cindy earned a ba from tufts university and a ph.d. where she wrote a brilliant dissertation in u.s. history from the graduate center kuny. her first book, urban appetites: food and culture in 19th century new york, was released in april 2014 by the university of chicago press. the manuscript for "urban appetites," not surprisingly, won the dixon ryan fox prize for the best manuscript that year on new york history. lobel has published in the winchester portfolio, in common place and in history now. her current research includes this biography of catherine beecher to be published soon by westview press and the american, lives of american women series. and her next book will be a biography of 19th century new york african-american oyster man thomas downing. i have questions for all of them to start things off, and i will make sure that they keep their answers brief enough that you will have time to ask questions too. first i want to ask all of them very briefly to tell me who your subject is and what were her most important accomplishmen

joining us tonight former nato commander from tufts university great to have you with us. let's begin with this discussion the white house's engaged in and talk about ending the new release of prisoners allowing civilians to play -- to pay ransom or whenever it may be? this is a remarkable turnabout? >> it is responsible to the humanitarian instinct. at the end of the debris of what to bring all american hostages home. if we give in to demands for ransom and will exacerbate the problem every will find ourselves in a downward spiral and still have terrible incidents. lou: the president surely comprehends that what could motivate him to go against with that convincing reality with countries that pay a ransom of citizens kidnapped in those that don't have you were. >> it looks like a response to public pressure and that humanitarian feeling but that does not make good policy at the end of the day >> i am curious now a story out in front that is larger automatic weapons why is this part of public knowledge? >> it is hard to assess that it makes no sense to put it there but is

cindy and a be a from tufts university and a ph.d. where she wrote a brilliant dissertation on u.s. history from the graduate center. her first book urban appetites:food and culture in nineteenth century new york was released in april of 2014 by the university of chicago press. the manuscript for urban apatite, not surprisingly won the dixon ryan prize for the best manuscript that year on new york history. she has published in the winchester portfolio in commonplace and in history now. her current research includes this biography of catherine beecher to be published soon by westview press in the lives of american women series. and her next book will be a biography of nineteenth century new york african-american oystersman thomas downing. i have questions for all of them to start things off and i will make sure they keep their answers brief enough that you will have time to ask questions too. i want to ask all of them very briefly to tell me to your subject is and what were her most important accomplishments. cindy you want to start? >> thank you all for coming. i hope nobody had too

. >> i went into i did rotc at tufts university. i went in one of his 18. 1998, just before 9/11 and i had the sense that it wanted the job of making out of school, whether i was good my job or good at my job, didn't matter. i wanted a lot of responsibility at a young age and the third point i would make a vitiligo illegal is also the kid who never stopped playing with his g.i. joe's. i was always fascinated by the military. i see myself -- i came from a good family, loving parents i would actually university and had this since composed of the sense or is fundamental and human condition. it's always going to happen. as a 23 called when i came in from this abstract idea that there might be a war on if it happened, i felt again and aspect, it would probably be a platoon of 45 marines out there who would be led by someone. should there lieutenant be someone who hasn't had all these advantages osha to be one of the -- that lieutenant will probably over the course of their time have to make a few informed decisions that will impact these

also the professor of african-american studies at tufts university. and dr. james peterson msnbc contributor and director of africana studies at lehigh university. mr. henderson, let me turn to you first. the one thing baltimore police have not addressed is why they chased freddie gray to begin with. how will this impact the investigation? >> we heard from the attorney from the police union, which talked about citing case law that allows them to engage a suspect. really here's the problem. it's united states v. jones, which talks about being able to engage an unprovoked suspect in a high crime area. but here's the problem with that. one, that speaks to reasonable suspicion to detain and not probable cause to arrest. and in this case we have an arrest. so it's going to be very important to understand that if they did have a knife, when they did have a knife, that that was enough to arrest him, because knives aren't necessarily enough to arrest an individual per se. people are demanding for justice, people are demanding change. but they can't ask for any of thos

we go to war college with a good admiral from tufts university. this is the real deal. what happens next? >> you just showed a chart of the rise and fall of oil. it is really a rise and fall of geopolitics. it is the revenge of geography that comes back to the markets. the narrowest point that the big oil tankers flow through. this is a provocative act by iran. you show the split between the iranian government and the iranian revolutionary guard. it was the revolutionary guard that took the ship they were holding it, supposedly a business dispute. we are monitoring it. this is not something we are going to go to war about. tom: when you look at it, the iranian diplomat who was in new york city -- you know this better than me -- he is greeted with open arms. olivia: to the admiral's point that is because there is a normal -- an enormous amount of daylight between the iranian government and the royal guard -- revolutionary guard. >> you have the ayatollah on one side and you have the more moderate forces represented by the foreign minister in new york. tom: everything was

first one being a project between tufts university in boston massachusetts and in mississippi. it was called the tufts-delta project. and since that time they are now providing quality health care to more than 23 million low and moderate income individuals throughout the nation. one of the great needs is the need for health education and the recognition that as people learn how to better care for themselves and to make more effective use of the resources that are available not only do we save money but we also save lives. i was amazed as people spoke against the affordable care act. many individuals were going to have access to a regular primary care physician. where they didn't have to go to the emergency room of hospitals and get what is called episodic care. while the disparities are great we know that progress is perhaps even greater. i end with being at a church just the other day where we were having something called organ transplant funder. and the minister of this particular church had had two heart transplants and a kidney transplants, preached every sunday and owned a