alan blinder of princeton university and former vice chair of the federal reserve. >> tom: while we wait for the data on the u.s. economy in the second quarter, britain today reported it continued to be in recession during the second quarter. the u.k.'s economy took a bigger hit than expected this spring, falling 0.7%, between april and june. it marks the third quarter in a row of contraction in the u.k., which has been hit by weakness in the euro-zone region. >> susie: meanwhile china announced some currency moves today to deal with slowness from its exposure to europe, the people's bank of china guided the yuan downward against the dollar for a third day, to its lowest level since november. it's a stark contrast to the central bank's previous behavior, over the past two years, it has been focused on boosting the yuan's value. >> tom: the global economy may be slowing but its business in north america that is powering some big american manufacturers. caterpillar, boeing and ford were able to shake off weakness in europe, even as the difficulties are expected to continue. >> reporter: ca

the author is politics and international affairs professor at princeton university who spent two years as the director of political planning at the state department, the first woman to every hold that position, and she is the mother of two teenaged sons. she writes, i still strongly believe that women can have it all, and that men can too i'm glad to hear it. i believe that we can have it all at the same time but not today. not with the way america's economy and society are currently structured. anne-marie slaughter why not. you're an icon to woman proving that you can have it all what have you concluded. >> i have proven that i could have it all because i had the flexibility to run my own time. as long as i had that, i could have kids, have a career, work as hard as i wanted. as soon as i got into a job when i didn't have that kind of flexibility, i realized that it was not work for teenage kids. i did it for two years but most women do not have what i havish to do what i have done, flexibility. >> eliot: the job that required this epiphany was the two years as director of policy plan

a state department official, professor now at a princeton university. where she was once the dean of the woodrow wilson school. she has written an aert kel for "the atlantic" about whether women can have it all. it kick off a national debate this summer and is still getting people talking and is here to continue the conversation this morning. great to have you. >> it's a pleasure. >> here we are? the news this week, perhaps the best rebuttal to your piece about women can quote-unquote have it all. we can define what that means. but you have it googled, marissa mayer, who has left google to become the ceo of yahoo, and here she is getting on a track that in your mind is very difficult to achieve success. >> it's very difficult and applaud her, any more women who make it to the top, i want more women at the top. i think she confirms what i was saying. i say women who are superhuman, rich, and in charge of their own time, can do it. it's just that that's kind of a very high bar. and i don't think it makes sense to most women make ceo by 37 and then have ki

as the nation's most renowned civil war historian, he's a professor of history at princeton university and the author of numerous books. many about the civil war. his most notable, of course, was the "batt cry o his most notable was the battle cry of freedom which t won the pulitzer prize for nonfiction. his recent book is wonderful children's book. actually, i think it is a book for all ages. wonderful children's book with pictures about the civil war. welcome james mcpherson who will talk to us today about his recently published book, "hallowed ground: a walk at gettysburg." >> thanks so much and thanks to all of you for turning out on an evening where it might be nicer to stroll along the streets of gettysburg or walk out on the battlefield in the cool of the evening. and maybe after we are done here, some of you will want to do that because it is going to stay light until 9:00 this evening. might be fun to go out there and battle the mosqitoes. i lost count of the number of times i had been here in gettysburg on the battlefield and in the town as well. over the past three decades o

. >> then there is michelle obama's senior thesis from princeton university. >> where's the white house's records >> why can't they release the birther is i have the sdmat >> show it to us. >> show us the birth certificate. thank you very much, steve, i appreciate that. (audience reacts) >> you're a good man steve, you're hired. you keep it up maybe one day i'm come in and sit on that (bleep)ing couch instead of phoning in from bed. (laughter) where i am right now naked! (laughter) all right, all right, that's republicans hounding obama for documents but still the less the better because no matter how innocuous it might seem democrats will tear it to sheds desperate to make something out of nothing. what would that look like? >> this is not a birth certificate? >> see this? this has clearly been photocopyd from a book. >> this whole boarder is suspect. >> it's s a fraudulent document. >> yes. thank you sheriff joe, if anyone knows how to authenticate a 50-year-old hawaiian birth certificate it's the arizona county sheriff. (laughter) democrats didn't want to be dicks about romney's tax

>> nancy, princeton university, does the history of radcliffe mean that the situation of women under graduates faculty and administrators at harvard today is less complicated than at princeton or yale that had no such history? more complicated or what would you say? >> nancy spent much of her professional life after graduate

he graduated from stanford university law school and princeton university's woodrow wilson university of policy and international affairs. mr. romero, please proceed. >> good morning, senator durbin and ranking member graham. thank you for having me this morning. senator franken, senator bloomenthal. i'm delighted to testify in front of you today. i'm the national director of the american civil liberties union. we are a nonpartisan organization with over a half a billion members, hundreds of thousands of additional activists and supporters, and 53 state offices nationwide dedicated to the principles of equality and justice set forth in the u.s. constitution, and in our laws projecting individual rights. for decades, the aclu has been at the forefront of the fight against all forms of racial profiling. racial profiling is policing based on crass stereotypes instead of facts, 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 ineffective, it is also unconstit

to biologist at princeton university, peter and rosemary, go to darwin's island red they go every year. they have been doing this since 1973. a camp on the little desert island called daphne major in the middle of the galapagos. an island that darwin never saw. they watched in a document evolution in action. evolution by natural selection, year by year, they have watched it and seen it they have measured it, they understand it in exquisite detail. they are doing what darwin himself never imagined possible. he thought it would take geological aging in order to see evolution in action, that no mortal could see it. it turns out that we mortals can watch it and we can watch it on darwin's island. i love that. i just love that. and i have gone back twice now to visit the galapagos and many times to visit peter and rosemary grant. looking over their shoulders, i think it is wonderful that they are still doing this research, all of these years later. he never retired. officially they have retired, but unofficially, they are still there every year in the galapagos, watching evolution. >> host:

>> nancy malchio, princeton university. does the history of radcliffe mean that the situation of women undergraduates, faculty and administrators at harvard today is less complicated than at princeton or yale that had no such history? more complicated or what would you say? >> nancy spent much of her professional life after graduate school as a harvard as a major force in princeton's administration, so i'm honored you are here today, nancy. princeton, you know, had a woman's institution. evelyn college, and it lasted only ten years. i think had it been able to gather the resources it needed in the way that radcliffe was able, it would have had an important impact on princeton's life. it is complicating because i look around me and i know that there are many women here in this audience that are very loyal to the institution that educated them and probably feel a little bit bristly about some of the issues that i raised because in -- because in some way it might challenge their experience. each institution as it has faced ful

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haass, now the president of the council on foreign relations, and ann marie slaughter back at princeton university. joining me from washington, "the new york times" foreign affairs columnist, tom friedman. welcome. tom, let me start with you. you talk to a lot of people in the region. what is your sense about whether assad can hold on? so far he has defied many expectations and has held on. >> well, fareed, you know, i think it's the nature of these kind of regimes that they're strong, they're strong, they're strong until they around and then they go quickly. we just don't know when that moment will be. but the reason he has held on up till now is because he clearly has support. support of the minority that he represents. first of all, his own sect, an offshoot of shias, about 12% of the syrian population, and then christians who basically fear a sunni/muslim majority taking power in syria. and then some sunni muslims who have been allied with the regime for business and other purposes. so this isn't a one-man show. there is support there. it's basically tribe and sect based. they're deeply afraid

my name is matt saunders i'm a student at princeton university. my question looks at social media first how effectively are these campaigns using them especially witthe type of nano targeting that you were talking about where people elect to give all this information. you can single out those people who would be really interested in some sort of ads and also the fact that they have choice that they don't have to go and click on that ad. the second is does the effect of an ad once it's placed on social media change? we see all these the america the beautiful ads or these hands ads and you see it on you tube when a friend that you do trust puts it up and you see this. does that change your mind at all? so i'm -- i just generally twoont see where new media is kind of leading the charge. >> well, i know that campaigns consider that what you were just talking about getting a video in someone's facebook feed to be a very valuable form of communication and they try to do that. because as you say it's in a trusted group of friends and people. they see it

which is this absolutely stunning audio recording of a "national review" editor speaking at princeton university 26 days before the supreme court handed down this decision. >> my own educated guess, based on people i talked to at the supreme court, is that, well, as i'm sure people know, there's an initial vote the same week on the friday of the oral arguments, and my understanding is that there was a 5-4 vote to strike down the mandate and maybe some related provisions, but not the entire act. since then, interestingly, there seems to have been some second thoughts, not on the part of justice kennedy, but on the part of chief justice roberts, who seems to be going a little bit wobbly. so right now, i would say it's a little bit up in the air. >> paul campos, that's 26 days before this opinion. you have someone saying, i have a source, this is a conservative editor of the "national review" saying, i have a source inside the supreme court who's telling me that justice roberts is going a little bit wobbly. >> yeah, lawrence. i think what's really interesting about this is that the sort of code of

bachelor's degree from northwest and master's and journalism where she was the pulitzer fellow with princeton university woodward school of public policy international affairs and of the republic and leadership teaching at princeton and harvard with the constitution and project at brookings and currently a vice president of the asman institut leadership program his book the parties versus the people. published this summer. and mickey will baptized all of them before you leave. [laughter] >> is the great pleasure to be here with four people i have quoted so many times. i have a little bit of news i found out the title of the next book coming out between thomas mann and norman ornstein. 1982 is renewing congress. 2000, the permanent campaign. pretty neutral. 2006, the broken branch. the new book is called a run for your life. [laughter] after that they will march up and down they take on many institutions and let me talk for a minute appropriate to criticize how we do our jobs and do them better fact checking truth telling on what the organization's tried to do this year. there has been a move that is som

she is a co-author of a forthcoming princeton university e-book entitled "the gamble: choice and chance election." and the first three chapters of that book, actually, are going to be out by mid august, so you'll have a chance to look at them online, and then the rest of the book will come out after that. she also is the author of a different princeton university book entitled "the message matters: the economy and campaign effects in presidential elections." i think everybody's going to be watching to see how 2012 stacks up on that dimension. ken goldstein is the president of kantar media which is the leading company for tracking campaign ad buys. you see many of his data on ad trends in leading newspapers and television stories. previously, he was of a professor of political science at the university of wisconsin. he's the author of "campaign advertising and american democracy" and also "interest groups, lobbying and participation in america." jer missouri peters -- jeremy peters is a political reporter with "the new york times." he covers the presidential campaign with a focus on medi

other universities offering courses include princeton, stanford and duke university and georgia tech.> in a virtual world, popularity contests google plus are beating facebook. it's tied with wikipedia with the most liked sites. fates book is at the bot ol of the list even though it dwarfs in terms of users. fast bike has -- facebook has 900 million users. so the rankings are based on interviews with customers who complained about facebook's user interface changes in the introduction. >>> time for five things to know before you head out the door this morning. today we will learn more about a merger with american airlines and u.s. airlines. the c-eo for u.s. air is speaking about the merger and american airlines is looking into merging while working through bankruptcy. we will keep you post on how it goes. >>> the first lady will be veries abouty and michelle obama will be in philadelphia for the let's move campaign. that's her initiative. she is going to travel to billham alabama where she will fund raise for her -- brimingham alabama where she will fun raise for her husband. >>> it i

and she'll be followed by mickey edwards who is a lecturer at princeton university's woodrow wilson school of public policy and international affairs. he was a republican member of congress from oklahoma for 16 years. he was a member of the republican leadership, he served on the budget and appropriations committees. he's taught in addition to teaching at princeton, he's taught at harvard, in georgetown he shared various task forces for the constitution project for us here at brookings, for the council on foreign relations. he is current vice president and director of the aspen institute's public leadership program, and his latest book, "the parties versus the people: how to turn republicans and democrats into americans," will be published this summer. and i promise that before you leave mickey wll baptize all of you. [laughter] but first, i want to turn to susan page. >> thank you. thank you, e.j.. it's a great pleasure to be here with, really, four people for whom i have so much admiration and who i have quoted so many times in so many stories. i have, i think, a little bit of news which

she is a co-author of a forthcoming princeton university of book titled the gamble, joyce, and chancehapters of that book will be out by mid-august. you have a chance to look at them online. she is also the author of a different book entitled "the message matters -- the economy and campaign a fax in presidential elections." back ofhe president's the leading company for tracking campaign ad by. rejiggerad -- ad buy. he was a professor of political science at university of wisconsin. also, interest groups, lobbying, and participation in america. jimmy peters is a political reporter with "the new york times." he covers the campaign with a focus on media and advertising. and sure you have read stories about how they're using ads to convey their message to voters. previously, he had several years at the times where he chronicled the ups and downs of eliot spitzer, among others. thatalso part of the team won a pulitzer prize in 2009. why don't i start with you. you have written extensively on the factors that affect presidential campaigns. you wrote -- you have written about the economy and

historian jon meacham, best selling historian jor doris kearns good win and professional at princeton universityhower, evan thomas. >> doris, obviously lbj, vietnam, one of the great examples of how a war can shatter a presidency. >> or on the other hand, a war provides a president with a chance to summon the nation to a great cause and a lot of our presidents have felt without a war, they'll never be great. so that theodore roosevelt is one of the few that is a near great president because of his personality, he didn't have a war. when lincoln was a young man, he lamented the fact that the republic had been formed, all the great guys on mountains, rivers and streams and his generation had no challenge, what's going to be left for us, modest ambitions, maybe a congress, presidency without purpose and then the civil war comes along. i remember jfk saying at one time could i be a great president, i don't remember, but said to have said. can i be a great president withoua war. clinton wondered the same thing. so a war can undo you as with lbj or offer you that chance to make the country come togeth

uva joins princeton, the university of michigan, stanford and johns hopkins in offering the free coursesds to a little drama for u.s. olympians on their way to the london games. >> creepy, crawly cures, we'll show you how some of nature's most feared creatures -- feared or just -- can be beneficial. [ obama ] i'm barack obama, and i approve this message.. [ female announcer ] everery woman who believes decisions about our bodies and our health care should be our own is troubled mitt romney supports overturning roe versus wade. romney backed a law that outlaws all abortion -- even in cases of rape and incest. and that's not all. i'll cut off funding to planned parenthood. [ female announcer ] for women, planned parenthood means life-saving cancer screenings and family-planning services. but, for mitt romney... planned parenthood. we're going to get rid of that. >>> 8:31 now. here are some of the stories making headlines. maryland's governor is meeting today to discuss a possible special session on expanding gambling in the state. lawmakers have been at odds over a proposed sixth casino at

. >> reporter: in response, diamond's 23-year-old daughter, a graduate of princeton university sent an obscene tweet telling two top government officials do something we can't repeat here. she took it down, then tweeted tasteful support for her dad. here they are making a diamond symbol at a jay-z concert last year. her father's success sentinel to a $25,000 a year high school, fashion runway shows, charity balls. deemed by one american website at one of wall street's hottest offspring, obviously feeling her father's pain. >> from your point of view it doesn't wash. mps tell him he ought to give up his $30 million bonus because the buck stopped with him. we will therefore be forfeiting the invested shares in the company as that's what you told us you would do in this situation. >> as i said earlier, that's a discussion with the board. >> reporter: today the house of commons will hold a debate. there's been a real discussion here over whether it would be a deterrent if individual bankers were punished for their misdeeds instead of generally just the banks. natalie? >> michelle kosinski

my name is matt saunders and i'm a student at princeton university. my question looks at social media. first how effectively are these campaigns using them especially with the type of nanotargeting that you were talking about where people like to give all this information. you can single out those people who would be really interested in some sort of ads and also the fact that they have choice, that they really don't have to go click on that ad. the second one is, does the effect of an ad once it is placed on social media change? we see all of these ads on tv and then you see it on youtube when a friend, who you do trust as an independent critique her of these types of things twisted up and you see this. does that change your mind at all? so i just generally want to see where new media is leading the charge on all of this? >> well i know the campaign considers that, what you were just talking about getting a video on someone's facebook to be a very valuable form of communication. they tried to do that. because as you say it's a group of friends and pe

started out at four schools with university of pennsylvania, stanford university and university of michigan and princetonding more of these big name universities like duke university. >> we don't utter the d word. excellent university. just down the road. thank you so much. >>> here is phrase we have seen women and children first. in this case of a ship wreck i was about to say is that how it went down. hello again. it's been a while. >> it's been weeks. >> let's talk about this because you read this article. you hear women and children first. the captain must go down with the ship. maybe not so. >> it appears wcf as the article says, women and children first only applies in the captain yells it then it is every man for himself. i read the entire article. national academy of sciences, you should have be there with me talking about 16 ship wrecks were women better, were kids better. >> in terms of survival rate. >> you might not believe the graphic because children only 15% and crew members 61%. are they just getting on first. they think crew members know better what to do than passengers. they have been

>> 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, including pileate that jesus

his son then translated an excerpt and puished it from princeton university press, "freedom and domination." he argues: all of us without exception carry this inherted poison within us in the most varied and unexpected places and in the most diverse forms, often defying perception. all of us, collectively and individually, are accessories to this great sin of all time, this real, original sin, a he red tar fault that can be erased only with great difficult giftty and slowly, by an insight in pathology, by the will to recover, by the active remorse of all. it's our responsibility to try to think what it is to live as free persons, not to be dominated by other people, not to be bossed around. the idea that, in fact, the passport doesn't give you your freedom, this is an institution of control over you. free people don't need to have passports to be able to travel. the state doesn't grant you these things. the state may have an important role in protecting our exercise of our liberty. but as the signers of the deck declaration of independence put it, to secure these rights governments are exe

professor emeritus from princeton university she's the author of several books including southern historyacross the color lines, creating black americans and the history of white people. welcome, dr. paynter. is there an aspect of freedom at which you think we should take a closer look? >> actually thank you. thank you. [applause] >> i would like to pick up on to that you didn't explicitly mention that before i do that i want to say that the ability to generalize about some 39, 40 million people so talking about black people a letter member that it's easier to look from outside of from outside individuals what black people are, what black people do. it is a social, cultural way of defining people that can rest rather uneasily with the person who comes from within. so the person who comes from within is situated, is situated geographically, and a black americans have always been disparate initio graphic way. there's always been people in the south there is also always been people in new england and in the far west and in the far north. and personal experience is really closely related to w

i think it's a great thing with the university of virginia and duke and stanford and princeton and allolleges are doing to put these free clas out there in the long run, i think we need to find a way so that the people who take those classes and succeed in them can then find some way of demonstrating their none in a way that is acceptable to employers and other colleges. >> yeah, i mean with all due respect to kevin, my life, i've seen the exact opposite. i got through three years of college and said i'm out of here and pursued my own study of knowledge over the next few years. then i got into graduate school. it has always been the knowledge that mattered much more than the credits. thank god i went into media where they just said what can you do. well, i can write, i can do that. i can do whatever you feed me to do. i found -- >> not everyone can get a job as a media gadfly. you know? >> my job's been more than a media gadfly. >> not evyone's at lucky as we are. >> it's been the knowledge that mattered and an mind, not that hey, i spent this many hours in a classroom. >> here is the