and debating that question. >> host: what do you teach at princeton? >> guest: political theory, or associated faculty member of classics and philosophy so i teach courses on ancient and medieval political theory and "gross national happiness: why happiness matters for america--and how we can get more of it" and rohm as political models and also courses on knowledge and politics in even science and democracy which takes me far from the greeks but one of the interesting thing about the greeks is favored some of the people who insisted knowledge and expertise should be central to politics so i follow that thread into thinking of aspects of modern society. >> host: when you talk about the greeks and their political growth period and the romans and their political growth period, exactly what ages are we talking about? >> guest: stolen is acting in 5:10 bc, it goes the other way when you are going backwards, plato and aristotle are riding in a 300s 0 athenian democracy more or less comes to an end after alexander the great fight a battle that distinguishes

. >> joining us on booktv is politics professor at princeton melissa lane. she has written a new book published by princeton called the birth of politics "the birth of politics: 8 greek and roman political ideas and why they matter". with a successful politicians. >> the greeks managed in different cities states to develop the world's first democracy produced works of art literature and political institutions, voting for example which remains fundamental to our politics today. and for 500 years, for another 500 years. dependent the measure of success. with the similarity between two deegan >> guest: interesting question. and setting the terms of legitimacy, and it is true in the roman republic, no law could be passed without being passed by the popular assembly. and in the senate for example, the senate couldn't pass laws, they could make decrees, manager business, the budget, but if they wanted to tackle the law, they had to go to the people landed is interesting that even under that ideas that the people fundamentally are responsible for setting the terms

>> she arrived at princeton in 1981. she was 17 years old. >> wow. >> and she said by the time she left princeton, that she was more aware of her blackness than she had ever been on the south side of chicago. and her time at princeton and at harvard was a time when she was thinking about conundrums of race and obligation what her role would be at harvard what does it mean to be a lawyer and a black lawyer. >> what she was saying is she wasn't raised with always thinking about race. >> right. >> as a kid. and the minute she goes to this higher institution, it is thrown in her face. >> well there was -- had to have been an awareness of race. >> that is a -- it just shows -- it is just an interesting discovery. >> it had to do with how she felt treated, even when students were nice to her, and professors were interested in her, she felt slightly apart. but it is important i think to remember her upbringing on the south side. she grew up in a working class neighborhood south shore. she knew her grandparents very well. very t

>> guest: how'd i get here to princeton? i moved here from princeton about five or six years ago -- >> host: from where? >> guest: well, i was at rutgers. >> host: rutgers. >> guest: and before that i taught at the university of north carolina at chapel hill. at chapel hill i've always, you know, my background as a scholar is in the history and sociology of science. so it's inherently multidisciplinary. it's a field which is historically grounded. it says that you have to be able to see contemporary issues from a long perspective, put them in perspective. my first job was in a medical school as well as the history department at chapel hill. so teaching professionals how to think about health care and health care reform. when i landed in chapel hill bill clinton was just elected president, and we were thrown into a discussion about the role of government in health care reform. when the health care reform died in the clinton administration the next concern students had was the role of the private sector hmos in tying the hands

princeton professor of economic and public affairs atif mian is the co-author. you are watching booktv on c-span2. >> in 2003 judith miller wrote several stories on invasion of iraq and weapons of mass destruction in an effort to reveal scooter libby. she was found in contempt of court imprisoned in a federal jail for 85 days. tonight she talks about her time in jail and the story, a reporter sure nate. >> guest: >> i was in jail because i refuse to reveal the identity who did not want as identity revealed. protect sources is the independent journalism. i really thought unless the people that i routinely spoke to let access my sources would dry up and eventually this is a question of principle that i didn't have much choice. >> host: now on booktv we want to introduce to do history professor transfixed. he teaches at princeton where both tv and established a new book "one nation under god" it is called. have we always been a nation under god? >> guest: that's a great question. it depends on who you ask. a lot of people believe we been a nation under god. recent

. >> well now joining 11 is politics professor at princeton melissa lane. she has written a new book published by princeton called "the birth of politics: eight greek and roman political idea and why they matter." professor lane where the greeks and romans successful politician? >> guest: they were. the greeks managed in different city state to develop the world's first democracy in athens. they produce works of art literature architecture and political institutions voting, for example which remains fundamental to our politics today and the romans of course ruled the republic for 500 years and went on in an empire for another 500 years. depending on your measure of success, they both have a lot to offer. >> host: what were some of the similarities between the two? >> guest: that's an interesting question. those of them emphasized the role of election and a fundamental role for the people in studying the terms of legitimacy. that is true of greek democracy and true of the roman republic. her example is the roman republic, no law could be passed without it be

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 fitzgerald. it was all downhill from there. for the next 15 years i wrote a bunch of fiction and publish some of it, got a graduate fellowship: call mom -- fellowship, but none of what i did was much good unfortunately. not great stuff. i worked, i had jobs was a banker and a teacher but all the while i persisted to see myself as a writer i would go home at night and read by gertrude stein i did better henry james or whatever was doing. and still i was aware at some level as time went buy i was not exactly living in paris sipping champagne and i was aware of that it was not happening for me. anyway, at some point it occurred to me that i actually couldn't make a living by writing -- actually couldn't make a living by writing -- actually codeuld make your living by writing so i became a reporter in my early '

i had taken a train and the last leg was on a smaller train which was the princeton to princeton junction that took the right to the campus. on the trip, i happened to be reading a book by f. scott fitzgerald called this side of paradise. it was about life in princeton. at the time, it was absolutely magical. i happened to finish it as the train was pulling into the station. it is cute as a button. i was finishing it just as the train old in and i walked out and up onto the campus and i walked by 12 university place which is where fitzgerald had lived where i just read about. i remember thinking at that moment there was nothing in the world i would rather do than to be able to write like 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. it was not great stuff. i worked, i had jobs. i was a french teacher and a banker. all the while, i persisted in seeing myself as a writer and i would go home at night and read gertrude stein. wha

so i think it's a valid thing to try and seek diversity, in the institutions like princeton or harvard where i went, but the feeling of shame that might sometimes trigger is something i feel like we need to talk about, and it's a result of lopsided or shortsighted conversation about race and about affirmative action, which was a topic that was kind of loud when i was coming of age. i don't think we figured it out. >> host: somebody who grew up in california, why did you choose harvard? undergrad. >> guest: yeah. i wanted to be in a place that to my mind, had visible history. growing up in california where everything seemed brand new i was really enchanted by the mystique of the i was wrestling with my mother's illness and being able to stop time in the poem and ask the kinds of questions that elude you in real-time. that seemed like a power i really needed. i wasn't writing many poems that were directly about my muir's illness at the time. -- my mother's illness at the time, but i think that thinking about memory and thinking about how looking at the right thing in the right way could

i think it is a valid thing in the institutions at princeton like harvard where i went. but the feeling of shame that might sometimes trigger is something i feel we need to talk about and i feel it is the result of a lopsided or shortsighted conversation about race and about affirmative action which is a topic that was loud when i was coming of age. >> host: somebody who grew up in california, why did you choose harvard? >> guest: i wanted to be in a place that my mind had visible history. growing up in california where everything seemed written it, i was enchanted by the east coast old things and brick buildings. but in some ways it was probably a very imaginative choice because harvard to me seemed like a great place to be studying. my perspective on it was that nuance at the time that this is one of the best schools in the nation and what would it mean? but what i learned and what would i come into contact with? ultimately it was the right choice. i had a wonderful four years they are which i don't know that i would have been the same way at the same time had been som

. >> host: kevin is a professor of history here at princeton. his book one nation under god. as he concludes in the book history reminds us ever legend is in large member and invention of the modern era purpose of this is booktv on c-span2. >> of vampires and citizens pro-american democracy or none at all. professor of politics at princeton professor start with a question that you risk on the back of this book which is why has democracy been slow in the middle east and arab world? to make it tackles the question head on i try to take on those academic explanations as well as the more popular explanations of why it. but start with a popular explanation. people say there's something unique about the religion or culture of islam that has prevented true democracy in the region but i engaged this seriously in the book there is some truth to that a look at the record but that the number of muslim countries worldwide outside the middle east easily 60% have democratized. >> host: give me an example. >> turkey, indonesia, their muslim majority countries but when you look at countries

. >> joining us on booktv is politics professor at princeton melissa lane. she has written a new book published by princeton called the birth of politics "the birth of politics: 8 greek and roman political ideas and why they matter". with a successful politicians. >> the greeks managed in different cities states to develop the world's first democracy produced works of

alan krueger from princeton university.iumphs is the u6 below 11% the all in unemployment rate, 10.9%. we have not seen that since the late summer of 2008. within a difficult report there are structural victories. alan: i don't think they are big victories. if you look at the household survey job growth this week, labor force participation felt. -- fell. the good news is wage growth, .3% over the month. maybe there is a pick up and wage growth. on the other hand there suggests there has been a slowing, as many other indicators have been suggesting. one report does not make a trend. i think the fed will look at what else comes in. we're probably due for a week report with 12 months over 200,000. these numbers tend to be noisy and get revised. unemployment insurance claims continue to suggest the job market is recovering. work hours ticked down in this report.. hard to put a positive spin. tom: the two year yield .49%> yield has come in. olivia: 5 basis points. looking at what went wrong, and ailing manufacturing sector. week

george are both professors at princeton princeton. beyond that to an outsider the two-seat to share little at all in common. west is a progressive political philosopher race theorist and christian socialists. george is a conservative catholic philosopher of jurisprudence and natural law. and their respective intellectual political and cultural sides they are immensely almost unbelievably decorated. west has written 19 books including the hugely influential race matters and democracy matters. he has taught at union theological seminary yale, harvard, the university of paris paris. he appears often on the bill maher show, the colbert report and "cnn." he was featured in the film the matrix and i guess in his spare time produced a spoken word album that in france won best jazz album of the year. george is the author of books such as in defense of natural law and conscience and its enemies. he is the vice chairman of united states commission on international religious freedom has served on the president's council on bioethics has received

i decide refire from princeton. i love my princeton unions but i'm in new york now and we are there to transmit to the younger generation, don't believe the hype about to the obsession withman, status, wealth and power. your fundamental question will always be, what does it anyone be human? what kind of human being will you choose to me a and when you make the move from womb to tomb, what will they say at your funeral? they're not going to talk about how much now you made. they're not going to talk about your trophy spouse. how many hookups and connections you made in your life. they're going to talk about whether this person really was serious about their quest for integrity, honesty -- decency and virtue, and we all fail. try again fail again fail better we all will be failures in one sense but at least we attempt to intellectually have integrity, morally have gig entity. when we -- integrity. when we get to the concretes issues inequality, male supremacy, the plight of working people the plight of our precious ch

were on location at princeton university. >> you are watching a booktv on c-span2.this weekend when visiting st. augustine, florida, with the help of our local cable partner comcast. next we visit with author thomas graham whose book mr. flagler st. augustine examines the light -- the life of henry flagler who was hard to develop with developing for eastern coast into a tourist destination. >> we are in the grand part of the hotel ponce de leon in st. augustine, florida. this was the era of the most elegant winter resort hotel in the country when it opened in the 1880s, and this room was used for receptions on occasions. president grover cleveland had a reception here, admiral dewey had a reception here. president-elect warren g. harding in 1921 had a reception here. so it's a room that is full of history. the hotel ponce de leon was built by henry morrison flagler. now, flagler is a man who is very little known outside the state of florida. but he was one of the wealthiest men in america. he essentially had been a cofounder of standard oil company with john d. rock

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princeton is the fifth town in new jersey to enact a law like this. the law goes into effect in princeton in three weeks. >>> forget about feeding the meter or itching isling the parking garage. we'll tell you about a new app that could change the way you park in philadelphia. >>> plus -- >> there are kids hanging out the window. i cannot imagine how these kids made it. >> a message of hope emerges from the ashes of a deadly dormitory fire more than a decade ago. hear from survivors about why they finally decided to share their story. >>> a chilly morning, a stormy afternoon. right now 49 degrees with a few high clouds over boat house row. time is 5:36. hour-by-hour forecast when we come back. >>> now your "nbc 10" first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> just about half an hour away from sunrise. we're starting to see the skies brighten up and getting a view of some of the clouds that have started to move into the area. we'll get some sunshine to begin the day but it's not going to last as we go into the afternoon. look at the chill. 11

. >>> a private school in princeton is singing a sour note these days despite the fact that's students make beautiful music. the american boy choir school is desperately trying to survive. the problem is money. not enough of it. new jersey correspondent nora muchanic has the story. >> ♪♪ >> reporter: the voices of students at the american boy choir school in princeton may sound sweet but the school's finances are hitting a sour note. the school has declared bankruptcy and unless administrators can raise $350,000 to keep things going the private boarding school for fourth to eighth grade boys will be forced to end the school year about a month early. >> we don't have a large bank account, a large endowment waiting to help us. we depend on our supporters and the people who love music. >> reporter: school officials have appealed to parents and benefactors to contribute and some students have suggested asking award winning singer taylor swift for help. >> yes, i would like her to help us and why because our school needs her help -- their help to survive. >> reporter: other students have su

and it was going to move to princeton, new jersey, little village of princeton. and that's exactly what it did. since -- well, what happened was very quickly there was op-ed pieces in the newspapers saying well, this should never happen again. what congress needs is an exclusive jurisdiction some territory where the federal government is supreme and controls everything. this idea had been talked about privately by members of congress for some three or four years but it was so threatening to the constitutional basis of the republic in which the states were supreme that it was never brought out publically until after the demonstration when the idea came out of the closet and came to the floor of congress another one of these amendments to the constitution and to the articles of confederation that allow congress to have a small territory over which it had exclusive jurisdiction. it was laughed off the floor of congress because states controlled congress. since it would then, of course, in 1787 that committee report was taken out of the files of the papers of the con

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>> booktv is on location at princeton and university where the interview professors who are also authors read me now introduce you to patricia fernandez-kelly has written a book called "the hero's fight: african americans in west baltimore and the shadow of the state" african-americans in west baltimore -- professor fernandez-kelly, tell us about west baltimore. >> it was one of the places that in my estimation, most important in our nation current moment but it is an area for surprisingly has received very little attention. i see my research, which is immersive research. i joke around that i started writing this book on the eisenhower administration. i spent close to a decade in trying to understand the main gear of poverty in the united states. i think of this research in this book as reflecting that are typical of cities throughout the nation. it is baltimore and it is an american story. it is not just a freak accident of nature. it's not just about baltimoreans living in poverty. it is about how our government and society interacts with impoverished people and a disproportionate numb

. >>> a private school in princeton is singing a sour note, they are make beautiful music but is desperately trying to survive. the problem is money and not enough of it. >> reporter: the voices of students at the american choir in princeton may sound sweet but the finances are hitting a sour. ♪. the private boarding school will be forced to end the school year a month early. >> we don't have a large endocument waiting to help us, we depend on our supporters and the people who love music. >> reporter: school officials have appealed to parents and benefactors to contribute and some students have asked taylor swift for help. >> i would like her to help us, why because our school needs their help to survive. >> reporter: other students suggested after billionaire bill gate. >> he is a rich man, i know he donates to education and he wants to see students follow their dreams. >> reporter: the concert choir travels nationally and internationally, but income from the performances doesn't cover costs. american boy choir has raised $140,000, but that's not enough to keep the school from closing this

he joins us from princeton new jersey where he is an associate research scholar at princeton university's woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs. last year, he published the book, "iran and the united states: an insider's view on the failed past and the road to peace." welcome, ambassador. do you see this deal as historic and a road to peace? >> good morning. definitely, the deal is a historic achievement and definitely, this is a road to peace because the deal practically prevented a new war in the middle east, which could be much more disastrous for the u.s. and for the region compared to the war against afghanistan and the war on iraq. i believe diplomacy worked. they have achieved excellent conclusion. they should continue to reach the final conference of deal by the end of june, the first of july. and then iran and the u.s., they should negotiate on for the disputed issues through diplomacy. juan:, could you talk about the key aspects that have been announced of the framework, what you think are the most important? the whole issue of the sharp reduction in the numb

. >>> a private school in princeton is singing a sour note.rican boy's choir school is singing beautiful music but it is desperately trying to survive. nora muchanic finds the problem is money. >> reporter: the voices at the students of the american boy choir school in princeton may sound sweet but their finances are hitting a sour note. they have declared bankruptcy unless they can raise $350,000 to keep the school going the private school will be forced to end the school year a month early. >> we don't have a large bank account or large endowment waiting to help us, we depend on our supporters and people who love music. >> reporter: school officials have appealed to benefactors to contribute and some students have thought about asking taylor swift to help. >> i would like her to help, why, because our school needs their help to survive. >> reporter: other students have suggested asking billionaire bill gate. >> bill gate is a rich man he donates to education and i know he wants to see children follow their dreams. >> reporter: 50 students at

. >>> princeton may be the next community to snuff out smoking to anyone under 21 years old. they are considering raising the able for those that want to buy cigarettes and tobacco. violators that sell would be fine $250 and then 1,000 there's for multiple violations. princeton would be the fifth town in new jersey to adopt such a law. >>> the pier shops at caesars in atlantic city, is about to get a $50 million makeover the plans unveiled today for the boardwalk destination complete with a new name as well. eva pilgram has the details. >> reporter: this is the beginning of the new atlantic city. >> reporter: welcome to the play grown the new pier shops at the boardwalk. >> it's a symbol a symbol of what atlantic city is going to become. >> the developer that turned northern liberties piazza is a hot spot is trying a spot outside of philadelphia, trying to breathe life into the boardwalk that was hit hard by casinos closing. >> never failed and never picked an area that was not going to turn around. >> this is something more, a wow factor that we have. >> and it means jobs, a

mike bloomberg went to princeton and harvard business school.o stanford and stanford law school. this is a case don't do what i did, follow what i'm saying. >> larry: mark zuckerberg dropped out of college, billionaire. steve jobs. bill gates. there are a lot of examples of billionaires who dropped out of college. but the question is, is the cost too much for what you're getting for everybody. i know there are outliars. >> you can cite averages all you want. the number we should be paying attention to is 59%. that's the number of people who start a four-year degree who actually finish it. >> larry: 59%. >> larry: i think i hung out with the other 41. >> the way this thing works is there are awe lot of people for whom it's absolutely a rip-off and that's who we should be paying attention to. >> larry: is "rip-off" the right term, curt? >> yeah, rip-off is the right term. education is worth it but not $250,000. i could be o.t.3 on the bridge to freedom for that. >> larry: that's kind of the issue, not that education is not worth it and you should

we are on location at princeton university where we are interviewing professors to out also written books appeared now on your screen a familiar face and name to those in economic circles. this is alan blinder, professor of economics, former vice chair of the federal reserve as well. his most recent book "after the music stopped". professor blinder, who caused the recession? s. know this is one of those things like how long do you have for next donation. if you think you start with the poco principle. it was asked. the acid mainly in this case people speculating on how those people taking mortgages, new or have knew they couldn't afford. more sophisticated people. that was ordinary people. then you had the allegedly more sophisticated people that turned out not to be so sophisticated that the other end of this food chain buying up the crazy securities that wall street builds on the crazy mortgage. so the poco people, those are the crazy mortgages. in between, you have the banks mortgage is a long two sides, borrower and lender. it is one thing if people were not watching out properly for

rob, the publisher at the princeton review.r of princeton review's colleges that pay you back. >> good to be here. gerri: let's look at these private schools. >> we've heard of some. gerri: and all this money. okay. so harvard has $42 billion. stanford 31. yale. twenty-five. princeton, 21. these are the big kahunas. the schools that everyone wants to go to. how did they get this dough? >> a couple of reasons. rich schools have large endowments. not only endowments. these are assets. endowments plus liquid cash they have on hand. gerri: plus liquid cash. that's the best kind. >> that's the best kind. and there are different investment vehicles that those schools can invest into that other schools with smaller endowments cannot. they have high yields for many schools on that top list. gerri: we often talk about the cost of tuition of these schools. it can be $50,000. it's often a chunk of change. a lot of kids never pay that. >> exactly right. a solid third of students generally speaking will spend the higher sticker price. two-t

princeton rated the best value despite having the second highest tuition in 2013. the ivy league school gave out $37,000 in scholarships and grants and its graduates rake in an average starting salary of $56,000. in delaware county two high school students have whooping cough. today they notified the parents. in addition to the cases in march, there have been three confirmed cases this year. whooping cough is highly contagious. >>> and we have this note from the philadelphia sports world. ledge endary writer stan hochman died after a recent illness. his career at the daily news began in 1959 when the paper hired him to cover the phillies and he was inducted into the sports hall of fame in 2008. san hochman was 86. >>> next on nbc 10 news at 6:00 fighting crime in camden with new technology the tools police are using to clean up the city streets and find their criminal. >>> tonight's rain isn't much compared to the strong storms we could see tomorrow afternoon. i'm being troising the timing and who is most at risk for severe weather in my first alert forecast. >> an

at 7:30 princeton university's patricia kelly talk about how poor people in baltimore are created by the government. then at 8:00, the cargoment hat china is not overtaking the united states as the supreme global power. followed by author john ronson's take on public shaming at 9:00 p.m. eastern. on "after words" at 10:00, grow very nordquist discusses his critique of the internal revenue service. and we wrap up our primetime lineup at 11:00 with report putnam. he questions whether the idea of the american dream is head in his book "our kids. "happens tonight on c-span2's book tv. >> could the development of these missiles have been prevented? there might have been opportunities. one suggest education is a proposal by stalin in 1952, offering to allow germany to be unified with free elections on condition that it not join a hostile military alliance, which was hardly an extreme condition in the light of the history of the preceding half century. stalin's proposal was taken seriously by the respected political commentator, james warberg, but apart from him it was ignored or ridiculed.

. >>> a new study shows students at princeton university are getting the best education for their money among the schools in new jersey. the financial website smartasset.com is behind the study. experts say despite having the second highest tuition in the state in 2013 students at the ivy league school are getting the best value. princeton gave out an average of $37,000 in scholarships and grants and its graduates raked in an average starting salary of $56,000. >>> and we have a hummus recall to tell you about. a popular brand sabra voluntarily recalled 30,000 cases of hummus because of possible listeria contamination. a routine test last month came back positive for listeria. there's no evidence of anyone becoming sick from eating it. use the nbc app or go to nbc10.com for all the products involved in the recall. >>> ten minutes now before 5:00. dreary this morning with a few showers and some thunderstorms. and later this afternoon, a threat of severe weather. along with the big warm up that will have us in the 70s. sunshine this weekend and warm. the rain has tapered off at philadelph

we are on vacation at princeton university. >> across the country a great literary achievement from our time. the instant it is the most discussed novel. >> there are a lot of stereotypes from oklahoma coming from powerful images. like "the grapes of wrath" that was the one my father would not allow me to read as long as it wasn't "the grapes of wrath" because he felt it defined oklahoma. but we're not a dust bowl now forever then to mesmerize black-and-white images so of course, they have lingered in in a totally opposite and with the exclamation point but it is a true either. that is why it is the extra challenge because the oklahoma people from stereotypes. it and it is the struggle but because we tell our story to show what is your. but there are so many other things as well. but to make them more aware of their literary heritage oklahoma is way down at the bottom when it comes to confidence of academic skills the yet we have a rich literary skills to make us more aware of that. so that is my goal but we are little bit behind

this interview recorded on the campus of princeton university is part of booktv's college series. >> host: joining us on booktv is politics professor at princeton melissa lynn who has written a new book published by princeton called "the birth of politics: 8 greek and roman political ideas and why they matter". were the greeks and romans successful politicians? >> guest: they were. the greeks managed in different city-state's to develop the world's first democracy. in athens they produced works of art, literature and great works of architecture and political institutions which remained fundamental to politics today and the romans for 500 years and that went down for another 500 years. depending on your measure of success they have a lot to offer. >> host: what were the similarities? >> guest: interesting question. really emphasized election and the fundamental role for the

. >> host: would you do at princeton? >> this is my 13th year i teach politics of the middle east. >> host: when students come in white you hope say take-out of that class? >> it is funny because on average a majority of students know very little about the middle east and want to learn some my primary goal is to teach for crafting get other students who say middle east politics can be polarizing and contentious but the of viewpoints so i am going to argue against a free flight especially for those students that come in with a very solid view we do a debate or an exercise i asked the students what side they want to argue usually they pick one side but then ask them to split so they have to argue this side you did not sign up for that is an educational experience and i am happy because we come out with a deeper appreciation but the appreciation for those few points. >> host: as we speak here benjamin an idea whose speaking to the congress in washington we often hear from our callers on c-span that israel is the cause of so

stephanie: as you know, my husband went to princeton. bill: duke alum. stephanie: the last time he was on the set, bill cohan said duke would take it all the way. bill: when you are right you are right. stephanie: how often do you and the president of goldman sachs agree on anything? we have a great two hours. i'm thrilled to be back. i'm a little bit tired. i had a big weekend in washington for the white house correspondents. i've been in l.a. for a few days. bill: did you go to the vanity fair party? stephanie: it is called the bloomberg/vanity fair party. of course i was there. bill: did we have some highlights? stephanie: i'm not going to share any. only for people who were there. let's get you to the bulletins. consumer spending ended the first quarter on a positive note. it rose 4/10 of a percent in march. shoppers spent more while not seeing a bump in income. little change last month mostly due to a drop in dividend payment. economists are relying on household spending after a slump in business investment. the world's largest energy company posted

tougher question is to call this correctly in 2005 there the answer is maybe including my colleague at princeton who were yelling already in 2005 it was in trouble but it wasn't a huge number of people and those that were yelling were called party coopers the masters of the universe were assuring us it was okay. >> host: did t.a.r.p. work with programs like that help? >> yes eight and probably yes. i don't mean to imply every such program is going to work for example there was a lot of programs you could say were from t.a.r.p. that did not do very well. the government put potentially $700 million at risk in fact, it only deployed about 450 max that is still lots of money. it deployed that many fairly intelligently that doesn't mean they did everything exactly right to. so clearly even those would go back to do that differently but by and large the money was deployed intelligently and in the end they did not lose a penny. later on you may remember it was not designed for the system started to get a bailout you can argue about the automobile bailout but to talk about that cost-benefit it was a goo

notre dame and princeton. spoke about the costs related. >> part of this tuition.about reining in costs. >> in the past year dating off-line. his own flyers. that up met up with him to learn more about him. wanted to learn even more. surprised him with an hiv test. >> 's wife wants. bill: okay then. i love the story. dead animal jewelry. >> yesterday we all know they and i went to a taxidermy class. very popular. a live animal issue here. [laughter] bill: i hope rolling on that >> dominic who started his taxidermy focus store in new jersey. healthy oddities. he also has a website. high. so tell us, how did you get into the business? >> natural history and combining the two. i would visit natural history museums and be upset that i can take on anything. make it available to everybody. try to make it functional. >> you put them down? >> is plenty of stuff. >> i just wanted to make sure that is clear. >> the strangest request for jewelry or ahead for head on the wall. >> the strangest request was a customer who brother passed away a motorcycle accident. a peace of his

combines the old world tradition with the things that his clientele in princeton want lower fat and nolls are ready. >> hot and fresh out of the park. ♪ >> look, i could have hung out at either place all day long until they threw me out. turned me on to a meatball derivative. >> we are hearing a lot of people call and meatloaf. it's a big meatball stuff with ham and cheese. >> like nothing i've ever had before. ♪ >> man alive, i can't wait to get to the next couple of places. #show us your meatballs. i we will do this until we run out of meatballs. >> feels padilla forget about it. >> i would've thought it would have been ham. >> the really ought to be a a law against something testing that's good. my god. ♪ bill: what does it say to you? do you know the governor better now? >> i mean,, i'm not going to say my opinion on this. bill: actually, that's what your paid to do. so i'm asking you your opinion is that is why you are here. he has already been introduced. bill: i have an idea, let's try it again. >> hopefully we can say the things that you are thinking i feel an obligation to be

princeton is the sixth town to adopt this. the law goes into effect within three weeks. >>> now to the primary race for mayor of philadelphia. the candidates focused on housing at their latest forum. all seven mayoral hopefuls shared their views on the future of housing. rosemary connors served as moderator. questions focused on the lack of affordable homes, falling affordable home rates, foreclosures and ending homelessness. here's a look at the six candidates running for philadelphia mayor there on your screen. the winner of that primary will face the loan republican candidate, melissa murray bailey. this is the "nbc 10" election calendar. primary is tuesday, may 19th. general election takes place tuesday, november 3rd. >>> people who want to receive food stamps in pennsylvania no longer have to go through asset tests. the asset tests prevented people with too many asseting from getting food stamps. tom corbett started this to prevent fraud. this impacted the disabled and elderly who needed them. the change will save the sta