any npr fans here? the 45th anniversary of npr, and i hear the party got pretty crazy. [ laughter ] terry gross put a little extra agave nectar in her green tea. sarah koenig drunk dialed adnan. that's never good. ira glass wore a red cardigan. it was insane. [ laughter ] you're going the opposite -- i'm now going to shift to the opposite of npr. picture what the opposite of npr is, because that's where i'm shifting with this next joke. the kardashian family -- [ laughter ] oh! oh, i just did a 180, and i threw my neck out. [ laughter ] the kardashian family has signed a deal keeping them on the air for four more years and paying them $100 million. [ audience ohs ] $100 million. so let that be a lesson. if you really work hard -- [ laughter ] -- and apply yourself, you are wasting your time. [ cheers and applause ] you are wasting your time. they're not giving away money for that anymore. eddie redmayne -- any eddie redmayne fans here? [ cheers ] yeah. i've been told i look like a young eddie redmayne.

npr's scott simon chronicles his mother's final days. and, using music to fight discrimination in a war torn country. >> woodruff: now the fight over >> woodruff: longtime nigerian president goodluck jonathan conceded defeat today in his re- election bid in africa's richest and most populous nation. he lost by at least 2 million votes to challenger muhammadu buhari. jeffrey brown reports. >> brown: supporters of buhari celebrated in the northern city of kaduna, an opposition stronghold, as word of the results spread. >> i am out because i am happy about the change of government. >> brown: later, president jonathan called buhari to congratulate him, making it official. the winner, a muslim and former military ruler, swept the muslim north. crucially, he also scored well in states across southern nigeria, where christians predominate and jonathan had his power base. the outcome stunned the ruling party, and one of its officials even disrupted the electoral commission's proceedings charging, "we have lost confidence in you!" but for buhari'

he is interviewed by the science correspondent by npr. this is about 20 minutes. >> we are in an unusual technical situation because craig venter, who is in san diego, he is supposed to be here is ill with something. craig, can you hear me? he is will with -- is ill with something. he is looking at a good. -- pretty good. craig, can you hear me at all? do you think he is scary looking? [laughter] >> he is not scary looking, just an ill man. >> we have a number of backup systems which i suppose we should employ. if worse comes to worse, i will justly what i think he would've done if i can control him like a puppet. [laughter] all right, maybe now he is hearing me. craig, can you hear me? >> i can. >> we lost you for that. >> so what is wrong with you? [laughter] >> did not want to leave the sunshine washington, d.c.. a number of things going on. it would've made montezuma proud. >> let me quickly ask you about you have a whole list that you are doing, but the one that intrigues me the most is the notion of a minimal cell. first of all, can

he is interviewed by robert crowe wich science correspondent for npr. this is about 20 minutes. >> we are in an unusual technical situation because craig is ill with something. let's see if i can -- craig, can you hear me? he is ill with something akin to mutinous. he is looking pretty good. can you hear me at all? you think you are scary looking? let's see -- we have a number of backup systems which i suppose we should employ. if worse comes to worse, i will tell you what i think he would have done if i can control him like a puppet. now maybe he is hearing me. can you hear me? >> i can. >> so what is wrong with you? >> i did not want to leave for washington, d.c. a number of things going on but it would have made montezuma proud. >> let me quickly ask you, because we do not have a whole lot of time, you have a whole list of things that you are doing, that the one that intrigues me the most is this notion of a minimal cell. can you explain what a minimal cell is? >> we have been trying to work on this since 1995 when we sequenced the first two genomes

. ♪ >> the oakland performers musical star is in full event recently winning npr's tiny desk contest.nd lows of a music career. >> i grew up in this environment here in oakland which is extremely interesting. >> music didn't find him until relatively late in life. >> right after high school, i was like this is where i'm going to be. >> but music clicked in 1994. he sign add deal with a major record label. six years later, a car wreck brought that music career to a close. >> it's a tragedy of the -- you know waking up from three weeks in a coma. then there was quitting selling every piece of equipment. >> for over a decade the instruments stayed silent. then one day he reached for a guitar to play for his crying son. >> the look on his face was priceless. i started slowly making up excuses to kind of pick up instruments. i started this -- ♪ not this time of day, oh, not this time of day ♪ >> as the music came back he founded an oakland art's collective and identity. >> why? because that music is amazing. i thought fantastic negrito. those are the roots, man. i thought you know what i'm

station, 5:00 p.m., start playing. >> then came the home video of the band that won the npr contest.call comes, and your whole life changes. ♪ >> reporter: now fantastic mcgreedo is getting invitations to festival and large venues. and at the age of 47, finding a beginning where an ending used to be. joe rosato jr., nbc bay area news. ♪ >>> there's much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, big change designed to make the s.a.t. more fair. and how one famous bay area entrepreneur is leveling the playing field for low-income students. >>> plus, last weekend he broke a world record in the half-marathon. today, he's got his eye on a new record. >>> good morning. happy sunday. outside the golden gate bridge, the rock and roll half-marathon going on. thousands of runners out there. we wish them look. looks like it's start to get crowded. it is a perfect day to be outside. good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm michelle roberts in for vicky nguyn. >> the race started at 6:30. the folks starting -- the middle of the pack getting to the golden gate bridge. amazing speed. some of the

and reporter howard burkess of npr collaborated with him. welcome to you both.d burkess, you listen to the story of joel ramirez, and you just wonder how could he get by? >> well, he had a very difficult time getting by. he didn't get enough in workers compensation benefits to replace the home health aide himself. it would have cost him about $500 a day to do that. he got barely more than that in an entire week of benefits. so it was a struggle. it was a struggle for the family. and there were times when he was left to sit in his own feces for hours because there was no one there to help him get clean. >> woodruff: one of the consequences of being paralyzed was that he was bowel incontinent. michael grabell, tell us about the changes that have happened in workers compensation laws over the last few decades. >> well, what states have done is really three things. they've cut benefits. they made it harder to qualify for workers comp benefits by raising legal standards. and they've also created a number of hurdles to getting medical care. so what's happening to thes

. >> you did with an npr producer on of all things trash. i saw the fisherman's wharf, but defend trash. >> i'd be glad to. >> defend it, yes. >> walking tours are typically what you think of doing as a tourist. >> for people in their own city? >> but that's our kind of pretense, can we make detour a thing you can do on the weekend instead of going out and seeing movies. if we went out and took a detour together we could sync our phones and it's a fantastic social experience. part of that is taking these nondescript places like bay view and showing people all of the hidden stories there and building these fantastic interactive experiences. >> pulling them into the goodwill and that type of stuff. >> journalists will love your app. >> you could do crime reports. you can do novels and radio drama, all different ways to take it but i'd like to take another detour through groupon, walk me through that. what is it like -- >> that was well done quinton. >> what was it like to be that guy for that period and have the world assume all of that stuff

that won the npr contest. >> and the phone call comes. you win. your whole life changes. >> now, fantastic negrito is getting invitations to festivals and large venues and at the age of 47 finding a beginning where an ending used to be. joe rosato jr., nbc bay area news. >>> and now a follow-up. a 10-year-old boy from the south bay is running away from everyone, that's a good thing. >> just set a world record this past weekend's oakland running festival. today, eltmentary school maybe tomorrow, the olympics. >> there's no trick. just train hard. >> boys like to run. but 10-year-old elliot daniels of san jose is special. >> this is yesterday's bib. >> while wearing bib number 2004, the year he was born at the oakland running festival he became a title holder. >> i broke the world record for a 10-year-old in a half marathon. >> that's 13.1 miles in 1:29:14. nearly two minutes faster than the old record. >> first ten miles felt good. last three, my legs got tired, but i still broke the record and it felt good at the end. >> the oakland race is just o

the board with information to help them make decisions i strongly support for action joining the u npr i as great as it is not resulted in engaging the tracking list that didn't specifically engage the 2 hundred companies that are not in engaged activity series right now we really want to see measurable goals and timeline it's unclear whether we worked with multi agencies why for the staff to at a further time present a future timeline the motions are taken on the actual plan to have a plan in the future it's unclear why we're not voting on am specific level to engagement plan of a portfolio of actions goals those actions are trying to chief a a timeline i used to work in science if we put forward a proposal without a quantifiable or measurable terms or any time by which to have the goal it's not a plan we suggest an engagement letter be sent to the 2 hundred companies we suggest that can be done in the next couple of months two or three months later bans that we'll work with the other institutional investors to put forth a resolution that could be considered for the 2016 proxy season

the mayor telling npr late today he has no plans to resign. but thursday night, much calmer. a prayer vigil for peace. tonight investigators saying they're following up on dozens of leads that have been called in. >>> now to the developing headline out of oklahoma. the fraternity brothers with the racist chant. some members of the fraternity they've now hired a high-profile lawyer. they want their rights protected. ryan owens in oklahoma. >> reporter: their greek letters stripped off the frat house. their members forced to move out. tonight, the brothers of ou's sigma alpha epsilon say enough is enough. they've hired prominent defense attorney stephen jones, best known for defending oklahoma city bomber timothy mcveigh. >> every 19-year-old male is entitled to five minutes of foolishness. i think that might in these circumstances have been a good guideline. >> reporter: the university and its president david boren. >> i think it's time for us across america to step up and show zero tolerance with racism. >> reporter: have been widely applauded for their quick action to shut d

with us to share their reporting and insights, julie pace, npr steve insky, jackie kucinich and robert costa. you remember the netanyahu speech to congress saying president obama should not be us trusted to negotiate a deal. and then the netanyahu statement delivered at a jewish settlement that a vote to re-elect him was a vote to make sure there was no palestinian state. he warned his supporters that they better turn out because arabs were voting in droves. to the first african-american president, that was playing the race card. >> we indicated that that kind of rhetoric was contrary to what is the best of israel's positions. although israel was found the based on the historic jewish homeland and the need to have a jewish homeland, israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. >> now what? can they set their deep personal and policy differences aside, forge a new chapter, or are we in for a deep freeze and a palestinian shift over the final 22 months of the palestinian president. >> steve inski, he told them the arabs are voting in d

explain what happened and what it means, we are joined now via skype from paris by eleanor beardsley of npr. >> eleanor we usually would not care about a local election or local elections in france. why did this one become so interesting? >> this is a local sort of elections people don't usually go vote in huge numbers. it became very interesting because the national front the tar right national front party tar right national front party was in the lead, so the parties on the left and the right became very scared and told voters you got to go out and vote because if you don't vote that's a pull away from the national front. there was not this huge wave of votes for the national front. the lead party was nicholas sarkozy's mainstream party. about 50% of voters turned out on the first round of this poll and they voted in the mainstream conservative party. second place was the socialist party. there has been a lot of disenchancement with be socialist president francois hollande. and 24% of the vote they had a decent score. >> on that decent score is that motivated in part by the terrorist atta

a contributor at npr and a big wig at the intergreek council. >> i was also softball official of the>> jr. story, first of all was a great story and very powerful. just tell me what your experience was like. >> very sporthort it was kind of a mess. i like to say i got two great educations, a great education in the classroom. they are the harvard of the south. but i got a great social education. i think when i started we had ten black students on campus or in the class but it was a school record. it had taken that long to get ten black students in one space. and you just really feel the pressure of being "the only one" in a situation like that. as it is being like the only black person wasn't enough we had so much confederate things around campus. every day there was rows of confederate flags. >> including one fraternity that had like southern heritage history days. >> some background the dorm is named after jackson davis who was an alumni. he efswas the president of the confederacy. so the second story of davis hall, where the fraternities hall was a confederate flag in each and ever

he told npr the final straw was when seaworld publicly testified that, quote, they had had no knowledge we had a dangerous job. >>> a look at why diet >>> breaking news on the crash of germanwings flight 9525. the first investigators arrived on the scene a short time ago in the french alps. they say there are no survivors, all 150 people on board are feared dead. that flight from barcelona to dusseldorf the investigators that just arrived to the french alps say that the bodies could take days to recover. this is video of the airports involved here where the plane had had taken off and where it was going to. family members of those passengers arriving there, many of them you can see sadness in their face. their hearts dropping when they heard the news that that flight went down. the passengers are either spanish, german or turkish. there were no americans on board that plane. >> richard, thank you. >>> in just a few minutes, president obama will meet with the new president of afghanistan at the white house. he will ask the president to slow down the removal of troops from his country. it

the open internet npr and adopted in may proposed a solution based on section 706 do the calculations act of 1996. -- telecommunications act of seven and -- 1996. whether title ii of the act of 1934 would be a better solution. a quick point on procedures. while historically some npr ends just ask questions, during my chairmanship, i made it a policy to present draft nprm's to my colleagues at the means to fight for attention. i believe this is an important part of an open and transparent rule. the proposal is tentative. not a final conclusion. the purpose of the comment. is --period is to fully task that concept. it worked in the desired way to focus the debate. the process was one of the most open and expensive processes in the ssc -- fcc has ever run. we heard from startups, isps, a series of public roundtables. we heard from 750 different asked partes. over 140 members of congress. monday administration -- from the administration and the performance formal submission. but here i would like to be clear. there were no secret instructions from the white house did--. i did not, as ceo

he tells npr he favors a two-state solution but the conditions are not favorable for it to happen righte house seems unconvinced. >> steps the united states has taken at the united nations have been predicated on this idea that the two-state solution is the best outcome. now our ally in these talks has said that they are no longer committed to that solution. that means that we need to re-evaluate our position in this matter. >> our ownkay. you have netanyahu's flip-flop. he's re-elected. u.s. and israel go back a long time. historic relations. to hear the word reassessing with regard to relations with israel is a big deal. >> i think it is a big deal. brooke when you think about where we were just several months ago when rockets were flying from gaza into israel and there's a funding measure that came up for the iron dome and it passed the senate by senate vote and a near unanimous vote in the house, the idea that anyone would step out with regard to the relationship with israel and cast a contrarian vote unheard of and yet here we are now in this current situation where a number of ind

"i haven't changed," high told npr.it's not good enough for the white house. >> why not take him at his word? is there a reason the white house -- >> the question is which one. >> his latest. >> okay. >> reporter: white house press secretary josh earnest declined to see whether netanyahu clarified his position in his phone call with the president. >> did the prime minister tell the president he believes in a two-state solution in this call? >> that's something that -- you can ask my israeli counterpart about what the prime minister said. >> don't you know what the president heard? >> i'm not saying i don't know. i'm saying that i will allow my israeli counterpart to describe the views that his boss conveyed on the phone call. >> reporter: despite tensions house speaker john boehner plan to visit sdael end of the month. while the speaker's offices the trip was planned well before the prime minister's re-election it will come around the deadline for an initial that's correct deal between iran the u.s. and other world powe

steve inskeep, host of npr's morning edition, and our own cokie roberts. want to start with you. >> i covered the story like a cheap suit. >> does the country reassess what happened 0 years soog? how are we supposed to look that? >> i think people bring to it whatever prejudices they already had. in her case, look she clearly wants to be in the limelight. you don't do this unless you want to be in the limelight. if she's using the limelight for a good cause, more power to her. i was kind of struck listening to her talk about how awful the internet can be the social media, the bullying because it was very similar to what the romney family said about not running for president again. you know, it's brutal out there. >> steve, what about the message of cyber bullying and shaming. is it the right message? >> it's a very real thing. we're expecting to interview an author with an entire book about the culture of shaming. the way people can be flamd a moment. i twachd ted talk. it's rather interesting. she's reemping out and talking about other people and other pe

mike pesca is host of slate's daily news and discussion podcast, "the gist," and a contributor to npr. so first of all, what are the changes that they're trying to make? >> well one of them is just enforcing a rule that's on the books. the batter cannot step out of the batter's box, always has to have a foot there. the the reason is if you watch a baseball game-- and this is a recent trend-- the batters adjust every piece of equipment, even when all they do is stand there and take a pitch. somehow their batting gloves got loose during that. it's a few things. it's an afecitation, it's a habit. sometimes it's trying to get in the heads of the pitchers. here's baseball saying guys, stay in the batter's box and get ready for the next pitch. there's not a clock during the game but in between innings it will be two minutes, 25 second, or nationally televised, two minutes, 45 seconds. with 20 seconds remaining they will start to announce that the batter is entering the box. and then the pitcher will be ending hez warm-ups before the next starts. so when you come back from commercial, the ba

. >> last word is that obama said late last year in an interview with npr that he wants to see iran,it accepts a nuclear deal it could be a successful regional power. if you are a saudi and you hear that what could do you do? you certainly don't sleep at night. >> you get your own nuclear weapon. >> that's what we are going to get as a result of that. look, i don't disagree that it's a terrible policy and it makes no sense from our point of view, but that doesn't mean it's not happening. >> all right. charles krauthammer, everybody, next on the run down the far left finally coming out of the closet. and telling the americans what they really want. wait until you hear it later, senator ted cruz announcing for president. does he very a legitimate shot? those reports after theeeeee toenail fungus? don't hide it... tackle it with fda-approved jublia! jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. use jublia as instructed by your doctor. once applied jublia gets to the site of infection by going under, around and through the nail. most common side effects include ingrow

you can hear on tuesday, this coming tuesday, march 24, on npr where she will be discussing her new booksor hodes'talk this afternoon is called "morning lincoln: assassination and the meaning of the civil war. please welcome professor martha hodes. [applause] dr. hodes: good afternoon. hello, everybody. i am so happy to be part of this wonderful event. i have been teaching the civil war for nearly 25 years. i call my course race, civil war, and reconstruction because i want to draw students who care not only about battlefield tactics which matter, but also about larger goal historical questions. i was had a few lines of my lecture about the assassination heard several years -- assassination. several years ago, i found myself taking a greater interest in this momentous event. i trace that interest to september 11, 2001. that tuesday was the first fall semester at new york university. the first plane hit the tower as i left my apartment and the second as i was walking to class. 9/11 made me think about how people respond to transformative events on the skill of everyday life, which conjure

tonight just in conversation with bilal qureshi, a reporter for npr. please join and will coming rafia zakaria to politics and prose. [applause] >> i think you will need to hold that. let me get my mic as well. sorry about that. this is actually rafia's first book talk for this book. so it's a great pledge to have her in d.c. for the first discussion so thank you for this amazing book. i wanted to start with rafia asacol was also addition to the production that was made in pakistan and she works -- every week she will rights for a leading newspaper there. a lot of human rights, women's rights, of discrimination in all kinds of issues. i'm curious when you've written something as personal as this book is which is part memoir part history of pakistan, what was the origin of decide to take the kind of money you do every week and say something in the way you have done your? >> okay, well, first of all thank you, everybody for being here. i'm sure your authors say this all the time. writing is a lonely job and so there's really nothing better than sitting i

week, this politics monday, we turn to amy walter of the "cook political report," and tamara keith of nprtal hill, the attorney general's no, ma'am nays, loretta lynch, designate's nomination is held up not because of immigration fights or other things but in this h case because of a human trafficking bill the democrats and republicans actually agree about? >> this is a rare instance where democrats and republicans agree on bipartisan legislation and then democrats came out a week ago and said seems there's an abortion provision snuck in here by republicans. republicans say it wasn't snuck in here. it's been here all along. you all didn't read the bill and we're back to where we always are on capitol hill which is democrats saying republicans are doing bad things, republicans are saying democrats are doing bad things and then a stalemate, democrats saying we're not voting on this. republicans saying, fine we'll hold up loretta lynch. >> ifill: i've noticed the pushback from hillary clinton and others in planned parenthood is this is now a triple attack on women and that is by attaching th

to introduce myself, my name is david green i'm one of the hosts of "morning edition" at npr and i took that job after spending three years as moscow bureau chief for the network traveling often to ukraine and covering a lot of the buildup to the conflict and the news that we are all following right now. this is such an important question as to how the united states and the west should deal with this crisis and specifically the topic we'll be covering this morning whether the west should arm ukraine there have been so many lives lost and i think as we have conversations about the diplomacy and the politics it's so important to keep that in mind. i'm reminded of voices we heard on the air this week on our program. we spoke a woman a couple days a ago who does aid work in donetsk and was describing the cold war era bunkers where families have been hiding for weeks and weeks on end and when minsk too, went into effect or was supposed to there were people who were coming out just for an hour or two at a time this wassing this was a moment when perhaps people could light fires in their homes

i haven't changed, netanyahu told npr, but that's not good enough for the white house. >> why not just take him at his word on that? is there a reason that the white house -- >> i guess the question is which one. >> reporter: his latest. >> reporter: white house press secretary josh earnest declined to say whether netanyahu clarified his position in the phone call with the president. >> reporter: did the prime minister tell the president he believes in a two state solution in his phone call? >> that's something you can ask my israeli counterpart about what the prime minister said. >> reporter: don't you know what the president heard? >> i'm not saying i don't know. i'm just saying that i will allow my israeli counterpart to describe the views that his boss conveyed in that phone call. >> reporter: despite those tensions house speaker john boehner plans to visit israel at the end of the month while the speaker's office says the trip was planned well before the prime minister's re-election, it will come around the deadline for an initial nuclear deal between iran, the u.s. and other worl

you look at this yearlong investigation by npr last year. in at least 43 states and the district of columbia defendants can be billed for a public defender. in 41 states inmates can be charged room and board for prison stays. offenders can get billed for their own probation and parole supervision. the idea that you would charge people for public defenders or charge them room and board for prison stays is uncon shen shl shlshl shlable. this is how they are making up for lost revenue. >> i would hope as the nation gets better we'll receive less of this. will will require active police call attempts to reverse. that's not just republicans. that's not just democrats. it's both. it's because these are populations. prisoners. minorities that are easy to -- it's easy to do this to vulnerable populations. it's easy for the people who don't have the strongest political representation. even in good times. hopefully going forward ferguson, through the drama of it all has revealed so many of these inequities and unfair practices. hopefully it will give

i have heard the commissioner on this but from the daily headlines we were on npr in hopes of consensuswith republicans this statement from the commissioner on our location order saying the time i expressed to meet that test was borne out by the record so we have adjusted course to a dock requirements. want to commend the parties that were cooperative lee on this effort. i sit down with all of my colleagues every other week in a meeting for the hour to say what are the issues and what do we need to work on? i hope we can continue to produce results where we respect each other and we need to be careful of talking about of three defining things to say because you do not take my definition you will not compromise is not compromise >> will conclude by saying i have a great deal of faith in the senator as a partner as we go forth on a lot of issues on this committee and whether or not we can work out something on this is to be determined but i can assure you that the conversation between senators do and myself are civil within the best spirit of friendliness. >> the think this demonstrates w

bring npr crisis management firm, defend the lawsuits. higher outside counsel customers turn and then director and shareholder losses that come as well. if target loses 109 records at $206 each, that's not chump change. i think that people will start think about this differently potentially. i talked in "future crimes" about solutions at a social level, societal level and solutions at an individual level. at a social level i talked about one of the solutions is we need a manhattan project for sauber. that is militarized but has intention bring together public-private sector that assure so focused on it at that level. if the software industry, the people that created all the software that has the bug, if they took 1% of their gross product and put in, net profit and put into a fund then we could solve this problem. we could do a lot with the billions for us to use for something like the. the other thing we can do is vastly change how we respond to the threat. we currently handle cybercrime as a law-enforcement issue but think about how we

he has previously provided commentary for npr pri, cbs news msnbc and his writings and opinions have appeared in the "washington post", los angeles times, dallas morning news, huffington post, five -- "vibe" magazine, ebony.com among other media outlets. i personally met him several years ago and have the opportunity to enroll in his psychology of the african-american experience class at morehouse college. his class changed my life. it is our hope this we will cause you to think about question and reflect the world around you. it is with great pleasure and honor that we introduce to you doctor david rice. [applause] >> thank you very much. good evening to all of you. of course, i want to thank president barnsley and wellesley college for having me this evening. it is a big deal to be here. specifically i want to thank doctor cameron and black women's ministry, a group responsible for bringing me here. you took some of what i was going to say. i want to thank alexis griffin also specifically because of the dedication that she had in the class and in making sure i was able to come here

. >> a recent article on npr highlighted the role with her was playing in journalism in mexico with theviolence that was erecting. one woman's account -- erupting. what response is any dust twitter have in these violent to tuitions? gabriel: i'm not -- violent situations. gabriel: the account was not true? >> she was reporting on the violence. no one was entirely clear if she ever was a real person or not. gabriel: i would say in the context of violence or any kind of crisis kind of situation part -- we get this question a lot because i will give you another example. it relates. the aftermath of hurricane sandy , there were accounts on twitter of flooding in this place and people had these falsified photos of certain places underwater. there, you have questions like, twitter and other social media seem to be giving rise to potential misinformation. as i was saying earlier, i really believe it is one of the most extraordinary viral platforms ever in existence. it can be a vector for the viral spread of misinformation. what i always point out in this context is the spread of misinformatio

. >>> joining us now, peabody award winning correspondent and host of npr's weekend edition "saturdayclub. great to have you with us this morning. >> it's great to be here. thank you very much. >> what an incredible way of honoring your mother. why don't you tell our viewers what you did and how you did it and why you did it. >> i got a call we were on vacation in california. my family and i expecting my mother to join us. that she had gone in the hospital and put in the intensive care unit and she was 84. the cancer survivor but as the days mounted i figured i better go there. i keep an active twitter account, as you do and joe does. i read all that stuff about arsenal. in any event, i -- as you will understand in the news business even, you do for that matter keep an active twitter account, the most interesting people you talk to are not necessarily the people whose names you recognize in the news. i flagrantly tweeted about the things our children say and my mother was just so funny and interesting. particularly as it became obvious that this was, as they call it the end game. and

how many of the tentative conclusions found in the npr and were reversed in the final order? to make virtually all of them. >> was number says the commission planned to assert its authority over the ip addresses? and what paragraph to the public on the notice that the commission intended to redefine the term public switch network. >> there is no such paragraph. that's why he was concerned about. i didn't see that either. there are a number of issues pending at the commission and i know the chairman has had a lot on his plate. i know it's a rapidly changing environment. some of you have heard me talk about my application on the business ten years waiting and we get a lot of input here from the constituencies across the country. has the commission acted on the modernization order? >> it hasn't yet and it was adopted about a year and a half ago. >> another involves this issue to allow small cable operators to operate at the group for the purchase of content. has that been acted on? >> i voted i want to say three years ago. but it's been ready to vote. >> my understanding is the

. >> a recent article on npr highlighted the role with her -- the role twitter was playing in journalism in mexico with the cartel violence that was a rubbing -- that was erupting. one woman's account was hacked and it was reported she died. what response is any dust twitter avenues violet situations? gabriel: the account was not true? >> she was reporting on the violence. no one was entirely clear if she ever was a real person or not. gabriel: i would say in the context of violence or any kind of crisis kind of situation, part -- we get this question a lot. i will give you another example. it relates. in the aftermath of hurricane sandy, there were accounts on twitter of flooding in this place and people had these falsified photos of certain places underwater. there, you have questions like twitter and other social media seem to be giving rise to potential misinformation. as i was saying earlier, i really believe it is one of the most extraordinary viral platforms ever in existence. it can be a vector for the viral spread of misinformation. what i always point out in this context is the

i haven't changed, netanyahu told npr, but that's not good enough for the white house. >> why not justtake him at his word on that? is there a reason the white house -- >> the question is which one? >> his latest. >> okay. >> reporter: white house press secretary josh earnest declined to say whether netanyahu clarified his position in his phone call with the president. >> did the prime minister tell the president he believes in a two-state solution in the phone call? >> that's something that the -- you can ask my israeli counterpart about what the prime minister said in this phone call. >> don't you know what the president heard? >> i'm to thenot saying i don't know. i will allow my israeli counterpart to describe the views that his boss conveyed in the phone call. >> reporter: despite those teches house speaker john boehner plans to visit israel at the end of the month while the speaker's office says the trip was planned before the prime minister's re-election, it will come around the deadline for an initial nuclear deal between iran the u.s. and other world powers. >> this moment may

today obama surprised reid by calling into his npr interview. >> he's been one of my best partners andrter: some of that charm is his candor that gets him in trouble like calling george w. bush a loser and a liar or this. >> obama care has been the law for four years. why don't they get a life and talk about something else. >> reporter: that scrappy style helped him overcome an impoveri impoverished childhood. he forged close relationships behind the scenes. like with new york's chuck schumer who reid quickly endorsed by passing his own second in command. >> he said this is the most you ever made your bed. >> just for you. >> reporter: roommate for decades in the notorious alpha house. >> at this point it looks certain that chuck will be the next democratic leader. he's been making calls all day and feels he's got it pretty much locked up. >> almost two years he remains on the job. not going to seek re-election. dana will be back sunday morning hosting state of the union 9:00 a.m. eastern and noon eastern. this is a cnn exclusive. you can follow us on twitter. tweet me at wolf blitzer.

programs that are on cbs, nova on npr, science magazine, scientific american, not only that but in recent years we have seen at number of artistic venues in which science appears like plays and movies. the movie a beautiful mind, the play copenhagen. these are other venues in which people can experience science and the culture of science. >> host: m i t professor alan lightman is our guest. the first call is from can in daly city, calif.. you are on booktv. >> thank you for taking my call. a question here now. back before kepler astronomers were trying to describe what appeared to be the erratic motion of the planets in the solar system and of course because it was at the time the church dictated earth centric solar system. some of these included intricate geometrical shapes, and they just never got anywhere until they conceded the fact the we had our solar centric -- heliocentric solar system. anyway, could it be with all the elaborate mathematics we have the we are making something very elementary, something we are not seeing that should be there but is not being included? >> of course,

he had a great interview yesterday on npr, one of the things he said there, when you boil it down was the polls. when you boil down what he said. so you have to wonder how much that this relationship between the two leaders is fraying. the larger issue. >> you know i don't think so. you know i think for both of them -- while they may individually not be favorable to each other, they do recognize, both of them that the united states and israel does have an unbreakable relationship. so being able to separate the policy and the politics from whatever individual issues they may have what i do think is that that tense situation is what has allowed or allowed space for congress and sort of those to kind of enter this conversation. and create more confusion during these negotiations at this time. i think that is unfortunately, sort of contributes to the difficult situation. >> they're amping up saying -- i can't remember the exactly language. it seems like -- revisit that relationship. that's problematic. >> i think part of this this isn't just a personality conflict. i think, there's a diff