one might wish to say, if one were in a nasty mood, that cbs owns nyu, but it's not really that way. nyu is doing very nicely compared to some of the other big eastern and private universities like columbia and yale, about whom your audience perhaps has heard are plagued with financial difficulties. c-span: how big is your department? >> guest: we have 24 full-time professors and i'd say 700 or 800 students. new york university, i should add, has many departments of communication, including its famous tisch school of the arts, which produces all of the young and now famous movie directors. but we have discovered that the field of communication is a fast-growing one and will continue to grow. it's pretty obvious to many young people that among the best ways to study any society is to study its communication systems, its message systems. in fact, you could almost define a culture by merely describing what are its dominant modes of communicating with itself -- not only human to human, but now human to machine, machine to human, machine to machine and so on. so there's a tremendous inter

really on the campus of nyu. the group took over a second location right there. talking about. many other occupy rallies also popped up again in cities and towns across the country. make sure you tune in at 7:00 p.m. eastern. we're going to talk with one of the organizers by wall street. >>> a turn of events in the case of a missing baby girl. it is pitting the parents against the police. investigators say jeremy irwin and debra bradley are no longer cooperating although they are not suspects. their baby

nyu, liola. after eight months inside the razor wire fences, today ruby will go home. even though i'm in here because of my mom, no one else is going to take care of me but my parents. i have to go to them. i'm happy to go home to them. this is the worst place to be. i mean it's prison. it can't get any worse than that. >> take care of yourself, okay? >> i will. i'll miss you. i'm glad you're going home. >> i am nervous because i've been here for so long that i don't know if i'm going to know how to react to certain situations, like just getting up to get something to eat whenever you want. that will be weird. >> over the course of her eight-month stay ruby has gotten used to life in a confined, highly structured environment. >> it's overwhelming. i mean i am so happy to go home, but i met so many people here. i'm going to miss them. i mean you get attached to them. >> ruby's high school friends are ready to graduate and move on. now ruby is going to leave her new friends behind. >> i'm going to

>> i go to nyu. >> jimmy: hey, very good. [ cheers and applause ] >> yeah. >> jimmy: what is your --mmy: yeah. my parents didn't do that with me. they -- they -- i said, i want to be a comedian. they go, "major in computers." [ light laughter ] and i go, okay. you need something to fall back on. >> right, yeah. no, my parents were always really supportive. i don't know why. >> jimmy: yeah. >> but i think they also -- they thought that i could be a producer if i wanted to be. >> jimmy: oh, wow. >> i actually -- i think i told them that i was going to minor in that and i didn't. >> jimmy: no, you didn't, no. >> no. >> jimmy: but you're taking some crazy -- disruptive behavior and -- what is this? >> disruptive behavior and psychopathy in children and adolescents. >> jimmy: yeah, now what --what --why's -- to do with acting? i don't understand. [ laughter ] >> well, you have to get a liberal arts degree at nyu, as well as a conservatory degree. >> jimmy: okay. >> and so, you have to finish sciences and humanities, and that's one of my sciences. so, it's been some pretty funny. i had a m

. >> reporter: this is his doctor, and chairman's of nyu's your rolg department. he says the task force is ignoring the fact there's been a 40% reduction in prostate cancer death since psa testing has been in place. >> so say we shouldn't get psa, that takes us back to prostate cancer, literally, being a death sentence. >> reporter: and while the government panel points to statistics as a reason for healthy men to skip it, william points to his family as a reason he took it anyway. >> i have a wife and two lovely boys, 15 and 16 and i plan to be around for a long time with them, so i'm happy to have the ability to treat this cancer early. >> reporter: sharyn alfonsi, abc news, new york. >> joined here now by our health and medical editor dr. richard besser. okay, rich. this is the sort of thing that drives people crazy, because it's so confusing. where do you start? >> reporter: here's my advice. don't have this test done until you understand what may follow after that. what all the risks and benefits are. it's your body. and so have your doctor walk you through i

i knew bret when he was going to nyu. >> i was 12. but we've known each other that long.re him as my assistant. and he wouldn't do it. he said, i want to be a director. come on, $25,000. no. i'll give you $28,000. you're not understanding. i'm going to be your director like your partner ron howard. 22 years later, here we are. >> whose idea was it to put eddie murphy together with ben stiller and this terrific cast you guys have? >> it was eddie's idea for the movie. bret and i heard it at the same time and decided we wanted to nurture it into a film. >> that takes a long time. one person had an idea and the next thing you do, you've got to find the writer. >> cast it. it took several years. it was definitely rth the wait. this is something that took a few years but literally was 20 years in the making. i wanted as a kid wanted to be directing a brian grazer production. >> so it's a dream come true for you. >> what about for you? not so much. >> there is a sense of being able to work with bret is a dream come true. >> what do you think he brings as a director -- excuse me

graduate student at a place like nyu cannot negotiate individually. faculty members can argue with the dean. if they feel they're not earning a living wage or there are dangerous working conditions in lab, all they can really do is have a union negotiate better working conditions for them. it is important for them to be able to organize if they want to. i have been involved in the graduate student union movement for 25 years. i believe that they should earn enough to be able to get by. graduate students have the same teaching load the faculty members do. they do not earn what a member does, but what ever the living wages, they ought to earn that. in some places, they do not. graduate students to work in a lab need to have a third party and negotiate grievances about hours and be able to negotiate so that the lab conditions are safe. the union can really do that. >> let's go back to the perception on the part of some parents. they spend lots of money to send their children to college. the kid gets there and they are taught in a teaching assistant. some

sergeant is a professor at nyu and similars at princeton did their research in the 1970s and '80s. >>> now, for the race to the white house, all the candidates will be in new hampshire tomorrow for a debate. rick perry needs a comeback, romney need as win. steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: in his key primary state, new hampshire, mitt romney campaigned mostly against president obama. >> median americans dropped by 10%. that's massive. >> reporter: romney is polling at 37% here, triple the next republican businessman, herman cain. romney is on the attack against rick perry. the policies to pay the college tuition of students who enter the u.s. illegally. >> these magnets have to be stopped if we are going to stop the legal flow. >> perry has been wounded by his immigration policy by the "n" word and lackluster debate performances. today, perry hunkered down. >> he prepares for everything he does. he's going to be in good shape tomorrow night and going forward. >> he plans to slam romneycare. they posted a tough fre view. >> romney flip-flopped on the issues. >> reporter: desperate

today they march peacefully the mile or so from here to washington square park near nyu in agagreenwichillage. marred is the attempt to block traffic on the brooklyn bridge last week. as the protest gains momentum part of the muscle in that has been supplied by organized labor. communications workers of america local 1180. >> what do you have in common? >> we share their values. we want a society that is a democracy. right now we have a corpratocracy. >> you are an organizer with great experience you do it to get better wages and working conditions. >> you can start to raise the consciousness of the american people their countries are being taken away from them it is hon nop liesed by a few rich people who are hoarding all of the wealth in our country and training the wealth out of this country. >> matthew seigel is president of our time that's a national nonprofit which shares the goals of the occupy wall street although there's no specific connection with them. they are generally sympathetic. where do they fit in to the left the progressive side of the equati equation? what can they d

joining me now is bob shrum, nyu professor, and michael steele, former chairman of the republican nationalommittee and msnbc analyst. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. what do you make of paul ryan's pitch? >> on the rev-o-meter it's a full blagojevich. you mentioned medicare. i mean it would voucherize medicare and cost 9 average senior 6,000 more a year, all to give tax cuts to the people at the top. the republican argument is that those tax cuts help, because you don't want higher taxes on job creators. under bill clinton, we had a higher tack rate. until george bush, we lowered those tax rates. in eight years, we created not one net new job. i think what's going on here is they just want cover for the kind of supply-side economics, which is, by the way, the real ponzi scheme, these tax cuts for the wealthy never pay for themselves. they leave a huge gap. in fact, in today's deficit is much more the fault of what president bush did in terms of the tax countries and downturn. you just don't take him seriously. >> let's look at the facts, michael. under bill clinton -- we cre

the founder of the financial blog asked the moneycoach.com and certified financial planner at nyu.hanks for being here. so appreciate it. mur wrote in that they converted $25,000 from a regular ira to a roth with the option of paying the taxes on the conversion in 2001 and 2012. they want to know if they should keep the roth or convert back to a remember i.r.a.? >> it's unclear, whether they are questioning that it's down 5,000 because of market forces or perhaps when they did the conversion they paid a portion of that, the taxes that were due, out of the fund. so $20,000 down from 25 mean as 20% loss but the fact is that you don't switch back to a traditional i.r.a. you might want to look at what the underlying investments are. is it too aggressive for that person? do they have a proper mix of assets? that's the thing to look at. >> sure. interesting point. ryan writes in that all of his debt has been paid off but still has black marks on his credit report from late student debt payments p what is the best way to raise his credit score? >> to make sure that he keeps paying all of

i still am in college at nyu and still taking classes and not one person turns a head.ne -- hey, professor, i couldn't study last night, hook what i was doing. hook at this. >> no, they have been kind in giving me extensions when i need them. >> i hope they give you some credit, school of arts for your movie. >> i get no credit. if i went to gallitan, i would. except for experience. >> great to meet you. >> thanks for having me. >> we we mind "marcy may marlene" coming up. >>> the dad accused of using his 9-year-old daughter as a designated driver goes before a judge. >>> getting a high private priced for your home but on a low budget. but first these messages. starbucks via® is planted the same...cer ] ♪ ...harvested the same... ♪ ...and roasted the same as our other premium coffees. ♪ it only makes sense it would taste the same. so, try it for yourself. buy a pack of 100% natural starbucks via® ready brew. we promise you'll love it or we'll send you a bag of starbucks coffee. it's the starbucks via® taste promise. look for it at starbucks stores and where you buy groc

ken thompson who is here in the city teaching at nyu. maybe some of her students are here today. so many people came together because many of those people were my colleagues in teaching. there were so few of us in law teaching. and these individuawonderful ins knew me as i was a student. they all came together. people talk about our hot shot team. it was a pretty hot shot team, but it was not that high-powered law firm that people like to make it out to be. i just want to say, 20 years later, thank you, thank you, thank you so much to all of them. [applause] >> i know you mentioned the two members of your team who have passed on. warner gardner and john frank. i wonder if you could share the moment in which you realized that this was really something beyond a single moment of testimony. >> it is an amazing when i look out at today's audience. the media day following the hearing, i had lots of support from women. but john frank was an individual who volunteered. he had been an expert on the supreme court and the confirmation process. he was there. he volunteered. he came from ariz

. >> joining me now is democratic strategist bob shrum, nyu professor and former adviser to the kerry gore campaigns. msnbc political analyst richard wolf wolffe, and nbc's maria schiavocampo, who will help us out with a fact check. thanks to all of you for being here. bob, let me start with you. the gloves real le came off last night in the debate, right? >> i think so. romney has had pretty much of a free right so far. the truth is he's well prepared. he did pretty well in these earlier debates. i think he's brittle. if you say something he doesn't expect, he tends to react badly to it. i can't believe they didn't have him prepared about the questions about the company that -- >> you're talking about the -- the company that -- >> yeah, that -- >> let's go through that a minute. the fact check. the big moment last night was rick perry attacking mitt romney on immigration, which is what bob is referring to. for folks who haven't seen it, here is how it went down. >> you hired illegals in your home, and you knew about it for a year. the idea that you stand here before us and talk about

. >> it was at nyu. >> a certain community of people. >> merrill street did a lot of it. but michele month josh, our own beautiful voice price will of merrill. a great person. listen and read what the haitians have to say about the. >> my final question, what is the prognosis? >> i think the prognosis if you go back to that chapter, the prognosis is good. what is the allergy? what is the great resource of haiti? its people. there is a lot of talent in haiti, and a lot of young talent and 80. it's a young country in terms of the demographics, and we did get a chance to talk about the passport, but in the book i read about some of my students from harvard who r haitian who are so committed to working in 80. one of them, i don't want to -- you can read about them, but one of them, a harvard medical school book group in canada, went to school. the harvard medical school. he said to me, of pound the first reduced school. of course all of the americans. what's up? he had never been to haiti. alves said what kind of medicine? he said surgery. his first time in 80 was coming back

. >> i was planning on going to nyu, but that's a really, really hard school to get into. you have to have really good attendance in school too. after coming here so many times and me coming in here so many times and missing so many days of school i have horrible attendance. i don't think they'll accept me. i have no idea what i want to do now. once you're in the system, it's really hard to get out of it. just any little thing you do, you can get put in here. you don't want to be in here. this isn't the place to be. >> lake county with one. >> hands behind your back. pull your hands up. and walmart have teamed up to bring you a low-priced medicare prescription drug plan. ♪ with the lowest national plan premium... ♪ ...and copays as low as one dollar... ♪ ...saving on medicare prescriptions is easy. ♪ so you're free to focus on the things that really matter. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. or go to walmart.com for details. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. you wouldn't want your doctor doing your job. so why are you doing hers? only your doctor can determine if your persistent

o'keefe also got footage of two nyu journalism professors, hidden camera footage.y were talking about "the new york times" and the -- one quote of "chardonnay-swilling so-called media elite." then o'keefe erroneously described the professor as a new york times consultant, which is not true. >> not true. they've denied that he's ever consultsed. i think he's written a couple of op-ed pieces but has had no consulting with the new york time. >> i didn't see what they said was so bad either. >> i didn't either. i think they were trying to show that "the new york times" has a bias. there was something about the 1% -- it didn't make much sense what they were trying to -- s>> let's pull back the camera. are these tactics helping james o'keefe's cause? saying basically this is a nothing burger. he has a label for the series, "to catch a journalist." you know, a lot of people would say, sure, journalists should be held accountable. but on the basis of what evidence. >> and that's exactly right. what are you getting -- what's the proof in your pudding, and there seems to be

demonstrator noose custody during a march through greenwich village targeting city bank branch near nyu. in san diego, police using pepper spray to break up a human chain formed around a tent by anti-wall street protesters. at least one person was arrested when demonstrators refused to leave an area around the city's convention center. police in san diego are defending their actions. >> tried to make sure that people have a right to protest, but we also have people in the city of san diego that need to conduct work. >> the police, you know, we're on the same side. >> week long occupy san diego rally was peaceful until that scuffle broke out on friday. >> arthel: a major win for the u.s. drone program in yemen. a friday night strike taking out nine al-qaeda link militants, the son of u.s.-born radical cleric anwar al-awlaki reportedly among the dead. shortly after his father was killed in a similar strike last month. reena ninan has the latest from jerusalem. >> hi, rick. it appears more and more that washington's weapon of choice in dealing with al-qaeda militants in gemmen is drone str

which boasts a list of heavy hitters on its money and politics subcommittee, including presidents from nyuashington and lee, chairman of adp and the stern group, just to name a few. how is it that a man who looks like you could have so much agreement in principle anyway with the people across this country? >> particularly downtown. >> we got into the issue of money and politics, almost 15 years at the committee for economic development, and we were concerned as business leaders that the way money was coming in back then, soft money, unlimited months as corporate treasuries were coming in. frankly it was giving the business community a bad reputation, and we said in 1999, in our very first report, we as business leaders want to compete in the marketplace and not in the political arena, and what you have right now in washington is rent-seeking. that's what's going on. >> what's going on? >> what ron paul called auctioning. >> okay. >> it's people who don't want to compete in the marketplace. they think they can get a favor in the tax code. >> at the political auction. >> through pac money or

. >> or that nyu would spend my money to build -- >> whatever it might be. >> thank you very much. keli, we know it's going to be a good show for chris matthews. we got an early chuckle out of him. i am dylan ratigan and "hardball's" up right now. >>> the rain on cain's parade. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews. up in new york, leading off tonight, cain in pain. it's the political explosion of the day. the news first reported by politico that herman cain was accused of sexual harassment when he headed the national restaurant association, and that cash payments were reached with two women. in his defense, cain today said he was accused by one woman, but that the accusation was false. how will this story affect cain's dramatic lead in the polls? will it hurt him or will supporters chalk it up to a predictable attack by the political and media establishment? >>> and tomorrow's publication date for my big new book, "jack kennedy: elusive hero." how did a rich man's son grow to the leader who got us through the cuban missile crisis. a look at the troublemaker i

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i teach at nyu.party manifesto and the things they set forth. some of the practitioners meaning candidates or others may have nom fully embodied the principles -- but they had a plan. whatever the plan may be, whether it's to say you want to raise taxes on a certain group of people, you want to lower taxes on a certain group of people. >> right. >> they have to have four or five things or three or four things that people, whether you agree or not, that are realistic, that can be translated. >> we all know the big idea, though. the big idea is defy income inequality. >> i don't think anyone disagrees with that. i think the overwhelming majority of the country is aligned with that. give us three or four things. but there are other people who, i ask my students how many have gone down and they said there were those that were holding up posters in favor of changing social policy, in favor of marriage equality, in favor of choice. which is fine. i'm supportive of it. but at the same time the movement's un

. >> actually it was a fun debate, intelligence squared is a speakers series at nyu.i, who is an author, were debating with the granddaughter of the former president and we prevailed and convinced the crowd to change their mind. and grandma's benefits do not endanger the younger people in this country. what the problem is the political people are endangering the younger people in this country. the benefits are not the problem. you don't cut the benefits in medicare and social security, you fix the programs, and you can't fix the programs if there's gridlock. >> what's the big fix on social security? >> it's not a big fix, you have to tweak the taxes and so forth. in medicare, you need to pay people, you can't pay people fee for service anymore. you've got to fix the whole system, the whole health care system. medicare is not the problem, the problem is the health care system. >> we'll move the conversation forward. up next, "washington post" columnist ezra klein. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the peace of mind of owning a 2011 iihs top safety pick. the all-new volkswag

she is a current fellow here at nyu. and she was taught by and served as a teaching assistant for none other than derek bell. it tells you how the full circle has come. i and here's today to salute professor hill. to tell her that what she stood for in 1991 still resonates with all of us in 2011. she stood up not just for herself, but she is in this clause with susan b. anthony, with rosa parks, with those who said i'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. the with eleanor roosevelt, hillary clinton, my grandmother, my mother, my aunts, my daughter, my three granddaughters, 10, 7, and three who are growing up in a world where they know they are and can be the best possible that they can be and neuter gender or race will ever be a barrier because -- in the third gender nor race will ever be a barrier because of what anita hill did in 1991. we can all stand up in 2011. thank you, professor hill. [applause] [applause] >> istore with a confession. clarence thomas and i were friends in law school. [laughter] i helped to get

mark siegle is a member of the a team and at nyu medical center. always good to see you.nto two parts. we'll get to antidepressants in a moment. but let's talk about pain killers. how abused are they? >> the michael jackson case caught my eye with that because there was talk this week of him having been on demerol. i have to tell you, pain killers are the number one problem in the united states with prescription drug abuse. 7 million americans overuse prescription drugs, but pain killers, 80% of the pain killers in the world are prescribed right here in the united states. 17 states have accidental overdoses causing death more than car accidents. in other words, the misuse of prescription drugs primarily pain killers, and gregg, i have to tell you, it's a small group of doctors that are enabling this. the small group that sits there writing prescriptions for patients that may not even be theirs and they rack it up and then these drugs end up out in the community and the pain killers are not even taken by the patients that they were intended for. >> heather: and the state o

looking forward to hearing this afternoon, i kim taylor thompson, who is here in the city teaching at nyu. maybe some of her students are here in the city today. so many people came together. many of those people were my colleagues in teaching. as pat said, there were so few of us in lot teaching, and these wonderful individuals, including judith resnik, who knew me when i was a student at yale law school, all came together. people talk about our hot shot team. it was a pretty hot shot team, but it was not the high-powered law firm that people make it out to be. i just want to say, 20 years later, thank you, thank you, thank you to all of them, and for what you do now. [applause] >> i know you mentioned that two members of your team have passed on, warner gardner and tom frank. -- john frank. i wonder if you could share that moment when you realized that this was something beyond a single moment of testimony. >> when i look at into today's audience, and certainly in the immediate days following the hearing, i have lots of support from women. but john john frank had been an expert on the s

steve lamb from the nyu school of medicine. good morning. >> good morning. >> when we hear bath salts, we automatically think that's what you put in your bath salts for a relaxing evening. but these are a slang name. >> they don't contain sodium or magnesi magnesium. your bath samts are perfectly fine if you buy them in republic eweble stores. they're a variance of a product that's bruised in the plant called the cat plant? >> what are the results of these bath salts that were seeing? >> few injest it or snort it, you're going to have an amphetamine, cocaine-like reaction. you're going to have somebody feel crazy, almost suicidal. these are very, very dangerous because they are so addictive that as soon as you come down, you want it again. you can climb a flag pole and jump into traffic. this is really a very dangerous substance. >> and do these stimulants act as a drug in that they can be traced in blood and europe? >> what's interesting is they evade that. so even the customs people don't pick it up. the dogs don't recognize

marc siegl, physician at nyu medical center and fox news medical e teamer about this. i've talked to you enough times to know you're wary when the government gets involved. >> i'm not wary in this case. this is an enormous problem and when you see the nfl doing this, they found out this is a 19 times greater risk of dementia in people that have played professional football in the nfl. that's shocking. now we look to the high schools and schools, the american association of neurological surgeons says 300,000 concussions a year, 45,000 of them end up in the emergency room. those are big unless. jenna: so why isn't there guidelines right now? >> well, there isn't guidelines because nobody takes it seriously when it's down on the high school level, but you know what, there's a whole problem with the culture here. you know what it is? we're taught to put on a helmet as though it's protecting our heads, then charge forward, head first, and you hit your head, you end up with a concussion. let me talk about the symptoms of a concussion for a minute, headache, nausea, vomiting,