and as a political science major and history major, it [speaker not understood] me the interment of the japanese american and the japanese latino that we did in this country without due process of law. this is the history that i inherit in becoming an american. as an american, i also carry the burden of current events and current laws. and let me tell you where i was during /11. -- 9/11. * i was teaching american political science abroad in asia. and it was very, very difficult to explain to my students what was happening in guantanamo, holding people without the due process of law. coming back to america now for two years, it's amazing that we have to tell the government to obey the law? there is no debating that. it should be absolute silence in appreciation that we have a law in place already. >> thank you. clam clap (applause) * >>> hello, my name is robin crop, i live in san francisco and i'm a member of the l7 99 coalition that's working hard on this issue. first of all i want to thank you all for the wonderful commendations today. it was so exciting and so wonderful to listen to

students and parents at west liberty university questioning a political science professor who decidedurse assignment what sources they can and cannot use in research. suggested, bbc, huffing post are great and then says don't use the onion, which is parody or fox news, her exact words, the tagline fox news makes me cringe, please do not subject me to this biased news station, actually she writes i would almost you rather print off an article from the onion. joining me now is the president of west liberty university. thank you very much for being here, this is had a professor at your university by the name of stephanie wolf and stephanie clearly has a problem with fox news. do you? >> well, first of all, good day, megyn. you know, the purpose of a college is to have students go out and seek as much information as they can about whatever topic that they're researching and have them, and have them form their own opinions and then perhaps to be challenged on those opinions. but this is a case where we obviously have a concern because as much as we will protect the academic freedom of the

i could see my history professor doing that, my political science professor, but this is algebra. >>gn o is a sige tins. >> why don't you think the kids would be intimidated. >> who is to say? did she put pencils in their hands and say you must sign? >> you know what it's like. you fear -- you want a good grade. you fear something you would do might get you in trouble. >> you do what the professor wants. that's the problem, you're overstepping your bounds. that's the issue. >> you made the point by saying did they actually get failing grades. without that information, i think it's going to be difficult to prove that she was actually intimidating. >> they can still terminate her without that information. the act was that she acted inappropriately and she clearly violated the school's policy of not engaging in political activities while you are working, during work hours and on the campus p. >> she's teaching algebra. shut up. >> not political science or history. >> so there are professors with bumper stickers on their cars. >> by the way, if we're days away, meanwhile, from armageddon

the brooklyn college political science department is among the event's co-sponsors.response, a group of new york city council members has threatened brooklyn college with the potential loss of taxpayer support. >> a joint letter from 10 council members to brooklyn college says -- the councilmembers' threat is just one of several efforts by new york lawmakers, from congress on down, to pressure brooklyn college. speaking of brooklyn college last week, new york state assembly member dov rivikind called on ministers to remove the school's sponsorship. >> extreme radicals who basically what the state of israel to disappear from the face of the earth. i've got a problem with that. they are sponsoring this event. they are supporting this event. that is the issue. and that is absolutely outrageous. >> in response to the criticism, brooklyn college president karen gould is refusing to cancel the event or withdraw the school's sponsorship. we're joined by one of the speakers at the brooklyn college event, omar barghouti, founder member of the bds movement and author of, "boyc

i only have a political science diploma and i was an ex-fellow at stanford. so i think we are going -- slowly moving in the right direction, but what we should really try to have in this country is i think a start-up vi visa, so enabling any entrepreneur from all over the world to come to this country, maybe give them six to nine months, probably a year just to prove their concept and see at the end of this year they have let's say at least hired one person, they are good to go and they should be able to live here, work here, pay their taxes, and grow their company. >> given the globalization of the technology economy in particular, why is it so important to be here? why couldn't you do what you wanted to -- i mean, it's good for us, but why is it good for you? >> i think because here in the state states, something missing in europe is this ecosystem. we're talking about having the academy awards working hand in hand with venture capitalists, with the entrepreneur, with scientists, researchers, in order to innovate nap's really something that's missing. and,

we know, of course in political science research the people we elect to the presidency, our senators,n't elect first ladies. on the one hand, maybe that's bad. some of our first ladies would have been better presidents than their husbands. i always feel a little creepy about the fact that despite she is an exceptionally accomplished woman, that pathway was her husband. >> i'm not -- you are right. the anxiety we feel is right. but it's also tied to her role as history maker. it's how women got in from the earliest mayors, they were wives of, daughters of sisters of. she is representative of a pattern. >> white women. >> yes. that's right. >> i think this is part of why it never quite -- as a black woman, i'm supposed to have angst about whether or not to support president or then senator obama because he was black or senator clinton because she was a woman. my mom was mormon. that notion of this generation of women and who they are, i always want to say whoa. which women are you talking about? >> how sad is it if you think of an american life, she is the only female figure that seems

when i was in college a popular thing was the national lampoon and they did a parody of the political science final. please write a scenario where world events and powers provide and results in total thermonuclear warfare results and the next question was, please create a lab practical to test your theory. is there a lab practical to test this theory? haiti. as you know, a few years ago the haitian people suffered an earthquake and the initial problem was crush injuries. yes, infection and dysentery and water supply and all those things would follow fairly soon, but the initial catastrophe was crush injuries, trauma, and the hospitals were gone. so what did we do? the world responded as best it could. what we did, the naval maritime forces, we sent our balts group down there which was patroling the area, we sent the hospital ship comfort down. so you have the comfort on the east coast, you have the mercy on the west coast. the mercy is parked down in san diego. it just got back from its asian humanitarian assistance from guam, indonesia, vietnam, an amazing number of nations we're partnering

political science has shown, maybe it is the only thing that political science has shown. voters, for the most part, do not have very much information at all about candidates, elections, and politics. they need a great deal of information. one of the things going on is a collective action problem. somebody has to pay for informing voters. i would come back to the public financing issue, which is it is pretty clear that citizens do not want to, which could be seen as a problem. it is also a long-term fact. disclosure -- my point being, about the information, disclosure of corporate heads and these people, voters most in need of some sort of disclosure are not going to have information about these people. they will not have any useful information of -- out of most of the things that are forced to be disclosed about citizens united. they are not going to get any good -- they may or may not know who the rep is. how are they going to know what it means for some individuals name or job or whatever is going to give them information? what we need to do is come up with better altern

in political science, a b.a. in economics, a b.a. in spanish, a b.a. in humanities. you were the dewey houser, i'm not sure how you did it, annual road scholar finalist on top of that. she also graduated from the goldman school of public policy which is the -- receiving a master's degree from the school our colleague supervisor chiu graduated from. that was just the beginning of her career. jamie has worked for three foundations. she has been a leader in the philanthropic world, conducting research in both the public and private sector. she is currently the senior [speaker not understood] officer with the shkawa foundation responsible for grant making in youth development, leadership, housing development. she managed $10 million in grants on behalf of that foundation. for those of us who have to figure out how to spend scarce dollars, thank you for that. but in addition to that, in addition to serving on the northern california grant makers board and the bay area of blacks in philanthropy i organization, she has also served the community in a lot of other functions.

and jason johnson, political science professor at hiram university and chief political correspondentitic365.com joins us from atlanta. welcome back to you bothn "the war room." >> good to be here. >> hi, jennifer. >> jennifer: you bet. bill let me start with you. is this how karl rove crushes the tea party to regain control of the gop? >> there's nothing i like better than watching republicans eat their own, so this is a moment we can all enjoy, but i find this absolutely hilarious. karl rove was the biggest looser of 2012. he lost 10 out of 12 senate seats, lost 4 out of 9 of their house seats, donald trump accused him of blowing $400 million in this, so why would anybody trust karl rove with another dime, number 1? and the real question that i have is how much money is karl rove making out of this deal? i think this is another scam to fatten karl rove's pockets. >> jennifer: that's a really important point that these sort of advisors to these pacs he is probably gets some kind of percentage or direct salary that he is benefitting from enormously. >> exactly. >> jennifer: jason shou

. >> you said gandalf in the book was a representative of what we call in political science rational choice and wouldn't take rational choice be for the side that's winning? >> the answer is that if they calculate properly, the correct answer is no interestingly enough, because they have also been looking ahead rather than being myopic and saying it might sound great to be on the is very much like winston . like hitler who is bandwagoning or in a fantasy world is a lot like will lasso the rational thing to do is to actually join the weaker side and try to balance. as one of the american revolutionary said, you must hang together or hang separately. >> my favorite model is constructivism. how did we see the international relations of constructivism and the lord of the rings? >> the answer is answers we see it in so many places because to do this in a way that is accessible as we do in the book, we have to try to avoid kind of discussions. constructivism is about studying ideas. saying do you know what? it's not just the weapons that matter. it's the power of ideas and if we look at th

like his friend who just graduated berkeley with a degree in political science, hong's status preventsng a job. >> we know we'll contribute to society pay taxes and make a positive difference in the lives of others. >> reporter: the youtube video is produced by a group led by the widow of apple cofounder steve jobs. park says his face shows the human side of the immigration reform debate. >> we take the chance. >> reporter: is it worth it? >> definitely. >> reporter: supporters say the "dream act" say it provides social and economic

political science professor at santa clara university. your thoughts, hour long speech about in line with what you would expect for state of the union. >> i thought so. i thought was a speech that he touched on things that have been brought up. basically things that have been priorities for a long time that they haven't been able to get consensus from the two parties on and hit home some things like education, immigration policy and then gun control at the end and there really wasn't a lot of brand-new initiatives but he really wanted to reiterate that we have to come together, have them come up for a vote. he really stress that had we got to vote, go on the record and really push congress to really take up these issues that have been important to him over the last four year. >> and tried to put the pressure on anyway. >> look, i laid out ideas and you get to vote and get to say whether or not these should become law. >> this is a brief reaction. we'll have more from this viewing party tonight at 10:00. back to you. >> ken, thank you. >>

there's a donate political science, and peter has weighed in heavily on this debate. i can make an important argument and not put you to sleep. i can make an important argument that people will like to read, and for that this book is a clarion call in a debate about the nature of our discipline, and for that i say, cheers. now, there's puzzle running through the book, almost like two stories in it. i want to tell you about the two different stories running throughout this book and then try to sort out how to make sense of the puzzle. you see, story number one is the story of a nation that winks at rogues. it's a mischievous tolerant nation. there's john hancock. the big signature. the first man to sign at the declaration of independence with a signature so large that, as he put it, king george will be able to see it without his spectacles. smuggler, and that's okay. he is a patriot. in fact, can i say this on television, peter appears as the first smuggler in this book, going from bolivia to peru, smuggling toilet paper. don't ask. read the book. and this comes up aga

[applause] >> reflections by richardson ibook, professor of political science. >> thank you, marc. it is wonderful to be here for a number of reasons got to celebrate my friend and colleague and especially wonderful because i remember sitting with peter just up the street from us five or six years ago. i don't resent here remember. he shared with me about a seven or eight page prospectus for what eventually became this book, and it is a pleasure that is now here and can be shared with all of you and made public. in a way, i feel like all i really got to do today is just a congratulations, peter and sit back down. [laughter] i can't get away with that, you know. my role, in addition to that, is to push and pull and stir things up a bit. so i will try to do my best. so, smuggler nation has a lot of history. that is partly why it is such a bookmark. history, in american history. by definition is short. [laughter] it is partly a book of history, but this is a much more ambitious book than just a book of history, short or wrong. peter very self consciously tries to speak to the present,

but if you're really good in political science or history, you might go to law school and you haven't taken math for a very long time. i think the reality is that the courts have to get up to speed. that was really the lessson of the daubert case and kelly frye as well, the lawyers, judges, the system more generally has to be able to evaluate the validity of proper expert testimony. we can't get around it. it's in the courtroom. the problem with latent fingerprints and firearms and handwriting and arson investigation and the list goes on and on as you know better than i, the problem is those were never actually evaluated. the court simply grandfathered it in or never even bothered to look at it. i can assure you that the forensic sciences, the nond.n.a. stuff is not brain science. it doesn't take a kent to look at the scientific methods underlying a lot of the forensic techniques and say that it's mostly junk. i do think your point is well taken that when you get to genetics and you get to neuroscience and get to some of the more complex science, i quite frankly think that law schools

i took economics courses, sociology courses, psychology courses, lots of history and political science courses. but an art course just to learn about art. i took a philosophy course because i had loved the one philosophy course i had in high school to learn about the philosophy ideas of the rest of the world. and so for me princeton gave me the opportunity to be a real student in the sense of having my world expand in a way i had never anticipated before. >> rose: when did you decide the go to law school? >> that i decided when i was very young. >> rose: serious? >> very, very serious. i have notes from grammar school friends who were with me through those years throughout the entire time and one of them said to me "you were talking about being a legal as early as fifth grade." and that's about right. >> rose: but was it because of television? >> oh, as you will learn from the book, it was a combination of two things. the unsophisticated reason for becoming a lawyer was from television. i was diagnosed with diabetes, i love nancy drew but after my diagnosis i learned i couldn't be like

political science and was a crab fisherman and did things because i had to make money.s of work. >> new, he's hoping it will grab attention and turn into a real job. he hasn't narrowed down what he wants to do and he is open to offers. >> that is my resume. >> he says he'll be showing off the resume until he finds a perfect job. >> they're going to love this probably in the top five of the zip code. but... i figured that is good, good enough. >> now, if you're interested in finding out more or think you have a job he'd be interested in go to abc 7 news.com and we'll connect you if you have a smart phone you're a top target for thieves. >> you are. coming up next >>> watch what happens in this video. you can see the man watching a woman with an iphone as soon as the bus stops he grabs a phone and he's gone. >> these don't care about cash they care about electronics because they can turn that around to make a profit its not just smart phones they want. but tab blet computers too. saying muggers are going for gadgets. >> i've been out whit happens. >> experts from c net wa

religion, we need all the tools we can get so we'll use - you'll find anthropology in here, little political science, certainly some psychology. but religious studies, i think that's why i got into it because of my own quest to try to understand the nature of what it means to be human. i was always sort of frustrated with one methodology in psychology or one methodology in, say, history. i wanted something wider and i stumbled upon this relatively new field and i should mention that also. religious studies, though theology and the quest to understand human existence goes back to the dawn of time, religious studies is really only about 35, 40 years old. it's a relatively new field. in fact i'm only the first generation of religious studies professors who are trained at state universities. so, it's relatively new and - but i think the time is ripe and i hope, you know, as we journey through the course that will become evident. polymethodic, multicultural and comparative - we'll look at many different cultures and will compare rituals, will compare myths, will compare these various things and it is cer

and this past semester in my political science class island a little bit about the complications of votingor against your party. but for libertarian what kind of dynamic does that play for you? >> well, i am a republican, as you well know. well, i personally believe the republican party is still the best vehicle to bring liberty into the political system. and know that there will be a lot of disagreement in this room up that, but that is my opinion. [applause] and i have always been a proud republican. i think that the republican party can be brought back to the principles of liberty. when you looked at my voting record, though more often with the republicans than i do the democrats. i do have one of the most independent voting records in congress. it is really not hard to do. yet to go out there and press the right button when the vote. [applause] >> greetings. you do something and have never seen any other politician do. you justify every vote you make which is fantastic. one test tubes -- [applause] i wanted to ask you how you think the use of social media has affected your life as a po

and this past semester in my political science class island a little bit about the complications of votingor against your party. but for libertarian what kind of dynamic does that ay for you? >> well, i am a republican, as you well know. well, i personally believe the republican party is still the best vehicle to bri liberty into the political system. and know that there will be a lot of disagreement in this room up that, but that is my opinion. [applause] and i have always been a proud republican. i think that the republican party can be brought back to the principles of liberty. when you looked at my voting record, though more often with the republicans than i do the democrats. i do have one of the most independent voting records in congress. it is really not hard to do. yet to go out there and press the right button when the vote. [applause] >> greetings. you do something and have never seen any other politician do. you justify every vote you make which is fantastic. one test tubes -- [applause] i wanted to ask you how you think the use of social media has affected your life as a politi

political science has shown, maybe it is the only thing that political science has shown. voters, for the most part, do not have very much information at all about candidates, elections, and politics. they need a great deal of information. one of the things going on is a collection -- a collective action problem. somebody has to pay for informing voters. i would come back to the public financing issue, which is it is pretty clear that citizens do not want to, which could be seen as a problem. it is also a long-term fact. disclosure -- my point being, about the information, disclosure of corporate heads and these people, voters most in need of some sort of disclosure are not going to have information about these people. they will not have any useful information of -- out of most of the things that are forced to be disclosed about citizens united. they are not going to get any good -- they may or may not know who the rep is. how are they going to know what it means for some individuals name or job or whatever is going to give them information? what we need to do is come up wi

and then jay a professor of law and political science. gentlemen, i'm going to start with you luis.n you hear and listen to what happened yesterday how atypical is that for law enforcement to go into a situation like this did, but telling reporters to get out of their cars. telling people through the gunfire, running through gunfire like that, is this an experience of people in law enforcement have even once in a career? >> well, to this extreme probably not. it's a very unique itself telling the public--keeping the public safety in mind. that is something that the officer does on a daily basis but this was extreme. >> michael: i want to follow up with the way you look at a former colleague. do you think the police officers who went out there wanting to kill him or arrest him. >> they wanted to keep public safety number one knowing that killing him may be something that they have so seriously consider, it was a definite possibility. they're trained on a daily basis. they're not out there on manhunts with the thought of killing him being the own resolution. he had every single option

we have santa clara political science professor. thanks for waking up early for us. it was ahead of the president's inaugural address a few weeks ago. here we are today. first question for you as we look at guns. we'll get to the gun control issue there. how did he do overall? >> it was a pragmatic speech. i think he was hitting on things he's been pushing for four years. there wasn't anything controversial in terms of new initiatives. in 2004, george w. bush promoted an initiative to hurt him. he was basically hitting on the same themes he's touched on before. >> you weren't wowed? >> it didn't overwhelm me. the most dramatic moment was at the end. that was sort of the emotional climax. much of it was going over initiatives that he's in favor of. >> gabrielle giffords deserves a vote. the families of newtown deserve a vote. the families of aurora deserve a vote. the families of oak creek, tucson, blacksburg and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence deserve a simple vote. >> talked about pulling on heart strings. does that appeal to republicans?

cathy cohen is a political science professor at the river city of chicago. her group began a petition for the president to return to chicago to address the crisis of gun violence after the murder of hadiya pendleton. obama plans to visit chicago on friday. we're also joined by bob herbert, a distinguished fellow from -- will come to you both. let's begin with professor cohen. talk about president obama's addressing of the issue of gun violence as the parents of hadiya pendleton sat next to the first lady. >> i do not think there is any denying that that was probably the most moving part of the state of the union address. to hear the president talk about hadiya's life as well as her horrific death, to finally have him personalize this issue, talk about the fact that there are young people dying in chicago within blocks or miles from his house, clearly was an important for the president, really a healing moment for the city. we all continued to mourn hadiya's death, the death of all young people killed by gun violence. but we are still waiting, i think, for a

coming up, a live report from marla teyes and expert analysis from a political science professor. >> the time is 6:11. coming up, a crucial court hearing nine years in the making. we'll tell you what's at stake for barry bonds as he tries to clear his name and defend his baseball legacy. that's ahead. >> great to be watching over the years. >> plus a family reunion. a familiar name joining the giants in the cactus league. ahead, a live report from scottsdale. >>> 6:13. barry bonds legal battle. bob riddell joins us live. this case has a long history. >> reporter: yeah. nine years in the making as you mentioned earlier. good morning. around 9:00 this morning barry bonds and his attorneys will ask the ninth u.s. circuit court of appeals in san francisco, a panel of three judges, to overturn his 2011 felony conviction of obstruction of justice investigating the illegal investigation of performance-enhancing drugs. bond gave a rambling answer when asked if his personal trainer had given him anything to inject himself with. the former giants slugger was trying to mislead the grand jury wi

francis and i were asked by james mcgreger burns to be the co-chair of the american political science invention program. we came up with a program that even i think jim burns was a little alarmed by. he in fact put in to action. i have known francis since then. she has remained an honest and authentic voice of progressivism and radicalism with a deep interest with those they have shown -- the homeless and the poor. not how they can be helped but how they find ways to help themselves through the movement and work that they do. it's a pleasure to have her perspective this afternoon in responding to these comments. i'm very pleasured to jackie davis, the chairman of the -- and rachel and members of the executive committee they are here today because that organization the interdependence movement which i'll talk about a little bit today is central to the thinking that has lead me to this work on the cities. i hope if your not familiar with it, you will have a look at interdependence movement.org online and gate sense of the work we are doing there. but let me make -- some remarks about th

when i think about political science, many political scientists work in this area. when i think about the empirical work with in political science, i think about our third speaker this morning, whose work i always appreciate. ray is a political science professor at massachusetts amherst and the electronics show for him -- applied research. a good academic journal that would be of interest to people who are interested in politics. not necessarily so much about just academics. it is an academic journal that should be of interest everyone. it is a very fine journal. his offer two books released under michigan press. the first was "small change, the first was "small change,