy apartment in hollywood and i would, i would drive up to sunset boulevard and literally go door to door and like -- >> smith: yeah. >> shannon: slide my headshot under the door, and then i started developing this comedy show. i took classes at second city, they offered improv classes and in those classes, i ended up meeting actors and comedians and i met this guy rob mueller who i still work with now. we're actually writing a movie together, and rob was like you know comedy is

many years later, masters in electrical engineering from new york university, many are sick or an mba from the masters of business administration from indiana university graduate school of business. so what i did was build a foundation thinking i was going to be in the technology world where i spent five years with ibm, but after getting my mba, i actually got very interested for more interested in the investment firm, so i switched careers and became a master your >> it is 2011. why did you write slbms now? >> a position in the business the category. and i had no interest, no plans to write a book and it was actually lewis, who is the widow of the legendary reginald lewis, who degrade faster for the american entrepreneur after that encourage me to write this book. so when she did what she got claire walker hirschi at commission commissioned after they have since dad to call me. no player had a club, how he built a billion dollars business and john whaley happened to be the publisher. so when claire told about my story and presented a proposal, they got very interested. here's an afri

jacob javits on the cover, republican of new york, universally regarded as perhaps the smartest lawyer and the best legislator perhaps of that time. routinely would good to three or four committee meetings, annoyed the hell out of other senators by coming into the meeting, demanding his time, and going right to the heart of the issue. he always managed to add value. you read other books about the senate, books by other senators, and the say, don't make me debate javits. it was too frightening. ed muskie is on the cover as well. a wonderful story. when muskie came to the senate, democrat from maine -- he had been a very good governor. he comes to the senate and gets on the wrong side of lyndon johnson, difference respects johnson, and johnson gets mad. gives him the worst committee assignments he can possibly give him. and muckie sulks for a while and then realize johnson has given him a favor. johnson put him into the position of becoming an environmental leader because the environment became the issue that it did right in the early '60s. so muskie is very famous for that. and then the

. >> joining me now, democratic strategist bob strum, who is also a professor at new york university and salon editor-in-chief, joan walsh. thank you both for being on the show tonight. >> glad to be here. >> thank you, reverend. >> bob, let start with you. what did you think of today's speech by president obama? >> well, the president's back. he is back in terms of the rhetorical power that he brought to this, it sounded like 2008 again. he has got a clear message, i'm fighting for you, you just heard them. the other guy is fighting for the few, doesn't care about you. and one thing that struck me about this speech, very interesting, is the president's been very careful not to be triumphal about the economy but the positions he took on the auto industry gave him the opportunity to go out there and talk in very affirmative terms about what was achieved because of the decisions he made, 1.5 million jobs, a state and an industry back on its feet and if you look at the polls, the republicans have no chance to carry michigan in the fall. >> now, joan it is true the president had that pas

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

and it's gaining popularity on college campuses like new york's columbia university. >> it looks intenset looks like one of those monster red bull drinks. >> i would try it during finals week. >> it's making the rounds on national tv but now new health concerns prompted a federal safety investigation. with the fda saying it will review information brought to the agency's attention about this product. and that they'll consider whether regulatory action is warranted. it is an investigation welcomed by some who could do shot after shot. >> it could come with some toxicity. you could mix it with alcohol in a social setting. >> reporter: senator chuck schumer wants to see aeroshot taken off the market. >> it's very possible that snorting caffeine is dangerous, particularly to a 12-year-old. there are no age limits on the product and certainly dangerous when used in combination with alcohol. >> reporter: but aeroshot's inventor says it's no more dangerous than drinking coffee and, in fact, comes this controlled doses. >> we are confident that as they look at the product that they will confirm

leads the undergraduate department of film and tv at new york university. he knows the first lesson of hollywood. >> profit and successful box office trumps great reviews and oscars all the time. >> reporter: yes tonight's favorites made money. the artists $73 million. hugo, $107 million, the descendents, $144 million. but what brings in the big crowds and big money are the so-called movies like avatar that draw men and women, kids and adults and bring in over $300 million. in 2011 there were not enough block bustors. how could that be when you have a harry potter, a pirates of the caribbean, a twilight all released in the same year? >> because there were a lot of other movies in that vein that didn't work. >> there are four $300 million or more grossing movies in 2010. there were only two in 2011. >> reporter: two? that makes? >> that makes a difference. >> reporter: patrick heads media and research at the national association of theater owners. >> it's essentially the product. that's what happens every year. it's whether we have an up year or a down year,

manuel gallegus, cbs news, stony brook university, new york. >>> mardi gras is in full swing right now in new orleans. they estimate one million people are partying in the city tonight spending about $3 million. mardi gras, fat tuesday, the last big party before the beginning of lent. live pictures. this is bourbon street tonight. and no sign the party is winding down any time soon. ♪ [ music ] >>> i remember last year dennis o'donnell was there and he sent me back some beads. i mean, like he had beads and beads and beads. i wanted to ask him, how did you get those beads, dennis. >> you don't want to know. >> reporter: we're 10 degrees warmer than yesterday. our live cbs 5 weathercam la looking towards san francisco where we topped off at 61 which is pretty spot on for this time of the year. currently still relatively mild in the 50s and the 60s. the winds are pretty much calm. tonight overnight we'll see some areas of patchy fog and numbers will span between 39 in santa rosa to 47 degrees from san francisco through daly city into pacifica. meanwhile, what you need to know is all these

steven lamb is a practicing internist, faculty member at new york university school of medicine, contributorou ever lied to a patient? >> i can tell you that i have not been brutally honest with certain patients and i think -- >> gregg: really? why? >> i think there are certain areas where being brutally honest is not really the best interest of the patient. since my mission really involves being compassionate, being sensitive, being empathic and there are times where it's inappropriate to tell the patient the honest truth -- >> gregg: give me an example. >> a person will come in and they could be seriously depressed and very anxious, they may not be able to handle the absolute truth about their illness at that moment in time. over time, of course the true has to come out and it's an obligation of the physician to do so. the area where lies are completely unacceptable, okay, or once again, conflict of interest where you don't tell a patient that you're a speaker for a company, which is fine, most patients couldn't care about that anyway. or if you made a mistake and you don't admit to that,

joining me this hour donna, a senior writer with "money" magazine, david, a family planner at new york universityna, mortgage rate question for you. regiona from washington wrote in i have a 30-year fixed mortgage at 5.6%. i'm trying to refinance with my credit union. they insist on refinancing me for 30 years at 4% instead of 15 to 20 years that i want. their closing is almost $10,000. how can i get better terms? >> well, everybody of course wants to refinance today, because rates are so low. and of course if you can lop a few years off your loan you're going to save a lot in interest over time. but not everyone is going to qualify for those low rates or a shorter-term loan. you need to have a good credit score of 760 or higher and for a shorter-term loan your monthly payment is going to go up. you have to look at your debt-to-income ratio. she should talk to the credit union and find out what's holding her back. but she can definitely shop around. those closing costs sound very steep. they should only be 2% to 3% of the loan value. look at improving your credit, reducing your debt, but shop aro

coming up next, we go to new york university law school for a discussion by a panel of justice officials including the head of the justice department criminal division. this panel is about one hour and 20 minutes. >> thank you all for coming. we are on a short schedule, so i will get to it. more than three years ago after one of the worst financial crises hit in united states history, and the government has been criticized for its failure to prosecute senior executives at the large institutions that many believe caused a crisis. today we address key questions about whether this was fair or not. where do we go from here? and to evaluate what has been done so far. before i start with our incredible panel, i want to give thanks to mike for helping to put this together, and now the sponsor, the prosecution center for cosponsoring and two of the fellows for helping to put this together, and i would like to thank the world of winter region in -- the world for twitter. let me introduce our panelists. when michael came to me with the idea of a panel on this topic, we sat around trying to think w

this is matt welch editor in chief of "reason "magazine and irshad manji, the director of new york university'soral courage project and author of "all"alla liberty and love." welcome to the table and thank you for being here. we were talking before the break about this idea of sort of the power of the state and the state relative to particularly individual freedoms. i wanted to start with this notion of consumption because we went to this kind of free market of religious ideas and nothing stands more for the free market than i think mackintosh and apple. how complicated is this question of the right use of state power versus our individual liblibert? >> well, it's a perennial question really, one for the ages. you know, philosophers have been debating this in many ways from time in memorial from recorded history. it is complicated especially when religion enters the picture because, while religious liberty seems like an easy peasy idea, the fact of the matter is, for example, if you take a look at a country like israel, known far and away from this side of atlantic as a democracy and in many wa

new york. >> education? >> high school and eventually got a ph.d. from adelphi university in new york. i got a second ph.d. from the university of minnesota. >> we have a clip and it starts with the early days in the life of victor denoble. >> back in the 1960's, -- victor is going to go to plumbing school. that is what the plan was. that was my goal. one day my father said, what are you doing at night? i said, hanging out with my friends. why do you not go to college? that was strange. my father had never mentioned college in my 17 years of existence. i said, why do i want to go to college? he said, to meet smart women stupid. i ended up going to college. i went to a delphi university. it was close to my house. i was not going to make this a career. i was going to go to school to meet smart women. why not stay close to home? >> what was your approach to get the public interested? >> i produced the film without this get to know victor sequence. but, it seemed that of the blue so i felt like you had to get to know him. know where he came from. no the remarkable obstacles he overcame to become an academic for

and police scandal targeting muslims, this time at yale university and new york's mayor is unaware that he's not president of the united states or head of the fbi. >> i don't know why keep keeping the country safe is the pinnacles at yale. >> trying to indoctrinate our can children. >> the only weapon he can see, a dr. seuss movie. then in indiana this republican state representative again insists the nation is under attack by the radical left wing tactical planned parenthood. >> the girl scouts of america. >> they're back. >> girl scout cookies time. >> all in a andall that and more on countdown. >> good evening, this is wednesday, february 22, 259 days until the 2012 presidential election. the president offered to slash the corporate tax rate today while raising revenues at the same time with rick santorum calling voters to scoot nice candidates record while struggling with more of his records surfacing today. the president not singing the blues over taxes after vocalizing with bb king while the republican presidential field prepared for a debate in arizona with recent and not so rece