up at the block students at princeton together. he had long hair, writing of left wing ragged wearing a t-shirt that said burn it down, baby. [laughter] i had a crewcut and a t-shirt that said bomb hanoi. [laughter] since then the two of us have answered the siren call of human freedom and have devoted our careers to the defense of it on the bench of the superior court of new york city court room he has done so on television. most why does he have 19? because he is honest and steadfast and on top of his game. i was at princeton the day he compared the presidency of wilson and james madison. you can imagine which one he favored the. [laughter] then a lady pokes be in the ribs every time it praises madison. she said you should tell stossel he should come here to do a show at princeton. there be 1,000 students screaming. really? review where students here maybe you were the only two libertarians. i am thinking is she a net job? i said my name is santa napolitano. she said yes. i am sure the tillman the president of princeton universit

and professor of economics and public affairs also at princeton. her research and teaching focus on labor economics and education which makes her expertise perfect for our panel discussion today. she served in the white house in the late '90s on the national economic council sean recently served on the president's economic advisors and when she came in the door everyone hugged her. she's popular. they love her. like me she agrees that quality time is any time you can make it happen, especially when you have two daughters and her two daughters like mine, age 9 and 11, are here as well as her husband. so, girls, welcome. it's wonderful to have this panel. this is really perfect and the reports are incredible. i'm going to put some ground rules out for the discussion. first of all, i expect you all to jump in and interrupt me. i'm not comfortable unless that's happening. i'm used to that. we'll conduct this panel "morning joe" style. i'm not busted. gene sperling, big picture first of all, sell me, impress me. what are the most important accomplishmen

he shares with director general petraeus a ph.d from princeton in public and international affairs. as senior fellow in the foreign policy of the brookings institution, he specializes in defense strategy, the use of military force, homeland security, and american foreign policy. he's a visiting lecturer at princeton and adjunct professor at johns hopkins and a member of the international institute for strategic studies. i present him to you. [ applause ] >> good morning, everyone. it's great to be with you it's a little humbling to be following general petraeus and administer bowen who have been deployed to iraq a and space and i'm usually deployed to the library. i appreciate your putting up with me. we have a number of big subjects. with generally supportive word about where the mcis going, but with a few questions and concerns in the interest of conversation i'm going to focus on the latter. first let me also though say how much of an honor it is to be with you. i know we have leaders from yesterday, today and tomorrow in this group who are so interested in our national security,

>> identify yourself. >> i teach at princeton. student of mine just submitted senior thesis and her hypothesis and i quote "actions taken by the fed under chairman greenspan in the '90s led to private sector behavior" and i unquote that you've just described which in turn led to the financial crises. these actions taken by greenspan bypassed congressional approval and democratic process. can you comment? >> i was really puzzled by the second part because, i mean, the criticism that's been raised has to do with monetary policy. i don't think anybody ever doubted the design that the fed has the authority to do monetary policy. i don't really follow that part at all. on the issue, again, little outside the topic. but i did talk about literature on monetary policy and the housing bubble in my lectures at george washington. and i recognize and i said there it's a very contested topic. people have strongly held views on both sides of the subject. i would say my reading of the research literature including work we've done internally is s

he went to princeton, you are taught by cornell, by toni morrison. laureate. lnobel >> there is a range of experiences, very few of which we recognized as authentic. there is a range of tribal identities, too. in line, it takes the cake. my father was an austrian jewish holocaust refugee and my mother from in a reservation. my brother was very ambitious and the thing he and i had watched a risky business and decided we would go to princeton. and we did. i met and got to work with professor morrison. and among others, it was exciting most anyone else when i was in college hold of me what it was possible to be critically engaged, and to be so meant not that you had to give up your origins, your place of community, but you had to bring the two together. i think that i don't know that i would be writing at all. >> those that did not grow up as fortunate as you, whether or not there is a resentment that forecloses on the hopes, dreams, and aspirations. resentment against the country, poverty, the way they have been mistreated. i could do this all night. can i stop

. >> what is or what is the relationship between bell labs in princeton? >> allows in princeton? as far as i know, there was very little. eventually some of the last people went to princeton after they did and dr. brinkman. at least as far as the nighttime. between 1945 and 1982 there is not really any significant arrangement that i'm aware of. >> this person also wonders whether the relationship to print 10 to see if they would be a kind of ancestor to things like sri in the bay area, whether there was the connection. >> in the book to i talk about -- the bell labs executives were aware of the vitality of california pretty early on. in the 1960s, they hired the dean of stanford, who helped move bill shockley and create at stanford ecosystem of entrepreneurs and hired to new jersey, bill baker did at the last and said can we create some amalek here in new jersey. you know, there are problems with new jersey. as i understand princeton sciences program is perhaps theoretically oriented. the geography wasn't necessarily suitable. it is too spread out between princeton and rutgers an

i'm surely tillman, the president of princeton university. [laughter] so there's your invitation, john. monday i was getting a little carried away on air. one day i was getting carried away on air. and i used a phrase that are really believe, i know there are good on the other side and i know not everybody in this room will agree with me, but i happen to other the phrase taxation is theft. john calls me up and said you were killing me. i say what you mean i'm telling you? he said when you say something like taxation is theft, my inbox is filled with e-mails saying, why don't you say that kind of stuff? [laughter] john is a champion of human freedom, who has the gift of explaining it in a way that everybody can understand, and nobody can find him disagreeable. the other day i was looking at a piece of literature, something from advertising, some speech i'll be getting in november. and there was a picture in this publication about john stossel just about two or three months ago playing volleyball on a beach in california with a bunch of 19-year

of black america and we also have from princeton university, dr. author of "more beautiful and more terrible" the embrace and transcendens of racial inequality in the u.s. >> and terree, a correspondent for msnbc and author of the book "who's afred of post-blackness?" >> what's it mean to be black in the 21st century. >> i hate to be put in the position of talking for black people. it puts everybody on their heels and makes them think i want to disagree with you. it means anything that you want it to mean. there's 40 million ways to be black. you can do anything, you can be anybody. there's a million different ways, 40 million ways to be black. >> amani let me ask you about that. what does that mean, there is are 40 million ways to be black. are there certain ways that bind black folk to the community? >> it's up in the air to the extent there are 40 million distinct experiences, right, and identities in the united states. but on the other hand, there are a number of constraints that tend to frame the experiences of black americans, still. there's

>> i taught at princeton briefly, i taught at u.c. berkeley, university of pittsburgh, for a year i was at the hebrew university at jerusalem and currently at boston unive >> you have? >> yes, indeed. >> i got my degree in '79. >> you're the professor of the appreciation of scripture, you've been doing that for what? >> since '90. >> for nine years. three books to your credit? >> that's true. >> i notice that you retreated from some of your statements from your first book, "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews." what changed in the 11 years between the publication of these two books. >> my first book was "from jesus to christ." and that was published in 1988. and "jesus of nazareth" was published a few months ago. what changed is time elapsed, i continued to work in the field and learned more. >> isn't it the all-important question of why jesus was killed, you now believe he represented a limited threat to public order during the festival of passover rather than a major threat to roman rule? >> i don't think anybody thinks he, includin

she is the current director of the governor's residence in princeton, new jersey, and serves as special adviser for protocol to the governor's chief of protocol and director of the first lady staff. she is a former special assistant to presidents and social secretary for the first administration of president and mrs. george w. bush where she planned and implemented all white house entertaining within the white house complex. and then lastly laurie firestone who is a california native. she served as white house social secretary to george h.w. bush and first lady barbara bush for eight years, at the vice president's residence and four years at the white house. her duties included planning and executing state dinners, luncheons, receptions at the white house and abroad. i know you're going to enjoy this conference, or this panel. thank you. [ applause ] >> this is like a sporting event. >> good morning, everyone. you're in for a treat. we have about half a century of white house history represented here. one of the things that defines the white house social secretary, first of all, it's a

ten miles away and the result was a battle of princeton and again another victory. so washington had won four victories in this very short period and they were very different one from another. and it was frederick the great saying this is the greatest military feat he had ever seen in the conduct of that campaign and that was only the beginning of that campaign. it went on in which all together the american army and the militia fought something like 80 engagements. they were very small, mostly foraging parties, but what they did was slowly wear down the british and the hessian troops who were in new jersey. it was a heavy blow on that force. then as the revolution went on, there were something like 24 campaigns. washington and his two lieutenants who commanded in the same open way, that's green and lafayette, commanded in ten of them and they lost many battles, but they won nine of those campaigns. nine campaigns. there were other -- all the other campaigns, maybe something like 13 or 14 depending on how one counts, were commanded by other officers who didn't master

sex machine this is confirmed by me and proof of concept were for going by princeton university so you have independent verification for my findings in two thousand and six a princeton university professor and two graduate students confirmed what harry hursti had already proven they posted their demonstration on youtube hacking the de bold touch screen machine in less than one minute's time they inserted a vote flipping virus that changed vote tallies would spread to other machines and flipping alexion without leaving a trace you would hope that they didn't steal the last election but you know if they did. i guess the outcome would have been completely different if we had a different president the war in iraq probably wouldn't have happened most likely that's the biggest impact i think this is a national security issue that is correct. it's enough why is there a national security issue of cost more to raise and being that you actually side for or who are going to make a detour so as for the future i mean everything to do with it well things are additional security level issues in all t

and princeton university's woodrow wilson of policy and international affairs. mr. mero, please proceed. >> good morning, senator durban and ranking member graham, senator franken, senator blumenthal. i'm delighted to testify before you today. we are a nonpartisan organization with over half a million members and hundreds of thousands of additional activists and supporters. in 53 state offices nationwide dedicated to the principles of a quality and justice set forth of the u.s. constitution and in our laws protecting individual rights. for decades, the aclu has been at the forefront against all forms of racial profiling. racial profiling is policing based on stereotypes instead of faxed evidence and good police work. racial profiling fuels fear and mistrust between law enforcement and the very communities they are supposed to protect. racial profiling is not only in effective, it is unconstitutional and violates basic norms of human rights, both at home and abroad. my testimony lays out how race, religion, national origin are used as proxies for suspicion in thr

and in fact he accompanied madison when he was sent to college at princeton. while at this point in their lives there are many similarities, as they aged, their life experiences were much, much different. and of course it could be no other way given the reality of slavery in america at the time. now madison's parents realized his incredible ability. ultimately they sent him to princeton, then called the college of new jersey. but prior to that they really prepared him. they placed him with a private tutor by the name of donald robertson. and madison studied with him for five years. he was a scotsman. he was from edinburgh and part of the scottish enlightenment, a presbyterian minister. later in life, madison was to write everything i became i owe to that man. it really was the rigorous training and the inspiration by an amazing teacher that prepared madison to take on such a strong role in building the american nation. we're going to go over to the dining room now and take a look at how james and dolley entertained their guests. we're now entering the madisons

to princeton junction and back. that's if you read onto the campus was on a smaller train which was the princeton to princeton junction that took the right to the campus. i happen to be reading of book by f. scott fitzgerald called this side of paradise. it was flat -- about life there princeton in absolute a magical. i cannot even read two paragraphs now it is so adolescence but at the time it was magical i finished it just as the train pulled into the station princeton is as cute as a button. finishing just as the train pulls then and i walk up to the campus and i remember thinking there is absolutely nothing in the world that i would rather do than to write like scott -- of scott fitzgerald. it was all downhill from there. [laughter] for the next 15 years i wrote a bunch of fiction and publish some of it got a graduate fellowship but none of what i did was much good unfortunately. not great stuff i worked for i had jobs was a banker and a teacher but all the while i persisted to see myself as a writer i would go

masters and doctorate degrees from the woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs at princetone combined arms center where he led the development of our current counterinsurgency manual reflect the marvelous intelligence and insight he brings to bear on any issue. his integrity is unimpeachable. through his over 37 years of military service, remarkably director petraeus has held six general officer commands, five as combat commands. he did this in bosnia, he did it in the -- with the 101st air assault division in iraq, he served as commander of the multi-national iraq in iraq leading the surge. he serve ed as centcom commande and the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan. our guest speaker's name is often mentioned in the same sentence with most of our revered leaders of the past, generals washington, grant, persian, macarthur and eisenhower. for the contributions he has made in the development of doctrine, development of leaders and his leadership in the battlefield. most recently president obama has called upon him to serve as the director of the central intelligence agency

so that's one reason why it should be addressed. >> and even though you're a princeton alum, you gave speech on this topic. jobless claims third disappointing week in a row. as the labor economist, as the president's advisor, are you concerned that the labor market and broader economy could be weakening here? >> the past few months we have had a good quarter for the jobs numbers. unemployment insurance claims have increased a little bit over the past few weeks. it's difficult to read those numbers with seasonal adjustments. but i think fundamentally the problem that the economy is facing is that we need faster job growth. we need more hiring. layoffs have come down. and we're seeing a pick up in hiring. we'd like to do whatever we can to keep that continuing. >> okay. here's the quick question. i think i ask you this every time i interview you. when the political side of the administration asks you what's the unemployment rate going to be on election day, what do you tell them? >> i think each time i tell you and the president's never asked me that, we make our forecast for the unempl

this is my partner, steve from princeton, new jersey. and tina's partner is kathleen, also from princeton, new jersey. hey, kathleen. [ cheers and applause ] they are a couple. now, tina will kick us off by pressing start on this buzzer and then drawing a clue from the top of the pile. the goal is to get your partner to guess the catchphrase. and you can do or say anything except say any part of the actual clue. once they guess the clue, hand off the ticking buzzer to the person on your right. last thing, there's no passing. you have to keep going with the clue you draw. whichever team is left holding the buzzer when it goes off, gets a strike. >> okay. >> jimmy: first team to win two rounds is the winner. let's take our positions. >> so the person to your right, so i hand it to kathleen? >> jimmy: yeah. >> okay. got it. >> jimmy: yeah, right? >> oh, no. okay. oh, i got it. kathleen's here. i got it. >> jimmy: you pass it to me, yeah. you want me to be stuck with it, so i'm going to press start -- stop. and then you read the clue and the

he spoke at the princeton club here in new york. he didn't say anything about monetary policy but offered an interesting view on monetary and housing. why lower rates caused the housing bubble in his words were pretty weak. take a listen. >> the magnitude of the movements in short-term interest rates in the early 2000s, when you translate them into monthly payments. >> let's go to bob pisani. if it's friday, it's gary kominski. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> what was wrong with the financials? i guess they got caught -- >> i was happen people the key things we're looking for, mortgage activity, trading activity. trading activity was up and wells fargo, do you know, almost 30% of the mortgages in the united states are originated by wells fargo today? their mortgage activity was up 7.5% increase in loans. that was a tremendous number. i think what the street did not like and the reason we're seeing some of these financials down, you go to the traditional banking activity, that is loans. the loan business is still weak. we're

it is nice tv princeton. before i give my formal remarks, you do not know that much about me and i do not know that much about you, i will mention a couple of things. i was born in taxes. i was born in waco, texas even. somebody had to be. [laughter] my folks both went to blor university, which no is the baptist school. there were high school sweethearts and they both went on to baylor. my mother said everything they did was that much more fun because it was either against the royals or it was a sen. -- against the rules or a sin. the baptist convention disallowed six standing up at baylor because people might think you were trying to bet -- you were trying to dance which is forbidden. that is my family upbringing. but it was being at baylor which made them tough. our family was o where every issue and movement back into town the got involved in. i grew up in dallas in the heights of the civil-rights movement. they were involved in that and the woman's movement. our dinner table was not aware you 8 but where

at princeton's name madison's program, who recently delivered a lecture, arguing that there are ways in which -- so as to oppose the classical sharia, the election is published in the november 2000 issue. the regrettable part of this story is that i'm sure as many people in this room know, first thing as a catholic, not a muslim publication, but make no mistake, as numerous as they may be, among those who pronounce doctrine, the moderates are the distinct and weaker majority. the majority is -- lightly prominent on the world stage. he said that the term nod rat islam is as he put it ugly or offensive. he said there is no moderate islam, islam is islam, that's it. that politician is the primary of the increasingly power and infl infi indiai influenceable. >> we north dakota in the united states have lots of cover rooj of how the driving revolution arrived in twitter and facebook. and even less coverage of the emerge negligence of the sinai peninsula -- there was, i think virtually no coverage at all of the return to egypt of the sheikh who delivered a triumphant sermon in tahrir squar

my guest tonight is a graduate of princeton university and harvard law who currently works in the white house. please welcome first lady michelle obama! ( cheers and applause ) madam, first lady, thank you so much for coming on ( cheers and applause ) thank you for coming. i apologize. they normally don't cheer for me that long. ( laughter ). thank you so much for coming back on the show. >> it's good to be back. thank you for having me. >> stephen: you were here almost exactly four years ago. >> yeah, but we weren't here. >> stephen: no, no, no. we were in philadelphia. it was during the campaign. the first time you were on my show, you were not the first lady. now you are. >> yes. >> stephen: that's called the colbert bump ( cheers and applause ) you're welcome. you're welcome. now, let's bump joining forces. tell me what it is and how they can get involved. >> jill biden and i started this initiative to make sure that this country, which is a grateful nation, that we make sure that we do whatever we can to honor the service of our troops, our veterans, and their families ( cheers and

she is summa cum laude from princeton. she is here with her first collection, "fighting for progress in the age of obama." i do not always agree with her personally when it comes to politics. we are here to find out from katrina how we're going to save the world with barack obama. let's start there. [laughter] >> i do not know how you learned by worked at national lampoon. saving the world. let me begin by saying how low they must be to go that low in new orleans. i would not put in the same sentence president obama and saving the world. it is very much about movements and the power in our history to bring about a fundamental change. you do need people inside, political leaders inside. it captures the imagination of the nation. through the turbulent history, it has been movement and the power of movements. franklin roosevelt was moved by later movements. lyndon johnson had the civil rights movement. i think we begin with that. this book comes out at a moment when the country sees the power and possibility of occupy, 99%, a

i had just been admitted to princeton university. i was traveling there for a weekend, to see if they want to go there. it was a glorious day. this morning spring was in full bloom. the last leg of this train trip was on a smaller train. was reading f. scott fitzgerald's this side of paradise. of all about life at princeton and was a magical book to me. i can't read two paragraph of that book is so adolescent. at the time it was absolutely magical. just as the train was pulling into the station. it is cute as the button. i was finishing it just as the train pulled in. i walked onto the campus and walked by 12 university place where fitzgerald had lived and what i just read about and on to the campus and i remember thinking at that moment there is absolutely nothing in the world that i would rather do than to be able to write like scott fitzgerald, period. it was all downhill from there. for the next 15 years i wrote a bunch of fiction, published some of it and got a fellowship at johns hopkins but nothing that it was much good. it wa

i get a chance to turn the tables on him, who is here with me at new york university along with princeton professor cornel west. not only do they co-host a show together, "smiley & west," a very clever title, but they have teamed up in a new book about the growing divide in this country between the haves and have-nots, no small issue. the book is called "the rich & the rest of us: a poverty manifesto." we are glad you have joined us tonight, and we hope you will join us tomorrow. one of my conversations with tavis and dr. west is coming up right now. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ phil: look who is here. we have some movers and shakers. two guys who keep on keeping on, a fabulous, fabulous thing to say about a person who has been around and about as much as they have. they have been to washington. they have been to the oval office

she never set foot in a school, and her grandson is a university professor at princeton.eers and applause] a lot of people say, that is an american success story. i say no, no, no. it is people who are willing to fight because they love and were promoting justice. america is only free and democratic to a degree to which every generation of americans must fight to preserve whatever freedom, whatever democracy we have. that is what this book is about. if you really reach a point of impotence, and it remains static and stationery, you either sell out, you sell yourself, with a smile, but you end up empty on the inside, or you just give up, go to the cracow's, and become addicted to whatever. that is quite to keep you in escape, or you just caved in. you just become complacent, and we have too many folks who are doing that, but a democratic awakening is taking place. we have to fight back. poor people fight back. working people fight back. the middle class. we should keep in mind in this book that we do not hate oligarchis or plutocrats. we hate plutocracy and oligarchy and i