levi at the university of chicago law school and embodies many of edward levi's virtues. as a graduate of the university of pennsylvania received his degree from our law school in 1971. he was a law clerk to justice brennan at the u.s. supreme court enjoined or faculty in 1973. bike edward levi, served as the dean and went on to serve nine years as provost of this great university. he's the author of more than a dozen books, including the preeminent constitutional law and the award-winning book, perilous times, free speech in wartime from the sedition act of 1798 to the war on terrorism. he's extremely a than the community, serving on boards including the american constitutional society and the aclu and editor of the supreme court review. perhaps most important to her students is one of our most popular and revered teachers and those of you who do know just already will see why in a minute. please join me in welcoming our panelists. [applause] >> i'm delighted to welcome me to this conversation about restoring justice. jack fuller's book of edwards speeches and his attorne

it is a pleasure to be with you all at the university of chicago tonight and it's a privilege to stand with members of the family, leaders through chicago's legal community, attorney general john ashcroft and so many faculty members who have always made the university of chicago and exceptional place. i want to thank you for welcoming me to your beautiful campus, for getting me out of washington d.c. and for providing a forum for two nights important discussion as we celebrate the legacy of a nation's 71st attorney general , edward levi and reaffirm our commitment to build number for that defined his truly remarkable career. it's fitting we come together in hyde park in an institution wonderful city that was always proud to call home on a campus that shaped him in which he would in turn help to shave. as a young man, student and faculty member, tina velasco and the university of the as president, edward levi and was part of this community for his entire life from kindergarten through retirement. over the course of a career would take him from this site to washington and back again. he

. >> i went to the university of chicago for my graduate work and did graduate work in contemporary philosophy. then it was only after i got sprung and had my degree in hand that i realized that in my teaching, i loved teaching about the world's great religions and, in comparison, modern philosophy seemed pretty tame and almost like a cage because it had been infected by the scientific outlook and when i say infected i don't mean to say anything disrespectful toward science. i had prostate cancer five years ago and without radiation i wouldn't be here talking so i'm not going to bad mouth science but science deals only with facts. it cannot deal with value. human life is a mix of facts and values and so what i believe and what has been the exhilaration of my life is trying to help my students see that we need a binocular vision to look at life in the world with the factual information that science gives us but not do it through one eye only but bring in the world of values and the world's great religious traditions or the wisdom tradition of the human race because when we come to values they'r

economic guru at university of chicago. what about it 3.8% surtax and 2.3% medical device tax, fax-fee is enough is enough? >> stop. that is just confusing. that entire rant that you said, hello. it's a mischaracter ziax of the bill. harry reid is saying they need to work on implementation. he is not talking about expanding or entitlement. they are talking about basic stuff you have certain governors actively trying --. >> eric: let me stop you. what was wrong. 3.8% surtax on investment economy. >> on high income people. payroll taxes. what payroll tax are you referring to? the payroll tax going away had nothing to do with this. >> eric: i'm talking about the obamacare medical payroll tax, a new specific tax to obamacare. it's an individual mandate. austin, come on? >> here the thing. >> you just stated two things that were the same thing. what you are saying the increase on the cal gains rate is the other thing as you tried to portray as a second fax. there is no doubt there will be practical hickups like when they passed m

speaking at the university of chicago law school she said it gave abortion opponents a clear target that still fuels activism today. >>> lamar alexander says kathleen sebelius broke the law. alexander compares her actions to the iran-contra scandal of the 1980s and wants a full congressional investigation. >>> the artist formerly known as snoop dogg last settled two huge bills with uncle sam. snoop lion as he's called now has paid more than $500,000 he owed for 2009 and 2011. >>> newt gingrich wanted to leave the country but puzzled about his iphone and says you can't call it a cell phone if you also use it to take pictures or get online and wants your help in naming it. >> we spent weeks trying to figure out what do you call this? i know you probably think it's a kr cell phone. i've been calling it a handheld computer. >> during his 2012 presidential campaign his cell famously played abba's "dancing queen" whenever it rang. >>> the first lady and bill clinton gave commencement speeches over the weekend. mr. clinton addressed graduates at howard university. >> make no mistake, you can go

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it back in the 70's and 80's, a wonderful man by the name of eugene has been working at the university of chicago and he was able to get ahold of this drug after many taxpayers' dollars and at the time it was just a tiny biotech shops and they worked on it and worked on it and were able to actually patent it and put it out in the market. they were so tiny at the time that they needed a marketing muscle to go after it and that is when they linked up with johnson & johnson, who of course is a wonderful company allegedly that makes no more tears baby shampoo and band-aids. .. >> that this was the next big thing. but as time went on, amgen and j&j kept fighting for market share, and it became not only a huge bestseller, but a pretty vicious, competitive deal between the two companies. >> who was mark ducksberriesome. >> he was one of the top salesmen at j&j, and he was a very charming guy -- charming guy who loved to tell jokes to the nurses, and he wore these wacky ties that would break ice, and he really believed in the goodness of this drug. what you had was a lot of people who were undergoing blo

trying to defend his old boss, professor of economics at the university of chicago, school of businessgoolsbee. i bet you are glad -- >> thanks for having me on, sean, i appreciate it. >> somebody has to come on from the obama administration. which of these three bothers you the most? >> i would like more details on all three, but if the irs thing is -- >> we know it's true. >> -- is specifically targeting parties, that's it. >> it's been established, they admitted to it. we have the i.g. report and i have all 54 pages here. >> here are the two things that are caveats. if they are true then i will agree with you but the caveats are number one, congress passed a law that says for this type of nonprofit organization you can't be a political partisan organization and be donating this money, and they toll the irs you make sure people are not politically partisan -- >> wait a minute, targeting media matters, they weren't targeting. >> no, but that's my point. that's where i agree with you. that's where i agree with you. >> but the tea party, constitution -- >> if that's all they did, then i

politico, maggie haberman, and ben smith and joining us from chicago is former senior adviser to president obama, director of the universityf chicago institute of politics and msnbc political analyst, david axelrod. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> i was believe as probably was made evident in that little open of mine. that this irs scandal has been take ton a level that is perhaps not prudential, as it were. but my question to you is, david, has the white house not done itself the greatest service in how they have tackled this? which is to say, i usually don't paraphrase, john boehner, but the drip drip drip of new information. every day we learn a new detail about this, which doesn't necessarily implicate the president, but does as ron fournier suggest challenges one's competence and credibility. sowing the seeds of doubt, if you will. >> i think that what they were dealing with, was anç inspecto general's report. by the way. one of the things that i just going back to your lead-in. that i find hard to understand is they have the testimony and report of inspector general, who assertsed that he didn't be

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weathermen, we're making movies of them now, one is teaching at columbia, another teaching at university of chicago. we didn't execute many of the other terrorists. yes, we did timothy mcveigh. this is a 19-year-old. he may have information that we can exchange for his life, but on balance, i think the main reason for not executing him is two-fold. number one, we don't want him to become a role model and somebody who is seen as a martyr. if he goes to an obscure prison somewhere in southern indiana and lives out the rest of his life in miserable obscurity, he's less likely to become a role model than if he's executed after a countdown and i think the other point as an opponent to the death penalty, you know, you can argue if anybody deserves the death penalty, he does. the obverse of that is if he doesn't get the death penalty, then no one deserves the death penalty. i fundamentally disagree with my colleague. i think this society like every european society and virtually every other western society can maintain its moral compass while abolishing the death penalty. that is not how we judge the mora

. >> that is for president obama and economic guru in the university of the chicago. austin, what about it. a 2.3 medical device tax and obama care. tax fee, tax fee. enough is enough. >> stop, stop. that is confused. that is it an entire rant that lost me at hello. that is a total mischaracterization . bill and harry reid is saying they have to work on implementation he's not talking about expand entitlement. they are talking about basic stuff. >> off the- austin. what wrong. there is a 3 hadn't 8 percent tax on investment income. >> it is it on high income people. pay roll taxings. what pay roll tax are you referring to? pay roll tax going away had nothing to do with that. >> i am talking about obama care medical pay roll tax. a new specific tax with obama care. it is it a noncompliance. austin, come on, man. >> you just stated two things that were the same thing . that is an increase on the capitol gains rate is the stame thing tried to portray as a second tax. >> it is going to medicare. >> there is no doubt there will be practical hicups like when they passed med

i have on the great university of chicago professor martha -- one of the leading names on the left and she was delighted to be on and we don't agree on anything. my motto on my show is i prefer clarity to agreement. if i clarify where i differ with the left or whoever, good. back to is this. to merely say there is more of a moral problem today in the islamic world and the christian or jewish or buddhist or in do is to be called names. people are afraid of being called names. i am not and it shuts up a lot of people. >> host: kathy in illinois go ahead with your question or comment for dennis prager. >> caller: i have a question. one of my questions for you is can you name any society you are aware of that doesn't suffer from deep levels of poverty, that is not crime-ridden? >> guest: can you explain what you mean by that question? >> host: can i name a society that is crime-ridden that does not suffer from deep poverty? >> guest: the point being there is only crime where there is poverty. every society has poverty, and i would turn the question around, the impoverished ancestors of vir

it again clearly saturday on a discussion of the 40th anniversary of roe versus wade at the university of chicagochool. she said roe versus wade had, quote, given opponents of access to abortion a target to aim at relentlessly. my criticism of roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum that was on the side of change. justice ginsberg said in the past that roe versus wade moved too far too fast. ginsberg herself was a lawyer 40 years ago fighting for abortion rights, but thinks roe was the wrong case for such a historic decision. she wishes the court affirmed the right to abortion that was at issue in that case and that the roe ruling limited itself to overturning the texas law that allowed abortion only to save the life of the mother. that was the law that was at stake in that case. ginsberg believes if the court had handled the abortion issue case by case with a series of gradual, progressive opinions, that would have allowed space for state legislatures to step up, provide abortion rights through a democratic process instead of a judicial process. justice ginsberg's criticism of roe inc

. >>> new research from the university of chicago finds there thr is no lip mitt to how much -- no limit to how much happy your money can get you. as people are richer they feel more satisfied. it de bunks the idea of the satiation point, ie, after a certain income earning money won't make you happier why. does this ring true, diane? >> i think people compare themselves to who they are around. it is not a matter of how much money you have, but how much money you have compared to the people you are associating with. rich people associate with other rich people and so they are not satisfied. >> tom, it must be terrible news for stand up comedians. >> no, now that the revenue stream is coming in for the pod casting, it is going great. >> you are making hundreds. >> the problem is people -- it is the expectation. when you have no money and then you get money you think you will be happy, but you are not. the things they show you, riding on the boat with the woman in the bikini, it is not that fun. riding in a boat stinks. all of those rich things they picture it is not fun. >> you are absolut

the thing about carney -- >> -- billy, he was a professor at the university of chicago.hat's where they had enrique cycletron not only does the buck not stop with the president anymore. it speeds up there do you remember that ride at the amusement park the whip that would make it down to the end? that's the buck in this white house. never has the guy been more out of the loop, who i am told is the the center of it all. listen, forget change in the world as we know it wake up. check your file of facts. it's hitting the fan, powell. >> bill: now, i said earlier in the broadcast that if i were a part of the white house press corps, i would have walked out of jay carney's briefing today when he said oh, we can't comment on the irs thing because the fbi is investigating. this is the oldest ruse in the world. this is what they all do. they hide behind investigations when they don't have -- every judge who gives a child rapist six months in jail oh, i can't comment. oh, you know, we know what you are doing. but, the white house press corps, i mean, they should have all got up a

the thing about carney -- >> -- billy, he was a professor at the university of chicago. that's where they had enrique cycletron not only does the buck not stop with the president anymore. it speeds up there do you remember that ride at the amusement park the whip that would make it down to the end? that's the buck in this white house. never has the guy been more out of the loop, who i am told is the the center of it all. listen, forget change in the world as we know it wake up. check your file of facts. it's hitting the fan, powell. >> bill: now, i said earlier in the broadcast that if i were a part of the white house press corps, i would have walked out of jay carney's briefing today when he said oh, we can't comment on the irs thing because the fbi is investigating. this is the oldest ruse in the world. this is what they all do. they hide behind investigations when they don't have -- every judge who gives a child rapist six months in jail oh, i can't comment. oh, you know, we know what you are doing. but, the white house press corps, i mean, they should have all got up

austin goldspeed, currently an economics professor at the university of chicago booth school. i know you expressed concern about the forced budget cuts, how they could hold back job creation. does friday's job report give you any sense of optimism about whether we can sustain jobs growth into the summer? >> only a little. you never want to make too much of any one month but it was a solid month. my fear that is over the summer it's not a real magic secret here. if the growth rate of the economy is going to be only a little above 2%, the unemployment rate is not going to come down very fast. we are just not going to generate this type of job growth or faster than this on a sustained basis and that's what we need to do. >> are we stuck here with a jobless rate that ticking down sometimes but not falling? >> so we've taken a big step towards a better outcome. i'm encouraged by friday's jobs report. we created jobs, unemployment is coming down for the right reasons. this is an important step. it's not the whole thing. we still have the head winds coming from washington. we still ha

and maybe hearken back to some of my university of chicago economics training, i ask myself who shoulddo the rest either of a premature -- or a prolonged detention? and i think any setting like we're in, the people have chosen a war that doesn't have clear boundaries and have decided to benefit from not wearing uniforms and have decided to benefit from the absence of compliance with international law should not necessarily be relieved of the consequences of that and able to impose the risk of premature release on society generally. so i think antonin scalia and one of his decisions, he pointed out that one of the individuals so released because we saw to release people every moment we could, there's no interest in keeping people at federal government expense who are not threats, are not part of the threat against the united states, one of the individuals, for example, insid is side and e supreme court decision was responsible for going out and involved in mass killing. now, i don't have a problem with detaining people after he handed in the war, and whether they are force fed or allowe

but communities are sort of the university of chicago crime lab study, the exodus of certain parts of wealthier parts of the city, from chicago. and you increasingly have neighborhoods where there is no sort of hope where there will be a future left. >> think about the $2500 a family. what could you do with that in a school. the school is the one foundation for these kids. they don't have money. there's no -- there's, property taxes and getting into schools. there's -- they're firing teachers. they don't have counselors. if you took the money and put it in the school. put it in a classroom and let these kids talk, you might not have to take the money and spend it on the back end. >> bobby rush talking straight talk to mark kirk. we'll see. these are the big problems that we're facing. investment in communities, long-term versus short-term measures like incarceration. but "the fader"'s matthew snipper. the piece is in the april issue of the magazine, worth picking up immediately. >>> thank you very much. >>> coming up, president obama has plucked some key members of his administration

ted fujita of the university of chicago in 1971, he created what became known as the fujita scale for tornadoes. so when you hear a tornado described as f-0 or f-1, the f stands for fujita. an f-5 is the largest with winds of more than 260 miles per hour, even 300 miles per hour and more. but the measurement is not just about wind speed. it's also about the damage caused. over time engineers and meteorologists using the fujita scale decided they could build a better system to account more accurately for different levels of damage to different types of construction. so it was 2007 when they made a you new scale. the enhanced fujita scale. you still have the same categories from 0 to 5, but also factors in enhanced specific criteria for evaluating the damage down to the level of whether the tornado has struck a single wide mobile home or double wide or doctor's office. so you assign a specific degree p damage depending on whether it pushed in the doors or destroyed the wholt building. and judging by all of those factors and levels of debris determine how strong the tornado was. you used

he is now director of the institute of politics at university of chicago and msnbc senior political analyst. thank you for being here. >> thank you. i'm nostalgic listening to the the recounting of the week. i'm missing washington so much. >> yeah, i bet. well you have known president obama for a long time. you've been with him through his political career. has he ever been through a very difficult sort of multifaceted period like this? personally or politically, have you seen him through periods like this before? >> oh, yes. under fact i have experienced with him. first, understand we went through a whole campaign in 2007-2008. principally 2007 in which the whole washington establishment was writingity office in competence. then during the presidency we have had these episodes. when i watched the news this week, i was getting flashbacks it that week in the spring of 2010 when the oil leak leak erupted. you remember, the president wasn't passionate enough. didn't move quickly enough. his staff are a bunch of idiots. he ought to get rid of this them. this is obama's katrina. fining moment of

the panelists include attorney general eric holder, former attorney general john ashcroft, university of chicago law professor geoffrey stone and jack fuller editor of restoring justice and former special assistant to edwin levy. this is about an hour 20. ..

. >> reporter: under banerjee, a university of chicago ph.d, pratham has developed programs to boost student achievement. it works with hundreds of schools like this one in the small town of jehanabad, in the populous eastern bihar state. instead of clustering students by age and grade, they are tested, then grouped by skill level in math and reading-- those able to read at a one-word level, for instance, a sentence, or a paragraph. several months into the program, principal rizwana parveen says there is marked improvement. >> children who could only read a letter are now almost reading paragraphs. and children who were reading paragraphs are now reading whole stories. >> now, what we're going to do here is, we're going to read these sentences carefully. >> reporter: the next step is to get children to think and write about what they're reading, as a pratham tutor did with children in the small bihar village of supanchak. typically, students are required to memorize the text, whether or not they understand it. >> read it and understand it. after you've finished reading it, write what

not want to walk 10 blocks in the university of chicago.re are huge ghettos university has not been able to create jobs and it has not been able to create startups. it has not been able to create a local economy. as a result, you have poor people sitting around the university. a lots what happens in of europe. it is hard for some of the european if her -- universities to make the bridge between a lot of government funding and the university and the start up business. the magic of the u.s., the power of the u.s., is a continuous ability to reinvent itself, to generate new jobs, to generate new technologies, to take stuff which did not exist and make it true. of the lot of the rest world follows and also makes itself rich. that is the thing the u.s. will do not just in life sciences at it is doing it right now in robotics, nano tech, the data research. there are so many interesting areas where our kids can work. but it is really important to get our schools right. it is really important to invest not just in the elderly, which is where we are

also, david axelrod also set at university of chicago ins tuesday of politics.ou get right into the news. >> we'll start with eric holder, who is ordering a criminal investigation into the irs' targets of conservative groups. this after an internal government watchdog blamed ineffective management for the scandal. a report for the treasury's inspector general concluded that the cincinnati's office of the irs used inappropriate criteria to singling out tea party groups, adding there was insufficient oversight by management. the report also revealed that some applications for status were delaying some for as long as three years. a "usa today" analysis found that -- last night, president obama said in a statement, the reports findings where intolerable and inexcusable. promising to follow through on the inspector general's recommendations, joe. that is the headline on the irs part of this day. >> that is the headline. david axelrod, when is the first you heard of the irs, if you want to call it a scandal, whatever you want to call it. did you first learn of this la

there was some very interesting report that was done out of the university of chicago. it was signed on to buy almost every major researcher in this country. there were three studies on the balance over 20 years. -- on gun violence over 20 years. they're not allow to keep data. all of the arguments seem to fall flat. a lot of it is about privacy. we have data on hiv and we are studying it all the time. they get all the information they can and it becomes part of a database. they can track how people are behaving when they engage in sexual activity. we have tremendous amounts of information that means we can target messages. we cannot do that with guns. everyone is like, "maybe it's video games." but we don't know. we don't know actually. because we do not make sure that we track all of the data. right? so if we actually started to label, if we started to track gun violence as a public health issue, and treat the collective data as though it were a public health issue, you could still maintain privacy, but you would know what your messages. if the nra's message is law- a

one researcher found the university of chicago resident, physician and training were putting information their work into a folder on the web the password for which was in public on the web. it is not being protected in any way. >> thank you. >> coming up tonight you don't want to miss that. a study that talks about how much people are spending on the health care. you're spending as much on your health care as you spend on groceries. even more. >> i believe it, even for healthy people. if you have a chronic illness, of course, but just regular maintenance, i need a mammogram, thought i would share that. they are expensive, and they hurt. >> one health care entrepreneur is big into venture capitalist. live with jeff flock talking about his newest passion in chicago. jeff: this is the other piece of what gerri willis was talking about. he thinks we ought to be more mobile with our health care records. i have to give our viewers a peek of what you are into now. one of the most successful medical record ceos alive, what are we looking at? >> you're looking at ignite glass studios. and number

economists in the history of the world, but the united states of america, a professor at the university of chicago, very well respected institution, made this statement. an open borders policy is not compatible with the welfare state. an open borders policy is not compatible with the welfare state. and here we are, mr. speaker, we live in a welfare state. and we have an open borders policy. the welfare state and the open borders policy are being promoted, pushed and advocated by the president of the united states. the president who has, even though there was a minor little change made to welfare reform here in this floor, this chamber, in the mid 1990's when the republicans took the majority in 1994 the welfare reform came in 1995 or 1996, bill those two years, clinton, the president, at least twice vetoed welfare reform. welfare to work was the mantra of the day. there was only one component of welfare to work that actually was welfare to work. there are over 80 different means-tested federal welfare programs in the united states today. there's not a single person in america that can list you tho

chicago. we want to give you some information about the upcoming childcare business expo as well: it is this saturday, june 1st, from 7 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the university of illinois at chicago. the cost is $35 per person. you can network, you can connect with other people doing this sort of thing, you can get marketing tips, ways to improve the quality of your business. for more information, log on towww.wbdc.org. thank you, chuck. still ahead, is sears dangerously close to running out of money? we'll go behind the numbers, next. another tough quarter for sears: the retail chain recently reported a loss of $279 million, 4 times more than analysts expected. margaret bogenrief of acm partners is on set with us this morning. you are a retail turnaround expert. you've been looking into the numbers: is sears likely to soon run out of cash? - well, i think eddie lampert, while he is not necessarily a great ceo, i think he knows the risks involved. if you look at the numbers, if they keep operating the way that they are, in about five months, sears is going to be cash-negative. i think eddie lampert obviously knows that. he is doing everything he can to both ge

gillian and the center for inquiry ininnovation in sexual and reproductive health, both at the university of chicagoan education psychologist and professor at hunter college. an organization devoted to helping women deal with domestic violence. she herself was once a survivor. this is what we saw of cleveland was tough. >> absolutely. this has got to serve as a wa wake-up call that tolerance will no longer be held when women are violated, when girls are violated. and it begs the question, where do we go from here? perhaps amanda and gina and michelle's abduction could have been prevented if ariel castro had been held accountable for viciously beating his wife years ago. if the police had followed up on leads that got me on the community and if we as a community paid close attention to the size. we are so plugged in to our iphones and ipads and our busy lives that we become unplugged to humanity. >> it feels like a special kind of evil from castro at this moment. this is inexplicable and unimaginable. i don't want to imagine it. she told me she's not outside anymore. i worry our response to the who r

chicago is a eclectic mix of all of these neighborhoods, whether it's the south side, the university t all. we've got all the teams, all the food. >> it's a great town. >> you've been here 28 years, and the obama administration has deep ties. the president himself, of course. rahmaxelrod. does that help this city to have it in the spotlight all these years? >> yeah, with mayor emanuel, we have nato that was recently here, and with the sitting president being from the city, everyone has been focused or interested in chicago. and people want to see, where did the president come from? where did they live? people are tracing off to hyde park to see the university of chicago and to see that part of the city. so i think it really is our opportunity to really take that showcasing of the city and really have people really understand how great and wonderful this city is. i hope you guys get some hot dogs. >> i was going to say, if you had to narrow it down, what is a must -- >> got to have -- >> within four hours. >> i think you've got to get a hot dog. >> we've got beers over here. >> and pop

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monica peek, assistant professor of medicine at the university of chicago. also a founder and executive director of women's health advocacy group, sisters working it out. she's a breast cancer survivor herself. roselle en, erin car moan staff writer for salon.com and a political commentator and fellow at auburn. >> thanks for having us. ment. >> doctor, i want to start with you. help me to understand what tbrc gene is. >> it's not a routine test available for all women. when we think about breast cancer screening, it's uncommon. 90% of the women who have it don't have an inherited mutation. we should not think this is a routine test like for diabetes or for high cholesterol. we should not expect that everyone should be wanting to have a brca gene mutation test for that. of the tests that exists, brca 1 and 2 are the most common. african-americans so far are not. jewish women are. we know when you have the gene. the increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer is much higher than the average population. the genes are very uncommon. it's incouple bept for women