one of that i was the first person in my family to go to college i was able to go to princeton university because in a large part of alumni giving that funded those scholarships that make princeton and harvard and yale and other schools like that far more meritocracy than they used to be which is what america should be about allowing those who are gifted and those who are talented and those who are working hard to have an opportunity to rise and in a time when we're concerned about a lack of social mobility i think that we don't want to do anything that's going to harm those kinds of scholarships secondly. it's going to tell me you're going to. what twenty with billion dollars twenty five billion dollars it would seem to me a pretty poor allocation of resources and when we look at aim well it's live. i don't know i want to go lesley say i don't have any free time you're ok leslie generally ever you're never enjoying your government it's awfully. it's awfully patronizing to say that the needy don't benefit from symphonies and museums and a cleaner environment and so on in fact you could ar

he graduated with honors from princeton university, where he majored in religion. he received a bachelor of divinity degree from yale divinity school and a bachelor of laws degree from yale law school. he practiced law for some years and began his political career in 1968 when he was elected attorney general of missouri in his first place for public office. missouri voters elected him to the u.s. senate in 1976. they reelected him in 1982 and 1988, for a total of 18 years of service. the senator initiated major legislation in international trade, telecommunications, health care, research and development, transportation, and civil rights. he was later appointed special counsel by janet reno. he later represented the united states as u.s. ambassador to the united nations and served as a special envoy to sudan. he has been a great friend to missouri, st. louis, and washington university. please join me in welcoming him now. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. i owe our speaker an apology. when you hear the apology, you are going to conclude that i am a reall

meacham, best-selling presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, and ferris professor at princeton university and author about president eisenhower evan thomas. >> what a great way to start it because dwight eisenhower, you always see presidents rise, you see presidents fall, and over the past four, five, six seven years i have found myself going back and reading ambrose's "eisenhower" over and over again. talk about -- let's start with eisenhower right now, my favorite president. it may change after i read your biography. >> exactly. or after we hear from meacham. >> or hear that he would kick dogs instead of go golf. but talk about eisenhower derided as dull and worthless and now we look back and say, my god, what he did over eight years pretty unbelievable. >> one of the great shots of all time was the kennedys on eisenhower. to make jack kennedy look young and vibrant, you had to make eisenhower look old and dull. that stuck. but what people didn't realize was that with a hidden hand, as a professor once said, he was doing a lot. what he was really doing was keeping us out of war. and you

thousand and nine russian studies and history professor steven cohen from new york and a princeton university'says he's never held any illusions about the two countries relations watch there's an old russian saying we're friends are also deeds a lot of people in moscow and in washington may pass the magnitsky act and now the ban on adoption in moscow may have thought they were just talking showing off playing grandstanding politically as we say in america but these words have consequences they have bet very few all this new cold war atmosphere which is enveloping the relationship between our two countries it's going to affect american relations with russia regarding afghanistan regarding missile defense regarding syria regarding iran these are very serious matters obama has continued the policy toward moscow begun by president clinton a democrat and continued by president bush a republican that policy is advancing nato toward russia's borders building missile defense on russia's borders interfering in russia's interest politics most recently the street demonstrations this is the same policy wit

paul krug man is a nobel prize winning economist at princeton university and a columnist for the "new york times." he joins us now. ers kin bowles may be one of the people you have written about in the past who you called deficit... who were touting a phantom menace known as the fiscal cliff. am i right about that? >> fiscal cliff is not a phantom menace. the deficit right now is. the notion that something terrible will happen if we don't deal with the deficit right away. the fiscal cliff is a very different story. that's about reducing the deficit too fast. >> ifill: you call it an austerity bomb. describe what you mean by that. >> what's happening is that we are scheduled, unless something is done basically to do to ourselves gratuitously what has been happening to some of the european economies. we're going to have substantial spending cuts, substantial tax increases at a time when the dme is still very weak. of course that's a recipe for sliding back into recession. we set ourselves up with the land mine and the road in front of our economy which is not based on anything real, it'

makes someone a bully and a very very ugly justice antonin scalia in a surprise in a speech at princeton university yesterday scalia stood by remarks he had previously made equating homosexuality with murder and bishi al. and asked by a student about the comments scully remarked if we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality can we have it against murder and we have it against other things going on to tell a student i'm surprised you're not persuaded the fact that scalia compared homosexuality to murder and beastly ality is bad enough but the fact that he had the audacity to stand by such ignorant hateful comments that it's very very. michigan isn't the only place where workers are getting a raw deal twenty maker hostess continues to screw over its workers the company is in the process of completely liquidation and eighteen thousand unionized workers are set to lose their jobs more troubling they could lose their pensions that they've paid for according to a report by the wall street journal hostess's c.e.o. gregory rayburn essentially admitted that his company stole employee pension money

news but one of the most striking revelations was as professor william harper in america from princeton university of the nuclear forensics advisor over a bomb administration if i'm not wrong definitely of the american government and he is sad but any of anybody suggesting that the russian government had anything to do with this murder is preposterous from the point of view of physics from the point of view of the evidence available so obviously we couldn't hide anything which would sort of lead us to talk to the russian government so if the russian government had nothing to do with it then who was to blame. well there are many theories there are many are sort of facts as well and as far as i know russia has some proof some very serious evidence which will be uncovered and of this month i can't tell more but i've just spoken to my colleagues on t.v. who strongly believe that comes twenty third of december the world will know far more interesting the year range from one of his main suspects under a look of war to take a lie detector test just remind us what happened there what was it what were the

>> guest: my wonderful co-author, many yearings ago when we were both at princeton university, we co-taught a course on ethics and public policy, and that led to us co-authoring several books on deliberation and democracy. >> host: in the spirit of compromise, president, you give two examples, the tax reform and the health care act. if you would, walk us through that. >> guest: so this is a tale of two compromises, and it begins with ronald reagan, presidency, where tax reform was a humanly important issue, and hugely difficult issue to get done between republicans and democrats. those of us who lived through the reagan era recognized people thought they were polarized. tip a stanch liberal democrat, reagan, a republican. yes, they crafted a bipartisan compromise with bradley, packwood, be part of the movers of the compromise. farce -- fast forward to the affordable care act, it was arguably for difficult to craft a compromise within one party, the democratic party, because of the permanent campaign, and not just polarized, but resistance how the two parties were. the comparison between the

he graduated with honors from princeton university, where he majored in religion.e received a bachelor of divinity degree from yale divinity school and a bachelor of laws degree from yale law school. he practiced law for some years and began his political career in 1968 when he was elected attorney general of missouri in his first place for public office. missouri voters elected him to the u.s. senate in 1976. they reelected him in 1982 and 1988, for a total of 18 years of service. the senator initiated major legislation in international trade, telecommunications, health care, research and development, transportation, and civil rights. he was later appointed special counsel by janet reno. he later represented the united states as u.s. ambassador to the united nations and served as a special envoy to sudan. he has been a great friend to missouri, st. louis, and washington university. please join me in welcoming him now. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. i owe our speaker an apology. when you hear the apology, you are going to conclude that i am a really

scalia said that and a whole lot more during a headline grabbing appearance at princeton university that a q&a session with students. it was then scalia was asked about his past writings on gay rights, including a 2003 case, lawrence versus texas which likened sodomy to among other incomparables, bestiality and incest. in that high case the court ruled that statescan not outlaw sodomy among consenting adults of the same sex. disagreeing, scalia wrote in part, texas' prohibition of sodomy is unsupported by a rational relation to a legislate state interest nor denies the equal protection of the laws. emphasis added. i dissent. scalia continues the texas statute seeks to further the belief of the citizens that certain forms of sexual behaviors are immoral and unacceptable. the same interest furthered by criminal laws against fornication, bigamy, adultery and bestiality. when questioned on those comments comparing sodomy to murder, by a freshman who is gay, scalia doubled down, reaffirming the comparison he made nearly a decade ago. he said if we cannot have miranda rule feelings against or

he graduated with honors from princeton university, where he majored in religion. he received a bachelor of divinity degree from yale divinity school and a bachelor of laws degree from yale law school. he practiced law for some years and began his political career in 1968 when he was elected attorney general of missouri in his first place for public office. missouri voters elected him to the u.s. senate in 1976. they reelected him in 1982 and 1988, for a total of 18 years of service. the senator initiated major legislation in international trade, telecommunications, health care, research and development, transportation, and civil rights. he was later appointed special counsel by janet reno. he later represented the united states as u.s. ambassador to the united nations and served as a special envoy to sudan. he has been a great friend to missouri, st. louis, and washington university. please join me in welcoming him now. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. i owe our speaker an apology. when you hear the apology, you are going to conclude that i am a reall

many years ago when we were both at princeton university week co-taught a course on ethics and public policy, and that led to as co-operate several books on deliberation and democracy. >> in the spirit of compromise, you give it to legislate examples. 1986 tax reform health care act. if you would, walk us through those. >> so this is a tale of two compromises. and it begins with ronald reagan presidency where tax reform was a huge and important issue and a hugely difficult issue to get done between the republicans and democrats. those of us who lived through the reagan era recognizes that people thought they were very polarized. tip o'neill was a staunch little too liberal democrat and reagan's staunch conservative republican. yes, they crafted a bipartisan compromise. part of the movers of that compromise. test for to the affordable care act. it ven more difficult to craft a compromise within one party, the democratic party, because of the permanent campaign and helped not just polarized, but resistant to compromise the two parties were. so the comparison between the tax reform act a

. >> the reports that she may be considered to be the next president of princeton university.o you know anything about that? have you heard anything about that? can you possibly get that job? running a university now is about raising money. would sheeb able to do that? >> she certainly alienated the business community. she's made a lot of friends in the business community. so it's possible. i only know rumors about princeton, so i'm tempted to say we can improve princeton and that wouldn't be fair of me to say. the good news is we have doj agreeing to produce 12,000 e-mails that by their nature richard windsor doesn't want the public to see. >> got it. thank you, chris. >> he used the phrase called rent seekers and it's an economic term. that's a business that doesn't actually want to compete. they actually just like to call it broad regulators to make sure there's tiles of regulation in place so they don't have to compete anymore. so they just actually seek rent from the space that they managed to occupy for everybody else. >> the world's second oldest profession. >> yes. so

but i do want to get you all on the record, both of you, about this very serious matter from princeton university, supreme court justice scalia anded some legal writings when he was questioned by a gay student on campus there about his own feelings about marriage equality. scalia said if we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? can we have it against other things? ravi, i'll start with you on this. the court is taking up two cases on marriage equality next year including the defensive marriage act. do you have any concerns now that this is in the hands of the high court and a statement like that, that scalia would make on the heels of know that they've taken up these two cases? >> well, absolutely, there are concerns. to compare a homosexuality to murder is incon shunable. the supreme court has had a history of equality cases before its docket and they've someti s sometimesered on the side of caution and has embarrassed the country in dred scott in 1957, in pace, alabama, in 1883 and ferguson in 1886. they have also done the right thing with browned v. b