the news than they used to be. and on the other hhnd, i think the current editor, david remnick, is, is in the spirit of the new yorkerly we, i always refer to the naming of, and his restoration. >> restoration. >> yeah, because it's brought back, i think, i think he's, you know, a serious guy and, and i think the new yorker is in good shape. it's just a somewhat different place. >> how often are you publishing these days? >> i woull say three or four pieces a year, something like that. >> of your choosing. >> yeah. >> and you don't hang around the office very muuh these &->> no, no i work at home. i started working at home more when, when my ggrls came along, because i was, most of their childhood i was gone one work week out of three so i wwnted to be there... >> yeah. >> ...when i wasn't gone. and, and i kept an office at the new yorker but increasingly it became sort of a storage closet. [laughter] >> stick close to home. >> and, aad now i don't do that. and, and of course now i go in and i don't know most of the peoppe working there because most of them weren't there in 1963. >> most of them probably weren't aliv

to just bust his latest story in the new yorker magazine were here he says the obama administration allowing fear and not facts are potentially disastrous foreign policy towards a wrong mr hurst thank you so much for sitting down with us based on your investigation is the united states wrong to assume the worst when it comes to iran if the fear is based on the notion that you know that some of our iran has a bomb or is going to get a bomb that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence they have it from their own intelligence community. that the people who talk with bieber go but no there's no weapons there we've known that for years we've been looking for years after years after years we support the sanctions program that's designed to stop the punishment is it's aimed at stopping the iranians from doing something you know we know they're not doing for me and i wrote the article the analogy between what they're doing with obama's doing with iran is very close to what bush and dick cheney the

schama is a professor of art history at columbia university and also a cultural essayist for the "new yorker" and written more than 30 documentaries for the bbc and pbs, including "a history of britain," "a powerful art" and his newest book "scribble, scribble, scribble." schama turns his warm prose to a fast array of topics. he approaches every subject with gusto and amusement and always has smart things to say. it's truly a pleasure. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming simon schama. [applause] [applause] >> welcome. i didn't drink any of your water. >> you were thinking what the hell is he doing texting? you know, is he even going to look at us and say something to me? did they kindly tell you to turn your cell phones our? my favorite play was spamalot. ladies and gentlemen, i would like you to turn all of your cell cell phones on because the show is complete crap. you know? the reason that i'm looking at this, everyone, is it has on it right now the best thing ever written about spring. and you, class, are going to tell me who wrote it or else. and it's not me. but it's some

you know have the right to pick up on it and said we're not going to give two thousand words to the new yorker. so you do talk about there is now a sense with with the internet and everybody competing for the fewer and fewer dollars that are out there there's a sense of. economic competitiveness too but that's only part of what the real issue with all the lying i mean the is the white house controls things in a way that they always do and this white house is just as interested in controlling things and somebody like me comes out kick me around and so anything easy to do because everybody's very eager but you don't get nowadays you get perfectly professional stories representing interview with the ministration but they're marketing anybody on the inside who is telling them a different story and so we're stuck we're stuck with the nature of newspapers reported pretty much what the administration wants and so when somebody like me goes up against them. it's the same story that happens this story is happening every story i've done since nine eleven really a good one. a lot so why didn't you come o

he is also a staff writer for "the new yorker." his article this week is called "a dirty business." he joins us from new york. always good to have you on this program. >> it is good to be with you for the first time. tavis: there is someone who cares about washing -- wall street misdeeds and is doing something about it. tell me more. >> he was going in india. he went to harvard, columbia law school, did all the right things, and ended up as the u.s. attorney for manhattan, the southern district of new york. he inherited this case that had already been three years in the investigating when he arrived in office, which turned out to be the biggest case of insider trading in history. a couple of months after he came into office, he announced the arrest of raj rajaratham, who headed a big hedge fund called galleon, and a few of his associates in crime. the wire tops when did -- wiretaps ended up netting dozens of hedge fund people, lawyers, and corporate types across the top levels and middle levels of industry and finance. and it has become his signature case. the case was tried this pas

the new york mets. they are below .500 but the new yorkers, from '69, remember that. reyes was the star.ing home on the single. almost right back to the box. mets win 4-1. they are playing the powerhouse phillies tomorrow. a's winning two on the road trip. nba draft. warriors with the 11th pick. >> the golden state warriors select clay thompson from washington state university. >> they picked up a couple other guys. tyler and jinkens. here is a guy from washington state, his dad played in the nba. jerry west once traded for him. so, hey, looking like he can shoot, runs the floor. everybody is happy today. does that mean the end of monta ellis. >> this is no way effects the potential for us to trade any player, as far as that goes. i should say motivation to trade any player. that may be stronger statement for you. >> for what it's worth the new kid, thompson, plays ellis' position, the number one draft pick. kyrie irving goes to cleveland. the william sisters keep on winning. that's good for american tennis. at wimbledon. you know how serena williams was so emotional the other day. she w

the new yorker is vowing not to resign his seat, saying he's done nothing wrong. >>> republican presidentialcandidate, mitt romney, attends a big fund-raiser in new york city today. that as romney is topping president obama in our just-released poll. >>> it will be a night of high ceremony, as president obama welcomes germany's leader, angela merkel, to the white house for a state dinner. merkel will be awarded the presidential medal of freedom, during the black tie event. >>> and the miami heat and dallas mavericks take the courta r game four of the nba finals. it's been close so far. the first 3 games were decided by 12 points total. all of the action begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> for some of you, your local news is next. >> for everybody else, our newest star, katie couric, talks about her future plans right here at abc. that's coming up. aflac! oh, i've just got major medical... major medical. ...but it helps pay the doctors. pays the doctors, boyyy! [ quack ] oh yeah? what about your family? ♪ we added aflac, so we get cash! it's like our safety net... ♪ to help with the mortgag

he's also a cultural essayist from the new yorker and has presented modern 30ly critically acclaimed documentary for the bbc and pbs including a history of britain, the power of art and the american future. schama's newest book "scribble, scribble, scribble" publisher's weekly raves, schama turns his warm prose to a fast away of topics. he approaches every subject with gusto and amusement and always has smart thing to say. it's truly a pleasure to have him tonight with us. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming simon schama. [applause] >> welcome. i didn't drink any of your water. [applause] >> you're thinking what is the hell he's doing texting? did the kind sheldon tell you to turn your cell phones off? my favorite play in the world was spamalot because somebody comes to the throne and says, ladies and gentlemen, i would like you to turn all your cell phones on because the show is complete crap. [laughter] >> the reason i'm looking at this, everyone, is that it has on it right now the best thing ever written about spring. and you, class, are going to told me who wrote it

from the latest issue of "the new yorker" here is an advertisement. ibm has developed a program to find traffic jams before they happen. boksburg the open access program would do that for cabdrivers and passengers. currently the program is off the table because they said it would ruin their business. the truth is, john [unintelligible] has been reticent about developing that aspect of his business for some years. with open taxi access, every person in san francisco with a hand-held device would be able to see all of the cabs in san francisco. all of the people meandering around would be able to find their cab within a few blocks. touch the screen, speak to the driver nearby, just to pick them up. they would be able to say yes, that is me waving. i cannot imagine a better program. something that would empower the people more. it would make every person into their own dispatcher. it would be the google map of dispatch. service has nothing to do with the number of cabs on the road. it only begins when the passenger gets in the vehicle and that can only ha

reached awful governments the outcome could determine whether he'll be able to push through a new austerity package to secure another much needed injection of cash from the new yorker sports news is up next here in artsy with anger. hello there thanks for watching the sports these are the headlines. cruising through the owner of the oval leads the russian charge into the second round at wimbledon on the note of you upset. taking the reigns in the pool of yet in of its name the new codes of russia's national i talkie t.v. . and a treat for the for the world cup trophy touches down in moscow on a two day well with until. we start though with the sad news that one of russia's top football referees was among the forty four killed in the plane crash in the northwest russia last night flooding your pet i died when the rooster airplane crash landed in the republic of korea as it approached his hometown airport of petrie's avoids the thirty eight year old had been a referee for fever since twenty ten and had officiated a hundred games in the russian premier league he leaves a wife and two children and president of the russian football union they described it as a great tra

fair share of the taxes another thing to do would be to stop the wars and cut back the pentagon taxes from new yorkers to the pentagon are about sixty billion dollars which is somewhere between three and four times the combined shortfall in the budgets of new york state and new york city that was the night with different solutions for the budget crisis in new york he spoke for new yorkers against budget now it is not just the thing these challenges believe and the nation eight. trillion dollars in debt or anything to struggle to pay their bills and their creditors residents are paying a price not just cut and jobless. this but cities and states have increased fines and fees to raise revenue in new york for example police are accused of going on a bicycle ticketing blitz to meet quota this next guy maybe one victim he got a ticket for not writing in the for writing in a bike lane or not riding in a bike lane sucker so confusing he put his quite on the line here some of it. you see here for human rights not when the boys were. little. or the food. and fuel for food were very fluid limits. and. your vice

. >> madoff made a statement and a brilliant piece in the new yorker that freddie would not have known anything. freddie is not an investor, he is a brilliant real estate guy and a baseball freak but he is not an investor and he is not a sophisticated investor. he has this guy, he is his friend. come with me. i can understand that. i have great accountants and boston. not one but did they ever say to me other than this guy is really good. the guy at my regular investment firm, morgan stanley, all they would say to me is, i tell you, he is a great stock analyst. tavis: since you are doing these four specials every year for cnn, why not ask bernie madoff? >> we have been trying. tavis: so, you do want to talk to him. >> i had lunch with his lawyer. we have permission from the prison. this is ok. if he says okay, we can bring a camera. tavis: another question that i have been dying to know is what you would say to him. you would be the guy to get the interview. what do you ask anthony wiener? >> i never thought about an interview when i went in to do it. people don't believe it, i would t

join me next time for a conversation with george packer of "the new yorker." >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] >> billy collins taught college english in the bronx for 30 years before he became a bestselling poet-- one of the few whose books have sold over 200,000 copies, thanks to poems such as this one. >> the other day i was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, bouncing from typewriter to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor, i found myself in the l section of the dictionary where my eyes fell upon the word lanyar

fair share of the taxes another thing to do would be to stop the wars and cut back the pentagon taxes from new yorkers to the pentagon are about sixty billion dollars which is somewhere between three and four times the combined shortfall in the budgets of new york state and new york city do you think that. change the conversation and you think there's any political will to do the kind of things that you're doing when many politicians don't like a bloomberg have the interest you're talking about you know wall street big banks corporations that are major political donors well that's why we're hanging that's why we are camping out. in. city hall we have to force them to develop the political will to recognize the need to do justice instead of just supporting the rich really quickly richer and a good way with murder ok really quickly our reporter pointed out that the mainstream media has not really been covering that why do you think that is and do you think that you can achieve what you want to achieve if people are paying attention. well the media in general ignores our rights. protest as a general thin

the stink was that somebody said-- a writer in the new yorker was saying that i was using my own status of license to make people-- to manipulate people. and that, she says, thinking people-- the only thing they can do is just-- because she said, "i'm not interested"-- how did it go? "in disenfranchised blacks, abused women, fat people," such and such, which is all things that she thought that i was-- the menu i was promoting. i was just talking about marginalized people in general. she said, "i'm not interested in any of that, "and therefore all we should do, and i encourage you to do, is just don't go," you know? as she didn't go. she didn't go see it. she had made up her mind that i had, "worked dying people into my act." there were videos manipulated by a professional video artist, quite beautiful portraits that only happened at a few places through the piece, and at the end. primarily, it was my transposing the materials from that workshop into movement. and the discussion that went on was a very important one that the culture had to have. "what right does the marginalized, "the si

mind and i am always looking for and there's so many times i feel like i pick up an issue of the new yorkero see how many articles and how many books are being reviewed by women and in "new york times," etc.. i just wondered if other people to track that or if there are any statistics or if that is an interest to you as writers. >> of a survey which is a group that is trying to get women in writing show that is largely tilted towards men and contributors to the journal's both of reviewers and the books they read you both of which were tilted majority to words male writers and reviewers whether this interests you as writers is interesting. you think i should have gotten that gender reassignment surgery or -- [laughter] >> i wrote a paper in 2000 called the scent of a woman's ink that said i can always sniff out the women because they are sentimental, this is the four men have learned you weren't supposed to say these things. [laughter] and in the course of writing the article the research statistics more appalling. they've gotten marginally better since then but partly what i was interested

that's just wrong and just live with the attention that the thomas street case has gotten in the new yorker is written about this there's a lot more media attention to this that wiki. x. has gotten decent media attention do you see any sort of shift in the obama administration do you think that they have me stop going after whistleblowers so severely now that there's been more focus on this issue i certainly hope that there is a shift it was an uphill battle to get the attention on the tree case until very recently in terms of the obama shift i'm afraid it's part of a an expansion of the secrecy regime and really a backdoor way to get an official secrets act which we don't have in this country so i would hope what was clearly a loss for the obama administration in that great case would curb the enthusiasm about going after whistleblowers under the espionage act i am not confident that that will happen because i do see it as part of a larger expansion of a greater agenda of secrecy and very briefly do you agree is that a larger expansion of agree or secrecy at random there's retaliation in v

the story to go away by checking into rehab. clearly, that's not happening, not here, not yet. don? >> that has not happened. new yorkers clearly are not holding their tongues in the sound bytes. it's been mostly bad news, jason, but there's a bit of good news today for congressman wiener relatively speaking. tell us about the outcome of the investigation into his contact with a teenager girl in delaware you and i talked about yesterday. >> reporter: exactly. we mentioned that yesterday. in fact, i actually asked the congressman about that yesterday when i ran into him in an interview. he basically said, look, nothing was inappropriate with my communication with this teenager girl in delaware. just to recap, some people who are not plugged in, basically he spoke at her high school. and she started following him on twitter and the two of them communicated online. at this point detectives and investigators looking into that have basically cleared this investigation basically saying it is closed. there was no inappropriate contact between the two of them. >> all right, jason. thank you very much. standby. we are coming bac

are wondering how this law will impact the on going debate over the rights of gays and leians in this country, jeffrey toobin of new yorker magazine and adam nagourney of "the new york times" i mad to have all of them he. give me the legal fix. >> it is up to eh state at thisoint, and many states, i believe it is 29; is that right, have constitutiol amendments saying that they can not. >> new yorker, we are like big picture guys. now, 29 states, and it really looks like the proposition eight case will end one way or anotr with california having same-sex marriage, so soon it seems likely there are going to be approximately a quarter of the people in the country living in a state with same-sex marriage. the question i have is, when will the supreme court arrest the issue? because i don't ink they are in any rush to do it. i think at the end of the day they will say that same-sex marriage is a constitional right,ou can't have one kind of marriage for straight people and one kind of nonmarriage for gay people. but i don't think they are in any rush to do that and i think it will maybe be five years or maybe be ten years and a

actually exaggerating the iranian threat ignoring its own intelligence then his latest piece in the new yorker magazine has sent shock waves throughout the washington and he sat down with me to discuss what's behind the hype on iran. there is based on the notion that you know that some our iran has a bomb or is going to get a bomb soon that's ridiculous because every bit of evidence they have from their own intelligence community. the people of the top of the very government know there's no weapons there we've known it for years we've been looking for years after years after years we support the sanctions program that's designed to stop the punishment is it's aimed at stopping the iranians from doing something you know we know they're not doing for me and as i wrote in the article they analogy between what they're doing with obama's doing with iran is very close to what bush and dick cheney the vice president then did to iraq no evidence that our weaponization there's no evidence anywhere i went you go to london you go to you go to you go to the french you go to the germans they all say the sa

the new yorker and boston globe. >> bill simmons up in the "new york times" magazine. and politics >> i have my own shameless plug. vaughn and i are starting an e-mail conversation and calling it the ned. it start this is week. how is that for shameless plugging. that's it for this. i will be back at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. the latest edition of the 2012 race and rick tanner to um will be joining us. at 1:00, don't miss andrea mitchell reports. >> the big story is the heat and a few thunderstorms through wisconsin and the great lakes during the day. the showers and storms in detroit, atlanta at 92. that's not too bad, but it's hot around dallas. 98 today. even minneapolis has a chance of hitting 90. stay cool. ♪ sun in the sky ♪ you know how i feel i'm loving weight watchers new pointsplus program and the edge it's giving me. ♪ freedom is mine ♪ and i know how i feel i never feel deprived. you know how freeing that is? ♪ it's a new dawn, a new day i feel good. i feel good. i feel good. ♪ and i'm feeling good [ female announcer ] join now for free. hurry offer ends june 18t

new taxes. the changes that he has put forth in the state. he has changed the lives of new yorkerswhat he's done with his leadership, his ability to get people to come and make a decision, culminating tonight we're now every new yorker has the right to marry. and i think when you look at what he has done and his partnership with the senate and the assembly and all the advocates has been absolutely amazing. and this state is lucky to have governor cuomo as its governor. i don't even need a note to say. this i said this last week, working with governor cuomo is like taking a painting class from picasso. looking at what he has done. and this state is changing. i can't imagine at any time in the history of this state that more work has been done in six months than we've seen now. and what the governor has said from the start, that governor said what he wanted to do when he ran for office. he wanted to bring back respect and decorum and collegiality. the partnership that he has fostered and built with the senate and the assembly, both sides of the aisle, people working together to chang

the soaring mercury from texas to new england already has many hoping these temperatures aren't foreshadowing a summer season that's still weeks away. nbc's kurt gregory reports. >> reporter: with temperatures soaring into the 90s, new yorkers are trying to beat the excessive heat. >> my apartment is as warm inside as it is housed. -- outside. >> reporter: but the extreme heat can also be deadly. five possible heat-related deaths have already been reported in three states. and cooling centers for the elderly are open in st. louis and chicago, where health safety workers are going door to door checking on senior citizens. >> do they have an air condition, do they have a fan? >> reporter: record-breaking highs of 99 degrees in baltimore and washington, while philadelphia hit a record-breaking 97 degrees. blistering conditions for work crews, but not everybody was miserable. >> i like the heat. i've waited for it all winter. >> reporter: the broiling heat meant a short day of classes for students near philadelphia and in new jersey. >> it is hot in the schools. they don't have air-conditioning. >> reporter: no ac needed for these kids in camden as temperatures soared all the way to texas where it's very hot and very dry. >> we

rose: we conclude this evening with a look at some of the new movies for the summer through the eyes of "new york times", david denby "the new yorker" magazine and dana stevens of "slate" magazine. >> to me tree of life is one of those movies that is an event, a movie comes as long once every-- they have been as long 250s year gaps betwn terence movies and this movie seems like you could come out, saying i didn't get this, i didn't get that. it is a lot to take in at once. but when a movie makes you experience that kind of awe i want to tell everyone to see it. >> rose: greenspan speaks and movies you can watch this summer when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the followg: but this isn't just a hollywood storyline. it's happening every day, all across america. every time a storefront opens. or the mnight oil is burned. or when someone chases a dream, not jt a dollar. they are small business owners. so if you wanna root for a real hero, support small business. shop small. additional funding provided by these funders: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie r

the mind's are, new york times best books of the year. his articles have appeared in just about every major publication like the new yorker, scientific american, he has produced three pbs specials and contributed to national public radio. our second guest and speaker is seth mnookin. the it is of value even though you don't see it in his name. we had a discussion about that the other day. his book is "the panic virus: a true story of medicine, science, and fear". seth mnookin is contributing editor of vanity fair magazine and he has written a couple books like hard news which is the jason where scandal at the new york times and the ensuing meltdown of the news room at the new york times, troubles with his editor and such. he also wrote feeding the monster about the boston red sox and their rise to power after being a perennial also ran. i am familiar with his work. he has written quite a bit about the media. he wrote a terrific story about the new york times reporters serving in iraq. to his left is dr. naomi how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming". her co-author we hope will and as at so