, at princeton together. how many students are you finding, these days, are interestedn the life of the mind? >> got a good number. >> yeah. >> we've got a good number. it's a good sle. >> but we have to inspire more. >> yeah. absutely. >> see, there's a lot that you're competing with when inu're trying to preach the gospel of the ex life, the life of the mind. >> that's right. >> you're competing with status, power, money, prestige. >> absolutely. >> and it's not wrong for students to want those things, but they are not what really matters. the things that really matter y,e things likfaith, fam friendship, love, compassion, reaching out to other peop,e exploring eat mysteries of life and of the universe, what, summarily, we call the life of the mind, which we might also, at the same time, call the life of the heart. they're what really matter. >> the point i was trying to make 27 years ago there -- it's amazing to see me so -- that love of truth, goodness, beauty has always been that of a critical minority,

>> up next, george aumoithe a postdoctoral research associate at princeton university explores the history of medicaid and medicare in the united states explaining how discussions on universal health care have evolved since the 1960's. this interview was recorded at the american historical association meeting. a george aumoithe is postdoctoral research associate at princeton university and he is is joining us from our studios in new york. thanks for being with us on american history tv. george: thanks for having me. steve: you have devoted a considerable amount of time studying medicare and medicaid. signed into law in 1965 by lyndon johnson. take us back to that time period and how this legislation was significant at the time and how it has evolved. george: that's a great question to start off with. medicare and medicaid passed in july 1965. medicaid was really an afterthought in the legislative drafting process. the law's ratification shortly after the assassination of president john f. kennedy meant that there was a greater focus on the medicare law and there were certain historical rea

. >> up next, george aumoithe a postdoctoral research associate at princeton university explores thecaid and medicare in the united states explaining how discussions on universal health care have evolved since the 1960's. this interview was recorded at the american historical association meeting. a george aumoithe is postdoctoral research associate at princeton university and he is is joining us from our studios in new york. thanks for being with us on american history tv. george: thanks for having me. steve: you have devoted a

he graduated magna cum laude from harvard and obtained his a and phd in philosophy at princeton. he has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. he is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. he appears frequently on the colbert report, cnn and c-span, and he also made his film debut in the matrix, and he was a commentator on the official trilogy released in 2004. dr.ck prophetic fire," with christa book, buschendorf presents a perspective on six african-american leaders dubois, martin. luther king jr., ellen baker, malcolm x and otto barnett. examine the impact of these men and women within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines, providing new insights that humanize all of these well-known actors, west ines an important step rekindling the black prophetic fire so essential in the age of obama. helene atwan has been director of the beacon press since october of 1995. she holds a master's degree in english literature from the university of virginia. she began her career in publishing

is 95 to princeton sure. it was but we are here with me. tonight seen as being very significant to all. those that are leaving africa i mean the border. position and ideas are always challenge the results of the british elections who mainly write right from the beginning of democracies in milan and super east london as an issue and will let out a smaller cities it is even bristling democracy and is trying to give the power to the people who is unique. in terms of like for example of like to use is this drawn out and everything else so the issues of corruption the rules in this particular instance and people thwart these was with the just one of those tests the judges see only feet piece was. and in the rigging. all. else sent people criticize to be election commission after what the opposition accorded that to picks election are the same people going to organize the next vote yes and no use or supposed to think the president of the body can respond he just afternoon and he actually see i'm going to be meeting soon and then strategize i'll m

more than 500 lancaster aircraft now approach central princeton from the west over a period of just 24 minutes they dropped more than 1800 tons of bombs. in cologne for primas and fought and on about rushed the 2nd raid caught the people in a cell as completely by surprise it was too old and complicated the destruction of dresden was now complete the firestorm continued to spread there was no way to stop it the fires were raging in so many parts of the city where you can flush inhofe to stop and plant because of its water. this footage was shot by a british air crew entire sections of the city were in flames. the fires tore through older densely built up housing blocks finding a way out was next to impossible. thus is. these are cut those people had one option and that was to find some way to escape this living hell. a huge notifier had fallen on the city and there was hardly any way for people to get out of it. and its homes you must but suppose you were sick and had asthma or young children with you but as or if you were elderly or disabled. here chances of survival were pretty slim.

she's a doctoral student in political science at princeton university, and i should add a prolific writer on all things syria. her research is primarily based on a large network of contacts that she has cultivated across syria as well as in the region. she is also a research fellow at the forum for regional thinking, a progressive israeli-palestinian think tank based in jerusalem. elizabeth has worked as a consultant for the international crisis group, the atlantic council, and the european institute for peace, among many other places. she has a decade of experience working with human rights organizations in middle east and defending the rights of refugees, migrants, laborers, palestinians and ethnic and religious minorities. alex marquardt, who will be here shortly, is an award-winning national correspondent based on cnn washington bureau focusing now on national security issues. alex spent most of the past decade as a foreign correspondent for abc news based in moscow, jerusalem, beirut and london. he spent considerable time on the front lines of wars and uprisings in the middle east. h

lauren wright, lecturer in politics at princeton university. you are here to help us break down the speech from president trump in the white house. he lashed out at his enemies. there was profanity and personal tax. is this a speech you expected from president trump after his acquittal? >> i was not surprised by the acquittal or president trump's decision to make a victory lap. what got me thinking is a long- term health of the republican party. i am a bit worried about that. i think a lot of republicans in that room today, yes it was packed. the president is entertaining and energizing, but winning in the long run is important. that is more important than in the short term. i think republicans attacking that romney, and castigating democrats, are risking losing the high ground that they thought they had. before entering academia, i was a republican staffer in california. i worked on a 2010 gubernatorial rate. i got to drive meant romney to an event in encinitas, california. this is a respectable, ethical person. the republican party should be

. >> he's a distinguished physics professor at princeton. >> smart physicist. great university. >> i don't think anybody disputes that. he's got out of his lane a little bit. >> he joined the national security council in 2018 to re-examine climate change. >> our co2 is clearly a benefit for a plant. >> his name claims carbon dioxide is good for the earth. we're in a carbon deficit, which is ludicrous. what he does cite is agriculture. he's right that in some cases the yields may go up. but there has to be water to make that happen. that's, as you know, a huge issue on climate because of the changing patterns of prec precipitati precipitation. if there is not the water, all those great carbon fertilization will not help. so they keep using that one little piece of information to go, see, see. >> william's princeton credentials gave the administration pro fossil fuel's policies a boost in credibility in spite of statements like this. >> the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor jews under hitler. i think that people have grossly

they hire a professor at princeton who publishes a book in may of 1929 called wall street and washington which calls glass and his colleagues a bunch of hayseeds. these uneducated country rubes are making fun of the greatest economic system the world has ever created. they are hayseeds. they are anti-darwin. know what happens. october 1929, just as glass and others had fears, the stock market breaks. all kinds of people can't meet their margin requirements. the go bankrupt. money.ve to borrow they jump out of skyscrapers. we see what happens when leverage reverses itself. there is devastation. in firm republican hands decides it has to do something. remedialrite legislation named for carter glass. class starts preparing a bill to prevent this from ever happening starts preparing a bill to prevent this from ever happening again. river ofconcern is the gold, so he puts provisions that limit how much a commercial bank and lend to security speculation, how much they can lend to buy stock, to brokerage firms, to other banks. he puts a total ban on reserve theirlending to banks in community fo

tv on c-span2. 9:00 him eastern. >> up next, george aumoithe a postdoctoral research associate at princeton university explores the history of medicaid and medicare in the united states explaining how discussions on universal health care have evolved since the 1960's. this interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. >> george aumoithe is a postdoctoral research associate at princeton university and he is joining us from our studios in new york. thanks for being with us on american history tv.

. >> when you say bernie sanders, why do you point to my friend, the academician from princeton named eddie glaude jr.? eddie, your final thoughts tonight? >> listen, i don't think any one of these candidates has the political charisma to take it to the tape. it's going to be a ticket. it's going to be some combination. we're going to have to begin to think outside the box. >> i wish we could have that conversation. >> we've got to begin to have that conversation. >> who? >> i got an idea. >> uh-oh. >> the second point i want to make really quickly is the democrats cannot fall into the trap of having fear beyond motivation. what overdetermined the debate tonight was the politics of fear. every voice i heard was be afraid of this front-runner. be afraid. use the red scare. he's a socialist. be afraid. big government. be afraid. in this moment of crisis for the country, we don't need fear. what we need is a hopeful vision, bold. that's what we need. >> it does strike me fdr ran against fear. >> he did, and barack obama ran on hope. >> on hope. >> so we know that emotion can be very powe

>> i think i'm the princeton, kristin, who can unite the democratic party.nk i am the person -- i spent a ton of time on the ground talking to people in south carolina and we have the biggest group of people doing door-to-door grassroots work of annie in south carolina. i think i can attract the coalition of black people, a collection that includes latinos, include a coalition as well as working people and working white people. the two things i think it's going to take and i'm going to show this in nevada saturday and in south carolina a week from saturday, it's going to pull together as a party and take on mr. trump on the economy. >> kristin: we've got a few seconds left. i have to ask you about the new report which says the bloomberg campaign is plotting a brokered convention strategy. what do you think of it? >> i think that's way too early. i think, in fact, we just started this process. i think we are going to come together around somebody. i think that somebody is going to be me and the party is going to pull together the coalition, the biggest coalit

. >> tucker: but i wanted to go to princeton like pete, so it's kind w of even varied >> you wat to princetonsure. >> i did, yeah. >> tucker: he did. he did, i happen to know that. you know the rules, but our audience may not. hands on buzzers. i ask the questions, first want to buzz and get the answer. you have to wait, this is critical, until i finish asking the question to answer, if you don't, you're in trouble. you can answer once acknowledged by saying her name. every correct answer get to a point, they lost inserts of tracksks her point total, best-of-five wins. >> let's do it. >> tucker: all right, this is a multiple-choice question, byul elizabeth warren. you're a member the video from last year were she very authentically drinks and ice-coldn beer. as the video to remind you. >> hold on a second, i'm going to get me a beer. >> might be my favorite moment. >> tucker:it she ran out of batteries shortly after that. during an interview this week she was asked about that she explained what her go to beer. was it michelob ultra, was it was itms boston lager, amstel light? >> he doesn't kn

theodore roosevelt was part of that what he brought several leaders athletic leaders at princeton andle and harvard to the white house and october 1905 and said you need to fix this. they didn't fix it but that has come down to us in lower as teddy roosevelt essays football. in reality he does get the ball rolling and brings a lot of attention to the issue but it's the convention in new york city, a couple months later, i really do start the whole reform of college football. the history of coaching is fascinating because if you look back at the late 1800s walter camp is the prototype of the bard college but he wasn't a professional coach. he was an executive any as his wife essentially were amateur coaches or least nonprofessional coaches for yale and there were lots and lots of games. he was referred to more as as a graduate advisor and a coach by the early 1900s you start to see people who really, they were football players and they want to be coaches, they want to make money, they want to the faculty. a good example is a gut michigan name fielding yost, he publishes book in 1905 ca

with us from princeton, new jersey is bloomberg jersey.ence's ira some forecast that is can go even lowerthe worst-case scenario starts to unfold. i want to talk about what implications that has on the real world, including financials. do you expect to see real weakness in financials, or is this a blip they can survive? i don't cover equities but presumably for financials, that interest margins may become cramped. short interest rates are now significantly higher and a lot of the funding markets. repurchase agreements, commercial paper yield is higher than they are in 10 and five-year yield, where banks make a lot of their loans. this is not a major surprise even what has happened over the past month, where treasury yields have fallen substantially. are sorry toties catch up, you have a little bit of rotation out of equities and into fixed income assets, treasuries being the primary beneficiary of it. the financial crisis has several moments when we are close to the all-time lows. what happens after that level is reached? ira: what happens after you reach, you make new lows, or you bounce

and eddie, professor from princeton. candidates are preparing to hit senator sanders. how come it doesn't seem to land, and even when they try, he moves on. >> nobody has tried yet. he was completely outside the attack sphere of the first debate, he is a run away freight train at this point or about to be for the democratic nomination. so it is really the last hour for these candidates to layout a contrasting message and to make the argument that they all believe. joe biden was asked 24 hours ago, asked directly do you think senator sanders can beat donald trump in a general election, and he hemmed and hawed for 45 seconds before he gave a highly equivocal answer saying yeah, i don't think he can beat donald trump. they have to make a ferocious argument this morning about what's at stake for the country, what's at stake for the democratic party as they get on the debate stage tonight. if they don't do it, bernie sanders will be the democratic neiman he is likely to be even if they do it pretty effectively. >> mayor, you have an op-ed coming out today, you're throwing t

he was also, as we all know a star basketball player at princeton and an mba for the new york knicks. me start you have an door's job biden can explain why? >> i endorsed joe because i have known him for 43 years. i have seen him in action on the kremlin to congress political tragedies and triumphs. i think what shape joe biden is his family and his faith. and i think he is the only candidate who can beat donald trump. and he is also the candidate who is best able to bring in a democratic house and senate. because if you don't have a house and senate's, you can't get things done as well. and therefore, i think he is the person who can reach out to these immoderate districts in the country and people will want him to come in and he will be a positive. i think therefore, he is the best candidate from his ability and his political skills. gerry: i know polls are very unreliable we have to wait and see what happens on monday and then in new hampshire. the polls and those two states he has not been doing that well. he is slipping and bernie sanders seems to be surging. why do you think tha

and we've also learned that about 100 princeton university students who recently traveled to china are now being monitored for symptoms. some have even asked to self-quarantine. mola lenghi, cbs news, new york. >>> a verdict is expected tomorrow in president trump's impeachment trial. senators will take up a critical vote on wednesday afternoon. it comes after closing arguments wrapped up yesterday. nancy cordes reports from capitol hill. >>> the senate can still do the right thing. >> reporter: the house impeachment managers closed the trial with a warning about president trump -- >> what are the odds if left in office that he will continue trying to cheat? i will tell you -- 100%. he is who he is. truth matters little to him. what's right matters even less. if you find that the house has proved its case and still vote to acquit, your name will be tied to his with a cord of steel and for all of history. >> reporter: the impeachment trial took up 82 hours on the senate floor. to the end, the president's legal team insisted he had done nothing wrong. >> the president did not condition s

and later this week, i look forward to going down to princeton for another special toyota announcement. congratulation, gentlemen, and thank you for choosing indiana. thank you. [ applause ] >> our strong economy didn't just happen. we did it the old-fashioned way, we earned it. throughout our time together, we've operated within an honestly balanced budget and protected our aaa credit rating. we set aside $2.3 billion in our state's savings account which is in stark contrast to our neighbors. others have notices, too. in 2019, we ranked first in the midwest and top five in the nation for business. number one for structure. top two in the nation for long-term fiscal stability. a recent editorial in "the chicago tribune" put it this way, they said what does indiana offer that illinois doesn't? lower taxes. more stable home values, balanced state budgets and funded pension systems. no wonder 36,000 people moved to our state last year, and indiana's welcome mat is out for everyone that wants to join us. [ applause ] but i've always believed that records are made to be broken. and races ar

the moscow scientific institute's caltech and also a doctor of ecology and evolutionary biology princeton university welcome to the program the coronavirus has a mortality rate of 2 percent that's a lot lower than the sars epidemic or even the abode of virus so where does the hysteria about the corona virus come from. so i wouldn't say he's tira but i think it's certainly a valid concern 1st of all this estimate 2 percent but you've just mentioned it's still an evolving situation so that might change quite a beat the main uncertainty right now is the number of mild cases we have that are not diagnosed yet but still 2 percent is certainly not negligible the usual flu pandemics that we face every year still claim. thousands tens of thousands of lives globally and they only have the mortality rate of about 110th of a percent of what 2020 times lower some countries were swift to close borders to stop the spread it's that ineffective measure. well so no single measure is 100 percent effective and importantly the border closures are never 100 percent effective russia has implemented border clos

rnd just this afternoon, we learned that about 100 princeton university students who recently traveled to china are now being aske squarantine, norah. >> o'donnell: that's significant, mola. thank you. tonight at least one senate democrat says he's still not sure how he'll vote at president trump's impeachment trial. west virginia's joe manchin does say the president should at least be censured by the senate. today senators heard closing arguments in the case. nancy cordes reports tonight from capitol hill. >> the senate can still do the peachmsetheuse triahaare the odds if left in office that he will continue trying to cheat? i will tell you: 100%. he is who he is. truth matters little to him. what's right matters even less. if you find that the house has proved its case and still vote to acquit, your name will be tied to his with a cord of steel and for all of history. >> reporter: the impeachment ndial took up loor. e pres >> the president did not condition security assistance or a meeting on anything. >> the only appropriate result here is to acquit the president and to leave it to

by the way,an friend keynes and the great depressi as his major focus of his study when he was at princeton. >> and ben bernanke engineered a ry expansionary monetary policy, the kind of thing that friedman said could have prevented the great depression.n even so, the unemployment rate went to almost 10%,d thin a couple of years, people at the fed were saying, "we could really use some helpcy from fiscal poere." so, in fact, we got to run this experiment a sond time, and it turned out vindicating the keynesian position. >> well, 10% uneloyment is a lot better than 25% unemployment which is what you hain the great depssion. >> but the big difference was that we ha-- i would say was that we had a muchigger gornment so that even thou we had a very limited, deliberate stimulus, we hadge a mount of what economists call automatic stabilizers. you know, your jobight have disappeared, but medicaid money was still flowing. m medicaey was still flowing. >> there was already a safety net. >> safetnet was still in place, and taxes went down. so if you look at what happened to the u.s. economy, the mere

also the coaches from harvard and princeton. they were the three biggest college football programs at the time. invites them to a football summit. football is on trial said roosevelt in the private meeting because i believe in the game and want to do all i can to save it. he encouraged the coaches to eliminate brutality and they promised they would. whether they really meant it is another matter. walter camp did not see anything wrong with the weight football was played. he practically invented the game and he tweaked the rules. they thought they got things just about right. he was very happy with the way football was. he took roosevelt more seriously. as a harvard man they understood the threat to football differently. they still wanted to eliminate the game. it was on the verge of success at harvard. this would have encouraged them. it would have encouraged other once you do the same. that would have endangered the future. at the end of the 1905 season. to form an organization that today we know of as the ncaa. to reduce the v

that life expectancy so there are three types of despair that are characterized by two economist at princeton. and they saw the depth of despair is really alcoholism and death from suicide and record high suicide rate since world war ii and yes said drops a little bit with drug overdose in 2018 but it is still 67,050,000 that die from drug overdose that is not a small figure and that way is on the entire nation of average life expectancy. it is pretty dramatic. >> so we see that here in those outcomes. so why is the united states not doing a better job to get people onto that quick. >> i think this is a fifty-year erroneous course that the us took. i think it has something to do with nixon's southern strategy and to stigmatize investments and benefit programs to have african-americans that benefit that is the underinvestment of human capital benefits across the us. it also relates to president reagan's narrative where a government can do no good with the massacre one - - mass incarceration and intel the 1970s that is in line with other countries the life expectancy is actually higher and othe

all issues that are interconnected slow headway being done but it would be very embarrassing thier princeton at least have a small plan at the end of the day to day maybe they will at the end of the day michele thanks very much for that well rio's world famous carnival festivities are just a week away now and the spectacular somber parade is getting ready to hit the streets each year scores of the city's down schools compete to be carnival champion but this year the preparations are being overshadowed by a dispute. it's dress rehearsal for de boer a flag bearer of the monk year a somber school. one week before she and her troop by for the title at the rio carnival. era is brazil's most famous somebody school and the defending champion but a bitter clash over monk era's theme this year is overshadowing preparations for the world famous parade. it centers around jesus christ a deliberate provocation by monk erez members. it's a very emotional topic because we're going to show different versions of jesus as whites and blacks as a man and a woman and indigenous. this is the neighborhood of monk

he's a human rights lawyer and scholar at princeton university.e'd been broadcasting showing squads of officials forcibly removing people from their homes in wuhan. if you have seen those pictures, what is your view of them? these measures are severe, a violation of human rights. arbitrary rights for detention for the quarantine and relocation without any legal documents. this obviously violates chinese law and fundamental human rights. in a crisis, even democratic governments occasionally have two suspended civil liberties in the cause of getting something done and that is what china would say it is having to do. it needs to take drastic measures, , do. it needs to take drastic measures,, however pop unpopular, in order to curtail the virus. is that fair? to counter the virus, people should sacrifice and are willing to sacrifice something but what the chinese government has been doing is making things worse. for example, the information, the information is so important to stop the virus but the chinese government has erased it and censored inform

journalists comes shortly after paris said it would send 600 more troops to west africa sorry to princeton brings us the details . president kater in that interview said that no stone could be left unturned when it came to the search for peace and an end to that blood chat. it is my duty and my mission to do everything possible so that one way or another we can achieve some sort of peace because the number of deaths in the sahara is increasing exponentially and i believe that it is time that certain avenues were explored this is as tensions have been mounting particularly over the last few months up bloodshed has been ratcheting up. the as well as you're aware there is a heavy french a presence of military in the sawhill region so the idea that mali's president and its government is now talking to the c.g. hardest puts in question what perhaps those french troops are doing to guarantee that security in the region this acknowledgement is pretty uncomfortable given that it comes just weeks after a summit here in france the g. 5 sawhill summit was held in january that was hailed as a success

sports minister has demanded the resignation of the figure skating federation president shot it to princeton brings us the story. when a minister makes a public pronouncement you probably would hope that they had checked all of the facts just like when in 2017 france's former sports minister declared that at the height of me too there wasn't a problem in her sphere the former uk fencing champion must now be considering for laying on her sought after the latest explosive revelations of rape by sports coaches have emerged they've been made by france's 10 times national skating champion sarah a bit for in a new book she accuses her former coach year of regularly raping her in the ninety's when she was aged between 15 and 17. i was sleeping with my teddy bears and he woke me up with his torch it was a nightmare it was horrible and it still horrible today and that's why i'm talking about it as unfortunately i'm still not well i'm taking antidepressants and i'm speaking up for all the other big tims who can speak themselves this extinct 2 year old former coach admits having sex with a skater but h

they usually play at princeton park, but the position of the pinch has —— pitch has led to people askingdequately.” has led to people asking if it was funded adequately. i think it's windows close anyway. so it's really important for me as the manager that i don't get emotional about anything else apart from managing our players, performing every week, and we make the most of what we got. with liverpool women stay bottom of the table, other clubs have invested heavily in their women's teams and overta ken heavily in their women's teams and overtaken them. were part of a group ina family overtaken them. were part of a group in a family and if we need to tap into all areas, and we'll work together. is crucial if you want the women's came in general to progress? crucial. there needs to get understanding that they are professional athletes and our performance should mean high performance should mean high performance for both male and female. buy the club released this statement. as the women's game grows globally, standing still isn't an option. for fans, they'll hope their teams join the bu

is not necessary to be a princeton professor it is the best of intentions. so i would like to move in that direction. >> now that you all have understanding of this complex material you mentioned they have this attitude the lower cognitive abilities are inferior and your book implicitly seems to believe that that if there were differences of cognitive ability, it might imply a difference. so why do you think that they think that? >> because i hung out with those people all my life. [laughter] actually i had what i thought was a really clever thought experiment working on the bell curve. i said this will be great. first i want you to think of someone you are pretty sure has an iq 20 or 30 points lower than yours. do you feel sorry for that person? i assume as i found out most people say yes i do. and i said now think of someone you know who has an iq 20 or 30 points higher than you do. do you feel inferior? and appalling proportion was yes. [laughter] so to me that goes up against that we all think we have a high enough iq but to answer your question, look at