we're joined by stephen cohen professor emeritus of russian , studies and politics at new york university and princeton university. his most recent book, "soviet fates and lost alternatives: from stalinism to the new cold war" is out in paperback. he's a contributing editor at the nation magazine. and joining us from london, jonathan steele former moscow , correspondent for the guardian. he is chief reporter at the website middle east eye. he is the author of "eternal russia: yeltsin, gorbachev, and the mirage of democracy." stephen cohen, let's begin with you. explain what you understand took place in moscow yesterday and this meeting between the foreign rexster lavrov and tillerson, the secretary of state, joined by the president putin. leadership knows mr. tillerson very, very well. for six or seven years, they dealt directly with him, including putin, i'm one of the largest energy deals russia had ever made with the western energy giant. in this case, exxonmobil. they would not have made that for many billions of dollars if they did not think -- excuse me -- that mr. tillerson was a d

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my first book comes out in the 2017 from new york university press and i feel very lucky that i had a rich career as a journalist, and now i get this chapter to do what i think i have always wanted to do, which is to practice the love of history and >> thank you for sharing with us on american and british suffrage movements. thank you for being here. >> thank you for the interview. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1970 nine, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. it is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. this year marks the 70th anniversary of the integration of major league baseball. on april 15, 1947, african-american jackie robinson played his first game with the brooklyn dodgers. jonathan aig talks about his book "opening day" the story of jackie robinson's first see experience. this was recorded at the national archives

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new york university public policy and economics profess jonathan more duck and center for financial services innovation senior vise president rached synder followed the spending habits of over 235 families over the course of a year in the financial diaries. and journalist drew phillip chronicles rebuilding an abandon house in his hometown in a $500 house in detroit. look for these in bookstores in the coming week and watch were the authors on booktv on c-span. >> good frafternoon, welcome to the heritage foundation.

. >> a professor at new york's university stern school of business. >> there will be certain high endiche and it becomes a complicated conversation because there is an american manufacturer index, what car is the most manufactured car in the u.s. and winner, the toyota camry. what it means to be made in america is taking on new meaning. >> what's not so new, the role automation plays in american jobs. economists estimate most of the 400,000 steel working and 350,000 textile jobs lost since the 1950s was due to automation. with the explosion of technology giving way to rob ots and driverless vehicles, jobs for humans will shrink. having just completed construction of a new manufacturing plant, a former steel mill that set vacant for 20 years now churning out thousands of products a day. >> that's just our little eco system. but the ripple effect is pretty substantial. >> enterprising businesses adding that special label to their products, made in america. stephanie ruhle, new york. >> when you are running a business on a tight budget every extra expense from hiring additional staff to

and state university of new york colleges and universities. the governor's office says the plan will affect nearly 1 million families across new york state. and an update to a case we've been following. one of new york's best-known immigrant rights advocates will not face deportation tomorrow. ravi ragbir, executive director of the new sanctuary coalition, had been ordered to check in with immigration and customs enforcement tuesday, even though he reported for another check-in just last month, accompanied by a number of city council members and a state senator as hundreds rallied outside. officials say he can now check in next january. this is ragbir describing how accompaniment works. >> when we partner u.s. citizens with immigrants who are in this crisis, not only for myself but many others, they are able to get the support from the community so they are not in this fearful space, but also treated with respect. amy: faith groups are planning to hold an interfaith seder tomorrow morning at 26 federal plaza in new york city to call for lasting

he graduated from harvard and got a joint law and business degree from new york university. lso owned a new york observer. when he joined the administration, he resigned from all professional roles and announced he would sell the paper to a family trust. like her father, ivanka trump, 35, graduated from the university of pennsylvania's school of business. after a brief stint as a model she joined the trump organization becoming an executive vice president. this is their first forreinto public service. >> the trumps came in with a promise to change the par time diem and make the white house function more along the lines of a business but these are not enormously successful business people. >> reporter: as their profiles and influence rise, so to reports of tensions with chief strategist steve bannon and some of the populist conservatives in the west wing. white house officials deny friction calling kushner the ultimate team player. outside critics noted ivanka and kushner were on a family ski trip when the president's repair and replace the affordable care act faltered. kushne

but decided to transfer to new york university to study acting. >> my mother screamed at me for liken i said i was not going to go to law school, and when i explained to my parents that going to nyu would cost them less money because of the loans i got from nyu, my father said, let's hear him out. >> reporter: he started getting work even before he finished college. you liked acting once you started doing it. >> six months went by, and i thought, this is really not easy to do. this is challenging. it isn't frivolous. and month after month after month i became more inenamored it. >> reporter: but he also conphysicals he became enamored of cocaine and alcohol. and while a cast member on the hit tv series "knotts landing", he hit an all-time low. you write about a really harrowing day and night in which you essentially overdosed and almost died. >> right. right. 1984. >> reporter: i didn't know that about you. >> i didn't really talk about it that much. that's a pro foufound part of m life. i was 26 when i got sober. >> reporter: but there's still been plenty of drama. baldwin's book de

yorktate university of new chancellor said the may be overblown singh 85 percent of graduates from the state university system stay in new york after graduation anyway. points. couple big the first thing is there are additional costs of enrolling in college beyond tuition. systems in the state face significant room and board costs. people who are starting higher education tend to believe those costs may be one of the most important barriers keeping the lowest income students out of college. they still have this additional expense. people who are generally opposed to free college argue the resources being delivered would be better spent covering those costs for the lower income households. the other piece is this .omplication it says in order to maintain the benefit of that scholarship you have to stay in-state for as long as you receive that scholarship after you graduate. that converts into a loan and the students have a big financial obligation to pay that back. this is a pretty concerning clause. of the advantages of a free college plan is the simplicity in the messaging. lower income people believing the college is out of

yorktate university of new chancellor said the may be overblown singh 85 percent of graduates from the state university system stay in new york after graduation anyway. points. couple big the first thing is there are additional costs of enrolling in college beyond tuition. systems in the state face significant room and board costs. people who are starting higher education tend to believe those costs may be one of the most important barriers keeping the lowest income students out of college. they still have this additional expense. people who are generally opposed to free college argue the resources being delivered would be better spent covering those costs for the lower income households. the other piece is this .omplication it says in order to maintain the benefit of that scholarship you have to stay in-state for as long as you receive that scholarship after you graduate. that converts into a loan and the students have a big financial obligation to pay that back. this is a pretty concerning clause. of the advantages of a free college plan is the simplicity in the messaging. lower income people believing the college is out of

more campus lunacy, this time from other networ "new york times," publishing an op-ed, agreeing with rioter that free speech should be -- new york university professor wrote, idea of freedom of speech does not mean a blanket permission to say anything to anybody that anybody thinks. put are parameters around that . joining me now judge napolitano. who gets to decide parameters? >> the listener. decides what he wants to hear, and speaker decides what she wants to say, the government has no rule in it. that is not me this is supreme court of u.s. on first amendment. nyu is a private institution, they can do what they want. but white supremist, at auburn. owned by the state. and ann coulter, at the berkeley owned by the state. it protects hate speech. liz: liberals but not conservative? >> i condemned bush administration when they created free speech zones, if you want to say something, you had to be 3 mile away. "new york times" condemned them, today "new york times" is supporting the concept of free speech zones. >> cut it out with the zones. were not the founding fathers against parameters. they protected extreme speech, because with that

new york. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new universitynerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. learn more at esd.ny.gov kennedy: i would never lie to. sure you look good in those pants picture company ceo about to get replaced by a robot? is one of the world's richest, sexiest billionaires. the answer is yes, ali baba aian jack ma. there he is. he holds a business conference in china that artificial intelligence could be a better ceo. it remembers better than you and accounts festered than you and i won't be angry with competitors. jack you and those luscious cheek dons every day. nevermind that i won't have a three martini lunch before shareholders meeting. workers a vice had to worry about automation but is it time for executives to start chewing their well-managed fingernails? joe diffie know when meghan mccain. jack ma sounds like someone who's being very specious someone who's being i a logical list and someone who's being irrational about our machine friends. >> that's what happens when these nerds get rich. they think the

professor ann lee specialises in economics and finance at new york university — and acts as an independent a lot of americans who would agree with donald trump that in this trade relationship america has had the raw end of the deal and it's about time somebody changed things. are they right? they are certainly frustrated that i think that they probably only get one side of the story since it's very easy for policymakers and companies to wa nt to for policymakers and companies to want to point the finger at someone else so they don't take the blame and geta else so they don't take the blame and get a raft of the american people. —— get the anger. america has benefited greatly from trade with china. most of the trade is coming from us companies outsourcing their manufacturing capabilities to china and importing those products back to the us at cheaper prices so that the companies can have fatter profits which enable them to reinvest in more products and services and hire people and provide cheaper products to americans so that inflation has actually been rather moderate. so, it's not quite o

new york. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new universitynerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. learn more at esd.ny.gov ray's always been different. last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china. at&t is working with farmers to improve irrigation techniques. remoteoisture sensors use a reable network to tell them when and where to water. so that farmers like ray can compete in big ways. china. oh ... he got there. that's the power of and. won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back including depreciation. switch and you could save $509 on auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. kennedy: there have been some major twists and turns the trump campaign's alleged ties to russia. the federalist reporting that the fbi used quote garbage opposi

from new york university and the american association of university women, a discussion about sexism in the workplace. secretary ons end-of-life care for to minnelli -- end-of-life care for terminally ill patients. soanya spoke to students about her experiences as

she's also adjunct professor at new york university. here's what occurs to me. they're having dover sole at mar-a-lago. on thursday night as this attack commences. presumably the attack didn't have to take place then. do you think that president trump was intending to send a message to president xi at that moment about north korea? >> absolutely. we know that trump ordered these attacks before his meeting with xi, and we know that these attacks take months of preparation to put together, so all intelligence -- all the legal arguments for this had already long been assembled and i think it was opportunistically timed to coincide with the xi meeting as a way to send a strong message to the chinese that the trump administration means business when it comes to the issues of north korea and the south china seas. i would say that he was very effective because all the comments coming out of the meeting was that the meetings were very frank and candid. these are statements by tillerson. and trump saying that we're going to be cooperating means that he probably got assur

it was all just a casual conversation, exactly what i told my students at new york university. so no offer was made and there was no negotiation whatsoever. i met at a conference at asian society and at some point later wane month or so, it was several years ago, we had coffee once. had a slight conversation. i gave him a couple of my information from my lectures, some public research reports and that was the end of it. >> we spoke with former kgb spy last hour about how spies recruit people in the u.s. and we asked him why carter page could have allegedly been a target. watch this portion of the interview. >> you take what you can get and obviously there were relationships there. there was an angle. when i was operating in this country they asked me to, you know, get in touch with all kinds of high level individuals. well that wasn't possible. so carter page was most likely a very inviting target. >> is it possible or even credible to think he did not know? >> it's quite likely he didn't know. there's one thing -- there's this statement he made that he was aware that when you

documents, a few samples from the more detailed lectures he was preparing for a class he taught at new york university. paige, who has business ties to russia, cooperated with the fbi in the case but complained his assistance was "framed in an easily identifiable way consistent with the political motivated unmasking standards in the obama administration." president trump met this afternoon with a congressman, noted supporter of better relations between the united states and russia. he said before the meeting today that "a brouhaha over nothing is preventing us from developing better relations with this very big and very powerful country." >> bret: thank you. more on this with the panel. trump administration and house republicans meantime are trying some political cpr on the effort to repeal and replace obamacare. tonight, there is movement. a big meeting on capitol hill. the question is whether changes in the bill will change the vote total that flatlined their first effort. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel tells us within the new plan what's realistic tonight. >> there's been a renewed

>> today's announcement in new york could really inspire other states to tackle the problem of college affordability. >> reporter: this fall she heads to the city university of new york to major in chemistry and become a doctor. >> i will be able, you know, to go to college without having a big burden on my shoulder. >> reporter: the financial freedom to fulfill her big dreams. joe lean kent, nbc news, new york. >>> we're back in a moment with a big decision from the government on whether to allow us to use something on planes that most of us can't live without here on the ground. >>> the chairman of the fcc said today a plan set in motion that could have allowed passengers to eventually make cell phone calls on planes, well, it's not happening. he says the airline pilots didn't want it, flight attendants didn't want it and a whole lot of passengers didn't want to get stuck sitting next to a chatty seat mate yakking for the duration of the flight. >>> in new mexico, a new law being called the first of its kind aimed at putting an end to what critics call lunch shaming when schools single out children whose parents are late or drink went in paying for thei

it was all a casual conversation, exactly what i told my students at new york university. and no offer was made and there was no negotiation what was is over. i met at a conference at an ahsan society and at some point later within a month or so, i believe, several years ago, we had coffee once, had a slight conversation. i gave him a couple of my information from my lectures, some public research reports and that was tends of it. >> the former kgb spy is joining us now. so listening to what he was saying. help us understand the tactics for recruitment and would he be unknowingly as it has been characterized aware that he was trying to be recruited or that they were trying to gather information from him. >> well, let's start with what carter page was doing while he was in moscow. he was working for merrill lynch, doing a lot of business with the russian company that pretty much as a monopoly on oil and natural gas. huge company. if there's any company that is under the control of the russian government and putin himself, that's it. now, historically, those kind of enterpri

this is hosted by new york university and the american association of university women.is an hour and a half. >>>> it's my pleasure to welcome you to the auditorium for the event. ofwill present a series paneled conversation through october 17. please join us online or in person for this discussion inies to fight gender bias your about, and your workplace, and activism. this is entitled the f word. how to be a feminist in the workplace. today's discussion will be focused on women navigating their feminist at work. it is my pleasure to welcome this next speaker who will introduce the panel. [applause] great, thanks michael. .ello everyone thank you so much for joining us today. for our second discussion, panel series from both nyu washington, d.c. and aauw. as michael said, this second panel is titled, the f word. how to be a feminist in the workplace. the f word we are referring to here is a little different than you might be thinking. we are referring to feminism. that iarrassed to say didn't admit to myself that i was a feminist until my sophomore year of high school.

military analyst and colonel cedric layton is here and professor cohen, professor of politics at new york university and princeton. colonel, let me begin with you. more of what we're hearing from rex tillerson as he heads to moscow, which is sort of double justification after the strikes on syria saying, a, we don't want these chemical weapons that are clearly still in syria to fall into the hands of isis. and b, we don't accept the normalization of them. your take on the justification now. are these things that should have been said sooner? say, even on the sunday shows? >> most definitely. because when you have a justification for an attack like this, it's always good to get that outfront. to have that as part of the reason, the rationale for an attack, or god forbid it goes further than that, further combat or further war. you have to have that outfront. one of the big problems you run into, poppy, is the fact that if you have one series of justifications that comes out first and another series that comes out later, it's often hard to square the two of them and bring them together. and that's, i

from new york university and the american association of university women, a discussion about sexism in the workplace. secretary ons end-of-life care for to minnelli -- end-of-life care for terminally ill patients. soanya spoke to students in herer experiences as legal career and growing up in poverty in new york city. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> i'm excited to be here. it is really a lovely place. also, a wonderful university. you guys did a good job getting here. before you started let's go over the run of the show. with the justice for about 15 to 20 minutes. she will then take questions afterwards. in the interest of time, we have selected ones are to answer out of the rep. perry: then she will .ome up >> you will seamen and women with things in their ears. .hey are my marshals they are here to protect me from myself [laughter] like me going out into the audience but i don't give the much choice ok. [laughter] if no one jumps up unexpectedly, they let me stay. if too many people jump up they get off the floor. cooperate with me and don't jump up. don't scare them. [laughte

> alec bwi political science major at george washington university in dc, built transfer to new york universityher screamed at mr like half an hour when i said i was not going to law school. when i explained to my parents that going to nyu would money be loan i got from nyu they father said, let's hear h >> he started getting work even before he finished college. you liked acting oncex nths weni thought, this is really not easy to do. it is challenge, can it isn't frivolous, i gradually month after month, became morae nome ored of it. >> but he also confesses that he became enamor fded of cocaine and alcohol. >> a cast member on the hit tv series "knots landing." >> now you have to be punished. >> he hit an all-time low. you write about a really harrowing day and night in which you essentially overdosed and almost died. >> right. right. 1984. >> i did not know that. >> i didn't talk about it that much. that is profound part of my life. i was 26 when i got sober. >> but still plenty of dram ha ma. he devils into his stormy first marriage to actress kim bassinger and voice mail he left for his da

it was all just a casual conversation, exactly what i told my students at new york university. so -- and no offer was made, and -- and there was no negotiation whatsoever. i met at a conference at asia society and at some point later within a month or so i believe, it was several years ago, we had coffee once, had had a slight conversation. i gave him a couple of my information from my lectures, some public research reports, and that was the end of it. >> let's talk about the 2016-case. the fbi director has said that convincing a fisa judge to approve surveillance on a u.s. citizen requires so much evidence that the court files are often thicker than his wrist. do you have any idea what might have been in the filing last year that convinced a judge to approve surveillance on you by the fbi? >> well, it's just like president trump just said when he was discussing the allegations about, you know, who knew what with the chemical weapons. let's not jump to any conclusions, and until there's full evidence and a full investigation has been done, we just don't know. i have the same at

bill bowers, who teaches mime, a theatrical technique that uses gestures instead of words, at new york university. >> i am from a big, quiet family in montana. i was an incredibly shy younger person. i am also a gay man, which the word gay didn't even exist back then, but i knew about silence early on for all of those reasons, i got older and learned there was an art form about not talking. i thought, oh my god, that's perfect, i'm in. a story came on the news. marcel marceau was embarking on his 80th birthday world tour. i thought, i've got to study with marcel marceau. i sought him out. i was intimidated by him. he was a very famous, very ole french mime, and all of that came into the room with him. he talked about himself in the third person. he talked about himself in the third person a lot. he said "people say mime so,"" people say marceau is genius, i say no, marceau is not the genius. genius is there marceau and the people meet." a lot of times what happens for me, especially performing in the u.s., is that people hear it's a mime show and they don't want to come. i mean if i heard that it

mcmaster is the national security advisor, and hopefully he will be able to work on that. , new york universityvast majority, a day of strong sunshine and warm sunshine as well. those temperatures climbing through the weekend. the temperatures are keeping our stride. the weather will come into play across scotland and northern ireland. the further south you are, the more you are going to feel warm air which will be wafting its way in our direction. as i mentioned, have you mist and fog patches. they should lift quickly. for england and wales, a day of sparkling sunshine. in most areas will lighten up. it's just the final that will remain a little disappointing through today. some extra cloud perhaps with some spots of drizzle. or eastern and southern scotland, sunshine. lovely afternoon to northern ireland. and across the heart of england, inland spots could get 20, 21, maybe 22 degrees. a little cool at close to the coasts as we develop a bit of a sea the coasts as we develop a bit of a sea breeze through this afternoon. fine for the race—goers at aintree. sunny skies, temperatures not far awa

. >> woodruff: finally tonight, adam alter, a professor at new york university's stern school of business author of "irresistible: the rise of addictive technology," shares his humble opinion on our addiction to technology. >> in 2004, i left my family and friends in sydney, australia, to begin a ph.d. in psychology at princeton. i was lucky to find a group of close friends, but we were all busy, and at the end of most days, i'd return to my room alone. one night i stumbled on a primitive online slot machine game, called "slots." u.s. law prohibited online gambling, so i wasn't playing for real money, but i found the game impossible to resist. instead of winning money, i'd win small rewards in the form of bells and flashing lights. bells and lights may sound like trivial rewards, but in those moments of loneliness, they scratched a psychological itch. i played so often that i started to imagine the reels on the slot machine spinning during the day. meanwhile, i happened to be taking a class in physiological psychology. we learned about a series of experiments on isolated, caged pigeons, m

linda gordon, who is the university professor in humanities and florence kelly professor at new york university. she is the author of, among other things, cossack rebellions , heroes of their own lives: the moral property of women, pitied but not entitled, single mothers and the history of welfare, the great arizona orphan abduction, which when the bank or prize for the best book in u.s. history, and her latest book is called the second coming of the kkk, the ku klux klan and the .merican political tradition second, we will hear from richard wright, professor of american history at stanford university. professor whyte is a recipient of numerous honors, as are all of our panelists today. received jury .election finalist he's also the past president of this organization, the organization of american historians. he has been a macarthur fellow. various other awards and prizes, including a guggenheim fellowship. he has a forthcoming book entitled the republic for which it stands, the united states during reconstruction and the gilded age, agents exceed 5-1898, which is part of the oxford history of

new york's trump university suit draws attention from officials. quote, complaints filed in florida were among those cited by new york attorney general aircraft schneiderman latest month when he sued trump and trump university and the trump entrepreneurship initiative alleging civil fraud. claim to lure people into spending thousands of dollars on questionable courses and mentoring services. trump has denied the allegations. but now florida attorney again pam bundy's office is reviewing the energetic lawsuits teelgsz determine whether florida should join the multistate case. so this is trump university fraud case. this is the one that trump settled by paying out $25 million to people who said he defrauded them in that scheme. this did not end well for him. but in 2013 that lawsuit against him was just getting started in new york, maybe in florida too? a lot of the complaints from that case were out of florida. and pam bundy was reported to be weighing whether or not florida as a state should join that lawsuit against trump over trump university. pam

new york's trump university suit draws attention from officials. quote, complaints filed in florida were among those cited by new york attorney general aircraft schneiderman latest month when he sued trump and trump university and the trump entrepreneurship initiative alleging civil fraud. claim to lure people into spending thousands of dollars on questionable courses and mentoring services. trump has denied the allegations. but now florida attorney again pam bundy's office is reviewing the energetic lawsuits teelgsz determine whether florida should join the multistate case. so this is trump university fraud case. this is the one that trump settled by paying out $25 million to people who said he defrauded them in that scheme. this did not end well for him. but in 2013 that lawsuit against him was just getting started in new york, maybe in florida too? a lot of the complaints from that case were out of florida. and pam bundy was reported to be weighing whether or not florida as a state should join that lawsuit against trump over trump university. pam

professor mead at new york university told us he thinks one of the strengths of our theory is its resilience. and he cites the civil war anomaly as an example of that. in that it shows that if events go badly, and if there's a tragedy of that kind of proportion, that, yes, it does have a deep effect upon the way people behave in families and communities, and i would say that as we look to the future, and we reflect on the possibility that someday we might have a tragedy of that proportion, i don't think it's a slight on our three troy say something like that can cause this kind of a problem. neil: many historians have told us if historians have told us that if you have 18 generations and you have a cycle that seems to repeat itself perfectly with that one aberration, that the aberration actually strengthens the theory. it means that you weren't simply trying to fit everything into a preconceived pattern, and it means that also our theory is not deterministic, that there are ways in which the cycle can be broken or rerouted for a time. that's very important for people to know. that we're not

akers,nior fellow, beth talks about new york's new program that will make state and the universitiestion free for families with incomes up to $125,000. , former u.s.ker ambassador to six countries including syria, afghanistan, and iraq, looks at recent tensions in syria and afghanistan. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, coming up at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. this week on q&a, historian david mccullough on his book "the american spirit: who we are and what we stand for," a selection of his speeches going back to 1989. >> joe mccarthy. there are a dozen books about mccarthy, yet there is no biography of the senator who ha d the backbone to stand up to him first. margaret smith. >> do you remember how you want about preparing for that speech? about it. i do hardest i haven't looked on anything i have ever delivered from a podium. >> historian david mccullough on his book "the american spirit," a selection of his speeches during that in 1989, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> while overseas this week, vice president pence made an unan